Avengers Imagines

Braids -- Bucky Barnes

Warnings: all fluff

Description: i saw this headcanon about bucky and decided to make an imagine about this little bean because he's so adorable and pure

Word count: 1008

A/N: IMPORTANT!! so apparently wattpad didn't save my original version so i posted one that was incomplete? i'm so sorry, but here's the full version which will probably make a lot more sense! sorry again :/

i love me some sebastian stan ok

also, i don't know how to braid :(

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Natasha doesn't mean to walk in on the two of you, not really. It's not like you're in the middle of anything; you are sitting criss-cross on the couch as Bucky sits on the ground watching TV. He looks more content than Nat has ever seen him, like he's managed to quiet his demons by simply watching television and letting you play with his hair.

You aren't focused on the TV, in fact, you don't even know what show Bucky is watching. You're more concerned with the soft brown locks between your fingers as you tie them into different braids, putting elastic bands around them so that they stay. Bucky doesn't mind; if it makes you happy then he's more than willing to be your muse.

"If this isn't the cutest shit I've ever seen," Nat mumbles to herself, pulling out her phone and snapping a quick picture before going back to her room and leaving you two alone.

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After that day on the couch, Bucky asks to start braiding your hair. At first you're confused; where did the Winter Soldier learn how to do a girl's hair into braids? But when you see the pure, innocent look in his blue puppy-dog eyes you know there's no way you can deny him this.

"Let me know if I hurt you, okay?" His warm breath tickles the back of your neck as he runs his fingers through your hair, parting it down the middle with your brush and separating it into two even parts.

"You're not going to hurt me, Buck," you laugh, rolling your eyes as you watch Criminal Minds on Netflix allowing Bucky to go to work.

You're not going to lie, you love when people mess with your hair. The fact that it's Bucky playing with your hair only makes it better.

With a little smile on his face that you can't see, Bucky starts at your scalp and begins to work down, twisting and tying your hair into two perfectly identical French braids. He loves the way your hair feels in his one human hand and the way you hum gently when he runs his fingers through it. Every time he hits a knot in your hair, he's incredibly gentle, almost too gentle to get the knot out as though a little tug would kill you.

"You can pull it out," you giggle and you hear him shaking his head despite the fact that you can't see him.

"Nope," he pops the 'p' and picks up the brush, running it carefully over the tangled part of your hair until he's satisfied with the result. With a quick press of his lips to your cheek that makes you grin, he gets back to work.

When he finishes, he demands that you go look at the end result immediately and rushes you to the nearest mirror in the tower. Your mouth hangs open in shock as you see two symmetrical and neat french braids that end in the same spot near your shoulders.

"Bucky... this is like really good," you tell him honestly, twirling one of the braids around your finger, laughing as he wraps his arms around you and nuzzles his face into your neck, tickling you with the scruff of his facial hair.

"I know it is, darlin'."

After that, you often sported a different style of braid a few times a week. Whether you had the braids during training or simply lounging around, the rest of the team began to notice.

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You really didn't expect anything to come from Bucky's talent of braiding other than some new styles for your hair. Boy, were you wrong.

Apparently the living room serves equally as a place to lounge and watch TV as it does Bucky's hair salon because when you walk in after a few hours of paperwork, there he is braiding hair.

Except this time it's obviously not your hair. It's not even Nat's.

It's Thor's.

Silently, like the trained fighters and assassins they are, the rest of the team pools around you, watching in a mixture of awe and confusion as Bucky and Thor chat quietly while Bucky braids Thor's long, blonde hair.

"I-" Tony starts, mouth gaping open at the scene in front of him. "Even I have no words for this."

You stifle your laughter as you happily skip over to your hair stylist boyfriend who is too focused on Thor's hair to notice you standing in front of him.

"Hey, babe," you chuckle as you press a quick kiss to his lips, making him jump in surprise. He finally notices you standing there and a small smile appears on his face due to your presence.

"Oh, hey, doll."

Grinning, you grab a pillow and place it against Bucky's side. You eagerly stretch out on the couch with your head on the pillow/Bucky's side and your feet dangling off the edge of the couch. In this position, you have the perfect view of Bucky's adorable, focused features.

As if sensing that they can come in without disturbing the scene, the rest of the team files in and spreads out across the living room.

"Uh, whatcha' doing there, heavy metal?" Tony asks out of curiosity with two raised eyebrows.

"Sir Barnes is constructing my superior gold locks to look like Lady Y/N's!" Thor cheers happily, trying to look at you but Bucky stops him from turning his head.

"Stop moving you big oaf," he mumbles, attempting to fix the strands that drifted from Thor's fidgeting which makes you laugh a bit.

As though he's drawn to the sound of your laughter, Bucky's stunning eyes look down to meet your own e/c ones and he full-on grins like a child, pressing his soft lips quickly to your nose before going back to work.

"Where did you even learn to braid, Barnes?" Natasha asks and you instantly feel Bucky go rigid behind you, only relaxing once he takes a deep breath.

"I had four younger sisters at home and Ma didn't always have time to do their hair before school," he mumbles and no one mentions it again.

You smile despite yourself, thinking that you may have just fallen in love with James Buchanan Barnes even more if that's even possible.

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i love this headcanon more than i can express

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