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A Shot In The Dark- Chapter 3:Forever.

Bucky x Reader

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my character. 

WARNINGS: Depression, sex(under keep reading)

RATED MATURE 18+

A Shot In The Dark- Chapter 3:Forever.

You had arrived in Wakanda early that morning for the Technological Symposium. Earlier that month the King of Wakanda gave a press conference saying that Wakanda will now open its borders with the rest of the world and show them what they had to offer. You knew Wakanda was technologically advanced due to the vibranium, but you never imagined what you saw when you got off the ship. The symposium was over the course of 3 days on a weekend. You were sent by the Stark corporation as well as a handful of others. Tony was true with his word and hired you right after you helped fight against Steve and the rest of his team. You didn’t agree with everything they did, but he knew you were smart and an asset and you’ve been at Stark Industries for almost 2 years.

When the conferences of the day were finished. Princess Shuri came up to you and invited you to her personal lab.

"I heard you have powers" Shuri said leading you into her lab. "Ah, you want to study me?" you joked. "You create an immense amount of energy that allows you to manipulate the plasma particles you emit." she said. " I was wondering if you could do the same with the vibranium particles.     " Vibranium particles use kinetic energy I thought? I create electromagnetic energy" you questioned her motives. "Yes, but you also create kinetic energy within the subatomic particles in your plasma shifting them from plasma to solid." she retorted.

“Okay” you nodded your head in understanding. 

“My brother said he fought with you a while ago” Shuri said messing with one of her computers. “Against the White Wolf”

“The White Wolf?” you asked

“The one you call The Winter Soldier, he lives on the edge of the village” she said clinking on her keys. She stopped doing what she was doing, moved over a station and motioned you to come over. She stood on the other side of a white table, she waved her hand over it and opened revealing vibranium particles.

Bucky came into your mind. You had only one real interaction with him, but remembering the way he smiled at you made you want to know him. You know of him, Steve had came to you once after the aftermath for some help finding someone. You asked about the events leading up to the civil war. He told you how he thought Bucky had died and then only to find out he was alive and brainwashed. 

You and Shuri spend the afternoon in her lab testing her theory and lo and behold she was correct. She was so excited that her theory was correct and that it opened new possibilities and new theories. She excused her self for getting too eager. 

“You must be hungry and tired. I will probably be working through the night and will miss dinner, but you go on ahead.” she said. 

You smiled at her and started walking out of her lab when you decided to double back. 

“Is it possible to go see him?” you asked shyly. 

Shuri smirked at you. She knew exactly why you were asking to see him. 

“My brother doesn’t like him having too many visitors. But I think it will be good for him” she said. She walked over and opened a drawer. She picked up something and walked back to you. 

“You can take my bike, 1st level garage” she said handing you a key, “Go south, by the river, he’s there”. 

You took the keys from her and said thank you. 

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You rode down the river for about thirty minutes before spotting a small hut. You stopped to admire the sunset, It was getting darker and dark clouds were filling the sky. You rode a little closer to his house and got off to walk the rest of the way. He didn’t seem to notice you come up, he was busy moving his animals into the small stables near his house. 

You walked up to the wooden fence he had around his yard and watched him. He looked the same, yet older, he looked worn out, but he looked better. He was wearing dark pants and a green shirt. His arm, was without the metal prosthetic you had seen on him and was now just covered up with a wakandian print fabric. Half of his hair was tied up into a bun. He made a kissing noise to one of the goats and led it into the stable. The sight of the made you smile. 

“Come here often?” you yell at him from the fence. 

He turned to you, surprised to see you. Probably thinking you’d be the last person you’d see. He smiled at the floor and started walking towards you. 

“We were never properly introduced” you yell again to him as he moved closer. 

“Lizbeth” you said when he was right in front of you. 

“James” he smiled, “But most people call me Bucky”

“Liz” you countered “Some people call me Beth.”

“it’s been a while” he said.

“About a year a half to be exact”‘ you responded.

He studied your face for a couple seconds.

“You look older” he added.

“And you don’t look a day over a hundred and three old man” you joked.

“And you still look 12″ he retorted. 

“Snarky, I missed that last time, you know when we were trying to kill each other” you laughed. 

“Well Beth, a lot of people were trying to kill me last time. It’s good to see a familiar face” he said looking at the ground again.  

Your heart jumped at him calling you Beth, the last person who called you Beth was your mother. 

“You look better” you gave him a soft smile. You heard some thundering in the distance. 

Bucky’s face turned serious. 

“Why are you here?” he asked 

“The symposium. Stark sends his children” you responded. 

“No, I meant, What are you doing here?” he asked again. You knew what he meant. Why did you come see him. 

“To say hello” you lied. And he knew you were lying. You both know why you were there. Your first encounter was flirty to say the least. Lustful even. You heard another thunder, this time it was closer. 

“I can’t give you what you’re looking for” he said sternly. 

You smiled at him. You understood. You knew everything that he has done in the past. 

“You should go, before the storm starts. It’ll last for hours.” he said in sad tone. 

Bucky backed up from the fence as to leave. You went to leave, but before you did you had to ask Bucky something, something you knew he could answer. 

“Can I ask you something? Personal?”  you said.

He nodded in approval.

You looked down.  

“How.. How do you wake up in the morning and not hate yourself for what you’ve done? How do you move past it?” you asked. 

He knew you weren’t talking about what he had done. It was about what you did. 

“You don’t. You just learn to live with it” he responded. 

The two of you stood in silence for a minute. You felt a couple raindrops on your face before you spoke again. 

“My best friend. It was my fault he died. I got powers and he....His wife was pregnant when he died.” you confided in him. “I know that you’ve done horrible things, but I also know you’re a good man. Steve told me.” 

You felt more raindrops hit your face. 

Bucky sighed, “ Steve sees the best in people. And that’s the thing, you have to see the best in yourself. The goodness and the light. No matter how black the darkness you’ve created was.” 

The rain came hard now, just in time to cover up the tears falling from your face. You were both standing there, getting soaked. You understood even more now, you were both broken. You swallowed hard and made eye contact with Bucky who was looking at you with sadness. 

You closed your eyes and took in the rain. You felt the rain on your face and even if it was just temporary, you felt the sadness inside you wash away with it. 

“Come inside” you heard Bucky yell to you over the rain and thunder. 

You ducked under one of the bars of the wooden fence and followed Bucky into his house. 

His house was small, but it felt like him. On one side of the small hut was his bed separated with a four panel room divider with more wakandian print on it. On the other side of the house was a small kitchen with a fireplace and a table with chairs. 

Bucky walked to the fire place, threw wood in it and started a fire. 

You took off the sweater you were wearing and laid it on the back of one of the chairs. You ringed out the water from your hair. Bucky stood up and faced you. He swept the lose strands of his wet hair back, but fell forward again when he looked down to undo the knot on the robe that was covering up his left shoulder. 

You stepped forward, your hands were cold from the rain outside, but reached for the knot. Bucky looked at you and placed his hand down, letting you undo the knot. Bucky took the the robe and hung it over the fireplace to dry. Bukcy turned back to you, 

“I guess you’re stuck here until the rain lets up. Make yourself at home.” he said and walked behind the room divider. You sat down in one of the kitchen chairs, shivering in your wet clothes. Bucky was gone for a couple minutes and returned with dry clothes on. He handed you a dry shirt. 

“Thats the largest shirt I have, but it should cover you up. You’re tiny, but you carry a punch.” he laughed It’s true, you were a small person, you were about 5′1 at 110 pounds. Bucky was a foot taller compared to you. Bucky motioned you to change behind the panels. 

“Thank you” you said taking the shirt. 

“I’ll make some tea” you whispered. 

You walked behind the divider and started taking off your wet jeans. You look up at the panel and see a couple pictures pinned to the divider. You saw an old looking picture of Steve and Bucky probably from the war, and other newer one right next to it that seemed to be taken recently. They looked exactly the same, except Bucky’s eyes, they seemed more tired. 

“So what else did Steve tell you about me” he shouted at you from the fireplace. 

“Mostly good things” you shouted back. You pulled your wet shirt over your head and put on the dry one on. You laughed, Bucky was right, the shirt fit halfway down your thighs, like a dress. You took your wet clothes and walked over to lay them near the fireplace for them to dry.  Bucky was facing the fireplace, boiling water and took a glance at you when you came back. You sat down in a chair again, crossed your legs and pulled down the shirt, slightly embarrassed. 

“Who taught you how to fight?” he asked taking the kettle from the fire and placing it on the table. 

“Ummm, Physics?” you said. 

Bucky laughed and went to grab to grab to mugs that were sitting by the sink. 

“The average human is capable of generating enough force to lift a car off its front wheels for several seconds. You apply enough force into punches and kicks in the right angle, you can render your opponent useless” you continued. 

He came back and placed the cups on the table and sat down next to you. 

“I remember you were smart. Your PhD project, is that in physics?” he asked. 

“ Biophysics” you smiled. 

Bucky placed a couple of leaves into the kettle. 

“And you powers? They’re kinda like Wanda’s” he said. 

“Not necessarily. Wanda seems to have magic like abilities. She can manipulate people and items and I cant do that. I create an immense amount of energy and thats pretty much it.” you said. 

“You can do more than that” he responded, pouring tea into both of the cups. ”What about the objects you create?” 

Your hands were laying on the table, you picked the one closest to him and turned it over. A pink glow came from the center of your palm. You wanted something for Bucky and thought back to what Shuri had called him earlier. A white wolf. A pink plasma version of a viking fenrir head laid in your palm. 

“And if I put enough energy in it....” you eyes started glowing, closed you hand and it started glowing pink as well “ It stays solid.” 

You eyes and hand stopped glowing. Turn your hand over and moved it towards Bucky. He opened his hand under yours and you dropped the small silver wolf medallion into hand.

“Impressive” he smiled. Just then a lighting bolt hit close, startling you. You looked out the window, when you entered Bucky’s house there was still light from the setting sun. It was completely dark outside now and the only light was coming from the fire Bucky had started. You laughed and turned back to Bucky who was already staring at you. 

Bucky slipped his hand between your damp hair and your face, and kissed you hard. You kissed him back even harder. He tasted sweet and warm. You moved closer to him and before you knew it you were straddling him in his chair. Bucky moved his hand behind your neck and forcefully kissed you. You felt his hand move down your back ending on you hips. He pushed your hips into yours. He stopped kissing you and stood up, picking you up along with him. He took you to the end of his bed and gently sat you on it. You’re heart was pounding and you pushed yourself further back into his bed. Bucky pulled his pants down and wiggled out of them. He got into bed on his knees and crawled up towards you, your legs were already opened for him. He positioned himself on top of you and began kissing you again. You wrap your hands around his neck and start moving your hips into him. You felt him through your panties, he was hard and you wanted him inside you. You pushed him off you and sat up, You took your shirt off and then pulled his off. He kissed you trying to push you back into his bed. You pushed him off again, slid your panties off and then pulled him back on top of you. Bucky started kissing you neck and then started training down you chest with kisses, then your stomach. Bucky slid down and positioned himself, he kissed you and it wasn’t long before his tongue was inside you. Your hands gripped the sheets under them and moaned in pleasure as you felt his tongue on your clit. After a few minutes, Bucky got to his knees and pulled his underwear off. He crawled back up and kissed your neck. 

“Tell me what you want.” his raspy voice whispered in you ear. 

“I want you inside me” you whispered back. 

You opened your legs even wider for him, you felt his hand go down in between you two and then felt the tip of his hard cock trying to enter you. Bucky moved his arm back up above your head, kissed you and pushed into you. You moaned into his mouth as you felt him deep inside you. You kissed him harder which caused him to push into you even harder. 

“Fuck” he whispered as he moved inside you once more. He started thrusting in you faster. One of your hands was gripping his hair and with the other you ran your nails along his back. 

You were starting to cum, you moved yourself into him faster and faster. You dug your nails into his back and moaned into the darkness as you came. He must have felt you coming because his strokes became slower and deeper into you. When you stopped he started fucking you faster again. He felt so good you moaned into his ear. His arm slipped under you and picked you up and flipped positions. You were now on top of him, you placed you hands on his chest and slowly started moving back and forth. His moan sent a shiver down your neck. You picked up your rhythm and were riding him for a couple minutes before you felt his thumb rubbing on your clit. You let out a loud gasp and rode him until you came again. This time you clawed into his chest and fell into him when you finished. You were breathing hard into his neck, you felt his chest moving from his hard breathing and he was still inside you. He caught his breath and rolled you over so he was on top of you again. Your thighs were sore as you felt him start thrusting into you again. He leaned slightly up and locked eyes with you. He placed his thumb right on top of your neck and pressed down slightly. It felt good and you wanted to come again. You knew he was close to finishing as well. 

“Don’t stop” you whispered to him. 

Both of you were so close. He moved faster into you. On his last thrust you he moaned loud and you felt throbbing cock releasing inside you causing you to cum with him. 

Bucky fell into bed next to you almost gasping for air. You turned to him and lay on your stomach facing him. You smiled at him. Bucky sat up and reached for the blanket at the bottom of the bed and covered the both of you. 

Bucky fell back into bed and laid on his side facing you. He started running his fingers down your back, you closed your eyes and shivered. 

“When do you leave?” he asked softly. 

“Tomorrow.” you responded with your eye still closed, “I could stay for a while. If you’d like. “ 

“How long?” he said. 

“Forever” you whispered before drifting to sleep listening to the pattering of the rain outside. 

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“it’s been a while” he said. 

“About a year a half to be exact”‘ you responded. 

He studied your face for a couple seconds. 

“You look older” he added. 

“And you don’t look a day over a hundred and three old man” you joked.

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A Shot In The Dark: Chapter 2:Civil War

After what seemed like a 10 hour plane ride, you had spent the morning with Rhodes going over what would happen if Steve Rogers didn't give up what was known as the "winter solider". 

You really didn’t care about the drama that was going on in the “Avengers”, but Tony Stark is a little bit hard to pass up. 

“You don’t fly huh?” Rhodes asked. 

You shook your head no. 

“So how you gonna to the airport?” he said

“Um.. walk?” you replied. 

Rhodes sighed and placed a hand to his temple, “Tony knows how to pick them. Have you met Peter? He’ll be here soon. 

About an hour passed when Tony and who you assumed Peter was, and the prince of Wakanda walked in. Now that all you were together, Tony went over some logistics. 

“No, you are not gonna stroll up” Tony said to you after Rhodes told him about your conversation. ‘We got to show strength and power. How else are they gonna take you seriously.”

“Fine, I have something else” you said. 

Tony continued detailing his plans, tell you what you had to do and where you had to be. 

“You two stay here, grown ups have some talking to do” Tony said and left the room, leaving you and Peter.

You and Peter got alone quick. You two lived on opposite sides of the country, but shared the same interest. He loved science and asked you about how Cal-Tech is and asked you how you got your powers and what you could do. He’s a pretty smart kid and quickly picked things up. No wonder Mr. Stark brought him along. He told you about his suit, how Tony gave it to him and then showed you his spinning webs that helps him “swing and get stuff”. 

“Mr. Stark is supposed to have made me a suit too.” you told Peter. 

“Oh Man, that’s gonna be totally awesome” Peter smiled.

Tony walked back in the room.

“Ok kids, suit up. Liz, your suits should be at your hotel rooms already. Be at the airport 1pm sharp.” Tony said sternly and walked out the door again. 

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When you arrived to your hotel room, a large silver case was waiting for you on your bed. You walked up to it and noticed a blue panel on top of the case. You assumed he case opened biometrically. You placed your hand on the panel and sure enough it opened.

You pulled out a black body suit with pink and black body suit and black boots, you got ready and prepared to head over to the airport. 

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Arriving to the airport you met up wit Tony and told you to get ready. On his mark you were going to come in.

You fashioned a pink platform, just big enough for you to stand on and waited for your cue. 

You heard it, the words you were waiting for you took a deep breath and with your powers you moved the platform you were standing on, moving you as well. You reached Tony and moved the platform near the ground. You took a step off and the platform disappeared. 

You faked importance. Honestly you don’t know why you were even there. 

Tony and Steve were arguing about something, it not like you were paying attention anyways. You were staring at the man standing right next to Steve. He was perfect. You were studying his face intently when you heard Tony yell "Underoos" Peter had taken Cap's shield. Peter seemed a bit nervous and was stuttering his words. 

Tony sighed, "remind me not to bring my kids next time". 

"You’ve been busy. I see you've been doing some recruiting." Steve said. 

Tony and Steve continued to argue, finally Tony had had enough and demanded Steve turn over Barnes.

All of a sudden you saw an arrow flying towards Steve. You heard Peter yell something and then out of nowhere a man appeared and took Captain America’s shield. 

“Got two in the terminal” Rhodes said. 

“What do we do” you heard Peter ask. 

“What we discussed” Tony said. 

You ran to the nearest terminal where Rhodes said. When you entered you noticed two men running towards the other side of the terminal. They are about 50 ft ahead of you. Peter is currently on the roof and broke through the glass. Peter knocked down one of the men, you assumed was Falcon and went in to punch Barnes. You noticed Barnes caught Peter’s hand in midair. You weren’t going to let anything happen to Peter. You were close enough to be able to hit Barnes. Your hands were plasma cannons, they start to glow a light pink and with no effort threw plasma directly onto Barnes’s chest pushing him down. Falcon got up and took Peter up in flight. 

Bucky gets up and turns to you. He looks you up and down.  "I don’t want to hurt you" he says " Oh my god, that’s so great" you say sarcastically. You smirked at him, "But Mr. Stark promised to fund my entire PHD project if I stop... whatever you're up to. And 5 million dollars is 5 million dollars." He smirks back at you and quickly changes facial expression back to serious. He pulls his metal hand back and makes his hand into a fist. You duck out of the way of his punch and again kicked him in the knee. This time it only caused him to stumble a couple steps back. You stood up, your eyes were now glowing pink. You mad your hands start glowing and from the plasma in your hands you fashioned two batons. Your favorite were daggers, but you're trying to stop him, not kill him. You stared at his feet, back at him then back to his feet. You take your right foot and step over you left. He moved with you and moved to his left. You took a step forward, but he didn’t move. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Learning your combat style" you said. Right when you said that you lunge forward and hit him with one of the batons. He stumbles back a little and smirks at you. You step forward and again to try hit him with one of your batons. This time he grabbed it in his hand. "It only works for me" you said and phased the baton through him. You saw the surprised look on his face and took this time to use his knee as a step, whip around behind him and take hold of the other baton in two hands across his neck.

He immediately puts all his body weight on you and slams you into the floor. You groan in pain. Bucky is laying on top of you and turns around as to check on you. He gives you a smile and starts to get up. You wrap both your legs around his waist, grab the fabric at his chest and pull him forward and flip him over you head. You're now straddling him and place the baton at his neck.

"Stop flirting with her and kick her ass" you heard Sam over his earpiece You smile and press the baton a little harder on his neck. You see his metal arm reach up and grab you at the neck. "Buy me dinner first" you said and put more pressure against his neck causing him to do the same against yours. You release your grip of one of your hands off you baton and place it on the cold metal arm. Pink static rises from your hand. Bucky realized what you were doing and fearing you would completely fry his arm, pushed you off him and stood up. "You're electromagnetic?" he asked. "I can do a lot more" you said. You were too focused on Barnes to realized Peter and Sam have been making a mess. They blew a whole though the building. "Mr. Stark is definitely not taking us anywhere ever again." you thought. Peter then webbed up Sam's suit, grabbed him and slammed him into Bucky that was standing a couple feet in front of you.   "You were taking way to long" Peter said. "Well I didn't want to hurt anybody" you stated as the both of you walking towards the big hole in the side of the building.

Peter started talking to Sam and Barnes, who were on the floor below all webbed up. Sam used one of his drones to pull Peter out one of the wholes they blew on the side of the building. 

You leaned over to see Sam and Barnes on the floor below you. You made eye contact with Barnes and smirked at him before heading out to see if Peter was okay. 

You went outside to see that Peter had webbed up the drone that took him away. You both saw everyone gathering again. 

“Hold on” Peter said you. With one hand he slinged a web around yours and with the other he slinged and swung you both back into the middle of the fight. Peter let go of you and you landed right next to Rhodes. 

Captain America started running towards. It’s gonna be a full on fight now. You followed Ironman’s lead and started running towards them. You started fighting, using your plasma cannons, trying to slow them down. 

All of a sudden a 60 ft man appeared and grabbed Rhodes.

“We’re fucked” you said out loud. 

“Language” you heard Tony say through the comms. 

Peter managed to Ant-man down with a move he learned from Star Wars. Peter was thrown and you ran over to see if he was okay. Tony had the same idea.

“You two are done, stay down.” He said to both of you. 

You sat on the floor next to Peter and asked if he was okay. You and Peter see a jet take off followed by Tony and Rhodes. 

You then see Vision shoot a beam into the air. You looked up into the air and see that it hit someone and that someone was now hurtling to the earth. 

“Oh my god” you said standing up. “Pull up. PULL UP’’

Peter noticed the panic in your voice, he turned to look, but Rhodes had already hit the ground.

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You were sitting next to Rhodes’s hospital bed reading when he awoke. 

“Tony went after Steve and Bucky” you told him. 

He groaned and tried to sit up. 

“I’m really sorry” you said. 

“No, no” he responded, “It was not your fault, it was this stupid fight, all for nothing. They still got away”

“ It was a stupid fight” you said, showing what you were reading to Rhodes. It was a copy of the Sokovia accords. 

“I know I’m not always correct, but I’m pretty damn smart. And I know it wouldn’t have worked. Maybe for you or Tony, or for those of you who are still human. People...people don’t look at us like were human anymore. They’re scared of us. And that isn’t a good enough reason to have political rule over us. In reality, we are much more human than they will ever be. We have to make the decision of what is right and what is wrong. I get it. We play god, right? Who deserves our help and who doesn’t. But why should they get to decide? Those people, do not own me or my powers. Do you think the Sokovia accords is going to stop someone who creates evil? Mass destruction on a unprecedented scale? New York was child’s play. You, above all, should know we are not alone in this universe. And the Sokovia accords will not protect anyone he comes. And when, not if, when he comes, you’re gonna wish you never signed them” 

You stood up.

“I’m really glad you’re alive.... and Mr. Stark can keep his money” you sighed and left the room without another word. 

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A Shot In The Dark: Chapter 1: Every Hero Needs a Backstory-Part 2

You woke up in a hospital bed, you had abrasions on your face and arms, and two different IVs connected to you.

Your dad was sitting on the chair next to the bed. He saw you stir and quickly ran to yell for a doctor.

A doctor and a nurse walked in.  

"What happened?" you asked groggily

"There was an explosion in your lab. You're lucky to be alive, we had to operate on you, a large piece of shrapnel hit your abdomen, narrowly missing your vital organs. You have a scar there unfortunately."

"Where's Collin" you asked

"They found him shielding you, I'm sorry to tell you that he didn't make it" the Doctor responded.

You burst out into tears. Your father hugged you and comforted the best he could. 

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Julie came to see you later that day.

"Julie, I'm so sorry" you said, bursting in to tears.

Julie had light brown her, she has a soft demeanor, which makes her perfect for being a preschool teacher.

"They told me he died protecting you. That he's a hero." she cried.

"We will be having a service next Saturday" she said as she wiped a tear away and left without another word.

She had a hand on her belly the entire time, she was about 6 months pregnant. She couldn’t even look at you. You didn’t know why she invited you to Collin's funeral

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The following morning, you received a visit from your graduate professor and a member of the student safety committee.

"Miss Vasquez, we're suspending your project until we've inspected it. Can you explain what happened?” the man asked.

"It was working fine. It was the power. If the power didn't go out, the faraday cage wouldn’t have failed. It probably all got ruined anyways, but ill send all my stuff, all my writings and research I’ve done so far” you told your professor. 

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You were discharged from the hospital the following morning. You went back home instead of your dorm. You kept asking yourself what you could have done or if the project was actually safe. You felt guilty. Guilty that you let your best friend die.

You spent about a week in bed. Your dad tried everything to get you up. He even called your children hood best friend to come over. Jess. You’ve known Jess since birth. Your fathers have been friends since childhood. The two of you got a little distant when you started doing Calculus in elementary school, but she was always there for you whenever you went home. She brought you chocolate ice cream and sci-fi movies, she hated them but knew they were your favorite. 

That same day you received a call from your professor, they did an extensive inspection and found no faults. He was actually impressed that it works and told you that you can return to continue your work when you are ready.

When you hung up, you felt slightly better. The least you can do is finish your project and put Collin's name on. You had to do more research though. Even though it was the power that failed last time, you weren't taking any chances. 

You sat up on your bed, grabbed your laptop and searched up Bruce Banner. The first couple of searches, came up with the basic papers you already read. The others just showed the Hulk. You came up across a forum, that discussed a secret government department that was in charge of handling things  like the Hulk and Iron Man.

S.H. I. E. L. D.

"Maybe, there was more information about Dr. Banner in their files." you thought. "How hard can it be?" 

You found a loophole around their firewall and gained access to their mainframe.

There wasn't anything useful for your research. Nothing about gamma radiation.

You did come across some interesting files.

Bruce Banner/ The Hulk

Tony Stark/ Ironman

Steve Rogers/ Captain America

Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff

Hawkeye/ Clint Barton

Thor

Loki, Vision, Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver, Black Panther, Spider-man, Steven Strange, Carol Danvers ,Ant-Man, The Wasp, Falcon;

The list go on and on.

You gave up, closed your laptop and fell asleep.

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The following morning, and for the first time in a week you showered and got dressed. After all, It was Collin's funeral later that day. Your wavy black hair was pushed it back with bobby pins. You put on a black dress that had buttons all way down on the front.

The funeral was grim as expected, there was dinner after the church service, but decided not to go, the guilt of seeing Collin's pregnant wife would eat you alive. 

When you got home, you were emotionally exhausted from the day and went straight to bed.

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"Here goes nothing" you said flipping a switch on your control panel.

" It's working!" you screamed.

You looked at Collin and him back onto your machine.

The power went out.

"No" you screamed as you tried flicking all the control panel.

There were electric sparks coming from the machine.

"Turn it off" Collin yelled.

"There's no power." you responded.

The emergency generator turned back on, the surge of power caused the cylinder containing the gas to break open. A flash of pink spewed onto you and Collin. The break caused the machinery to become unstable and caused the cage to fail. Collin realized this a flung forward to unplug the machine, but he was too late. You both realized it was going to blow. The last thing you remember is Collin standing over you protecting you from the blast.

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You woke up in a panic and sweating. It was dark, you stood up and headed to the bathroom and placed you hand on the sink and looked into the mirror in front of you. You eyes were glowing pink, you looked down at your hand and they were also emitting, a pink color.

"What in the hell" you said out loud.

You closed your eyes and made yourself calm down. When you opened your eyes again, everything was back to normal. Must have been dreaming. 

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2 years later…………

You were sitting in your lab making the last edits to you thesis paper, when someone walked in.

"You can't be in here"  you yelled without looking up.

"I'm looking for Liz Vasquez" you heard a man say.

You looked up and saw none other than Tony Stark.

"You're Tony Stark" you said shocked. "What are you doing here"

"I've been hearing rumors of flying pink lady hanging around Los Angeles" He said.

You close your laptop.

"I've read your file, Stanford at 16, Cal-tech at 20. Masters in Quantum Physics and Biochemistry. Figure out where you're going after you graduate?"

"Here, for my PHD program" you stuttered

"At 22? Move to New York. Transfer and I'll fund your entire PHD project. And you can have your own lab at Stark Industries.

"WHAT? What's the catch" you asked suspiciously.

"I need your pink lady to help me out in a family dispute" he said

"Ampere, and just so you know, I don’t fly." you said.

"So what do you do?"

"I create plasma platforms. I can shoot plasma from my hands. I can create anything. Structures, weapons. I create what I want and manipulate them with electromagnetic energy.” 

You make your hands glow and create a small pink solid platform in front of you. And just as you conjured it, it disappeared.

"So are you in?" he asked.

"I'll need a suit. "

[ashotinthedark-avengers]

A Shot In The Dark: Chapter 1: Every Hero Needs A Backstory- Part 1

Bucky Barnes x Reader

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my character

Warnings: Death, Depression

A Shot In The Dark: Chapter 1: Every Hero Needs A Backstory- Part 1 

You decided to get some coffee before heading back to lab. You were currently doing some research on how radiation can affect plasma molding. You knew plasma can act either as a gas or a solid molecularly at the same time. You were doing research on how you could instantaneously shift from plasma to solid back to plasma. Plasma is made up of charged particles that relies on electrostatic interactions making them able to conduct electricity and magnetic fields. When energy or electricity is passing through them, the particles in an atom move faster and collide with each other. Unfortunately, plasma atoms do not collide with each other fast enough- that would be a solid. So what if there was a way to run enough energy through the plasma that can change it. This is what you were researching.

Some gases, with enough energy, produce plasma. So with even more energy, they should produce a solid right?

That’s where the radiation come in. A flash of a wave of radiation can produce an immense amount of heat and energy.On the electromagnetic radiation spectrum gamma radiation then cosmic radiation gives the most photon energy per frequency of wave.

There's no way you were able to get cosmic radiation, so gamma radiation was second best. There was one person who knew gamma radiation better than anyone else: Bruce Banner. And you were reading everything he wrote, all his papers, his dissertations and books.  Everything. After all your thesis depended on it.

Your name is Lizbeth Vasquez, or just Liz or just Beth, But only certain people called you Beth, your mother was one, and when she passed you just preferred Liz, it felt less personal. You were 20, a little young to be in a graduate program and your birthday had just passed. You went to Stanford at age 16, graduated with your Bachelors in Science in Physics and in Biochemistry, just this last spring.

Now you were at at Cal Tech working on your Masters and PHD in Quantum Physics and Biochemistry. Masters will take you 2 years and PHD will take you another 8. So yeah, you'll be in school for another 10 years, but you made a bet with Collin, your best friend in the mathematics and physics program, that you'd do it in 5.

You returned to your lab with coffee in hand. You already had the machinery set up to produce gamma radiation and the gas required to flow into it. You already tested it at a smaller scale. Neon lighting, you run electricity through a tube containing a gas, that gas turns to plasma and a "neon light" is emitted.

Different gases, display different colors. You chose pink.

But you wanted to be sure you read everything before you started experimenting with gamma radiation. After all, Bruce Banner did become the Hulk due to an experiment gone wrong.

When you returned to your lab, Collin was already in there eating leftover takeout. Collin is tall, lanky and redheaded. He was about 5 years older than you, but you enjoyed each others company.  He was married to a preschool teacher, which suited him. He always treated you like a little sister. He started out as your peer advisor when you first started, but he enjoys your witty remarks, so he stuck around. 

"So what's your thesis on again "  taking a bite of left over noodles.

"I already told you, Quantum mechanics; manipulation of particles with radiation." you said taking a sip of your coffee. "and your name is going on the paper as well" 

"What? I didn’t do anything" he said

"Well as my peer advisor, you advise me." you joked.

"So when are you going to fire up that thing" he said pointing at the metal contraption sitting in the middle of your lab.

" Not yet. I need to due more research. I'm reading all of Dr. Banner's work first." you answered

"How does It work?"

"So the radiation will come through there" you said pointing at a metal tube near the ceiling, " thought the cylinder with gas, hopefully proving my theory correct. And then surround it, is a Faraday cage, but like a backwards one, keeping everything in. " 

Just as you were finishing up explaining your machine, the power went out.

"What the hell?" you groaned.

"Rolling blackouts" Collin said as the backup generator turned back on.

"It's 11am" you argued

"In LA in the Summer, it's already 97 degrees outside, past 100 in some areas."

"But like, global warming isn't real tho" you joked.

Collin laughed, "What are you doing tomorrow?" he asked

"Well If I get through this research, I was thinking of firing this thing up" you said.

"My Thesis presentation is tomorrow at 5pm, please come, and please dress nicely, you know, business casual." he insisted.

"I'm offended" you joked, he wasn’t wrong, your wardrobe mainly consisted of leggings and an oversized Cal-Tech sweater.

"Well I've got class. See you tomorrow" he said as he left. 

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"You clean up well" Collin said

Your long black wavy hair was straightened and pulled back with headband. You had a blue button up shirt tucked into a black pencil skirt. Honestly, this is what you would wear anyways if you'd actually took off those leggings.

"Except the shoes" he continued looking down at your black Keds.

"You know I don’t own any heel" you whispered.

"Good luck" you smiled and took a seat in the seminar class.

Collin moved towards the front of the class and waiting for people to show up before starting his presentation. You could tell he was nervous, he was after all presenting in front of multiple professors. If approved, he'd finish up his project and graduate in the spring.

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"When do you find out?" you asked Collin as you two are walking back to your lab

"Sometime next week" he said.

"You didn't Invite Julie?" you added.

"No, she makes me nervous, and she doesn't understand any of it and she's pregnant." he replied.

Your lab is located in the basement of an older building, concrete walls and floors. You get to your lab and start turning on everything. Checking the power supply. Checking everything is connected properly.

You fill up the cylinder with gas and walk over to your control panel.  Collin is standing next to you.

"Well,, here goes nothing" you said flipping a switch on your control panel.

"Radiation levels are contained. It seems to be working" you squealed.

Collin patted you on the back. You turned to look and him and back to your machine.

That’s when the power went out.

[ashotinthedark-avengers]

Disclaimer:

This is a Bucky Barnes x Reader story. 

I do not own any of the characters or storylines.

My character is inspired by several different characters any likeness or name similarity is not intended.