Gone Country(Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Chapter 1

Gravel was hitting up against the bottom of Bucky's truck as he made his way down to his ranch, Winter Creek. He was just coming back in from Missoula, he had gone on yet another failed date. At this point he thought he was just going to be alone forever.

Bucky had sat by and watched as all his friends fell in love, got married, and then had kids. And if Bucky said he wasn't jealous of any of them he would be lying. Bucky just wanted to find the girl he was meant to be with and do the exact same thing all his friends have done.

But Bucky knew deep inside that it would be a while before it happened- or it would just never happen. After all he lived in Hollow Gap, Montana, a place that was considered to be the middle of nowhere and he was pretty sure no girl would want to move down here with him or make the hour long drive from Missoula just to see him. And he also had his ranch that took up, basically, all of his time—it was a miracle to him that he even found time to go on the date he went on tonight. He just didn't live in place nor did he have the time to find the one

As he pulled into the driveway he saw that Steve's truck was parked by the house, and then he noticed Steve sitting on the front porch step. Bucky parked his truck and got out, he walked over to Steve and said, "Hey punk, what're you doin' here?"

"Nat sent me, she wanted to know how your date went."

"Same as they always go,". Bucky said as he kicked at the dirt with his boot, "I should probably just accept the fact that I'm never gonna find the one."

Steve patted the step next to him, signaling for Bucky to sit down and said, "Not with that attitude, i'm sure you'll find her some day. And Nat also mentioned something about Tom L/N's granddaughter coming up from Boston to help him out with the ranch, Nat said she was most likely single, and your age, maybe you and her will hit it off."

"Maybe...." Bucky said with a sigh, knowing that she probably wouldn't even give him a second glance. "Let's get off that topic, how is little Clara doin,' Stevie and Ryder warmed up to her yet?"

Steve just laughed and said, "Clara has me wrapped around her little finger, she's gonna be a heart breaker, and as for the boys Stevie adores her, but Ryder doesn't like not being the baby anymore."

"He'll warm up eventually, if y'all ever need some help just call me and I'll take em for ice cream or something, if I have time."

"You really need to find a foreman Buck..." Bucky just gave Steve a quick nod. Steve then said "Thanks for the offer pal, might just take you up on it. Alrighty I know we talked for all of three minutes but I gotta get going back to the three little gremlins, See ya later pal, and who knows maybe she's the one," Steve then got up from the porch step, he patted Bucky on the back and then got into his truck and drove away.

Bucky stood there for a second watching the dust fly up in Steve's path, then he decided to do one final check on his cattle while he still had a little bit of sun.

He walked down to the barn, and got out all his tack. Then he went to go get his horse, Sargent, out from the pasture. Sargent, being the biggest people loving horse out of Bucky's three horses, ran right up to the gate. Sargent is a buckskin quarter horse, and is a quite handsome boy.

"Hey Sarg, ready to finish up the day, I got some sugar cubes for ya when we are done bud." Sargent just nuzzled his head into Bucky's shoulder over the fence, Bucky took that as yes.

He then opened the gate and put on Sargents halter and lead rope. Once the pair got up to barn Bucky hooked him up to the cross ties, then groomed and tacked him up.

Once Sarg was ready, Bucky lead him out by the pasture and got onto Sarg, they went down to the cow pasture and did a quick check, just making sure that no cattle had gotten out and all of the herd looked good. Then Bucky rode fence real fast and everything looked good so Bucky called it a day and rode back up to the barn.

After Bucky was done putting away Sargent(Bucky made sure Sarg got plenty of sugar cubes) he went up to his house. The house felt lonely, like always, but for now Bucky just pushed away that feeling and went straight to his room. He took off his dirty clothes and then hopped into the shower. Once he was done in there he threw on a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. Before he got into bed he glanced at the clock and it read 9:33pm. He calculated he would get around seven hours of sleep tonight, which was pretty good to him considering how much sleep he usually got.

He then got into the bed and as soon as his head hit the pillow he was fast a sleep.