#on fridays the avengers play Dungeons and Dragons at Bucky's place

[bythegraceofcass]

Bucky Barnes has been plagued with dreams and nightmares of a life he had before this one. A life as a Jewish boy, with a twin sister during WW2. He never really felt quite "right" in the current time, body, name and mind he lived in. Even his family didn't feel right to him. Save for his sister, Rebecca.

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Bucky is a script writer at Marvel Gaming Studios, a video game development company owned by none other than Tony Stark. He's one of the best in New York, and decides to put his life in a video game as a secret form of catharsis. What seems like any other Pitch Day turns out to be anything but when he comes across someone he may have known in his past life.

Bucky doesn't know how, when, where he knows Steve Rogers... but he KNOWS him. Steve Rogers feels the exact same way. Can they piece together their lives in the past, and pick up where they left off? Or are they cursed to be forever reincarnated? Bucky is determined to get to the bottom of it.

Whatever it takes.

This fic is incredibly important to me. This is my second fic, total, and my first stucky fic ever. I sat on this idea for over a year, after having such a terrible time writing my Destiel story. I just didn't think I had the passion for writing anymore.

Since I've hit another bad bout of depression, I've decided to get back into writing stories again. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed hearing from the people who read them and, despite this fandom not being as kind as the SPN fandom in terms of leaving comments on my chapters, I think I like writing this story a lot more than I did Count Your Blessings.

I will say, though, that I do miss reading the comments and interacting with my readers. But... I know different fandoms have different personalities. I just hope that someone somewhere likes this story as much as I do. I hope it makes them feel something.

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The Grind House - Chapter 4

The Grind House: A Bucky Barnes Fanfic

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Buy me a ☕ Character Pairing:  Bucky Barnes x  F!Reader

Word Count:  1729

Rating:  E

Square filled: @marvelfluffbingo - Slow Burn

Warnings:  None for this chapter, future smut most likely

Synopsis:  When Bucky Barnes stops to get coffee and warm up at your coffee shop, he had just expected that caffeine might lift his mood a little. He didn’t expect to fall head-over-heels for you over a game of chess.

Chapter Four

Bucky had gone home feeling a little melancholy after he’d won the game of chess with you.  He knew logically there was no reason not to go back in again, he just had this niggling little voice that said, the game is over, she was being nice.  Time to leave her alone.

You had invited him to the games night though.  So there was that.  He decided he’d go but he’d take people with him.  It was just proving a little harder to convince people to come along.

“You really think this is a good idea?  We all show up and it’s gonna just draw autograph hounds and the paps.”  Steve said.

The group sat around the coffee tables by the big bay windows, drinking and playing a game of poker for peanuts.  Clint was currently winning but Bucky was 100% sure that he’d been dealing from the bottom, and he couldn’t quite understand why no one had called him out on it yet.

“Not everyone has to go.  I just wanted to see if anyone wanted to go.”  He said.  “She asked me and said I can bring people, and she knows who my friends are.”

“She did huh?  And who’s she?”  Natasha said, she looked at her hand and then at the pile of nuts in the middle of the table.  “Call.”  She added pushing a small pile of peanuts into the pile.

“She’s just this woman at the coffee shop.  She’s nice.”  Bucky said.

There was a chorus of ‘oohs’ and Natasha nudged him.  “Well, I’ve gotta go now.  I’ll be there.”

“Yeah, I’ll go too.  Not like anyone ever asks me for an autograph.  I swear I got asked one time and they thought I was some dude name Iron Fist.”  Clint said with a shrug.

“Yeah, I dunno.  I’m not sure sitting around a coffee shop playing Dungeons and Dragons is really my thing.  I’m out.”  Tony said.  “All in.”  He added pushing a huge pile of peanuts into the pile.

Bruce, Steve, and Thor all folded.  “There’s gonna be Dungeons and Dragons?  I’ll come.”  Bruce said, a little glint of excitement in his eye.

“Oh Brucie bear, such a nerd.”  Tony teased.

“I’ll call,”  Clint said and threw his hand down.  Full house, Aces over kings.  Tony cursed and threw his cards down.  Everyone else who still had cards in shook their heads and Clint dragged all the peanuts on the table over to him.

“I’ll come and so will Steve,”  Sam said as Clint started gathering up the cards.

Steve put his hand on Clint’s.  “No more dealing for you.”  He said gathering up the deck.  “Yeah, I’ll go too.”

Bucky relaxed a little.  If Steve and Sam were there that was enough.  Having Nat and Clint and Bruce and any of the others were extra assurance.  He just hoped that they didn’t all embarrass him too much.

Friday night came around and Bucky wasn’t sure what he should wear.  Obviously, he didn’t want to dress up too much.  This wasn’t a suit and tie event.  He also didn’t want to go in wearing an old henley and a ballcap. He wanted to look nice, but not be conspicuous and he couldn’t quite figure out what that meant.

Eventually, he settled on jeans, a button up shirt not buttoned up all the way with a leather jacket on over the top.  He thought he looked okay and when no one made fun of him for it, he figured it must fit the medium ground he was going for.

In the end, the whole group, including Tony, went.  The coffee shop was crowded when they got there and it had been rearranged.  Card tables had been brought out and the larger, more comfortable chairs were gone.  They’d been replaced with fold up chairs.  You were flitting around the room when they got there, finding places where people could sit and among several other people putting plates of food on the table.  There were obviously people being paid to work the room.  The espresso machine was going flat out  Just a conveyor belt of people making espresso shots while other people turned them into drinks and then another went and delivered them to the tables.

You saw them when they came in and your whole face lit up.  “Bucky!”  You said coming over and kissing his cheek.  “You brought everyone.”

He chuckled.  “Yeah, do you have the room?”

“We’ll find it.  Might have to shut the doors though.  Might have reached our legal capacity.”   You said moving past them and putting the ‘Sorry, we’re full’ sign on the door and latching it.  “Here follow me, we’ll get a table with my friends and yours.”

You lead them to a table at the back and everyone took a seat and introductions were made.  Your two friends, Meagan and Belinda definitely had a case of starstruck.  Where you seemed completely at ease around everyone, like meeting assassins and billionaires and 100-year-old soldiers, was all part of your day to day normal, they kept blinking around at everyone and falling over their words.

When everyone had food and drinks and games were underway, you sat down at the table.  “We were going to play cards against humanity.  Are you okay with that?”   You asked.  “It’s pretty easy.”

“Oh, hell yes,”  Tony said rubbing his hands together and taking his glasses off.

“What are the rules?”  Steve asked, which Bucky was thankful for.  He didn’t want to look like the out of place one for a change.

You and your friends pulled out a long black box and the three of you began separating cards up and shuffling.  You put a stack of cards into the middle of the table as one of the others deal out some of the other cards.  “So,”  You said.  “These are the question cards.”  You flipped a card over.  It was black and written on the front was ‘I work my ass off all day for this family, and this is what I come home to? ______!?’  “What you need to do is answer the question the funniest way you can with the cards in your hand.  An answer will look like this.  You flipped a white card over with ‘Sperm whales.’ Written on it.  “You give your answer to the person who dealt and they chose who wins.  First to five wins.  Easy.”

Steve looked very unsure of himself while Clint and Tony both looked completely delighted.

The game was different, but it wasn’t long until even he and Steve had relaxed into it.  It was gross at times.  Tony seemed to like making it very gross.  He won the first hand ‘___, don’t try this at home.’ with ‘Firing toothpicks out of your penis like it was a machine gun.’

It made Steve groan and set the tone for the rest of the game.  Steve made Tony completely lose it when he saw Steve reply to the card ‘What’s on my back?’ with ‘Shots.  Each one grants +10 Charisma and -5 Heterosexuality.’  Nat’s hand ‘The Hills are Alive with the sound of ____.’ ‘Ripping into a man’s chest and pulling out his still beating heart’.  Made Clint howl with laughter.  And while it didn’t win the round, Nat appreciate Clint’s playing ‘Flunking out of Clown College.’ on the prompt ‘____.  That was hard.’  Telling him it was funny because it was true.

The biggest laugh of the night came when you played, ‘Genetically engineered super-soldiers.’ on ‘In an attempt to reach a wider audience, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has opened an interactive exhibit on ______.’

“Too late, already got one on this punk.”  Bucky had teased.

He had felt as relaxed as he had ever felt.  Your friends had ended up relaxing too and even with people coming over and asking for photos and autographs or just trying to talk and connect with the Avengers, they let their walls down.  He let his walls down and he got time to talk, even if he could feel Nat and Steve’s eyes on him anytime the two of you started to connect.

That’s what it felt like too.  Connection.  You and he were connecting.  He hadn’t felt that in so long.  There was some with the other Avengers, but he often guarded himself.  They’d seen him at his worst and he sometimes worried that that would taint their view of him forever.  You had not, and while he worried that there was gonna be something he could say that would make you reject him outright because of who he was and what he had done, he also felt more relaxed that right now it was an empty canvas and you hadn’t painted him as anything yet.

He almost felt confident enough to ask you on a date.  Almost.  One problem was that there was no way he was getting you alone to ask tonight.  It was too busy and you were just as in demand with people as Tony was.  There was also no way he would ask you out with the team watching.  Shit, he couldn’t even do it if it was just Steve.  He couldn’t handle the pity looks he got before you even had a chance to turn him down.  He knew that’s what would happen too.  They’d watch and they’d pity him because he’d have to be an idiot to think that a regular person would want anything to do with the fucked up mess that he was.  Or that even if you could be interested, that he thought it might actually last.

So he’d wait.  He did say goodbye to you though.  You’d asked if you’d see him soon and he’d felt something in his chest unwind.  He’d promised you he’d be back very soon.  He’d meant it too.  He was planning on coming back just as soon as he could when he knew it was quiet so he could ask you out properly.

“She was really nice, Buck.  You gonna ask her out?”  Sam asked as the team headed back to the tower.

Bucky shrugged.  He knew it was probably safe to tell Sam.  He just wasn’t sure if he could.

“You should, man,”  Sam pushed.  “She likes you.  It’s really obvious.  You deserve some happiness.”

Bucky nodded.  “Thanks, Sam.  I might.  I like her.”

It made Sam chuckle and pat his shoulder.  “That’s really no secret either, man.”

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