WinterIron one shots

Night terrors

Word count: 1427

Summery: Bucky and tony have isolated themselves from the group. Terrorised by nightmares reach night, they finally open up to each other, and find the one thing they have always wanted.

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Bucky was mopping. He was bored and despite everyone's efforts to cheer him up, he still felt miserable.

Stev tried taking him out of the tower, and took him to the ark and to a fun fair. Bucky found it anything but fun, and he seemed to bring down everyone's mood around him. It didn't hep that some how, a box of magnets was dropped only a metre away and he came home with an arm covered in multicoloured butterfly magnets. It took him a long tie to get rid of them all.

Nat tried entertaining him with a movie, but she ended up falling asleep half way through, annoying him with her loud snoring. And when the film had finished, he ended up breaking the remote trying to turn it off, and got annoyed and threw it at the giant tv, shattering the scream.

Sam offered to help. But . . . It was sam. He annoyed him all day, with is constant talking. His snidely remarks, goofy grin and stupid questions. He fought hard all day with himself to stop him from punching him there and then.

Nothing seemed to help bucky. He was miserable, and n one could change it.

He spent his days locked up in his room. He decided that he was always electing the teams moral, and that they always felt composed to making him feel better if he was around. But if he wasn't then they wouldn't worry.

But it was lonely. And all icky wants to do was it cuddle up t someone and fall asleep in their arms. He wanted to know someone cared. He wanted someone to be there when he woke up from one of his nightmares. He dint want it be alone anymore. He had spent too many days . . . Years . .. decades alone in a damp empty room all by himself. But he knew no one would be there when he woke up, there would be n on to talk to. He was alone-like always, he would have thought he would have been used to t by now.

Bucky wasn't the only one.

Tony sat in his lab and studied his new project. His suits were all completed, everyone had the lates upgrades ready and he found himself bored.

He had grown accustomed to his isolated weeks in the lab. At first steve, bruce or nat would force him out, but ver since bucky arrived, he was ignored and left alone, just as he always wanted? He let his mind wonder. He didn't dare try to sleep, because then he would wake up at an ungodly hour and have the nights horror filled dream stuck in his head. He did sleep anymore, and that was alright.

He had always found he could sleep if there was someone there. If he could fall asleep knowing that he wasn't completely alone, and that someone would be thee fore him in the morning, someone to cuddle up to and keep him warm, Someone who would reassure him everything was going to be okay, someone to look after him.

Because deep down he didn't want it be alone anymore. He wanted someone to notice him for once. Someone to look past everything the media said about him. Someone to break down his barriers, his cast iron wall and see him, tony stark. He didn't just want meaningless sex with the latest person he found at one of his parties. He wanted commitment. He wanted to be loved.

Yet these two misunderstood men lived in te same house, yet knew hardly anything of the others existence. They locked themselves away, when they could find happiness with another. But they didn't want to be a burden.

They didn't want to be labels as a murderer.

It was late, and both men had finally been able to get some sleep.