Missing Piece

Part Four

You and Bucky learned to communicate better with each other. If there was something that you weren't sure about or he wasn't sure about, you asked questions or just told each other how you felt.

The misunderstanding you'd had scared the both of you. Living in an awkward situation was much better than not talking to each other, and you made sure it would never happen again.

It did bring you closer.

You were pretty much inseparable now. Though neither you or Bucky were really comfortable being as open and vulnerable when other people were around, you still found ways to comfort and ground yourselves.

You sat close but never too close, you were never really touching unless one of you felt anxious, you never hugged each other when other people were around; you had talked about it and you both agreed it was what made you the most comfortable.

Steve understood Bucky but the others didn't. You knew that they would take every opportunity to make a joke, that would end up making one, or both, of you uncomfortable and you didn't want to risk him closing himself up.

You learned to communicate with each other without having to actually use words. You would look at each other and you'd know almost instantly what the other felt or thought, if you needed help or if you were doing ok.

Sometimes you'd walk by and get a little closer than you normally would just so you could quickly grab his hand and squeeze it to show him you were there. He'd do the same thing with you. Though as an ex-assassin, he was a lot more subtle than you were.

You slept in each other's room every night. Alternating between his and yours. You wanted to complain to Tony that Bucky's mattress was a lot more comfortable than yours but that would mean you'd have to admit you were sleeping in his bed; and as far as you knew, no one had noticed and you wanted to keep it this way.

It wasn't that hard to hide from everyone, it's not like they went out of their way to stop by either Bucky's room or yours.

There wasn't a single night where you'd slept alone, you were now completely codependent when it came to your sleep schedules.

Not that either of you complained, you were more than fine with it. Bucky was your best friend and spending time with him was anything but painful.

There was one small detail you hadn't thought of.

Bucky wasn't ''officially'' a part of the Avengers, technically he was still wanted by some authorities but Fury had given him a safe haven considering everything. Bucky might not have been an Avenger but you were. That meant you had a job to do and a duty to fulfill.

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Your life has been the same over and over again every day for the past month.

You woke up next to/under Bucky in his or your bed, you'd fight with him so he'd let you get up, once you were able to move, you'd get dressed and go eat breakfast with everybody else, there was training, mission reports, dinner and then back to his or your bed with Bucky.

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You had been training with Natasha when Tony walked in, announcing an emergency meeting and that everybody had to meet upstairs.

That wasn't good.

For weeks there had been talk that there were some scientists in Rostov-On-Don in Russia, working on some kind of bio weapon. Fury had been on their trail for several months, finally now it looks like he had finally found something tangible. His sources said that the scientists were probably part of Hydra and that the bio weapon was believed to be a super soldier serum. If Hydra had found a way to recreate the serum, the world was in danger.