Never Safe

Chapter Seventy-Two

"Bucky, baby, I have a surprise for you."

"Hm?" Bucky looked up from his phone at his girlfriend standing in the doorway of his bedroom. She had a large grin on her face as she jumped onto the edge of the bed and crawled across it. Bucky dropped his phone at his side to wrap his arms around Natasha as she lay down on his chest.

"You. Me. Dinner. Tonight at seven. I found the cutest little Italian restaurant in the city. What do you say?"

Bucky simply smiled at her for a moment.

"That was a rhetorical question. You have to say yes... come on baby, we haven't been out in ages" Nat moaned at him. "It will help you get your mind off things."

It had been a couple of days since Bucky's meeting with Fury. Two days ago, Fury left without telling anyone of his plan. So for two days, Bucky had done little other than wait around in case he was sent out on a mission.

Bucky dropped his head to kiss Nat on the forehead. He brushed her hair back behind her ear. "I don't know, doll. Why don't we just stay in?"

Natasha sighed as she rolled off Bucky to lie on her back on the bed. "Because, James, I miss the outdoors. I miss people."

"What do you mean? There's plenty of people here."

"I'm talking about people I don't share a bathroom with... Buck, if it's because you're worried about the mission, don't be. It's highly unlikely that Fury's going to decide to send you tonight. You don't-"

"We can go out tonight."

"What?" Nat sat up and faced him with a hopeful smile.

Bucky sat up too. "We can go out. Whatever makes you happy, doll."

She leaned over and kissed him. He stopped her for a moment to look into her eyes, but kissed her again only seconds later.

Their lips stayed locked for a short two minutes before one of them spoke again.

"You actually want to go, right?" Nat questioned. "You're not just doing this because I want to?"

"Are you asking me if I'd like to go out with you? My girlfriend?" Bucky laughed. "Yeah, you know what, I might need to think about it. I'll get back to you."

"Okay, I'm sorry. Stupid question."

"Very stupid. Of course I want to." Bucky put his arm around Nat and pulled her towards him. She cuddled into him. "Why don't you show me where we're going?" 

She took out her phone and pulled up the website. "I was thinking..." Natasha clicked on a link to the restaurant's location. When the map opened up, she instantly swiped across the screen. "There's a McDonald's down the street" Nat pointed out. "Y/n could always come with us, and we could drop her off to eat there. Steve could go with her, or we could pick up Peter on the way. I thought it might be nice for her to get out of the compound for a while." 

"That's a wonderful idea, doll. I'm sure she'd love to."

***

"GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED!"

"NO!"

"Y/N!"

"TELL ME WHERE WE'RE GOING!"

"UGH!"

Bucky sighed with frustration as he collapsed into your hanging chair on the other side of the room. You sat up in bed, reappearing from beneath your duvet.