Chapter 13
Bucky adjusted his daughter in his arms as he stared at the wall in front of him. He couldn’t focus on anything. A million thoughts were running through his head. Brian appeared to be in the same boat since he was sitting on the floor silently and running a toy car along the tops of Bucky’s feet.
It was a long ride here. The van was dead silent. They wouldn’t let Steve see him since the meeting. Steve wasn’t allowed in the van. Bucky was dragged out of the meeting before he could even see where he went. Some alphas, that Bucky was completely unfamiliar with, took him to what they told him was the Avengers compound. Stark had met him there and led him to the room he was currently in. Stark looked mad. Bucky didn’t want to make things worse so he kept his mouth shut and allowed himself to be shut in this room.
After what felt like hours of sitting in this room alone with his children, the door creaked open. “Hey,” a soft voice called out. Bucky’s head shot up and felt immediate relief that it was another omega at the door.
“Hey,” Bucky croaked out. He couldn’t even recognize his own voice. He frowned slightly and looked back down at Alice.
The omega walked into the room and bit his lip. “I guess you have had one hell of a day, huh?” he said awkwardly.
Bucky looked up and stared at him pointedly.
“I’m sorry. I’ve just never met anyone in your situation before,” the omega rubbed the back of his neck. “I’m not really great at this. Everyone assumes I am, because you know, omega. But my husband is a million times better at this than I am. Ugh, well, um, I’m Riley Wilson. And I know you are Bucky. So it’s nice to meet you.”
“You don’t have to do this,” Bucky grunted. “I don’t need you to try to pretend to be my friend. I don’t need your pity.”
“I know,” Riley sighed and sat down across from Bucky. “I am not trying to give you pity or pretend to be your friend. I just can’t imagine being in your situation and figured it might help to have another omega, another mom, to talk to. “
Bucky snorted. “So they found one and just shoved him in here to talk to me?”
Riley grinned softly. “Kinda. You know that really hot black alpha? That’s my man. I’m pretty sure he’s the only one of them that’s actually mated. Well, Fury maybe, but honestly I don’t know much about him. He kinda scares me to be honest. It’s hard to imagine even entertaining the idea of being mated to him. He’s like the worlds scariest pirate. But I think I would prefer him over Tony. You’ll get what I mean when you get to know Tony better. “
“You talk a lot,” Bucky muttered.
“Sorry,” Riley blushed. “I do that when I get nervous. Your kids are adorable, you know.”
Bucky gave him a small smile. “They are my everything.”
Riley smiled widely. “I know what you mean. My daughters are my everything. I’ve got three of them. 7, 4, and 2. My house is pretty wild.”
Bucky let his shoulders drop. Things are awful right now. Things are horrible. The father of his children was killed by his son’s idol. But right now he was more than willing to distract himself with anything but the horrible reality that is his life. “Do you have pictures?” he asked quietly.
“Would I be a mother if I didn’t?” Riley moved and sat down next to Bucky and pulled out his smart phone. He flipped it to the picture of the alpha that Bucky saw earlier wearing a princess crown with three little girls in boas sitting around him. “Sam is like the worlds best dad. The girls try to torture him but he takes it in stride.”
“My kids won’t get that,” Bucky whispered as his eyes filled with tears.
“Oh! No! I’m sorry. I so did not mean that. That was extremely insensitive to show you that picture!” Riley immediately tossed his phone onto the bed he was previously sitting on and pulled Bucky into his arms. “I’m an idiot.”
“I want my kids to have a dad,” Bucky sobbed. “Their dad is gone. He’s, he’s, just gone.” He couldn’t say dead. He couldn’t form the words.
“Bucky, you have all of us. I know you don’t know us yet. Hell, you don’t even know all of our names or even seen us all, but eventually you will know us. We are all pretty good people,” Riley rubbed his back as Bucky cried against his chest. “All of us would be more than happy to help you with the kids. And Steve…”
“Steve,” Bucky sniffled. “Where is he?”
Riley looked away from Bucky and chewed on his lip. “It’s complicated. I… He will be back by tonight.”
“Do you understand everything that is going on?” Bucky asked pleadingly. “I just want to know what’s going on.”
Riley sighed. “Honey, it’ll all be discussed tonight.”
“Mommy,” Brian tugged on Bucky’s hand. “Mommy, I wanna go home.”
“Me too, sweetheart,” Bucky ran his hand through Brian’s dark hair. “I don’t know how he is so calm.”
“He’s probably an alpha wanting to remain strong for his mother,” Riley shrugged. “Sam’s made comments about how that happens, even with children as young as he is.”
“I’m hungry,” Brian tugged again on Bucky’s hand.
“Do you want to come into the kitchen and we can get some ice cream?” Riley asked.
“Am I allowed to leave the room?” Bucky asked.
“Of course,” Riley answered. “You are not a prisoner. I think Tony had you sit here because he has no idea how to handle talking to an omega. Well, unless he wants to sleep with said omega, but none of us would allow that to happen. We’d all kill him.”
Bucky took a deep breath and stood up. “I guess I would like to leave this room then.”