One Shots || Bucky x Reader || ABC

I || Immortal Innocence *

Note before reading:

Here we are. My celebratory 20k reads one shot. This one will be split up into two parts because I have been absolutely loving writing this. Feel free to make suggestions on future one shots. Also, if you wish to influence what my next story will be about- find the final chapter of both my completed stories to let me know which idea from the list you like most.

Love,

Nina

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Never before had you seen such a wonderful collection of creatures of beauty before. The Summer Court's ballroom was bustling with merriment, laughter, music and dancing. You, being the daughter of the High King of the Summer Elves, had never before been in the presence of so many elves and humans. Male humans.

Until very recently, you had spent your entire life in solitude, only ever attended and spoken to by a small collection of elves and women. It wasn't until your 21st birthday only weeks ago, that you had been revealed to the rest of the world, who had all been anxiously waiting for you to come of age.

This custom was an ancient one and had been designed as to preserve the purity and innocence of the royal line. Despite what people would have expected, you hadn't considered yourself to have ever been lonely. Because life as you knew it been all you had ever known.

It wasn't until after you came of age that you realized how lonely you had actually been. The freedom you had experienced during the past few weeks had been a whirlwind of new impressions; meeting with an incredible number of royals and representatives from varying courts who have all been desperate to lay their eyes on you for the first time. Upon every meeting you felt their eyes drawn to your extremely fair skin; to your long shiny hair and your light grey eyes which shone like silver when you smiled. And you had smiled an awful lot for the past few weeks. You had found your mind flooded with questions as you saw all these men, whose eyes were so different from a woman's, and carried so many different thoughts behind them. They felt like some great mystery, like something that desperately needed to be uncovered.

But still, you were not to be touched by any man until they day you were set to be wed. Any man who would, would face severe consequences.

The deadly kind.

To be enforced by your personal guard.

Besides your father, he had been the first man you had been introduced to. He had a stern face; a cropped beard and long dark hair pulled to the back messily, as was custom.

He was big. Broad shoulders straining under his leather armour as he moved; his sword hung on the belt around his narrow waist; muscular arms peeking out from under the sleeves which he liked to push up as to allow him more freedom of movement. You continuously found you couldn't help but study the veins on his arms, guiding your eyes to his large and rough hands with fingers that he flexed every time he caught you studying them with your innocent eyes. Most encaptivating were his bright blue eyes which appeared all the more blue in comparison to the dark coloured armor he wore and his even darker demeanour. He was the most wild, violent and beautiful thing you had ever seen and had you wondering if this what all men were like.

Sadly, you soon found out they weren't anything like him at all.

The day you first met him, he had been brought in from the Winter Court, having been bestowed into your service as a coming-of-age present by his captain. You were barely able to breathe when you watched the blue-eyed soldier go down on one knee in front of you; vowing he would provide you with unquestionable protection, never suffering any man to touch you.