You safe me

Chapter 10 - Mission

The days rush by as if nothing happened. No bad dreams. No bad days. No bad moods. Y/N feels truly happy, lounging whenever she wants. Now she lies on the couch in the common room, eyes half opened and content. She's relaxed, more than ever in her life. She listens to the faint sounds of the streets below the tower and the silent steps outside the room. She's so relaxed that she doesn't hear the doors open and close, doesn't hear the conversation Bucky and Nat have and doesn't hear them approach. The hand that's finally placed on her shoulder startles her so much that she screams, jumps up, gets tangled in the blanket at her feet and falls to the ground with a breathless 'oof'. She hears snickering above her and when she looks up, she sees Nat laugh freely and Bucky smirking, trying to hide the laugh behind a mask. Y/N glares at him and Bucky has the decency to look ashamed. He stretches a hand out to help her up and Y/N lets him. "I'm sorry, doll. Thought you heard us."

"I didn't."

"We noticed." Nat snickers from beside Bucky. Y/N crosses her arms in front of her chest and directs the glare to Nat. She holds her hands up in surrender and shoves Bucky's shoulder with hers. "Y/N. Do you want to come with us?"

"What?" She looks confused at the brunette, but he smiles at her. "Nat and I want to do some things in the jet. Do you want to come with us? You could walk around and... explore it."

"Yes." She smiles excitedly but her smile turns sour and serious. She feels proud that Bucky's own smile falls at seeing her serious expression and that a shade of fear shows in his eyes. "Under one condition."

"W-which?" She smiles at Bucky's cute stutter and giggles a bit. "You carry me." She doesn't wait for him to answer, instead she changes to her cat form and paws at Bucky's leg with a loud and commanding meow. The man looks surprised for a moment before he laughs and picks her up. He kisses her head until she stops him with a paw on his mouth and a playful scowl. Bucky smiles against her paw, takes it in his hand, kisses it a last time and lets her slip into the pocket of his hoodie to carry her around. She purrs satisfied and gets comfortable with some shifting.
She's comfortable, even as Bucky bends down to pick some things up. She protests only silently with her claws in his abdomen, making the man wince. "Y/N, stop that." She plucks her nails once again against his stomach. Just for fun. "Ow! Y/N." Bucky curses and Y/N can hear Nat snickering again. The man stands back up, pats her through the fabric of his hoodie, then he shuffles through the halls. The movement and the warmth make her drowsy and sleepy. She's almost asleep as Bucky's hand pats her again. "Come on out, Y/N. We're here." She jumps out of the hoodie, yawns and stretches herself as long as she can get. Bucky laughs, crouches down and strokes her back. "Okay. Nat and I are going to work some in the front there." He points in the direction of the cockpit. "You just walk around and look at everything okay?" Y/N meows in approval and hurries away from him to explore. She finds some dark and comfy looking corners, the stretchers with blankets for serious injuries and the small storage spaces for each Avenger. After a while she yawns again and thinks she could use a small nap as long as Bucky is still working, so she settles down in one of the new-found corners and rests her eyes.

It's loud, someone talks loudly. There is an annoying rumble in the background and the ground is vibrating. Hurried footsteps rush past her hiding spot and things get dropped and picked up near her. She opens her eyes, alarmed by the hectic around her. She stands up and slips out of her corner and is shocked and slightly frightened. She sees Steve in his uniform, hears Tony talk over the comm and hears Clint's heavy boots step around. She looks around widely until she spots Bucky somewhere near the cockpit. She runs past Bruce, who sits on a seat and looks over a tablet; through Clint's legs, who curses at the shadow he sees rushing past and then past Steve until she's right next to Bucky. She meows wildly and paws his leg, probably with too much claw because Bucky hisses for a second before he looks down and curses. "Y/N? Fuck, what are you doing here?" She meows again, looking wildly around and feeling stressed. "Y/N, hey." Bucky crouches down and picks her up before he sits down next to Nat in the cockpit. The red head looks over for a second, frowns at Y/N but says nothing and Y/N is grateful for that. It's not like she exactly planned to be here when they are on their way to a mission. It's then that she notices that Bucky is wearing a uniform, too. She meows worriedly, not only because she's frightened that she's on a jet, which leads to a more dangerous place than the streets of New York, but also because Bucky is wearing a uniform, which means he's going to fight. He never went with the others. Not that there were many missions since she lives in the tower.