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"(Y/n), p-please, don't-"

Your grip on the control tightens, your finger hovering over the button that'll drop you so many miles below into the ocean. Your hands are shaking, but you try to hide it as a HYDRA agent off the platform grins.

"I suggest you hurry with your decision, Ms. (L/n)," he says in a clipped tone, not at all bothered by the hundred of guns surrounding him. Maybe it's because he knows they're not aimed at him, rather you and the team.

"We'll survive the fall," Steve rushes out, for once thankful that Natasha, Sam, Tony and Clint had gotten held back and aren't here for this, otherwise he wouldn't be able to say that. "But you will not and you know it-"

"Bucky won't," You take a step back, eyeing the glass doors beneath your feet. The sea is raging and black, no land in sight for miles. "How can you possibility think the decision hasn't been made? It has been since the second I was handed the control."

"Please do not do this!" Wanda surged forward, only to be tugged back by Pietro and multiple red dots appear on her forehead. Wanda can stop bullets, and Pietro can dodge them, but Bucky and Steve can't. "You are our friend!"

"That's why I'm choosing your lives over mine," You give them one last big smile, turning your tearing gaze to Steve. "Tell the others I said it was an honor and all that stuff hero's say when I die, okay?"

Bucky's eyes are wide and helpless as you rest your finger on the release button, not looking away from him as you press it and the surface beneath you disappears.

The wind howling in your ears as your plummet towards your demise is surprisingly quiet. The fall is, too. You didn't except to feel so at peace, catching the last of the sun before it slips down below the horizon.

But then there are arms around your waist, and you crane your head up to see its Bucky.

"What the hell are you doing!" You shout, not believing your eyes as the platform you had been standing on bursts open and the rest of the team leaps down.

"We're saving your heroic ass," He grins extra wide, pulling you closer. And that's when Wanda's powers catch you, Bucky and yourself dangling in the air as she, Steve, and Pietro stop beside you.

"This is unbelievable," You say, holding onto Bucky as Wanda steers you away from the HYDRA building. "Honestly. I'm blown away."

Pietro hits your shoulder rather hard. "You will not do this again. I forbid it, or I will-"

"Touch her again and I will pull your underwear through your eye," Bucky snaps, gulping nervously when he lifts up his foot and taps it against the invisible floor behind everyone. "How are you doing this?"

"I do not know," Wanda admits with a shrug. "I only reacted, just like you did when (Y/n).."

"Right," You mumble, intertwining your fingers with his. "Thanks."

He clears his throat, the corner of his lip curving. "Only going my job, m'am."