Bucky Barnes || One Shots

Finders Keepers (Fluff)

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Reader

Summary: You and Bucky have been dating for years and just as he finally finds the courage to pop the question, he loses your engagement ring.

Word Count: 1.9k

Warnings: None, pure fluff.

"Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I should just wait." Bucky said, pacing back and forth across the bridge.

Watching his friend nervously fiddle with the tiny velvet box in his hand, Sam chuckled pushing himself off of the railing.

"Buck, stop stressing out, man." Sam laughed. "She's going to say yes."

Making his way over to Sam, leaning over the railing, Bucky sighed staring at the reflection of the streetlamps glowing in the water of the river beneath him.

"You don't know that." He said. "She could say no. She deserves better than some bridge, maybe-"

"Buck, if I know Y/n she's going to think this is ten times better than anything else you could throw together." Sam assured his friend. "You guys met on this bridge fighting one of the big three... that's pretty romantic if you ask me."

"There's no such thing as the 'big three'."

"Of course there is, but because I'm such a good wingman- I'm gonna let it slide for the night." He said, leaning over the railing beside his friend. "Do you remember the size of that android? If she didn't find out about her mutation right then and there your ass would be dead right now."

Bucky couldn't help but laugh because he knew that he was absolutely right.

The two of you had met two years ago to that exact day in the place where he and Sam were standing right now. Bucky and some of the other Avengers, including Sam, had been fighting a ginormous Android. Just as the fight was heading increasingly south and Bucky had come to terms with the fact that his overextended life would be ending sooner than he thought, he watched as the fist that was about to pound his body into the ground halted in midair.

He was shocked. He was sure he was going to die. He was even ready to welcome it, but when he looked around, trying to find out why the android would stop so suddenly, he glanced to the side only to meet your wide eyes, arms extended outwards toward the android. Despite the fact that he could tell that the android was struggling to move, he watched as you lifted your arms, the android rising into the air until you swung your arms, throwing the it into the river beside the bridge.

Once the initial splash of water had washed over the bridge, Bucky immediately pushed himself off of the ground, running to find you. When he did, he discovered you, soaking wet on the ground, staring back up at him.

"I... I don't-"

You scrambled to find words to say to him- to explain what had just happened even though you didn't even understand it yourself- but Bucky didn't even care. He was in awe.

"You- you saved my life." Bucky said before realizing that you were still on the ground and he reached his hand out to you. "What's your name?"

Glancing at his hand for split moment, you grabbed it, pulling yourself to your feet.

"Y/n."

"Y/n." He said testing the sound of your name in his mouth before smiling. "I'm Bucky."

From that day, you and him had been inseparable, beginning to date not long after. On the day he asked you to be his, he knew that that was the last time he was ever going to be asking anyone that question because you were it for him. He was completely and utterly yours and he didn't want anyone- or anything- else.