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redfiona99Title: Don't Look Back
Fandom: Marvelverse
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they themselves do. This is not fiction. No money being made from this.
Series: Soldier of Tomorrow
Characters: Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Avengers: Endgame
Notes: The third part of my Allegiance swap AU. The original prompt say bad guys as good guys and vice versa. I have decided to have fun. The first part is Out of the Ice and the second part is Price Willing Paid
Summary: It might feel like someone's punched a hole straight through him, but Bucky will support Steve in this.
Bucky looked at Steve and knew exactly what he was planning. He looked at Steve and knew that's what he'd miss the most; looking at someone and knowing, without thinking, exactly what they were going to. The guy where you don't have to worry about what he's gonna do, because you know it the same way you know what your own right hand is about to do. Because Steve is not coming back from going back.
Bucky understands, even while it feels like someone has punched a hole through him. There's nothing for Steve here, except Bucky. Back then, he's got the chance of Peggy, and the chance of setting right all the things he'd done under Hydra control.
There isn't a dame waiting back then for Bucky, and Bucky's been able to settle into the future easier than Steve has. Plus, if the metal arm gets strange looks now, Bucky doesn't want to imagine what it would be like back then. Shuri's made him a new arm, better than his old one, with every upgrade a sort of displacement activity during the Snap. They were in Wakanda when it happened because T'Challa had smuggled them out of Sokovia, said if anyone asked, they were part of the Wakandan diplomatic corps and had diplomatic immunity. Bucky figured that was cheating, but he also figured if you're the king, you get to make the rules.
Ain't that a thing, two Brooklyn joes like them, and they know the Queen Mother has a mean poker face. Bucky can't say he ain't seen the world, which he'd always wanted to do, even this wasn't anything like the way he'd imagined doing it.
He's seen the world and met amazing people. He likes it here and now. But, that's the thing, he's been here for twelve years, he's made friends, he's got Sam, Shuri and he had Nat, even if that's another gap that nothing's ever going to fill. Steve's had nine years, sure, but part of that was running and hiding, and for five years, half the world was gone. Bucky can't blame him for wanting to go back and stay there.
Bucky nods his reply, like he'd ever stop Steve getting his chance of a good life, and Steve knows exactly what he means too. It means 'go with my blessing', it means 'I'll miss you', it means all the things he'd need six hours to say when they haven't got six minutes.
Steve smiles at him though, this hesitant, unsure thing, and Bucky's not seen that in sixty years, and no, no matter how much this will hurt, if Steve doesn't go of his own volition, Bucky's going to shove him through the portal instead of whoever is supposed to be going, because it's his Steve under there, under all that muscle and the post-Hydra grime, despite everything that's happened and Bucky's never backed down from anything just because it will hurt if it keeps Steve safe.
End notes: In much the same way as the second part was my favourite scene of Civil War, I really liked the way it felt that Steve and Bucky had a whole conversation in a glance when Steve went through the portal (I am on team "Bucky knew what he was going to do") which is why Bucky isn't shocked at the end. So this is my take on how that scene would go in this AU.
Fandom: Marvelverse
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they themselves do. This is not fiction. No money being made from this.
Series: Soldier of Tomorrow
Characters: Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Avengers: Endgame
Notes: The third part of my Allegiance swap AU. The original prompt say bad guys as good guys and vice versa. I have decided to have fun. The first part is Out of the Ice and the second part is Price Willing Paid
Summary: It might feel like someone's punched a hole straight through him, but Bucky will support Steve in this.
Bucky looked at Steve and knew exactly what he was planning. He looked at Steve and knew that's what he'd miss the most; looking at someone and knowing, without thinking, exactly what they were going to. The guy where you don't have to worry about what he's gonna do, because you know it the same way you know what your own right hand is about to do. Because Steve is not coming back from going back.
Bucky understands, even while it feels like someone has punched a hole through him. There's nothing for Steve here, except Bucky. Back then, he's got the chance of Peggy, and the chance of setting right all the things he'd done under Hydra control.
There isn't a dame waiting back then for Bucky, and Bucky's been able to settle into the future easier than Steve has. Plus, if the metal arm gets strange looks now, Bucky doesn't want to imagine what it would be like back then. Shuri's made him a new arm, better than his old one, with every upgrade a sort of displacement activity during the Snap. They were in Wakanda when it happened because T'Challa had smuggled them out of Sokovia, said if anyone asked, they were part of the Wakandan diplomatic corps and had diplomatic immunity. Bucky figured that was cheating, but he also figured if you're the king, you get to make the rules.
Ain't that a thing, two Brooklyn joes like them, and they know the Queen Mother has a mean poker face. Bucky can't say he ain't seen the world, which he'd always wanted to do, even this wasn't anything like the way he'd imagined doing it.
He's seen the world and met amazing people. He likes it here and now. But, that's the thing, he's been here for twelve years, he's made friends, he's got Sam, Shuri and he had Nat, even if that's another gap that nothing's ever going to fill. Steve's had nine years, sure, but part of that was running and hiding, and for five years, half the world was gone. Bucky can't blame him for wanting to go back and stay there.
Bucky nods his reply, like he'd ever stop Steve getting his chance of a good life, and Steve knows exactly what he means too. It means 'go with my blessing', it means 'I'll miss you', it means all the things he'd need six hours to say when they haven't got six minutes.
Steve smiles at him though, this hesitant, unsure thing, and Bucky's not seen that in sixty years, and no, no matter how much this will hurt, if Steve doesn't go of his own volition, Bucky's going to shove him through the portal instead of whoever is supposed to be going, because it's his Steve under there, under all that muscle and the post-Hydra grime, despite everything that's happened and Bucky's never backed down from anything just because it will hurt if it keeps Steve safe.
End notes: In much the same way as the second part was my favourite scene of Civil War, I really liked the way it felt that Steve and Bucky had a whole conversation in a glance when Steve went through the portal (I am on team "Bucky knew what he was going to do") which is why Bucky isn't shocked at the end. So this is my take on how that scene would go in this AU.
