Arabella

Being back from our trip for almost a week now, Bucky and I set into a good routine. I didn't stay out for hours when I knew I should go home, and he didn't go to Steve's till 1:00 am. Steve would never tell anyone or say it, but I was positive that he was glad for it too. With his relationship with Erica growing, he would want an empty place just for the two. Maybe three if her son was going to be with her that weekend.

So far things between Bucky and I were good, we hadn't fought yet, and we actually were enjoying each other. I had held my tongue when I felt like saying something out of place or something that I knew would spark a fight. It wasn't often that I just shut up and smiled, and even when I did it was only over the things that weren't important. Bucky had never given me a reason to be upset anyways, it was just me and what I think I saw.

Right now it was the morning meaning Bucky was gone to train S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents. I couldn't train with Natasha or Erica because they were both sent to do field work. Pepper was going to be in meetings all day so I couldn't meet with her for lunch. I decided not to go out anywhere, instead I was cleaning up the apartment.

The music was on loud and I was mopping the kitchen when I look over at the counter and see that Bucky had left his phone.

'Crap, I wonder if I should take it to him.'

I check and see that the time is 11:32. He would be coming home at 2:00.

'Well it wouldn't hurt to just go and see him.'

Having already made my choice, I quickly finish mopping and grabbed my things. I made it to the office, not being stopped as usually. I went opposite of where Erica and I sparred, and found the room that I had seen only in passing. Sure enough Bucky was in there, but he wasn't just on the side lines watching them train.

It looked like he was showing an agent how to properly perform a hit. I knew that he had four students, two women and two men. Right now he was teaching one of the female agents. I tried to push down the jealous I was feeling at watching him do so.

'Don't do that, it's his job.'

Opening the door to the room, all of the people in the room turned to me. I give the Agents a tight smile. Bucky immediately stops what he is doing and a grin comes to his face as he approaches me. The agent that he was training has a faint look of disappointment as he leaves her. She looks me up and down with a distastefulness.

'This bitch is not.'

Abruptly a bright smile comes to her face and she waves at me with friendliness.

'Maybe I was imagining things, I can take things too much sometimes.'

I smile back at her, and then turn my eyes to Bucky who was now standing in front of me.

"What are you doing here?" He asks with happiness. I take his phone from my pocket and hold it out to him.

"You left your phone, and it was going to be a few more hours so I decided to bring it to you." He looked down at the device and took it from my hands. He brings the hand that was holding his phone up to his lips, and places a soft kiss on it.

"Thank you love, I'm glad you did." He says against my hand. A blush spreads across my face, and I let out a small your welcome. I was okay with public displays of affection around people who really knew us, not agents that he was training.

Our stuck gazes were interrupted.

"Hey! Agent Barnes, who is this?" The same women agent came up to us on the side. Bucky brings my hand down from his mouth but keeps holding it. His face was one of annoyance, but he answered anyways.

"Agent Rule, this is Arabella Barnes, my wife." Her faces falls slightly, but she picks herself up quickly, offering a hand to me.

"It's nice to meet you Arabella. First name is Jessica." I shake her hand, letting a polite smile grace my face.

"Nice to meet you too." Bucky turns to the other agents in the room and calls them over.

"Arabella this is Agents Kent, York, and Scott." We all say our polite hellos, they seemed to be very professional. Just as a person should act when meeting a teacher's spouse. I wasn't going to read too much into Agent Rule; I didn't want to make myself jealous or upset when there wasn't anything there to begin with. It could just be her personality.

"Arabella?" I hear a voice call as the door behind me squeaks open. Swiftly moving my body to look at the person who called, in see its Agent Taylor.

"Hey Taylor, aren't you and Erica supposed to be on an assignment?" I asks curiously. A cocky smile comes on his face, the same one that he puts on right before he was about to brag. I knew it well from the many times that he had beaten Erica which always lead to bragging.

"We were but I took care of that fast, so now were back. We heard you came in and wanted to see if you were up for a spar?" I rolled my eyes at his first remark.

"You mean Erica did all the brain work and you like to take credit for the whole thing?" a cheeky look thrown at me. "Yeah. Well I am up for a spar, I'll be there in 10." I finished, actually really psyched that both of them were open to fight at the same time.

I remember Bucky and the other Agents in the room and I suddenly feel bad for not introducing them as soon as Taylor walked in.

"Oh, I'm sorry." I pull Taylor in the room and introduce him down the line. "Agent Taylor this is Agents Rule, Kent, York and Scott. And this is my husband Bucky." I said the last part, mocking Bucky a little. From his good humored laugh, I could see that he already knew why I said it the way that I did.

"Great to meet you all, I'm going to head to the other practice room now. I'll see you in 10 Arabella." He shot his hand out in goodbye as he left the room. There was a short silence before Jessica was the one to break it.

"Isn't it weird that an agent is calling you by your first name? I mean I heard that you're a teacher for those agents." She states a little too innocently. I give her a smirk that I only reserve for questions that I found extremely evasive or nosey.

"It's not weird when you've kicked said agents ass too many times to count. Plus we don't really consider me a teacher, more that we learn from each other." I explain with ease and a shrug. Before she could comment further Bucky interjected saying that the agents should get back to training. They move back to their original positions before I came in, and Bucky turned back to me with a smile.

"I really am glad you showed up, but I got to get back to work." I nod in understanding. "I'll see you at home, don't spar with those agents too long." He states, quickly giving me a hug and a kiss goodbye. With him walking back to train, I also turn to the door and exit. I peer back in the room once last time and see Jessica staring at Bucky with a look I can't quite explain. Suddenly her gaze turns to me, and it morphs into a glare.

Taken by surprise I only stare in shock. She wasn't definitely not as innocent as I had thought. Maybe I would have to watch out for her. Pulling my eyes away from her glare I head to the practice room that I used. I was going to have to keep an eye on Jessica.

'Wait. No, I'm just going to trust Bucky. Mistrust is what gets me in trouble.'

Well that didn't mean I had to trust her.

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