Marvel One-Shots and Imagines [Reader-Inserts]

Yeah
I know sometimes things may not
Always make sense to you right now
But hey,
What daddy always tell you?
Straighten up little soldier
Stiffen up that upper lip
What you crying about?
You got me

   Nightmares plagued you at night because of all of the troubles that you were going on in your life. Your mother and father were fighting all the time, about things that you couldn't even start to understand. You tried to, but you were five, making you unable to understand why they were fighting. They loved each other, so why are they fighting? 

    You would wake up screaming and Bucky would rush in, like the hero he was in your eyes. He would find you crying, tears streaming down your cheeks. This happened almost every night, and every night it broke Bucky's heart. He hated that you had to go through this. He never wanted you to have a life like this. When he found your mother and you, he promised that he would try to make your life better. It started off that way, but soon your mother got back into drugs and it started to go downhill. 

    Bucky sat down on your bed and opened up his arms to you. As if he could make this all go away, you rushed into them. Burying your head in his chest, you dared not look up. You didn't want to see the look on his face. The cuts and the wounds that covered him hurt you almost as much as they hurt him. You didn't understand why he kept going to work if it hurt him. You had begged him to stay home, to fix mommy, but he couldn't. He said he was protecting you and mommy by doing his job, but you didn't understand. Mommy kept hurting herself when he was gone, why couldn't he see that? 

    "Do you remember what daddy always tell you?" He wasn't your father, but you had yelled at him when he called himself Bucky around you. You had gotten him to start calling himself your father, as he was the closest thing you had to one. He seemed happy to do it and soon you became the most important thing in his life. He thought that the most important thing in his life would be your mother, someone who looked like a carbon-copy of one of the girls he fancied before the war. But when she showed she was beyond help and didn't want any, his attention shifted to you. Such a young girl shouldn't be exposed to this kind of thing. 

    "Straighten up little soldier, stiffen up that upper lip. What are you crying about? You've got me." He said as he rocked you back and forth, running his non-metal hand through your hair. You didn't seem to be frightened by his metal arm, or any of the bad things you may have overheard when he was talking with your mother. He was a hero in your eyes, like the person that he used to be. He would do anything to keep you safe, even if he needed to protect you from your own mother.

Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad
Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had
I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
Cause you're scared, I ain't there?
Daddy's with you in your prayers

   There was a small time period where Bucky had convinced your mother to allow you to live with Steve for some time. He had told her that you were in too much danger living with her from a drug dealer, which was true, but he made it sound more urgent than it really was. She was reluctant to do it at first, saying you were her child and that she would do with you as she pleased. She might have loved you, but it was in an abusive way. She didn't physically or mentally abuse you. Yet, she kept doing hard drugs as well as injuring herself. It was still abuse to put such a young girl through that. 

    When Bucky explained to Steve the situation you were in and how your mother wasn't even trying to get help, he quickly agreed. No child should go through that. So, you went to live with Steve, who you considered to be your uncle. He had to go off on many missions and you were bounced from house to house with different aunts and uncles. Uncle Stark, Aunt Nat. Your favorite was Uncle Clint, who had children who you could play with. His wife was nice and always treated you lovingly whenever you were around.

    But that could only last for so long. You mother started to get paranoid, a side-effect of one of the drugs she was using. She called Bucky and said she wanted you to come home. He tried to convince her that you were safer with the others, but she wouldn't listen. Bucky had to listen to her when she threatened to get the police involved. They would only make matters worse. So, you were sent back to live with your mother, confused and scared as to why everything was changing.

No more crying, wipe them tears
Daddy's here, no more nightmares
We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it
Laney uncles crazy, ain't he?
Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it
We're all we got in this world
When it spins, when it swirls
When it whirls, when it twirls
Two little beautiful girls
Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
I know it's confusing you

    Life was always confusing for you. There was always something that you didn't understand, things that children shouldn't have to witness. Their tiny brains couldn't begin to understand the details of what was happening. You just knew that mommy was hurting herself and daddy was always away. The kids on the television had normal families...What was wrong with your family?

    Why did daddy always have to go away? He promised that he was always going to be there for you to scare away your nightmares, but he lied. When he wasn't there, the nightmares still occurred. The monsters still came and there was no one to make them go away. Whenever you tried to wake mommy up, you couldn't. You would go into her room crying, but the bottles on the floor signaled that she wasn't going to be getting up soon.

    And why did she hurt herself? You may not understand the drug or alcohol abuse, but you could tell she was hurting herself. You knew what cuts looked like and many appeared on her wrists and other parts of her body. You tried to ask her about it, but she would just tell you to go outside. That was what she always did. The only time that you truly ever got to see her was when she fed you, which was normally just sandwiches or fast food. It was simple to say you didn't eat a lot. Mommy forgot.

    Why couldn't you have a normal life, a normal family? 

Daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news
I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see
Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did
We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
But things have gotten so bad between us
I don't see us ever being together ever again
Like we used to be when we were teenagers

   The cruelty of life just couldn't give you a break. Being forced back to live with your mother just wasn't enough. It had to throw more at your tiny mind, making it harder for you to continue living like a normal kid. Bucky wasn't there for you and he felt horrible. You were alone when everything happened and it wasn't fair. He told you that he would always be there when you needed him, but he wasn't with you when your mother tried to kill herself. You were ten.

    You were alone when you walked into the bathroom and saw your mother in the bathtub. The radio was blasting to cover the sound of her crying, making you think that everything was fine and she was just taking a bath. You noticed that the red blood was flowing out of her wrists and you knew what to do. The shows on the t.v. always reminded you what to do when you saw someone who was hurt.

    You grabbed the phone and called 911, telling them your name and address. You were crying, scared and confused about what was going on. The voice on the other end of the phone was calm and kept telling you that everything was fine. They could tell by the tone of your voice that you were terrified about everything that was going on and needed someone to be strong for you.

    When the medics got to your home, as well as a  police officer. He was a nice man that asked if you wanted to ride in his car to the hospital and you agreed. On the way there, you told him about your father, though you didn't give him your daddy's name. They asked you for his number but you didn't know it. Instead, they noticed that the emergency contact on your mother's medical records was Steve Rogers since Bucky didn't have a number. 

    Steve quickly went to get you and took you to his house. He somehow got into contact with Bucky and told him everything that had happened. He quickly dropped everything and got to Steve's house as quickly as possible.

But then, of course, everything always happens for a reason
I guess it was never meant to be
But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is
But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream

Now hush little baby, don't you cry
Everything's gonna be alright
Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
We fear how we feel inside
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
But I promise momma's gon' be alright

   Bucky was used to feeling mental pain, but you weren't. You were going through so much and were starting to show the effects that the situation was causing. You weren't talking as much as older and you were starting to develop mental ticks. You would twitch and jump at the slightest noise and had trouble falling asleep. Even though you had been through so much, you still tried to remember what daddy told you. 

    "Everything's gonna be alright. Straighten up, little more solid stiffer that upper lip up, little lady." You would whisper to yourself at night, trying to keep reminding yourself that you needed to be strong. You needed to be strong for Mommy and Uncle Steve, and daddy, even if he wasn't there at the moment. He would still want you to be strong. You were going to make him proud. 

    It was hard though. You would cry yourself to sleep at night. Uncle Steve would come in quite a bit when he heard you, trying to comfort you. You would just sit up and lean on him, tears streaming down your face.

    He wouldn't say anything, just hold you in his strong arms. There was nothing to say. The only thing to say was that life wasn't fair and that sucks. It isn't fair. All you could do was curse at life, but what good would that do? So, he would just hold you, letting you cry your little heart out. With your head buried in his chest, you wouldn't see the tears in his own eyes. 

It's funny
I remember back one year when daddy had no money
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me
Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em
I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
And at the time every house that we lived in
Either kept getting broken into and robbed
Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar
Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it
And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart

   Bucky got to Steve's house as quickly as possible, which took some time since he was almost across the world. Yet, he got their as quick as possible. He didn't want you to have to be away from him for any more time than necessary. He knew that you must be so scared and confused. He needed to be there for you. He knew that Steve would do his best, but he didn't understand the pain that you were going through as much as Bucky knew. 

    When he got to Steve's place, it was night. He decided to walk into the room you were staying in and see if you were sleeping. You weren't. You were curled up in a ball, knees as close to your chest as possible. Your head was buried in your knees and you didn't even look up when you heard someone walk in. You just assumed that it was Steve. It was getting to be a normal occurrence for him to come in to check on you. 

    But when you felt the weight on your bed, it was almost as if you knew it wasn't Steve. You looked up with your blood-shot eyes to see Bucky sitting there, his eyes mirroring your own. You didn't know how you were able to get up so quickly, but the next thing you knew, you were in his arms. Head buried in his shoulder, sitting on his lap. His arms wrapped around you. They felt safer than Steve's. 

    He rocked you and whispered comforting words into your ear until he heard the sobbing stop. You slowly pulled your head away, resting your chin on his chest and staring up at him with your wide eyes. 

And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart
Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back
On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
And flew you and momma out to see me
But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it
And you and Laney were to young to understand it
Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand

   Once Bucky was sure that you were done crying, he began to tell you stories about when he first met your mother while continuing to rock you back and forth. Even at age ten, you could easily fit on his lap. He was so big compared to you. Maybe that was one of the factors that made him make you feel so safe like nothing could harm you if he was around.

    The stories involved Christmas, when you were first born and how he couldn't get you any presents. He also began to explain, the best way he could, why everything was happening. He explained that he had to keep going away for work and what was going on with your mother. He said that she wasn't right in the head, that she was sick. He wasn't sure how to explain it to a ten-year-old. That was the age where they were starting to understand adult things, but not everything.

    You didn't understand why people used drugs. You knew what drugs were for and the effect that they had, but you didn't understand the circumstances that brought your mother to starting to use drugs. Bucky didn't know if he wanted to explain since he didn't really understand it himself. Your mother had gone through so much and it had broken her, but how did he explain that to someone so young?

    In the end, he just told you stories until you fell asleep in his arms. You had a good night of sleep, something you hadn't had in a long time. 


Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing
Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
To see how much you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now
Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here
I like the sound of that, yeah
It's got a ring to it don't it?
Shh, momma's only gone for the moment

   As you grew up, now reaching your teenage years, you were given a little sister named Laney. Your mother got pregnant when you were eleven and you were happy to have a sibling, though Bucky was worried. If she was having trouble with you, how would she be able to take care of two children? Now that you were older, he hoped that you would help care for your little sister. 

    He remembered when you were younger and he had to take care of you because your mother would forget to feed you. It wouldn't be different with the new baby, except you were there now. You would make sure that Laney was always alright. You were going to be her hero, being to her what Bucky was to you. It was so odd when Bucky looked at pictures of when you were younger. You looked so young and helpless. 

    Thrown into a world that wasn't fair, but you learned to be strong. You learned to be a soldier and Bucky knew that you would make sure that Laney was safe and didn't have to go through anything alone. You had to be alone for so long, you wouldn't let her be alone. You would make sure that she was never alone and that you would always be her soldier, her hero. 

    Bucky smiled as he pulled out the newest photo of you and Laney that he had been sent. He wasn't able to visit as often because of his work and it was becoming really dangerous for him go home. He didn't want to bring you two into his world. You already had so much to worry about. He did make sure that Steve checked on the two of you, but he barely visited anymore. He felt bad, but he knew he was doing the best option. He had to keep you safe, even if it meant not being able to see you. 

    You may have lost your hero in your life, but you were busy being Laney's hero. But, you never forgot Bucky. When Laney would have a nightmare and called for you, you would hold her in your lap and say,

    "Hush little baby, don't you cry, everything's gonna be alright. Straighten up, little soldier. Stiffen that upper lip up little lady. Your sissy's here to hold ya through the night." 

Now hush little baby, don't you cry
Everything's gonna be alright
Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
We fear how we feel inside
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
But I promise momma's gon' be alright

And if you ask me too Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
I'mma give you the world
I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
I'mma sing for you
I'll do anything for you to see you smile
And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
I'mma break that birdies neck
I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)