You safe me

Chapter 6 - Calming

Y/N stays as cat the next morning. Bucky took a liking on carrying her and Y/N quickly leans that he purchased a hoodie which has a big pocket on the front that actually is designed for a grown cat to rest in. They look a bit like a strange kangaroo now. Bucky walks around and Y/N looks out of the pocket, only her head to be seen. Clint actually coos and snaps a picture when Bucky is distracted. She hides in the hoodie until Bucky sits on the table with everybody else. Just then she peeks out again and lips onto his lap. Bucky smiles down at her and strokes her fur. It's almost as if she never left, and he wouldn't know about her being human. She purrs and nuzzles into his hand, then she peeks over the corner of the table. Her ears twitch as she stares to listen to the chatter around her. Her eyes land on a plate not far away from her and focus on the food. A sandwich lies there, innocently waiting to be eaten. The chicken calling for her to steal it and her instinct calling to do so. So, Y/N does. She cowers lowly, grumbles and jumps to the floor. She tiptoes over and ignores the snort from someone beside her. Then she looks up. The plate is Tony's plate. He's chatting with... Bruce? The man has curly hair and Y/N thinks that it's Bruce. Using the time Tony's distracted she jumps on his lap. He shrieks and looks at her but Y/N is already on the table, takes the unprotected chicken in her mouth and runs over to Bucky while avoiding to run over someone else's food. "Hey! That's mine!" Y/N ignores Tony's shout and bathes in the laughter that surrounds her as she walks proudly over to Bucky and places her pray in front of his plate. She looks up at him with pleased eyes. Bucky laughs and scratches her ear while he wipes tears from his eyes with his metal hand. "Good job." He praises and smirks at the pouting Tony. Y/N looks over her shoulder, flips her tail and tries to see if Tony is really angry now or just acts pretty well. Tony stands up abruptly and marches over to her. Y/N flinches and cowers lowly. She tries to go further to Bucky to hide but Tony is fast. "Tony!" Bucky's voice is firm. The laughter stops and his face is serious. Protective even. But Tony ignores him. He grabs Y/N on her sides and lifts her up. She lets out a shriek and tires to wriggle from him but his grip is tight while he walks away. Even scratching doesn't help. A chair falls behind them and Y/N knows that Bucky had jumped up. Tony walks to a shelf and Y/N fears for a moment that he wants to put her into it and trap her there. But Tony gets a plate out of it and walks to the fridge. He sets Y/N on the ground and glares at her. "Sit!" She stays where she is, cowering to make her as small as possible. She gazes over to Bucky who's still standing at the table. The others stare at Tony with a mix of confusion, concern and bemusement. Bucky seems to practically vibrate. He's protective and seems on edge of walking towards them to punch Tony in the face. "Here. Take your own food." Her head spins back around to Tony as he sets a plate in front of her. He's crouching before her and... smiles. She stares at him before her eyes drift down to the plate. It's full of chicken stripes. Unbelieving, she looks up again and meows in confusion. "What? You think I throw you out of the window because you're hungry." Y/N continuous staring and Tony raises an eyebrow. "I think I broke her." The brunette looks up and looks somewhere behind her. "I think I broke terminator, too." Y/N turns and looks at Bucky. He stares at Tony, too, with opened mouth. His hands hand limply at his sides. Y/N looks back at Tony, at the plate, at Bucky and to the plate again. Then she carefully bites the edge of it and drags it over to Bucky. She feels every eye pair in the room on her as she pulls and shoves the plate. She stops in front of Bucky and sits beside the food, paws on his legs and lets out a proud meow as if to tell him that her haunt was successful. Tony snorts somewhere behind her and walks back to his sandwich. Bucky crouches down and strokes over Y/N's head. "You okay?" He whispers and Y/N purrs to confirm that she's fine. Her heart is still beating a bit too fast and her nerves are slightly on edge but otherwise she's totally fine. And hungry. While she waits for Bucky to slip back on his chair and start to eat, she steals the chicken from the table, which she stole from Tony, and places it to the other food. The moment she sees Bucky eat and nod at Tony, she starts eating herself. She's hungry but still manages only half of her plate. Her stomach can't handle much food after days of eating nearly nothing. She makes fun of it and just drops to her side with a pleased purr. Her tail flicks around her and she closes her eyes. "Hey, Y/N. Already in food coma?" Clint's voice pipes up forms somewhere to her side, and she meows to answer him. Careful hands pick her up and for a second she thinks it's Bucky, but then she registers that the hands feel different. They're still gentle but not as big. Both of them are warm. She opens her eyes and peeks up only to be faced with Steve's smiling face. "Hi." He takes one of her paws in his hand and squishes it a bit before he shakes it and drops it again. Y/N meows and nudges her head against Steve's chest after he settles back in his chair. He chuckles and strokes her fur. "I can't believe you thought we would push you away. You're so comfy and calming." Y/N meows and turns her head into an angle at his words. He really thinks that? He likes that she loves cuddles? No one ever liked it be cuddled by her.