Sugar 『Buckyxfem!reader』

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-Y/Ns pov-

I eye the man in front of me up. His black hair is mostly combed back, only one strand falls over his forehead. Brown eyes wander over my face and a little scar gives him an eyebrow cut. Emma always had good taste in men, I have to give her that.

"This is a bit weird for you too, right?"
His dark voice sends a shiver over my spine.

"Yes, I mean, not that you're weird, you seem nice, I-"
With a deep sigh I cut myself off.
"I didn't know that you exist until a few minutes ago, so..."

"Well, Emma told me a bit about you so I'll just go with the facts, okay?"
I nod.
"My name's Henry, I'm thirty-three years old, a professor in a college, I served a few years ago to be able to pay my education and that should be it."

"A college professor who served? That is interesting. Emma sure knows my type more than I do. What do you teach, Henry?"

"History and math, Y/N. Emma didn't tell me that you were prettier in real life."

I can feel my cheeks turning red.
"Thank you. What exactly did she tell you?"

"She told me that you're older than you look, that your name is Y/N, which suits you by the way, that you work with the Avengers and that you have two ex-fiancés. Also she said it's okay if we have fun, apparently you could use that."

I hold back a laugh and shake my head.
"Yeah, that sounds like Emma. If you want to know, I'm ninety-seven years old. But I kinda got frozen when I was like twenty-five so now I'm thirty-one. It's complicated."

"We have all night, don't we?"
He gives me a sweet smile.

"Well, I was born in 1920, frozen in 1945 and woke up in 2011. I said complicated not long."
I grin at him.

"That was... not complicated at all. But why were you frozen?"

"Uhm... You see, I fell in love and he died thanks to the war and then the war took my brother too. I mean, they both didn't really died but I didn't know that. So when I thought I didn't have anyone left, what was deeply wrong, I volunteered for an experiment. It should've been two weeks but the doctor died and the other one wasn't able to help me without the doctor."

"There is a lot to process. Are you alright now?"

"It took me some time but yeah. I had a therapist helping me through all of it."

We spent the next hours talking about his life, where he served, my life, what happened since I woke up, ecetera. The evening swallows a few glasses of wine and a lot of laughter. It does feel good to have a date and there is something about Henry, but... Sooner or later my thoughts drift off to Bucky.

Emma said she set him up too, is he enjoying his date? Probably, it's him after all. Or maybe he's thinking about me too? Henry seems to be a good guy, but Bucky... Argh, it would be better if he was sitting in front of me...

"By the way you're looking right through me I'd say we call it a night and you get back to the man you really want to be with?"
Henry grins and pulls me out of my thoughts.

"What? I'm sorry, I got lost in my thoughts. Please, continue."
I try to focus on Henry.

"Okay, Y/N, Emma told me what this date is there for and you really love that guy. So please, I'll bring you back and you get that guy, okay?"

"Henry, you are a wonderful man. In another life I'd probably enjoy our time."

"Oh yes, you would."
He pays the bill and chuckles.
"Emma let's me bleed tonight, huh?"

"I could-"

"No, it's alright. I've got enough money. Let's go."
With a smile he leads me to his car and drives me back to the compound.

"If I'm ever interested in another date I'll make sure to let you know, okay?"
I smile at him through the open car window.

"So never. It was nice to meet you, Y/N."
He jokes and drives off again.

I watch Henry leave before I get inside the building. I head into the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea when I see Bucky through one of the windows. He parks his bike outside and comes into the building too. Without taking any notice of me he rushes through the hallway. Confused I turn the water heater off and quietly follow him. I can hear him pacing through his room and can't help it but smile. I've known him long enough to know that he probably thinks about me and how this whole thing was a bad idea. Grinning I turn back around and return to my tea before I head into bed.

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