Marvel Imagines pt. 5

One Womans Trash, Another Man's treasure 5 ❤️‍🔥 Royal!Bucky

Song: legend of Korra Soundtrack - Jinora's light.

Warnings; Bucky being angry, fluff, angst, arguing, the truth coming out. Bucky being angry again. Mentions of torture.

•••

He's seething, he can feel his body heating up just by the mere thought of the horrors he saw when he stripped your back of your drenched clothing. He's going to kill her, perhaps even with his bare fucking hands.

You have been sleeping for most of the time, while he made sure those markings wouldn't infect, if he hasn't made sure hey wouldn't, you could've died from infection within days.

The bed creaks in protest while you try to push yourself into a sitting position. Bucky's anger immediately dissolves when your eyes meet his.

'Y/n..' he rushes to the side of the bed. 'You're awake finally...' he presses his palm to your forehead. 'Fever has gone down fortunately...'

'What happened?' You mutter.

'Tell me the truth Y/n.. please... you can't say those marks on your back..' he takes a pained breath and you look down in shame. 'That those were an accident...'

'I can't tell you...'

'Why did you even hide them?! They could've killed you...'

'Why do you care? I'm just a servant-' you speak up.

'I don't believe that... not after that old lady from yesterday...' he kneels in front of you and lifts your chin with his finger.

'Who did this to you?'

'I...' you hesitate, if she finds out you told him then, you don't know what lengths she will go to, to not only hurt you, but James also.

His hand cups your cheek, eyes searching for an explanation from you. He almost looks sad, tears build up in his eyes and it makes your resolve break.

'Victoria... she uh... she did this to me...' you admit and James shakes his head.

'I knew it...'

'You can't tell her you know! Please!' You immediately beg him. 'If she knows I... she will harm us both...'

'I won't let that happen... not again...'

'Why do you care so much?'

'Why shouldn't I? I have been searching for a long time for someone like you... and now that I have gotten to know you, I refuse to let you get hurt any more than you already have...' His thumb softly strokes your cheek.

'It's been so long...since someone other than the staff cared...' your bottom lip begins to quiver, tears spill over your cheeks.

Bucky feels his heart break in several places. The sadness you carry around must've haunted you for so long. He also knows that Victoria hurting you isn't the end of the story, as much as he hoped so.

'Why does she hurt you? What could she possibly have against you?'

A pained chuckle leaves your lips, she has everything against you. According to Victoria herself, she was reclaiming her right, when in truth she stole it all, and you did nothing.

'We were stepsisters... after my mother died, my father married another woman, Victoria's mother... and all was well, for a short while...' you wipe your eyes and let out a cough.

James moves to sit on the bed, right next to you. He takes your hand in his and you give him a watery smile.

'Then her mother passed as well... before she did however she made sure every proof of me being the heir to the throne had been destroyed... and well... my father passing, that you know...'

'Y/n, I'm so sorry..'

'I've tried escaping... but she always managed to find me... I even send a letter requesting help to Wanda and Vision... but I never got a response..'

'That does not sound like them...'

'No, but it sounds like me...' Victoria smirks evilly.

James immediately rises to his feet and steps in front of you. 'You won't hurt her...'

'I have to say, it's a shame you will both have to disappear now.. James you know too much.. and well, I was already getting bored with you...'

'I'll tell my friends... they won't stand for this-'

'Too bad however, that they won't be hearing from you ever again.. guards!' She yells.

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'You won't get away with this!' James tells Victoria, who oh so happily stands on the other side of those iron bars.

'I already have, everyone is scared of speaking the truth, i also got away with poisoning father...'

'What?' You ask her.

'Do tell me you didn't think a healthy man suddenly could get so sick he died from it...' she grins.

'Enjoy the time you still have... be glad I put you two together... au revoir!' She chirps before making her way up to the castle again.

You walk towards the wall and sit down, your back burns in pain but you do not care. You cannot believe she would actually go as far as to poison your father, but then this shouldn't even be a surprise anymore. Not when she's shown you how evil she can be.

'My lady, I am so sorry..' James turns around.

'Nothing to be done now...'

'We could escape and then-' His voice dies off when he sees the tired look on your face. The tears that have dried already on your cheeks, and fresh ones that start to appear.

'I gave up a long time ago...she will never stop.. it's better to let the secret die with us...'

He sits down next to you and softly pulls you against him. 'This is better than the cold wall against your back...'

'I'm sorry.. James...'

'What on earth for?' He asks as he tilts your head up.

'For dragging you into this... you should've never come here...'

'Steve and Sam will try to search for me...for us... and then we will destroy her...' he says it like a promise, while you know it's only something to hope for.

•••

'I am telling you Steve, something is off with Victoria... she must really hate that servant girl to treat her like this, and then the old lady-'

'Something definitely is going on...' Steve replies. 'And I think Victoria either is the one pulling all of the strings or she knows what is happening...'

'We should talk to Bucky, he had been spending time with the servant...' Sam tells Steve.

'I think he is quite taken with her..' Steve smiles to himself. 'It is about time he found someone...it's a shame he can't marry her if he wanted to.. she couldn't be queen.. those are the rules...'

'Allow me to speak freely your majesty, I do not think Bucky would follow the rules, but I think she is more than royal... I actually do not believe the true queen is dead.. I think Y/n is the true heir to the throne... not Victoria...'

'That could very well explain the disdain for Y/n...we should talk to Bucky about this... where is he?'

There's clicking of heels, it's fast and it comes closer to the gentlemen, they turn their heads to see the queen.

'It's horrible...' she croaks.

'What happened, your majesty?'

'It was Y/n and James... they tried to kill me when I went to check on them... the guards dragged them away before they could..' fake thick tears stream down her face as she clutches her dress in her hands.

She does look to be attacked by someone, but both Sam and Steve find it hard to believe that James and You could be responsible.

'I'm sorry about your friend.. but attacking the queen in her own kingdom means the death sentence...'

'What?!'