Brooklyn - Bucky X OC Love Story

38 - Home

Bucky just wanted to go home. He missed Emilia so much that he wanted to scream. T'Challa promised to handle Thanos' body. So there really wasn't another reason to stick around, aside from Shuri demanding a thousand updates on Emilia. He had to practically beg Shuri not to follow them back to New York to visit, maybe another time. But Bucky just wanted to see his wife, alone. He already knew Sam would follow them back to see Emilia. He even debated stuffing Sam in a closet somewhere and leaving him in Wakanda to prevent that.

"Ready to get back?" Steve asked. He and Sam loaded the jet while Shuri hogged Bucky's time.

"More than anything." Bucky said, finally cracking his first smile in days. They'd defeated Thanos a few days ago, so they've just been patching up the wounded since. He'd been bugging Steve to leave since about an hour after Thanos was dead. Knowing that if Emilia needed him but couldn't reach him, scared him half to death. That he could reach cell phone service and get a whole slew of messages pleading for him, scared him.

Steve laughed, clapping Bucky on the shoulder. He made his way onto the jet, more than ready to get into cell service and call his girls. Two weeks without Avery and Maddison had him going crazy. But he also kind of wanted to surprise them, well surprise Maddison. Avery would be surprised no matter what. She's a baby. He already couldn't wait to hear his little girl scream "daddy" as soon as she saw him, giving him probably the sloppiest kiss of his life. "Let's go, Sam!" He called out.

"I'm coming!" Sam yelled back, rolling his eyes at his friend. He hopped up on the jet, taking his seat beside Nat. He didn't have anyone to come home to, but he did miss the states. Now, however, he wanted to see Emilia again. They may not have become best friends when they'd met, but he did like her. Maybe now that he planned to stay around, they could actually become friends. That if Bucky didn't go all overprotective husband. He teased Bucky a lot about how protective he was of Emilia, but he actually loved it. He liked seeing someone that would protect their wife from absolutely anything and everything. Even if she was in the wrong, he'd stick up for her because she was his. Not a lot of couples operated like that anymore.

Bucky headed towards the jet but noticed Wanda wasn't behind him. She wasn't on the jet either. He scanned the field, seeing Wanda sitting a ways off in the distance. She was sitting on the ground, leaning against a large rock, staring off into the beautiful waters. He knew her heart was broken, having to watch Vision die, twice. There was nothing he could say to help her, but he had to try. He knew Emilia would know what to say. She always knew the right thing to say and to do in any situation. "You coming?" He asked. He sat down in the grass beside her, staring out into the water in the distance. Wakanda really was a gorgeous place.

Wanda spared Bucky a glance but didn't respond right away. She knew she wasn't staying here, but she didn't know where to go from here. She didn't know a life where she didn't have Vision. "I don't know.." She mumbled.

Bucky sighed, putting his arm around her shoulders. "I don't know what to say, kid. I know my wife would know just what to say and what to do, but I'm not much for words. Do you want to come back with us?" He offered. It was the best he knew to do. Emilia would know how to help Wanda. "I'm sorry, kid. We did everything we could to stop this from happening." He reassured her. They both tried to stop Thanos, but these things just happen. As terrible as the entire situation was, terrible things happen. So, while they defeated Thanos, while they saved half of the world, they still lost in some ways. It's shitty to think of Vision as a sacrifice, but that's basically what he was. Bucky just blamed himself for being too slow. If he had gotten there sooner, if he had done more, maybe Vision would still be alive? If Thor had shown up sooner, maybe the two of them could've prevented Wanda from even having to kill Vision the first time. But it's too late to talk about the what ifs.