𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 – GAVI
warnings. p in v sex, public s3x (there’s no one around), jealous!gavi, & an annoying teammate
summary. academic rival!gavi makes sure you only have room for one nerd in your life
a/n. part two of comfort zone. tysm for the idea @gavisuntiedboot 🫶🏽
the sound of your professor’s voice filled the room as he explained your next assignment. you simultaneously put away your notes and listened carefully as this next project would be worth twenty percent of your grade. you were already laying out the details of your work as the professor continued to describe the assignment.
“there is one twist to this project. you’ll be working with a partner.” his words made you freeze. “and before you ask yes i will be choosing your partner for you.”
the room was filled with groans at his last comment, many of your classmates upset that they wouldn’t be working with their friends. meanwhile your eyes searched the room until they locked with a certain brunette. gavi had been looking forward to asking you to be his partner and now he was simply hoping the professor had decided to put you two together.
“mrs. y/l/n and mr. moretti you’ll be working together.” your professor says as he crushes gavi’s hopes and dreams.
franco moretti had arrived last semester from turin when his father took over as head of the marketing department for sevilla fc. he was also the teammate gavi despised the most due to them playing in the same position and because he would always insult him in words he didn’t understand. you scan the room to search for the argentine spotting him all the way at the end of the room looking at something else on his laptop. you sigh in frustration wondering if this project would be the reason your grade goes down.
as soon as class ends you make your way towards the blonde hoping to introduce yourself and get the project over with. he instantly notices you offering you one of his flirty smirks.
“bueno…” he starts. “we’re partners right?”
“uh, yeah. i just came to introduce myself-”
“i know who you are.” he interrupts you. “well i only know you’re like the smartest kid in our class.”
“i wouldn’t say that.” your cheeks heat up at his words.
“no need to be humble. your face along with his-” he points towards gavi. “is plastered all over the school. i’ve got to say i am very impressed by how you manage to do sports and somehow maintain your grades so high at the same time. but you probably just want to talk about our project.”
“uhm, thank you?” you can’t help but laugh at the interaction. “oh, yeah. i just wanted to ask if you have any certain topics you want to make our project about?”
“well i’ve got to get to practice in like five minutes or else coach will make me run five miles around the whole school. do you maybe want to meet up at the library later to discuss it? say around four?” he says as he packs up this things.
“yeah, that’s fine. i’ll see you there.” you smile awkwardly not sure if you should look forward to seeing him later or not.
you stay behind a couple of minutes going over some of your notes with the professor making sure you got everything right. you couldn’t afford to risk your spot in the rankings for a small error. grabbing your stuff you make way towards the library hoping to get some free time to study for your next psych exam before meeting up with franco. although, you don’t expect to find gavi waiting for you outside the door.
“he totally thinks you’re hot.” he simply blurts out.
“nice to see you too pablo.” you say sarcastically. “why are you blessing me with your presence today?”
“i bless you with my presence everyday.” he says as he begins following you to wherever it is you’re going. “so, you and franco…”
“me and franco aren’t even friends if that’s what you’re wondering.” you roll your eyes. “why do you even hate him so much?”
“i don’t hate him.” you simply stare at him. “okay maybe i do just a little but it’s reasonable.”
“you hate him because his dad works for sevilla and he’s slowly climbing up through the rankings. i’m not sure i would call that reasonable.” you say as you open the doors to the library. you’re grateful there’s barely anyone in there, you don’t enjoy being around large groups.
“whatever.” he huffs. “do you think he’s cute?”
you pause in your tracks turning towards gavi. the top button of his dress shirt unbuttoned and his red tie on the verge of coming loose. he looked quite good and a part of you just wanted to go home already.
“are you jealous pablito?” you tease him.
“me? jealous of a benchwarmer? please. not only am i better than him athletically but also academically. there’s no reason for me to be jealous.” he scoffs at the ridiculous idea.
“okay so you won’t have a problem with me studying with him later in here right? you totally didn’t follow me to the library just to make sure i didn’t find him attractive right?” you ask him as you press the button on the wall to get an elevator. you loved that each floor was dedicated to a different genre of books.
“why would i have a problem? i’m the only one making you cum anyways.” his words catch you off guard. you look around making sure no one else has heard him.
“pablo!” you hit his chest and you expect him to just laugh but he only stares at you. his eyes darker than before. he pulls you towards the end of the nonfiction section where there’s barely any light and a bunch of books that haven’t been read in years. how romantic.
“but maybe he’ll get lucky and you’ll spread your legs for him. give him a good view and everything.” he drags his hand to the middle of your legs opening up your legs.
you can feel his breath on your neck as he moves your hand from your thighs to your core teasing you. you completely forget where you are as he leaves love bites all over your neck. the pleasure intensifying as teases you by running his hands along your core but not getting them under your panties to touch you.
“and maybe he’ll hear those sinful noises you make as he drags his fingers along your folds.” you whine as pablo spreads your wetness around your folds with his fingers.
“but maybe you’ll be desperate to have him inside you to feel full again. so you’ll simply move these to the side.” he moves your panties to the side giving him full access to your dripping core. “and take him in you like the good girl you are.”
you help him undo his belt eager to have him fuck you already. his button down shirt losing some of its buttons in the process. the two of you so needy to finally come together like a puzzle to care about what happens next. he finally manages to pull out his hard aching dick out and he doesn’t waste another minute as he brings it to your needy hole.
“and then he’ll drag it along your folds teasing you even more. but after a couple of minutes he begins to insert himself until he fills you- oh fuck.” he groans as he enters you. “and your walls squeeze him as he pleasures you.”
“please pablo.” you beg him as one of your hands digs into his soft brown hair and the other into his shoulder at the feeling of his slow sensual thrusts.
“please what princess?” his voice sounds so out of breathe.
“faster please. fuck.” his length hits you in spots you didn’t know were possible. you can barely contain your moans and pablo simply hopes you get louder.
then you hear it the sound of the elevator doors opening for the end of the long hallway. you think you’re imagining it at first since pablo doesn’t notice it kissing you as he fucks you dumb. then you hear the loud footsteps and you panic they’re heading right towards the two of you.
“pablo. there’s someone here.” he can barely comprehend a word you’re saying as he watches how you take him so well. almost like your pussy was made just for him.
“pablo stop.” then he listens scared he crossed some boundaries and hurt you. he immediately steps away from you the two of you groaning at the loss of contact.
“fuck sorry. are you okay? did i-”
“no, you didn’t do anything wrong it’s okay. there’s someone here though. get dressed.” you say as you fix your hair and skirt.
meanwhile pablo isn’t so lucky and he can hardly button his pants when franco himself shows up. the argentine tries hardest to stop himself from laughing at his teammate but he barely can as he looks at pablo’s disheveled hair. although, you look perfectly fine so he tries to figure out why pablo looks so messy.
“bro you look like you got dressed in the dark what happened?” franco stifles a laugh.
“caught him getting frisky with one of the librarians.” you blurt out wanting to tease him.
“no way? but they’re all over thirty- oh don’t tell me you’re into milfs. kinky shit bro.” franco somehow believes your lie.
“fuck you.” gavi directs at you before being invaded by his teammate with more questions.
the next couple of minutes gavi tries his best to get his teammate to shut up and convince him that you were lying. that he simply had fallen asleep during class because he’d already studied the topic at home which was quite believable. the three of you chatted before gavi had to make his way towards the field to make up for missing practice earlier. although he spends all five miles grinning like a little shit because he’d be willing to run them all over again as long as it meant getting franco the furthest away from you. he was hoping you’d only have time for one academically gifted athlete.
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part xviii- the time heist
“am i supposed to be grateful to have survived this?” - brenna twohy
summary: five years after the snap, you still haven’t moved on. but when tony comes calling with a proposition, you aren’t so sure.
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warnings: cussing, violence, angst, reader has precisely 0 coping skills, events of the first half of endgame
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a/n: two more parts after this 🤭 anyway i’m so sorry @yourfavunsub because it WONT LET ME TAG U CRYIN FR but i do hope y’all enjoy this one. this series has been one of my favs so far and i’m still not sure where i wanna go after this. but love y’all have a nice day 🫶
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After killing Thanos, you run.
You take everything from your rooms in the compound and take off one day after leaving a note to tell the team how to reach you in an emergency.
They respect your decision, especially after hearing you wake up screaming every night.
With nowhere else to go, you head to an old HYDRA safe house. It’s abandoned, obviously, but it has everything you need.
You clean the place up, fix the paint and repair damaged wood. You plant a large garden and buy a few chickens to take care of. You work for two weeks straight.
In the end, the cabin is comfortable. Homey and small but a great place to hide from everything going on. A way to keep running but stay in one place.
The small Romanian town grows used to your presence, and after a few months of living nearby, they don’t even ask about your past when you come to market to trade. They saw the look in your eyes when they asked about Captain America and the Winter Soldier.
You tend your garden that grows every week, in part thanks to your powers that seem to affect the area. You can’t control it, but your crops and flowers grow faster and healthier. In just a year you have a fully-grown plum tree in your walled-off yard.
And the years keep going by.
You celebrate Steve and Bucky’s birthdays every time they roll around, mainly by heading back to Brooklyn for a week and visiting the museum. Your museum.
Despite how often you go, you find that you’re never able to look their pictures in the eye.
All you see is your boys disappearing from your grip.
It’s all you can see when you go to bed.
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“Come, come on Margaret.”
You gather the unusually small chicken into your arms, smoothing her feathers as she clucks in greeting. The birds like you a lot. You suspect it’s the wings.
“It’s about time I fix that fence, isn’t it? If you keep getting out.”
Margaret shuffles indignantly in your arms, bawking as you let her back in the fenced-in chicken coop.
They’re a bit spoiled, you have to admit. All eight hens shared a large coop, with heaters and lights, and hay you change out every week. You let them out every morning and bring them in every evening.
With a light sigh, you start fixing the fence. Enhanced strength makes it easy work as you push the post into the ground, tuck the chicken wire back down, and make sure there are no more holes.
Shaking the dirt from your skirt and wings, you rise and head to the front of your home. As you clean your feathers, your hands pass over the small charms still on them. The ones from Wakanda. From a happier time.
The stone walls surrounding your property have one entrance at a large metal gate, which is currently wide open.
Usually, you keep it open during the day, lest a villager needs a cut healed or extra food. But it’s late now, and you’re ready to head in for the night.
But just as you head to the gate, you see a car. Furrowing your brows, you call out.
“Buna ziua. Te pot ajuta cu ceva? [Hello. Can I help you with anything?]” When no one steps out of the car, you continue. “Am prune în plus [I have extra plums].”
“Come on, (Y/N). Of all the languages I do speak, you know Romanian isn’t one of them.”
A voice comes from behind you and you whip around, firing off a blast of light that the group of three dodges.
Natasha, Tony… and Scott.
Scott was dusted. Five years ago.
You storm up to them, eyes watering.
“What are you doing here? What’s going on?” you ask.
Natasha takes your hand in hers, smiling.
“We might be able to bring them back.”
Your lips purse and you take your hand back, starting to shake. Entertaining such a hopeful idea is dangerous, you’ve learned.
Every night, you dream of your boys. And every time you wake up, you hope that it all was a nightmare and you’ll wake up in their arms.
You never do.
“Don’t tell me that unless you’re sure,” you say, brushing past them and heading towards your house.
They follow you, unsure if this is an invitation or a dismissal.
When you open the door and sigh, they know it’s the former.
“It’s a nice place,” Tony comments mildly. You offer a small smile, stepping into your kitchen. You open a cabinet and grab a tin of tea, the same kind you’d buy in the 40s, and put a kettle on.
You take three cups out, setting them at the dining room table that only has three chairs. Most things here are in threes.
As you hesitate to set the cups down, Natasha speaks up again. Slowly, carefully, as though you’ll run at the wrong word.
“Will you at least hear us out?”
To her credit, you don’t run. You start crying.
Scott and Tony share a look of “Oh, shit,” as the lights start flickering.
“What is there to hear?” you ask, laughing ruefully. “Unless you’re sure, I don’t want to hear anything about it.”
Whistling from the stove catches your attention, and you hurry over to grab the kettle. Like usual, you forget to grab a glove. Your hand meets searing metal and you hiss, cursing your bad habit.
“Are you okay?” Scott asks, standing up quickly.
You nod, eyes watering even more. It’s not from the quickly-healing burn, though. “Yeah,” you sob out. “Yeah, I’m fine.”
Leaning on the counter, you take a few breaths. You grab the kettle again and fill all three teacups, dropping in the tea bags and some sugar.
“(Y/N), give us a shot.” Tony takes the cup. “That’s all we’ve got, and you’ve taken chances against worse odds before.”
You don’t dare look at the pictures on the wall.
“These two managed to rope me in, and we need your help. You ran off with Cap to save Barnes, so-“
“That’s before I watched both of them die.” You gently hit the table. “Twice.”
“And we might be able to bring them back a second time,” Natasha adds. “Please?”
A third chance. You’ve seen second chances, but never third. Never. And for you, you rarely got the former.
But here one was.
“Okay. Okay,” you say eventually. They all breathe a sigh of relief.
“Just… find someone to watch the chickens.”
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“I see we’ve both been taking it hard.”
You sit next to Thor on a bench. Everyone else is working on a large platform, but you’ve done your part. The years clearly haven’t been kind to him either. He’s at least 100 pounds heavier and reeks of alcohol.
He shrugs, sipping a beer. “Well, I didn’t have anyone left, so…” He raises the can. “To them.”
You awkwardly form a misshapen can from light and tap it to his.
“To them.”
“Hey Point Break, Lucifer! One of you care to lend a bit of that super-strength?” Tony shouts. You sigh, hoisting a large box of metal supplies in one arm. Tossing it at Tony’s feet, you gesture to the invention.
“So this can do it?”
The genius proudly slaps a metal leg. “Yep. Time travel made simple.” You glance at the complex wiring and countless panels. Sure, simple.
———————————————————————
You watch as Bruce, now half-Hulk half man, Nebula, and Scott test one suit. Apparently, there are risks with time travel. Interdimensional warping, quantum entanglement, String Theory, blah, blah, blah.
You’ve tuned them out by the time Rhodey walks in.
“Time travel suit, not bad,” he comments. As Bruce tries to insert a vial into the suit, Scott snaps.
“Hey, easy, easy!”
“I’m being very careful,” the scientist insists.
The two go back and forth before Scott momentarily disappears. He comes back, sighing heavily.
“There goes the first test run,” you say. When Scott tries to hype himself up to no avail, you pipe up.
“Let me go. Got nothing to lose, right?”
They have you suited up in minutes. The suit, which is nanotech, materializes with a simple tap on the watch, molding around your wings to fit you perfectly.
“(Y/N), now you’re gonna feel a little discombobulated from the chronoshift. Don’t worry about that.” You nod as Nebula types away on a screen.
“Wait, wait, wait a second. Let me ask you something,” Rhodey cuts in. “If we can do this, you know… go back in time, why don’t we just find baby Thanos? You know, and…” He pantomimes strangulation.
“First of all, that’s horrible,” Bruce says at the same time you say, “Honestly, it’s not a bad idea.”
The scientist blinks in confusion before pressing on. “And secondly, time doesn’t work that way. Changing the past doesn’t change the future.”
You groan as they argue and eventually begin listing movies.
“Boys, as much as I love this little debate, can we get going?” They oblige your request, and head to the main room. The platform stands, ominous and waiting.
“Are you sure about this?” Natasha asks. You nod, smiling.
“I just wanna see them, even just for a second.”
She won’t say it, but she thinks it’s a bad idea for you to go. To see your past selves, before all the trauma. But you’re set on going.
You step onto the machine, flexing your fingers as you watch Bruce press various buttons.
“All right, (Y/N). We’re going in three, two, one…”
It’s like the ground opens up beneath you as you dive in, passing through some dimension in milliseconds before you pop back to normal.
You shout a bit, quickly stifling the sound.
You’re in your old apartment. The radio crackles with familiar music, and your bow sits by the door.
Wandering the small rooms, you finally come to your old closet. When you open it and find the box you’re looking for, you smile and pocket it. Past you forgot it even existed, so it wasn’t like you’d miss it.
The door handle clicking makes you jump, quickly closing the door.
Three voices wander in.
“You need to stop spending all this money, or Stevie’s not gonna have any when we ship out.” Your own voice sounds weird to your ears. Not just in the normal way, but because of how light it is.
The next voices knock the breath from your lungs.
“Hey, it was worth it. I got you that bear,” Bucky retorts. You lift a hand to cover your mouth as you sob.
“Three bucks, though? And you’re supposed to be a sniper?” Steve’s voice is wheezy, thin, and breathless.
“There’s a big difference between throwing a ball in a ring and shooting someone,” the brunet grumbles.
The three of you dissolve into bickering, and all the while you sit in a cramped closet. You haven’t heard their voices in so long. So long.
Maybe you can open the door and warn them. Where to avoid, what to do. How to live a normal life.
The moment you reach towards the door, the watch starts beeping.
“No, no,” you whisper, trying to quiet while frantically fumbling with the doorknob. “Please!”
And you’re back.
You’re kneeling on the platform again, teary-eyed for the umpteenth time and more determined than ever.
The team runs up, and Natasha gently helps you stand up.
“Hey, hey look at me. You okay?”
You catch your breath, reaching into your pocket. “Yeah, yeah, it worked.” You present the small box, clutching it tightly in your hands.
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“Okay, so the ‘how’ works. Now, we gotta figure out the ‘when’ and ‘where’,” you say, standing at the front of a meeting room. Various screens show the various stones, and the gathered team is grasping at any ideas.
“Almost everyone in this room has had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones-”
Tony cuts you off. “Or substitute the word ‘encounter’ with ‘damn near been killed’ by one of the six Infinity Stones. You nod. Two out of three times you’d come into close contact with one, it had almost killed you.
Scott shrugs. “I haven’t. But I don’t even know what the hell you’re all talking about.”
Bruce steps around the table. “Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round-trip each. And these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history.”
“Our history,” Tony clarifies. “So not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in, yeah?”
You tap a screen, watching as all six flicker to life with images of each stone. “Which means we have to pick our targets.”
“Correct.”
“So, let’s start with the Aether. Thor, what do you know?” When you mention him, you look up to see the god slumped in a chair.
“Is he asleep?” Nat asks.
Rhodey replies, monotone and unbothered as ever. “No, no. I’m pretty sure he’s dead.”
You manage to shake him awake, guiding him to the front of the room and sitting on a nearby stool.
The god coughs a few times, tugging off his sunglasses. “Uh, where to start? Umm… The Aether, firstly, is not a stone. Someone called it a stone before. Um, it’s more of an angry sludge sort of a thing… so someone’s gonna need to amend that and stop saying that.” You massage in between your eyebrows, waiting for him to continue.
Thor puts in a few eye drops as he speaks again. “Here’s an interesting story though, about the Aether. My grandfather, many years ago, had to hide the stone from the Dark Elves. Ooh. Scary beings.” He makes vague sounds, frightening precisely no one.
“So, Jane, actually-“ He pokes at the screen. “Oh, there she is. Yeah, so Jane was an old flame of mine. You know, she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time, and then the Aether stuck itself inside her…”
You cough to hide a chuckle.
“…and she became very, very sick. And so I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I’m from, and we had to try and fix her.” When you look around the room, Scott, bless him, is the only one paying real attention. You’re pretty sure Clint is asleep with his eyes open.
This doesn’t deter Thor, though. “We were dating at the time, you see, and I got to introduce her to my mother… who’s dead and, um… Oh, you know, Jane and I aren’t even dating anymore, so…” He sniffles a bit, voice growing heavy.
“Yes, these things happen, though. You know? Nothing lasts forever. The only thing that-“
You gesture for Tony to bring his little soliloquy to an end, and the billionaire reluctantly tries to bring the god to a chair. “Why don’t you come sit down?”
Thor brushes him away. “I’m not done yet. The only thing that is permanent in life is impermanence.”
“Awesome. Eggs? Breakfast?” Tony asks. You awkwardly clap a few times.
“No. I’d like a Bloody Mary.”
For the rest of that day and much of the next, you all discuss the rest of the Stones. Where they came from, what their powers are, and everything any of you know about them. And after hours of brainstorming, the plan is all laid out.
Reality is on Asgard in 2013, a mission given to Thor and Rocket. Natasha, Clint, Nebula, and Rhodey will be taking Power and Soul, all in space in 2014. Space, Mind, and Time are all in New York in 2012. And you’re going there alongside Tony, Bruce, and Scott.
“I don’t see how I’ll be much help. These-” You gesture to your wings. “-aren’t very subtle.”
Tony pats your shoulder. “Just c’mon, kid. We could always use the extra hands- or wings.”
“I’m 105, Stark. I’m no kid.”
“You’ve lived less than half of those years. You’re a kid,” he rebuffs. The two of you exchange a smile before he claps his hands.
“Alright, we’ve got a plan. Six stones, three teams, one shot.” He takes one last glance at the screens. “Let’s break some eggs.”
———————————————————————
New York City, 2012.
“All right, we all know our assignments,” you say, still catching your breath from the jump. “Bruce, get to the doctor. Get the Time Stone.” He rushes off, hurriedly jumping between buildings to stay out of sight. You turn back to Scott and Tony. “You two, get the Space and Mind Stones. I’ll get the Mind Stone once it’s in the elevator, but from there, I’ll only be backup if you get stuck.”
You fly up alongside Tony as Scott shrinks down atop his shoulder, ducking out of view as you spot the team. You can spot Steve, but you tear your eyes away, dropping down in search of the elevator.
Once you find it, you land on a ledge, taking a moment as you wait for the right moment.
“Oh, man. I almost forgot that Cap’s suit did nothing for his ass. I’m almost jealous, (L/N),” Tony whispers over comms. “That’s a slappable ass.”
“Tony!” you snap. “No one asked you to look.”
“But it is slappable, isn’t it?”
You sigh, deep and long-suffering. “Yes.”
“I think it’s great,” Scott pipes up. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s America’s ass.”
The elevator beeps, and you get ready to ruin a few HYDRA agents’ days.
“Who are these guys?” Scott asks.
Tony starts to explain, not quite minding his volume. “They are SHIELD, well, actually HYDRA, but we didn’t know that yet.”
“Seriously? You didn’t? I mean, they look like bad guys.”
“Yeah,” you shout over the wind. “It’s even more obvious when they’re brainwashing you monthly and prodding you with needles.”
After a bit of shuffling, you see Tony leap from the tower. “It’s all yours now, (Y/N),” he yells. You mock salute, diving off your ledge and watching as the HYDRA agents load into the elevator. You’re going to enjoy this.
As soon as the door closes, you blast a hole in the glass from the outside.
You hear the screams as you barrel in, immediately smashing the emergency call button to bits. No communication.
Fire beams of light as quickly as possible, letting them bounce off the walls in deadly ricochets. Once you take out all but one, you stop.
Brock Rumlow smirks and opens his mouth.
“Свет [Light],” he begins, confidence growing. You watch patiently as he lists off your trigger words, and he finally comes to the end. “Я готов отвечать [Ready to comply]?”
You tilt your head and smile. “I don’t work like that anymore, asshole.”
Grabbing him by the tactical vest, you throw him against the wall, landing a powerful kick to the center of his chest before you start throwing punches. It’s satisfying, watching the man who caused you so much pain actually fear you for once.
You leave him, barely breathing, and pick up the case containing the scepter before starting the elevator and leaping from the shattered glass. You land on a stairwell inside the Tower, hoping to meet up with the other two. Instead, you’re met with one of your best friends.
And he can’t quite believe it.
“Hey, Stevie.”
Instead of the greeting you’re hoping for, the Captain grabs you by the collar.
“Who are you? What’s going on?”
You furrow your brows. “Steve, it’s me. Bucky and I are alive.” When he doesn't let up, you roll your eyes, still adjusting to seeing him after five years. “Stubborn as always, hm? How about I tell you something only I would know?”
He doesn’t respond.
“For example, you wet the bed until you were 7, and one night after you lost a tooth and put it under the pillow you did it again-”
The captain cuts you off, teary-eyed but still mortified. “(Y/N)? Oh my god, it’s you. How did you get wings?”
You barrel on. “-and in the morning you were too embarrassed to admit you’d pissed yourself-”
“Okay, I get it, really-”
“-so you told Buck and me that the tooth fairy did it,” you finish. He pulls you into a hug and you practically melt as he rests a hand on your head.
“Now, I’m from the future, and I really need this scepter, but me and Buck are alive, you’ve just gotta find us.” He never pulls away, just letting you lean into him.
“How am I supposed to find you?”
You sigh. “It’ll all work out in the end. I promise.” You feel him nod into your shoulder.
“I missed you,” he says.
You gently pull away, taking his hand. “I missed you, too.”
“We’ve got a problem, (L/N,” Tony gasps over comms. “Head back to the rendezvous point.”
The blond captain casts his gaze to the ground and purses his lips a bit. A shy tell.
“Guess that’s the future calling?” he jokes. You laugh before your gaze turns a bit sad again. Steve decides he doesn’t like how sad you look however far in the future.
“I love you so much, Steve. Take care.” If the words shock him, he doesn’t give it away.
You give past-Steve one last smile before turning on your heel and heading back to the elevator, prying open the doors, and diving out of the building.
When you land beside your meeting point, all you can do is wait. And when Tony and Scott walk out looking more than discouraged, your hopes sink in your chest.
In between their bickering, they manage to explain. They lost the Tesseract. And there’s no do-overs. You curse, before thinking.
There was a point in time when you were sent on a mission to retrieve Pym Particles. There was also a time when HYDRA was in possession of the Tesseract. But that means…
“I might have an idea. I don’t like it, hate it, actually, but I think it may be our only option,” you finally admit. “There’s a couple of months when HYDRA had both Pym Particles and the Tesseract.”
Scott tries to stand up before hitting his head on the roof of the car they’ve sat down in.
“Wait, HYDRA as in ‘HYDRA’ HYDRA?” he asks.
You furrow your brows. “What does even- You know what? Yes. HYDRA HYDRA.”
“So when was this?” Tony pulls up a screen.
You think about it. You know the time period, but it’ll be easier if there’s less guards around. So what date…
“March 1983. Siberia,” you decide. The peak of the Cold War meant HYDRA was sending out soldiers left and right. Better odds.
Tony nods. “Any particular day?”
“The 10th.”
Scott gets out of the car, much more carefully this time, and holds up his hands.
“So we’re going into HYDRA? No offense, but I don’t want to have to fight past-you or past-Barnes. Or the two of you together,” he says. You smile.
“None taken. But-“ You shove the scepter into his hands. “You’re not going. You’re going to get this back to the compound, okay?”
You see Scott breathe a sigh of relief before quickly hiding it. A few taps to the watch later, he’s gone.
“You sure about this?” Tony asks.
You shake out your hands, getting ready for another disorienting jump to a much more sinister place.
“Yeah, yeah. It’s all good. In and out and we’ll be cooking with gas.”
The genius snorts. “Was that some 40s slang that I just heard, (L/N)?”
You roll your eyes, simply setting the date and coordinates in.
“Do you trust me?” you ask.
“I do.”
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HYDRA Base, Siberia 1983.
You almost forgot just how unforgiving the cold gets here.
The wind buffets your body as you and Tony spark into existence, fighting your way to the base. You let him shoot down the man guarding the door before you step over the body. Muttering under your breath, you punch in the code before slipping inside.
Just as you predicted, there aren’t many people prowling around. A few guards that you slip past or shoot down before they even know you’re there, but nothing you can’t handle. Plus, it’s not like you have to worry about an escape route, You can head back to the present as soon as you get the particles.
“They’re in there,” you whisper to Tony, pointing to a nearby lab. “Furthest freezer on the left, third shelf from the bottom. Code is 3395” You silently thank your usually-detested memory as he slips off, politely nodding to one doctor inside the lab before blasting him into the wall.
As he has his fun, you head further into the building, pressing down the nausea that comes with every familiar corridor.
You remind yourself that you’re doing this for the world, for your boys. You can handle a few minutes in this building.
Finally, you reach a locked door. Another code you remember too well.
In the center of the dull room lies a sealed safe. You raise your hand, focusing light to your fingertips before grabbing the lock. It melts in seconds, and you yank the door away.
Shielding your eyes, you reach out for the glowing cube when you hear a voice behind you.
“Что ты делаешь [What are you doing]?”
You bite the inside of your cheek. “Привет, Зима [Hi, Winter].”
When you force yourself to turn around, you see him. Not quite your Bucky, but not quite the Soldier either. His hair is shorter, but he’s got that same look in his eyes. Still holding the cube in your hand, you step closer.
He reiterates his question, but you don’t answer, instead opting to take his hand.
“It’s going to be okay,” you whisper. “You’re going to get out, and you’re going to be free. Just a little bit more of this, James, I promise.”
He tilts his head, but he doesn’t reach for his guns or knives. You don’t want him to get punished for not dealing with an intruder.
“What?” he whispers back. You can’t bring up the words, so you simply lean into him and rest your head on his chest. The tactical vest is scratchy and uncomfortable, but you ignore it. “Who’s ‘James’?”
“Not important,” you begin before backtracking.
“Actually, no. He’s very important. He’s you, in fact.” Gently bringing his flesh hand to his chest, you smile. “Your name is James Buchanan Barnes. You’re Bucky. And today’s your 66th birthday -technically.”
The man in front of you is bewildered. It’s as if you told him the world was crashing down. For him, it might seem that way.
“And I know that sometime you’ll go back into that damn chair and you won’t remember I was here, but you will eventually. You’ve just gotta hold out a bit longer, m’kay, love?”
He nods, quiet as ever. You hug him tight, just like you’d done to Steve a few minutes earlier. Or- 29 years later? All this time traveling was messing with your brain.
“I love you, okay? Remember that.”
Bucky is still standing in that room when you slip away, heading down the corridor until you find Tony again.
He holds up two vials of the Pym Particles as you hold up the Tesseract, the both of you grinning wide.
“We’re back in the game,” he cheers. Alarms start going off throughout the base, but neither of you care. The agents will be too late anyways.
“Yes we are, Stark,” you yell over the wailing siren. “Now let’s get them back.”
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