Not Without You - A Stucky Fanfic

Chapter Sixteen

The following day, Bucky woke up at three in the morning. To be fair, he did sleep the whole day yesterday, And Steve was still behind him as well.

A nurse came in to check him and his vitals, seeing that he was awake. The nurse whispered happily, "morning Mr. Barnes. Sleep well?"

"Mmm, yes I did. You can check me but try not to wake up Steve here, I don't want him waking up" Bucky whispered back, seeing as the nurse started to approach him.

"Will do" and the nurse started to check him and his vitals, making sure everything was going well.

About ten minutes later the nurse finished and left the room, leaving Bucky alone with his thoughts. He did feel better after the surgery and after getting shot, his amount of serum sure was helping even if he felt sore.

Bucky only did what Steve would've done anyway.

Bucky looked around the room, seeming as he wouldn't be able to fall back asleep, he wanted something to do. He saw the television remote and decided to grab it and turn the TV on.

Clicking the button, the rectangular object emitted light throughout the room, knowing that the light wouldn't wake up Steve. He always was heavy sleeper.

Roaming through the channels, Bucky finally decided on the show Impractical Jokers. He of course, didn't know what it was, but as he started to watch it, he saw that it was pretty funny. He liked all four of the jokers, but Joe was who made him more bubbly and almost burst out laughing when it was his turn.

Bucky watched Impractical Jokers until it was around 7:00 in the morning when he started to feel movement from behind him. Steve.

Bucky leaned forward to give Steve more space, until he felt a set of arms wrap around him in a hug. "Good morning, how are you feeling today, Bucky?" Steve questioned sleepily.

Bucky replies, "I feel much better. You were a great pillow as well." Steve gave one light squeeze, let go and leaned back.

"I'm glad you are feeling better and that you also seemed to have slept good" Steve assumes, a yawn following closely behind. He adds, "what are we watching?"

"Impractical Jokers, it's really funny" Bucky says, the TV regaining his attention.

Steve focused his ocean blue eyes on Bucky for a moment before looking at the TV to see what made Bucky chuckle.

The two boys watched the show until Nat, Stephen and Bruce came in to the room at 8:00 with breakfast for all of them. The trio brought pancakes since, they are Bucky's favorite and knew he'd want some after getting shot.

Steve moves off the bed to eat, and the little group all talk while they eat. Bucky and Stephen about the convention they went to and Steve, Nat, and Bruce all talked about what they did while they were gone.

After they finished their breakfast, they all talked until another nurse came into the room at 10:00 with a doctor following closely behind her.

The nurse checked vitals while the doctor checked Bucky's bullet wounds, the rest of the avengers stood a distance away so they could work. However, Bucky looked over at them all, eyes landing directly on Steve's as he lifted his hand in a motion where he wanted Steve to be there, holding it. Steve seeing his hand, blushed and walked over to Bucky's right side to his flesh hand, careful not to get in the doctors way and held it.

The doctor finished checking Bucky's torso and wrote something down on the paper before talking. "It seems that James is good to go home, your version of the serum healed your wounds but you will still be weak for the next few days. Make sure to rest, hydrate and don't over work yourself, no training or working out until next week just to be sure. Other than that, you're good to go, I signed your release papers you just have to give them to the front desk on this floor and they'll escort all of you out. Have a good day" the doctor explained to them all.