Fear & Desire ❤️‍🔥

Wheres my epic background music?

Since that long eventful day, you and Bucky's relationship had been great. You spent the rest of the night talking and Bucky shared more of his past whilst you spoke about your dad. He stayed the night considering your conversations ended at around 5 in the morning and you both went to the Avengers tower after having a quick 2 hour nap. You had hoped you'd be able to apologise to Loki but he wasn't in. It seemed he was never at the tower when you was.

Two weeks later, an opportunity arose for you to go on a mission. Usually, people would be brought in and you'd interrogate them even though you were beyond skilled enough to go on the missions, 'director' Fury would always find something for you to do at HQ that didn't involve you potentially getting hurt.

You still hadn't seen Loki, which was definitely strange but everyone kept saying he was out or he was busy working on something so you just assumed he was making up excuses.

After getting ready, Steve briefed the teammates who were coming on what was going to happen. S.H.I.E.L.D had been receiving encrypted emails and after decoding some, an address was recovered. To your understanding, you and Bucky would be the main teammates going in to grab the person you believed to be the sender with Tony, and Steve on standby incase things got messy.

When you all arrived at the destination, you were shocked to be greeted with the sight of an abandoned church. Tony and Steve went around the building to check for anyone else whilst you and Bucky began walking towards the doors of the church. Walking in, you took in the broken windows and derelict walls.

"I feel like I should have some sort of epic background music playing" you commented under your breath.

"What?" Bucky asked turning to you.

"You know, I feel like I'm the main character of a film or something, usually there's epic background music playing during these scenes and we'd be walking slow motion" you explained.

"You're crazy" Bucky laughed.

"So you're telling me you've never felt like the main character of a film or story or something where everyone's watching you so you imagine what song would be playing"

"No y/n"

"Your loss" you smiled.

"Quit the flirting, can you see anyone?" You heard Tony say through your earpiece.

"No" you replied before hearing the floor creaking ahead of you. "Yes" you added.

"Yes no which one is it y/n?" Tony said and you could hear he was rolling his eyes.

"There's someone here and he's alone" Bucky said as the man before you came into view.

"Thank you, someone's competent" Tony said sarcastically.

"Yes I am, alone" the man grinned walking towards you both.

"No visible weapons, looks harmless, around 5'11" you whispered into your earpiece to stop the others from worrying. The man didn't look intimidating at all, clearly he was the brains behind an even bigger operation and he was right now alone which was perfect. All you had to do was bring him in and question him. There would be no need for violence, you could easily take him down yourself let alone the fact you had backup.

"And I came for you" the man said pointing towards Bucky.

"Me" Bucky snorted gesturing to himself.

The man began taking slow steps towards you both which wasn't frightening at all, he wasn't intimidating remember. Not scary. No. The petrifying thing was that you couldn't properly read him. No fears, one desire. He wanted Bucky.

As the man got closer, Bucky looked to you expecting to see the man frozen in fear but he wasn't, his smile grew the closer he got.

"Bucky, the- there's n-nothing there" you whisper shouted frantically.

"No there isn't" the man snarled "I know all about you y/n but I'm not here for you, you know there's only one person I'm interested in." He said not breaking eye contact with Bucky.

How did this man know your name? You felt your heart rate increasing the closer he got. This man was confident.

"You're outnumbered and you're alone, what makes you think I'm coming with you" Bucky scoffed turning to face you with an amused expression mostly to stop you from panicking as you began drumming your fingers against your thumb.

"тоска" (longing) the man taunted causing you to scoff.

"That won't work" you asserted looking at the man.

"ржавый" (rusted) he said still taking small slow steps to you both.

"Stop" you warned glaring at the man. This wouldn't work and he was just delaying the inevitable by trying. He was leaving with you and Bucky.

"семнадцать" (seventeen)

"See, not working" you chuckled turning to Bucky who wore a blank expression making your eyes widen in alarm. "We're good."

"печь" (furnace).

"We're good right Bucky? Bucky?"

"девять" (nine).

"Bucky! Steve get here now" you commanded beginning to get more and more anxious.

"доброкачественный" (benign).

"James!" you shouted shaking Bucky who was transfixed on the man.

Suddenly, you saw the man get blasted back by Tony who was flying in as Steve ran towards Bucky shaking him and shouting his name as you watched helplessly. After a few seconds of Steve's attempts of snapping Bucky out of this trance like state, he succeeded and Bucky looked towards you with a terrified expression.

"Y/N" he whispered.

"Bucky, you're alright" you said trying to sound reassuring as you reached out hugging him as Tony and Steve prepared the man to be brought in for questioning.

The journey back to S.H.I.E.L.D was mostly silent save the odd phatic conversation.

Walking into HQ, you were greeted by a sight you had yearned to see for weeks.

Loki was walking past you but had caught your eye as well. He gave a smile and a small wave and you felt ecstatic. His smile seemed so genuine, yours was. You felt as though everything was forgotten in this small exchange. You hadn't realised how much you had missed this. Him here, smiling. Him. You had missed your friend. You wanted to follow him but knew you had to endure the debriefing first. Hopefully Loki wouldn't suddenly be busy when it was over.