A/N: Only ten more chapters! It feels like I've been writing this for so long idek, I feel like my baby has turned into an adult right now... Anywho, UPDATE ABOUT UPDATES!
Okay, so, some of you will know that I'm writing a Spiderman fanfiction right now called 'Comical Love' (check it out if you haven't already) and I've decided that I'll update that once every two days and I'm going to start updating this once every two days (hence why there wasn't an update yesterday), I'm so sorry that you're going to have to wait longer and I hope this doesn't make you hate me. Tomorrow I'll update Comical Love and the day after that I'll update this, again I'm so sorry for being a let down.
Just a little side note as well, my story Comical Love is going to connect with this story so y'all probably want to read it. Or not, the characters from Comical Love will be featured in the sequel though and mentioned in this fanfiction.
To Jezebel DeTrazie, through the big part of the story I couldn't find anywhere to fit Thor in (no Loki, I'm sorry, I feel sort of like I'm cheating on Loki by even writing this fanfiction xD) but he does make an appearance in the last chapter.
To missy1234567890, gladly I'm not Australian, I'm english! And I don't mean the Australian thing in a horrible way, I just mean that I'm absolutely terrified of spiders so I don't think me and Australia would mix. I pray every night for Australians because of spiders. I'm just really scared of spiders okay?
To taytayfanatical, I can't tell if that means something good or bad?
Thanks again to Sco, Blondeconspiracy, Little Bucky, vilevillian, musangel88, Kima Wolfwood, CaptainAmericanna, frozenangel1988, BiancaTSparrow101, and supertrekwholock! I hope Bucky appears one day on a white horse and you ride off together into the sunset, y'all deserve it!
CHAPTER TWENTY
"I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art."
― Jennifer Egan
"Psst, Bucky." Summer sat herself down on the bed, making it dip slightly and with the added call of her gentle tone Bucky began to stir awake. "Wake up, I have pancakes." She sang, waving the plate in his face as he groaned light-heartedly, making a move to sit up.
"Good morning to you..." He muttered with a hoarse voice, his throat dry but soon beginning to water at the sight of Summer's pancakes. She put them down into his lap and he took a hold of the knife and fork, beginning to cut into the pancake. "Is this going to be a regular thing?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't." She shrugged, the strap of her baggy black vest falling to the left slightly, Bucky instantly moved to fix it once he moved and he blushed slightly when Summer grinned, falling in love with his quirks all over again. "Today though, I really need your help." She jumped up off the bed, almost knocking over his pancakes and that's when he knew she was up to something. She eventually returned with a box and Bucky had to sit up slightly to see what was in it, and it turns out the box was filled to the brim with mouse traps. "Help me prank Steve?" She asked, her voice taking an innocent turn that Bucky knew was false.
He quickly shook his head. "No way, I don't want to involved in one your 'only-spells-trouble' stunts." He put the finished plate of pancakes down on the side of bed, obviously he was hungry and he'd managed to gulp down his food in an impressive time.
"Please? I'll make it worth your while." Summer pouted, though Bucky didn't pay much attention to it when her hand begun to crawl up his legs that were currently covered by the surprisingly thin sheet, her hand rested gently above the top of his thigh and he had to rest his head onto the headboard on the bed and he exhaled a deep breath.
"Oh I bet you will... " He chuckled menacingly; Bucky knew exactly what she was trying to do and in all honesty it was working. "What do you plan to do anyway?" He asked, trying to sound casual so she didn't know about the effect that she was having, she was already filled with enough pride and he didn't want to feed that.
Giggling, she pulled her hand away from his leg and she picked up one of the mouse traps, showing it to him. "We lay these out through the hallway outside his room, all the way to the elevator and the only way to escape is to walk his way through all this. It's a genius plan if I do say so myself." She explained, moving her hands around flamboyantly with an extremely devious smile gracing her lips.
"Fine, but I want more pancakes tomorrow morning." He finally caved in and moved to jump from the bed, acting extra careful around the mouse traps just in case.
"Deal." She squealed, jumping up and wrapping her arms around his half naked body. She parted from his body and grabbed the box, handing it over to him. She skipped over to the elevator and as it opened she told the AI what floor to go on. "JARVIS, can you take me and Bucky to Steve's floor?"
"Of course Miss Scotts." JARVIS voiced and the elevator door stayed open until Bucky eventually ran into the room with the box still in his hand. They eventually arrived and they moved in sync out of the elevator.
Summer grabbed a couple of the mouse traps and moved to stand outside of Steve's door, beginning to place them and then set the traps up. "So just in a row or...?" Bucky asked, putting the box down and then taking a few, waiting for Summer's orders like any good soldier.
"In a row, now shut up, we don't want to wake him up." She snapped in a quiet voice, rolling over to the box and grabbing five more to fill up the hallway.
Bucky sent her a very snooty look, "Alright, little miss bossy pants." He snorted, beginning to lay down the mouse traps with a lot of determination, and soon enough he started to race her.
"Shush." She muttered, turning and seeing that Bucky had already turned it into a race. She'd suspected he'd do something like that and so she started rushing herself. After about 50 more minutes the both of them had reached the end of the hallway and were seated inside the elevator, placing the last ones down on the floor. It ended up being Summer who put the last one down, and she sent him quite a smug look when she accomplished grabbing the last mouse trap before Bucky did.
Once they'd made sure the last few were set up perfectly, they told JARVIS to send them upstairs to the living room and when they arrived Tony was already there at the bar with what looked to be a coca cola but Summer learnt to never put it past Tony when it came to morning beverages including alcohol - not that she could say anything. Though recently they were both starting to be normal and drink other beverages that don't have some form of alcohol in.
When Bucky and Summer first entered they were giggling and Tony looked to the par with a raised eyebrow, "what have you guys done?" He asked.
Bucky and Summer looked at each other and they turned back to Tony with a menacing smile. "Nothing." Bucky cackled, "Nothing at all."
Tony shrugged but left it at that, presuming he'd find out soon enough. Summer walked up to the bar and made both her and her boyfriend a drink. No alcohol of course, it was only nine in the morning, a bit too early even for Summer's tastes.
They lounged around the living room for a bit, Tony sat playing on his phone while Bucky and Summer cuddled on the couch talking about usual nonsense with each other. "And then I stuck the banana right up his-"
"Summer!" The doors to the elevator slipped open and revealed a very angry Steve storming out the door with mouse traps stuck out his clothing and there were red marks all over his skin, there was even one attached to his ear.
"How did you get one on your face?" Summer asked with wide eyes, trying to imagine the whole thing in her head. Luckily, she'd set JARVIS to record the whole thing happening earlier so she had the pleasure of watching it all happen later.
Tony sat up with a his mouth set in the perfect 'O' shape, "You pranked him and didn't even tell me?!" He asked, placing his hand over his heart as though he was truly appalled by what she'd done.
"Shut up Tony, you've pranked me enough." Steve yelled, pointing his finger at Tony and giving him a rather dirty look. "You know, I'm starting to notice that none of you appreciate me enough." He moaned, waving his hands about with annoyance, beginning to rip off some of the mousetraps from his clothing, being slightly more cautious when taking the one on his ear off.
"Oh my god you sound like a girl I use to date." Tony groaned, slouching back into the seat and going back to typing away on his phone.
Now would be a good time to mention that Steve wasn't actually angry, he was practically on the verge of laughing at that moment in time. When Summer was going to watch the video, she'd be surprised to see that Steve had purposely attached the mouse traps to his body so that Summer would feel better and stop harassing him with insults. So everything he was saying and doing was like he was acting out a comedy sketch for him.
Bucky and Summer were too busy giggling, having to move away from each other because the chuckling they'd been doing was beginning to hurt their bellies.
Steve repressed the smile as he put on a 'woe-is-me' expression, hands moving around dramatically as he begun to rant. "I helped with the whole chitauri business, I got your dry cleaning when your assistant was off sick. I clean this place all the time!" "And you, I taught you how make a decent apple pie, I helped you when Bucky was gone, and I helped you when you were pregnant-"
"Steve!" Summer yelled, sitting up straight with an alarmed expression.
Bucky sat there silently for a second, "what do you mean pregnant?W Steve was frozen though, in his mind he was cursing and telling himself off for being such an idiot. After realising Steve wasn't going to answer him he turned to face Summer. "What does he mean pregnant?"
"I was waiting for the right time to tell you..." she excused, her eyes moving to the ground, her own string of curse words forming in her mind.
Bucky stood up, seething slightly. "The right time to tell me is any time Summer, you were pregnant!" He yelled, eyes dark and looking at Summer with pure rage.
"Yes, I was quite aware I was pregnant." She snapped, instantly becoming defensive when he began yelling at her. Obviously she understood why but it was almost an instinctive thing for her to yell back when being yelled at.
"Was the baby mine?" He scoffed, not even thinking about what he was saying. His mind was going through a rush of questions. Where was the baby now? Why wasn't this the first thing Summer told him when she found out his memories had come back?
Summer gave him a dumbfounded expression, as though his question was the stupidest thing he'd ever said to her. "Of course the baby was yours, you're the only man I've slept with other than Timmy Wayne when I was 17." She stood up, just seconds away from beginning to walk away.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," JARVIS' voice called out causing Bucky to jump back in surprise, Summer however stood steady with her eyes remaining in a piercing glare aimed at Bucky. "But SAIL has been dug up, HYDRA are transferring it through vehicle."
Tony instantly jumped off the seat and put his home in his pocket, though he wasn't really paying attention to his phone the past few minutes as he was paying more focus to the argument that was unfolding between Bucky and Summer. "Track the vehicle," he muttered.
"Already on it sir." JARVIS replied
Tony clapped his hands together and faced everyone in the room, extremely aware of the awkward atmosphere. "Great, then everybody suit up. We've got to get going as soon as possible." He walked over to the elevator and everyone followed, silence only filling the air as they went to go prepare for battle.
Summer departed to the floor which her room was on, she'd been sleeping in Bucky's room recently but her wardrobe was placed in her bedroom so she went down to her room instead of following Bucky - not that she wanted to be with him at that moment in time anyway.
She realised that she didn't have a suit like all the other guys and so she just put on her black skinny jeans and black tank top. Summer then noticed that compared to what Captain America and Iron Man were wearing, she looked immensely boring. Not that it was a fashion contest or anything, Summer just wanted to not look like such an outcast around them. Thinking quick on her feet she found the nearest eye liner she could find and drew lines on her face so it looked like she was wearing war paint.
It was time for battle.