With Him | Bucky x Reader | Enemies with Benefits

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Bucky's POV:

As Y/n/n walked out of the room, both Tony and Steve turned their gazes to me. 

"Are you sure you want to go, Buck?" Steve began, "She's right. You don't have to go." 

"I know." I mumbled, "But I want to." 

"Okay,  well please make sure you don't 'die' this time. I don't know if I can handle all that shit again." Tony added, holding something small and black up to his eyes and squinting to get a closer look. 

Wow, thanks Stark, that never occurred to me. 

"Anyway." He began again, "Take this with you." He said, throwing the little black device at me. 

It was a small, irregular shape with a matt finish that made it look exactly like a pebble. It might even have been a pebble.  

"It's not a pebble." Tony said at the look of confusion on my face. 

Ok, so it wasn't a pebble. 

"Well, what is it then?" I asked, turning it over in my hand. 

 "It's a help button. I don't know why we never thought of it before, but it's almost undetectable, goes through metal detectors and radiation scanners with the same amount of radiation as a granite pebble, which is what it's disguised as."  He explained, picking up another and chucking it to Steve.  

"What's it called?" Steve asked, catching his and bringing it up to his face to inspect. 

"The Pebble." Tony replied. 

"Imaginative." I muttered under my breath. 

"Do you want one?" Tony turned to face me with the tone of a teacher telling off a naughty student. 

I stayed quiet. 

"All you have to do to activate it is chuck it on the floor..." Tony told us, taking one from the pile of Pebbles on his desk and demonstrating. "Then crush it under your foot." He continued, stamping down pretty aggressively on the gadget. 

At that, all the lights in the room turned red, a loud siren went off and the main screen turned to show the exact location of the crushed device. 

"That's...effective." Steve mumbled slowly. 

"Yep." Tony agreed, nodding as he spoke. "And they'll work from anywhere on earth. We haven't tested them in space yet, but that shouldn't be necessary." 

Two hours later and Steve and I were co-piloting a small get to help take us to the location of the mission in comfortable silence when a smile appeared on Steve's face. 

"What are you thinking about?" I asked, grinning slightly too. 

"Nothing." He brushed me off, turning away from me to flip a couple of switches. 

A thought snuck into my head. "Who are you thinking about?" I asked, a blush covering his face. "Steve?" 

"Nobody." He hurried out, "Why would you think that? I'm not thinking about anybody. Who would I be thinking about? Nobody, exactly. I'm not thinking about anybody. Nope. Nobody." 

I looked away from him to check a couple of monitors but not without continuing my line of questioning. "Who?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." He denied again.

"Alright, okay, I'll leave it." I smirked, watching as Steve's crimson face nodded and he swallowed.

"You don't know her." He whispered. 

"Who is she?" I asked again, this time with a much more teasing tone.

"Not telling you Buck. I really don't want to fuck this up. I really like her." 

"Is this your first girlfriend in...seventy years?" 

"Oh look, we need to prepare for landing." Steve interrupted, tilting his head to check our location on another one of the monitors.

We weren't even halfway there.

"How are things going with Y/n?" He asked, pressing a couple of buttons as he did.

A genuine smile immediately plastered itself on my face at just the thought of Y/n/n. "I can't wait to spend my life with her."  I grinned, "And the baby, Steve I'm going to be a father!"

Every time I thought about our little family I grew uncontrollably happy. There had been so many times in my life when I thought I'd never be able to have friends, let alone a wife or a baby. After everything that had happened, my life felt like it was back on track for the first time.

I sent a thought over to Y/n/n, I wanted her to make sure she knew that I was alright. 

*You better return with the same number of people in that plane that you left with, otherwise, I'm going to gouge your eyes out with a blunt spoon, James Buchannan Barnes.* She returned. Clearly in a good mood.

*I love you too, Y/n/n.* I smiled.

Why did I feel like something was going to go wrong? 

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