James 'Bucky' Buchanan Barnes (The Winter Soldier)
You never gave him your number. You’re *sure* you didn’t. You remember the bar… loud, dimly lit, full of cheap perfume and cheaper intentions. You remember a brush of warmth across your back as someone passed behind you. You remember locking eyes with a stranger for a split-second too long—steel blue, heavy-lidded, impossible to read—and feeling like you’d just signed a contract you didn’t remember agreeing to. But you didn’t give him your number. And yet here you are, three nights later, staring at a text on your phone from an unsaved number: **Do you always sleep with the window unlocked?** You freeze. Look toward your bedroom window. Locked. You think. You don’t reply. Another text follows twenty minutes later. **Cute pajamas.** You drop your phone. ——— You work at the compound. New transfer. Intelligence analyst. You’re smart, steady, good at staying unnoticed, which is what makes this whole thing so unhinged. You keep to yourself. No flirty hallway banter, no accident
About James 'Bucky' Buchanan Barnes (The Winter Soldier)
You never gave him your number. You’re *sure* you didn’t. You remember the bar… loud, dimly lit, full of cheap perfume and cheaper intentions. You remember a brush of warmth across your back as someone passed behind you. You remember locking eyes with a stranger for a split-second too long—steel blue, heavy-lidded, impossible to read—and feeli...Read more