6A/N: I do not own any of these characters except the little girl. Marvel owns the rest of the characters. My plot. I would like to thank everyone who read chapter one, and to the person who reviewed. Thanks so much.
The person who answered the door was indeed Steve Rogers. Steve couldn't believe that Bucky, his Bucky was alive. He thought his best friend was dead. He tried to save him all those years ago, but couldn't get to him due to the railing breaking off before he could grab Buck's hand. That image haunts him everyday, but seeing Bucky standing in front of him is a huge surprise. "Bucky, how...um come in. We have a lot of catching up to do. Oh hi, I didn't see you back there." Steve looked at his best friend with a questioning look. Bucky smiled back at him. As the three located to the living room, he asked if either Bucky or the little girl would like a drink or anything. Bucky declined and the little girl shyed away buring her face into Bucky's neck. With that, Bucky shook his head no informing Steve that she didn't want a drink either. "So Buck, how did you survive that fall 72 years ago? Don't get me wrong, I'm really glad you did! For years now I've beaten myself up over the fact of what happened to you and that I didn't do anything. I'm so sorry Buck. I never wanted anything to happen to you." By the end of that, he's looking down. To know whoever kept his best friend from him probably wasn't too nice, and he let his best friend go through that alone.
Looking at his friend, Bucky quickly comforted his friend by saying "Steve, none of this is your fault. I grabbed your shield to protect you and I fell. That was my choice and if I could go back and do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything. You are more important to me than my own life. Surviving the fall shocked me too. I remember waking up in a lab/ hospital like room, and to see I have this metal arm raher than my arm freaked me out. But apparently when you found me strapped to that bed the first time, experiments that Zola did to me then helped me survive that fall. And Steve?"
Responding back "Yeah Buck?"
"It's great to finally be home." Bucky said to Steve with a genuine smile on his face. He never thought he would ever get to see Steve again. "Oh so to answer your silent question when we were coming in, yes she's my daughter." He answered. The look on Steve's face made Bucky worried. "Steve? Hey are you okay?"
Snapping out of it, Steve responded "Yeah, yeah I'm okay. A daughter. How old is she and what's her name?" Steve couldn't believe Bucky has a child. That means Bucky has a dame in his life. He doesn't like the thoughts of Bucky being taken.
"Her name is Elizabeth Sarah Barnes, and she's two years old." Bucky answered Steve. He looked at Steve and could always tell when something was wrong. Steve always did wear his heart on his sleeve. "Steve I know when something is bothering you. What is it?" Bucky didn't like seeing his best friend upset, never has. Especially if it was because of him.
"It's stupid. Just don't worry about it. I'm fine. Look see." He says looking up at Bucky with a smile on his face laughing a little. He needed to get over being jealous. Bucky was back and okay. He should be happy that he still has his best friend.
Bucky gets up and lays his little girl down on the opposite couch, and goes back to sit beside his best friend. Then Bucky takes Steve's hands into his own and makes Steve look at him. "I'm not letting you go until you tell me the truth as to why you are upset. I don't want some lie that you're fine. You and I both know that you are not. So lay it on me."
Sighing, Steve looks down at their hands that are connected. "For the longest time you have been my one and only friend. Hell you're my best friend. But also for a long time I thought of you more than a friend. I know that you'll think of me not the same once I admit to what I'm about to tell you, but I'm willing to lose you if that means I can tell you how I feel. Since we were young teenage boys, you always tried to get me to date one of the young ladies that would go with us on those double dates. You always asked why I never dated them. The truth is I went on those dates with you to be with you, not those girls. That's why I never pursued those girls, and it also was because they didn't like me.
Before Steve was finished with what he was saying, Bucky interrupted "Steve what exactly are you trying to say right now?"
"I love you. I'm in love with you Bucky. I always have been since we were younger. I know you probably have a dame, but I had to tell you how I feel. When you fell all those years ago, I thought I died then too, but here you are in the flesh. I couldn't wait another moment. I'm sorry." Looking up at his best friend's face, he could tell that Bucky was going through several emotions, each one playing out on his face. "I can tell by the lack of conversation that you don't share my feelings. So I will let you alone and you can leave whenever you feel like. You don't have to stay here any longer." Steve went to try to get up, but Bucky held onto his hands so that Steve couldn't go anywhere.
With confusion in his voice, Bucky says, "Why didn't you ever tell me how you felt all those years ago? I would never had ratted you out to the authorities! We always said that we would never keep things from each other, no matter what!" By the end of what he had to say Bucky was angry.
"Bucky I know you would never had told anyone, but what if someone would have over heard our conversation? We would have both been in a lot of trouble then. I'm sorry. Just...look forget it. I said how I feel and came up empty handed." Steve was upset and frustrated. He was stupid to even think that it was a good idea. Once he pulled his hands free of his friends grasp, Steve got up to leave. Just before he could walk away, Bucky grabbed his hand, and the next thing Steve knows, he is in a lip lock with his best friend. Once they separate, Steve says, "Bucky..." but is cut off.
"I've been waiting to do that for a long damn time." Bucky said to Steve with a smile on his face.
"Bucky what about the dame you have waiting for you?" Steve wants to be with his best friend, but he isn't in the business of splitting up the family that his friend created over the years.
Looking at his best friend, Bucky says "Steve there is no dame back home. I don't even have a home. You see Elizabeth and I are on the run. When I fell from that train car 75 years ago, Zola ended up getting me back. Well over these last seven decades I have been held captive by Hydra. I did things that I'm not proud of, even if I didn't have a choice. One night he brought this young girl who was no older than 19 to me and told me that we had to produce a baby to see if the traits from the experienments would be genetically passed on. I couldn't do it. I couldn't hurt that poor girl like that. So they got what they needed from me using a method that no person should ever have to experience and inseminated the girl. Nine months later she delivered a healthy baby girl, but she died right after giving birth to Elizabeth. I've raised her on my own since. The conditions we were kept in was no place to raise a child, and so one night we escaped and here we are."
"How did you know where I was?" Steve asked. He could see how upset Bucky is by the whole situation. His friend went through so much pain and Steve wished he never had to endure all that pain and suffering.
"I never lost track of you. Every mission I went out on, I some how broke free enough of the programming to see how you're doing. It didn't come without consequences, but if I knew you were doing okay, then it was well worth it." Bucky said answering Steve's question.
Looking down at his hands, Cap said "So what now? Where do we go from here? You can stay here since you have no where to go and plus I would like it personally if you stayed." By the end, Steve was looking at Bucky with a smile on his face.
Smiling himself while having an adorable blush plastered on his face, Bucky says to Steve "You wouldn't mind having a two year old around?"
Still smiling, cap says "I would love to have a two year old running around. She will keep us busy. Plus I always wanted children, you know that."
Bucky nodded his head. "I guess we will stay then." The only bad thing about the building that Steve is living in, is also home to the other Avengers.