Summary: A bit of fun when you come out of anaesthesia after an operation.
Characters: Bucky Barnes, Reader
A/N: I'm heading to hospital tomorrow for my 2nd cancer surgery - a liver resection - and I have been wathcing alot of Tiktoks about anaesthesia and came across the funny ones when people are coming out of it, and it inspired this in my brain.
I appreciate each and every one of you.
Not Beta'd so any mistakes are my own.
Dividers by @firefly-graphics
It had been a long day for Bucky so far. You’d had a 4am wake up call to be at the hospital by 6am. He dropped you off like you asked and pretended to leave. You had told him that you couldn’t see the need for him to hang around and suggested he go home and get some sleep while you were in surgery.
Bucky couldn’t imagine heboth you and’d be able to have any kind of restful sleep while you weren’t right next to him, so he bought a newspaper and sat in the hospital coffee shop reading and trying to concentrate on the crossword puzzle.
Crosswords weren’t something he normally enjoyed but having sat beside you and helped you out with your daily “brain exercise” as you loved to call it, he found it now gave him some comfort.
You had listed him on your hospital admissions paperwork as next of kin so he knew they would call you as soon as the operation was done to let him know how you were. He wanted to be close by, not because he could be of assistance if, god forbid, anything went wrong. More so that he could see you as soon as you were able to have visitors.
Bucky had decided to take a walk, the crossword had frustrated him to no end because he didn’t have you beside him to answer the questions he always had when you both were trying to complete the puzzle.
There wasn’t much around this hospital but he found a couple of local shops where he picked up some things for you and then stumbled upon a park with a coffee cart, so he took the opportunity to relax with some nature and have a decent cup of coffee, not the stuff you normally get out of hospital vending machines.
He felt like he wasn’t there more than 15 minutes however, when his phone rang. Looking down he saw it was a private number so he figured it was more than likely the hospital It couldn’t have been anyone from the Avengers because he had their numbers saved, and he knew it wouldn’t be anyone calling from a landline at the tower because they all knew he was off today at the least for your surgery.
Picking up the phone and hitting the answer button, he braced himself for whatever was about to come next, good or bad. “Hello?”
“Uh, good afternoon am I speaking to James Barnes?” the voice enquired.
“Yes, this is he, I mean that’s me, I mean yes, I’m James Barnes” he could hear the girl giggle quietly through the phone at his seeming inability to put together a coherent sentence.
“Well, I’m Sasha a nurse in the recover suite, we just wanted to let you know that Yn has come through the surgery perfectly, she is in recovery and you can come sit with her whenever you get here.”
“Oh that’s such a relief, thank you Sasha, I’m just down the street in a little park so I’ll be there in like 10 minutes or so” he confirmed for her.
“Oh, are you in Ventnor Park? I love that place, sometimes if I can swing it I go there to eat my lunch. Well, we’ll see you soon Mr Barnes” to which she hung up the phone before he could say any more.
He ditched his almost empty coffee cup in the nearby bin and started walking back to the hospital, eager to see you again, even though it had only been a few hours since he dropped you off.
As Bucky approached the recovery suite, he had to admit to himself that he was getting a little anxious about how you’d be after the anaesthesia and all, but he was very excited to see you again.
He pressed the button on the door to gain access and the nurse who came to open the door asked who he was here to see.
“I’m James Barnes, I’m here for Yn Yln” he informed her quietly.
“Oh yes, Mr Barnes, come through, she’s in bed 7. She’s still quite groggy but that’s totally normal. I’ll grab a chair for beside her bed so you can sit there.”
“Thank you ma’am. I appreciate that” he replied.
Moving down the row of beds he rounded the curtain towards you and stood at the end of your bed. The nurse approached and quietly placed the chair beside your bed. Bucky gave her a quick nod and sat himself down, reaching for your hand.
At the feeling of his hand in yours, you stirred. Unfocused eyes roaming around the room, landing on him and widening dramatically in reaction.
“Oh, hi” you said to him.
“Hi Yn, how are you feeling?”
“Umm, ok.. I think, I’m not sure my brain is working properly yet.”
“No, you’ve only just woken up, it will take a while before you’re completely with it again. They said the surgery went well so that’s a bonus”
“Oh, yeah, but you might have to tell me again later” she slurred a little when speaking but, again, it was totally understandable.
You drifted off again for a few minutes, opening your eyes and looking around again. You noticed a handsome man sitting at your bedside.
“Oh my god! You are gorgeous” you say to him.
Bucky looks around, not realising you are talking to him at first. “Umm, ok, well thanks, I’m glad you think so” he replied to you.
“No, I mean look at you, you look like a god” you exclaimed.
“Well, again, thank you, umm…” he stammered, blushing. He looked for your nurse who just smiled and nodded that this was another normal thing for some people.
“I mean damn boy” you began. “If I didn’t have a boyfriend, I’d wife you up so quickly”
Bucky laughed “Well, that’s a shame that you have a boyfriend because I’d love to wife you up”
“Oh no, you can’t say those kind of things to me, I have a boyfriend!” you whisper yell the last part at him.
“Yes, I know you do, you told me that. But can’t we have something as well?” he chucked again to himself, enjoying this side of you.
“Hmmm, I don’t think so. You see, my boyfriend is very tall and muscly and very, very strong and I’d hate to see him mess up your pretty face.” You sighed.
“Well, we wouldn’t want that now, would we” he smiled.
“Nurse” you raised your voice. Seeing her round the end of the curtain you asked “Did you call my boyfriend. Do you know when he’ll be here?”
“Yes, I called him, in fact, he’s here already” the nurse replied.
You turn to Bucky “Oh no, you better go, he’s gonna get real mad if he comes in here and sees you holding my hand like this.”
Bucky just chuckled, this was hilarious and he knew if Sam were here he’d be filming this but he didn’t want you to be embarrassed later on if anyone saw it other than the 2 of you.
“Don't laugh, I mean it” you start crying.
“Oh baby” he said, concerned. “What’s wrong, why are you crying?” he couldn’t bear to see you upset and wanted to be able to fix it for you.
“No, it’s just my boyfriend is here and you’re here and I love him so much but you’re just so beautiful and I don’t want him to punch your face off.”
“No, you can’t call me babe, that’s what he calls me” you cry even harder.
“Yn, listen to me. I am your boyfriend. I’m James.”
“My boyfriends name is Bucky, you can’t be him because he’s coming here and you’re already here.”
“Trust me, my love, I am Bucky, I am also James, I am also your boyfriend and I think after this I have no choice but to wife you up like you said you’d do to me” he leaned forward and kissed your lips lightly and tenderly.
“Oh dear, now you’ve kissed me and… Wait, did you say you are my boyfriend? How did I get so lucky to land someone like you?”
“Yes sugar, I am and we have forever to work out how I was so lucky to land you, not the other way around. Now you lay your head back and relax so we can get the rest of this anaesthesia out of your system and back to reality.”