Gwen walked into the living room and saw that Sam was laying on the couch trying to catch his breath, while Steve and Bucky stood in the kitchen with glasses of water in their hands.
"How did the run go?"
Sam groaned from the coach and the two super soldiers laughed. Gwen smiled and walked into the kitchen. As she walked past Bucky she bumped her hip into his side and looked up at him with a smile. Looking down at her Bucky returned the smile.
"Do you even sweat?"
Gwen asked as she got to the fridge. Steve looked over at her shrugged his shoulders. She rolled her eyes and grabbed a yogurt cup. Bucky walked over to the drawers and grabbed a spoon out of it and landed against the wooden cabinets. Gwen turned to open the cutlery drawer but her hand hit his chest. She looked up at him and saw a sly smile on his face. Bucky looked down at the spoon in his hand and Gwen followed his blue eyes.
"Sergeant Barnes."
"Doctor Brewster."
Gwen turned a light shade of pink as she bit her lip. Bucky's free hand went up to her chin making her look up at him. Gwen smiled and looked over to see Steve was no where in sight and Sam was slowly dying on the couch. Bucky grabbed Gwen's face again, moved her face back towards him, and kissed her. Gwen was brought to her tie toes in the kiss. Bucky's hand cradled her face as he kissed her. Dropping her yogurt, Gwen moaned into the kiss, then her and Bucky's tongues started to play a game dominance. Her hands pulled on the collar on his shirt as she was lifted even higher than before.
"Bucky."
Gwen said in between kisses. He chuckled but then he heard a door shut and broke away from Gwen. Looking up at him in confused but then heard Steve's footsteps coming towards the kitchen. Bucky handed her the spoon and looked over at Steve. Gwen quickly turned around and picked up her yogurt cup off of the floor. Standing straight up again Gwen looked over at Steve who was at the sink washing his hands.
"Gwen, I was wondering if I could talk to you."
Bucky said making her turn back around.
"When do-"
"Right now."
"Okay."
Gwen said then she started to walk down to her office with Bucky close behind her. Her mind started to drift to what he wanted to talk to her about. Then it hit her. He didn't want to talk at all, this was to continue what was going on before Steve walked in.
Entering her office Gwen put her yogurt down on the shelf then she heard the door shut behind Bucky.
"Gwen, I-"
Bucky didn't finish because Gwen had thrown herself on him. He took a few steps back and was pinned to the door as Gwen kissed him. Bucky pushed her face away just long enough so he could speak.
"Gwen, I had a nightmare."
She pulled away from him and just looked at him. A little bit heartbroken that he didn't want to make out with her and the fact that he had a nightmare.
"What happened?"
She asked reaching out for his hand, taking it in hers. Bucky looked down at their hands and his face fell.
"You were in the chair. You didn't remember me… and Zola was there."
"Bucky."
"That's why I was acting so weird earlier. I guess I was just freaked out about it."
"It's okay, Buck."
Gwen said as she wrapped her arms around him. Bucky's arms snaked around her and held on tight. He rested his head on top of hers and closed his eyes.
"I don't want to lose you."
"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I promise."
Bucky smiled and took in a deep breath.
"You better not."
Gwen looked up at Bucky and gave him a small smile.
"If we're going to keep this up, you need to talk to Steve about this."
"Why?"
"He's your best friend and a close one of mine. Just tell him. Please, for me."
Bucky sighed and rolled his eyes. Gwen slapped his chest playfully.
"Well, if it's for you... I guess I can."
Gwen giggled and stood on her tiptoes and kissed him. As she pulled away she smiled and looked up into his blue eyes.
"You better Barnes."

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Steve walked into Gwen's office and saw her typing away on her laptop. He knocked on the wall, making her look up from her screen.
"Well, if it isn't the Star Spangled Man with a Plan."
Steve rolled his eyes and walk over to her desk, sitting down on one of the chairs.
"I was going to take Bucky back to our old neighborhood."
Gwen nodded and looked back at her screen for a moment.
"That's a great idea. I would come with you guys but I'm about to Skype with Erik Selvig. You guys can go on without me."
"Bucky said he wants you to come."
"Tell him I am a little tied up right now. He'll understand. Maybe I can go with you guys another time."
Steve looked over at her seeing that she went back to typing on her keyboard again. Standing up he started to walk to the door and stopped before leaving the room.
"I asked Natasha if she knew why Peirce wanted you in DC."
GWen's eyes shot up from her computer and looked at Steve, who had his back to her. He let out a breath before he went on with what he had found out from the world class spy.
"She told me that he going to have you join HYDRA. They needed someone with your area of expertise. When I asked what would have happened if you said no, she told me that they would have forced you to join no matter the costs."
Gwen blinked and looked at Steve's back trying to process what he had just said.
"Thank you, Steve."
With that he walked out of the room, leaving Gwen to think over what she had just found out. Her think time was cut short when her computer started to ring with an incoming Skype call from Erik Selvig. Clicking on the answer button Gwen saw Erik pop up onto her screen. Grabbing a note pad and a pen Gwen got ready to hear what crazy things came out of the doctor's mouth this time.

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"Here we are."
Steve said as him and Bucky stopped right in front of an old brick building. Looking up Bucky took in the structure that stood before them. It seemed every familiar. He remembered people coming in and out of the apartments, kids in the street playing stickball, and him and Steve coming from here to Steve's apartment. Now the building looked condemned and that no one had lived there of years. A large chain link fence was around the perimeter of the building.
"This is where you used to live. You were in apartment eight on the fourth floor."
"Yeah, I remember this place. It was a little less well... abandoned last time I saw it. I've had a few flashbacks about it. Some kids were out on the street playing stickball. Moving in here."
Steve smiled at his friend as he looked up at the brick building. Looking around Steve remembered how this neighborhood was almost 95 years ago. It was a lot more homey than it was now. It was cleaner and there were more people. Now most of the street was abandoned and the building either condemned or thrown down.
Bucky walked into the small kitchen of his apartment and turned on the stove. Grabbing the pot of water that he had sitting out ready off of the counter top he heard someone knocking on the door.
"It's open!"
He hollered as he put in pinches of salt into the water. He heard little footsteps coming towards him in the kitchen. Turning around he saw his little sister Rebecca hurrying over to him.
"Hey, Becca. What are you-"
She wrapped her arms around him the best she could and cried into him. Bucky looked down at his sister and slowly got onto one knee in front of her. She moved her hands so they were around his neck now and Bucky pulled her into him, and hugged her.
"What happened?"
Rebecca continued to cry but after a minute or two she stopped but still had the sniffles.
"This girl at school, Margaret Hall, she was being really mean to me and cut off one of my pony tails."
She said pointing to the left side of her head where her brown hair was shorter than the right side. Bucky tried his best not to let out a little laugh. This was how he remembered school girls, mean sneaking little devils.
"It's not that bad, Becca. Look, I can fix it."
He told her and picked her up and put her on the counter top. Becca sniffed away and wiped her nose on her sleeve. Bucky opened a drawer and pulled out a pair of scissors and walked back over to her.
"Do you have a rubber band or something?"
He asked her. She looked down at her wrist and pulled off a small rubber band and handed it to her brother. Taking it from her Bucky pulled her longer hair into a ponytail on the right side of her head. He made sure that it was in line with where the left side's used to be. When he had the right ready to go he looked back at Rebecca before he picked up the scissors.
"Are you ready?"
She nodded and told him to do it. Picking up the scissors in his right hand, Bucky got ready to cut his sister's hair. Rebecca closed her eyes and held her breath as she felt the blades of the scissors rest between the pig tail. She heard the scissors make the final cut and she opened her eyes to see that Bucky held the pig tail in his hand. Quickly Bucky took out the rubber band and checked to see if the left and right side was equal.
"There. I think you look better with shorter hair, anyways."
Rebecca ran her fingers through her new length of hair and smiled. Reaching out for Bucky, Rebecca hugged him once again.
"Thank you, Bucky."
"Just think of all the boys that will like your new hair."
"Ew. Why would boys care that I cut my hair?"
Bucky chuckled and lifted his sister off of the counter. He handed her back the pig tail of hair and put the scissors back in the drawer, then turned back to his pot of boiling water.
"I'll let you in on a secret. We don't really care that you cut your hair, we just want an excuse to talk to girls."
"Boys are gross."
"I'll remember you of that in ten years."
Bucky told her with a laugh as he poured a handful of pasta noodles into the boiling water.
"What are you making?"
Rebecca asked as she went and sat down on a chair near by.
"Spaghetti. Shouldn't you be going home?"
"Nah, mom and dad are still at work."
"You should get home Becca. It's going to get dark pretty soon."
"You can just take me home."
"I can't."
Bucky said as he stared his noodles in the pot. Rebecca pouted and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Why not!"
"I have a date later. And you can't tag along."
Rebecca looked over her brother and stuck her tongue out at him.
"I saw that."
"How? Never mind."
She said hopping off of the chair and walked back over to Bucky and hugged his legs.
"I miss you, kid."
"I miss you too, Buck."
Bucky put down the spoon and got back down to eyes level with his sister. Putting his hands on her shoulders he made her look at him.
"Don't let this Margret girl get to you. You're strong and you're better than her. Don't make yourself think that she's better than you, because after that she'll walk all over you."
She smiled and hugged him again. Letting out a laugh Bucky hugged his little sister back.
"Thanks Bucky."
"I love you, kid."
"I love you too. Don't ever leave me."
"I wouldn't dream of it, squirt."
"Steve?"
"Yeah?"
He said turning to look back at his friend.
"What happened to Rebecca?"
"I'm not sure."
Bucky looked down at the street. His thoughts now consumed with what could have happened to his little sister.
"I miss her."
"I do too."
Steve said placing his hand on Bucky's shoulder. Bucky looked over at his friend and gave him a very small smile.
"What do you say we go get something to eat? There's a good pizza place not far from here."
"Why not."
As Steve and Bucky sat across from each other in the pizzeria Bucky thought of ways to tell Steve about him and Gwen. Taking the last bit of the pepperoni pizza before the crust Bucky looked over at Steve.
"What do you think of Gwen?"
"Gwen?"
"Yeah. I mean she's a good looking dame, right?"
"Yeah, Gwen's a nice girl and she's got her share of looks."
Bucky took a bite of his crust but Steve didn't look away from him. As he swallowed his bite Bucky raised an eyebrow at Steve.
"What?"
"Why did you ask?"
"About Gwen? No reason."
Steve snorted out a laugh and Bucky gave him a look and pointed his remaining piece of pizza crust at him.
"What was that?"
"Come on, Buck. Why did you ask about Gwen? You have a crush on her?"
"Might be a bit more than that."
Bucky said quietly as he took another bite. Steve's eyes grew wide at what he thought he heard his friend say.
"What?"
"You heard me."
"So, you're telling me that you and Gwen are a couple?"
Taking another bite, Bucky took his sweet time answering Steve's question.
"I mean I haven't taken her out on a date yet. But, ever since you've been gone we've been a bit or than friends."
Steve leaned against the back of his chair and looked across at his friend. Bucky ate what was left of his pizza and looked back at Steve, who had a look of disbelief on his face.
"What?"
"I just... Gwen, really?"
"Yeah, what's wrong with that? She's a Harvard graduate with her masters, she's beautiful, and she doesn't care what happened to me."
"Nothing. I'm just surprised is all."
"So you are okay with us being a couple?"
"Why wouldn't I be? If she makes you happy that's all that matters. You deserve this Bucky. I'm happy for the both of you."
Bucky smiled and looked down at the table. He was happy for once in a long long time. When he first met Gwen he thought that she was pretty, but the longer he spent with her the more and more beautiful she became. It was more than just her outer beauty it was how she held herself. She had a good head on her shoulders and she was one of the smartest woman he had ever met. She unlike any of the girls that he had met back in the 40s. The girls he remembered were almost all the same there was nothing really special about them. Sure they were good looking but that was all they had going for them.
"Yeah, I am happy."

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