32 parts Complete Mature"It wasn't what I had planned on happening, nor did I really want it at all. It just kind of happened. I wanted to leave this kind of life behind, thought that I finally had with becoming a congressman and was going to be able to fight for good in a different kind of way; all I've done my whole life is fight and I'm tired of it. Yet here we are." He pauses. "I'm okay though. I've put in a lot of work over the last few years and I'm proud to say that. I'm good now, not perfect, probably won't ever be, but I'm good," he says quietly.
As Bucky Barnes adapts to his new life as a New Avenger, the last thing he has on his mind is finding a girlfriend. But when he unexpectedly crosses paths with you one day he can't help but be intrigued, feeling something he hasn't felt since he was a twenty-something year old man back in the 1940's. As he gets to know you he finds solace in the calm you bring to his life in amongst all the chaos and cannot stop himself from falling for you, nor you for him, as scary as it may seem at times.
Set in between the events of Thunderbolts and the post credits scene fourteen months later.