A/N: This is my first soulmate story! I think WinterQuake is such a great couple, so I decided to write about them. It was originally going to be a one-shot, but I ended up making it really long and I decided to make it into different chapters.

Also, for the sake of my own sanity (and because I'm not sure how to write some characters) they just aren't in this story! Vision doesn't exist, Rhodey is on a mission?, and Thor is off world. Oh, and Bruce just shows up at convenient times because why not!

Sorry in advance for any typos!

Anyways... Enjoy the story :)

Not everyone has a soulmark, but for the lucky ones that do, they get the mark on the day that their soulmate is born. Daisy is one of the few people that have a mark. She's had it her entire life. The first sentence that her soulmate will say to her imprinted on Daisy's right hip. FitzSimmons are soulmates— they're the only other people at SHIELD with marks. Not many people know about Daisy's. She's kept it hidden her whole life because she didn't believe that she would ever find her soulmate. But things were about to change.

Daisy steps into a bar and immediately heads to the counter as usual. Jeremy is working tonight and sets a soda in front of her before turning away to serve someone else. She's been a regular here since Coulson revoked her clearance five months ago. Daisy found out that she would lose control of her powers the more that she drank so instead, she just sits and watches others drink their lives away. It's not the same, but at least she can't hurt anyone if her mind is clear.

After everything happened with Hive a year ago, Daisy threw herself into her work. She had Coulson send her on as many missions as possible. He thought it was taking a toll on Daisy so he suspended her. He told her that she couldn't go back into the field until she was willing to accept what happened because it was affecting her work. Daisy knew he meant well. Lincoln wasn't her soulmate, but he was still the love of Daisy's life and his death took a toll.

She continues watching people roam around the bar. There's a young couple sitting at a small table talking, a group of guys playing pool, and some girls in dresses way too fancy for this bar pointing at a group in the corner. Daisy has to lean to the side a bit to see what they are looking at and it shocks her when she realizes.

"Hey Jeremy?" She calls as she waves him over.

"How can I help you Daisy?" he responds.

"How often do the Avengers frequent this place? I've never seen them here before and I come quite often."

"They're usually only here around once a month. They like to get out of that tower I guess," he shrugs then walks off to clean some glasses.

Daisy shrugs as well and continues to watch everyone roam. After she finishes her sodas, Daisy gets ready to leave. She glances over at the Avengers one more time and wonders about how they would react to finding out that SHIELD is still up and running. Daisy takes out her wallet and slaps a couple twenties onto the counter.

"Keep the change Jer!" She calls as she exits the building. Despite her extensive training, Daisy fails to see the man slip out after her.

"Come on Steve, just walk up to someone and start a conversation," Natasha said. "You can't stay single forever."

"Easy for you to say. You're lucky enough to have a soulmate," he grumbles.

Sam looked at Wanda, who was sitting right next to him, and then back at Steve. "Wanda and I aren't soulmates," Sam points out.

Steve put his head in his hands, frustrated. "I am perfectly capable of finding the right person on my own—"

Bucky stops listening in on the conversation and zones out. He is silently sitting at a round table in the bar with six of his fellow Avengers. Going around the table— starting on Bucky's left— is Steve, Sam, Wanda, Tony, and Natasha, with Clint on his right side. Everyone was discussing soulmates while trying to get Steve a date. The only Avengers with soulmarks are Tony (who's soulmate is Pepper) and Natasha (who is soulmates with Clint). Sam and Wanda aren't soulmates, but they might as well be.

Bucky is one of the few to get a soulmark, but no one knows and he doesn't plan on telling anyone. His soulmate was born while he was under the control of Hydra as the Winter Soldier. After he had gained his memories back, Bucky noticed the words on the left side of his rib cage.

When he had first started living at the tower with the rest of the Avengers, Bucky had planned on telling Steve about his mark. It wasn't easy when he choose to keep it from him. But Bucky knew that if Steve found out then he would try to assist in finding Bucky's soulmate. The thing is... Bucky didn't want to find his soulmate.

His sleep is plagued with nightmares. His past is flooded with red. He lives in constant fear of reverting back to the Winter Soldier. His soulmate wouldn't want him anyways, so Bucky had no intention of searching for them. It wasn't that he didn't want to spend his life with someone who was his perfect match, but Bucky didn't want to face the inevitable rejection that would come once his past was revealed.

"Earth to Barnes," Clint says while waving his hand in front of Bucky's face. Natasha thumped the side of Clint's head. "Ow! What was that for?" Clint muttered. She rolled her eyes, not deeming him with a response.

"You okay Buck?" Steve asked.

Bucky looked at him. "Yeah, I was just trying to figure out a way to talk you into getting a girl's number," he teased.

"Ah-ha! Even Barnes is in on it!" Tony exclaimed. He leaned forward and whispered, "What do you have planned? Capsicle needs some love in his life."

Steve sighed, hearing what Tony said very clearly.

Bucky chuckled and made eye contact with Steve. "I was thinking we could..."

His words died off as he saw a brunette woman in a black leather jacket leave the bar over Steve's shoulder. He'd have thought nothing of it, but as soon as she left another man stood up and followed her out. When Bucky saw the man pull out a handgun as he left the bar, he knew he needed to act. There was something different about that woman and he felt the need to protect her. Bucky pushed aside the questions running through his head and told the group that he needed some fresh air for a bit.

Everyone either waved Bucky off or said 'see you at the tower' in response then they went back to bugging Steve. Natasha gave Bucky a slight nod as if she'd also seen everything that had happened. He made his way outside the bar and down the street. Bucky looked up and down the road looking for the woman, but she was nowhere in sight. He was about to go back into the bar when he heard voices from an alleyway down the block. He could hear what was being said as he got closer.

"—never meant to be created you inhuman scum! I'm going to make you wish—"

"Can we please just get this over with? I'm having kind of a rough night, so I'm not in the mood to deal with your bullshit."

Bucky got to the alley and peeked around the corner just as the woman easily knocked out the man who followed her. She left the man unconscious on the ground— sliding his gun into her own waistband— as she exited the alleyway, walking right past where Bucky was standing. She didn't spare him a glance as she spoke.

"You all need to stay out of this," she told him as she walked by.

Bucky stalled at the words she had said—the words that had been on his ribs since his time as The Soldier.

"I don't think I can," he responded, almost immediately.

The woman stopped walking; both her and Bucky frozen in place for what felt like an eternity. She looked to the ground and shook her head.

"I'm sorry," she said. The lady crouched down and placed her fingertips on the sidewalk. The next couple seconds left Bucky stunned and confused. The women let out some sort of pulse from her hands that slightly shook the city block like a miniature earthquake. She was thrust into the air, over buildings and out of sight. Just as Bucky was about to run in the direction that the woman had disappeared to, the Avengers ran out of the bar down the street. Everyone rushed over to Bucky, Steve was leading the group.

"What happened?" he asked. Bucky looked from the group to the direction his soulmate had gone.

His soulmate.

Gone.

Bucky sighed and turned to walk back to the tower. He didn't understand. He had barely spoken and she didn't want him. Bucky hadn't expected his soulmate to be the one to push him away, rather, he thought that it'd be the other way around. He pushed himself through the group of his bewildered friends to continue his way to the tower when Natasha grabbed his arm, stopping him.

She sternly looked into Bucky's eyes. "What happened Barnes?" She questioned.

"My soulmate," He stated sadly. Most of the group made sounds of surprise.

"You don't have a soulmate," Tony said. "He doesn't have a soulmate."

"Not anymore," Bucky whispered. He turned back to his friends. Steve's eyes held a look of betrayal because he shared everything with his friend. They'd never had a secret this big before. They'd never had secrets. "She doesn't want me. She used whatever powers she has to get away from me. She knocked out some guy that followed her and left him in the alley then told me that we need to stay out of it. That's what I plan to do."

The conversation was clearly over when Bucky pulled his arm from Natasha's grip and walked away.

At Avengers Tower...

"What I don't understand is why she would run off like that?" Wanda asked the group.

Bucky was in the gym working out his feelings while hopefully talking with Steve. Everyone else had been gathered in the common area discussing the newest revelation for the past hour.

"Maybe she recognized him as the Winter Soldier," Sam stated.

"She definitely knew who he was," Natasha began. "She warned us to stay out of whatever she's into."

Wanda looked at Natasha. "Do you think it was because of her powers? She made the whole city block shake."

"Well whatever the reason, we need to find her." Everyone looked at Tony, surprised that he would suggest finding the soulmate to the man who killed his parents. "We can't have an assassin that's constantly down-in-the-dumps. It'll mess up his performance in the field. Don't go thinking that I care or something," Tony rolls his eyes, takes a sip of his drink, and walks into the kitchen.

"I thought that's why we grabbed the dude she knocked out," Clint said. The man that Bucky's soulmate had left in the alley was now in a cell within the tower. They were planning to interrogate him about why he followed the woman and who she was— once he woke up, of course.

Bucky came walking into the room and leaned against the wall by the door. Steve walked over to the group and started to explain to them what he and Bucky had worked out while in the gym.

The plan was to go after his soulmate, mainly because they didn't know her capabilities or intentions. Bucky wasn't happy that she had run off, but he wasn't angry about it either. She could never love him anyways.

And for Bucky not wanting to go after his soulmate as much as he did, he was still worried about whatever she had gotten herself into. He told himself that that's the only reason he wanted to find her.

Daisy stumbled further into the building and found the room that held her supplies. She entered it and closed the door as quietly as possible before leaning against the wall and sliding down to the dusty floor.

The man from the alley had placed a tracker on Daisy without her knowing. Daisy ended up getting cornered by The Risers and was shot in the scuffle a couple hours after running from her soulmate. She found and destroyed their tracker before making her way to this warehouse for her hidden stash of emergency supplies, which were no longer here.

Daisy silently swore. She rested her head against the wall and closed her eyes, listening for anyone that might have followed her again while also trying to control her breathing. The small room was completely ransacked. Her duffel bag and food was gone.

The group has been after her for the past three months. Let's just say they aren't very happy about her putting a stop to their plans and quaking their bases. Coulson was able to take her out of the field, but he couldn't stop her from protecting other people like her. Daisy's saved three inhumans from being locked up and experimented on by The Risers. Her newest bullet wound was just another minor inconvenience in her day.

Daisy tried to shift into a more comfortable position and immediately quit moving. She groaned as pain shot through her shoulder and ran down her arm. This scenario was eerily similar to her first few months with SHIELD. Alone and bleeding out against a wall.

She heard multiple sets of footsteps coming from across the building and forced herself onto her feet. The process seemed to take forever and once she was up, she nearly lost her balance again. The room started to blur more when she was standing so Daisy closed her eyes and leaned her head against the wall.

It sounded as though the people in the building were searching for something as they opened doors and spoke in hushed tones. Daisy grabbed the door handle and took a slow deep breath. She'd dealt with worse pain before, she could get through this and find her other medical stashes. Based off of what she could hear, there couldn't be more than ten people looking for her.

Should be quick.

Right?

Daisy twisted the door handle and slowly opened it. She swayed as she stepped out into the hallway.

She made eye contact with the people in front of her. "Oh good," she said with the barest hint of a smirk. "I'll live." And then the world started to tilt and Daisy collapsed.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed that! I'm currently working on the second chapter so I have no idea what its word count will be. Let me know what you thought and if you have any plot suggestions!