Hoping for the best - Bucky Barnes (modern!au)
Summary: Bucky is a very respected veteran, after a bad accident on the field he lost his left arm and had been replaced with a metal prosthetic arm. After 5 years he is finally used to it. But what will happen if he falls in love with a very known model, who loves the cameras? It would work out a relationship between a conservant ex-soldier and a lover of cameras girl?
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x female reader | Steve x Peggy
Word count: 1.507
Warnings: mentions of blood lost. PSTD
A/N: I had this going around for a while in my head and I thought itâll worth a shot. Here Bucky is not the Winter Soldier and Steve isnât Captain America. Basically different lifes. I set this on this century, letâs think Bucky has 28 yrs old and the reader has 25. She is a model btw. Enjoy and leave feedback đ I do not how many parts it will have, this is an introduction to their lifes.
*I do not own this pic*
Bucky have had enough. He hid himself for a long time already, he wasnât even talking to his long-term friend. Steve is too pure for him, he is as well so nice to him, he doesnât want to break that apart. The therapist he has been visiting is working out, now he is able to look at himself in the mirror without feeling bad anymore.
He spent the last 5 year off in war, Afghanistan was the only option in the Military, since he was a child, his father told him how important was fight for your country, he grown up to go there, the first time was all a dream, he was finally making it true! He even think further than that and started to daydream about being a Colonel some day. He got letters or videocalls from Steve, he was doing good as a museum owner. He wanted to come with Bucky when he throws the news at him. Bucky of course didnât let him. He plead that he needs Steve here, so reluctantly he agreed.
He was doing good. Fighting for his country felt so good that there was no room for homesickness, until the accident happened.
The enemies had taken the fort down while everyone was resting, he couldnât remember clearly, but one minute he had his left arm and then it was flying above the others soldiers head. He could still smell the blood coming out like a cascade from his arm. The medical unit ran to him, he passed out the instant he felt hands lifting him up to take care of the arm. Now gone. The next time he woke up, he finds Steve next to him, reading a book peacefully.
âStevie? What are you doing here?â He asked confused, his friendâs face light up as he stood up.
âYouâre back home Buckyâ he says and that broke his heart a little.
âBut, why? What did happened?â Bucky tried to sit up, when he felt an unusual weight on his left arm.
âListen Buck, this ainât going to be easy. You were dismissed from the army due your injury. The government tried to make it up to you and they donate a prosthetic metal arm which they put it to you a few days ago. Now youâre going to be pay monthly like you still being in the front line back in Afghanistan but the truth is that youâre going to be here. Iâm pretty sure your colonel wants to offer you a place of teaching something for new recruits. But we still donât knowâ Steve rant off but Bucky hasnât processed the new information.
He was dismissed? He have a new arm? When the fuck does his life went downhill?
After being told that he couldnât be part of the Army Force he nearly died. It took him so long to recover from that. He does accepted being tutor of the new recruits. He have earned quite a good money, however. He wasnât happy with his life. There are times -like now. When he just locked himself out of the world. Steve was already accustomed to Buckyâs reaction. The terapist said it was a normal reaction from someone who was in war and came back due to a several injury. The PSTD hits hard and in different ways.
Itâs been three days since Bucky lost purposely contact with the world. It wasnât like he was missing it anyways.
He knew that Steveâs wedding is next week, so he tries his best to leave the obscure world where he sent himself into, before Steve finds out. He might figured it out by now though.
By the fourth day of selfpity he thinks is enough so he calls Steve and the relief sigh he left through the other line is almost comfortable. Steve sent him a ticket to California - where the wedding will take place. And he just hope he can be his old self again, just for the day. And for Steve. He deserves nothing but happiness that day and he is willing to sacrifice his own personal issues to see his best friend happy. So he pack everything and take the flight to California, hoping for the best.
She knows the flight is going to kill her, but she couldnât get rid off earlier that week. Peggy is getting married, so she knows she have to be there for her big day, however. Shanghai didnât give her much options. The new campaign was just too powerful and if she leaves the shooting on the third day, for sure sheâs going to be fired. She didnât want that. Thatâs why she took the last midnight flight to Los Angeles on Saturday. Sheâs going to be so jetlagged by the time she makes it there, she could sense it.
Y/N canât complaint about her life, sheâs been doing pretty good the past few years, companies fight for have her on her campaigns, she never thought how big her career would become, after majoring in History of Europe back in college, she was already working for some small companies as their images, getting such a low payment but she needed for survive college life. It was totally a surprise when one day she got a e-mail detailing her if she could join an important campaign in New York, she packed up and flew to NYC quite immediately everything went up for her, a year later she was in the covers of the most important magazines in America & Europe. Its where she met Peggy. As the most successful CEO of Vogue USA, she often have her in her magazine, it was enough to make bonds and a good friendship started and they were unstoppable since then.
Thatâs why she canât fail not attend to her wedding. As a bridesmaid she hasnât been doing a good job because she was in China working for the campaign, since 3 months ago. So she wasnât exactly the best bridesmaid. Now she is only hoping for the best once she land in California. She doesnât even know whoâs she will walking with to the altar. Hell; she hasnât even tried the dress. Y/N is running out of time and the only thing she can do is hope for the best.
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