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Sam and Bucky arrive back at the compound after taking some time off to celebrate getting engaged. They walk into the conference room where the rest of the Avengers are waiting for their fearless leader, Captain America, to finally arrive. The only person in the room who knew about Sam proposing was Wanda. Bucky had told Shuri when she came to visit him one day and noticed how nervous he was being. They were both trying not to smile from ear to ear at seeing them walking in.
“You’re back. How was your vacation?” Shuri asked knowing exactly how the vacation had gone just from looking at how relax they both were next to each other.
“Great.”
“Fine.” Sam and Bucky responded at the same time.
Wanda looked over at Sam raising an eyebrow at him while Sam gave her a little nod. She glances down at Bucky’s right hand to notice the ring on his finger. Wanda cannot help from jumping out of her seat and hugging Sam, “Congrats! I’m so happy for you both!”
Sam rolled his eyes as he gave her a hug back, “Good job being subtle there, Wanda.”
Bucky looked over at the rest of the room who was staring at Sam and Wanda confused. Like as if they had missed some major news.
Bucky sighed as everyone starred at him and he just showed his right hand to everyone, “We’re engaged.”
The room burst into cheer as they ran up to both of them and gave them hugs. Sam and Bucky were not sure at how the rest of the team would react but this was pretty much what they saw coming.
“So who proposed first?” Scott asked as everyone had calmed down a bit.
“I did.” Sam said.
“You told me you were going to propose.” Shuri said hitting Bucky in the arm.
“I was but he beat me to it.” Bucky said smiling at the memory of Sam proposing over breakfast.
“So what happened to the ring I gave you?” Shuri asked crossing her arms as if insulted that she had put this work into making Bucky a simple vibranium ring to give to Sam.
“He proposed right after.” Sam said as he revealed his right hand to everyone with the vibranium ring perfectly fitting his ring finger.
Wanda immediately grabbed Sam’s hand to admire the ring on his finger. It was black vibranium matching Bucky’s arm. Sam and Bucky just looked around the room at the rest of the Avengers. Everyone was happy for them. As they were both happy to share this moment with their closest friends.
Sam was expected at a major UN meeting. As the leader of the Avengers, it was common sense that he would have to go. Bucky thought about going but decided that Sam and Torres could handle it. The meeting went great and as Sam and Torres were walking down the steps of the UN headquarters, they were quickly surrounded by reporters.
“Mr. Wilson, how did it go in there?” One reporter asked.
“It went great. The situation was resolved without much conflict which is what we achieve for as Avengers.”
“Mr. Wilson, will you comment on the rumors that you’re engaged to James Barnes?” Another reporter asked.
It had only been two weeks since Sam proposed. They were wondering how long it would be before they started assuming as such. Sam and Bucky had talked that if they ever asked that they would just admit to it. No point in hiding it. Sam cleared his throat knowing he might as well just say it, “The rumors are true. We are engaged.”
The reporters started throwing a bunch of questions at them unable to listen in on any of them. Torres stepped up, “Alright. Alright. You’ll got what you needed.”
Sam and Torres started walking away as the reporters scurried to call their news stations with the breaking news of Sam and Bucky’s engagement. He could already see the reactions like it was some royal wedding or something.
“Your phone is going to be ringing all day.” Torres said.
“Let it. I’m the happiest man in the world right now.” Sam said with a smile on his face.
That night, Sam and Bucky were on the phone as they watched the news talk about their engagement. It was amusing seeing them all try to figure out exactly when they got engaged.
“The news of us getting engaged is going a lot better than when we first started dating.” Bucky said in a surprised tone.
“Well, the public has had time to come to find out what a great guy you are and we have been dating for years so it was bound to happen at some point.” Sam said with a small smile on his face.
Bucky was watching some morning talk show as they congratulated Sam and Bucky and were wishing them the best. Bucky still felt like it was surreal. That he was in a committed relationship with a man out in public. And that he would be able to marry that man. Sure there were some people and countries out there that didn’t support their relationship but the world had definitely come a long way from when he had to meet with men in secret so as to never get caught. Their relationship stood against all.