Moral of the Story. Chapter 8.
Summary: Marrying too young out of highschool leads to a naive and failed marriage. Now 10 years later, word comes that the divorce was never actually completed. Bucky and Y/N have to come back together after all these years to settle what wasn’t all those years back. Passive attitudes, miscommunicated endings, and reminiscing of old loves and lives all comes back for the two.
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Y/N
Word Count: 2200+
A/N:
Chapter Eight:
The next morning, Y/N was up early. Well… Early her time, normal Brooklyn time. She woke to her father making breakfast and Sherri making a pot of coffee for the house. Chloe was still upstairs, being the teenager who slept in until 1 in the afternoon.
“Morning, June Bug,” Thomas smiled, watching her come down in an oversized sweater and sleep shorts.
Her hair disheveled from the lack of sleep and face blank. She was a grumpy morning person and not like, “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee,” kind of cliche, but like a, “Don’t talk to me until I’m ready to talk to you,” kind of person.
“Mmmm,” she hummed back before scooting to one of the barstools and throwing her head on the counter.
“Long night?” Sherri laughed, pouring the freshly made coffee into a mug. “I noticed your dad’s car was gone when I got up for some water in the middle of the night.”
“I was supposed to go out with Vis and Wanda, but they canceled,” she began to explain. Only lifting her head when she smelled the cup of joe sat in front of her. “Thank you,” she said, grabbing it and stirring in the creamer and sugar Sherri also placed in front of her. “Anyway, I thought I could use a drink after yesterday and well… It was just a long night.”
“Where did you go for a drink?” Thomas asked.
“Place next to where Wanda and Vis were going to take me,” she answered, taking a careful sip of the carmel colored drink. “Some small bar. It was nice though.”
“You didn’t drive my car back intoxicated, did you?” Thomas said with a playful stern eyebrow pointed to her.
“Yes, because you taught me no better than that,” she sassed before sitting up and stretching. “I didn’t get drunk, so driving back wasn’t an issue.”
“Good.”
There was comfortable silence with soft sounds of Sinatra playing in the background as the couple moved around the kitchen gracefully and Y/N took a second to wake up some more.
“What time are Denise and John coming with the family?” she asked, getting up to refill her half gone cup.
“They should be here around 1, Denise said. They were going grocery shopping and had to run a few errands before making their way here,” Sherri answered.
Y/N looked at the clock on the wall and saw it was 9:30. They had some time before their brunch with the family.
“If we’re doing a full on brunch with the family, why are you guys making breakfast?” Y/N laughed.
“Just some eggs, bacon, and toast. Nothing special,” Thomas shrugged, scooping the bacon onto a paper plate with paper towels covering it to catch the grease.
Y/N’s nose scrunched at the meat. She had been a vegetarian since practically middle school and had always tried to get her dad to switch to turkey bacon, but he said it was his one meat he would never give up.
“You guys need to invest in some reusable paper towels,” she said standing up and grabbing a piece of toast as it popped from the toaster.
“With the bacon grease? I don’t think that’ll be easy to come out,” her dad shook his head before placing the small buffet out on the island counter.
“Well, you could just stop eating bacon. There, solved,” she said with a cheeky grin to her dad who rolled his eyes at her.
“I told you Y/N,” he started.
“You’ll never give up bacon,” Y/N finished for him. “Well, keep at it old man, and your heart is going to be telling you the same thing I am.”
“She’s not wrong,” Sherri shrugged.
“See.”
“I’m being ganged up on for living my life,” Thomas shook his head, picking up a piece of the bacon and exaggerated taking a bite out of it. “It’s too good for me to care though.”
The two women laughed and rolled their eyes at the man.
“Oh, hey! I meant to tell you yesterday, but completely forgot,” Sherri jumped, as she put jam on her slice of toast. “The farmer's market your dad told me you loved, opened up last week.”
“The one downtown?” Y/N asked, taking a bite of her food.
“That’s the one.”
“It’s grown quite a bit since you remember it. Lots of local shops have joined the fun and developed since then,” Thomas made note.
“What time does it open?” Y/N was quick to open her phone.
“Think it opens at 10, so by the time you get there, you’ll be good.”
She quickly jumped from her seat and ran up to her room with her coffee mug in hand.
“That didn’t take much,” Sherri laughed at her step-daughters speed.
Y/N got dressed really fast. Just a comfy pair of overalls and a simple t-shirt. She grabbed an old bag that she used to take to the farmers market, hand crocheted by her grandmother, and grabbed her father’s keys and shouted a quick, “I’ll be back soon!”
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Y/N used to go to the farmers market every weekend as soon as one came to Brooklyn. Before that she would go every other weekend further out, but the drive was too time consuming most of the time. Now with one just 15 minutes from home, she had become very close to a lot of the vendors.
Surprisingly, there were still a few who remembered her even after all these years. She talked and caught up with a few. She would then tell them her job now and a lot of them asked if she would be willing to work with them on making their shops more eco-friendly, which she gladly gave them a business card and told them to reach out when they could.
She didn’t come to make business deals, but if someone wanted to lend a hand in saving the environment a little more, she wasn’t going to turn them down.
Her bag was full of fresh peaches, some jam for Sherri, a few bars of homemade facial soap she got for her and her sisters, and a new book from a local bookstore that was just starting up.
Her last stop was the flower stand that she used to always bring a bouquet of flowers home for the week. A little hint of life to add to the decor of her father’s home.
The person working it wasn’t any one she recognized, so she went about looking at her options quietly and smiled when she came across a bouquet of carnations mixed with a bundle of other color flowers.
“Y/N?”
The smile on her face faltered at the sound of the voice.
Seriously? How did this keep happening?
She turned and matched the face to the voice and showed an uneasy smile that she was trying to make genuine.
“James,” she nodded. “What, uh, what are you doing here?” she said, awkwardly looking around.
He let out a small chuckled, a few different bouquets in his hand already, and slowly took a few steps to her.
“I come every weekend I get a chance,” he smiled at the worker who passed by saying a soft, “Hi, Bucky,” to him.
“You kinda got me hooked on this place back in highschool. It’s become a regular stop for me most weekends,” he explained further.
“Oh,” Y/N nodded before folding her hands in front of her.
There was a second of awkward silence as she didn’t know what to say, and Bucky knew what he wanted to say, but wasn’t getting the courage to just do it.
Y/N turned slightly back to the flowers she was looking at before and brushed a finger over the petals.
“I should have figured you’d stop by here before you left,” Bucky spoke up, bringing her attention back to him. “This was one of your favorite places.”
“Still is,” she chuckled a little, looking around at the multitude of shops around them that had grown since her highschool days. “Lot’s of local shops and they tend to be more sustainable.”
“Used to say that all the time too…” Bucky smiled, looking down at his items before back at her. They stared at each other for a second. A silent communication happening. “Listen, about last night.”
“Please don’t. Don’t worry about it, I mean,” Y/N shook her head at the memory. “I-, It wasn’t… Just don’t worry about it,” she settled. “It wasn’t a big deal.”
“I’d have to disagree,” he said, taking a step closer and looking at the ground. “I was a drunken dick that got overprotective about something I shouldn’t be worried about.”
“I think I’m more concerned about why you were at the bar getting drunk by yourself, than anything?” Y/N said, easing the tension with a playful hip pop before crossing her arms.
Bucky smiled at the fact she wasn’t on defense mode like she had been most the time they were together the past day.
“I could be asking you the same question, I think,” Bucky countered.
“I wasn’t getting drunk off my ass. I was just having a drink. There’s a difference,” she shrugged, going back to looking at the flowers and Bucky followed her around the tent.
“Still, getting a drink by yourself on a Saturday night. Not much different than me,” he said. “Just minus the horrible hangover I had this morning.”
“I have a feeling we were there for the same reasons, just had different outcomes,” she played back with a raised eyebrow. “Plus, I wasn’t scaring off potential dates for you.”
It shouldn’t have bugged him thinking about her going on dates with other guys, but the mention of the memory made his veins slightly heated.
“Sorry about that,” he half said genuinely.
“It’s fine,” she smiled some, grabbing a bundle of flowers to examine. “Not like I would have gone on it. No reason to,” she shrugged.
Right. She didn’t live here. Unless she just wanted a hookup… Bucky once again cringed at the thought.
Bucky cleared his throat as he saw her move back to the bundle of carnations. Her favorite flowers he remembered. Not that he ever forgot.
“So, uh, you’re headed back out tomorrow, right?”
“Um,” she hesitated. Did she need to tell him? Was there any point? “That’s was the plan,” she answered vaguely. But, oh what the hell? Nat was right the night before. A talk was needed. “However,” she began and Bucky perked up at it. “Things at work seemed to calm down and some meetings got canceled. My assistant called yesterday and made a good point I only see my family so often and I should take advantage of the time I have, so I extended my visit.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, but just for the week,” she nodded, looking up at those crystal blues that never seemed to fade from her memory as he grinned slightly over a bouquet of sunflowers.
“That’s nice. I’m sure Sherri and your dad are really excited for that,” Bucky nodded.
“Sherri already has a movie planned for each night of the week for us to watch,” Y/N laughed. “And Dad said he had a gardening project he needed my help on.”
“Well, I’m glad. They’ve missed you from what I’ve gathered.”
“Yeah…”
There was an awkward silence in the tent besides a few extra people coming in and shopping around them. The two just quietly moved around examining planters and pots.
Y/N picked up the original bouquet she came to at the beginning before turning to Bucky who was still down the way.
“Listen,” they both said at the same time when they made eye contact.
“You first,” Bucky blushed some, scared he would push her away if he made one wrong move.
“No, no, you go,” she pushed on, taking a small step to him that he copied.
“Ok, well…” he paused. God there was no way of doing this in a manner that wasn’t uncomfortable. “I was wondering if maybe, since you are going to be in town a little longer, that we could talk.”
She straightened at his question, and he took it as he had miscalculated his careful steps into this.
“I mean, if you’re not comfortable-”
“No, no. I-” she paused. “No, I agree. I think we should talk too.”
He was shocked. The last time he asked, she was quick to throw an excuse out there, though a valid one, but she clearly didn’t want to talk then.
“Really?”
“I mean, I think we have a lot to clear up and hopefully,” she said with a certain tone. “Hopefully, we can manage that in a civil and mature manner.”
“That would be ideal,” he smiled down at the ground before back at her.
“Ok, sounds good then.” Now that that was settled, she wanted out of there and fast.
“I’ll get your number from Steve and we can figure out a time,” Bucky added, noticing her urgency.
“Sounds good. I, uh, I have to get back home. I have some plans with family later today,” she nodded, avoiding eye contact and moving around him to the checkout. “I’ll see you later,” she said with a quick awkward smile before getting the hell out of dodge.
“See ya,” he waved even though she didn’t see and was out like lighting from the tent. “I don’t know why, but I have a bad feeling about this…”
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Here you go Crow! Why do you always suggest the fun stuff-
Wine and Love
"You did WHAT?!" Logan drunkenly giggled at Janus' reaction, "No no no, repeat that Misster!"
"You already heard it, why do you need to hear it again?" He took a sip of his drink happily
"Becausse you're you, why would you do ssomething that ssoundss like ssomething the twinss would do?"
"Becausse," He teased Janus' drunken lisp a little, in a joking way that made Janus stick his tongue out at him, "I was a broke highschool kid and needed money," Janus seemed to accept that, "Guess what?"
"What?" Janus looked at him again, having gone to take another sip of his drink
"That was your 20 questions, my turn,"
"That doessn't count!"
"Oh stop whining or we'll stop all together," They both knew they wouldn't at this point, it was an empty threat, but it worked on him, "Now, do you like anyone?"
Janus blushed at the question, stammering before getting out, "What iss thiss, highsschool?!"
"So you do! Who is it?" Logan perked up with a smile
"..What'ss it to ya?" Janus crossed his arms over his chest
"I'll just need to use my 18 questions then, huh?" Janus thought it over, before nodding, the new game beginning
"Would they ever drink an unknown substance?"
"..Dependss on where they found it, and if they think they know what it iss,"
'Not Remus then,' Logan thought, "Would they burn themself in the kitchen?"
"Alwayss,"
'Not Patton then,' "Do then like dark places?"
"If they've had enough sstuff for the day,"
'Not Roman,' His face got a bit warm as he realized he was a big contender for Janus' crush. Though now it'd be a bit harder with how similar his, and Virgil's interests were compared to the rest. Logan went through with his questions, getting no closer with his drunk brain second guessing everytime he thought it might be him
Soon enough, the last question came, "Sssso, who issss it Logan?" Janus questioned, having gotten drunker during the questions
"..Me?" The cocky confidence he once had gone as he more so asked his answer
Janus smiled softly, "You got it!" He happily cheered, a small laugh coming from him, Logan going beet red hearing that, "Now, I know my quesssstionssss are over, but I still have one more for you.." Logan finally met Janus' gayze,, feeling the soft hand of the snake like man in from of him cup his cheek, "May I have a kissss?.."
Logan smiled softly, pulling the other in by his gothic shirt
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