Mine (Bucky Barnes)

Chapter 10

Talia landed on a small island with Toothless by her side. It was sunset and Talia didn't feel like flying back to S.H.I.E.L.D. She sat on the ground and looked off to the horizon. Toothless sat next to Talia and laid his head in her lap.

"I'm OK bud. Just gotta deal with something now. Come on. Let's go find a river for some fish."

Talia stood up and walked into the woods with Toothless following her. They found a small waterfall pond with plenty of fish. Toothless wasted no time jumping into the water catching some fish. He brought them back to land and went back into the water for more. While he was doing that Talia had gotten a fire going to cook some of the fish for herself. Toothless made two trips of bringing fish back to land. He nudged five to Talia and kept the rest for himself. Once they were done eating the sun was still setting but you could see some stars in the sky.

"What do you say bud? Find shelter or stay here?"

Toothless laid down on the ground and opened his wings. Talia got what he was doing and crawled into his wings carefully. He wrapped his wings around Talia shielding her from the cold. It only took a few minutes for the two to fall asleep. When morning came around Talia woke up and crawled out of Toothless' wings and stretched. She looked at Toothless before walking up to the river and splashing some water on her face. Toothless walked up to her and drank some of the water.

"Alright, bud we still have some fish from last night. We'll eat that then we gotta get back to S.H.I.E.L.D. I don't think we need Bucky and Fury sending a search party after us."

Talia and Toothless ate the rest of the fish before walking back to where they landed. When they got there Talia got on Toothless' back and they took off to the skies. By the time they landed at S.H.I.E.L.D Fury was barely sending out a search party. Bucky was boarding one of the ships when Maria yelled: "Talia!" and ran up to her wrapping her arms around her. Bucky was the first off the ship followed by Fury and Strange.

"You bitch. Where the hell were you," Maria asked.

"First off you're a bitch too. Second, off I needed some alone time so I flew off with Toothless. We landed on an island. By the time I was ready to fly back, it was already dark. So we stayed on the island until this morning when I decided to fly back," Talia said.

"Decided?"

"Did I say "Decided?" I meant we fell asleep cause it was already dark and I didn't want Toothless to fall from the sky due to exhaustion."

"Mhm sure. Are you guys hurt anywhere?"

"I think we're fine for the most part but Toothless wants fish and I need a shower and some clean clothes."

"I'll take Toothless to get some fish, Phil will drive you home to change, Pietro and Dani are already at the house, and their ETA is three hours."

"You called them?"

"Yep. When you didn't come back we thought he took you so we called them to come help."

"You do know she's gonna demand to hold her goddaughter right?"

"Then you better hurry your ass up."

Talia and Maria pulled away from the hug and went their separate ways. Maria took Toothless to his stall to get cleaned and eat and Talia followed Phil down to the main floor. The car ride was silent, like a silence where it makes you uncomfortable until Phil spoke up.

"You know Bucky was scared shitless right?"

"I know but I just needed some time to myself."

"Can I give you some advice?"

"Even if I say no you're still gonna do it."

"Damn right. Next time this happens don't run off. I know you want to be alone but sometimes you need your family. And no I don't mean Tony but Bucky, Pietro, Dani, Maria, Fury, Strange, and me. Come to one of us next time instead of running off."

When Phil pulled into the house Talia was out of the car and inside. Right as she walked in she was tackled into a hug by Pietro. Talia wrapped her arms around him holding him close.

"Where's Dani?"

"She's asleep. It's her nap time after all."

"You wanna give me few minutes to shower and change before we talk?"

"30 minutes."

They walked up to Talia's room and Pietro sat on the bed as Talia got her clothes. By the time Talia got out of the shower and changed Pietro was fast asleep on the bed. Laughing silently Talia walked out out the room down to the kitchen where Bucky was making a sandwich.

"Hey," Talia said.

"Why did you leave?"

"I just needed some time alone. But then I realized that sometimes I don't need alone time. What I may really need is my family."

"Do you promise not to leave?"

"Until the day I die, I'm not leaving. Unless it's for missions."

"Deal."

(One year later)

"Pietro let's go. Dani and Mom are already in the car," Bucky yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

"Five minutes," Pietro yelled back.

"You said that ten minutes ago!"

There was a blur of silver as Pietro was next to Bucky.

"I couldn't find my shoes at Tia Maria bought me for my birthday two months ago so I was looking for them."

"Get your quick butt in the car before Mom starts yelling."

When they got into the car Talia started it and pulled out of the driveway. Talia pulled into S.H.I.E.L.D and everyone got out of the car. The family of four (soon to be five. No one but Talia knows.) walked into the big ballroom and looked around. There were S.H.I.E.L.D agents, the Avengers, and in the corner, she could see Fury, Maria, Strange, Phil, and the Guardians in the corner away from everyone else. Bucky and Talia walked over as Pietro and Dani went to claim a table for everyone.

"Why in the corner," Talia asked.

"We didn't want anyone to know until you and Bucky were here first. Phil and I are engaged and Maria and Strange are engaged," Fury said.

Talia hugged Maria and Strange then Fury and Phil. She pulled back and looked at everyone then placed a hand on her stomach.

"I'm two months pregnant."

Right away Bucky picked up Talia and spun her around. He placed Talia down but kept her near him.

"Oh god not again," Talia groaned.

"What," Strange asked.

"When I was pregnant with Dani Bucky would let no one near me. If anyone came to close to me he would punch them in the stomach then flip them and place his foot on their chest so they couldn't get up and come near me."

"Don't believe it. I wanna try," Nick said.

He walked up to Talia and reached his arm out when Bucky reacted and punched him in the stomach, flipped him, and placed his foot on his chest.

"I believe it," Nick yelled, "Talia help!"

"Nope. Your own damn fault," Talia laughed.

Bucky let Fury up after a few minutes and wrapped his arm around Talia. He leaned down close to her ear and whispered: "Mine." And if Talia got a surge of happiness at the word then nobody had to know. After all, Bucky did say: "Mine."