Avengers Imagines

Bucky - Weapon

A/N: This one's about 1800+ words, which is pretty long compared to my other imagines. Sorry!
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You follow T'Challa and Shuri outside, eager to see your boyfriend.

Bucky has been assigned to keep an eye on the goats, and you've been visiting him every day for the past few weeks he's been awake.

"Bucky!" you exclaim, grinning.

"Hey, doll," he greets, putting his arm around you in a hug. "How are ya?"

"Okay," you reply. You can't mask the nervousness in your eyes, and since Bucky knows you like the back of his hand, he sees right through it.

"Sure?" he asks, tilting your chin up gently to meet your eyes. "You seem stressed."

"It's... it's nothing. In fact, I should be happy," you smile,"You're finally getting the new arm!"

Bucky looks up, and is greeted by T'Challa and some of the palace's guards bringing a large box.

Bucky sighs almost inaudibly. "Where's the fight?" His eyes show fear and hopelessness, and it takes everything in you not to just pull him in a hug.

You hate how his first instinct was to ask where the fight was. You hate how he doesn't even think that T'Challa could be giving him the arm because they're friends, or that Shuri had some free time and just decided to design it.

You hate how he thinks that no one cares about him, but just about him as a weapon all this time.

He hates that you can read him sometimes. He doesn't want you to know what he's feeling because he knows it'll worry you. He doesn't want him to be the cause of your problems.

"On it's way," T'Challa replies after a few seconds of hesitation.

Bucky nods solemnly, and puts on a brave face, mainly for you.

"Make sure she's not hurt," Bucky whispers to the king, and he nods in understanding.

"Be safe," you remind Bucky.

He smiles a crooked smile, and begins jogging to meet the others.

What you don't know is that he doesn't want you to see the tears in his eyes. He doesn't want to promise you anything because he won't be able to live with the thought of ever upsetting you.

He never expected you to actually care for him, as a human beings and somehow it scares him because he doesn't know what's going to happen if he loses you.

You're sent to the underground sector of the palace, and they make sure that your every need is fulfilled for the day.

"Hey," Shuri greets as she enters the room, smiling politely. "Sergeant Barnes is going to be alright. He's a tough guy," she tells you, before asking if you need anything.

You simply mumble a 'no' and shoot her a smile back, just to be polite.

She's one of the nicest people you know in Wakanda, and you know that she thinks of Bucky as her older brother.

It's going to hurt her a lot if Bucky doesn't make it.

"Really, though. He's going to be okay," she reassures you after noticing your expression shift from sadness to worry. "He's gonna come back," she says, but more to herself, really. "I should go. I'll see you in a bit," she says quickly when she sees her bead bracelet blinking, waving and running out of the room.