Finally you came into my life 🤍

Chapter 33 ~ After mission

Reader's p.o.v.

The next day I was about to do my second surgery. Truth is my body was hurting everywhere and I couldn't do almost anything by myself.
Early that day Steve came to keep me company and help me get ready.
"Come on, let me help you take a shower." he said, but my cheeks became red.
"Really? You're shy now?" he smirked and I blushed harder. "You're unbelievable." he chuckled.
"Alright, alright! But no tricks, soldier. Just shower." I giggled.
He tied my hair in a ponytail and helped me get up.
"Steve, I'm not that helpless. I can do the basics." he gave me a soft smile.
"Yes, I know! But I love to take care of you. Besides, you're in this condition because of me." his face suddenly fell.
"No, no sweetheart!" I cupped his cheeks. "I wanted to go there alone, remember? And taking that bullet for you was my choice and I don't regret it."
"Yes, but you're in pain and you went through 2 surgeries."
"I prefer it from wearing black and organize your funeral." he looked at me. "This bullet was meant from you with no returning back. It will have killed you instantly." I said and he held my hands closer to his heart.
"I owe you my life."
"All I want from you is to be here with me. Besides, black is not my colour." he chuckled.
"Come on, let's take that shower."
He helped me get undressed and even though he've seen me thousands of times, I felt exposed.
"No tricks, Captain." I said to him throught the looking glass and he chuckled.
"Sorry! I can't help it. All these bruises..." he stopped and touched my back with his fingers, making me shiver. "We have to take care of them."
"Don't look at them or my face. It's full of bruises and I am insecure." I said and I tried to hide it, but Steve gently held my wrists.
"You can't be serious."
My face was deformed from the bruises and I didn't like the view whenever I was looking myself in the mirror.
"Steve I--"
"No! I won't hear another word. Y/n you can't understand how beautiful you are. And the fact that you have few bruises now doesn't change that. They'll heal." I took a breath and look at him.
"You say that because you're nice and you're my man." he shook his head.
"For real?! Y/n when you walk down the streets, men turn around and look at you. This security guy, John, is flirting with you all the time. Also, before I confess my feelings to you, I couldn't stop hearing from all the men in the Compound how breath-taking you are." I blushed. "I'm always honest, you know that."
"Well, I only care about your opinion." I said and he kissed me tenderly.
"Enough talking. Let me help you with the shower."
"Be gentle." I said.
"That's not what you usually ask me." he chuckled and I gasped.
"Steve Grant Rogers." he laughed louder.
"Just relax, sweetheart." he started showering me, making me feel less stressed.

After shower he helped me get dressed again and then he asked from the nurses to bring me some food.
I smiled at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Steve please, take some rest. They need you in SHIELD too."
"I'm fine, y/n. Besides, now that you brought that up, the Avengers are coming back!"
"Really?! Oh finally we'll do Christmas all together."
"The mission went great. All the HYDRA Headquarters are destroyed."
"You can rest now Steve." I held his hand.
"Valentina is still free and we need to find her before she builts a new team."
"We will!"
"No! You will stay at the Compound, you'll return to your lab and you'll help us from there." he strictly told me.
"But Steve..."
"No y/n! The field is not for you! You will be more helpful in the lab."
"That hurt!" I said. "I know I'm not a trained agent, but you can train me." he looked at me. "I always wanted to learn martial arts and be an agent, a spy. You and Nat can train me!"
"Absolutely no! I can't be worried whenever you're on a mission or keep an eye on you."
"But you won't have to. I'll be fine."
"No! We have many agents, but we need a criminologist. You have your science."
"On one condition." I said and he gave me a look.
"For real?"
"Listen to me, Captain." he raised his eyebrows. "Whenever the Avengers need me either a lab project or in a mission I'll be there." he didn't talk for few seconds.
"Deal." he finally said and I smirked proudly. "You need to eat something now. In two hours itis your surgery."

The nurses were preparing me for the surgery and the truth is I was nervous.
"Honey when you finish, I'll arrange to leave from here as soon as possible." he kissed my forehead tenderly.
Then the door opened and Bucky came in, holding flowers.
"Did I make it?" he said breathless and I giggled. "These are for you." he gave me the bouqet of roses.
"Aww, Bucky! Thank you!" he carefully hugged me. "But please don't wait for me here. The doctor said that this surgery will last two with three hours."
"Of course we'll wait for you. We'll go downstairs and eat something." Steve said.
"My men!" I hugged them both.
Since the incident with Bucky we were now closer and we agreed that our relationship is like brother - sister relationship. Of course Nat doeasn't know anything and she never will. The important thing is her happiness and not lose Bucky from my life.

Steve's p.o.v.

"So tell me, y/n can return back to her job?" I asked Bucky.
"Yes! Fury arranged that and guess what?" I gave him a look. " He forbidden Sharon from giving orders to y/n after the way she treated her these days." I gasped. "He basically told her to stay away from her. Whatever y/n needs she'll cooperate with Nat."
"For real?" he nodded with a laugh.
"The whole SHIELD is depended on your love life." I gave him a look. "What? Your ex girlfriend, Sharon Carter, our best Agent and now Y/n Carter our best criminologist. This could be a great book."
"It wasn't my intension to fall for y/n you know. After Sharon I was pretty hurt, believed that I don't deserve love. Then she came and I haven't felt like this since Peggy."
"Thankfully they're not relatives." Bucky chuckled as he drunk his beer.
"Anyway, Sharon is in the past and I didn't like the way she treated y/n. I am pretty disappointed."
"Why she acts like that? She had never been jealous when you were together, not even when Hill was flirting you shamelessly."
"Because then she wasn't afraid of losing me. Now she knows that with y/n is serious, but she needs to get over it someday."
"Anyway, enough about Sharon. Probably y/n we'll hear us and come to kill us." I chuckled.
"No one can be compared to her, Bucky. Even though I like it when she gets jealous sometimes."
"Look at you. The little guy from Brooklyn breaking hearts."
Then his phone rang and his face lighten up.
"It's Nat!" he picked it up. "Hey love. Yes, we're at the hospital, waiting for y/n to finish her surgery. No, she doesn't have a clue. Ok, tell Tony that we thank him." he hang up.
"Everything alright?"
"Yes, as we arranged it."

Reader's p.o.v.

After three hours I finally woke up from the surgery, feeling tired.
Steve was next to me and he smiled at me.
"Hey." I weakly said.
"Hey, sweetheart. How are you feeling?"
"Tired. I want to go home." I said and he chuckled.
"Be patient. You'll stay today and tomorrow morning we'll leave for the Compound."
"Bucky left?"
"Yeah, but he waits for you to come back."
"Please, go home and take some rest. I'll be fine." I said to him.
"Are you sure?" I nodded.
"Yeah! And first thing tomorrow morning you'll come and save me from here." He chuckled.
"Deal!" He got up and bent over to kiss me. "I love you."
"I love you more, Steven." We smiled at each other and he left.