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Bucky Barnes
He has "someone is about to do something stupid senses."
At first he thought this particular twitch only applied to Steve but ever since he joined the Avengers he has found that to be false. He's talked it over with Peter the spider kid (he refuses to call a 16 year old a man, come on pre serum Steve was bigger than this kid!) and his sense reminds Peter a little of his "spider senses" It feels like a chill that creeps up his spine and he has the urge to look for something, as if it's out of place when in fact it's just one of his idiot team mates jumping head first into something dangerous and stupid.
He was use to glaring at Steve or dragging him out of something stupid he didn't expect it to change and wasn't surprised when he had to take back on the role of dragging Steve out of stupid shit but honestly was surprised when he had to do it for other people.
Okay, not that surprised when Darcy of all people got riled up, I mean the girl tased a Norse God for heaven's sake! So what happened was the evil villain and/or terrorist of the month was terrorizing Union Square in New York City and of course that is where Darcy goes to get her awesome coffee every Sunday, everything was going fine. Just when they all thought they got the henchmen down and figured out how to stop the bad guy of the week, Bucky felt it. He was literally about a block away but he felt a chill crawl up his back and turned around. His eyes scanned his surroundings and then he locked on his target and the sight he saw instantly made him want to groan.
There was Darcy, taser in one hand and hot coffee in the other creeping up towards one of the head henchmen. Bucky could see the whole plan in the girls face. Pour hot coffee while simultaneously tasing the head honcho, never mind the fact that said head honcho was absolutely surrounded by other goons. The second she did something she was either dead or kidnapped.
So Bucky does what he's always done, he goes and saves the idiot about to do something stupid. He sprints dead on towards Darcy, managing to dodge any enemy fire. He's so much in his own head right now, calculating how to safely save her while a litany of fuck fuck fuck, this stupid idiot God dammit why don't people think!? He's so far stuck in his head that he doesn't even think to call to Pietro to speed in and grab Darcy. Right now he's in full protection mode and the only thing registering is the end goal, keep person safe. When he finally reaches Darcy both the henchman and Darcy look surprised but he was expecting this and uses it to his advantage. In a fluid motion he picks up Darcy in such a way that her hot coffee lands on the ground while at the same time managing to elbow one guy out of their way. He throws Darcy over his shoulder and then turns around shooting another man down. He can hear a scream behind him and moves swiftly to see another henchman writhing on the ground. He figures out that Darcy has just tased him. He gets a better grip on her, takes one more shot and them runs quickly out of there. Once they are in a safe spot he puts Darcy down who actually looks grumpy. She crosses her arms and looks indignant.
"I had that situation you know." Darcy says and Bucky pinches his brows in frustration. Really wondering how he got saddled with all these people that seem to jump first and think never. He shoos Darcy to get to safety and goes back into the fight.
That wasn't even the beginning of Bucky dragging people out of things. There are so many incidents, he has grabbed the spider kid when he was mid web swing, pushed Tony out of his own lab so he wouldn't blow himself up. Had to pull Steve and T'Challa of all freaking people out of a bar fight. Has told the moutherfucking Black Widow if she jumped out of buildings with no plan to break her fall she would be a very squashed spider and he swears to God if Pietro tries to shield one more person from gunfire he is shooting the kid in the foot!
They were all stupid idiots but they were his idiots so it looks like his purpose in life was to keep them all from killing themselves – he looked over to see Steve once again going over to a guy in the bar looking mean and Bucky let out an exasperated sigh before rising to go back his idiot up.
He is not a morning person at all
This was actually something that changed between "old Bucky" and "new Bucky" who everyone including Bucky himself was trying to figure out. Before the Winter Solider Steve said that Bucky use to get up early, annoyingly early. During the time of the Howling Commandoes Bucky would get up before everyone and then proceed to pull everyone's sheets off them. Whistling loudly until they all got up, he even poured water on Dum Dum Dugan once when the man refused to leave his bed.
Now was a very different story, if there wasn't a mission or an attack Bucky would be the last one up most mornings. He would stumble into the common area kitchen still half asleep, yawning and proceed to sit near the breakfast bar then face plant into the countertop. At first it seemed nothing could get the man to fully wake up, they just had to wait the few hours for him to wake himself up. They gave him coffee, food, told him to take a shower but nothing could quickly get Bucky up. That is until Maria Hill of all people came up with the answer. She was there to get the mission reports from Bruce who fell asleep and completely forgot to fill out any reports. She was having a cup of tea he had made for her as she waited for him to complete the papers and only raised an eyebrow when Bucky came stumbling into the kitchen. She observed him for a little while with calculating eyes when she suddenly straightened up and reached over to the pan where Steve had been making himself scrambled eggs. She took a fork and speared a chunk of egg out of the pan. She took it off the fork, aimed and literally threw the bit of egg at Bucky. Everyone held their breath for a second.
But Bucky's arm shot up, without even raising his head and caught the eggs. Everyone heard Wanda's noise of disgust as Bucky squished the eggs into his hand. He slowly raised his head, not looking angry but confused and… fully awake. He blinks and looks into his hand and scrunched his face in disgust before looking back at Maria.
"That worked. It's the skills, your always aware just had to wake up your instincts." Maria hid her smirk behind her mug and Bucky just rolled his eyes, cleaning the egg off his hand.
For the rest of the morning Bucky was more awake then he had ever been so the Avengers unfortunately found a solution to wake him up quicker. They took turns most days throwing food at Barnes, they slowly became immune to his glares of frustration every time someone lobbed something particularly messy at him. Nothing topped the absolute look of fear on Scott's face when he flung a spoonful of oatmeal at Bucky and Bucky glared at the man.
"Oh shit." Scott whispered in dread and ran out of the kitchen so fast with an excuse of seeing his daughter yelled over his shoulder. The second he left Bucky smirked to himself.
Scott refuses to throw anything else at Bucky anymore no matter how much everyone says he was just messing with him. He's not messing with the super solider sniper, no thanks!
Whenever he has flashbacks and nightmares he isolates himself from everyone
Honestly everyone can understand not wanting to share PTSD stuff, Tony is the king of holding it all back and swearing he is fine. Pepper is still pissed that he hid he was dying. But Bucky takes it to another level, every time everyone had their own thing the others are usually able to pick up on it and force the person to admit what's bothering them.
But Bucky just disappeared.
One morning he didn't show up for food but they thought he was just sleeping late. Then when Steve and Sam came back from their jog they said Bucky wasn't there and since he started jogging with them he never passes up an opportunity for racing Steve. He wasn't at training, didn't show up for any other meals and by the end of the first day Steve was marching down the hall to Bucky's door. It was locked and when he finally got the override code he opened to see an empty room. To say Steve went into panic mode was putting it lightly, it took Sam, Pepper, Bruce talking him down and Wanda using her powers to fully calm his mind and make him think logically. Tony finally asked FRIDAY to check security footage, it was in every room including bedrooms and usually that footage was locked down and could only be opened by the owner of the bedroom. Pepper as a precaution had put a seal that she could break on it, they watched as Bucky tossed and turned before he screamed and shot straight up in bed. He looked scared and lost. He paced the room for a while looking distressed before packing a small bag of stuff and quietly leaving the tower on Steve's motorcycle.
Steve wanted to go charging out but of all people Tony told him to chill.
"It looks like he's dealing with stuff and I never saw that serious serial killer Winter Solider face come up. Plus he packed almost nothing didn't look like anything valuable so I say wait a few days, see if he comes back."
For once everyone agreed with Tony and sure enough a week later Bucky came back to the tower. Steve didn't leave his side for days, which resulted in them having a huge fight. It was not pretty.
When they managed to finally resolve the fight Bucky simply said he had to deal with stuff.
"Buck you don't have to do it alone."
"Steve-" Bucky started to say and sounded like he was about to say Steve wouldn't understand but Steve shook his head.
"Not just me Buck, theirs Natasha and Tony." Steve shrugs. "I'd like to think you'd talk to me about anything, you know comes with the best friend territory but they could really understand." He patted Bucky on the shoulder and left him to think about it.
It happened again about a month later, Bucky just wasn't there one day but Natasha came into the kitchen knowing what was going on.
"He didn't give me any details but he woke me up last night told me to tell you he wont be gone long and please don't try to find him."
They respected that, didn't ask for coordinates and he came back every time so they left it alone. Until the day where they were needed because a huge Godzilla like animal was attacking Tokyo. (This brought Tony, Clint and Scott endless joy)
Bucky came back to see all of them worse for wear and when they told him they couldn't get a hold of him he proceeded to beat himself up about it. Finally he agreed to certain things, he was to be left alone but he would give the coordinates or contact information to where he was only to be used in an emergency. He entrusted the envelope to the two most responsible people in the tower, Pepper and T'Challa.
Rhodey was actually very insulted by this.
"I have been watching Tony's ass for years doesn't that give me some level of maturity and responsibility."
"Rhodes you were with me for half those things."
"Shut up Tony!"
It wasn't a perfect system and a lot of them still worried. But every time he left Bucky gave more details, told more people and stayed for shorter periods of time. He was getting better and learning to trust them all slowly. For now that was enough.
If anyone else calls Steve a punk he gets grumpy about it
He defends himself and says its his nickname, they can call Steve an idiot which he is sometimes but they can't call him a punk. It's kind of funny to watch because he glares and crosses his arm and will purposefully go out of his way to muck up your day.
Of course, Sam was the unfortunate first target of this, all three of them were coming in from running, Sam was yelling at them for passing him so many times and both men were grinning. Sam sighed and elbowed pass them to get to the kitchen. Steve mock punched his arm but did it with enough force to make Sam slightly stumble. Bucky laughed and Sam turned to Steve.
"You're a punk you know that Rogers." Sam said pretending to be more annoyed then he actually was. Steve shrugged but Bucky had stopped laughing and was just staring at Sam. They all made their way to the kitchen, Sam and Steve took a seat at the bar and Bucky searched the fridge for a drink.
"You guys still have that really good juice right? The foreign stuff Pepper brought back? Grab me a grape if theirs still some left." Sam asked Bucky. Bucky rummaged in the fridge and then slid down a bottle but when Sam grabbed it he saw it wasn't grape.
"Dude this is cranberry."
Bucky shrugs. "Thought you said cranberry."
Sam furrows his eyebrows and gets up to switch the juices.
"How do you get grape confused with cranberry."
Bucky just shrugs again.
The whole day went on like that, Sam asked Bucky to pass the remote and Bucky slid it farther away by "accident", Sam asked if anyone had seem his sneaker that he lost, it was laying next to Bucky's feet. It all came to a head when Sam had to catch a train back to DC to visit his mom and he missed it because Bucky gave him the wrong time.
"Sorry dude but you can just catch another one and Stark will pay for a ticket." Bucky was trying to shrug off the situation.
"Seriously what is with you today?" Sam asked and if he could he would put Bucky in a head lock right now and force him to explain himself.
"Your acting like a freaking moody teenager I have little nephews I don't need to deal with more punk kids."
Sam watched, as Bucky seemed to just freeze as he used that word and Sam raised one eyebrow in suspicion.
"Why are you acting like such a punk?" he said using the word again and watching as Bucky tightened his fist.
"Why do you hate the word punk so much?"
"Oh my god seriously Bucky?!" Steve who had been playing mediator looked at Bucky with a look that clearly said you-can't-be-serious. Bucky just stares at the wall and Steve groans.
"Before all this super solider stuff and the war Bucky and I use to call each other Jerk and Punk, it was kind of our thing."
Steve explains.
Sam just stands there for a second, before he shook his head and threw his hands up in the air as if he had given up.
"So I've been hassled all day because I accidentally used the nickname apparently reserved for best friends only?!" Sam kept shaking his head as he walked over to his duffle bag and threw it over his shoulder continuing to the elevator.
"That's it, I'm out, I'm going home and I will see you all later." The elevator closed and Sam was gone.
Steve glared at Bucky and this time Bucky smirked back. Steve informed FRIDAY to book Sam another train ticket.
When Natasha found out she started teasing Bucky mercilessly about it until Bucky pointed out that Natasha had nicknames for everyone and accused her of going soft.
There has never been a more intense staring contest then that between the Winter Solider and the Black Widow.
Love this chapter it was so fun to write. Up next we got Sam Wilson so until next time!
