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The City is Different at Night 1/?

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Warnings: none in this part

Summary; Y/N is a high-end bodyguard who meets Bucky at much deserved night out. They bond over sweet cocktails and deep late night conversations. None of them wants to admit that their casual relationship is not so casual anymore.

Tags: multi-part series, x reader fanfiction

Spicy parts coming soon!🖤

Y/N went to a supermarket today. It was full of back-to-school crap. Y/N envied all those kids who were excited about coming back.

„Spaghetti sauce, toast bread, deodorant, and an eyeliner, okay that should be it, Y/N mumbled to herself while slowly walking to the cash register. She was going out tonight. It was a well-deserved break from all the shit she had to deal with those last few weeks.

Y/N paid for her small purchase and headed home. The sun was just starting to set. The convenience store was just about two streets from her apartment. She looked around herself and assessed the situation. Mundane as you could imagine. But it was a force of habit. A terrible one, worse than smoking. The day people were retreating to their cozy homes meanwhile the night residents were just starting to wake up. She choose to be a girl of the night tonight.

Y/N climbed five sets of stairs to her apartment while cursing the historical committee that ruled against putting an elevator in her building. Her calves hurt like crap and her arms were full of colourful bruises. One would think that they would pay me more for saving the governor, she thought for herself angrily. Her job for the last few days was to make sure this piece of shit statesman won't get hurt, but they were times when she wanted to punch him herself. The month before it was protecting a few crown witnesses from a drug cartel. That wasn't quite so bad. The mother was a great cook. This job wasn't really that bad, Y/N just liked to complain. Mostly to herself or her plants.

She unlocked all three locks to her home and disabled the silent security alarm and put her grocery on the counter. Her plans for tonight were to wear a pretty sparkly dress and drink as many sweet drinks at Inferno as she can. She turned on the electric kettle and threw a bag of green tea into one of her favourite mugs. She took a shower and changed into something more suitable for a dance club. She drank her tea while putting on her makeup. Smokey eye, cat eyeliner, and black lipstick. Y/N felt more like herself again.

She finished drinking her tea, checked her lipstick, and took a moment to admire the glittery sequins on her dress. Y/N might be a high-end bodyguard but she still likes to feel like a star of the show. She was ready for a night out.

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The club was loud. Little too much for her taste but hey, the cocktails are good. She was sitting at the bar, slowly tapping her fingertips to the beat of the music and looking at the various people on the dancefloor.

„Can I buy you a drink?" she heard a huffy voice behind her. Y/N almost couldn't hear him because of the loud music. She slowly turned around. The voice in question belonged to a tall man with dark eyes, short hair. He is built like a Greek god! she thought to herself. She knows him. From TV, newspaper, social media…everything. One is afraid os opening the fridge at night in fear of an avenger staring back at them.

Y/N raised her hand with an almost empty glass of Mojito. „I am currently having one," Y/N smiled, „are you trying to get me drunk, sir? That doesn't seem very avenger-ly from you."

„You don't look like you came to a bar to drink water," he shrugged, „and it's Bucky."

She shook his hand „I know who you are. And you are right, Bucky, sir, I didn't. The name's Y/N by the way."

He gestured to a bartender and Y/N noticed his mechanical silver arm. I wonder how it would feel on my skin, Y/N thought to herself. Stop it! She immediately corrected herself. It was like a fight between an angel and a devil on her shoulder. Y/N wasn't sure who to cheer for.

She took out the metal straw and quickly finished her drink in one sip. He looked amused. „So another Mojito?" he asked her.

„Not sure. I am in the mood for something more…fun," she said and pondered for a few seconds.

„Don't look at me, the biggest drink adventure for me is flavored beer."

„Really? Well, let's fix it then!" Y/N quickly glanced a the menu and said. „One Cosmopolitan for me and Aperol Spritz for the gentleman here."

„Coming right up!" said the bartender with an accent Y/N didn´t recognize.

„Why do they even call you Bucky? I mean James is such a better-sounding name in my opinion," Y/N asked.

„It's just an old nickname. Not much backstory really. Didn´t you have a nickname as a kid? Mine just stuck," he answered.

„I have been called a „fucking bitch" or „annoying asshole" but I don´t think that's something I would like to keep. Event ho the second one sounds could be a tragicomical hero name."

„And what would your superpower be? You would annoy your enemies to death?" he laughed.

„Hey! I think it would be effective," Y/N defended herself.

„Yeh, I am more of punch in a gut kind of guy."

„At least you're consistent," she nodded.

The bartender set two drinks in front of them. Orange-red Aperol for Bucky and pink Cosmopolitan for Y/N.

„I gotta agree with you, this does look more fun," he analyzed his drink closely.

„Cheers!" exclaimed Y/N.

He took a sip while Y/N studied his face. Yes, that's it, I am cheering for the devil, she thought.

„Little sweet, little bitter, I think I like it," he said.

„See! Told you!" Y/N gestured for the Exit, „wanna take this outside? I need a smoke anyway."

„Sure.

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The night was a little cold. It was the beginning of Autumn after all. Y/N didn't

mind and Bucky was used to being cold anyway. Y/N chuckled slightly at that thought.

„You know I always preferred the night. The whole town changes, even the people seem…different. It's like a magical filter has been lifted and you suddenly see all the ugly and all the beautiful," she said looking at the neon lights of New York City.

„You sure you are not a poet?" he asked while following her starstruck gaze.

Y/N pulled out an electronic cigarette from her purse and took a deep breath full of smoke smelling like blueberries. „Far from it actually," Y/N she answered. Her mood tends to change quickly. Sometimes too quickly for her taste. The cold fresh seemed to win a battle between her mind and the overpriced cocktails she just had.

„I used to love taking a long walk around midnight. You know a few decades ago," he chuckled.

„Why don't you anymore?" Y/N asked.

„I don't know the world is too noisy, too different. I don't normály like to admit it but it scares the shit out of me sometimes," he looked at the sky and then bac kat Y/N.

„I get that. The world is a weird place these times," she took a long puff and finished her drink in a quick sip. For the second time tonight. Y/N really wasn't able to slowly enjoy her liquor.

He just nodded.

Y/N put an empty glass on the ground and looked into Bucky's blue eyes.

„Wanna get out of here?"

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