"Steve, where's my dad?" Steve was dropping B.J off at home when they came across the apartment destroyed. "I'm okay. Why do you keep a pistol in your nightstand?" Bucky said coming out from behind the couch. B.J shrugged and looked around the place. "Never know who breaks in. Also, my room is more trashed than I left it." she said as she began cleaning up her room of displaced papers and a destroyed desk chair, alarm clock, and lamp. Steve helped Bucky up. "What attacked you?" he asked. Bucky stretched his arm and rubbed the back of his neck. "Don't think I'm crazy, but it was a raccoon and a tree. They took my metal arm." he answered. B.J and Steve actually didn't laugh at the allegations. "Groot and Rocket? Why did they come here?" B.J asked as she perched on the over turned couch. "The raccoon took my arm. Wait, you know them?" Bucky asked. B.J nodded and took out her phone. "Yeah, thanks to the Doctor, I know them." she said as she texted someone. Her phone started ringing and she answered it. "Hey, Quill, my dad needs his…What? Seriously?! Sad, you are. Fine." B.J hung up and sighed as she saw a cloud roll over the sun lit sky. "I gotta go within an hour. I won't be back for dinner." B.J left to get a bag ready and the soldiers followed her. "Where are you going and is that a space suit?" Bucky asked as she pulled out a black suit from under her bed. "Yeah and your answer." she said as she slipped the suit over her clothes. Bucky sighed and left the room to fix his apartment. Steve went to help him and B.J rushed behind him. "Bye, see you later!" B.J jumped out of the window in the kitchen into a passing spaceship. Bucky exhaled as he watched it fly off. "I'm never going to get used to that." he exasperated. Steve laughed and put the couch in the right position. "Cards tonight, you in?" he asked.
"So, where is the arm?" she asked. Peter Quill, better known as Star Lord, had Groot and Rocket in a corner. "Rocket wanted a new gun and the Collector wanted your pop's arm." he answered. Drax was sharpening his knives and saw Groot pout. "You got yourself in trouble. Don't look in my direction." he told them. Groot sighed and put his pout to the wall. Rocket was kissing his new gun that he traded Bucky's arm and Gamora for. "Wait, he wanted Gamora? Wow, Rocket, just when I thought you weren't getting any colder." B.J said as she sat by Drax. "Indeed. He is shallow in his height. I think he is shrinking." B.J held back a laugh and cleared her throat. "I meant something else, but that works too." she said as she relaxed on the chair. Groot saw her arm. "I am Groot." B.J saw him looking at her arm. "Long story. Not talking about it." she answered as she hid it in the sleeve of her suit. Rocket hummed and was dying to know. "Come on, it's a safe place here. You can tell us." he urged. B.J took a knife from Drax and threw it, the blade landing just above Rocket's head. "All I'm saying it that you can't bottle that stuff up. It'll hurt you if you don't tell someone." the raccoon spoke as he pulled the knife out of the wall. B.J ignored him and hummed to her music. Drax took the earbuds out, curious to know what the white pieces were. "Drax, give those back before she pounds you like the last time." Peter warned. Drax remembered what happened and gave them back with hesitation. B.J took them and listened back to her music. "All I'm saying, kid, is that you should talk to someone before it hurts." Rocket said as he sat in the corner on Groot's head. "I told no one because I don't want to remember." B.J sighed as they went through space.
Bucky and Steve left to go play cards like they did every week. U would be hard since he was missing an arm, but Bucky said he would manage. Steve didn't think so and saw a phone box outside of the tower. "Huh, he's here? Oh, Steve, you have got to meet this guy!" Bucky ran childishly to the box. Steve raised a confused eyebrow and followed the giddy Winter Soldier to the box. "Bucky! Hey, come on in!" someone from inside the box greeted. Steve saw the inside of the box and yanked his head back out, looking around the box with a timid eye. "Captain, it is an honor!" Doctor gave a British salute as he pulled Steve inside the box. "Bucky told me you would adore seeing Peggy Carter again." Steve heard what the TARDIS was and grew excited like a fangirl seeing her OTP in real life.
B.J and Peter went to see to bargain for Gamora and Bucky's arm with the Collector. "Okay, I have a something." Peter held out B.J's phone. "No, he doesn't." she snatched the phone back. Peter smirked and thought as he picked up Rocket by his scruff. "Borrow him for a week as a little slave or whatever and we can have our things back." Rocket was squirming and cursing and Gamora heard that Peter called her a thing. "I am not a thing, I am a person you jackass!" she shouted. B.J sighed and had a thought. "What if I bring you what you've always wanted?" she suggested. Collector had a pleased look with the proposition. "I've always wanted something that no one else has, but one in the universe." he vaguely said. B.J was catching on to what he was saying. "Oh no." Collector had a smile like a pearl necklace. "Tell me what happened to your arm and I will give you Winter Soldier's arm with Gamora." he proposed. B.J gulped and Groot saw her shaking. "I am Groot." he said as he put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Yeah, Groot will stay with you." Rocket said as he got free of Peter's grasp. Groot got confused as he and B.J were left behind with the Collector and Gamora. "I don't like this." Groot hummed as he sat down.
Bucky and Steve jumped through the time stream to see Peggy and them coming home to play cards. Doctor enjoyed seeing 1947 with Bucky and they left Steve so he could have the dance he missed with Peggy before going home. "I missed these." Bucky said as he ate a peanut butter cookie from a bakery that closed in 1965. Luckily the baker gave him a recipe book when Bucky offered to pay for it. Steve was swimming with glee when they were jostled about as they went home. "Thanks, guys." Steve said as he got to his feet. "You deserved it, Cap. With all you do, you did for everyone." Doctor said as he shook his hand. Bucky had a smile that agreed with every word the Doctor spoke. They went inside the tower to play cards, unknowing that an unexpected guest was there. "Hello, boys." greeted Loki.
"That's how it happened? I'm so sorry." Collector was appalled by her story. B.J sighed and rubbed her eyes. "That's why I don't tell anyone." she said as she rolled her sleeve down. Groot started hugging her and B.J wiggled, trying to get free of the hug. "Well….Here, you deserve these. Live a good life, Bucky." Collector said as he got up and left. B.J sighed and gave warning looks to everyone to say nothing as they went to the ship to drop her off at home. By the time she got back, B.J had about two panic attacks and an anxiety attack. Groot and Drax got her to calm down, but Gamora got them away when Drax was making it worse. "Your home. Don't worry, you're safe." she calmed the young human. B.J shuddered and they got her to calm down. "T-t-this is why I don't talk about it." she snapped at Rocket before they landed on the apartment building roof. Peter got her to her apartment and left her in a calm state of mind before he left her.
As it turned out, Loki was invited by Thor. Tony figured Thor would do this to get close to his adoptive brother once again and they played cards with Loki with one condition: Thor had to see the cards Loki had and make sure he did lie about the plays he made during the poker game. "Two weeks in a row, Bucky? You hustling us?" Clint chided rhetorically. Bucky took the money from the center of the round table. "Must be having a good couple of weeks." he smiled. By eleven thirty, everyone left the tower for their rooms or residences. Bucky saw B.J shivering on the couch in a dark nightmare and sat by her, rubbing her back and easing her out of the malicious sounding dream. B.J heard him hum something she didn't recognize. Oh, it was Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, one of her favorite songs. Bucky figured it would calm her down and he relaxed more when he saw her relax. Sighing contently with how his life was going so far, he reclined in the couch and drifted to sleep after covering B.J in a soft blanket. By ten in the morning, he woke up the smell of bacon and saw B.J cooking in the kitchen. "Morning." she greeted. Bucky yawned with a stretch. "Morning. Do you have any missions today, Buck?" he asked. B.J shook her head and laid some of the bacon on a paper towel that was laid over a plate. "You have a day off too?" she asked. Bucky nodded with a tired yawn as he made himself some coffee without sugar or cream. B.J made herself a meat and cheese omelet to go with her bacon. B.J looked at her phone and read a text. "Troy asked me and some others to hang out. Can I?" she asked. Bucky smiled and saw the text. She was going to meet up with a few guys; Peter, Troy, and Ivan. "Alright. Text me when you get there and when you want to be picked up." B.J smiled as she ate her breakfast and watched the morning news. Whenever they had days off, they felt like they had a calm, average life and tended to play the part with enthusiasm.
Steve messaged Bucky to see if he wanted to hang out and Bucky answered with a "Yes". B.J left in a car with Troy and Peter as Bucky went on his motorcycle to meet up with Steve at the tower. The teens were at a fairly upper class mall and they talked in code when they talked about their secret lives. "I was on a video game last week and there was this goblin guy. The guy was ugly looking, so I threw him into a window." Peter said as he looking at a newspaper with Spiderman on the front page. "Yeah, I have that game. I rammed into this giant of a guy head first." B.J said as she put her hoodie on to hide her scar. They heard something that sounded like thunder, knowing it wasn't Thor somehow. "Was that just thunder?" Ivan asked. Peter Parker, Troy Stark, B.J Barnes, and Ivan Romanov looked at the glass roof of the mall to see dark storm clouds. "Oh, there's a storm rolling in. Supposed to be a monster hurricane." Troy said as he saw some charts in his glasses. Troy was in need of some glasses and Tony made him a special pair with Jarvis and Friday programmed in them. B.J bought a glow in the dark skeleton jacket a size bigger than her regular size and wore it comfortably. Ivan was visiting from England and they talked about how Cheshire Holmes was doing as her older brother's assistance. "So, is Andy crawling back to her?" B.J asked Ivan when they were left behind and got lost. "Yes. Actually, they got back together." Ivan said as he saw some poster with his sister Natasha and Clint in a fighting stance. B.J and Ivan kept talking about Cheshire Holmes and Andy Moriarty, missions, and even everyday life with their odd family. Brock Rumlow silently followed the lost teens and made sure to stay out of eyesight. Both were heavily trained teens and could tell when something didn't feel right. Steve and Bucky ended up going to the same mall as the young heroes to spend the poker money they won the night before. "I feel like someone is following." she whispered to Ivan. Ivan, nonchalantly, looked around to make a quick glance to Rumlow. "You're right." he whispered back. B.J and Ivan started walking faster and thought it best to split up to see who he wanted to follow.
"Crossbones is here following Ivan and I. We spilt up to test who he was stalking." -B.J
Brock followed B.J and she hid in the girl's restroom, only to crawl out through the air vent and ran. Bucky saw Rumlow and they made direct eye contact. "Shit." Brock started running and the super soldiers followed him close. B.J finally got to find Troy and the others and they grabbed lunch before leaving. "Well, Winter and Cap are taking care of Crossbones. Wanna see a movie?" Peter suggested. They all agreed and went to see the new horror movie that came out the night before. Half way through, B.J had to step out. "I'm going to check on her." Troy whispered as he got up during a romantic part. B.J was relaxing on a chair in the hallway in from of the theater. "You alright, Buck?" he asked as he sat with her. "Just fine." she sighed when she opened her eyes. "Just, avoiding an attack. The torture scene brought on a flash back." she added. Troy sighed and held her hand. "I'm your friend and if you need to talk, I'm here." he told her. B.J smiled a little and leaned her head on his shoulder absently. "Thanks, Stark." she said as she calmed her rapid breathing. Troy wrapped an arm around her and rubbed her back. Everyone found that small gestures like a hug or holding her hand and letting her breathe helped relax her from an oncoming attack. "You're alright, Bucky. You're safe." he calmly said as B.J closed her eyes and let a flashback take its course. Troy wasn't into the horror movie and stayed with B.J as she shivered and held her arm until her knuckles were white. Peter and Ivan left with the crowd after the movie and saw them sitting there. "Hey, wanna get some ice cream?" Peter asked B.J. A tear slowly slithered from her eyes as she nodded. They left to go to a nearby Cold Stone and Troy paid for them all. B.J was sat in the middle of the table while they ate the cold treat. "Feeling better, B.J? You seem to be in more control lately." Peter said as she had a bite in her mouth. B.J shrugged and wiped her face with a napkin. "I don't know. It's just hard dealing with all of it." B.J sighed. Ivan was updated by Cheshire on what happened to her and was sworn not to tell any outside sources. "If you want, we can talk about it somewhere secret." Troy proposed as they got ready to leave for home. "Maybe. Anyway, thanks for taking me out of my house. I would've been bored to death." she said as they dropped her off at home. She went inside the apartment and saw a gun barrel in her face. "My day just gets better." she grumbled.