Bucky
Bucky woke up early from another nightmare, the last few nights he had slept terribly, and he was blaming Felicity for that. It was bad enough living with Tony Stark, let alone his younger sister. He had once again woken up in a cold sweat, he ran his hands through his hair. Fuck he sighed, getting himself out of bed. His mind was going crazy and he needed to try and calm it down so he grabbed some sweats and decided to go running. A few minutes later he left him room and he could see Felicity walking round a corner going out of eyesight. He tried to shrug off the thought of seeing where she was going and decided to continue to go for his run.
He hadn't really paid any attention to his surroundings as he started running following his usual track and after a few minutes he saw her. Felicity was running in front of him. If I just keep my pace and run past her she might just pay me no attention That was the problem, every time she saw him she would always speak to him. Felicity fascinated him, but he didn't want to put the girl in danger. He was already on shakey ground as it is with Tony. Bucky started to pick up a bit more speed and almost went past her when he heard her scream.
"My fucking god," she then lost her balance and tripped over her own feet. Oh smooth Bucky He tried to grab her but it was too late and she had already fallen weirdly on her ankle. "You don't just sneak up on people." She was telling him off while on the floor. He had to try and stifle a snicker, he felt terrible, but this girl had some right balls on her. He extended his hand to help pick her up and she took it, he hadn't realised he had offered his left hand until she had taken a hold of it. He studied her face and saw that she hadn't even noticed.
"I didn't mean to make you jump, I was trying to run past you." He said, rubbing the back of his head with his other hand. "I didn't expect anyone else to be awake and running." He watched her nod and then saw her go to step forward with the foot she had fallen on. He watched as she yelped in pain and instinctively he wrapped his arms around her to stop her from falling. He then realised once she looked up at him their faces were close and the fact she smelt like coconuts. Bucky stop it, its bad enough Steve is making a big deal of me talking to her, let alone being caught with us like this. He needed to break this silence between them, but she had got in there first. "This is why you don't sneak up on people." Felicity was smiling at him.
"I wasn't sneaking up on you." Bucky laughed, "Come on let me help you back." He then picked her up bridal style back to the headquarters.
"See now you have to talk to me." He heard Felicity say while laughing, causing him to smile. "But you are aware this really is unnecessary"
Bucky could feel Felicity try and wiggle out of his grasp, which made him tighten his hold. He carried her all the way to the entrance of the headquarters, "Try and put some weight on it now." Bucky instructed, placing her down carefully. He could still feel her hands on his shoulders as she did what she was told. He could tell by her grimace that she was still in a bit of pain, but she could walk.
"My hero" She smiled up at him, releasing her hands from his shoulders. Bucky watched as she started to walk off, feeling a bit of warm tingly sensation when she had called him her hero. He could see that she was still limping slightly, and then mentally cursed at himself as he jogged up to catch up with her.
"Let me walk you to your room, that way if you need it I'm here to help."
Felicity
They had just made it to Felicity's door and she could tell Bucky was feeling a bit awkward. "Thanks again," she said, "Even if it is completely your fault" Felicity laughed and she could see a sudden change in Bucky's body language, which worried her "Don't worry I'm kidding." Felicity placed her hand on his left arm, she hadn't really paid attention to the fact that it happened to be his metal arm and she really hoped she hadn't made him self conscious.
"What do we have here?" This caused Felicity to look over Bucky's shoulder and see Sam walking down the corridor. "We've had smiling and now physical contact." Felicity could tell Sam was mocking Bucky.
"Be careful Sam, this is how rumours start." Felicity let go of Bucky's arm. "Thanks again." Felicity went inside her room and she closed her door she could hear Sam say ow, causing her to smile. There was something about this guy she couldn't put her finger on.