I Made Your Favorite
“Steve, I've had enough!” Bucky says stomping into the compound. He's tired of being followed everywhere he goes.
“What are you talking about?” Steve asks wide eyed.
“I am not a child. I don't need a babysitter. I'm tired of being tailed by Widow and Witch and now you have the audacity to have Sam performing arial recon on me?” Bucky snaps.
“You're acting weird man. You disappear for hours and when you come back you look ridiculously happy,” Sam says.
“That's my business! If I was doing something bad then wouldn't you have heard about it on the news?” Bucky snaps.
“We're just worried about you. We don't want someone to try getting into your head,” Steve says.
“That's why I leave. Because the Witch keeps trying to get into my head. I can feel her poking in there,” Bucky says.
“She just wants to help,” Widow says.
“Well then she can stay the fuck away from me and my mind. I don't trust anyone who willingly joins HYDRA or who switched sides like a yo-yo,” Bucky says.
“We're your teammates!” Witch snaps.
“So was Stark, and we all know how that ended up. Most of all me,” Bucky says.
“Bucky calm down. We're your team. Tony's the reason we split up,” Steve says.
“Steve, would you have let me kill him in Siberia?” Bucky asks.
“I...Bucky you wouldn't have killed him,” Steve says.
“He has a fucking hole in his chest! Maybe I wasn't intending to kill him, but what if I had pushed too hard huh? Or disconnected the wrong thing? Scott told us how dangerous being in a mechanical suit can be and his doesn't has nearly as many weapons as Iron Man does. Do you even understand how his suit works?”
“No,” Steve admits.
“Neither do I. I easily could have killed him just like I did to his mother and this time it wouldn't be because of HYDRA fucking my head it would just be because of you and me,” Bucky says.
“He was trying to kill us!” Steve says.
“Remember what Fury told us Steve? Anyone who gets on Stark's bad side either ends up dead or in jail? Well, my heart's still beating and I don't see any bars around me. He must not have wanted us dead badly enough,” Bucky says.
“We did the right thing. He was attacking us,” Steve says.
“So? Wanda attacked you with the intent to kill you and you didn't respond lethally.”
“I…”
“I attacked you with every intention of killing you and Natasha. Yet you didn't try to kill me,” Bucky says.
“You're my friend Bucky,” Steve says.
“So was he.”
“Bucky…”
“No! You want to know where I've been? I've been working. I found a job. Something you all should have been doing too. I also have friends now that I can hang out with that just know me as I am now.”
“Who are these friends?” Steve asks.
“Why do you want to know? So you can scare them off so I'll be your Bucky again? The one you remember instead of the one that thinks for himself?” Bucky says and storms out and right through a portal.
Stephen, Tony, Bruce, Rhodey, Loki, and Quill are all sitting on the couch, Maria in her play pen when he comes through.
Tony holds out a plate with a gentle smile and says, “I made your favorite.”