UNDISCLOSED DESIRES// BUCKY BARNES x OC

unexpected bond

"Yo, Barnes. Tony said if you keep destroying the gym, you'll have to pay for the repairs yourself." Pietro said before disappearing into thin air. That weirdo was so fast and he took every chance he could get to show off.

Between punching the walls and being angry at myself, I also spent hours in the medical unit talking to Elaine while she peacefully lay there. Banner said she was bound to wake up in the next few hours.

"See you soon, dragostea mea." I whispered, kissing her forehead. My lips lingering on her skin.

I walked towards the door when I saw Yelena passing through the hall. When she saw me, she stopped looking at me sympathetically.
The day Yelena found me in the gym, we ended up at the bar, drinking. By the end of it, I had told her everything. It felt good to talk to someone, who just listened. If I liked to admit it or not, she was growing on me. This kid had lived through so much trauma. I could relate to her and she could to me.

"Wanna get really shitfaced tonight, Wiener ?" she asked me while pulling out a box of cereal out of the cupboard.
She called me Wiener Soldier, just to spite me.

"Little Widow, I can't get drunk and you know that." I retorted.

"Well, a little birdie told me that the god of thunder has booze from his space kingdom that is able to get super soldiers drunk." She smiled as she poured milk over her cheerios.

"By little birdie you mean Wilson, right ? Well, he's not completely wrong. Whatever the Asgardians put in there seems to temporarily disable the serum and it allows you to get drunk. At least that's what Banner told me because he tested that theory on Steve." I told her while grabbing a white mug from the cupboard over my head.

"Let's go grab some now, I bet he's sleeping right now." I  said grabbing Yelena's hand.

"Are you sure, what if he wakes up ?" she asked cautiously as we approached the room where the god of thunder was sleeping.

"Oh now you are a chicken shit, little one ?" I whispered to her as I opened the door slightly.

"He scares me, okay ?" she admitted.

"Oh, blondie is harmless. Watch and see." I crouched down to the floor and slowly moved my way to the mini fridge. Through the glass door I could see the intricately decorated gold bottle. I zeroed in, opened the fridge carefully to not make any sound and pulled out the bottle.

Yelena's eyes grew bigger and bigger as I casually walked out with the bottle in my hand, smug smirk on my face.

"See ? Piece of cake. Let's go." I grabbed her arm and practically dragged her to the atrium.

A few hours later

Elaine

My eyes fluttered open to bright lights and a constant beeping sound. The room I was in looked unfamiliar. I don't know where I was.

My throat was dry, my lips felt chapped.

Images of a dark warehouse, being bound to a chair flashed through my mind. A pair of ocean blue eyes.

James.

"James ?" I croaked, the sound coming from my mouth was almost inaudible.

A mop of red hair appeared in my peripheral vision.

Nat.

"Hi baby. You're awake. How was your beauty sleep ?" Nat said sweetly.

I moved my lips but not a single word came out.

She noticed my struggle, held up one finger and before I could register it Wanda came into the room.

She wore a long dark red duster and the rest of her outfit was black.
Her auburn hair lay sleek on the tops of her shoulders.

"Elaine. With your permission I could read your mind and we could answer all of the questions you might have. Nod if you agree." Wanda scrunched her nose as I nodded.

"Alright, my love. You remember what happened before right ?"

The painful memory of James standing in front of me, shocked expression as I confessed my love to him. Yes, that image is going to be burned in my mind forever.

"Okay. You do remember. Lemme just say cyborg is a dumbass. But I can clearly see that you love him. Your mind is literally screaming for him.

So let me recap. After you up and left to walk around New York in the middle of the night, mind you, barefoot. Pierce, that fucker picked you up and sent a little message to Barnes, basically telling him if he won't come back to him that he's gonna kill you.
So cyborg went in to rescue you with big bird and capsicle." Wanda paused to take a breath.

"Pierce bound you to a chair and gave you some kind of injection that disabled the serum and made you sleep.
Meanwhile the boys arrived and cyborg was furious.
When he saw you there unconscious he lost his shit and put a knife in Pierce's pudgy thigh.
He freed you while Pierce was on the floor but then Pierce somehow picked up a gun and shot you in the stomach. That's the reason you're here in the medical unit." Wanda sighed, her expression grew serious.

"James proceeded to spend his days in here talking to you, crying, telling you how sorry he was and that he loves you more than life itself but also he destroyed the absolute shit out of the gym. There's about ten holes in the concrete wall and some equipment got obliterated by your lover boy.
Tony made James patch the holes up himself.
Right now your man is hungover on the couch. He stole some of the asgardian booze with the Little Widow." Wanda caressed my hand as she spoke.

James

"Yelena, wake up." I shook the arm of the blonde woman that was sitting on the recliner while I was stretched out of the red velvet couch that was entirely too small to sleep on. Stark clearly chose style over comfort.

"Shut up, cyborg. Let me sleep." she groaned.

"I thought Russians were born with a bottle of vodka in their hand."

"Stereotypes, much, Barnes?" Yelena huffed and turned

I got up from the couch and headed towards my room. The room that felt so empty without my Elaine. Most nights I didn't even sleep.
I wandered through the halls, blew off steam at the gym and sometimes slept in the chair in Elaine's room at the medical unit.

I turned the knob to my room and on the bed there sat my Elaine.

"Welcome home, soldier." She said.

"Elaine. My love." I couldn't believe my eyes.
Her hair was pulled up in a half updo, her face free of any makeup and the cut on her cheek was gone.
She looked so beautiful.

I walked over to her and just took her into my arms.
I breathed in her scent.
And I felt like coming home.

"I love you, Elaine Ruby Brubaker. You are my world." I whispered into her ear.

"And I love you, James Buchanan Barnes." I heard her whisper while she snuggled into me.

I closed my eyes and for the first time in a long time I felt at peace.