Summary: "This will sound crazy, but in another timeline, in another life—you were the love of my life. You died, sacrificing yourself for Thanos. And when I went back to put the infinity stones in their original timeline, you were right there, in the Red Room. I couldn't stop myself. I had to save you, and I had to stay behind."
At the end of the day, in just about every universe - James Buchanan Barnes and Yelena Belova always wound up together. No matter the consequences.
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Prologue
Kamar Taj
Day Nine
"If we survive this, Yelena—I think we owe it to ourselves to give this a legitimate shot."
"You mean…?"
"I'm all in, Yelena. I'm all yours."
Ten seconds. That was all the time Bucky and Yelena had to bask in it.
They had ten seconds of uninterrupted bliss, of smiling at each other, of holding each other and kissing each other and beaming about the promise of what the future held for the two of them—that's all they got. Ten whole seconds.
And then, they heard it. Sounds of chaos, coming from outside.
"Hold your fire!"
"—Wanda, the hell are you thinking—"
"Listen to me, Wong—"
"Bucky! Yelena!"
The two of them snapped back to reality, and wordlessly rushed towards the door.
The second they got outside, it was easy to see what all of the commotion was about.
Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff were standing across from them.