Working With The Winter Soldier

Chapter Three

Quiet was an understatement to say the least about the meeting between Y/N and Bucky. A pin could been heard if it was dropped.

Fury had expected a bit more human interaction between the two but after 20 minutes of silence he left, not expecting a miracle to happen, leaving the two of them alone.

Y/N sat on the pile of mats while Bucky leant against the wall closest to the door.

10 more minutes went by.

"Well well well what do we have here?", A voice broke the silence from the other door leading into the gym.

They both turned to the sound of the voice to see Sam with a large grin.

"We gossiping?", Sam joked leaning on the mats Y/N was sat on.

Y/N rolled her eyes, and Bucky scoffed.

Sam looked between the two. "Have you two spoke at all?", he raised an eyebrow.

Y/N jumped off the mats and started walking towards the locker room. Sam chased after her, blocking her path to that door.

"Woah woah woah, you're not leaving till you speak to him."

"Move out the way Wilson.", She demanded.

"Not till you talk", he replied. "It's my fault you didn't show up to the meeting so I'm being forced to make you talk."

I don't think Sam quite understood what he got himself into. Two Hydra associates who spent the most part of their life's having poor social skills, trying to make conversation, it was evident that Y/N was terrible at it with the Avengers.

Sam began to push Y/N towards Bucky, without very little resistance, she went in the path he led her.

"Let's start this again", Sam began. "Y/N, this is James Buchanan Barnes", Bucky scrunched his face together at the name, "and Bucky this is Y/N Grant"

"Middle name is Scarlett since we're doing them", she chimed in.

Sam whipped his head to face her, "I was not expecting that.

Y/N shrugged her shoulders and crossed her arms.

"Right can we now acknowledge you now know eachothers names?" Sam asked.

Y/N sighed and turned to Bucky. "Nice to meet you James.", she extended her hand out to him to shake.

Bucky groaned, causing Y/N to smile slightly.

He reached out his hand and shook hers, avoiding eye contact. "Nice to meet you too Scarlett".

Y/N rolled her eyes, sensing he didn't appreciate being called James, using her middle name in return.

"Great excellent, I'm off.", Sam said, practically skipping out the door that he managed to get them to talk.

"Is he always like that?", Bucky questioned.

Y/N sighed, "Unfortunately".

"So... we're partners?", Bucky asked.

"Apparently they didn't think about the repercussions of pairing two of Hyrdas ex assassins.", she replied.

Bucky snickered, "so you were an assassin too?"

Y/N just nodded her head.

"Did we ever meet?", he asked another question.

"Breifly, in passing.", she answered.

"I don't recognise your face.", he stated.

She laughed, "It's not as if Hydra wanted our faces on display. Defeats the whole assassin role, we was meant to hide away."

Bucky laughed in return, "Good point."

"Was that laughing I heard?" Sam poked his head in the door.

"Piss off Sam.", Y/N shouted.

Causing Sam to laugh and disappear again.

"He sounds like a handful. From what Steve tells me.", Bucky mentioned.

"He is indeed, I wish someone gave me warning when he joined the team.", she replied. "But he seems to be the only one that wants to talk to me, so I don't want to push him too far away."

Bucky raised an eyebrow, "how come?"

She shook her head, "doesn't matter, long story."

Bucky just nodded.

"I'll see you in the morning, bright and early for you first mission.", Y/N said as she walked to the door.

"I look forward to it.", Bucky shouted as she got further away.

She laughed, "we'll see about that, later James."

And with that she left the gym, while Bucky shook his head with a slight chuckle.

-

"How'd it go?", Steve asked, as Bucky walked into the lounge.

"How did what go?", he questioned.

"The meeting of The Winteress of course.", Tony sarcastically replied.

"The Winteress?", Bucky screwed his eyebrows together.

"Y/N", Steve corrected.

"Is that what they call her?", Bucky asked.

"No, but it's just a little nickname we use as she's so cold towards us.", Natasha replied.

"Ah, I had no issues with her, she seems nice.", Buck stated.

"Nice? Where the hell did you get nice from?", Tony retorted.

"What Tony means to say is, Y/N has always been distant to the team, kept to herself, doesn't really talk much and when she does, it's mostly sarcastic or rude. The only one she's nice to is Sam.", Natasha added.

"Hey, be nice to someone and you'll get the same in return.", Sam stated, causing Natasha to roll her eyes.

"It's hard to be friends with Elsa when she can't control her attitude and she locks herself away in her castle.", Tony mocked.

"Tony.", Steve glared at him.

Tony rolled his eyes. "Steve is delusional"

"I'm not, but can you atleast keep your thoughts to yourself"

"If I was ever capable of doing that, i wouldn't be standing here right now.", Tony replied. "In conclusion Barnes, don't go poking the bear and I mean that in every sense possible, finger, knife, words, pen-"

"Tony no.", The group said collectively .

"What? I meant pennies of course." Tony laughed.

Bucky just sat there quietly, unsure of what to make of the situation.

The group went back to talking to what they were discussing before Bucky walked in.

"Hey.", Sam whispered.

Bucky looked up.

"Ignore them, Y/N is actually nice, just misunderstood."

Bucky just stayed silent, if this is how the team reacts to Y/N, maybe he should keep his distance too.