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You crept through the front door first as quietly as you could looking for the witch. You held your gun out in front of you with your right hand and balanced it on the wrist of your left. You gripped an angel blade tightly in your left fist. As he walked in the door after you, you glanced over at your twin, Sam and the pair of you paused for a moment to wait for Dean.
"(Y/N), take left; Sam, head right and I'll go up." Dean said quietly as he headed for the staircase in front of you. With one more silent exchange with your brother, you both nodded and headed off in separate directions in the dusty, sun lit house. The witch you were currently trying to hunt had been a royal pain for weeks. She had been granting ‘wishes’ to unsuspecting people but with massive loopholes involved. People who wanted millions of bucks found themselves surrounded by herds of deer; one man wanted fancy cars and was gifted an entire house full of expensive model toys. It hadn't gotten to the point where anything severe had happened yet but you and your brothers didn't want to let it get to that point.
As you whipped through the living room and headed toward the next room at the back of the house, a flash of bleach blonde caught your eye headed toward what looked like a kitchen. Your feet moved quickly as you darted around sheet covered furniture after the witch. As you hit a doorway that lead to a short hall, you saw a bright white light surrounding a door in front of you under the stairs.
"Sam!" You called out as you headed for the door and you heard a sickening female laugh come from behind it as you approached. You knew you had the witch and you were not letting her get away.
"True love awaits you." The woman said as you hauled back and kicked the door in.
"Guys here!" You shouted as you were blinded by the light. Without warning, you felt a strong pull behind your navel and the world around you shifted. You felt yourself tumble through the air and your whole body tensed. You knew instantly that you had made a grave mistake and with a part of your soul, felt your twin panic with you. You closed your eyes for only a moment before you slammed onto the ground.
Instincts took over instantly. You rolled to a crouch on your feet and squinted against the suddenly blinding florescent glow of halogen lightbulbs. Your heart was pounding as you scanned your new surroundings and you forced yourself to stay calm like Dean and your dad had always taught you. There were two men and a woman in front of you and all three of them looked stunned to see you suddenly appear in the middle of their pristine living room.
"Christo." You mumbled as you gripped your angel blade tighter in your hand. None of the three moved at the Latin word but you could see their look of unease at your gun dancing between the three of them. You could still feel Sam's fear and panic as you stood slowly and backed yourself against the wall. "Where am I?" You demanded as you fought to keep your emotions in check. "Where are my brothers?" The three people looked at each other, utterly confused.
When they didn't respond fast enough for your liking, you quickly eyed the door way and took off. You made it a few feet around the corner before a very tall purple man appeared in front of you seemingly out of nowhere and blocked your path. Without thinking, you raised your gun and fired a witch killing bullet toward him; hoping that it would kill or at least injure the thing in front of you. You watched in complete horror as the man's body disappeared slightly and your bullet sailed right through him and imbedded itself into the wall behind his heart. You paused for only a half of a second but before you could move again, a pair of extremely strong arms wrapped around your upper body.
"Sam!" You screamed in fright as your weapons were yanked from your hands and you began to kick and scratch at the man holding you. You grit your teeth as tears began to sting the back of your eyes and you could feel your brother's worry turn to sheer terror. "Dean! Let me go! Cas, Crowley; someone help!" You screamed as you were man-handled down a hallway.
"Wait!" The woman shouted as she ran toward you and the man that was holding you stopped moving. "Who did you just call for?" You stopped thrashing to look at her and tears began to slowly fall down your cheeks. You looked at the red head before you; you couldn't help but feel as if you had seen her before.
"My brothers." You said and she shook her head.
"You called for Castiel and Crowley for help. What's your name?" She asked as she stood in front of you with her eyebrows raised. Your brow furrowed slightly. You never called Cas by his full name- no one but other angels did. You suddenly wished you had your angel blade in your hand.
"Are you an angel?" You demanded and a slow smile spread across the woman's face as she shook her head.
"There is no freaking way... Cap, put her down." The man hesitated for a moment, not believing the woman's instructions before he sighed and put you down. You were slightly too stunned to move as the woman took a half step toward you. "You're (Y/N) Winchester- older brother, Dean, twin brother, Sam from Lawrence Kansas, right?" She asked. Your tears stopped as you studied the woman.
"How do you know that?" You asked and the woman's smile got even bigger.
"Oh, (Y/N)... I hate to break it to ya but here, you are a book character." You felt the world around you spin and your eyes went wide as you shook your head.
"What... that's not... I'm..." You stammered. You felt your knees give out as you realized that if you were only a book character in the place you were in, there was no way you would be able to get home. You were never going to see your brothers again.
"Catch her!" the woman shouted; the sound far off and choked as your world went black.
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A faint tugging on your soul pulled you back to consciousness. You were grateful that you could still feel Sam and you could almost hear him crying out for you. You took a deep breath and mentally reached toward the feeling inside of you; reaching for your brother. 'I'm safe, Sam' you thought repeatedly as you assessed your surroundings blindly. You didn't want to open your eyes; didn't want to face the reality of the situation you found yourself in but someone clearing their throat next to you forced you to face it.
"So how did you get here? And I have been brought up to speed on the books so I'd like the truth." A man asked casually. You rolled your head toward his voice and forced your eyes open. You looked around the bedroom you were in for only a second before you found an older gentleman with dark brown hair leaning against the wall. With a small sigh you sat up and slung your legs over the side of the bed. You brushed your hair out of your face as you leaned forward and rested your elbows on your knees.
"My brothers and I were trying to kill a witch that had a knack for loopholes in her spell deals. Three of us split up in the house, I caught up to her before the boys and I guess she didn't like it. I have no idea what she was trying to accomplish here but..." You said as you clapped your hands together once. You looked up at the man and moved your hands to the side with a slightly defeated smile. "... here I am." The man nodded as he appraised you.
"My name is Tony Stark. You have managed to find......"
"Wait... Tony Stark as in Iron Man?" You interrupted as you sat up straight. A cocky smile spread across the billionaires face and he pushed himself off the wall.
"Oh, so you've heard of me?" Tony asked and it was your turn to smirk at him.
"Yea, I've heard of you. You're a comic book character." His smile fell for only a moment before he shrugged.
"It could always be worse." You felt a hard pull in your soul and your brow furrowed as the need to get to Kansas was suddenly overwhelming.
"I need to go." You said as you got up off the bed. You quickly dipped past the man you only knew thanks to half payed attention to Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. You walked with purpose through the halls looking for an exit. As you rounded a corner, you heard Tony call out your name and you walked a little faster. You didn't know if he was planning on trying to keep you there but you weren't about to stop and find out.
You picked up your pace as Tony's voice got closer but as you rounded a corner, you ran straight into a strong, muscular body with such force, it knocked you to the ground. With a startled gasp, you looked up into piercing blue eyes. Time and space around you ceased to exist as you gazed into the man’s eyes and you felt as though a part of you that you hadn’t realized you had been missing was found. You watched the hardness his eyes usually held dissipate instantly as he looked at you. It was as if he was looking into the eyes of someone he had been searching for his entire life.
“Please… help me get to Kansas.” You asked softly as he bent down to help you up. The man glanced at something behind you for a second as he pulled you to your feet. He brushed his long brown hair out of his face quickly and subtly nodded his head.
“Tonight” he whispered as he looked down into your (Y/E/C) eyes once more. “We’ll leave tonight.” Without another word, he stepped around you and continued in the direction he was heading as Tony caught up to you and placed his hand on your shoulder.
“Look, I can’t let you just run off on your own in a strange world at dusk, (Y/N)” he said as he spun you around to face him. “For now, how about you stay here so we can look into figuring out how to get you back to your home.” You watched the man you had run into pause in a doorway to glance at you over Tony’s shoulder and the two of you nodded at the same time.
“Yes sir.”
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“So you’re Captain America…” you said as you pointed at the very muscular blonde who had picked you up before and he nodded.
“Steve, works just as well ma’am” he corrected and you nodded as your finger moved to the woman.
“And you’re the Black Widow, a.k.a. Natasha” she nodded and smiled at you as you moved on to the tall, purple man. “And you… I actually don’t remember you” you said as you tried to place the Avenger. He bowed his head slightly.
“You may know me as JARVIS; however, I am now known as Vision.” You smiled and nodded at him.
“Yes. JARVIS I know. Sam… my twin brother, used to talk about how when he got older he was going to create a JARVIS of his own.”
“Was he successful?” Tony called out from where he was mixing himself a drink and you shook your head and laughed.
“We are hunters, Mr. Stark. We spent the better part of our lives on the road living in motels and such. Sam was the only one of the three of us kids that went to college and by that point I think he wanted a career that was exactly the opposite of the kind of life we were raised in.”
“He was studying law at Stanford.” Natasha blurted out and you both blushed as you bobbed your head in conformation.
“Jesus, that’s kinda awkward.” You joked as you rubbed the back of your head and she apologized as you looked around the room with a furrowed brow. “Wait, isn’t there another one of you?” You asked when you noticed the man who agreed to help you wasn’t in the room. Steve nodded slightly dismissively.
“That would be Bucky. He’s… well…”
“We just got him back. He was in World War II with Cap and a pro-Nazi group called HYDRA brainwashed him, turned him into a super soldier assassin called the Winter Soldier and used him as a weapon. He’s just getting his real, pre-war memories back so he has been kind of sticking to himself.” Natasha said and Tony snorted.
“Yea… for good reason.” He mumbled and Steve and Natasha both groaned.
“Come on, Tony. It wasn’t him!” Steve said and Tony shook his head.
“Don’t care. That was my mother.”
“Guys, can we not do this right now?” Natasha asked as she stood between Tony and Steve who began bickering back and forth. You leaned on the counter toward Vision with your eyebrows raised.
“Care to fill me in?” You asked softly and the man turned to you.
“Mr. Barnes… Bucky, killed Mr. Stark’s parents under HYDRA’s mind control and Tony has only recently found out about it.” Vision told you softly and you nodded and sat back up in your chair.
“I’m done talking about it!” Tony called as he threw down the top of the silver tumbler and headed out the door. “He’s here isn’t he? Best you’re gunna get from me for now. Good night.” You cringed slightly as a door slammed behind you and you thought about the fights Sam and your dad used to have when you were growing up. You sighed, as your brothers’ faces popped into your mind and you stood up from the barstool you had been sitting on.
“I am really sorry I caused that.” You said awkwardly and Natasha and Steve shook their heads at you.
“Tony is just going through it right now.” Natasha placed your weapons on the bar and slid them over to you. “We would prefer if you didn’t carry them around with you but I understand if it is a habit to break.” You nodded and picked them up off the counter. You motioned with your thumb over your shoulder and gave a weak smile.
“I’m going to call it a night; long day and all.” You claimed. You waited for only a moment for the three remaining Avengers to say good night before turning around and leaving the kitchen with a small smile on your face.
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You were lying in your newly assigned bedroom, waiting for Bucky, trying to think of a way to get home, when the knock you had been waiting for filled the small space of the room. You jumped off the bed, grabbed your gun and your angel blade and dashed toward the door. A smile spread across your face as you looked at the mischievous twinkle in the former assassin’s eyes.
“You ready to break a whole bunch of rules at once, doll?” He asked. You couldn’t help but giggle.
“Darlin’ I’m a Winchester. Rule breaking is in my DNA.” He smiled at you and gestured with his head for you to follow him. You shoved your hand gun into the back of your jeans and zipped your jacket up as the two of you headed toward a door at the end of the hallway. As you crossed the threshold into a stairwell, a disembodied female voice called out in the tiny space and caused you to jump slightly.
“Mr. Barnes, Mr. Stark as requested that you and Ms. Winchester remain indoors for the evening.” Your escape partner shrugged and headed down the stairs with you on his heels as he responded.
“We are just going to go grab a bite to eat, FRIDAY.” You noticed that Bucky seemed to be going faster down the stairs and you realized that he was going to be breaking you out.
“Go” you whispered. He began to sprint down the stairs as the woman responded once more.
“Please Mr. Barnes. I don’t think…” her sentence was cut off as Bucky flew through a door into a garage. He grabbed a set of keys off a hook by the door and you shook your head.
“Just get me outside. We’ll never make it in one of these cars.” With a nod, the two of you sprinted through the garage as FRIDAY called after you. Just as you hit the main garage door, an alarm began to sound. You were just about to panic about being trapped when the Winter Soldier bent down and forced the garage door open. His display of strength sent an unexpected wave of heat to your core and you bit your lip as you scrambled out into the freezing night air. You paused for only a moment to wait for your partner in crime.
“Steve is going to kill me.” Bucky groaned as the two off you ran away from the building along the busy streets of New York City. You laughed as your eyes frantically searched for an older car to steal.
“Yea, well if we get busted at least we had some fun.” You said as you stopped in front of an old, rusted Honda. You flipped the angel blade around in your hand and slammed it through the driver side window. “How long do you think we got?” You asked as you ripped the wires down from under the steering column.
“Don’t know… what are you…?” He asked; his words lost in a metal squeal once the old car started. You smiled up at him and gestured to the passenger side.
“I told you… rule breaking is in my DNA.” He laughed and ran around the car.
“You have to teach me how to do that.” He said as he jumped in the car at the same time you heard your name being shouted behind you. You whipped away from the curb and into traffic. A flashing traffic camera caught your eye and you swallowed hard. You looked around and saw a sign for water taxis and with a quick glance over your shoulder, you zipped across traffic and came up with a plan.
“Thanks for helping me out of there. You can go back if you…” You started but he laughed as you weaved dangerously around cars.
“Ha! No dice, baby-doll. I’m not about to pass on kicks with a cookie like you.” You couldn’t stop the giggle that escaped your lips as you glanced over at your passenger.
“Did you just call me a cookie? I have never heard someone call a woman a cookie except for classic movies.” You asked as you whipped into the outskirts of the parking lot of the water taxi company and he shrugged.
“I’m still a man of my generation.” You smile and nodded to him before leaning forward to look for cameras.
“If only there was a way to teach my older brother that classic respect. Come on, let’s go.” You grabbed a beanie you found lying in the back seat, shoved it on and tucked all of your (Y/H/C) hair under it. You were able to find $40 in the glove compartment as well. You left the very recognizable Winter Soldier outside and out of the camera’s line of sight as you darted into the building to get tickets. It only took a few minutes for the taxi to arrive and with ducked heads, you and your partner in crime slipped onto the boat.
“So what is in Kansas?” Bucky asked quietly as the two of you hunched together; using your bodies to block each other from view and keep warm in the frigid January air.
“Hopefully, my home. In my world there is a Men of Letters bunker where Sam, Dean and I live when we aren’t on the road. I’m hoping that since your world and my world are so similar that it will cross over. If that’s the case then I will have access to hopefully all the information I need to create a portal to get back.” You felt Bucky nod against your shoulder.
“Sam and Dean are your brothers?”
“Yep, Dean is the oldest and Sam and I are twins.” He hummed in response as the announcement was made that the water taxi was arriving to New Jersey. The two of you got up and headed to the front of the boat.
“Has something like this ever happened to you before?” He asked and you shook your head.
“Not like this. We have been through some heavy shit and all three of us have died more times than I care to even count but we have never been in different worlds before.” As the two of you debarked, you skirted the waterline and looked for a new car and Bucky looked at you, stunned.
“You’ve died before, too?” He asked incredulously. “How are you alive then?” You giggled as you came across a car that had the keys still in it.
“Yea, I personally have died twice. I was shot once by a demon and I was killed by hell hounds when I tried to stop them from taking Dean. The boys have died a lot more than that.” You glanced over at Bucky’s stunned face as the two of you got into the car and you laughed. “Yea, where I come from, having the Winchester name is like a curse. But something keeps bringing us back.”
“Why would you want to go back there?” he asked as you pulled away from the curb. You could see a white streak of light zipping through the sky over the city showing you exactly where Tony Stark was and you shrugged and headed away from the city.
“That’s my life. The boys and I hunt supernatural things and make my world a safer place the same way you and the Avengers fight your evils here. If it wasn’t for us; our worlds would be screwed. Does it suck to die and be brought back from the dead? Yeah. Do I hate having to watch my brothers die and have to wonder if this time is the real thing? Hell yes! Would I prefer to have a normal life? Absolutely, but I don’t have that luxury right now. What I have is a minor witch problem, an archangel with a bad case of the ‘poor me’s’, a King of Hell that is dead set on making my life as annoying as possible, an angel that is sometimes too innocent for his own good and that is on top of the other demons, werewolves, and other supernatural beings in the world.” He laughed and shook his head slowly as you found a back road headed southwest away from the city.
“I don’t know how you do it.” You shrugged and looked over at him as you finally let yourself relax a bit.
“Same way you do. You just do what needs to be done.”