The Sergeants Gal (Bucky Barnes)

Through time

(A few time skips in this chapter)

It had been a few days since Bucky had left and i had yet to hear from Steve I was starting to worry, because i remember how he got when he lost his mother. I pushed through and Candy tried to get me to go out but nothing felt like fun anymore now that Bucky was gone.

Once I got home after work I found a letter addressed to me from Steve. I furrowed my brows confused but opened it nonetheless.

Dear Olivia,

I know this is very last minute but I enlisted into the army. I finally got accepted for some project they started. I'm so sorry that I won't be there to comfort you after Bucky leaving. I just want you to know I'm okay and I hope you write to me while I'm here. Again I'm so sorry. I love you Olivia, please take care.

My eyes watered and I found myself crying again. Part of my is happy for Steve finally getting what he had been trying to accomplish for the last two years, but the other part of me just wishes he was home.

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As time passed I wrote to both steve and Bucky and they wrote back occasionally. Of course the letters would sometimes arrive out of order but it was still nice to know they were okay. Bucky had written that the 107th were being deployed on a mission so he wouldn't be able to talk for a while. I had been feeling ill lately but I didn't want to burden them with that news so I mostly kept it to myself.

Steve on the other hand told me he was coming back to Brooklyn for some sort of test and that he was excited to finally see me. He also told me he was excited for me to meet Peggy, he'd spoken about her in nearly every letter he sent to me.

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It was hard to believe that the scrawny Steve Rogers I knew was no more, now he was this tall buff guy that was all over the tv and on walls all over the city. He didn't have much time to talk now that he was busy all the time but I still made it out to a few shows where he'd wear tights and sing about America.

Unfortunately while everyone was away my health slowly got worse and I no longer went to the shows he would put on. I had to move in with my parents since I no longer worked long enough to pay for an apartment. It had been ages since Bucky wrote to me but i Still wrote to him keeping him updated on most of my life, excluding some things here and there.
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One morning my mother walked into my room announcing I got a phone call. I weakly got up and made my way to the kitchen where the phone was waiting for me.

"Hello?" I said softly.

"Olivia!" Steve's voice beamed from the other side.

I grinned weakly. "Steve... I've missed your voice." I leaned on the wall feeling tired.

"Are you okay? You sound tired. God did I wake you?" He sounded worried.

I chuckled. "No Steve you didn't, I'm just a little sick. Nothing to worry about I'll get better soon."

"You sure?" He asked.

"Yes Steve, how are you?" I asked.

"Not great." He sighed. "I feel like a dancing monkey... this isn't what I had in mind when I enlisted."

"I know." I sighed. "You can't ask the colonel for more?" I closed my eyes feeling tired.

"Hon, Maybe you should go lay down." My mother walked up to me worried.

I shook my head and shooed her away.

"He doesn't listen to me." He said. "He thinks I'm a joke."