Captain's Girl // Steve Rogers [ 1 ]

Prologue

Bucky Barnes and Anne Lancaster were best friends and had been ever since they were in diapers.

Their parents had been close family friends and so the two had met at a young age and they had become friends almost instantly.

Neither of them could remember the exact moment they had met. They just remember not having the other one day and then suddenly having them the next.

They were best friends, siblings practically, and all that mattered was that it was the two of them.

Just Anne and Bucky.

At least that's what it had always been before him, the boy that Anne had hated but had eventually grown to love.

Steve Rogers.

Anne didn't have anything against the boy, but maybe it was the fact that he came out of no where and started to steal her best friend's attention away from her that made her hate him so much. Or maybe it was the fact that she couldn't find anything wrong with him.

In reality, it was both of those things.

Instead of it just being her and Bucky playing on the playground, it was now always her, Bucky, and Steve. Birthdays, an event where the two would just celebrate together, had now become a thing that consisted of all three of them. And that pattern continued until there wasn't a single thing that Bucky and Anne could do together without Steve.

Maybe it was the fact that she now got an extra present every year for her birthday or that her and Bucky now had enough people to play games that required three people to play that she decided to keep her mouth shut.

But she knew that the only reason she tolerated Steve was because of the fact that Bucky seemed to love him.

She could still remember the day that she first met Steve. Anne had been waiting by the swings for Bucky when she caught sight of him walking up to her with a scrawny little blonde kid who Bucky had introduced to her as Steve.

Steve had had a busted lip and a black eye, but it was the sight of Bucky's bloodied fist that had caught Anne's attention. Bucky had told her about a fight that had happened and how he had helped save Steve from another beating. It was then that he had told Anne that he had invited Steve to hang out with them at recess and that's when everything had changed.

Steve was a nice kid. He was always kind to everyone and only fought back when someone was being a bully.

The only thing was that he never knew when to back down from a fight. Even if he was bloodied and bruised to the point where he could barely see straight, he would still be up and muttering those words, "I could do this all day."

Bucky and Anne were the ones who were there to help clean him up and Anne found herself always asking him why he never backed down. "I don't like bullies," he would always answer and Anne would have to force herself not to smile at him by reminding herself that she didn't like the guy.

At least, she hadn't liked him at first. But that had all changed one summer day when Anne was walking home from her summer job at her father's candy store.

She had been mindlessly walking down the street when some boys she recognized from school had dragged her into the nearest alleyway. She didn't like to think about what they were going to do to her, but she could still remember the tears in her eyes as they held her against the wall and whispered what they were going to do.