Bucky Barnes Imagines

Wind Up Party

Bucky A/U - single dad Bucky

Summary: Bucky gets an invite to the fastball wind up at the local pool. He can't swim so he enlists you for swimming lessons.

Content Warnings: Language, scared Bucky (He's terrified of water), sweet Bucky, fluff

"A parent child pool party?" 

Bucky read aloud what was handed to him by his daughter.

"Yeah Dad, a pool party! It's going to be so much fun!" 

Becca gushed. 

Bucky's heart rate spiked as he plastered on a fake smile and handed the paper back to Becca. Becca's fastball team was having a small end-of-season wind up and the coach rented out the rec centre pool for the day. 

Steve winced a little at his best friend's reaction. 

"It's not for another month and a bit" he whispered. 

At this point, Steve saw Bucky was at the start of a full-on panic attack. 

"Becca? Go on and find Annie and ask her to play with you" 

Steve called to his god daughter who smiled brightly. 

"Ok Uncle Steve!" 

She skipped out of the kitchen. 

"You ok over there?"

Steve patted his friend on the back. 

Bucky winced a little and was finally able to take in a deep breath. 

"You'll be fine Buck" Steve shrugged. 

"Easy for you to say Steve. YOU know how to swim" 

Bucky grumbled and sat down at the table. 

"I can't believe you've gone your whole life and not learned how to swim. It's just weird" 

Steve scrunched his face up in thought. 

"I don't know either. You're the only one who knows about...my issue...." 

"What are you going to do? You can't hide it this time. It's an indoor pool. Not like it's at a lake where you can wade in the water and pretend like you always do"

"I know Steve!"

 Bucky snapped. He couldn't let his daughter down. 

Becca's mother had passed away when she was a baby and Bucky had been raising her ever since. She was ten. 

"You could send her by herself?" 

Steve suggested. 

"No, no way, not going to happen. I can't do that to Becca" he insisted. 

"She needs me" 

"I know Buck, but you're going to have to swim though, you know, since it's at a pool and all" 

"Don't remind me" 

Bucky put his head down on the kitchen table and sighed, breathing in and out to calm himself down. 

"I may know someone..." 

Steve scrolled through his phone. 

"She taught Annie how to swim" he said while scrolling. 

"Annie took private lessons, right?"

"Yeah, I looked online and found an instructor who worked with our schedule" Steve said.