Day 3: Soulmates — Sharing your pain/scars kind of soulmates. But instead of scars, you get flowers in your body that represent your soulmate in general instead.
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In honor of the first day of @winteriron-week (organized by the lovely @hogwartstoalexandria), the first time Bucky and Tony met, with a background of Bucky’s thoughts. The moment he fell in love with the man he thought he could never have.
(Of course, this is Tony, so it turns out he’s very wrong about that.)
Made for @winteriron-week Day 5 filling the prompt "Prosthetic Arms."
Pepper Took the photo while Morgan and Sam squatted in the background sporting cheesy grins and doin' a double thumbs up. I don't make the rules, it's canon.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Winteriron Week, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Soulmate AU, soulmate tattoo, Danger levels, danger numbers, Winter Soldier POV, Anticipation, First Meeting, Through the Years, general winter soldier angst warning apply, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending, it's a soulmate story of course it's a happy ending, Bucky finding himself, and his soulmate too, soulmate-identifying danger level tattoos, One-Shot
Series: Part 15 of Bingo Fills
Summary:
"For some reason, the Asset knew that the number seven was impressive, and when he was out of the base and no one was watching, he traced the outlines of it with his metal finger."
A soulmate tattoo shows how dangerous the soulmate is. Bucky's tattoo shows higher and higher numbers as time goes by. In the end, he finds the person behind the numbers, of course.
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Challenges:
Vetés: They say sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war. (first / last sentence)
Winteriron Week: Day 1 - First meeting @winteriron-week
Tony Stark Bingo: T2 - Image: Tony and the armor @tonystarkbingo
Bucky Barnes Bingo: Y4 - Handle with care @buckybarnesbingo
Star Spangled Bingo: I5 - Soulmate AU @star-spangled-bingo
Tony had been in a coma for a month after the final snap. When he finally woke, he stared at the ceiling for several minutes before asking Pepper if they won. With tears in her eyes, she told him yes, thanks to him and his sacrifice.
‘What sacrifice?’
‘Your arm.’
It was a few months of recovery before he was working in the lab again, now more dependent on DUM-E than he ever was before. His relationship with Pepper was failing as he focused more building than on her and Morgan. No one even knew what he was doing until Bucky decided to pay him a visit.
The lab was brightly lit and he could hear Tony talking to the bot. He approached the worktable, looking over Tony’s shoulder and seeing the red and gold prosthetic. “You’re not going to weaponize that, are you?”
Tony jumped and turned to him. “How did you get in here?”
“Walked in.” Bucky lifted his gaze to stare into large brown eyes. “You can rest, you know.”
“I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“Because yes, we stopped him, thank god we did -”
“You did.”
“We did… But he’s not the last.” Tony went back to the arm. “He wouldn’t even be the worst and we’re down a super soldier now.”
“Stark, the world is -”
“Universe.”
“Fine, the universe is going to be fine for a while -”
“You don’t know that.”
Bucky put his left hand on the other’s scarred shoulder. “And you don’t know if everything’s really going to go to shit in five minutes or not.”
Tony glanced at him.
“At least try a vacation. Reconnect with your daughter.”
He looked down. “Lost Pepper for the last time, huh?”
“Since you’re going to keep fighting, yeah.” Bucky gently pulled him closer so he could put an arm around his shoulders. “But maybe it’s for the best.”
“Think so?”
“Yeah. And who knows, maybe I’ll have a chance now.”
“You?” Tony questioned with a raised brow. “You’re interested?”
“Maybe I like self sacrificial idiots,” Bucky shrugged. “What do you think?”
“I think I’m curious. And maybe I can upgrade your -”
Prompt: Bed Sharing / “I’m not drunk enough for this.” / Soulmates
“I’m not drunk enough for this.” Tony whispered, moving his eyes from the alcoholic drink in his hand, back to Bucky face and down to the little object in the other man hand.
"No Tony" Bucky murmured in a soft tone looking Tony in the eyes, seeing confusion moving behind them. "You are not drunk, you are not dreaming, and yes" Bucky stopped few second, just the time to go down on one knees and finally ask the question he was waiting to say from a long time. "Will you marry me?" Ended opening the little black box, revealing a simple white gold band, with a little aquamarine embedded in the middle.
"I..." Tony blinked once, twice, shaked his head a little and fell on his knees going to cup Bucky head between his hands, with a little smile growing bigger by the second. "YES!" Nearly screamed. "Yes, yes, yes, yes." Continued going to leave a little kiss with every single whispered yes.
Maybe in the middle of the gala with, people screaming and music blaring around them, wasn't the best way to make a proposal, but Tony never had what he wanted in the right way, and frankly he didn't care, he didn’t care at all, because he was happy for the first time in a long time.
We made it to the last day of @winteriron-week, what an amazing week it has been! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑
They are recovering from a night filled with nightmares and stayed up watching Star Trek in the common room. They are both dorks and love to wear their friends merch.
Steve is one the one who takes a picture so he can sketch it later