50 years with you - Bruce Wayne x Fem!Reader (x Batfam)
Synopsis : 50 years being married..Surely, this calls for a party ? Except of course, said party is planned by your children, who never ask for your permission. And they drag poor young Terry McGinnis (aka “New addition to the family”) along with them…
This was requested by @legendarylearner18, been a while since I wrote a request haha. Also, first time I write something with Terry in it ! :o I really wasn’t planning on writing this, as I didn’t have time but..Sudden burst of inspiration right before bed. Anyway I hope you’ll like this, comments and/or reblogs are of course, as usual, very appreciated :
my masterlists : @ella-ravenwood-archives
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It’s early in the morning, and a warm hand caressing your cheek is slowly taking you away from your deep slumber.
Too bad. You were having such a pleasant dream.
Well, more of a souvenir, really. Of a day long ago. A beautiful, beautiful day.
Full of love, laughter, and maybe a little sibling rivalry…How nice of your subconscious, to recall such time to your mind, and to turn it into dreams.
That beautiful beautiful day, was it the last one you spend all together ? Yeah. Yeah, you slowly realized, nostalgic and a little sad.
You were dreaming of a day spent with all of your children, and your Bruce, and Alfred…oh Alfred…
Yes. Yes this was the last day you all spend together, before Alfred’s passing, and before your children were all grown up and so, oh so busy.
Of course, you still saw them. But it wasn’t like before. It could never be, like before. First because Alfred wasn’t around anymore. And second, because you never quite managed to gather them ALL together again. It was always too difficult, their schedules were so different…
Your pleasant dream was, as you were waking up, fading into a nostalgic feeling. Damn. You missed your kids so much. Getting old sucked. And-
“Morning, my love.”
Ah. But everything didn’t suck. No. No some things were constant. Like love. Love for your children, of course. But also love for that man…Ah that man.
Bruce Wayne.
Your Broosh, the love of your life. Still here, after all this years.
After all this years ? Those words made you feel like you had to remember som- OH !
summary: Bruce can still see her ghost playing the piano.
.Crossroads.
Summary: at the crossroads between bludhaven and Gotham, y/n kyle has to make a decision on staying or leaving with their sister.
.The Bat and the Cat.
.summary: interviewer by day and petty thief by night, Y/n Kyle has an interview with Bruce Wayne who she doesn't know is Batman.
.The Bat and the Cat II. (coming soon)
.summary: Y/n Kyle has a date with Bruce Wayne tonight, but decides to do a little late-night thievery before heading over, and encounters the Bat. Who's going to make her late.
. Out of Harms Way .
.summary: while watching her three year old play. Y/n goes through the mail.
.Out of Harms Way II.
.summary: Bruce visits his wife and son at the hospital and breaks down for not getting there in time. To protect them.
.Why Didn’t You Tell Me?. (coming soon)
.summary: Bruce arrives at his ex’s apartment to ask her questions, about the lady in the picture. When he notices her gaze drifting towards her bedroom, he opens to door to find a baby.
.Late. (coming soon)
.Summary: Bruce frantically tries to reach y/n before something bad happens.
. Hot Chocolate and Cuddles .(coming soon)
.summary: just drinking hot cocoa and cuddling while watching movies .
.Alright. (coming soon)
.summary: you another vigilante gets injured while fighting the riddlers followers. So when it’s time to be taken to a hospital in the helicopter, you grab into Batman in a moment of fear
.Already Had it Handled. (requested)
.summary: being the daughter of a mafia boss means you have a target on your back, but you have it handled.
.Already Had it Handled II. (coming soon)
.Summary: Bruce and Y/n finally tie to knot but she's captured by a rival gang and pushed off a tall building.
.Chicken Nuggets.
.summary: Y/n calls bruce while he's out and asks him to bring her home chicken nuggets.
.Mock.
.summary: Y/n mocks their s/o as they do his voice while wearing his mask, making jokes annoying him but leaving Alfred holding back his laughter.
.Series Below.
.Hidden in the Shadows.
.summary: after her family name was tarnished around the same time as the bat a new vigilante appeared.
Pairing - Pattinson!Bruce Wayne x Reader
Summary - Y/n is recruited to handle the logistics of the Batman persona, ignoring the danger that comes with it. When she is deemed missing by Gotham police, Bruce doesn’t stop until he finds her.
Warnings - Violence, Blood, Angst
Words - 2.7K
A/n - For anyone wanting the part two to The Problem with Duality, I plan for it to be posted by the end of this week :)
MASTERLIST
In the last 24 hours Bruce had found himself in the Batman suit for most of them. Though, he wasn’t running after a common criminal, nor was he chasing leads. No, he was about patrolling the streets looking for Y/n. He must have been down every street at least twice by now. He scanned them, scanned the people he spotted. Every now and again asking if people they had seen his assistant.
Yet here he was, pulling up to the police station with empty hands. Law enforcement currently had their hands pretty full as it was. An active serial killer roaming the streets did that. But that was what scared Bruce so much. If she wasn’t here, if she wasn’t answering any of his messages or calls, then where was she? He fell down a certain rabbit hole thinking that maybe Y/n had become the newest victim of this gruesome series of killings.
Bruce walked into the station, every single cop and detective lined together, gathered for a briefing that had yet to begin. “Just in time, Batman.” Gordon spoke. The man was standing by the door, towards the back of the group when Bruce walked in. “You probably want to listen to this.”
And so, without any comments he did. The Sheriff stood at the front of this large group, a presentation situated behind him that was sure to follow the speech he was about to give. “I’m sure you’re all aware of the current ongoing investigation into our most recent serial murderer.” He went on, Bruce listening to where this was going and why Gordon believed he needed to listen. “We have a more general update for everyone here today.” Then the man turned to his prestation. A click at his remote and suddenly Y/n wasn’t just starring back at Bruce, but everyone stood in that room. “Y/n Y/l/n has officially been deemed as missing and we have reason to believe she’s the next target.”
Hiii, is your Batmom stuff in order like where do I start, like I read some here and there and they're amazing so I was wondering if there's a chronological order?
Hey ! …Hum…there could be a chronological order…Ok well, I’m gonna spend my next hour giving you said order eh. On my masterlist blog, the stories are basically in the order I posted them, but I believe I can make a chronological order and a sort of timeline. Here it goes :
So there’s two kind of Batmom stories. The ones that are connected, the ones that have the same “main” Batmom, and stories unrelated with those, usually one shots. And here we go, let’s start with my “main” Batmom (also a good way to do a list of all the connected stories haha) and a somewhat chronological order :
There used to be a story where my main Batmom and Bruce met at a charity Batmom was having (she’s a writer that was starting to be famous and had a charity to give easier access to books to disadvantages population in Gotham) but hum…it got accidentally erased. I still remember the story though, so maybe one day, I’ll re-write it. Anyway. This is where it’s suppose to begin.
The first time he saw you
Making him work for it
“You’re not hard to love, Bruce”
“You made me hide under the desk” (erotica)
“My last happy birthday was my eighth one…” (Bruce birthday special)
Insecurities shmunsecurities
The Break-Up part ¼
The Break-Up part 2/4
The Break-Up part 2.5/4
The Break-Up part ¾
The Break-Up part 4/4
“The art of taking care of the woman you love” (TW : periods)
Making Bruce Wayne blush
“Can the Batman get flustered ?”
Smol Dickie and Jaybird
Wedding and pop-corns
“My biggest mistake” by Jason P. Todd
The Batmom Glare
Ma Broosh !
Silly Bat’
The first time they called you mom
“You have kids ?? And…A WIFE ?”
Behind closed door (erotica)
“Just play the damn game with me !”
Period drama with mama
Tears
“Self-care is important you IDIOT !”
Pierced (Tim x Batmom)
Fun Fair with the family
The Batkids watching “The Omen”
The Batkids watching “The Lion King”
How terrible it is to love something that death can touch
“Admit it, Bruce” (erotica)
“Your wife is hot”
“Your wife is hot” part 2
“You’re…you’re Bruce’s father !”
“Mother, it’s your day”
Anonymous Hate
Never piss off a magician
“Mother has been poisoned”
Valentine’s day is a stupid holiday
Burrito Blanket Batmom
How to tame a Wayne
Wild Child
“Jigsaw is coming for me”
In which the batboys fight to know which Hogwarts’ house is the best
Oh shit, it’s father’s day !
The Last Pit (part ½)
The Last Pit (part 2/2)
My mom is better than yours
Each tattoo is a story
Short bonus convo : Bruce and Batmom gross out the Batboys
“Did this miscreant hurt you mother ?”
Pierced
“Are we not gonna talk about the elephant in the room ?”
“You’re mister J’s new obsession, Sugar” (part 1/3)
“You’re mister J’s new obsession, Sugar” (part 2/3)
“You’re mister J’s new obsession, Sugar” (part 3/3)
“That’s not how you negociate !”
Death, Amnesia, and 4 coffee please
“You’re cute when you’re jealous”
“My parents are gross…ly in love"
“Where did the coffee table go ?”
It’s Alfred Day !
“Vacations are rare for the Waynes”
Beach Bod’
I’m not drunk, you are
The Batkids watching “The Omen”
The many times Alfred Pennyworth walked in on his master and his wife making love, and that one time his young masters wished they were blind (erotica)
“It’s her, but it’s not her !” (part ½)
“It’s them, but it’s not them !” (part 2/2)
“Talk to my son like that again, and I will end you”
Batbrats
Can you be friend with your husband’s ex-girlfriend ?
Early Mornings with the Bat
“Is Father…drunk ?”
A Mother’s love : Burst of Affection
Sick Day
“I’m done with you, Mr. Wayne”
“I can be myself around you”
“I want a divorce !”
Alive (NSFW)
How to remove a Wayne safely
The comfort of Loving arms
#MyParentsAreLosers
“Hopefully, no one will notice”
“She should cut her nails” (part ½ of the League teasing the “batlovers”)
“Bruce…sucks !” (part 2/2 of the League teasing the “batlovers”).
The Talk
“BATMAN IS NEVER JEALOUS”
“You slept with Superman ?”
The List (erotica)
The wrath of a short woman
Random convo between Batmom and Broosh
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore… 1/3 (Marvel Crossover)
“I don’t like cats”
Odd socks
Halloween in…December ?!
I’ll always be here for you
Tickles and loss
Happy Holidays
“My last happy birthday was my eighth one…” (Bruce birthday special)
Short bonus convo : Batboys want a sibling
Batman doesn’t eat pie
Good Night Rituals
Baby Wayne
“I’m lost without you…”
“You’re not even my mom !”
Polichinelle
The Great Mall adventure
Master of Diaper
Shaky steps and bad teaching
“Go away, you’re confusing my baby”
Wild Child 2, “We want them back”
How do you make babies ?
The day he understood what Death means
“Mom got lost again”
Don’t wanna go
And when I’m gone…
My Mother’s apple orchard
After Batmom’s death
And then all the unrelated stories, and obvs those are not in any particular orders :
“Bruce, my heart, I think Alfred likes my mom !”
Catching the Bat’s heart
Sneaky Bastard (Erotica)
A chance to say goodbye
Fate is a bitch part 1/?
Fate is a bitch part 2/?
Relationship headcanons part 1/?
“You could have anyone you want !”
Behave
“I don’t wanna get married”
There is nothing left of him
“Let me get one thing straight…I’m not !”
Three parts of a whole (Batman x Reader x Superman) (Erotica)
Professor Wayne ¼ (Teacher!AU)
Professor Wayne 2/4
Professor Wayne 2.5/4
Professor Wayne 3/ 4
Professor Wayne 4/4
The single rider line
“Can you be my dad’s girlfriend, please ?”
“My fake boyfriend is a billionaire ?!”
Yeah wow. Most of my stories are the “main” Batmom eh…
PS : I TOTALLY meant to do it by the way, to have a timeline. It was my plan all along to create a sort of universe, with a timeline that makes sense and such. I totally knew what I was doing, definitely didn’t make that timeline up on the spot…Nop’ nop’ nop’. Always meant it. Since day one. Ahem. #whenyourealizethatyoucreatedatimelinethatmadesenseanddidn’tdoitonpurpose
Some of the Victors were, especially if they were attractive to lots of rich people during the games. How do you think you pay off the parachute things people send you to help you win the game? Those books were so fucked up
And if they had cast actual teenages, I’m sure they wouldn’t have focus so much on romance in the films. They would have focus on the horror of the hunger games, like they damn well should have.
Just going to add in a few other things that a lot of people seem to miss because it was either de-emphasized or cut entirely from the movies:
-Haymitch Abernathy was 16 when he won the Hunger Games, and the Capitol attempted to force him into prostitution as they did with Finnick and many other popular victors. He refused, and in retaliation, they gradually killed off everyone he loved one by one—his friends from home, his family, his girlfriend. He began drinking heavily at a young age to deal with the trauma of the Games, the loss of everyone he’d ever cared about, and subsequently having to continually relive the trauma of the Games in mentoring roughly 50 children, two each year, whom he’d then have to send to their deaths in the Arena.
-The Capitol also attempted to force Joanna Mason into prostitution. She, too, refused, and like with Haymitch, the Capitol retaliated by killing off everyone she loved one by one. She alludes to this in both the book and the movie version of Catching Fire, not flinching when she enters the Jabberjay area of the arena because there’s “no one left” that she loves. The movies don’t really explore this, though, while the books do more exploration both with everything the Capitol has taken from her and the lingering effects of her PTSD from her imprisonment by the Capitol.
-The only reason Peeta and Katniss weren’t forced into prostitution was because the Capitol was too invested in the “Star-Crossed Lovers from District 12″ narrative.
-Also, Katniss spent the latter half of her first Hunger Games deaf in one ear and had to have her middle and inner ear reconstructed after the Games—the explosion at the Cornucopia permanently fucked up her hearing in that ear. She’s able to hear again after the surgeries but never quite the same.
-And Peeta had a prosthetic leg! He was severely injured while fleeing the “Mutts” at the end of the Games and was bleeding out from his leg by the time he and Katniss reached the Cornucopia. Katniss gave him a tourniquet using one of her last two arrows to tighten it. Doing so saved his life, but by the time the Capitol doctors took them out of the arena, the leg was beyond saving and had to be amputated. Katniss finds this out in their “post-Games” interview with Cesar Flickerman.
-Just generally the movies glossed over or completely cut a lot of characters whose experiences in the games left them physically disabled (Katniss’s partial deafness and Peeta’s lost leg being cut entirely, Beetee’s spinal damage from the forcefield leaving him wheelchair-bound being largely kinda glossed over) or with PTSD (Katniss and Peeta’s PTSD isn’t really explored that much, Joanna’s PTSD is pretty much skipped over entirely, Annie’s barely in the movies at all, Haymitch’s entire backstory is cut, the fact that Finnick is basically just constantly putting on a show and barely holding it together under the surface isn’t ever really explored, pretty much all of the addiction subplots including Haymitch attempting to quit drinking and Katniss starting to drink at one point and everything related to morphling are cut…).
-Basically as “rough” as the movies are they sanitized the FUCK out of the Hunger Games and the world surrounding them, and that’s…not a good thing.
TL;DR: @isashi-nigami is completely correct, The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about.
The only reason Katniss and Peeta were saved from prostitution was timing. After their own Games, the rumblings of rebellion had really started to gain traction. All victors have to do a celebratory circuit of all the Districts, but Peeta and Katniss’s celebration circuit was being used by Snow as a “everything’s fine, please don’t rebel, we’re just a pair of teenagers in live” prop tool for Snow to try and supress the rebellion. Peeta and Katniss were much more useful to him as teens in love than they were as prostitutes. Then we went straight from there to the 75th Games, in which Peeta and Katniss were fighters. Between being used to quell a revolution and having the Quarter Quell go the way it did, there was no time for Snow to loan them out to people. But had the timing been different – had there been no rebellion or had Peeta and Katniss not been central to it or had it all been delayed long enough for the post-games celebrations to die out, then yeah, they would have been sold to the highest bidder just like Finnick was.
I actually thibk that the fact that the film’s focussed on the romance and the glitz and glamour and etc was… accidentally clever, on Hollywood’s part. They certainly didn’t mean to do this, but they 100% replicated the Capitol’s attitude to the Games. They made it all about the entertainment, all about the story and the romance and the drama. So many people would have watched those movies and been taken in by the romance plot, and the revolutionary plot would have been secondary. The social commentary wouldn’t have even registered. Even the fact that they used older actors for the teens – in the books, Katniss and Peeta are never seen in public without a full face of make up once they’re Reaped. Katniss undergoes a full beauty treatment and not only is she wearing make up that makes her look older and more mature, but so is Peeta. The Capitol didn’t want them looking like fresh faced babies, and neither did Hollywood. If you watch those films merely for the entertainment they provide, then congrats. You’re the canon target audience of the Hunger Games. Hollywood was never going to make a movie that focuses on the true horrors of such a story, the way it should. Especially when the social commentary in the Hunger Games is terrifyingly similar to a social commentary on our society as a whole. No, no - they were always going to focus on the romance and the glitz and the glamour and the heroism. Which is……. kind of poetic, really. That they went and did the exact same thing that the villains did.
The whole youthful and innocent vs older and sexy thing actually gets brought up at the end of the first book.
Cinna puts Katniss in a dress that is consciously designed to make her look much younger than she actually is, so as to play up the ‘teens in love’ angle they’re trying to sell the Capitol.
But the dress also has padding, so as to make her breasts and hips seem larger than they are, since she’s been literally on the verge of starvation for weeks, and wasn’t eating that much before that, and as a result she isn’t that curvy. Katniss is shocked by this, but Cinna explains that the dress was actually a compromise, because the original Capitol plan had been to give her plastic surgery.
Katniss then realises that none of the male tributes grew facial hair in the arena, even though several of them were old enough (note: she doesn’t say that all of them were old enough. Though Rue was the youngest, this suggests that there were other tributes who were young teenagers) and that something must have been done to them to prevent that from happening.
Also, it’s worth considering that Katniss and Peeta probably looked even younger than your typical sixteen year olds.
Katniss makes a big deal about how much they both get to eat at home, but if you read between the lines, Peeta lives off stale bread from the bakery and the odd bit of meat, and Katniss is essentially living the hunter gatherer lifestyle, supplemented by what they can buy from the baker and what they can get from Prim’s goat.
They’re much more well-nourished than the bulk of District Twelve, but Katniss can still easily spot the Career Tributes, because they’re the ones who have always had enough to eat. She’s one of the older (and therefore almost certainly heavier) tributes, but she still gets to hide in trees to get away from the Careers, because she’s significantly lighter than all of them.
Malnutrition tends to push back puberty. Katniss would probably be less well-developed than a modern teenager of the same age.
Notably, we don’t hear about her getting her period— or even wondering about that like she does with the facial hair— in the arena. Which, yeah, could be because of our culture’s habit of viewing menstruation as less kid-friendly than graphic child murder and mentions of prostitution, but it’s worth considering that in real life she might well have not started it yet.
While wearing the final interview dress, even with the padding to give her bigger breasts and wider hips, she says she looks about “fourteen at most”, which even accounting for Cinna’s borderline magical design skills, suggests that she probably tends to look like a younger teen even without it.
The Hunger Games would have been almost unbearably disturbing, if they hadn’t decided to cast almost all the characters as incredibly fit twenty somethings.
Summary: You invite Bucky to your family member’s wedding when things are just as toxic as you remember them to be. Bucky stands up to them, having enough of their toxicity.
Warnings: Self esteem issues, body image issues, self doubt, toxic family, chubby!reader, angst with a happy ending, mutual pining, fake dating au, friends to lovers.
Words: 1,749
Author’s Notes: This is written for @the-ss-horniest-book-club and my prompt was: Chubby!reader asks beefy!bucky to be her fake boyfriend for her random family member wedding.
She asks him because she has a crush, he says yes because he's crushing too (those pining losers)
They'll be gone for a whole weekend and her family won't believe her because look at him, why would he want you?
Until bucky can't take it anymore and rips them a new one for treating his perfect doll like that.
I think I’ve covered everything in this! I hope you like it 🥰
The moment Bucky walked in and your eyes met, your breath hitched. The effect this man had on you was staggering; how your heart would always skip a beat, trying to speak clearly but ending up speaking backwards and embarrassing yourself. It was hard to concentrate when you had this beefy super soldier in front of you; his shirt pulled over his abs and his jeans hugging his thick thighs tightly. You were always a mess, not that Bucky seemed to mind too much. Bucky always seemed rather pleased with himself whenever he could render you speechless and an adorable stuttering mess. Though, in his eyes everything you did was adorable.
But today you were a nervous wreck for a whole new reason. A wedding invitation arrived in the mail today; the wedding of a family member. The invitation was for you and a date, and as your mom also wrote a separate note stating the family wanted to meet the mysterious man you had been talking about, you had no choice but to ask Bucky.
Well, you did have a choice. You could have asked any guy in the compound to be your date but you didn’t because you knew what would happen. They would have all rejected, your self esteem had already hit rock bottom and you didn’t need to give them another excuse to snigger and comment behind your back.
There was nothing actually wrong with you per-say, but you hated the way your body looked. Your clothes never looked right, you’d buy the next size up in jeans and they would still end up being too tight and uncomfortable around your belly. You didn’t own a single bikini or bathing suit.
Bucky was always the one complimenting on how great those jeans looked though, or how that blouse matched your eye colour. Your weight didn’t even seem to bother him, he’s never made a comment, he’s never compared you to Natasha or Wanda or even any other thin girl in the compound. He’s actually been more than happy to snack and binge eat with you during movie nights. But you try not to overthink that part too much, you’re pretty sure he’s just being kind to you since nobody else in the compound was. He was actually your only friend, the only person who would speak to you without judging with his eyes.
Bucky finished speaking to Steve before he walked over to you with a smile and a bounce in his step. Subconsciously, you tug on your T-shirt to pull it away from your round belly.
“Hey doll, you okay?” He smiles, putting his hands in his pocket and gnawing on his lip… nervously? Why was he nervous? Oh, did he see your invitation? Oh god, maybe he already knew what was going to happen and he’s come here to tell you he can’t go with you and you’ll end up going alone like the worthless loser you felt.
“Doll? You’re overthinking something.” Bucky clicks his tongue and moves closer. His chest right in front of your face makes it difficult not to lean in and bury your face in his delicious cologne.
“Sorry, I’m just… I’m just nervous.” You sigh, biting your lip and feeling more uncomfortable with how you look under his careful stare.
“Nervous? What happened?” Bucky takes your arm and leads you over to the couches in the common room. You’re aware you’re alone with him and that makes it slightly easier if he does end up rejecting your proposal. “Doll? You’re making me nervous now.” He chuckles, trying to lighten the mood.
“Oh, right! Sorry! I kind of have this favour to ask and you’re the only one I want to ask but I understand if you say no there’s no pressure.”
“I’m all ears doll.”
“I’ve received… I had a wedding invitation arrive in the mail today and I have to bring a date and I was hoping that you would be my fake boyfriend? It’s for the whole weekend and I’ll pay you back - whatever you need!”
A smile grows on Bucky’s face as he gently wraps his hand around your thigh and squeezes gently. “Of course doll, I’ll come with you.” Your smile matches his, your heart doing somersaults in your chest and those butterflies are fluttering around in the pit of your stomach.
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The weekend arrived a lot sooner than you would have liked. Normally you would be ecstatic about the weekend and relaxing, but giving the circumstances you were incredibly nervous and anxious. You knew your family would love Bucky, he’s charming and sweet. It was their comments about your appearance you were most anxious about. You just hoped they wouldn’t embarrass you in front of your crush.
Bucky grasped your hand and interlaced your fingers before he leaned in. “It’s going to be okay, doll. I’m here.” He whispers, kissing your temple just as the front door opens and your mother gives you that look you were so familiar with.
“Y/N.” She greets coldly, already her vibes not sitting well with Bucky. Your mother doesn’t even invite you in for a hug, she sidesteps and lets you both in. “Didn’t they have that dress in your size, dear?” She asks and your heart becomes heavy.
“This *is my size mom.” You answer, feeling Bucky squeeze your hand.
“And I think you look gorgeous in it doll.” Bucky kisses your cheek and smiles.
“You must be Bucky? Hi! I’m Y/N’s mom.” She smiles proudly up at him. “You wait until you meet the bridesmaids!” She tells him and you’re ready to run off and never speak to your family again. It’s Bucky that keeps you grounded, reminding you he’s here with you every step of the way. He’s in disbelief at how your own mother treats you, he’s dreading to see how the rest of your family goes down.
He didn’t have long to wait to find out. Your father was most welcoming. Pulling you into hugs and telling you how much he’s missed you. The rest of your family, not so much. You hear people whispering and smirking, you know it’s about you being here with Bucky. You’re on your second sandwich when your sister approaches with a glass of wine in hand.
“So, how much are you paying that hunky guy to be here?” She sniggers, keeping her eyes on Bucky. He’s talking casually with your father and your eyes well up.
“I’m not paying him anything, we’ve been together for a few months.” You lie, but wishing it was true.
“Oh come on Y/N. Who are you trying to fool? Us or yourself? There’s no way a guy like that; good looking, hunky, beefy would date someone like *you.”
That was it. You dropped the plate, allowing the thin china to shatter over the floor and hiked your dress up allowing you to run inside. Bucky heard the commotion and saw you run off, he glared at the laughing woman that was standing next to you. Something within him snapped, and he couldn’t stand it any longer watching your family pick at your insecurities.
“What the hell did you say?” He yells, stomping over and wiping the smirk off her face. “What did you say to my girl?”
Your sister stutters, looking at the other household members for help but receiving nothing in return.
“I told her… there’s no way a guy like you could…”
“Could. What?!” Bucky is seething, his jaw and fists clenched.
“Could… could…”
“Spit it out!”
“Could date someone like that, I'm so sorry!”
Bucky storms past your sister, calling out your name. You’re on the bottom stair with tears staining your cheeks.
“Doll, come with me.” He takes your hand and pulls you up, not giving you a chance to argue with him. You’re too humiliated to face anyone right now but he leads you back out and it’s so quiet. It seemed like the birds had even stopped singing.
“You know,” Bucky starts, clearing his throat and demanding the attention from every single member of your family. “It’s my first time meeting everyone and since I got here I’ve been biting my tongue. The things I’ve wanted to say, I didn’t because I didn’t want to upset Y/N. But seeing *you, her own family make comments, snide remarks, laughing behind her back and then worst of all be told she has no right to date someone like me?” He takes a breath, taking in everyone’s guilty expressions before he continues. “Y/N is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met,I love her and if anyone doesn’t deserve to be with someone it’s me who doesn’t deserve to be with her.” Bucky turns to face you, you’re frozen in place and shocked. You're happy but you can’t believe this is real. “I love you, I have for a really long time doll. You’re perfect the way you are and don’t you ever change how you look to please other people.” Bucky refers to a comment he had overheard earlier between your mother and her friend.
You sigh happily, wrapping your arms around his neck. “Do you mean it? You like me for me?”
“I love every inch of you doll. There’s nothing I wouldn’t change about you.” He smiles and leans in, “only your family.”
“I love you too Buck, you’re the only family I want.” You lean in and he closes the gap. A round of applause from your father is quickly stopped by a glare from your mother.
“And just for the record,” Bucky says, turning around to face them. “None of you are invited to our wedding. You can also imagine what your grandchildren will look like. Come on doll, let’s spend the rest of the weekend alone in a happier place.” You giggle, walking behind him and ignoring your mother calling your name. She burned these bridges herself. But it was Bucky’s words that replayed in your head over and over. Nobody had ever stood up for you before and he loved you for who you were?
Of course he did. Because it doesn’t matter what’s on the outside; whether you’re small, big, tall, short. It’s what’s on the inside that counts and every single person in the universe needs someone like Bucky to bring the best out of you. Don’t let anybody ever tell you something differently. You are loved and deserve to be loved.
Summary: All your life you have wanted to be loved by someone. But when you don’t look like most “beautiful” women, you learn to stop wanting. You’d never expect someone like the amazing, kind, beautiful Bucky Barnes would desire someone like you.
Word Count: 30k (SERIES IS COMPLETE)
Series Playlist
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Main Series:
Part 1: The Cat in the Alley
Part 2: There and Back Again
Part 3: Past and Present
Part 4: A Dicey Situation
Part 5: Oh What a Night
Part 6: Let It All Out
Part 7: A Gem
Part 8: Sunday
Post-Series Stories:
Meet the Parents
Weekend at Sarah’s
Bucky Reads a Fanfic
To Be Yours: Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3
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A/n: I started writing this fic after looking through my Timehop and seeing a photo of a guy I was in love with in high school who ended up being in love with my skinny blond best friend. It brought back all of these memories of similar moments I had experienced with men over the course of my life. That I still experience today. And over time I learned to stop thinking that someone might be interested in me to save myself from the inevitable heartache of rejection. Instead of thinking about them liking me as I am, I would think about what I would need to do in order for them to like me. Run so many miles a day, change my diet, drink water, sleep better. All for them. Change myself so I looked the way I thought they wanted me to look. And it would never work, and I still look the same. And I’ve grown tired of hating my body because society has told me to.
I wrote this because the older I get the more sick I am of living in a world where main characters in a romance setting are thin. Not that there’s anything wrong with having a smaller body, it’s just that women are shown through books and media that if you are plus-sized, you have no room in their story. And that mentality has bled into the real world for too long.
(okay, I’m ranting and idk if this is making sense anymore lol)
In short, To Be Wanted is for readers who feel like their story can’t be told because they’re plus size. We are beautiful, and Bucky Barnes would be lucky to have us. <3
Reader is a model living in New York. Working with her favourite photographer Steve Rogers as much as she can. Bucky Barnes is a boxer, fighting in the big leagues. But he makes sure to support his best friend, Steve, whenever he can. Like coming out to his shoots, when he gets the chance. Of course it doesn't hurt that Steve takes pictures of models for a living... when Bucky joins him on a shoot, he meets Y/N and it's an instant connection.
Summary: You are one of the scientists at Stark Industries. You help mainly Tony and Bruce develop new tech for the team. Bucky takes you under his wings and help you assimilate to life amongst superheroes. You think he is interested in you, but at one of Tony’s party, you hear something you shouldn’t have, and everything changes. And you’re not sure there’s any going back from there.
Warnings: angst, hurt reader, asshole Bucky, jealous guys, revenge, possible future smut? (each chapter has its own warnings- read them before every chapter)