Fine Line (Bucky Barnes x OC)

Comfort

A/N: Hope the smut makes up for the lateness. Enjoy! Next chapter soon!

"Mommy? Mommy, get up."

Luna shook her mom as she laid at the bottom of the stairs. Her eyes were open and staring up at Luna, but she wasn't answering her.

"Mommy, daddy's still angry. I'm scared." She whispered as tears fell down her cheeks.

Luna had been hiding in her room while her mom and dad fought again. Her dad was screaming and Luna could hear her mom crying and yelling at him to stop. Luna was underneath her bed clutching her worn stuffed bear to her chest when she heard her mother shriek and several loud thuds. Everything went deadly silent. Her dad's boots hammered down the stairs and then the front door slammed shut. Luna stayed under the bed until she was sure her dad was gone and then climbed out, still clutching the bear to her chest.

She looked for her mother in each of the rooms upstairs, but they were empty. Luna stopped at the top of the stairs and looked down, finally spotting her mom lying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. She hurried down as carefully as she could, dropping her bear, and reached down to shake her mom. She needed her mom to get up. If her dad came back and found her like this he'd hurt her again.

"Mommy, please get up." She pleaded.

Luna knew something was wrong when her mom didn't respond. She always came whenever Luna called for her. It was getting dark outside and she was getting more frightened by the second. The next thing she knew, there were the flashing lights painting the walls of the living room in bright red and blue. She had called the police when her mom wouldn't get up. It was the one thing her mom had always enforced. If something happened and she wasn't able to get to Luna, she was supposed to call the police for help.

"I want my mommy?" Luna cried as a police officer picked her up and carried her upstairs to her room.

"Don't worry, sweetheart. Everything is going to be alright. We've called your daddy."

Luna wanted to tell the woman that her dad scared her. That he tried to hurt her, but her mom always protected her from him...but she was too scared of what he'd do to her when he found out.

"Can you tell me what happened, sweetie?" The woman asked softly when they reached Luna's room.

"I was in my room and when I came out, I looked for mommy. She was laying on the floor and I tried to get her up, but she wouldn't move." Luna said.

"Did anything happen before that?"

Luna could tell her about her mom and dad fighting. About the screaming and the way her mom had begged her dad to stop hitting her. The words were on the tip of her tongue when the door to her room flew open and her dad walked in.

"Oh my God, Luna! Are you okay, baby?" Her dad scooped her into his arms and held her uncomfortably tight against him.

Her dad had never held her before. She couldn't remember him ever hugging her or calling her baby, or even asking if she was okay. Luna was confused and tried to wiggle out of his arms, but he squeezed her tighter. His breath hit her as he placed a hard kiss on her forehead and her nose burned. He smelled like the bottles she would find littered on the living room table after he had fallen asleep on the couch.

"I'll give you a moment." The police officer said and left her alone with her dad.

The moment the woman was gone, her dad sat her down, squatted in front of her, and gripped her upper arms tight in his hands.