Notes: Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! I hope you have fun with your significant other or very loyal pet (or both!). Poll results have been the same, and there's two more chapters (I'm pretty sure) after this one. As a gift, I will update twice today! Enjoy!

Chapter 45-Dates

Third Person:

Bucky sighed with happiness as he and Beni walked down the sidewalk. It wasn't as crowded as it usually was, which meant it was a hell of a lot easier to get around. They had no idea where they were going, but it was a nice day out. Cold, freezing as hell, but a nice day nonetheless.

"What do you wanna do?" Beni asked. Bucky shrugged and looked around. There was a lot of things they could be doing. Especially since they were walking right next to the park, where there were snowmen and little kids throwing snowballs in each others faces. Since the pond was frozen over it wasn't safe to go on. Right next to that was an ice skating rink with maybe twenty or thirty people. A petty small amount compared to how big the actual rink was.

"How about ice skating?" Bucky said. Beni followed Bucky's gaze and smiled slightly.

"Do you know how?" she asked.

"Yeah, more or less. It has been seventy plus years, so I might be a little rusty, but I'll manage."

"Then you can teach me." Beni gave him a smile despite his shocked face. Then she shrugged. "I've never been ice skating."

"Well, why not?" Bucky asked as they got in the extremely short line to rent their skates. Once they got them they sat on a bench to put them on.

"You saw my senior picture. With a face like that not a lot of people are willing to actually talk to you let alone take you out. I was to socially awkward to try and teach myself, so...Yeah..."

"What else do you not know how to do?" Bucky almost face palmed as Beni looked to the sky, and then at Bucky rough the corners of her eyes. Bucky sighed. "Christ, did you have any fun in high school?"

"Well sorry for not wanting to get into fist fights like you...Wait...Never mind I can't say that. There was Felicity Noodman in my sophomore year where I bumped into her and we started to fight...I didn't have a lot of fun in high school. Being here with you, minus this conversation, has been the most fun I've ever had. Well, that and when we went on that mission with Natasha. But yeah, Felicity Noodman was a bitch."

"One, you'll probably never see her again, two, I'm just going to assume you won that fist fight, and three, I always got into fights so Steve wouldn't get hurt. Dumb punk never knew how to say no. I swear, if he was sick and you breathed to deeply in his general direction he'd probably snap in half from the strong breeze."

"Sounds rough," Beni said as she stood up, wobbling slightly as she did so. Bucky stood up smoothly and helped her to the rink. The instant she tried going forward she fell backwards, and Bucky caught her with his strong, mismatched hands.

"Klutz," he teased.

"Show off," She stuck her tongue out and he smiled before pulling her back up and linking his arm with hers.

"Shall I interest m'lady in a few practice laps?" he said with a fake accent. Beni smirked and held on a little tighter.

"I would be delighted, kind sir."

"Beni, when are you going to let me open my eyes?" Bucky asked with an exasperated tone. She had taken him somewhere, and when he had asked twenty minutes ago one they got off of the motorcycle (He had been blinded for that, too), she had simply told him 'Somewhere over the rainbow.'

"Sit," she said, and she pushed down on his shoulders, forcing him to the ground. He sat down and felt the cloth under him. He was updraft, though, so he wasn't going to be able to smell any hint of where he was. He heard some shuffling and a second later the blind fold was pulled off of him to reveal Beni to his left and a beautiful summer sun set in front of them. They were sitting on a blue cloth with some Tupperware full of food in front of them. It must have been held in the saddle bag.

"Surprise," she said softly as she snuggled up to Bucky. He smiled down at Beni, then at the sun set. He smirked.

"It's almost as beautiful as you," he said, leaning back on his arms. Beni leaned back with him, sort of half lying on him.

"You're to sweet," she said. He chuckled slightly.

"Says the one who set all of this up."

"Touché."

"Je veux vas te faire encule dans le matelas vachement dur,*" Bucky replied in French. She sat up and hit him on the arm slightly.

"One, I speak French. Two, I will take you up on that offer."

Bucky laughed and she put her head back down on his chest with a smile.

"Dirty pervert."

"Can you blame me for wanting to do that to a girl like you?"

"Not really...But that doesn't mean you're not a dirty pervert sometimes. I guess that's another reason we get along so well."

"Steve, I need help," Bucky said as he paced Steve's house. They had been dating for over two years now, and it was Valentine's Day tomorrow, and Bucky was freaking out. He got the reservation set up at that fancy restaurant that he and Beni both loved. He got chocolate. He got flowers. And he got...

"Help with what, Buck?" Steve asked. Bucky took out the tiny velvet box with the ring and Steve choked on his coffee. "You're going to propose? Bucky, that's great! Congrats!"

"Thanks, Steve. But I'm actually kinda nervous about doing this. I can kill a guy in a blink of an eye without so much as a flinch and now I'm over here getting shaky knees just picturing what I'm gonna to do propose. Christ, Steve, what do I do?"

"You get down on one knee and pop the question, what do you think you do?"

"You're an ass."

"I'm being serious."

"That makes it worse, Steve."

"It's not like she's going to say no."

"And what if she does?"

"Do you honestly think she will?"

"...No..."

"Okay, then. Get the band to play her favorite song before you get on one knee. Don't put the damned thing in her drink, she might choke on it."

"I wasn't going to. I think it's to cheesy. Beni would probably snort and try looking for cameras saying 'You've been punked!' I...I wanna do something perfect for her, Steve. I really want her in my life..."

Steve's smile softened as he looked down at Bucky. He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, and then put a hand on his shoulder.

"If you wanna really do something perfect for her than just be yourself. Nothing to fancy, nothing to brooding. That's you, and she already finds you perfect. You got nothing to worry about, okay?"

Bucky sighed and leaned back into his chair, slowly nodding.

"Yeah," he sighed. "Yeah, I can do this."

"Bucky, are you okay?" Beni asked the next night. They were at the restaurant, and Beni was absolutely stunning. She wore a dark green dress that matched her eyes and the striped in her hair that she still hadn't gotten rid of. She had a tiny bit of make-up on, and her hair was in slight curls. Bucky just wore his suit, pressed and cleaned and pristine. He had shaved and combed his hair back in a ponytail, and put on some of Steve's special cologne he had stolen.

"Well, after I do this I'm hoping I'll be the happiest man in the world," he said.

Smooth, Barnes, he thought. Certainly set yourself up pretty well with that one.

But Bucky just gulped ad slid out of his chair, taking the ring out of his pocket as he did so. She gasped, and people stared to notice what he was doing, but neither of them cared.

"Will you...Well, you know..."

Bucky stared at Beni. She was absolutely speechless. Her mouth was slightly open and her face was in complete shock. He started to feel the biggest knot of doubt in his life, and the greatest thing happened.

She tackled him, completely ignoring the ring.

"Of course, you little fucker," she said into his neck. He grinned, and the entire place started applauding and whistling. Beni pulled away, tears of happiness on her face. She quickly wiped them away with a huge grin as she passionately kissed Bucky.

"Well, I guess we'll just have to add Prince Charming to the list of names I have for you, huh?"

"As long as I'm with you I don't care what you call me."

"That's probably a bad choice of words, man."

Bucky and Beni snapped their attention to the doorway, where Sam was leaning against the door frame and Steve was video taping it all. Beni grinned and bluntly flipped the camera off, and Bucky almost died of laughing to hard.

"Christ, I love you," he said. She winked at him.

"I love you, too."

Translation: I want to fuck you into the mattress really hard.