Forever My Soldier

Chapter 41

We pull back from the kiss and I look into his eyes.

Tears form into my eyes seeing him really standing here.

"Papa!!!!" We hear.

We look over and see Gemma, Wanda, and Pietro coming over.

"Oh hello sweet girl. I have missed you" Bucky says to her kissing her forehead.

He holds onto her and wraps his other arm around Pietro and Wanda.

"Good to see you both again" Bucky says.

They have met? When? How? You know what, doesn't matter right now.

After a little bit longer of them talking, the kids went off to do their own thing.

Soft slow music begins to play and Bucky grabs my hand pulling me onto the dance floor.

We sway back in forth holding each other. I lean my head against him taking in his presence and his intoxicating smell. Damn I have missed it. I just hope it isn't a dream.

"You're really here?" I ask softly.

He smile that sweet charming smile.

"Yeah doll. I am really here and I am not going anywhere." He says pulling me close.

"But how? I thought it was suppose to be a year long thing? Did something go wrong? Do you have to go back?" I ask firing off questions.

He chuckles and wraps his arms tightly around me even more.

"Shuri finished early. I have been awake for about two months but we didn't tell you in case I had to go back under. They tested the words out on me and that was one of the hardest things I have had to sit through. But they didn't work. Shuri's program helped get rid of the control they have over me. So during those couple months I have been doing some therapy and got fitted for the new arm. I even had Tony come out so him and I could talk about his parents, plus we had to plan this surprise for you." Bucky says kissing all over my face.

I tear up being so happy to have him back. I snuggle my face into his neck and we continue to hold each other.

"I love you Steven Grant Rogers-Barnes. Thank you for never giving up on me and believing in me. I know we haven't been physically together for the whole year of our marriage but look at us, another year down and many more to go." He says softly against my lips.

"Mmm I love you James Buchanan Rogers-Barnes. Till the end of the line" I whisper back.

"Come with me. I have another surprise for you!" He says dragging me out of the room.

We got to the elevator and make our way to the garage.

We both climb onto his bike and take off. I started recognizing it was Brooklyn.

Not much longer we pulled up to an old apartment complex but not any apartment. It was ours back in the days. I have been meaning to come back here I just never brought myself to do it.

He grabs my hand leading me inside. I look around anything has really changed. Except for the newer couch and giant projection screen.

"What is all of this?" I asked.

"This is one of our anniversary dates! I thought both of us could take a trip down memory lane where it all began! I asked Tony to get it furnished for us. Now stop asking questions and come over here." Bucky orders.

Of course I listen and go sit down on the couch. He quickly takes the suit off and changes leaving him in sweats and a hoodie. He hands me some comfier clothes and I change quickly as well.

He has some soft music playing in as background noise and then he grabs a remote and points it at the screen. Suddenly old photos of us from back when we were kids show up.

"Oh my gosh. How did you get these?" I asked still in shock.

"I guess when you crashed the plane, the SSR came back here and grabbed everything they could to put in your archive of things. Tony  and Fury got access to it and put this together for us to look at. They also have the real images back at the compound for us." Bucky says.

We start flipping through the images and the memories were flashing back.

"Do you have all your memories back?" I asked quietly.

"Some of them yes. The one's that aren't perfectly clear yet are from my time as winter or around the war time." He tells me.

I just nod my head and lean into him wrapping myself around him.

The next pictures of us were from the war.

"Mmm sergeant Barnes, that uniform did things to me" I mumble against his ear.

He chuckles and moves onto the next photo.

"Damn we were always this digesting puppy in love couple weren't we?" Bucky asked.

I bust out laughing. "Oh baby, based off some of the looks from the guys in the back ground they knew exactly what was going on between us." I say to him.

"I will never forget that night you rescued me and I saw you were never that skinny kid from Brooklyn anymore. But he definitely still lives in your heart." He says making me smile. "I still want to kick your ass for jumping out of that plane."

"What else could I do? We were being shot at and I needed to find you baby. I just couldn't stand back and not do anything anymore." I tell him honestly and pulling him closer.

"I know doll" he says.

We kept looking at the pictures reminiscing over our time together.

Bucky turned a movie on. I saw that it was the titanic. We used to watch this together all the time.

But before I could get into the movie, Bucky rolled me back onto my back and we started making out like a couple of teenagers.

Not much longer, things turned heated very fast and I was not complaining.