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The smile on your face lit up once the smoke cleared. Bucky stood behind you, fidgeting with his silk shirt. This was the oddest mission you both had been sent on, he thought. But you on the other hand… you began to love it.
As the music thumped through your chest, you took at the color-streaked walls all around. The women passing by all in their neon leggings with leg warmers that matched the headband in their hair. The men all had baggy acid-washed denim jackets and pants to match.
This by far was one of your favorite eras you had learned about. And as the next song began to play, the gasp that came from your throat was almost inhuman, causing Bucky to look up at you in freight.
“I love this song!” You smile beamed back at him, but are met by pure confusion. Bucky hasn’t seen you like this in… well ever. You were typically quiet, wanting to just get the job done and be out of there. But the excitement on your face made a smile grow on Bucky’s lips.
“Dance with me!”
“I don’t dance, doll.” He replied with a grin, his eyes scanning the room at all the bodies moving to the beat. “Were here to get the package and leave, not to have a good ole’ time, Jess.”
“Do you see a guy in all black with horns sticking out of his head anywhere in here? Cause I don’t. So that means we need to blend in and wait until he shows.” You’re statement made sense, which earned a long-drawn-out sigh from the super-soldier.
“Have some fun Buck!” You exclaim, trying to yell over the music and the crowd singing along. “Unless you really are as boring as Sam warned me you were.”
Bucky’s eyes shot back to you, his head cocking sideways a smidgen as he pursed his lips. A giddy grin grew at the corners of your painted lips seeing the look he was giving you when you took his hand in your’s and pulled him into the crowd.
The words of the song began to make him think as he watched you bop from side to side.
You could never know what it’s like
You’re blood like winter freezes just like ice
There’s a cold lonely light that shines from you
You’ll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that smile you use
You both had a lot in common, which made him finally feel comfortable and open with someone… but also sick at the thought of what you had been through. Yet here you are, a smile from ear to ear, your voice screeching along to the music as you tried to remember the lyrics from the few times you heard Carol playing it. You didn’t look like some highly trained assassin in this light.
And did you think this fool could never win
Well look at me
I'm coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
He hadn’t realized until this moment… with those words playing in his ears, he loved you. Mr. Bucky ex-HYDRA-assassin found himself in love. Only you would be able to get him on a dance floor willingly. And the smile he had from seeing that grin of yours had yet to fade. From what you both have endured through your just over 100 years of life should make you both cold as ice, un-lovable, and unable to love.
Looking like a true survivor
feeling like a little kid
And that’s what you two were, true survivors. Living through the tortures of experimentation, the years spent on ice only to be woken up and trained to be HYDRA’s killing machines, and the endless nights afterward… the thoughts that came from all the harm you had done and trying to make it up to the world.
And I’m still standing after all this time
96 years to be exact for you, and a whopping 103 years for Bucky. But you were still standing… together.
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Now some lyrics don’t fit you two so well. Bucky has been on your mind since you re-connected after his Winter Soldier days were finally over. You had only told your closest girl gang this, but Bucky was different… there was a connection with him that you thought you’d never have.
Little did you know, the smile adorns on his lips secretly told you the same thing. He loved you just as much as you did him… if only your dueled stubbornness and fear of losing one another would allow you to finally admit it to each other.
….one day.