Before Love Came To Kill Us - Part 4
Series Summary: Roz never got her happily ever after with Bucky. Adjusting to the new world after the Snap isn’t easy. But she does what she can to honour the fallen, she lives her life. Until her new life collides with the old.
Part 4
Summary: The happy ending that they deserve.
Warnings: angst, language, fluff, Steve Rogers being the best bro, a happy ending (yay!)
W/C: 4.4k
A/N: I’m trying something different and titling each “scene” like I do on my google docs.
Characters: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, OFC, OMC.
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x OFC (Roz).
Challenge: @suitofvibraniumarmor ran a Better Than Twilight challenge last year. I signed up but the muses wouldn’t comply. However I used some of the prompts and wanted to give credit where it’s due. I tweaked them but Prompts: 36. “If I asked you to stay in the car, would you?” 71. “I don’t see the whole point of the rest of the world without her.” 90. “No measure of time with you will ever be enough.”
Betas: @cockslut-padalecki // all mistakes remain my own.
Dividers: @firefly-graphics
Stay In The Car
Bucky had tried to keep his distance, he really had. He’d stopped himself, a million times or more, from calling or texting Roz. Steve had talked him down from flying to Wakanda. Nat had assured him Roz was checking in every day and that she seemed ‘okay’. Roz had never just been ‘okay’; she was either happy and vibrant or sad and dull, there had never been an inbetween with her. So just okay probably meant she was simply saying it to appease Nat.
He didn’t know what the need for Roz to be in Wakanda was, Natasha had kept the details a strictly need to know basis. Though he suspected it had nothing to do with work and everything to do with Wyatt. Why else would she go home and then cut her trip short to run to Wakanda?
Try as he might to give Roz space, he couldn’t. It had been a week and a half since she’d left. He’d distracted himself, kept as busy as he could until he could collapse into bed at night. He’d wake from a nightmare and reach out into the empty cold space beside him before he’d remember she wasn’t there.
Thing one: I formally take back every nice thought I had about her marriage, because ugh, what kind of man leaves her like that. I mean, obviously, I'm team Bucky, but do it with a little love, dude.
Thing two: The fact that she went to Wakanda when she was at rock bottom is so perfect and full circle. Steve coming to get her instead of Bucky was also brilliant. She needs to come back on her own terms.
Thing three: YAY, THEY'RE HAPPY. I've waited so long for this, and it was perfect, Sam jokes and all. They deserve this and I love this whole series. Amazing job, Stace. I'm going to love rereading these ones over and over.
Comments Reblog
Thank you so much. I’m so glad I could give them a happy ending 💜🥰