Third person POV

The group quickly pick themselves up and head to the lab to work out what has gone on.

"He's destroyed everything, all of our files it's all gone," Natasha says as she taps away at one of the computers.

"He said he killed someone, there was no one else here," Steve says in confusion and Tony sighs shaking his head.

"Yes there was," he says quietly as he brings up a display of Jarvis, broken and in pieces.

"This is insane," Bruce begins and is about to continue when Bucky interrupts,

"Where's Addi?" he asks suddenly and they all look around, worry increasing as she doesn't make herself known.

"Did anyone see her up, was she fighting with us?" Clint asks, concern lacing his words now and they shake their heads.

"She was not fighting with us, I do not remember seeing her after the main guests left us," Thor chips in.

"But if she went back to the apartment then surely she would have heard, she would have come up…" Steve is already running to the stairwell the others close behind him before Tony can finish speaking.

Reaching the door to the apartment they see it open and bursting through they suck in a breath as they observe the broken apartment.

"Addi," Steve yells as he rushes through the apartment, but it is silent and empty and cold.

"Dollface, where are you?" Bucky shouts as he throws open her bedroom door. Moving through the room he notices that her bag is out and half packed, he looks up at the noise behind him and see's Steve and Nat behind him, "she was packing to leave," he says quietly his voice barely above a whisper, confusion lacing his words.

"She's gone, there's blood by the front door, we think… we think Ultron has her, Tony and the others have gone to try and fix the systems and track her," Natasha explains as Bucky sinks down onto the bed, Steve still rigidly standing in the doorway.

"Why was she packing?" Steve says eventually and both men look up startled as Nat laughs, an angry, derisive laugh.

"You honestly don't know?" she almost hisses making both men wince a little as they shake their heads. "She's in love with you, you absolute fuck wits!" she spits at them.

"What?" Bucky splutters as Steve backs almost into the wall,

"We're best friends," he says quietly and she very nearly snarls at them.

"Get a fucking clue, I'm going to try and find her and you better hope that she is in once piece when we get her back or I won't be the only one gunning for you," and then she's gone and the two men are left in silence. Their shaky breaths are the only sound in the room for a long time as they try to process what has happened, what they've been told.

"I've been so stupid," Steve says eventually sinking to the floor suddenly and rubbing his hands over his face in frustration.

"I ruined everything, if I hadn't…" Bucky begins but Steve cuts him off quickly.

"No Buck, I messed this up long before we found you, I should have known, should have seen," he sighs heavily.

"You don't feel the same then?" Bucky asks quirking an eyebrow at his friend and Steve looks up sharply.

"What? Why would you think that?"

"Saw you with that Carter dame," he replies,

"We talked about that Buck, she… no," he replies supressing a tiny shudder at the thought.

"Then why not Addi?"

"I… but we're…"

"Friends, I know Stevie, but the best relationships start as great friendships, what's the problem then? Not pretty enough?"

"She's beautiful, perfect," Steve says defensively cutting off Bucky and ignoring his smirk, "she's… she's perfect, and brave and selfless and… oh God Buck I've messed up," he groans and Bucky nods sagely.

"So have I though mate so have I,"

"How do you feel about her then?" Steve asks now looking up at his best friend.

"I've loved since before I even knew her," he replies simply and Steve blanches a little choking on a gasp.

"I don't…" he starts, struggling to get out the right words.

"She wrote me a note, must have frozen me and stuck it my pocket when I pulled you out of the water, before I…" he trails off,

"Before you what?" Steve says standing now and facing Bucky,

"I hit her Stevie, those injuries you told me she got jumping out of the plane, I did that to her," he sighs and Steve feels his stomach churn a little as he realises that she had once again lied to him to try and protect his feelings.

"What note?" he asks suddenly remembering what else Bucky had said,

"Here," Bucky says standing up and pulling out his wallet and handing over the crumpled piece of paper from inside it before sitting down again on the edge of her bed, his fingers absent-mindedly playing with the fabric over her favourite top which had fallen out of the bag she had been packing.

"Bucky, come back to us…" Steve begins reading out loud but Bucky interrupts him, having long ago memorised the words that had changed his life.

"Stop running, Steve needs you and I think I might too, Love Addi," his voice cracks at the end and he buries his head in his hands, "she saved me Stevie, she made me stop running, she brought me home and I have loved her ever since I first read those words,"

"You never said," Steve whispers as he sinks onto the bed beside Bucky, "why did you never go for it?"

"I've changed Stevie, I'm not… I could see she loved you and I never felt worthy, I was scared I'd hurt her, I did hurt her,"

"I think we've both hurt her," Steve comments dryly, "so what do we do about it, we both love her, who gets her?"
"That's assuming she still wants either of us, or that we get her back," he has barely finished speaking when Steve has him against the wall anger and fear rolling off him in waves,

"Don't say that, we'll get her home," he growls and Bucky nods quickly,

"Of course we will Stevie," he replies sighing slightly as Steve lets go of him, "then we show her just what it's like to be loved properly," he adds and it is Steve's turn to sigh.

"I don't know Buck," he says as he begins pacing the room.

"Stevie, remember back when we were in Italy, when we both thought we fancied Peggy?" Steve nods smiling a tiny bit at the memory, the smile fading as he remembers being in the bunker with Addi, how she had commented on the picture of Peggy and how he had done nothing to let her know that she was beautiful too. "We talked about sharing, if we found the right dame,"

"I told Addi about that, she laughed and said that someone we thought was the right dame wouldn't go in for that," Steve replies with a little smile.

"So we prove her wrong then," Bucky smiles as if it's simple.

"She's been so hurt though Buck, before we came along and completely wrecked it, her ex, he, he wasn't a good guy," Steve tries to explain.

"Then we fix it Stevie, she fixed us and now we fix her," Bucky growls and Steve eventually nods.

"Guess we need to go get our girl back then," he says with the tiny hint of a smile, trying to cover just how desperate he felt and Bucky walks up to him pulling him into a tight hug,

"No more secrets mate, she deserves better than either of us, but she's picked us so we get her home and we do our best to be worthy of her," he mutters and Steve nods, gulping as they separate and move through the apartment, trying not to look at the pool of blood by the door. She would be alright, she had to be.

"Capsicle, Frosty," Tony greets and Bucky growls at him,

"Calm down Bucky, we've got something," Natasha says immediately Steve gives her a grateful nod as they walk towards the display.

"Looks like she's may be here, there's a warehouse if we get there quickly we could get her out but there's a problem," Bruce explains.

"What is it?" Steve asks and Tony looks round,

"Looks like the freaky twins have joined Ultron, it's not going to be easy getting past them… but we will," he adds hastily as he sees both soldiers tense.

"Let's move then, I'm not leaving her there any longer than I have to," Bucky growls and strides towards the door, Steve and the others close behind him.

"You're not the only one that cares about the kid frosty," Tony says quietly and a little tendril of guilt grips his at both men's hearts as they realise that every member of this team had treated their girl better than they had, even if they did get her back, it wasn't going to be easy.

"So you come to your senses?" Clint asks as they sit silently and tensely in the back of the jet ten minutes later, willing it to move quicker and at the same dreading what they would find.

"What do you mean?" Steve asks quietly not looking him in the eye and trying to ignore the extra stiffness in Bucky's stance beside him.

"You know what I mean," Clint comments his face just as serious as it ever was, "I always thought that you two… you know," he adds with a little smirk as they both look at him a little startled.

"No," they both say simultaneously, making Natasha laugh from where she is listening.

"So did you decide?" she asks,

"Decide what?" Bucky asks,

"Who is going to try and win the girl?" she laughs and they both tense realising for the first time that their plan, what they had always talked about, sharing her would probably not be seen in the best light by others, even if they were living in a different and more modern world.

"Guy's we live in a world where we are separate from the public, and none of us have exactly conventional lives or relationships, we don't care, just look after her or we'll kill you," Tony says and everyone on the plane is silent for a while at Tony's unexpected kindness and wisdom.

"Thank you," Steve murmurs after a moment, feeling quite emotional.

"We'll get her back Stevie, I know we will," Bucky whispers to him and he nods as he bows his head, feeling sicker than he had since he had first seen Bucky back from the dead.