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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes, Bruce Banner Additional Tags: Dimension Travel, Dubious Science, Grief/Mourning, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov Friendship, Light Angst, More Like Melancholy?, Post-Endgame, Clint Barton Feels, POV Bucky Barnes, Getting to Know Each Other, Souls, Winterhawk Big Bang 2024, Falling In Love, Sharing a Bed, in a way? - Freeform, Bittersweet, Reminiscing, Clint's apartment - Freeform, Timey-Wimey, Planet Vormir (Marvel), First Kiss, Happy Ending Summary:
“Well, to keep it simple, Clint – you know Clint, Barton? – well, I might have accidentally gotten his soul stuck in an Astral Dimension. I could use some help finding him and, ideally, bringing him back.”
If Bucky hadn’t lived the lives he’d lived (so many lives in his hundred-plus years), he might have dropped the box of tea in his hands, or let the vortex of confusionconcernshockfearexhaustion that Bruce’s explanation stirred within him show on his face. But he’d had practice at this, at living through moments like these.
He placed the box gently on the counter and inhaled deep enough to hurt.
“Okay,” he said on the exhale. “And how do we do that?”
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Or, Bucky's soul does find Clint's in the Astral Dimension, but the 'bringing him back' part of the mission takes time.
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