Appellations (Reader X Bucky)

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"Hey babe, super hungover, won't be coming over tonight, will see you after work tomorrow x." Was the text you got from Matt.

You were a little disappointed, he knew the only time you really got to see each other was at the weekend. He was always busy through the week with work being an event coordinator, "that's okay, I will see you next weekend x," you text back.

Bucky had gone to do some afternoon training with Steve and Tony was busy in his lab, so you went to find Natasha.

You knock on her bedroom door and wait for her to answer, "Hey," she greets you, "everything okay?" she asks moving out of he way to let you enter. She didn't like people being in her room but you were the only exception.

"Matt's bailed on seeing me today, he got drunk with his mates last night so I thought I would come pester you."

"Well don't I feel like the lucky one," she jokes with you, "I'm heading down to train in 10 minutes if you want to join me?"

You look at her quizzically, "me, training? I'm sorry, are we just meeting for the first time?" you say sarcastically.

"Oh come on it'll be fun," she encourages.

You roll your eyes and huff as you head out of her room to change into some gym clothes, whilst muttering to yourself, "I don't see what will be fun about punching and throwing me around."

Once changed into some black shorts, tank top and trainers you meet Nat in the hallway outside of her room and head down to the gym with her. You mimic her movements as she stretches and warms up, just then you hear the side door opening as Steve and Bucky come back in from their run.

They both look in the direction of you and Nat, "you've got (y/n) training with you? What did you bribe her with?" Steve says jokingly.

"Good one Rogers," you say, "don't make me kick your ass."

Bucky laughs at your comment.

"Nat's good at training but she's not that good," Steve continues to joke around.

"Hey!" Nat exclaims, "you want to try taking us both on?" she says defensively.

Bucky pat's his friend on his shoulder, "you've dug yourself into a very deep hole, let me help you out," he offers by pushing his friend out the door leaving you and Nat to workout.

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After what seemed like forever Nat finally calls it a day, and in all honesty it wasn't half as bad as you thought it was going to be, but you weren't going to tell her that or she would have you training with her every day.

"You did good Stark, your a quick learner," Natasha compliments you as the two of you exit the gym.

You head to your room to shower and change, you felt awesome for working out and keeping pace with the Black Widow but you knew you'd feel the burn tomorrow.

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Back in the living room you see Tony, Nat and Steve chatting, drinking and relaxing whilst Bucky made food for everyone. You head over to the kitchen to see what he was cooking that made such an amazing aroma.

"What you making?" you ask as you take a seat at the island.

"A couple of the best pizzas you'll ever taste," he says as he opens the fridge to get you a beer. With his metal hand he easily pops the top off the bottle and slides it across the island to you. He holds his in the air in a silent 'cheers', you do the same and both take a sip in unison.

All the while keeping eye contact, "so," he begins, "how was training?"

"Honestly not as bad as I thought it would be," you reveal, taking another sip, "but don't tell Nat," you wink at him.

You watch him for a moment, studying his movements as he continues to chop the toppings for his pizzas. The bubbles from your beer must of gone to your head as you ask, "I'm curious, out of you and Steve who would win in a race?"

Bucky couldn't help but smile at your question, he lowers his voice, "me, every time," he takes a proud sip of his beer.

He places the pizzas in the oven and turns back to you and half leans on the counter next to you, "if there was one place in the world you could go, where would it be?"

You take a moment to think, "(fave place), I've always wanted to (go/go back) there," you pause and sip and ask, "you're stuck on a desert island, what's the one thing you'd take with you?"

He thinks for a moment, he desperately wanted to say you but instead he leads with, "uhm, probably a friend to keep me company," he takes a sip.

"Oh yeah? Like what a female friend," you say smirking and giving him a wink as you get up and head over to the fridge to grab another two beers, "would you mind? I don't have a metal arm or super powers," you ask holding the beers to him for him to open.

"Okay then if you could have a super power what would you want?"

Without hesitation you answer, "invisibility so I can catch my brother stealing my coffee."

Bucky audibly laughs causing you to laugh too. You hadn't see this side of Bucky very often, the laughing, carefree side, but you liked it. You liked how he looked, how he smiled, and his eyes. Your thoughts wonder as your eyes locked in on each other for a moment longer than they should of. Bucky breaks the hold by taking a sip of his drink and placing it on the table next to you. He then moves back over to the oven and takes out the pizzas and cuts them into slices, and places a bowl of salad on the counter, "foods ready guys," he announces to the rest of the team.

The team makes their way over to the two of you, filling their plates and taking seats at the dining table. You do the same taking a seat in-between Steve and Tony, enjoying what was arguably the best pizza you had ever tasted.