#maria: if you kill sam i'm dead too

[literaryavenger]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 3

Summary: You find out the truth about Fury and, after he brings you up to speed, you make plans to take down Hydra for good.

Pairing: platonic!Steve Rogers x F!Reader, platonic!Natasha Romanoff x F!Reader, platonic!Sam Wilson x F!Reader, platonic!Nick Fury x F!Reader, platonic!Maria Hill x F!Reader

Warnings: Language. Pierce being a dick. Mentions of death. Mentions of fighting and fire arms. The Winter Soldier, he's a warning. My poor attempts at being funny. Idk, everything else in the movie?

Word Count: 3.8K

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The ride is quiet until Steve, who was shocked into silence until this moment, says “It was him.”

You look at him on your right but his gaze is to the floor. “He looked right at me like he didn’t even know me.”

“How's that even possible?” Sam says from in front of Steve. “It was, like, seventy years ago.”

“Zola.” Steve answers without skipping a beat. “Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and…” he trails off, looking up at Sam.

“None of that's your fault, Steve.” Natasha says and you turn your attention on her.

“Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky.” You're too busy looking at Natasha’s palling face to be sad for Steve.

“We need to get a doctor here.” You say, your eyes landing on the blood on her shoulder, which apparently Sam noticed too.

“We don't put pressure on that wound,” he says, turning to the agent next to him “she's gonna bleed out here in the truck.”

The guard pulls out an electric rod and looks like he's gonna use it on Sam but, suddenly, he pokes the other guard with it.

You're all so fucking confused until the guard takes out his helmet to reveal a groaning Maria Hill.

“That thing was squeezing my brain.” she looks at all of you while you let out a breath of relief, but she lands on Sam and then looks back at Steve, pointing at him. “Who’s this guy?”

“Long story” you say and, when she narrows her eyes at you, you roll your own. “I’m handcuffed too, I’m obviously on your side.” you say while raising your cuffed hands and raising an eyebrow.

She softens but relented only after receiving a nod from Steve, confirming what you're saying. 

She helps you escape and soon you're entering a seemingly abandoned facility, Natasha leaning on you for balance.

A man you recognize as one of the doctors that were operating on Fury runs towards you and you frown. 

What the hell’s going on?

“GSW. She’s lost at least a pint.” Hill says to the doctor.

“Maybe two.” Sam adds.

“Let me take her.” the doctor says, but Maria stops him.

“She’ll want to see him first.” she says while she leads the way, the doctor helping you carry Natasha. 

Hill takes you to a room where you’re all shocked to find Fury lying in a bed, alive.

“About damn time.” he says and you almost cry after hearing his voice.

You all sit down and, as the doctor starts to work on Natasha’s wound next to you, you all listen intently as Fury explains what’s going on.

“Lacerated spinal column,” he ends by listing his injuries “cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache.”

“Don't forget your collapsed lung.” the doctor says from Nat’s other side.

“Oh, let's not forget that.” Fury says sarcastically “Otherwise, I'm good.”

“They cut you open,” Natasha says, you knew she took it hard after all. “your heart stopped.”

“Tetrodotoxin B.” He says like it was obvious. “Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it.”

“Why all the secrecy?” Steve voices what you're all thinking.

“Yeah.” you add, obviously hurt. “Why not just tell us?”

“Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful.” Hill answers for him.

“Can't kill you if you're already dead.” Fury seems amused with himself, then gets more serious. “Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust.”

You try not to take that too personally and, glancing at Natasha, you can tell when she meets your eyes that she's trying to do the same.

-

Fury gives you guys some time to process everything before you move to a room with a table to start strategizing on how to move forward.

“This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize.” Fury says while looking at a picture of a young Pierce. “He said, Peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility. See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues.” He finishes looking at you guys.

“We have to stop the launch.” Natasha says, ignoring Fury’s last remark.

“I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore.” He says while opening a case containing three chips.

“What's that?” you and Sam ask at the same time, glancing at each other.

“Once the Helicarriers reach three thousand feet,” Hill says, turning her computer around and showing you “they'll triangulate with Insight satellites becoming fully weaponized.”

“We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own.” Fury cuts in.

“One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational” she hesitates for a moment “a whole lot of people are gonna die.”

“We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We need to get past them, insert the server blades, and maybe, just maybe, we can salvage what's left-” Fury gets cut off by Steve.

“We're not salvaging anything.” he says sharply. “We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down SHIELD.”

“SHIELD had nothing to do with it.” Fury says defensively.

“You gave me this mission, this is how it ends.” Steve has his Captain voice on and you know there's no room for discussion. “SHIELD's been compromised, you said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed.”

“Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed.” Nobody else says anything, just watching back and forth from Fury to Steve.

“And how many paid the price before you did?”

“Look, I didn't know about Barnes.” Fury says after a moment.

“Even if you had, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too?” He's almost glaring now. “SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes.”

“He's right.” Hill simply says, nodding.

Fury looks at Natasha, but she simply stares back and he knows he’s not gonna have any help from her, so he turns to you.

“You’re okay with this, Agent?” he asks you and you don’t even have to think twice about it.

“We took an oath to protect people, Fury.” you tell him, holding his gaze. “If taking down Shield does that, and I believe it does, I’m game.” you shrug. 

He then turns to the last person in the room.

“Don't look at me.” Sam says, also shrugging. “I do what he does, just slower.”

You grin at him while Fury scoffs a little.

“Well,” He starts, sitting back and sighting, looking at all of you before staring back at Steve. “It looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain.”

After you make our plan, Steve goes outside for some air. You and Sam watch him leave, then look at each other, a silent question hanging between you two.

“You go.” you tell him and he nods before following after the supersoldier.

When you turn around you’re met with Fury and Hill’s curious looks and Natasha’s smirking face.

“What?” you say annoyed, crossing your arms defensively in front of you.

“You and Wilson, huh.”

“Get your mind out of the gutter, Romanoff.” you tell her as you sit back down. “He’s a nice person, you know as well as I do how rare it is to find that in our line of work.” your gaze shifts to the table but you can still feel their gazes on you.

“You couldn’t have known, YN.” Fury says, seemingly reading your mind. Your eyes snap up to his, he's never called you by your first name.

“I should’ve, Nick.” you exchange the favor. “All the closed meetings, all the shady attitudes… I should’ve seen it. I’m trained to see it.” you're frustrated with yourself, with all the adrenaline out of your body now you’re left only with guilt.

Surely if you’d have seen it sooner you could’ve done something. Maybe the outcome would’ve been different.

“They tricked all of us.” Nat says, glancing at Fury and resting her hand on your shoulder.

“You’re a good agent,” Hill interjects, “don’t doubt yourself because of those traitors.”

“You’re right.” You nodded after a moment, putting your hand on top of Nat’s on your shoulder and looking back at Fury. “You’re all right.”

As you finish the details of the plan, only one thing is missing.

“How do we get the Director there?” Hill asks after Sam joins you, informing you that Steve went looking for a uniform, whatever that means, and would meet you there.

“Uh, I have an idea.” you says, leaning back in your chair and smirking.

They all suit up and leave after making sure your comms work.

“Be careful.” you hug Natasha before they leave “All of you.” you add looking over her shoulder at Hill that nods and Sam that grins and then winks at you.

You go back to the room where Fury is and he asks, “So where’s our ride?”

“On its way.” you simply say, checking your phone.

You can hear the others through the comms as they meet up with Steve, his own voice coming to your ear as he puts his own earpiece in.

“Where’s Y/N?” he questions the team.

“Awe, you miss me already, Cap?” you say and can hear the other’s laughter.

“You wish.” you can practically hear his eyes rolling.

“I do wish.” you answer, laughing. “I’m with Fury, don’t worry we’ll be there in time.”

You’re both suited up too when you hear loud noises coming from outside, Fury gives you a confused look but you just smile and wiggle your eyebrows playfully as you lead the way to the roof.

A helicopter lands and the pilot gets out and makes his way towards you, shaking your hand before heading downstairs where a car is waiting for him. You make your way to the pilot’s seat and Fury takes the co-pilot’s seat.

“Where did you even get this?” He questions you after putting on the headphones while you start the helicopter, ready for take off.

“You’re not the only one with connections, Director.” you answer, glancing at him with a smile and can hear him laugh next to you.

The whole time you can hear the team’s conversation, everything’s going according to plan thankfully, and nobody’s gotten hurt yet.

Just as you hear Natasha say “don’t worry, company’s coming” to who you assume is Pierce you land the helicopter on the landing pad.

You and Fury make your way inside and Pierce is nothing short of surprised at seeing Fury alive, much to your delight.

“Did you get my flowers?” he says sarcastically and, when Fury only glares at him, he turns his attention to you. “Agent.”

“Asshole.” you greet him with a smile.

“I'm glad you're here, Nick.” he turns his attention back to him.

“Really? Cause I thought you had me killed.”

“You know how the game works.” Pierce says, as calm as a sociopath.

“So why make me head of SHIELD?” Fury has to know.

“Cause you were the best and the most ruthless person I ever met.”

“I did what I did to protect people.”

“Our enemies are your enemies, Nick. Disorder, war. It's just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow, or an EMP fries Chicago. Diplomacy? Holding action, a band-aid. And you know where I learned that?” He doesn’t give him time to answer, clearly enjoying his evil mastermind speech. “Bogota. You didn't ask, you just did what had to be done. I can bring order to the lives of seven billion people by sacrificing twenty million. It's the next step, Nick, if you have the courage to take it.”

“No,” Fury says, taking Pierce to the retinal scanner, guns on him from both Nat and you “I have the courage not to.”

“Retinal scanner active.” the computer says.

“You don't think we wiped your clearance from the system?” Pierce says smugly.

“I know you erased my password, probably deleted my retinal scan, but if you want to stay ahead of me, Mr. Secretary,” he takes off his eyepatch to reveal his scarred eye and you grimace. “you need to keep both eyes open.” 

They both look into the retinal scanner, with Fury using his injured eye.

“Alpha Level confirmed.” The computer says “Encryption code accepted. Safeguards removed.”

You can hear Steve and Sam talking in your ear as you hold Pierce at gunpoint while Nat finishes uploading the files online.

Sam saying to Steve that he’s heavier than he looks makes you smile, Steve answering “I had a big breakfast” makes you almost snort because Sam made him that breakfast, but you stay professional.

You hear Sam apologizing to Steve after being grounded, his suit broken, and then Maria telling Sam that Rumow’s heading your way. Sam says he’s on it and then you hear Steve trying to plead with Bucky before he starts fighting him.

“Done.” Natasha finally says “And it's trending.”

Just then Pierce sets off the pins he gave the council members, causing it to burn a hole into them. You, Natasha and Fury point your guns at Pierce but he turns to Natasha.

“Unless you want a two inch hole in your sternum, I'd put that gun down.” Natasha doesn't back down though “That was armed the moment you pinned it on.” 

You all reluctantly lower your weapons.

You can hear Sam saying “Man, shut the hell up” and frown, then you hear him fighting probably with Rumlow and you sincerely hope Sam lands some good punches.

“Lieutenant, how much longer?” Pierce asks into his radio.

“Sixty-five seconds to satellite link. Targeting grid engaged. Lowering weapons array now.” you hear the response.

You hear Hill counting down too. “Thirty seconds, Cap!”

you can hear Steve get out a strangled “Stand by.”

You hear him struggle, then he says “Charlie-” but gets interrupted by a gunshot and you hold your breath, already imagining the worst and barely hearing Pierce talking into his radio.

Just as they’re about to give the order to fire you hear Steve again saying “Charlie locked.” and you feel like all three of you let out a breath of relief at the same time. Although your relief is short lived as you hear Steve telling Maria to fire.

You all look outside as the Helicarriers start going down.

“What a waste.” Pierce says, disgusted at the sight in front of him.

“Are you still on the fence about Rogers' chances?” Nat says as smugly as she can with an active weapon pinned to her chest, but Pierce is having none of it.

“Time to go, Councilwoman.” he grabs her arm “This way, come on. You're gonna fly me out of here.”

“You know, there was a time I would have taken a bullet for you.” Fury tells him as they start to leave.

“You already did.” Pierce glances back at him “You will again when it's useful.” before he can even finish the sentence Natasha activates a small disc that emits an electric shock through her whole body and disables the pin, giving you a chance to kick the phone out of Pierce’s hand while it reboots. 

Fury takes this time to pick up a gun and shoots twice at Pierce, then walks over to you as you kneel next to Natasha who’s unconscious on the floor.

“Romanoff!” he says “Natasha!”

“Tasha, come on!” you say desperately.

She slowly opens her eyes. “Ow.” she lets out, before looking up at you two. “Those really do sting.” 

You let out a breathless laugh and help her up, glancing back at Pierce dying behind you, a quiet ‘Hail HYDRA’ coming out of his mouth.

You help Natasha into the helicopter, before taking the pilot’s seat again, Fury next to you.

“Please, tell me you got that chopper in the air!” you hear Sam say.

“Sam, where are you?” Natasha asks him as you try to look around for him.

“41st floor, north-west corner!” he sounds like he’s out of breath.

“We're on it, stay where you are.” You say, making your way to him.

“Not an option!” You can hear him pant like he’s running and as you look up you see him jumping out a window, so you tilt the helicopter just enough to allow him to slide in through the door sideways, and then you straighten just as fast, getting out of there just in time as the whole building comes down.

“41st floor! 41st!” Sam yells once he’s caught his breath.

“It's not like they put the floor numbers on the outside of the building!” You yell back at him while glancing behind you as he glares at you.

“Hill, where's Steve?” Natasha says in the comms “You got a location on Rogers?”

You fly around the wreckage, all of you trying to locate Steve although it feels almost impossible with all the damage left by the Helicarriers. 

How can you find him? How could he even be alive after not only that fall, but all of the pieces still falling from the sky? He could’ve been knocked out, he could be at the bottom of the Pontomac, slowly drowning-

“There!” Sam interrupts your pessimistic thoughts as he yells and points at a figure along the shore of the river. “That’s him!”

You land as close as him as you can, running out with Sam beside you, Nat and Fury a little behind. As you get close you see that it is indeed Steve, kudos to Sam for his falcon eyes. 

The more you get close the more you worry, he looks bloody and beaten. When you’re finally kneeling next to him, you’re praying that he’s alive.

Sam’s hand flies to his neck and you can tell he lets out a relieved sigh, before turning to you. “He’s got a pulse.” he says and you mirror his action.

You pick him up together and take him to the helicopter, placing him inside while Nat takes the pilot’s seat this time and goes straight to the hospital.

-

With Steve being in the hospital and Fury being technically dead, the joy of being summoned at a committee hearing falls on you and Natasha. After being sworn in, the Committee General asks the first question.

“Why haven't we yet heard from Captain Rogers?” You and Natasha look at each other and she answers.

“We don't know what there is left for him to say. I think the wreck in the middle of the Potomac made his point fairly eloquently.”

“Well, he could explain how this country's expected to maintain its national security now that he, and you, have laid waste to our intelligence apparatus.”

“HYDRA was selling you lies, not intelligence.” you interject.

“Many of which you both seem to have had a personal hand in telling.” you hate to admit it but he’s got you there.

“Agents, you should know that there are some on this committee who feel, given your service record, both for this country” Scudder then looks directly at Nat “and against it, that you belong in a penitentiary, not mouthing off on Capitol Hill.” he says and it takes everything in you not to snap at him as you clench your jaw.

Natasha can see it in your face as you look at each other, so she goes ahead and talks first.

“You're not gonna put me in a prison.” her eyes are still on you “You're not gonna put any of us in a prison. You know why?” You know she's asking you to finish her sentence.

“Do enlighten us.”

“Because you need us.” you say without missing a beat, looking away from Natasha and directly into the man’s eyes. “Yes, the world is a vulnerable place, and yes, we help make it that way. But we're also the ones best qualified to defend it.”

“So if you want to arrest us, arrest us.” Nat says after a pause.

“You'll know where to find us.” you finish. 

You both get up and walk out, exchanging a small smile that's quickly hidden for the benefit of the cameras.

-

A few hours later you and Natasha get to the cemetery just as Fury’s walking away, smirking at each other when you catch the end of his sentence.

“You should be honored, gentlemen.” you say as you get closer.

“That's about as close as he gets to saying thank you.” Natasha finishes for you.

“Not going with him?” Steve asks you as he meets you halfway.

“No.” you both say at the same time.

“Not staying here?” only Natasha answers this time.

“Nah. I blew all my covers,” she glances at you “I gotta go figure out a new one.”

“That might take a while.” he points out.

“I'm counting on it.” She smiles. “That thing you asked for, I called in a few favors from Kiev.” She hands Steve a file. “Will you do me a favor? Call that nurse.”

“She's not a nurse.”

“And you're not a SHIELD agent.” you say and he smiles.

“What was her name again?” he asks.

“Sharon.” Natasha says and you add. “She's nice.”

Natasha kisses Steve on the cheek, hugs you and when she turns to walk away, he looks at you.

“Your face looks better.” you notice. “Well, as good as it can look, considering...” you trail off vaguely motioning to his face with a fake disgusted look and he laughs.

“Yeah, the serum can only do so much.” you laugh too, but then you hear Natasha and you both turn to her.

“Be careful, Steve.” she tells to him “You might not want to pull on that thread.” 

And with that, she’s gone.

“You’re not going with Nat?” he asks you as you turn back to him.

“I figured you might need a hand.” you nod to the file in his hand and Steve opens it as Sam walks up to you guys while you steal a glance yourself at the photo of Sergeant Barnes in it.

“You're going after him.” Sam says and it's not a question, it's a statement.

“You don't have to come with me.” He says, his eyes on the file.

“I know.” Sam says, after a moment of silence you finally look away from the photo of 40s Bucky and you see both men looking at you expectantly.

“Chasing a 96 year old brainwashed assassin?” you says, a smile starting to grow on your face “Sounds fun.” you state and Steve nods.

“Really?” Sam deadpans. “What are your weekends like, YLN?”

You only smirk at him in response, then you both turn your attention back to Steve, his eyes back on the file.

“So,” Sam says, “when do we start?”

[wandringaesthetic]

ugh okay

Netflix Castlevania Nocturne season 2 trailer commentary and rampant speculation:

(mostly about Alucard we all have our faves)

I love how he's animated. He is so still most of the time. Not that he can't move incredibly fast, but there is no wasted movement, does not flinch, at all, ever, facial expressions are certainly there (his little smile when he mentions Trevor, cut out my fucking heart Sam Deats et al), but very subtle. He sounds so much more sedate than he does in the other series, but the dry humor is certainly still there (who are you to call anyone sarcastic, sir?). He has seen and lost so much. Nothing surprises him. Nothing is worth any wasted effort. The impression of incredible age and weariness.

As ever, I like the fact that he is supposed to be incredibly strong but it's usually depicted in a very understated manner, like this has been true since season 1 but it took until it was drawn attention to in season 3 for me to notice he has been wielding a longsword like it's a rapier this entire damn time.

He is literally sitting like an old man exactly like those two football players in that video. What? I'm comfy. Sort of like a bat, too.

He is kind of giving me death flags??? Like more or less saying to Richter that he's got to finish the job if he can't (the reverse of Symphony of the Night where Alucard has to finish it because Richter couldn't and oooooooooo are we going to get evil/possessed/"master of the castle" Richter I must KNOW) A character like Alucard is difficult because he's OP and isn't technically a main character (anymore) so one way to solve him overshadowing the actual main characters is KILL HIM. Also, being passively suicidal in Symphony of the Night is kind of Alucard's whole thing. Like, Again, overanalyzing the 30 seconds he's in in the last season. Stating he has a kill count in the hundreds thousands?? Big if true. He's been spending most of the last 300 years killing vampires. Castlevania vamps are generally not portrayed as obligate evil and he's often defensive/admiring of vampires in series 1. What happened? (I do not like the most obvious potential answer to this. Like, I won't hate it if that's what happened but agh I want him to have had one happy lifetime, at least. Especially if we, again, take inspiration from Symphony and have him fighting their shades/reanimated corpses. Like. I would love/hate that.)

Are we ever going to explain Maria's powers in any way? If we have evil/possessed Richter I do very much like the idea of her marching in to save him.

maybe the single frame here that intrigues me most is Olrox holding back Mizrak. Toxic bara is back, baby. Perhaps it never left.

I am intrigued re: what we're doing with Juste, because, hmm, the Juste/Lydie/Maxim situationship is more or less the same as the Cecil/Rosa/Kain situationship, yes? But we got the bad ending where Lydie and Maxim are dead or worse and Juste probably killed Maxim. Like if y'all had just accepted the homoerotic rivalry as homoerotic maybe you would not be so weak to demonic possession/brainwashing/whatever and it probably wouldn't have to be like this. In contrast with the might-as-well-be-canon trephacard polycule. As ever, I'm fascinated by the implications of something that is probably never going to play out on screen. Aren't we all.

I'm glad Drolta's back, she was fun. She's the sort of character that doesn't need a reason to be back because she didn't have all that strong a reason to exist in the first place she's 99% vibes and that's ok. (though oh. ohhhhhhh. she's the succubus analogue. let's torment alucard with illusory hellworld, yes?)

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

Your thoughts on Secret Invasion so far?

Just finished watching ep3. I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Spoilers ahead!

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I'm loving the one-on-one talks quite a lot. Fury and Rhodey's chat in ep2 was intense, in this one watching Talos and Gravik was pretty cool too. I especially liked Talos' quote about humans being formidable when they're fighting a common enemy. Going public with what that group of Skrulls is doing might sound good in theory but it would cause massive chaos. After the invasions, Ultron, Thanos... you try to tell the people that a million aliens are on Earth and they can shape-shift into anybody, even take their memories. Now that is a great way to get humans to kill each other. Oh, and Fury and Talos' chat on the train... I loved that one so much. Fury got me teary-eyed when he mentioned humans merely tolerate each other. Dunno, there was something in Sam Jackson's delivery there that got to me.

And Gravik's certainty that an attack on a UN plane would get the Avengers to intervene kinda reminded me of CW regarding the bombing in Vienna. Although they didn't exactly get involved because of the UN, but still. It seems Gravik is trying to take a page from Zemo's book by how manipulative he's being. (With that said, where the hell is Sam? He's Captain America, for crying out loud! He should be in this one)

If there is one thing I would like to change though is that Fury keeps on being told all the bad things he did (or didn't do) but he rarely talks back. I don't like that. It's what he said to Talos, it feels like abuse being hurled his way. Sure, he changed and escaping after the Blip was a dick move but surely he should be able to give his side of the story. Maybe we'll see that in upcoming eps.

And another thing, I'm not a fan of Hill's mother blaming Nick for Maria's death. She was in Moscow of her own accord, if there's someone to blame it's the one who pulled the trigger, not Fury. It's more of the same, let's blame the good guys for the shit the bad guys do. Nah, I'm not a fan of that.

Oh, and I don't think G'iah is dead. If Gravik has extremis in him already, and the fact that she had checked info on that earlier in the ep, I'm hoping she's gonna make it.

So far I'm enjoying it and it's good that the fights are still there but they're not the most important part of the story. I like that the Skrulls were first refugees and innocents in the Captain Marvel movie but now there's more nuance to them.

[lovelyirony]

i have no doubt you're a busy person with a Life, but if you have the time, Sam/Maria headcanons? especially concerning him keeping her from working herself to death?

-first of all sam will forever be Head Over Heels In Love....always 

-like he sees maria first in that van and it’s like seeing a goddess herself she’s just that iconic 

-so naturally sam’s just not going to Leave It There and he says “hey do you wanna go on a date?” 

-(ow key maria thinks he’s joking because no one asks her out on a date. ever. everyone at shield either thinks she and fury are a thing (gross, he likes bleu cheese ranch dressing) or that she’s too much of a bitch

-so maria decides to take sam up on it 

-and she is surprised to find out that sam is a warm guy with a sense of humor, and she feels like she can be more of herself around him. she feels a sense of home over time 

-well. 

-maria works a TON. 

-like to the point where she has vacation days saved up from the last six years and it’s over three months and then some. she’s that hard-working, that unhealthy

-sam gets her to take a week off with him to just...do domestic things. they visit the farmers’ market, stop a policeman from writing parking tickets, and order Indian food in. (Maria swears that she’ll do anything for butter chicken, and she isn’t exactly lying) 

-maria also makes sure sam stays mostly stress-free: because of his work at the VA, there’s a lot of situations that he helps with and worries about. since maria is the more to-the-point of the two, she helps him compartmentalize and organize his personal thoughts vs. his helping thoughts 

-sam also calls fury and says “give me my girlfriend back you war pig” and then they go on dinner dates and see who makes the messiest plate when they get chicken wings 

-they both roast the absolute shit out of bucky and sharon 

(in fact both couples go on double-dates where the majority of it is just bickering. they’ve never had so much fun in their lives) 

-they love playing frisbee in the park! 

-sam bought maria rainboots and took a shaky video of maria walking in them because she’s never owned a pair and they’re weird okay stop making fun of me sam--STOP!!! 

-she gets back at him because she makes him a “love you” playlist and all five hundred songs are kidz bop. 

(he still loves her. Even if now he doesn’t sing the original lyrics to “fancy”) 

-they go get coffee in the mornings before work every Thursday at 6:30 at their local shop and the barista knows them and always has their orders 

-maria secretly ADORES hot chocolate and will drink it on any occasion 

-when they get their own house, maria wants a pool. they get a pool, and tony and pepper and morgan come over and sam sees maria grin so wide 

(they want kiddos! maria loves kiddos!) 

-their first major fight was about cheese pizza rolls (maria thought they were decent, which sam knew was wrong and went against the geneva convention.) 

(it’s a war crime to like cheese pizza rolls tbh) 

-sam’s favorite thing that maria makes is homemade pizza or homemade gingerbread houses 

-maria’s favorite thing that sam makes is a super good pork roast or creme brulee 

-they sleep together so weirdly because half the time it looks like the other is trying to push each other off the bed (and chances are, they do.) 

[imaginearyparties]

dear maria count me in

Bucky + all your expectations of my love are impossible/ surely you know I'm not easy to hold (adele)

hand in unloveable hand

tw: graphic injury, non-graphic depictions of violence, bucky being the biggest fucking asshole (but like, in a way i think i could justify as in-character)

Bucky had done a number of things to piss you off recently. Ever since the breakup he’d fluctuated between ignoring you, openly criticizing you. But almost getting you killed on a mission because he couldn’t care enough to provide backup? Really takes the fucking cake. 

Not since your time being pheremone brainwashed in the Red Room had you been so fucking angry. 

You enter the conference room fuming, slamming the door open and making a beeline for Bucky. He stands with his arms crossed, his face schooled into hard lines.

“What the hell was that?!” you shout. 

Bucky has the audacity to look affronted. His eyes linger on the bloody shell of your right ear. You had asked him multiple times to cover you in the base you guys took down today. You were incredibly lucky that the agent you'd faced alone had been a terrible shot and had barely skimmed your ear before Sam swooped down to pull you out. The asshole had been aiming for your heart.

"Should've been more careful, doll face." His smile is condescending and downright mean.

“Agent Y/l/n,” Steve gives you a pointed look from his seat at the head of the conference table. “Please try not to kill Sergeant Barnes.”

Bucky’s wide eyes are turned on Steve. Steve’s look towards him is pointed too; you deserved that one, pal. You smirk.

“If you could both please take a seat, we have a lot to discuss.”

You huff, but pull back one of the rolling chairs and throw yourself down into it. Bucky sulks next to you. You both cross your arms over your chest. 

“Whatever is going on between you needs to stop, now. Your conduct on missions has been reckless and it has endangered the entire team.”

Bucky scoffs, looks at you. Steve thumps a hand against the glass conference table.

“Agent Y/l/n came very close to losing her life today so I have no idea what’s funny to you right now, Sergeant.”

Bucky scoffs. “If you’re so worried that Agent Y/l/n is going to get hurt, maybe she shouldn’t be on this team.”

You nearly flinch. It’s an insecurity that runs deep in you and Bucky knows that, knows you think you’re not good enough for the team. You turn to look at Bucky.

“There’s not a single other member of this team that you wouldn’t have backed up today. It’s almost like you want me dead.”

You wish he would just say sorry. You can see it clear as day, the anguish that flashes through his eyes. But he rolls them anyways, says, “I mean, I would make things easier.”

“Barnes,” Steve warns. Neither of you listen to him.

You can recall nightmares, tears rolling down his face and “they took you” “I’m so scared that you’ll get hurt and I won’t be fast enough” said between sobs. Had you really hurt Bucky so badly, that he didn’t care for you at all?

Your mind reels from the hurt. Externally, your nostrils flare and your voice goes cold. 

“If you’re so unprepared to prevent a teammate’s death then maybe you’re the one who’s not qualified for this team.”

Bucky’s neck turns red, a familiar sign of his anger. His face remains Winter Soldier blank.  

“I trained you myself. If you can’t keep up during missions it’s because you’re getting sloppy. Besides, it’s not my responsibility to look after you. I’m a tactical master, I’m not here to babysit.”

“Are you?!” rage and hurt overwhelm all your senses, turning your lips loose for half-though words. “Or are you just a scared little boy who acts all tough because he’s terrified he’s an unloveable fucking killing machine!”

“Agent Y/l/n!” Steve roars. It cuts through some of the anger pounding in your ears. 

Bucky’s breath comes in short gasps, his muscled chest heaving although you haven’t touched him. His eyes are wide, face contorted in a pain that’s usually reserved for his nightmares. The victory is savory on your tongue. 

It’s a dirty satisfaction, knowing the truth of Bucky Barnes. Knowing that, no matter how practiced his blank stare is or how beyond human capacity they’ve enhanced his cells, James Barnes is just a broken man who did not have the luxury of mourning his life after it was taken from him. 

You look towards Bucky, ready to see the hurt he so casually dishes out to you written all over his face. But when your eyes meet his, all you see is a dreadful, gut wrenching recognition. 

“Takes one to know one,” Barnes mutters, more to himself than to you. 

You feel like you’ve been doused with cold water and at the exact same time, slapped in the face. Your mouth falls open, perhaps to save yourself the embarrassment of such a staggering defeat, but Steve cuts you off. 

“Y/l/n, you’re dismissed.” 

Your Captain’s voice leaves no room for argument. Not that you have much motivation to stay, the tears pressing against your eyelids threatening to burst through at any moment. 

You nod and storm out without another glance at Bucky.

[themotherofhorses]

or else they better dig two | b.b.

summary: the man standing before you was not your husband. not in the slightest. However, he was sorry. so fucking sorry. his white eyes showed you that. 

pairing: bucky barnes x wife!reader

warning(s): angst, major wounds, kinda zombie!bucky?, main character/variant death, the ol’ winter soldier but 10x worse. bucky’s variant is from earth-807128 and, lemme tell ya, it is absolutely brutal in that universe.

a/n: um, yea, well, decided to give this a try. it’s short but simple. inspired by The Band Perry’s “Better Dig Two”.

It had been almost two months since you last seen your husband. Five weeks since he went complete radio silent. And thirteen days since his identification marker disappeared off the grid. 

You were quite concerned, to say the least. 

A few times would Bucky not answer for days at a time. The longest was five weeks, but that was before he sent you a surprised "I'm coming home bby" text, and his tiny bright-red marker sparkled as he grew closer to both New York and you. 

But his ID marker had never disappeared off the S.H.I.E.L.D intel atlas. Not once during his entire career as an Avenger/S.H.I.E.L.D agent. That’s why you knew something was wrong. Terribly wrong.

You could feel it, deep in your bones. It made you feel a little sick.

Nick Fury was instantly made aware of this situation. He spent ten minutes just staring at the screen before directing both Steve and Sam to pack up. They would be deployed to Bucky's last known location and do a thorough areal search. It could be several reasons why he isn't showing up anymore, Maria Hill murmured, From a possibly fatal wound to an enemy ambush. 

"Don't worry," she said with a tight-lipped smile that did not reach her eyes, "We'll find him. Or, better yet, Steve will. Cap would not allow his best friend to vanish off the face of the earth again. You know that. I know that. Everyone in this compound knows it."

With nothing really left to do, you wished Steve and Sam a bit of good luck and assured them that you’d update with anything new that came up in the database. It would take them roughly eight hours to reach Belgrade. Time was ticking. You felt nauseous. 

Three days later, you received a much-needed update that didn’t do anything to alleviate your fears. Bucky's S.H.I.E.L.D-issued backpack was dug up near a desolate cabin within the Molin Forest. Scrapes of dark blood splattered the cabin's flooring, along with the most overpowering and appalling smell. It smells like a...like a dead body, Sam stated, covering his nose. Beside him, Steve dropped his head. 

Tony left the room and Natasha threw her arms around you, holding you close as you wailed. Fury gave them the choice: come back home or search for the body. 

They chose the latter. But they could not locate the remains of your husband. of your Bucky.

You felt nauseous again. 

It had been almost three weeks since then. Condolences begin to pile in. “I am so sorry…It must be so devastating to lose your husband…To be a widow this young…If there is anything I can do….” 

Then, the U.S. Army reached out, requesting if you wish for your husband to be buried in Arlington. 

“He’ll be laid to rest alongside other members of the WWII Howling Commando Unit. There will be a plot next to him, reserved for you as his wife, of course.”

It was almost too much to take. 

You want to scream and shout and cry because your husband is not dead, dammit. 

To take your mind off of the most… recent issues, you decide to tuck yourself away inside your bedroom and reorganize the closet. On the left side, your clothing. On the right, Bucky's. You color-coordinated his Henley's and straightened up his boots, wondering if you should polish them as well. 

No. Bucky prefers for his boots to be scuffed up. He likes to see the tiny scratches when the sunlight hits them. They’re like ‘little badges’ as he jokingly says. 

You leave them alone and move on to the next. 

As you're folding away shirts into the dresser, you hear a slight stumble outside. It sounds like someone almost tripped. You immediately stop what you're doing and listen. The footsteps are heavy against the hardwood. You could recognize them from a mile away. 

"Bucky!" You shriek, feeling like crying from utter relief as you run towards him. "For the gods' sake, Bucky! You fucking terrified me! Where were you-" You suddenly stop in your steps, eyes widening in horror.

“Bucky?” 

It's Bucky. But it's... it's not your Bucky. 

Your hands are quick in an attempt to trap the ghastly scream that escapes your mouth. Somewhere, in the background, you can hardly make out FRIDAY asking if you require immediate emergency assistance. 

It won't help, you think. It won't do jack shit. 

Because Bucky is standing before you, 6′ft or so in the Winter Soldier suit.

Thick, ebony leather from neck to toe, with numerous weaponry and devices strapped to his waist. One thigh holds a pistol, his back carries another. His old metal arm, the one with the red star, hums with electricity. Over his mouth is the same black muzzle, which hides away the majority of his face. It leaves just his eyes to be seen, a pale white that is practically blinding.

“Bucky...”

A fat tear drips down your cheek as you take notice of the pitchfork buried deep in his chest. It's still fresh, blood trickling onto the floor. It matches the dried red along his scalp. 

Yet, despite all his injuries and everything, Bucky stands motionless, every so often a twitch in his shoulders. 

"Bucky...Oh, gods, what did they do to you, baby?"   

He blinks, once, twice, four times. You stand, hushed, as you await his next move. Then, the skin between his brows creases, and he mumbles something. It's muffled, it's weak, yet you can hear it perfectly.

It's your name. 

"Kill me. Kill me. Kill me..."

"Do it. Do it. Do it��" 

"Please. Please. Please..."

You cannot move, nor can you think. Instead, you feel that familiar urge to suddenly vomit. When he sees that you haven’t done anything, he recites his pleas, each one a massive stab at your heart.

"Kill me. Kill me. Kill me..."

"Do it. Do it. Do it…" 

"Please. Please. Please..."

You take a deep breath, biting back a large sob. In the back, amongst the walls, FRIDAY lets you know that Steve, Sam, Natasha, and Clint are rushing their way up to your floor.

“Do not worry, Mrs. Barnes. An on-site emergency medical team is on its way. ETA five minutes.”

But you know that any attempts would all be in vain. 

There is no saving this Bucky, whoever he may be with these white eyes. You hope Steve will understand when he enters and sees the aftermath. Maybe he will if he realizes that this Bucky wasn’t yours, you tell yourself as you reach for the gun at your side. 

And this would’ve been your last choice in any scenario given.

"I’m so sorry but I won’t have you endure this any longer. I’m better than that. I know it’s painful. Don’t worry, though, I will avenge you. Steve will avenge you. We‘ll all avenge you.” You raise your gun, finger heavy on the trigger.

He makes a deep drawl that kind of resembles a Steeevvvieee?

You nod, blinking back tears, “If we meet again, I beg you, please forgive me...”

A second later, Bucky collapses to the ground, forehead wet with new blood.

“Th...Thankkk...Yooouu...”

You have to remind yourself that this wasn’t your Bucky. Your Bucky isn’t dead on the floor with a bullet in his brain and a pitchfork in his chest. He’s gonna come back, you repeat, rocking yourself back and forth as you eye all the blood pooling around the body.

That wasn’t him. 

It was not. 

He’s gonna come home. 

Or else they better dig two.

[headinthestaticsky]

The Phenomenon of the Immortal Sun: Jasper Hale x Fleur Swan, Chapter 7

None of the characters in Twilight belong to me, all rights go to Stephenie Meyer.

Authors note: I have no idea how this turned out... hope you like it. This is also a short chapter... I wanted to pace this a certain way so I hope it's not disorientating.

"He's so hollow My baby, made him blind until he wasted fate So I'm left behind until he curse my sorrow But I know on mother earth I see the weather"

Mother Earth by: BANKS

One Week Later...

Burning...weakness, the constant chase for satisfaction that could never fully be fulfilled. Never being able to get enough blood was finally getting to me, my mind was playing cruel tricks on me and I had no control over my emotions. It felt like I was a newborn again, I wanted to snap at everyone who talked to me, no matter how kind they were. I remember Carlisle told me when he first turned that he tried to kill himself by starvation, the hunger had driven him so mad he was desperate to drink anything and a deer was in his line of view. I guess the madness came at a good time for him and I knew that I could get a moment of clarity soon.

I was thankful Sam didn't do anything brash when he found out I was pregnant. I guess us being so close all those years had a hand to play in his decisions. I haven't heard anything about Bella and Edward... it concerned me a bit. I knew both had vindictive tendencies and I was just waiting for them to strike. I landed back on the white couch, my black clouded, and dark circled eyes were just staring at the couch...It felt like I could burn a hole into my eyes in a constant state of fixation on that same spot. No blood could sidate me, whether it was animal, or human. The familiar touch of my love was the only thing anchoring me down, reminding me of who I was, and who I will eventually become again. I sat up and stretched my neck, I took in a deep breath before puffing it out again. Esme, Alice, Dean, Emmett, and Carlisle had all gone out for a quick hunt so they could be at their strongest just in case I went into labor. For now, it was just Bree, Jasper, and Rosalie with me.

"You know I just realized something," Rosalie said, looking at me.

"What?" I inquired back.

"You two have never talked about baby names, what are they?"

I let out a small chuckle before turning to Jasper, a smirk was on his face as well.

"Well, I thought of Amelia or Rebecca for a girl and Louis or Vincent for a boy... I have another boy name but... I'm not too sure about it." I answered back.

"Those aren't... terrible. I am actually impressed. I think Louis and Amelia are beautiful names" Rosalie replied a smile was on her face.

" I am going to love this child with my entire being but... I never want to go through this ever again. I mean... I feel like I am going crazy."

Jasper rubbed my shoulder comfortingly, he could sense the guilt I felt for feeling like that.

"I could only imagine how bad you must feel, I couldn't handle not drinking blood for 2 days." Bree added.

"Just wait, when they'll come, what happening now will seem minuscule." Jasper comforted.

Rosalie sat next to me now, nodding in agreement with Jasper.

I smiled down at my stomach and sighed.

"Yeah... it will."

I had gotten up with the help of Jasper and Rosalie, Bree had walked into the kitchen to get me some more animal blood when suddenly, the world went black and a searing pain hit me in every nerve of my body. I could hear the echoing of Rose, Bree, and Jasper's panic filled the room. My vision came back and I looked down at my stomach, it was beginning to crack. In my moment of faintness, I was moved into Carlisle's office. I had blacked out again, hearing the frantic voice of Rosalie on the phone.

POV Change: Jasper's

It had happened so quickly, no one knew what had triggered it. Rosalie and I helped her up and as soon as she got to the counter, she doubled over in pain and blackout. She then started to fall to the ground losing her grip on the counter, her shirt had lifted up slightly and I saw her stomach. It was littered in cracks as if she was beginning to shatter. I caught her and ran her into Carlisle's office, everything was already laid out for her. Bree had run in a given Rosalie the phone, she dialed quickly hoping Carlisle would have received the call so far away.

"Hello?" I heard Carlisle's voice through the phone.

"Carlisle!? It's Fleur... I think she went into labor! You need to get back here now her skin is starting to crack." Rosalie said franticly, if she was a human she would've passed out by now due to lack of oxygen.

"I won't be able to make it back in time you three just need to listen to what I say!" Carlisle demanded.

"Yeah okay... what do we do?" I asked, Rosalie had put the phone on speaker.

"You're going to have to break her skin all the way, if it is cracking so severely she won't be able to give birth naturally without dying. Break the skin on the lower part of her stomach, that's where they'll come out. No knife will be able to penetrate her skin and morphine won't affect her."

I swallowed hard before doing what Carlisle said, as soon as I started cracking it however I could hear Fleur starting to scream, it must've woken her up. Rosalie and Bree jogged toward her trying to comfort her.

"Hey, hey, you're going to be fine okay? This is the hardest part... hold my hands if you have to." Rosalie said lowering herself down to Fleur's level. Fleur didn't seem to hear her, she was too concentrated on the pain. I felt every part of it, it reminded me of when I was with Maria but... I never knew I could feel something this strong before, it was unbearable.

"What now!?" I asked demandingly.

"Do you have her skin broken all the way?"

As soon as he said that, a gush of blood expelled from her body, it was probably from the human blood the protected those organs.

Everything else had faded out and I quickly grabbed them. A wail could be heard across the room. I could hear Rosalie gasp before laughing joyfully, and Bree just stood in the back, she looked shocked. Fleurs screaming had stopped and she sighed in relief, she still sounded weak. I held them close to me and smiled, I looked into their eyes and other facial features. He was a spitting image of his mother.

"Her skin should heal on its own now, it may take a few days," Carlisle explained before the phone went dead.

"Looks like you were right Darlin, it's a boy."

"Oh he's perfect Fleur!" Rosalie exclaimed.

"He's beautiful... Ezra is beautiful..." She then blacked out again...

"Come back Fleur...please." I murmured.

[joshua-flipping-washington]

EllieDina Week- Day 3: Trouble.

Oh boy, this came out much more different than I was expecting. But I hope it reads alright! I'm late as always, apologies.

Rating: Teens and up.

Warnings: Pregnancy talk, nothing too serious. Just thought I'd add that as a warning.

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After the events that carried out in Seattle, Abby leaving Ellie and Dina battered and bloody on the floor of the theater. Ellie's mind, though her head was pounding with a vengeance. Was only focused on getting to Dina, on making sure that she was alright.

Ellie rolled onto her side with painstaking effort, managing to push herself up onto her knees. She crawls over to Dina, the arm that Abby had broken hanging uselessly at her side. " Dina. " Ellie says in a frantic tone, her voice is thick with emotion and she can taste her own blood as it coats her throat.

Ellie carefully pulls Dina close with the arm that isn't injured, she knows that she shouldn't move her because of the arrow in her shoulder, or the fact that Abby had beat her within an inch of her life. Tears fill Ellie's dull green eyes as she holds Dina close to her chest. " Babe… You're alright. Come on, wake up… Please, I just need you to be okay. "

Ellie's eyes flicker down to stare at Dina's chest, it is faintly rising and falling as she inhales and exhales. She let's out a soft breath of relief at knowing Dina was still breathing,pressing a gentle kiss to Dina's bloody temple.

Ellie's heart ached at knowing that if it hadn't have been for the boy with Abby, Dina could be dead right now. Just like Jesse and Tommy were. They both would be alive right now if it wasn't for Ellie, it was the same with everyone in her life that she cared about. Riley, Tess, Sam, Henry and… Joel. They all ended up getting killed because of her.

She refused to let that happen to Dina, she was going to make sure that she made it. Ellie was going to keep her safe, to the best of her abilities. She was in fact, only human after all.

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It had been about seven months since they had left Seattle, one of the biggest shocks they'd had was finding out that Tommy was in fact, still alive. He was royally fucked, though- In terms of mobility. But he was learning to get along just fine with the help of Maria, and his good friend whiskey.

Ellie and Dina had moved to the outskirts of Jackson, into a small two-story farm house just like Dina had mentioned way back when, on their first day in Seattle. It had a huge yard, which some of the guys from Jackson helped Ellie fence in. And a decent sized barn for their sheep, most of which had comical or pun-y names.

Dina was standing in the kitchen in front of the sink, washing the left over dishes from the night before. Ellie was notoriously known for leaving the dishes soaking over night in the sink, not liking to deal with them in the moment. She hummed softly to herself as she scrubbed a plate, a fond smile making it's way onto her face as Ellie enters the room.

Ellie stepped up behind Dina, and gently wrapped her arms around her girlfriend. Her hands rested lightly on the growing bump of Dina's stomach, she was already almost eight months along. Ellie pressed a tender kiss to the side of Dina's head, slowly trailing butterfly kisses down her neck. " Babe, why don't you come and relax upstairs with me for a bit? The doctor did say for you to start taking it easy. "

Dina laughed softly as Ellie pressed close to her, hands resting gently on her baby bump as she wrapped her arms around her. Dina craned her neck slightly as Ellie kissed softly along her neck. But then came the one thing Dina had really began to hate hearing. She sighed heavily, giving a good natured roll of her eyes. " Ellie, I'm fine. Besides, if I didn't do these dishes, they'd just sit here until we have more from dinner tonight, and you know it. "

Ellie snorted sheepishly and she nuzzled her face into the crook of Dina's neck, her breath tickling the other girls skin as she spoke. " Yeah, I can't even lie about it. You know me too well, but come on. How about- I finish off these dishes, and you go upstairs and rest. You've been on your feet all afternoon, Dina. "

Dina let out a reluctant sigh, but as she did she set down the rag she'd been using to clean the dishes with. She turned around in Ellie's embrace and couldn't help but smile at the loving look on Ellie's face. " Alright- I relent, I'll try and relax for a bit. You are such a sap, you do know that, right? "

Ellie couldn't even feign mock hurt at the comment, she knew that it was true. She leaned forward and pressed a loving kiss to Dina's lips. " I know, but only a sap for you, babe. Now go- I got this. " Ellie released Dina of her embrace, and gently shooed a laughing Dina out of the kitchen and towards the stairs.

Dina was more thankful than she was letting on as she walked up the stairs, she had started to feel the beginning of a headache ebbing it's way in. Being pregnant was more of an experience than she could even imagine, turns out you feel gross a lot, your hormones are all over the place, your back aches and because of the baby pressing down on your bladder- You had to pee almost all the time. And pregnancy brain was definitely real.

Dina entered their bedroom and immediately kicked off her boots, relief washing over her as she sank down onto the mattress. " Okay, maybe Ellie was right about relaxing. Yeah, what do you think, huh? " She said softly as she gently rubbed her hand over her stomach, she smiled happily at the light bump against her hand. " I can't wait to meet you, little one. "

Her brown eyes widened slightly at the sudden tightening feeling of her abdomen, she knew that she shouldn't panic, but that was her minds first instinct. " No, no- I'm not ready to meet you yet, it's too early. " She said with a whimper, and then immediately called out for Ellie.

Dina's tone had enough of a panicked edge to it as she called out to Ellie, that she had dropped the final plate she'd been washing on the kitchen floor with a crash, rushing up the stairs and to their room without a second thought. She stood in the doorway, eyes wide with confusion and fear. " Dina? Dina, what's wrong? "

Dina was sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyes are closed and her hand is resting on her stomach. She opens her eyes with a shuddering laugh, tears glistening on the surface. " I don't know if it's just because I'm panicking, but swear I just had a contraction. "

Ellie stepped into the room and stopped in front of Dina, gently cupping her face. Her eyes were filled with concern, but then the things the doctor had told them and the stuff she'd read in one of the pregnancy books came flooding back to her. " Babe, it's okay. Come on, sit with me. Let's wait and see if the feeling comes back, or gets more intense or close together. "

Dina gave a small nod of her head, moving up towards the middle of the bed. Her mind still racing, the unshed tears threatening to fall. Ellie climbed up onto the bed, and gently pulled Dina into her lap. She gently brushed her fingers through Dina's curls, humming softly. " Just tell me what you feel, I'm thinking it might just be Braxton-Hicks. "

Dina and Ellie sat there for thirty minutes, the tightening coming and going, getting weaker as time went on. " I think that they are done now… " Dina placed her head in her hands, and laughed in disbelief. " I can't believe I forgot that can happen, and I'm the one who's pregnant. "

Ellie kissed Dina's shoulder and gently rubbed her back. " Hey, you have a literal human being growing inside of you. I think you are allowed to forget a thing or two. "

Dina smiled softly at how sweet Ellie could be, when she wanted to be. " Well, I'm glad to have you by my side. I was… Seriously freaking out at the thought of having this baby early. " She turned her torso slightly and pressed her lips to Ellie's.

They soon went to sleep, holding each other close. Dina feeling more at ease knowing that Ellie had her back.

[iam93percentstardust]

For the prompt list, Tell me I'm wrong and Marry Me

I always told myself I would never write post-Civil War. Apparently I lied (although we’re going to ignore that Thanos ever happened so we’re pretending the mcu ended after Civil War). This got long af but I hope you like it!

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The first time Steve asks Tony to marry him, Tony doesn’t even hesitate to tell him no. Steve isn’t terribly surprised. They’ve only been dating for two weeks. Steve had gone back to the tower after SHIELD had fallen, strode up to Tony, and gotten as far as, “As the world’s leading expert on waiting too long,” before Tony had stopped him by kissing him. It’s been two whirlwind weeks since then and he’s already certain that he wants to spend the rest of his life with him but asking him right after the first time they have sex had probably been a bad idea.

So, no, Steve isn’t surprised Tony tells him no.

He’s more surprised that Tony says sleepily, “Ask me again in the morning.” 

He means to. He really does. But the morning brings with it a board meeting that Tony’s running late for and a possible sighting of Bucky and he forgets all about it.

The second time he asks Tony to marry him, they’ve just recovered the scepter and cleaned out the last of Hydra’s bases and he is drunk off of Asgardian mead.

“Tell me I’m wrong,” he slurs drunkenly. “We’d be good together.”

Tony laughs and pats his back, a wistful little smile on his face. “We’re already good together, Winghead. But tell you what: ask me again in the morning and maybe I’ll say yes.”

But then Ultron happens and all thoughts of marrying Tony are driven out of his mind.

The third time he asks Tony to marry him, a city is falling from the sky and Clint is fighting an army of robots with a bow and arrow and Steve is furious with Tony, so fucking furious, but he also knows that it’s as much the Stone’s fault as it is Tony and Bruce’s, probably more so. He’ll apologize for his outbursts later, when they’re both calmer. Right now though, when there’s practically no chance of them making it out of there alive, he wants to know what Tony’s answer would be.

He switches to a private comm and, as he’s ripping the heart out of a robot, asks, “Marry me now?”

Tony laughs, breathless and exhilarated. “We’re not doing death confessions, Steve. Ask me again when this is over.”

By the time it’s over, Pietro is dead and it’s no longer the right time.

He decides to wait until asking him again, waiting until he can do the proposal properly with a ring and everything. But the moment is never right. Tony leaves the Avengers and Steve gets caught up training the new guys and they never have the time to be together anymore. Tony doesn’t like to be around the Compound much, reminded of everything he’d just given up, and Steve doesn’t like to be around the tower, reminded of everything they’d lost. They’re drifting apart and he hates that, hates that their relationship is falling apart even though he knows that he wants to spend the rest of his life with Tony Stark.

And then Tony is caught up in something political, something that he hates, something that he won’t share with Steve, which means that it must be bad.

Tony tells him, “I’ll tell you about it once it’s fixed,” but it never seems to be fixed. It’s been two months since the last time he saw Tony so when Nat needs to go to the tower to get her Widow’s Bites fixed, he goes with her.

“I have a question for you,” he says once Nat has disappeared to go talk to Pepper. His hand drifts toward his pocket where he can feel the outline of the ring box. 

Tony looks at him expectantly. Steve opens his mouth.

And Tony’s phone rings and FRIDAY says, “Boss, it’s him again,” and Tony groans.

“Ask me once I’m done with this?” he asks and Steve nods.

Except-

Sam calls in the middle of Tony’s conversation to tell him Rumlow’s been spotted in Lagos. He gives Tony an apologetic look and Tony just flaps his hand for him to go. They part without saying goodbye, without even a kiss, and Steve wonders when they got to this point.

Everything goes wrong in Lagos and then things go from bad to worse the moment Tony says “Accords” and then Peggy is dead and then the UN is attacked and people are blaming Bucky - Bucky - and he’s running to catch him before anyone else does.

And things are going from worse to worst as Bucky is triggered and Steve is calling Tony to apologize but he can’t take Bucky back to the UN and Tony is apologizing for not telling him about the Accords and Sharon kisses him...

He’s never hidden his relationship with Tony from anyone. He knows that Sharon knows they’ve been dating. So when had they gotten to the point that people assumed they were no longer together?

They’re fighting in Germany and it’s worse this time because shame is burning in the pit of his stomach, shame that he can’t tell Tony about - Sharon is his cousin - and Nat is letting them go, attacking a king so they can make it to Siberia.

Tony finds them in Siberia. Steve had thought things were bad before but he apparently had no idea. He’d told Tony after SHIELD fell that he thought Hydra had killed his parents but there’s a difference between knowing and seeing and an even bigger difference between knowing that a shadowy organization killed them and knowing that it was your partner’s best friend.

Tony attacks. Steve doesn’t blame him. But he knows Tony even after everything’s gone wrong. He knows that if he doesn’t stop this, Tony will regret what he does. So he stops him. But everything is too much, the shame and the guilt and the regret are clouding his mind, and he takes it too far.

He calls Pepper as he’s getting Bucky outside, chokes out, “I fucked up,” and that’s when he finds out that Tony has a contingency plan for him, that during the flight to Siberia, he’d set up somewhere for them to go if things went south.

Just like Tony: always taking care of him.

He goes with T’Challa, just like Tony had planned. He settles Bucky in Wakanda, just like Tony had suggested. He breaks the team out of the Raft with the help of the specs Tony provided. And then he sends a letter and a phone, begging for forgiveness and ending it with: I wanted to ask you before this happened. It’s the wrong time now but I want you to know that I wanted to ask. Marry me?

Tony texts him back: Ask me when you’re all home again.

Except it takes time, time for Tony to arrange pardons, time to swing favor back in their direction, and Steve hates waiting. He and Tony meet up once a month in odd locations, first to talk things out and then to rekindle their relationship. It’s hard and it takes months of meeting for things to get back to where they once were or maybe they’re better this time. Maybe they trust each other more, talk to each other more, listen to each other more.

They’re in a villa in Italy this month, owned by Tony Stark or maybe by Maria Carbonell, the details are a little fuzzy. Tony is dozing next to him, naked, covered only by a thin sheet. The windows are open, letting in a warm breeze. It’s idyllic and lovely and Steve has the sudden realization that the only reason he wants a pardon is so he can come home to Tony. He doesn’t want to pick up the shield anymore, not when the arc reactor flickering is still playing behind his eyes every time he closes them. Bucky would make a good Captain America, Sam an even better one. He wants to come home to Tony, in his bed, in his home, in his life.

“Marry me,” he says. Tony rolls over to face him and starts to open his mouth. Steve stops him with a kiss. “No more waiting, no more asking you again. I know you wanted me to be sure but Tony, I’ve been sure for two and a half years. Marry me.”

Tony smiles. “Yes.”

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I have this thing, that when an idea gets in my head, I either get it out on paper or it will create a traffic jam in my head and bugger up everything. So, not including my ongoing Fics, which includes the Gold Universe as part 4 is still nearly finished, I just need that last push on it. These are Ideas that can have anything from a few scenes, an idea, plots, or several chapters.

So I call this -

Winteriron WIP

(because what else 😅, I have a problem.)

In Fire & Flames - In this universe, Phoenixes and Humans live together, if one species dies then the other will too. When a Phoenix does for good, lots of natural disasters happen, starts with Tony'parents dying and then Rhodey, who is also a Phoenix, finds Tony. Who is now familyless and dying as lone phoenixes tend to die. There are several different kinds, and they come in pairs general. Golden and Ice, for example, Golden are high in magic, Ice tends to protect, especially the rare Golden, it's more tribes than individuals, there is no requirement for who likes who. It's surprising how much making a few other Avengers phoenixes tweaks things here and there, this actually goes up to the fight in Siberia and is one of the bigger WIP's. (26k)

Flash of Gold - Avengers are shifters or humans with magic, and they think they know what Tony is. They believe he is a human with magic, but they notice that he has some shifter traits, which is odd as shifters can't have magic in this AU. Only in very old stories and myth. Tony, however, is a dragon, which are myth. Instead of being like most shifters a, a human that shifts to something, he is the reverse. It only has a few scenes. Full shebang, team as Family. Steve is even a good guy. James is brought to the tower after being found and slowly integrated into the group and is wondering wtf Tony is. (13k)

The Operative Program - Howard was never meant to be a father; he was a weaponsmith. So he took the red room and the wolf spider programs and decided to create himself an Operative that he hoped would be the darker side to help Steve when he found him. Two sides of the same coin, one for the light and one to work in the shadows, Tony would be under Steve's control, he would be a weapon for the man who only picked up a shield. (Also assassin Tony is just fun.) Tony in this is a mash-up really, Tony traits, like Gold but different as he has been trained his entire life, the only reason he has developed a sense of self is Rhodey and the fact his parents died at 17. Rhodey got there first after the car crash, getting to Tony before anyone else who knew what he was could potentially claim him. Tony definitely collects people. Yinsen and Vanko for example. Chapters from Ironman up to Avengers (not complete). But enjoyed myself rewriting some out of sequence chapters, so there is a nice big scene in Siberia. (15k)

Another Persons Wish - Now this was based on a post I saw going around. Person A is married to Person B. Person A is looking back at their life and wondering if they should have married B, etc. So, A is offered a wish. Poof. Goodbye Marriage. Person A is Steve, and the story is from Tony, person B's POV. It goes from Tony planning his anniversary(because I was apparently extremely angsty when I started this!) to waking up in the past, alone and wondering what the fuck has happened. 6 chapters entirely written. Chapter 7 is in a different file and in progress when I dabble on it. (30k)

Tarnished Gold - This is an AU from my AU AU XD. Basically similar set up to the Gold Universe, Tony escapes Hydra Captivity but is brought in by Rhodey instead of spending 2 years on his own cleaning up Hydra. He only spends about 7 months before Rhodey convinces him to come in. Few other tweaks here and there but that is just side. Rhodey and James are pals too. The plot here is Howard and Maria are brought back from the Dead and Rhodey is trying to work out how to tell them what has happened and that he can't just bring them to Tony, because he doesn't know if Tony will remember them yet. Tony is a little less 'give me orders, and I'll gut you, and more 'orders made things easier'. I basically flipped his and James reactions from the original Gold universe. Tony is more in need of a hug. It's very loosely put together. I wanted something where Howard was a good dad to offset the fact I kind of made him Hydra in the next piece, and I wanted a good family man Howard with the bringing the parents back because I love reading fics that bring Howard and Maria back. (9k)

Sins of The Father - Arno has just buried his father. His mother is in a coma, he is 20 and mourning his life now he's expected to take on the business when a visitor flips his work upside down worse than the phone call about the crash. His Father? Part of a program that summoned a creature known as a Void Walker. (A creature from the Void Loki fell into, the only native species to that area, most others can't survive the void, so Loki will read as Void Touched and is 'To Be Protected' because I think that could shake up the Avengers section nicely.) Oh and he has Howards DNA. So Arno is freaked that he has a brother, that someone released and sent to him and Arno is 100% sure he is not meant to deal with severe traumatised half-human assassins that could be his kid brother. That is how Arno meets Tony and becomes very invested and turns up big brother protective instinct to 13. When summoned they're tired to a person and has to obey orders, that person was chosen as The Asset under the idea he can't disobey, which obviously fails as Winter does everything to protect Tony, including freeing him and sending him to Arno. His last order is that Tony is not allowed to go looking for or rescue Winter, which I think will be some nice drama when Bucky gets brought in (I really like this one) It has mostly set up but 2 scenes for in the future, Tony finding Coulson threatening Arno in IM2 and the data dump. (21k) (in this S/S Helped is Yelped, I'd fix it, but I've been working on this post forreeever)

Blood and an Arc - This came about from reading the Tony is a vampire fic and noticing that when he gets turned, generally Tony hates being a vampire. There aren't many where he comes back from Afghanistan a vampire and goes, huh... Well. This could be interesting. Loosely based on Vamp the Masquerade but I've tweaked it because my brain takes ideas and then runs off madly into the sunset. It is however utterly all over the place, some from Ironman and then random out of sequence chapters that I'm unsure about as I hadn't slept in a very long time on writing them and Tony went kind of Spike-ish calling James 'Pet'. I do like the idea of Tony fully embracing his changes. Yinsen never intended Tony to live, so he did something extra whilst turning him, so he is not an ordinary baby vampire and is convinced (justifiably so) that if he meets any other vamps, they'll try to kill him. In notes have Sam considering being a werewolf who works out Tony is a vamp and freaks out, because Vampires vs Werewolves and Tony is utterly confused and tells Sam he smells of mint (seriously, insomnia) Sam is baffled to find out the centuries of hatred that is claimed to be instinctual is actually taught. Sam gets kind happy he has a Vamp friend. (20k)

The Original Plan - This sets up around the end of the Mandarin (because honestly, I prefer working with Tony that has powered, especially because James has the serum and I personally think it would expand life span more than shown in Endgame. So I like evening things out and powered Tony is my jam) Tony has a bunch of plans, and they go awry. He doesn't see why and has zero clue what's going on. It's because no matter how well he plans this out, he's caught up in other people's plans. Steve is a little more "End goal justify the anything and everything." In other words, getting Bucky back is his plan and everyone are just pawns in said plan. I've taken that tactical genius title and also pushed him a little darker. After Ultron, he brings Wanda on for 3 reasons. 1 Precedence. 2 Fixing Bucky. 3 Making sure Tony doesn't find out about his parents and making sure he is on the team and available to fix Bucky's arm. That last bit changes things as instead of pulling away from the Avengers, Tony fully moves into the compound(just after AOU, it's not good). There will be no accords and Steve will find Bucky and just move him in and general plans on telling no one about the Winter Soldier. I summed up a chunk of AOU in this format, and I liked it (in an angst and pain fashion.) But it's quite long for a screenshot, so here's a chunk. Bucky is being brought in soon, but as it is, Tony is not having a good time, there might be Wanda conditions in his mind that Steve can use to convince Tony to do things... Also, because he is living there, I couldn't justify Sam not noticing there is something very wrong, so he is asking questions he didn't in canon as Tony's PTSD is more in his face living together you know? (16k)

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Dame from 1940s

Characters: Steve Rogers, Reader, Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Sam Wilson

Summary: where the reader captured by the HYDRA and made her the first subject to test the time travel to the future.

Word Count: I lost track, sorry.

Warnings: Language, I guess? NOT PROOFREAD

A/N: I was about to request this to other writers but I decided to try to write this on my own. This is like a scenario in my head and I decided, why not try to write it and see if it goes well. Anyways, forgive me for my poor writings. English is not my first language, and I hope you guys like my work! Let's get start and enjoy! ☺️

GIFS ARE NOT MINE

"Dr, she's not waking up. Should we proceed now?" the woman asked as sweat forming on her forehead. She may not want to continue the operstion but she had no choice.

"Yes. We don't have much time. And the result will be the same even she's asleep or not. In a count of three. One....two... three.."

As the workers starts the machine, the woman can't but to turn around because she can't watch the poor woman who had no idea of what's gonna happen to her. She just silently pray that the operation will worked out. In a matter of seconds, the light around the room vanished and the operation was a success. Everyone cheered and the doctod smiled at his success operation and he immediately ordered everyone to do it again but something's not right. One of the workers walked towards the doctor and he pushed down his fears or he will be dead on the spot.

"What is happening? What's taking so long?" Zola asked as he looked around the workers.

"Doctor, we are doing everything we can but it seems portal won't open. But the first try was a success. Even the woman was gone. We'll try again, sir." the man replied.

Zola pushed the worker and he walks towards the machine and trying to make the portal open again. But to his dismay, it won't open. He tried new codes but nothing happened. The operation that he's been working on was a failure. Now how can he make it work it again? He don't have another to recreate the machine. He was so sure himself that it will work only for a one time. Zola threw the papers he's holding and slump down because of his failed operation. He doesn't know what to do about bringing the woman back. He had many ideas of what to do with the woman. He's going to make her the weapon that can kill the super soldier, but now how can he? The operation was failed. He failed. Now, he need to start a new plan. A new plan to take over the world under the name of HYDRA.

As you look around the place that is unfamiliar to you, nervousness take over your body. You scan the place and the first thing that you notice is the moving picture on the buildings. What on Earth is happening? Where the hell are you right now. You then turn your attention to the people around you. Everyone was doing something. Some of them are just sitting on a stairs? Some are talking so loudly while walking, which is a very unpleasant manners. And others are looking at you with curious expression. You notice also the clothes they wear. Why it looks different from you? Why the women aren't wearing dresses? And their hair? What is happening?

As you continue to look around you. You noticed 3 girls are walking towards you. You can't help but to gulped and ready yourself if they hurt you. When they were inches away from you, she lift something and pointed at you. What is that thing she's holding? Everyone was holding the box thing and it really made you curious.

"Hey, are you okay?" the girl with a short hair asked. You back away a little and the girl immediately got the message that you'ee scared. She took a step and held both of her hands in front of you.

"Hey, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you. Do you need help? Are you new here?" she continued. You shook your head as you lower guard down down. You look again on what they're wearing and you're definitely sure you are not from here.

You look at the 3 three girls again and tears starts to escape from your eyes. You want to go home. You want to see Steve and Bucky. Where the hell are you? You look around again and stop at the girl with the short hair as you asked the question that made her looked at you in disbelief.

"Where am I?"

"Sir, there's a unsual happening at the Time Square right now." One of the agents announced and handed the tablet to Fury. He snatched thhe tablet and watch the video that is playing on. His brow knitted together and immediately inform everyone to ready the cars and head towards the Time Square.

"Just for a year. A year to rest. Is it too much to asked?" Fury muttered to himself and entered the car that's waiting for him.

As Fury telling the agent to drive faster, Maria cleared her throat to catch the director's attention, which she luckily did.

"They said that the woman appeared out of nowhere. They tried to make her talk but they got nothing. And based on her clothing–" before Maria can continue, Fury interrupt her and finish the sentence.

"Base on her clothing, she's not from here." Fury finished and studies the woman on the video. How on earth did she get in this time? Who helped her?

"Should I call the Avengers, sir?" Maria started and Fury shook his head. No need for the Avengers. He needs to calm the woman first. And if she do something, that's when he will start calling the Avengers.

"No. We need to make her understand where she is and what year is. One at a time, agent. One at a time. We don't want her freaked out." Fury said and exited the car.

Fury scan the place and there's the woman he's looking for. Before Fury call her out, he first study the woman and he's definitely sure that this woman was somehow connected to Captain Rogers. As well as same age as him. Maria then stood beside him and that's when he spoke, clear enough for the woman to hear him.

"At ease, ma'am." he started. The woman spun around and face the man with a weird looking patch on his eyes and a woman who's dressed weirdly.

"We're not gonna hurt you, ma'am. This is my team and we can help you, if you allow us." The man continue and you still decide not to answer him back. You don't know him. You don't know them. They might hurt you so you kept your mouth shut.

"My name is Nick Fury. And this is Agent Maria Hill. We worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. May we know your name?" the man asked but you ignored what he said. You don't care because you just want to go home. Home with Steve and Bucky. This is not home.

"Where the hell am I?" You suddenly asked, which made the man startled for a second. He then fix himself and gave you his answer.

"New York, ma'am." he simply reply but you shook your head. No, he's lying! This is not home! You glare at the man as tears formed in your eyes.

"No! This is not home! This is not New York! You liar!" you cried. The man is definitely surprised at your outburst. You immediately wrap your arms around yourself to protect yourself from everyone. No, this is not home. He was lying. They were lying. How could they lie to you. You continue to calm yourself and as for the man, Fury walk towards you and crouch in front of you. He looked straight to your eyes and once he finish his sentence, tears streamed down your cheeks. This is not real, you thought.

"We don't know how you ended up here but this is not the year you grew up. This is not 1940's ma'am. It's the 21st century now. You're in year 2011 now, ma'am."

"What?"

"Can we ask what's your name?" the man named Fury asked as he sits in front of you. Your first thought was to ignore him but he's too annoying because he kept talking and talking even you don't understand what the hell he's talking about. You sigh and finally answering him.

"My name is Y/N Y/L/N. Born in June 13, 1917, friends with Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers and James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. From Brooklyn, New York." you replied and as you look at the man, his eyes widened for a second and look back to you. You blink as his brow knitted together.

"Friends with Rogers and Barnes?" he asked you nod. You lift your left brow as you look at him. Does he know Steve and Bucky? Before you can ask, he excuse himself and walk towards the door. Before he close the door behind him, he glance back at you.

"I'll be back, Miss Y/L/N." he said and proceed to close the door, leaving you in the room full of 'technology', according to Fury. Might as well start familiair yourself with it.

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"Maria, call the Avengers right now. I want them asap." Fury ordered and Maria waste no time and rang the Avengers. She don't know what's happening or maybe it's related to the woman named Y/N.

When Fury entered the conference room, the Avengers can't tell if Fury's tensed or what. Fury cleared his throat and began the meeting.

"Avengers, I know this is a surprise but I'll cut the chase. We found someone at the Time Square 3 hours ago. No, before all of you say anything, no. Actually nothing's wrong. Instead, we found a woman who is from 1940s. Witnesses said she just came out from nowhere. They tried to help her but she refuse. Luckily they record it and we were there to help her asap. Right now, she's with us. And I want you Captain Rogers, Barnes, Banner and Stark to come up here and help the fuck out of me. I want you 4 be here asap. Maria will wait for you. Dismissed."

After the video ended, Fury told Maria to wait for the Avengers and direct them immediately to one of the secured room, where Y/N staying. Fury began walking towards the room to join Y/N and tell about the Avengers.

Back in the compound, none of the Avengers move from their seat, especially the two super soldiers. They can't help but to think about what Fury had said to them. Who the hell is he talking about? Back from 1940s? The quietness in the room was deafening and Tony can't help so he stood up from his seat and caught everyone's attention.

"You heard the man. He needs us asap so move your asses people!" Tony exclaimed and exited the room. The others started to walk out too but instead of going in their own room, they walk straight to the quinjet where Tony waiting for the other three. When Tony notice all of the Avengers entered the quinjet, he can't help but to throw a sarcastic comment. Did they not hear what Fury said? Tony can't help but to roll his beautiful eyes.

"Fury said four. FOUR. Me, capsicle, Banner and manchurian candidate. What are you doing here?" Tony asked but they ignore him. Finally, Steve arrives and Nat started the quinjet.

"Hey cap, didn't Fury said only four. Why didn't you stop them?" Tony continued as he glared the rest of the group. Clint and Sam laughed at Tony's tantrum while Banner walk towards Nat to ask if she needs help and to stay away from Tony's tantrum. He's too tired to deal with him. Steve pats Tony's arm and sat beside Bucky.

"Tony, it's alright. They told me they don't have anything to do so I let them join us. Don't worry, I'll tell Fury that it's on me. Okay?" Steve replied and Tony groaned and join Natasha and Bruce flying the quinjet.

Back with Steve and Bucky, both super soldiers still thinking about the woman who's from their time. Who could that be? Is that why Fury call them both? To ask if they know her? Thry tried to think of a possibility of who id the woman but none came up expect for the only girl who left them behind. It was Y/N. They promised her that they will be back but none of them came back. They broke her trust that's why even up to this day. They regretted leaving her behind. They were only her family and they let her down. They just want to turn back the time and apologize to her but they can't since they can't find her and she's gone.

When they finally arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D, Maria stood by and waited for the Avengers to exit the quinjet. She's not surprised that all of them are here. Maria shook hands with Steve and start walking towards Y/N's room. None of them spoke as they walk. They just want to see who is the woman is. And as for Bucky, he didn't want to think of it but he has a hunch of who's the woman is. He wants to say it to Steve but he decides not to. Not until they saw who is she. Finally, they arrived at the roo. Maria told the Avengers to wait and knock on the door. Fury open the door and gesture them to enter. Fury isn't also surprise to see the rest of the Avengers to join them.

Fury cleared his throat and that catches your attention. You spun around and your eyes widened to see that people in the room. But what surprises you is you're actually seeing two familiar faces. H-how? Without noticing, you run towards Steve and Bucky and hugged them tight. Your tears stream down your eyes as you broke the hug from the two. You held Steve face first and studies him. He hasn't change a bit. He still the guy who always fought back when someone tries to pick on him, the guy who always saves you from trouble. They guy you fell in love with even without the serum. He still the Steve Rogers, the kid from brooklyn. And then you turn to Bucky and held his face. A smiled formed in your lips. He also hasn't change. He still got those beautiful grayish blue eyes, that boyish smirk. You're fianlly gald that they were okay after tge war. No days you prayed for their safety. You were glad that they're here now. They both gave you their smile and you can't help but to hug the both again. You just missed so much that no words came out from your mouths. You all can talk later.

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"Doll, how did you get here? I mean, who,, wha– how?" Steve asked. Still confused how did you ending up in the 21st century. You glance to Steve and the rest of the Avengers and sigh and told them what happen.

"After you two didn't come back, we won the war. Then days later, I found myself captured by the HYDRA. They were making something, I don't know what is it but I heard they were going to make me the first subject of time travel. I can't do anythinf because I was tied up. I don't know how they know about me but there's this small guy and they call him Zola. They also said that if the operation was a success, they're going to make me someone who's against you. I had no idea what they're talking, Steve. They were so cruel to me. They didn't even let me eat for 3 days straight. Then the next thing I know, I was at that place where the picture was moving. And I met him..." Y/N finished and look to Fury. Steve can't help but to hug Y/N and kissed her head, telling that it's gonan be okay. Bucky and him are there to help her. Bucky and Steve caress Y/N's cheek and gave her a reaasuring smile.

"Doll, we promise that we will take care of you. We know we promise you back then and we broke it but let's us fix that. We don't know if you want to stay with us but we'll try to bring you back. The avengers will help you, doll. All you gotta do is to trust us okay? We can't lose you again. We'll protect you always and you know that right? We love you, Y/N. Till the end of line." Bucky said and you can't help but to smile. Bucky kissed you cheek and you turn to Steve and gave him a longing smile. He ducks his head down and you felt his lips on you. You broke from the kiss and gave the two a loving smile.

"Till the end of line..."

A/N: And that's the end! Whew, for the first time. I finally finished one story! Anyways, thank you so much for reading this even it's not a great story, but still thank you so much! Also, I am very sorry if this story is not that good or anything but I did my best. I don't know if you guys liked it but I wish you guys are. I know it's corny or anything but it's okay because I poured my heart and effort to finish it. I know the ending is lame but I hope you guys like it hehe! Again, thank you for reading! I love you all ❤❤❤

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Duke Reviews: Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Hello, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews Where We Are Continuing Our Look At The Marvel Cinematic Universe...

By Talking About The First Sequel To The Massive Blockbuster Known As The Avengers, Avengers: Age Of Ultron...

This Film Sees Earth's Mightiest Heroes Reuniting To Battle A Threat Created By Tony Stark And Bruce Banner Called Ultron, Who Is Out To Create What He Believes To Be The Peace Of Our Time When Really He's Causing Massive Human Extinction....

Will The Avengers Be Able To Prevent The Age Of Ultron With The Help Of Enemies Quicksilver And Scarlet Witch And A New Ally Who Calls Himself The Vision?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Avengers: Age Of Ultron...

The Film Starts In Sokovia With The Avengers Launching An Attack On Baron Von Strucker's Fortress And Forces...

(End At 4:30)

(End At 4:25)

Searching Strucker's Secret Room, Tony Finds One Of The Chitauri's Leviathans Before He Finds Loki's Scepter But Before He Can Grab It He's Blasted By The Other Olsen Twin Who Gives Him A Vision Of The Avengers Failing To Save Earth Because He Failed...

And It's This Vision That Changes Tony Completely And Makes Tony Believe Every Decision He Makes From Here On Out Is The Right One Even Though To Others It May Seem Like The Wrong Choice...

As Kick Ass Zooms In We Get A Title Card As Tony Grabs The Scepter...

Returning To The Newly Dubbed Avengers Tower, Hill (Who Now Works For Tony After The Downfall Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Tells Cap About Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver While Hawkeye Gets Healed And Tony's Iron Legion Returns From Sokovia...

But As All That Goes On Tony (With Help From J.A.R.V.I.S.) Analyze Loki's Staff And Discover That While The Scepter Is Alien, The Jewel Is Housing Something Inside That's Like A Computer As J.A.R.V.I.S. Discovers Code...

Telling Banner This By Showing Him The Data Of The Jewel, Tony Thinks That It Is Perfect For His Ultron Program That Tony Is Making For His Iron Legion And Asks For Bruce's Help With It.

Despite Being Against It At First And Wanting To Tell The Rest Of The Team, Bruce Eventually Caves And Decides To Help Tony While They Have The Staff For The Alotted 3 Days That Thor Is Allowing Them To Have...

As Tony And Banner Get Ready For A Party Tony Is Throwing In Honor Of The Avengers Defeat Of Strucker, The Ultron Integration To The Iron Legion Is Complete. But As Ultron Awakens, He Questions His Programming Which Leads To Ultron Malfunctioning And Using Advanced A.I. Abilities To Kill J.A.R.V.I.S. As He Creates A Body Out Of One Of The Iron Legion Armors

Meanwhile, At Tony's Party Everyone Seems To Be Having A Good Time Even The Avengers Themselves, Rhodey (Who's Back As War Machine From Now On)

Guess Iron Patriot Didn't Well With Focus Groups After All...

Sam (Who's Been Helping Cap Track Down Bucky Since The End Of Winter Solider) And Stan Lee Who's Cameo Is Here...

Stan Lee Cameo!

Anyway After Everyone Is Gone The Avengers Along With Rhodey And Maria Hill They Hold A Contest Of Who Could Lift Thor's Hammer With Cap Being The Closest Only To Be Interrupted By Ultron, Who Reveals He Is On A Mission To Destroy The Avengers With The Help Of Stark's Iron Legion...

Escaping Through The Internet, Ultron Goes To Strucker's Castle Where He Can Build Himself A New Body...

With Everything Gone From Their Computers And Loki's Staff Gone As Well, They Discover The Computerized Remains Of J.A.R.V.I.S. As The Team Worries About Ultron Hacking Into Nuke Codes....

Knowing That They Have To Not Only Get The Scepter Back But Stop Ultron, They Ask Tony Why Ultron Is Trying To Kill Them And Of Course It All Goes Back To The Battle With The Chitauri And Tony's Vision That Scarlet Witch Gave Him...

Speaking Of Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver, In Sokovia, Ultron In A New Body Recruits Them To Help With His Plans To Save The World By Getting Rid Of The Avengers As We Discover Why Scarlet Witch Let Tony Have The Scepter Which Is Because She Saw Tony's Fear And That It Would Control Him And Make Him Self Destruct...

Uh, Self Destruct On Him? How About Self Destruct On You Or Do The Words Civil War Not Mean Anything To You, Wanda?

And Why They Are Who They Are And That's Because They Believe Tony Stark Killed Their Parents As One Of His Companies Missiles Killed Their Folks And Nearly Killed Them As They Were Buried Under Rubble...

Discovering Reports Of A Metal Man Or Men, Someone Making People See Old Fears And Memories And Someone Too Fast To See Breaking Into Robotics Labs, Weapons Facilities And Jet Propulsion Labs All Over The Globe, The Avengers Continue Their Search For Ultron...

But When Strucker Is Found Dead In His Cell With The Word Peace Written In Blood, They Start Going Through Hard Copy Files When Everything They Had On Strucker Is Gone From Their Computers...

Eventually Tony Discovers That Someone He Once Knew Named Ulysses Klaw With Connections To The Home Of A Certain Black Panther And The Vibranium That Not Only Powers His Suit But Captain America's Shield...

Traveling To Africa, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch And Ultron Do Buisness With Ulysses Klaw (Played By Supreme Leader Snoke) To Get Vibranium Only For Ultron To Cut Of Klaw's Hand When Ultron Says Something That Tony Stark Once Said To Him...

Ooh, Foreshadowing....

(Start At 1:10)

Blasted By Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Cap And Thor Have Visions We Start Black Widow Who Sees Visions Of Her Time In The Red Room (Which Is The Black Widow Training Ground) Then Move On To Cap Who Is At A 1930s Dance Hall Where He Dances With Peggy Only To Have A Symbolic Moment, I Guess Which Has Him Realizing That Everyone He Cared For Back Then Is Gone...

And Finally Thor Who Sees That Asgard Has Turned Into Christian Grey's Playground Only To Be Confronted By Heimdall Who Sees That Thor Will Lead Them Into Hell And He Will Destroy Them (Which Obviously Isn't True)...

Anyway Aside From Those Moments Of Either Foreshadowing Or Just Scenes That Have No Reason To Be In This Movie, Tony Eventually Destroys The Version Of Ultron That's There Only To Now Deal With A Rampaging Hulk That Scarlet Witch Has Turned Loose On The City Which Forces Tony To Activate The Hulkbuster Suit To Take Him Down...

(Start At 0:30, End At 4:50)

With Banner Calmed Down, The Avengers Decide To Lay Low As Hill Deals With The Press And The Police On The Attack In Africa But The Question Now Is Where Do They Go?, Luckily, Hawkeye May Have The Answer They're Looking For...

Taking Them To A Rustic Farm (That Looks Like It May Already Be Occupied By The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil And Casey Jones) Hawkeye Introduces The Team To His Family...

Wow, I Didn't Know Velma Dinkley Was Married To A Superhero....

While Ultron, Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Visit The Team Doctor, Helen Cho In Seoul So She Can Create A Living Body Into A Reanimation Cradle That Her And Tony Have Been Developing For Ultron To Download His Consciousness Into, Refusing, Ultron Decides To Convince Helen To Help Him Using Loki's Scepter...

Back On The Farm, The Team Has Some Moments On The Farm Which Eventually Lead To Tony Talking With Nick Fury In The Barn, Who Aside From Telling Tony To Cut It Out With The Maximoff Vision Crap, Is There To Help The Team...

Telling The Team That Ultron Isn't Having Any Luck Getting Nuke Launch Codes As They're Changed Frequently By Unknown Sources And That His Contacts Believe That Ultron Is Actually Building Something Which Leads Banner To Realize That Ultron Is Trying To Evolve Above Humans As He Believes Humans Are Significantly Insufficient Hence Helen Cho...

And Speaking Of Dr. Cho, She Is Just About Done With Ultron's New Body Only Thing That Needs To Be Added Is The Stone From Loki's Scepter Which Is Revealed To Be The Mind Stone...

With Steve Taking Natasha And Clint With Him, Tony Heads To Oslo To Do Reconnaissance From There While Fury Takes Banner Back To Avengers Tower So He Can Pick Up Hill Who Will Help Him With Something Dramatic...

But You're Probably Wondering Where Thor Is...

Well, Unable To Get Scarlet Witch's Vision From His Mind Thor Decides To Take Off To Get Erik Selvig To Take Him To The Spa Of Sight That Will Allow Him To Re-Enter His Dream To Find Out What He Missed...

Uh, Unless You're Into Weird Fetishes, Thor I Highly Doubt You Missed Anything...

But Miss Something He Did, As It Shows All The Infinity Stones Except For The Time Stone And I Guess Ultron's Plan...

And Speaking Of Ultron's Plan, Wanda Looks Into The Mind Of The Body That Is Inside Of The Reanimation Cradle And Sees Ultron's Ultimate Plan To Destroy The World...

Believing That Ultron Lied To Them, Wanda Snaps Dr. Cho Out Of Her Mind Stone Hypnosis And She Stops The Download Which Forces Ultron To Kill Her And Her Team As The Maximoffs Escape...

As Cap, Hawkeye And Widow Arrive With Enough Time To Save Dr. Cho, Ultron And His Metal Minions Take The Reanimation Cradle Onto A Truck Only For Hawkeye To Spot It From Above So Cap Can Jump On It And Fight Ultron...

With The Help Of The Maximoff Twins, Cap Was Able To Stop Ultron And Save A Runaway Train While Widow Gets The Reanimation Cradle On The Quinjet With Hawkeye Only For Widow To Get Captured By Ultron's Minions

Talking With The Maximoffs Afterward, They Ask Where The Reanimation Cradle Is Only For Cap To Tell Them That It's On It's Way To Tony, Which Leads Wanda To Believe That He Will Only Make Matters Worse By Using It To Fix Things

And Right She Is, As Tony To Convince Banner To Help Him Place The Person Who Has Been Beating Ultron All Along Into The Reanimation Cradle, J.A.R.V.I.S

Turns Ultron Didn't Attack J.A.R.V.I.S. Because He Was Scared But Attacked Him Because He Was Afraid Of What He Could Do, So He Went Underground And Scattered His Memory Throughout The Net To Try To Stop Ultron...

Believing That After All That's Happened It's A Bad Idea, Banner Decides To Do It Anyway. Luckily, Cap And The Maximoff Twins Arrive To Stop Them Which Leads To A Heated Argument Of Right And Wrong Between The Team Until Thor Arrives To Get Everyone To Shut Up And Bring The Body In The Reanimation Cradle To Life...

Forming Clothes And A Cape Out Of It's Skin, Thor Tells The Others About His Vision And That Tony Is Right The Avengers Cannot Beat Ultron Not Alone...

Telling Cap And The Others That Unlike Ultron He Is On The Side Of Life Where Ultron Isn't And That He Doesn't Want To Kill Him But The Pain He Is Creating Will Roll Over The Earth If He Isn't Destroyed Which Kind Of Gets Them To Trust Them...

But None Of That Matters Now As Barton Has Located Ultron With Nat In Sokovia And Need To Go Now...

With Tony Downloading A New A.I. Named F.R.I.D.A.Y. To His Suit And Ultron Knowing That They're Coming The Odds Are Stacked Against Them So, The Priority Will Be The Evacuation Of The City While Discovering What Ultron Has Been Building At Strucker's Fortress And Saving Black Widow At The Same Time Which Banner Does Only So They Could Run Afterward...

But Knowing That She'll Be Unable To Live With Herself If That Happens, Widow Pushes Banner Down A Hole So He Can Become The Hulk...

(Imitating Baby Plucky) Hulk Go Down The Hole!

On Board The Quinjet, The Hulk Gets A Call From Black Widow Asking Him To Turn Back But Instead He Decides To Go Off On His Own To Take A Nice Vacation In Sakkar As Vision Destroys The Last Ultron Minion, Destroying Ultron Once And For All...

And With Everything Done, Hawkeye Decides To Retire From The Avengers To Spend Time With His Family While Tony Builds A New Training Facility/Alternate HQ For The Avengers Where They Can Train...

But Unfortunately It's Going To Have To Be Without Thor (Who Is Going Off To Solve The Mystery Of Who Is Making The Infinity Stones Appear Out Of Nowhere) And Tony (Who Is Going Spend More Time With Pepper And Build Her A Log Cabin) But Just Because The Team Is Down A Few Members It Doesn't Mean That They'll Be Short On Team Members....

Nope, Not On Your Life As Scarlet Witch, The Vision, Falcon And War Machine Join The Team As New Avengers...

Sadly, There's No End Credit Scene But There Is A Mid Credits Scene Which Sees Thanos Grabbing The Infinity Gauntlet And Deciding To Take Matters Into His Own Hands...

And That's Avengers: Age Of Ultron And...It's Okay...

While The Action Scenes Are Great, The Villain Is Good And There Is Loads Of Character Development Throughout The Movie, The Color In Some Of Those Fight Scenes Are Not Good Especially The Ones In Africa, Having Both Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver As Bad Guys Was Completely Pointless (Yes, I Know In Their Comic Book History They Were Bad Guys Before They Became Good Guys But Without Magneto And The Brotherhood That Part In Their History Is Pointless)...

There Are More Reasons Why I Don't Like This Movie But I Feel Like I've Been Writing This Review Forever And I Just Want To End It Also I Can't Think Of Any Other Reasons Right Now So, For This One I Would Say Skip It But I Honestly Don't Know If It's That Bad To Skip So I'll Leave This One Up To You Guys....

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...