Bucky gets dragged to a speed dating event by Sam and Kate. He's exasperated and unimpressed by everyone he connects with, until he comes face to face with Nora, the owner of a book store. She's sweet, kind, and funny, but she's not interested in a...
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CW: Rough but loving sex, balcony sex, dirty talk, lots of lovely confessions from both of these idiots in love, also violence, blood, and gunshots.
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When the morning came We were cleaning incense off your vinyl shelf 'Cause we lost track of time again Laughing with my feet in your lap Like you were my closest friend "How'd we end uponthefloor, anyway?" yousay "Your roommate's cheap-assscrew-top rosé, that's how" I see you every day now - Taylor Swift, "Maroon"
"Oh my God," she whispers as she stares at the phone in her hand, her mouth agape. Disbelief and shock flooding her body.
[Buck 😘]: Don't worry, I will, darlin. Love you!
Did she read that right? Her eyes scan it again.
And again.
And again.
Until the words no longer look like they're English.
Her heart is beating so fast, and she's so lightheaded that she feels like she might actually pass out. She has to sit down and sink into the mattress.
She's not angry, not by a long shot. She just didn't think that Bucky had this in him. Nora really thought that she would say I love you first. She almost said it today during sex; she's almost said it so many fucking times, but she had to stop herself. What if it was too soon? What if she was just in lust with him? What if it was just Paris and the trip and the two of them together?
But it's not, and she knows that now. She's in love with him, and she's been in love with him since the Halloween party. That was where she figured it out. It was the way he was looking at her, with so much warmth in his eyes that made her stomach swirl.
It's the same way that Ben used to look at her.
Bucky isn't Ben, he's so much different, but when she saw the look in his eyes at the Halloween party, she knew that this friendship they had forged would turn into something so much different.
She just never expected to fall in love with someone so fast. With Ben, it was slow. He wooed her- the same way that Bucky does- with flowers, dinners, bringing her lunch at work, memorizing her coffee order. The little things, the same little things that Bucky does.
Ben even started watching her favorite movies even though he hated her taste and didn't want to watch Enter the Dragon for the 400th time. He liked that art house stuff that Nora couldn't get into.
She stares at the phone in her hand, and pulls out Ben's wedding band that's still hung on a chain around her neck.
"As weird as this sounds, I wish you were here to talk me through this," she whispers. "And this is the closest I get to talking to you, but I don't know what to do, Benny- I'm so fucking scared he's going to leave like you left. It wasn't your fault, but... it just felt like we didn't get enough time. I want enough time with someone. I miss you."
