Ocean Eyes: For Bucky Barnes

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Looking at the clock, I put my collar on my neck, "party in T-1 minute"

"I'm tempted to walk in just a little late for reactions," Nat said, putting on her bracelet.

"Me too," Wanda added, "we'll just kind of steal the show for a hot sec."

I rolled my eyes at them but was kind of thinking about doing that, curious to see how Bucky would react when he saw me. "Alright deal, let's aim for late by five minutes."

And sure enough, five minutes later, Wanda, Natasha, and I pushed open the south side hall doors into the common room.

The first person I spotted was Tony who was chatting with, Rhodey, Thor, and Agent Hill. Scanning the room I then saw Loki, Sam, and Clint over by the food table. I waved at Shuri, who was sitting on the couch talking to Peter. Peter waved too, and I gave him a smile, my eyes still searching for Bucky.

And then I spotted him.

He was talking with Steve about something, but when Steve noticed our entrance he stopped, patting Bucky on the shoulder and pointing towards us.

Nat and Wanda flanking my side, I took a step towards him. And we locked eyes.

My heart dropped into the blue depths of his eyes as I watched his mouth drop open and his eyes widen. But when he had realised what he had done, he quickly clamped his jaw shut.

Laughing to myself I turned to the other girls, "go ahead and have fun okay, I'm going to head over and talk to Steve and Bucky"

"Alright girl, get that man of yours," Wanda said, scanning the crowd for Vision, who was already making his way towards her.

I nudged her, "you too silly, Vis is already excited I see."

She rolled her eyes at my comment but headed to him anyway, smiling as she approached.

Nat turned to me, "I'm going to come with you over there. Distract Cap a little so you and Bucky can catch up."

I linked my arm with hers, "Deal."

We strode towards the boys, saying our hellos as we passed the other Avengers and Agents that had come. Reaching them, Bucky immediately pulled me into his arms, "you look gorgeous doll!"

I bushed into the hug, pulling him a little closer before pulling away, "and you look stunning love!"

His face turned slightly pink, greatly contrasting with the dark suit he wore.

Steve coughed a little and then turned toward Nat, "so about that new move you were teaching the other day...."

I let that conversation be drowned out by the rest of the noises in the common room and smiled at Bucky, "let's walk around a bit."

We stopped to talk to a few groups of people over the next hour and a half, introducing ourselves or making small conversation. Mostly it was led by me, but when asked by a few agents about how I came into the Avengers family, Bucky hopped in. I was explaining the whole dropping out of the sky when he said, "She never spoke, never made a sound, but the look in her eyes told me exactly what was about to happen."

My heart dropped a little, realising I had never really talked to him about what had happened that day. Taking a mental note to bring it up later, I got interrupted by Tony stepping up to the microphone.