Complicated Love (Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Chapter 15: The Bar

 Tonight will most likely be the last time we are going out for a while, so I plan on making it a good one. I put on a blue dress, curl my hair and did my makeup. I grab my matching heels, putting them on as Steve enters my tent.

"Look at you. You look beautiful," he says, and I hug him.

"Thank you. You look good as well," I say. "Did everyone agree to come?"

"Yes. So as long as they just join the team, everything should be set for next Thursday," Steve says. Next Thursday is when we plan to leave to take down the first Hydra base on the map. Until then, we are going to have the team train together and get to know each other, as well as planning a route that we want to take to hit all of the bases. We will be gone for months.

"Good, let's get going then," I say. We got one of Howard's cars that he let me borrow and drove our way to the local bar. Bucky drove all of our hopeful soon recruits, so it was just Steve and I in the car.

"By the way, Bucky and I have something to take care of tomorrow off base. So do not be too worried when you can't reach us for a couple of hours," he says, as he was smiling oddly.

"Is something going on?" I ask, raising my eyebrow at him.

"Nothing that you should be concerned about," Steve states, with a little smirk on his face. Before I could say anything, we arrived at the bar and Steve rushes out of the car. They are up to something, and I don't know if it's going to be good or not. We head into the bar, and I see all of the recruits, including Bucky sitting down at a table.

The bar goes quiet as we walk in the room, some of them clapping for Steve, and a lot of them eyeing me like candy. I see Bucky, the only man I care about in this room, turn around in his seat to look at me. His eyes linger on my body, and look back at my eyes with a smile on his face.

Steve and I approach the table and all the men are eager as they all receive their first round of drinks. "Well hello to you, y/n," Gabe says with a smile on his face.

"That's Agent to you," I say, making all the guys laugh. Bucky stands up and wraps an arm around my waist, making sure everyone see who I'm with.

"And she's mine, might I add," he says, making some of the soldiers hold their hands up in defeat. "You got this Steve?"

"Yea, go on," Steve says, patting his shoulder. Steve sits down at the table and Bucky takes my hand, leading me to the back. Bucky sits down on a stool and orders our drinks and the waiter goes to make them. I sit down at the stool next to him, but apparently it was too far from him, so he slides it closer to him.

"You look absolutely gorgeous tonight," he says facing me, as the waiter slides us our drinks.

"As do you," I say, running my hand over the lapel of his jacket. "Dashing as always." I pick my hand up to run my hand through his messy hair, seeing as it's not done. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, why do you ask?" he says.

"I don't know. The past couple weeks, you just seemed off. Just want to make sure everything is alright," I say.

"As long as I'm with you, everything is perfect," he says, and I smile at his cheesy words and take a sip of my drink. Out of the corner of my eye I see Steve walking towards us, as does Bucky. "See? I told you. They're all idiots."

"How about you? You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death?" Steve asks, as he sits down next to Bucky.

"Hell no. That little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight. I'm following him," Bucky says.