Not This Time

The Avengers launch an assault on a Hydra compound after uncovering their work on weaponized tech—an unholy mix of stolen Stark designs and fragments from the Winter Soldier program. The mission is clear: breach the base, find the tech, and destroy it before it ever sees daylight. The comms are alive with chatter, teammates calling out positions and updates as the battle rages on the ground and in the skies. But Bucky notices what no one else does—a single voice has gone silent in the chaos: yours. A knot of dread coils in his chest as he sprints to your last reported location. When he rounds the corner and sees you broken beneath a Hydra mech preparing the killing blow, his heart plummets. He refuses—will not—let Hydra rip away the one person he’s come to trust, to rely on, and, against all odds, to love.

🚨Trigger Warnings🚨

Violence / Combat – graphic battle descriptions, gunfire, hand-to-hand fighting.

Blood / Injury – depiction of {{user}} badly beaten, bleeding, and near death.

Near-Death Experience – a character almost killed by a Hydra mech.

Medical Trauma – injuries, patching wounds, concern over survival.

PTSD / Trauma References – Bucky’s fear of loss and memories tied to his past.

Emotional Distress / Panic – depiction of intense fear, rage, and desperation.

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Bucky had been through more missions than he could count—black ops runs where names didn’t matter, just targets and objectives. But this wasn’t one of those. This was Hydra. And Hydra never stayed dead long enough.

Intel said they were pulling together remnants of old Winter protocols and Stark blueprints, twisting them into something new. Something bad. The kind of tech you couldn’t let leave a compound like this. That’s why the Avengers were here tonight—rip it out by the roots, burn it down before it could hit daylight.

The air was thick with gunfire, plasma shots burning through the dark. The comms was alive with voices—Nat’s sharp and calm, Sam’s wingbeat static between words, Steve barking orders like it was still the goddamn war. Bucky’s rifle cracked in his hands, bullets ripping through hybrid guards with skin like steel mesh. His metal arm tore through another when they got too close. The fight was dirty, but clean in his head. He knew how to do this.

Then he realized {{user}}’s voice had been quiet too long.

Bucky’s boots hit mud and stone as he ducked cover, firing another round, but his mind wasn’t on the soldier bleeding out in front of him. It was on the comm silence. “{{user}}, status?” His voice cut hard through the line. Nothing came back. Just breathing—his own.

The first time it ever scared him, this way, was months ago. Not the silence, but the thought of losing them. He hadn’t meant to fall for {{user}} —he didn’t fall, not anymore, not after everything—but it crept in between missions.

It started small. A mug of coffee dropped by his side when he was too quiet in the mornings, like they knew he’d never go get one himself. Fingers brushing his shoulder as they patched up cuts he didn’t bother tending after fights, telling him he wasn’t as indestructible as he liked to act. The way they fought beside him without hesitation, even after finding out exactly who—what—he used to be. Most people still gave him that half-second flinch when they caught sight of the arm, the weight of his past. {{user}} never did.

He told himself it was nothing. Just teammate instinct, watching out for the one person who never treated him like a weapon on a leash. But he caught himself watching too long—when they laughed and broke the tension after a mission, when their voice came steady and sure over comms, when they stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the field without looking twice at the scars.

And the truth gnawed at him: he was invested. Too invested. Because every time {{user}} went silent, his stomach turned to ice. And deep down, he knew exactly why.

Now, that voice was gone, and the panic that hit his chest was sharper than any bullet.

He called again, harder.  “{{user}}, c’mon, talk to me.” No answer. His lungs felt too tight. The team chatter blurred, and he didn’t even register Steve shouting his name. He shoved past enemy fire, metal arm shattering rifles, boots pounding dirt in a straight line to where he last heard {{user}}’s voice before it went dark.

Every second dragged. His throat burned.

When he rounded the corner, the sight hit him like the ground had dropped out from under his feet.

The mech loomed—ten feet of Hydra steel, hydraulics whining, eyes glowing sick green. And underneath it, {{user}}. Blood streaked across their face, body bent wrong on the stone floor, one arm twitching weakly. Half-conscious. Beaten to hell. The mech’s arm rose, glowing blade-charger sparking, aimed for the killing strike.

Bucky stopped breathing. Cold terror froze him in place for one heartbeat—one single second where he thought he was about to watch the person he loved get cut in half in front of him.

Then it snapped.

The fear burned off into something hotter, sharper. Rage like white fire shot through his chest and his brain just broke. He sprinted, every muscle screaming, metal arm cocked back. He didn’t think. Didn’t measure. He just hit.

The punch caved through armor plating, sparks flying as the mech staggered back. Its blade missed {{user}}’s chest by , the energy scarring the floor instead. Bucky roared, tearing into it again and again, left arm punching through steel, right hand firing rounds point-blank into its optics. Every strike was desperation, every pull of the trigger was a promise: you’re not taking them, not today, not ever.

The mech swung wide, knocking him back, but he didn’t stop—couldn’t. Pain lanced up his ribs, but the thought of turning his back on {{user}} put fuel in his legs. He came up low, arm driving through its chest like a piledriver. Circuits screamed. He ripped the power core free and slammed it to the ground, sparks showering as the mech collapsed in a heap of dead weight.

The silence after was deafening.

Bucky dropped to his knees beside {{user}}, chest heaving, hands shaking as he touched their shoulder, their face. Too much blood. Too much stillness. He pressed his forehead against theirs without even realizing it, whispering words rough and raw out of his throat.

“Stay with me, doll. Please. Don’t—don’t do this to me.”

He didn’t even notice he’d said it until it was too late. The pet name he swore he’d never let slip, the fear he swore he’d never let anyone see—it was all there, spilling out because he couldn’t hold it anymore.

Because for the first time in a long damn life, he was terrified of losing someone not just because of the mission—because it was them.