Appellations (Reader X Bucky)

Hello?

The following morning you wake to sun shining and birds chirping, you pick up your phone from your bedside table and see a numerous amounts of messages from Matt and one from Bucky.

Without hesitation you open Bucky's message first.

Bucky: Hey doll, just checking in to see how your doing? Altho I'm guessing your still asleep 😅.

His message was sent at 7am, it was now closing in on 10am.

You: Hey, just woke up, feeling good for having a lie in 🙂

A few moments later the ticks on your sent message turned blue.

Bucky: Good, but don't you always have a lie in? 🤔 I never see you around the tower before 9am.

You laugh at his brashness.

You: What! I definitely have gotten up early at least 3 times so far this year. 😂

You joke along with him.

You: Anyway I'm going to shower and make some breakfast, I will text you when I'm done X

Bucky: Okay ☺️ X

You get out of bed, shower and put on a long black tank top and black skinny jeans then head to make some breakfast. After making a bowl of cereal and sitting at the kitchen table your phone buzzes on the counter.

It was S.H.I.E.L.D: The Avengers have been deployed on a mission, be on standby for medical assistance.

Seconds later a message comes through from Bucky.

Bucky: Did you just get your stand by orders?

You: Yeah whats happening?

Bucky: The team just got pulled onto a mission, nothing too serious just checking out a potential Hydra base.

You: Okay.

You reply relived that it wasn't a combat mission. The S.H.I.E.L.D messages were always so secretive that you didn't know the intensity of the missions your friends and brother were going on which always made you worry. You wanted to ask where they were being deployed too but you knew that would be a breach of their safety to ask that via text message.

You: I will pack up here and come back to the tower.

Bucky: Want me to come get you?

You: No, I'm good, you stay there in case they need you at base.

Bucky: Okay see you soon x

You were mid sentence replying to Bucky that you would "see you soon x" when your phone rings. Thinking it could be Avengers mission related you answer.

"Hello?"

"Do you know the fucking night I've had after you walked out on me?"

It was Matt and he sounded angry and intoxicated.

"How did you get this number?" you ask, remembering clearly that you had asked F.R.I.D.A.Y to change it.

He didn't answer you but carried on talking.

"Yesterday was supposed to go sooooooo smoothly, we would go out for dinner, id slip a little something into your drink, you'd pass out, i would blame it on the alcohol to the suspecting patrons, id hand you over to Fisk and he would pay me HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars for you," he catches his breath, "but instead that BITCH WHITNEY and Jen screwed me over and used you against me all because i declined their offer and went with Fisk's."

As he's saying this your heart picks up pace as your brain tries to piece together what he's saying. Had he been telling people you were a Stark and auctioning you off to the highest bidder?

"And now if i don't deliver you to Fisk by the end of the day he's going to kill me," Matt says in a sarcastically joyful way.

You make your way over to the gun that was strapped to the underside of the kitchen counter and grip it tight in our right hand, but you kept your voice calm.

"Well I'm sorry Matt but you've got about a 5 hour flight to come get me in Arizona and when you do you'll have to get through The Avengers to get me."

"Hahahahahahaha," his laughter was maniacal, "nice try (y/n) but I know exactly where you are and i know your friends won't be coming to save you."

Just then a car speeds and pulls up outside your home.

"Fuck."

You end his call and call Bucky, "Hey (y/n)."

"Hey so I was kind of wrong when I said I was safe here," you say as you run upstairs to grab your go bag, filled with essentials if you ever needed a quick escape.

Bucky's tone becomes alert, "what?"

"I dunno how but Matt knows I'm here,"

"Lay low until I get there, lock the doors and stay away from windows."

Just then the sound of a gun and shattering glass rings through the hall from the front door, he breaks the rest of the glass with his elbow and starts to grab at the locks on the door.

"That's not an option, I'll call you back in a minute."

"NO (Y/N) WAIT!"

Was the last thing you heard as you ended the call.

Matt had entered your home and was looking around downstairs, "come on (y/n) why don't you just make this easier on both of us and come with me?" the whole house goes silent as Matt tries to hear where you are.

You grab your emergency phone out of your bag and start the pre recording of your voice as you quietly slip into the next room. That's when you hear Matt walking up the stairs, he could hear your voice and had fallen for your plan. You wait and watch for him to walk past the doorway to go into the other room, as soon as he does you open the closet and the hatch that lead to a room downstairs. You quietly descend the ladder and make a break for the door. You heard Matt yell as he found your phone recording as you ran to your car.
Matt ran to the window and saw you escaping, "aaaarrrrgghhhh!" he yells in frustrations as he runs out the room and down the stairs to catch you, but you were quicker than him.

You had already thrown your bag into the car and hit the gas pedal just as he ran out the door of your not so safe house.
Your breathing was heavy as the adrenalin takes over your body. You take out your phone and place it on the holder on your dash, "Hey F.R.I.D.A.Y call Sergeant Barnes."

Your call goes through and Bucky answers within a millisecond, "are you okay? Where are you?" he says as he's grabbing his combat gear.

"I'm okay, I got away and I'm on my way to you."

"No! don't come here, he will expect that, if he's smart he will have people posted on the surrounding streets."

"Shit," you hit your steering wheel, "what do I do?"

"Do you think you can make it to the facility upstate?" You'll have more of a head start than me but I can try catch up to you and either meet you along the way or meet you there."

"Yeah I think that's doable," just as you were saying that you see Matt swerving through traffic behind you.

"Fuck! How did he find me?"

Bucky's assassin mind kicks in, "do you have anything of his? Or did he leave anything in your car?"

You think for a moment, he'd never been in this car before, and never been in your safe house to put anything in your bag, so it must be something on your person. You look down slightly whilst trying to weave in and out of slow traffic.

"My necklace," you whisper to yourself but loud enough for Bucky to hear. It was a gift from him. You pull at it instantly breaking the clasp and throwing it out the window of your car.

"That won't stop him now he has you in his sights, try and lose him," he explains, "hang tight, i'm coming to get you."