As you pull away from each other, your eyes lock. Silence consumes the room again, pouring into the space between you. You're breath is quick and heavy. Did that really just happen?
"We- We should get down to the lab. We have tutoring." Peter stammers and trips over his words.
"Yes. Yes we get going." He sweeps your hand up from your side and drags you out of the room. You clatter through the corridors of the facility, laughing as you do so. You reach the lab door and collapse through.
"You're late." Tony is sat in the corner of the room with his arms crossed.
"Come one, Mr Stark. Only 2 minutes." Tony rolls his eyes and stands at the front of the lab. After hours of lecturing, Bruce pulling faces at Tony behind his back making you and Peter fall onto the floor laughing, and getting offered a blueberry once or twice, Peter passes you a folded note underneath the table.
Do you want a tour after this?
You look back up at his hopeful smile and nod. The tutoring seemed to whiz by after that note, excitement of spending more time with Peter coursing through your veins. Before Tony had even let you go, you and Peter had already sprinted out of the door.
"The gym is right next door if you want to go there first." Peter offered.
"And then we should probably get to the training room. I would rather not be late again." The two of you giggle and continue to walk.
The glass windows of the gym are coated in steam, you can only see a dark figure abusing a punching bag. Peter slides the door open and you see something more. A metal arm.
He hears the door slide open and turns around. His long black hair tucked behind his ears and his shirt drenched with sweat. He looks you up and down and he walks away from the punching bag and towards his water bottle and a towel which he wipes of his head.
"Who are you?" His voice is deep and raspy, although slightly out of breath.
"I'm Y/n." Something about his makes you nervous. Like a twisting in your gut. But good.
"You're Stark's daughter?" He looks slightly amused but also shocked at the same time. You nod. "How old are you, Y/n?"
"19 in two days." A smile comes across his face which he clearly tries to hide. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife.
"We - We should get to the training room." Peter intrudes. You are knocked from gaze and look at Peter.
"Yes, we should get going." You begin to walk out and Peter walks beside you. You say "I'll see you later, Barnes." without even turning back around and walking straight out the door.
He is slightly taken aback that you know his name already. "Call me Bucky." He replies.
"No." You turn back around to him this time. "I prefer Barnes."
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Welcome Home
RomanceY/n struggles to find her own path, after being neglected by her father and forced to take command of her own life, she meets a certain Peter Parker with whom she can finally be herself. But when her powers take control of her, she is stripped of th...
