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Chapter 2 - Complications

After dinner they all settle in the sitting area. Friendly chatter sounds through the room and Y/N is content to only watch for a few minutes. Bucky keeps stroking her fur and she purrs into his touch. She lets herself flop to the side, against his stomach and catches his hands with her paws. Playfully, she nibbles on his fingers and gest him to laugh. He wriggles them so she needs to focus on them. She lets out a low meow and snaps her paws forward, catching his hand and guiding it back down. At some point she finds herself standing up and wiggle around, laying low to hunt this damn hand and his damn fingers down to death.

After a while she lies back down and rolls onto her tummy and scans the area for a second time before she gives herself in a long and needed stretch. She jumps from Bucky's lap with almost no sound and strolls through the room. She rubs her head against Steve's ankle, letting him pet her and walks further to Sam who copies Steve's motion. Clint pats her awkwardly and she instantly knows that he's more of a dog-guy. Natasha instead is quick to pick her up and cradles her on her lap. Usually she would squirm away but she has a liking for the red-head. She is nice and surprisingly she knows all the spots that feel good. She purrs and showers her in the same head rubbing which she did for Bucky. She stays a while in Nat's lap and bathes in her attention before she continues her stroll. She sits in front of Tony and just looks for a second. But the brunette eyes her only for a second. "Oh, no. I'm not petting. Go. Hush!" He motions for her to go away but she does the opposite. She lays low and carefully walks up to him until he suddenly sits straight. "I said go!" He flings his legs and almost hits her with his foot. She lets out a scared hiss and runs up to the next person in reach which happens to be Clint again. Even the dog-guy throws a sympathetic look at her. "Tony! Why are you doing that?" Nat looks at him with shock in her eyes while Bucky holds his hand out for Y/N to come back to him. "I don't like cats. She gets her hair everywhere!"

"But you let her stay." Steve points out and raises a skeptical eyebrow. "Only because frosty seems to like her and you said that he's happier." Tony grumbles and ignores the snicker and scolding of the others for the next ten minutes before he goes back to talking with them. Y/N tries it a few times more over the next three hours but the result is the same.

The next day is not a better start for her and Tony. She sits mindlessly in the hall, cleaning her paws as Tony walks by. She meows at him but the genius grumbles and shoos her away with a glare. She hisses in shock and escapes in the slightly opened door of Bucky's room, jumps on the couch where he sits and climbs into the pocket of his hoodie. "Hey, what's up with you?" He puts the news and his coffee aside and pats the full pocket. Y/N starts to make a big bow around Tony whenever she sees him. He reminds her too much of all the people on the street who push her around all the time.

The only time she can't avoid him is in the common room. Everybody sits around and minds their own business. Steve reads a book and looks up now and then to listen to a story Sam tells. Nat and Clint play some dumb phone game against each other while Bruce reads in a science book. Its relatively peaceful. Y/N has situated herself on the backrest of an armchair while Bucky sits on his tablet and searches through something, she's not interested in. It's quite and she likes it. She closes her eyes and lets her chest rumble with a few purrs until she lulls herself into a slight slumber. She can hear Bucky chuckle and rustle around. A hand comes and stroking over her back. She peeks slightly to watch him go to the kitchen. Suddenly the doors to the common room open and Tony strolls in. He walks straight to the armchair before he suddenly stops in his tracks. "That's my chair." He only says the words but Y/N shrieks out a meow and almost falls from the back rest. She catchers herself and flees to the kitchen jumping on the counter and almost kicks Bucky's cup from it. She plucks her nails into his sweater. Bucky hisses and tries to catcher her but she climbs further up until she manages to hide in the hood, almost strangling him with her weight. "What's up with her?" Tony looks around and is met with raised eyebrows. Bucky comes in, holding the collar of his hoodie down to not get strangled and sits down on the couch next to Steve. Bucky raises and eyebrow at the scientist and crosses his arms over his chest after he managed to get the hood on the backrest of the couch. "What?"