5/19/2015 8:06:18 AM

A/N: So I couldn't decide how I wanted Toni and Bucky to be reunited, however then I remembered a wonderful idea from one of my reviewers and this happened.

Thank you Number_Twelve_Gimmauld_Place on Ao3!

Chapter Five

Seventy years.

He was seventy years in the fucking future!

Bucky let out a low groan at that fact, causing Steve to snicker and the one eyed pirate to smirk.

"It's not funny Steve!" He growled and his friend gave him a sympathetic smile.

"If it makes you feel any better, I was in the same boat until about six months ago. Howie's son has been helping me get better acquainted with this century."

The winter soldier blinked. "Howie had a kid? With who?"

"An Italian woman named Maria Carbonell. Both died twenty years ago in a car accident while they were on their way to their son's graduation." The pirate, Director Fury, informed him and Bucky frowned.

"That's a fucked up way to celebrate your high school graduation."

His best friend shook his head. "It was his college graduation. Tony's a genius. In fact he's smarter than Howie." He paused and looked over at Fury. "Never tell him I said that."

Fury raised an eyebrow. "Why would I wish to inflate his ego even more? He's already built a building with his name on it."

Steve smirked. "Actually. He renamed it Avengers Tower, sir. He built another Stark Tower in Japan."

Fury rolled his and muttered something about egotistical geniuses before getting back to the matter at hand.

"Back to the subject on hand, I'm afraid Stark is currently on an extremely important business trip in Britain at the moment and unfortunately when he returns he has another assignment from the SHIELD that he needs to complete. Therefore, Mr. Barnes will be staying in your old apartment."

Both super soldiers nodded, although Steve sent Fury a peculiar look as he did so. Ignoring it, the winter soldier stood and stretched.

"That all, Cyclops?"

Fury nodded and spun on his heel to leave the room.

"Good god, there's two of them." He muttered, slamming the door behind him.

Bucky grinned and turned to his best friend.

"Ready to go, Stevie?"

A slow smile crossed the blonde's lips and he stood.

"Ready when you are."

"What happened to Toni after I died?"

Bucky asked as him and Steve sat in an ice cream parlor only a block or so from his new apartment. It was an old place, one him and the blonde had frequented as children. The owner had been the same man to wed him and Toni, a former priest that wedded homosexuals in secret to avoid prosecution. His grandson was in charge of the place now and he'd simply smiled at them knowingly when they had arrived and handed them each a bowl of their favorite ice cream on the house.

Now as he sat with the frozen treat, he couldn't help asking the question that had been nagging at him since he'd regained his memories.

What had happened to his beloved assassin?

Steve glanced at him, then sighed and set down his spoon.

"No one knows. Howard locked him away because he started to lose it after your death, a few months before I went into the ice. Even before that I think…I think he resented me because I returned and you didn't. Peggy told me he broke down when he got your KIA letter, then he started taking on all these impossible missions. I asked Fury but he says that after the war he just disappeared."

The winter soldier's brow furrowed and grief pulled at his heart at his lover's suffering. He'd known for a while that his husband feared being alone again more than anything and to have lost him again, it would've broken him.

"No one knows where he went? Maybe Stark'll know. Howie was his father after all."

Steve shook his head. "Never ask Tony about Howie. It always ends badly. It seems that after the war Howie changed because Tony can't hear his name without getting mad or shutting himself off."

"Can't you just try? Please, Steve?"

The blond nodded hesitantly and went back to his own ice cream.

Finishing up their treats, the two super soldiers stood and exited the shop.

"Where do you wanna go next?" Steve asked.

"How about-" The brunette grunted as a small body collided with his sending him and his assailant to the ground.

"Hey! Watch where…you're going?" The shocked, questioning tone of his assailant made him look up and he found himself looking into a pair of beautiful, and more importantly familiar hazel eyes.

"Tony? I thought you were on a business meeting."

Tony? Howard's kid? Why did he look so much like his Toni?

The facial structure was the same, as were the eyes. The only thing different was the hair. Where Toni's was a long, pure ebony, Stark's was a soft chocolate brown with honey brown highlights and sat in a messy array of curls atop his head.

Tony Stark wasn't his Toni…so why did it feel like he was lying to himself?

The billionaire stood, his hazel eyes never leaving Bucky's clear blue.

"Meeting…yeah I have to…go…" He replied dazedly, before continuing in the direction he'd been going with an eerie expression on his face. He looked like he was in shock.

Bucky stared after him, watching as Steve moved to go after him worriedly.

Why was Stark so familiar?

Maybe…maybe he really was…

"Toni?"

*** *** ***
Bucky was alive.

His husband, his soul mate was alive.

Why did his heart ache with the knowledge of this fact when it should've been bursting with joy?

He had returned from his trip to Britain early because the CEO of the company he'd been meeting had gone into the meeting already wanting to merge his company just needing to sign the contract and learn the rules. Due to this he'd stopped by his favorite ice cream shop only to run into him.

A broken, nostalgic smile crossed his lips. Tonight had been reminiscent of that first night at the Stark Expo except Steve was present and Bucky…Bucky was supposed to be dead.

He sighed and looked around, noting that in his daze, he'd gotten lost. Before he could pull out his phone and remedy the situation a pair of hands grabbed him a cloth was shoved under his nose. He inhaled involuntarily and just before the drug took effect he found himself gazing into familiar emerald eyes. The darkness took over and he fell limp in his kidnapper's arms with his brother's name on his lips.

"Si-Silas?"

TBC…

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