✦ Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Reader
✦ Genre: Fluff | Jealousy | Comfort | Established Relationship
✦ Word Count: 1.8k
✦ Summary: When someone from your past gets too friendly at an Avengers party, Bucky’s quiet possessiveness surfaces. He’s never loud or mean just gentle hands, sharp eyes, and soft whispers that remind you exactly who you belong to. But beneath it all? A little boy afraid you’ll realize you deserve someone better. Not on your watch.
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The Tower was loud tonight.
Some Stark-hosted charity gala with too many rich people and not enough food. You looked beautiful wearing a silky deep-red dress Bucky helped you zip up. You’d caught his reflection in the mirror when he did. His hands lingered at your waist. His eyes had softened like butter.
“Gonna need to stay near me all night, doll,” he’d murmured against your skin. “You’re dangerous lookin’.”
And you had, mostly. Until now.
Bucky had gone to grab drinks. You stayed behind to answer a few questions from a reporter when he appeared. Dressed sharp. Smug. The kind of face that belonged to a time before Bucky a time you barely thought about anymore.
“Y/N,” he greeted, smile too confident. “Wow, you still look good enough to ruin my week.”
You blinked. “Hi… Nate. That’s flattering and weird.”
He laughed. “What, I can’t compliment an old friend? Thought I was forgiven for… everything.”
“I never said that,” you deadpanned.
He stepped closer. “Still feisty. Makes me think maybe we had something good—”
Before you could even open your mouth to respond, you felt a presence behind you. Strong. Quiet. Warm.
He slipped his arm around your waist and pulled you gently back against his chest.
“She has something better now,” Bucky said, calm but unmistakably protective. “So you can stop thinking.”
Nate blinked. “Woah, man. Just catching up.”
“You don’t need to catch up,” Bucky replied with a small smile one that didn’t reach his eyes. “She’s doing great.”
You placed your hand on Bucky’s chest, heart thudding at the tension you felt in him.
“It’s fine,” you whispered to him.
“It’s not,” Bucky murmured, pressing a kiss to your temple. “He doesn’t get to talk to you like that.”
Nate shrugged awkwardly and left with a muttered “whatever.”
Back upstairs in your shared suite, Bucky was oddly quiet. His hand never left yours, but he wasn’t his usual soft, goofy self. He sat on the bed, undoing his tie with a distant look in his eyes.
You walked over slowly, cupping his face. “Hey. You okay?”
He looked up at you. His jaw twitched. “I know I shouldn’t get like that.”
“Possessive. Jealous.” He glanced away. “He used to know you. I’m not— I mean, I’m just…”
You raised a brow. “Just what?”
“I’m not easy to love,” he said quietly.
Your heart cracked. “Bucky—”
“I know I’ve got you now, but people like him he can smile and talk pretty and not worry about the damage he’s done. Me? I’m always scared one day you’ll look at me and realize I’m too much work.”
You sat down next to him, curling your hand around his metal fingers. “Do you want me to list every reason you’re my person?”
He gave a tired smile. “You’ve done that before.”
“I’ll do it every day if I have to,” you said, curling into his lap. “But I need you to understand something.”
Bucky blinked down at you, arms wrapping around your waist.
“You’re allowed to be protective,” you whispered, pressing your forehead to his. “You didn’t raise your voice. You didn’t make a scene. You just held me like you were afraid to lose me. And that? That’s love, Buck. That’s not ‘too much work.’ That’s everything I’ve ever wanted.”
His grip tightened. “I don’t want to share you. Ever.”
“You looked too pretty tonight,” he mumbled into your neck. “I should’ve kept you in sweats and a hoodie.”
You giggled. “You helped me pick that dress.”
“I wasn’t thinking straight.”
He groaned, then pulled you back against him on the bed, his arms caging you in, face buried in your neck. “I’m not letting go.”
“Good,” you whispered, brushing his hair back gently. “Because I’m yours. Always. No matter who shows up at some party.”
He didn’t respond right away. Just kissed your shoulder and exhaled like he’d been holding his breath all night “Mine,” he murmured. “You’re mine.”
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