Bucky Barnes Imagines

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Bucky x Fem!Stark!Reader

Requested by @witch-of-letters

"This is ridiculous." Your voice snapped out. Bucky and Steve had been having a drink. When they both leaned back to see what the commotion was they saw you and Howard arguing round the corner.

"Is that (Y/N) Stark?" Bucky asked. He'd met you at the Expo. Then he'd seen you a few times visiting troops as you helped deliver packages from home. You'd smiled and greeted him with recognition when he went to collect a parcel from Steve, his mother and his sister.

"I think so? They left the lab in Brooklyn the day I arrived. I don't really remember them too well." Steve admitted. But smiled with amusement as he continued to listen to your conversation. He'd gotten the impression you were a little spirited.

"It is not! You're a socialite (Y/N). What do you know about war? I'll send you home and that will be the end of it. Maybe you could keep everyone's spirits up." Howard muttered. He stopped when you frowned at him. "Don't you give me that look?"

The withering glare continued as Howard reiterated into the bar and tried to join Steve and Bucky.

"(Y/N)." Bucky greeted you with a smile. Holding up a finger to excuse yourself for a moment longer you continued.

"Fine! Fine! I will ask Carter what you can do to help. But I wanted it noted that I am not happy about you staying here." Howard grumbled.

"Noted. Ignored. Nice to see you again Barnes. Rogers. You look... bigger than the last time I saw you." You said. It had been quite a while since you'd seen them both. You'd heard that Bucky had been rescued by Steve and when you arrived to lend a hand.

"Urm. Yes." Steve said awkwardly.

"You get to make super soldiers and I can't help?" You huffed. Howard cleared his throat and sighed.

"We're the only Stark's left. I just wanted to be a little cautious. But. I can't stop you from doing your part." Howard said and smiled when you looked rather smug.

"Exactly. Now if you don't mind. I have some things to be doing. If you would stop interfering." You said and smiled as you spotted one of the other women who had been working on the files and papers in the make-shift file room down the hall.

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You looked hopeful as Howard approached. He looked exhausted. Merely stopping to nod as he passed you. No sign of Barnes, Rogers or even Peggy. Though you heard through the whispers that she had been driven back in tears and that Rogers and Bucky had been lost.

You joined your brother on many attempts to locate Steve and Bucky's bodies. Though you never found anything, Howard found many artefacts that he could study and reverse engineer. It was on your last trip with him. Out across the ice to a new location that someone had claimed held Rogers body. That you and your brother were separated.

One minute you'd been assisting in keeping track of the debris that he had found on his most promising excursion yet. The next you were gone and there was nothing more than a series of footprints to show that anyone had snuck up on you.

His attempts to find Rogers were abandoned for months until the first ransom note reached him. It was to trade you for tech. Peggy took over the search to find you and managed to trace all her leads to Arnim Zola, who gave up nothing. Though it was generally believed that he knew where you'd been taken, there was no way to prove it as he'd been in captivity during your kidnapping.

Howard never stopped searching for you. But as the years slipped by and fewer and fewer leads could be found you became one of those fascinating mysteries that eventually had crime show episodes dedicated to your disappearance.