Dreaming of Winter
Summary: After a bad mission, you try to wake Bucky from a nightmare. Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader Word Count: 4696 Warnings: Angst, language, MCU canon violence and events, more angst, fluff A/N: Here it is! My first Marvel story. This was the first idea I had when I started thinking about writing for the MCU, and I am excited to share it! There are Russian translations at the end, just in case you need them. Please let me know what you all think… feedback, as always, fuels a writer. :) The fic was beta’d by the ever so lovely @saxxxology, below gif made by me. Enjoy!
Bucky was no stranger to nightmares. Ever since he began to remember who he was and what HYDRA had done to him, his sleep was plagued with flashes of faces that were tainted with the acrid scent of blood and gunpowder. Stark had tried to help him, Banner too, but between the weird gadgets and super soldier strength sleeping pills, nothing seemed to calm his mind.
Until Y/N came along.
Quick witted and a complete badass, Y/N was a force of nature that left Bucky a stuttering mess every time he tried to interact with her. After the two got comfortable with each other, the flirting began, and it wasn’t long after that they ended up tangled up in the sheets on his bed. Y/N was similar to him in the super strength side of things thanks to an accident at the biology lab she had worked at before S.H.I.E.L.D. scooped her up, so their first night together definitely had several furniture casualties.
When the nightmares didn’t come the first night of having her in his bed, he assumed it was just a fluke; his mind was relaxing after the physical exertion and pleasure chemicals that flooded his brain. It wasn’t until a week later when Y/N was off on a mission and he was alone in bed did they return. Wanda was the one to wake him since she had also stayed behind, and he was lucky she was quick with her powers. The second her hand touched his shoulder, he shot up out of bed and had her pinned to the wall in less than a second, chest heaving and muscles tense. She managed to subdue him with her powers, and once he realized he was at the compound and not some HYDRA base, he felt horrible.