Match made in... hell

Chapter 2: Becoming friends

Bucky and I decided to go to the gym and start training. It wasn't really my responsibilty to train new members, but I gladly did so with Bucky. And he was quite good, but not better than me. I'd like to say that we were pretty evenly matched.

While we were sparring, I heard claps from the corner of the room, which caught my attention. Bucky used that distraction to knock me off my feet. „I won" he said and smiled at me, while offering me his hand to get up. Instead, I just pulled him down with me and started laughing. „rookie mistake!"

„You know, there's only very few people here who can actually beat Y/n, Barnes. Well done" Tony said. I looked up and found him in the corner where I had heard the clapping before. „That's because she's a super-"

„A super well trained avenger" I interrupted Tony, who gave me a confused look, but then continued with his praise for Bucky's fighting skills.

„You know, I was going to wait a bit longer, but if you want to, you can go on a mission tomorrow." Tony said.

„Really?" Bucky asked in disbelief. He knew very well that meant that Tony trusted him. At least somewhat.

„Yes, really. But Y/n will accompany you, if that's alright."

„Of course! Thank you Tony!" Bucky said and I saw him smile. I was so happy for him. I knew how much it meant to him to see that Tony trusted him.

Tony looked at me and noticed the way I smiled upon Bucky's happiness and winked at me. I figured he had some dirty minded intentions by doing so, so I just rolled my eyes at him, which made Tony chuckle.

„Would the two of you want to join us for a game of cards?" Tony asked.

Bucky looked at me and seemed to wait for me to reply.

„Sure, I'd love to!" I said. „Me too." Bucky agreed.

„Ok, but please take a shower before that. You stink. Living room in 20." Tony said and hold his nose while leaving.

„I'll be down there before you!" Bucky said, challenging me to a race. Wow, it amazed me how quickly he started to open up towards me.

„No way, you're not!" I said. We looked at each other, and then just started running towards the elevator. On our way there, we passed Tony whom we almost ran over, but luckily we managed to run around him.

While we were waiting for the elevator we both stood there panting. „Out of breath already, Bucky? You could just give up right here..."

„No way!" he said, as the elevator arrived. I was smaller than him, so I squeezed in first. Just before the doors close, I pushed him out and smiled at him. „Bye bye!" I said, as the doors started closing, but then I noticed his gloved hand squeeze between the doors. He actually managed to open them!

„Close your mouth, or do you want spiders to crawl in?"

„How did you do that?" I asked in awe.

„I uhm..." he stammered, but then he pulled off his gloves.

„Ohh that's right, you have a metal arm!" I said a bit fascinated.

„You're not... scared by it?" he asked looking very uncomfortable.

„No, not at all. Actually I'm rather curious..." I wondered what he could do with his arm. I wondered how is life was like with this thing. I wondered why he thought I'd be scared of it.