His Detka

17. Baseball & Kiss Cameras

"Hey, Nanny, do you have anything I can wear to a Yankees game with Bucky?" I asked Natasha on our way up to my suite. She had come to collect me since Bruce finally released me from the hospital wing and his care. Bucky and Steve had already collected the couple of things I had brought into the hospital room up to my suite.

"Ooo, is this a date?" Natasha asked.

"We're just friends, but I'm hoping something more will come out of it eventually." I was truthful. I did want to explore where this would go with Bucky, but I definitely didn't want to rush it. I'm thankful that I got the Reagan family blessing. I needed to go visit them soon. Maybe have lunch with Erin and Linda again.

"Well, no matter what happens, as long as you're happy, that's all that matters to us. You're like a daughter to me."

"Thanks, Nanny. All of this means so much. I know that y'all never want to see me how I was after Jamie died ever again, so my heart is heavily guarded. But with Bucky, things are just easy. Although, when I'm around him, I get this itchy feeling on the upper left-hand side of my left thigh." I said.

"Wait." She stops walking mid step and turns to face me. "You have an itchy spot when he's near, on a part of your body?" She asks, I assume to verify that she heard me correctly.

"Yes..?" I answer questioningly. She grabs me by my wrist and practically drags me into Wanda and Vision's room, closing and locking the door behind her as soon as we're both in.

"Wanda!" Natasha shouts.

"Hey, guys! Blaire, how are you feeling?" she asks me.

"I was fine until Nat here acted like a crazy person." I say pointing at Nat.

"Wanda, you've got to hear this." Natasha says, looking at Wanda and then motioning for me to say it again.

"I said, when I'm around him, I get this itchy feeling on my left thigh" I say slowly and questioningly. As I looked over in Wanda's direction, I saw that her pupils were as dilated as Nat's were. I look between the two of them and then back at Wanda and ask "What? Is that bad?"

"Isla, do you know what this means?" Wanda asks, I shake my head no. I mean clearly not, I was as clueless as a newborn baby when it came to relationships. She started again, "Well, let me ask you this first. Have you noticed Bucky scratching anywhere when you're around each other?"

"Uh, last night. I noticed that the inside of his right wrist was itching after he set me back down on the hospital bed." I said, still wondering where this was all going.

"I'm going to tell you this, but you have to promise not to freak out." Wanda started. Why did people always start big things off with that phrase? It doesn't make any sense. It just makes people overthink things or worse, freak out when they've just been asked not to freak out.

"I'm not making any promises, Wands." I said. But it was true. I couldn't make any promises. What was she fixing to say? That was the million dollar question.

"I think, and think is the operative word here.. I think that you and Bucky are soulmates." She finished and the word soulmates was said ever so quietly.

Soulmates? That was really a thing? I thought it was something that only people would dream about having? Or even things that were only in books? Although, in the last 10 to 15 years, we have learned that there are creatures and aliens, other worlds, alternate realities, etc. I guess this wasn't that much different, but still.

"I'm sorry.. Can you repeat that, Wanda?" I asked, still quite shocked.

"I think that you and Bucky are soulmates," she stated again a little more clearly.