[Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I'll be attending a Christmas party which I won't socialize at whatsoever, so send me short prompt/crossover/Au things please.]

Meeting your soulmate is supposed to be the biggest, best thing that's ever going to happen in your life. There's supposed to be a flash of light, or lightning up your spine, or fireworks exploding behind your eyes.
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Bucky had joined The Avengers to take out HYDRA. To rip them apart and burry them for what they had done to him and to Steve.

They're at a HYDRA base. Bucky, Steve, Clint, and Sam. It was a small enough base that everyone on the team wasn't needed.

Sam and Steve had stormed the compound, while Bucky and Clint wait on higher ground with their magnifiers closed in on the opening of the base to shoot the ones who try to escape.

When you meet your soulmate, you just know by looking at them. It's the race of adrenaline that gives it away. And then when they touch, then the fireworks or bolt of lightning or flash of light happens.

So when a girl tears out of the base, Bucky's not sure if the rush of adrenaline is from spotting a target or because she's his soulmate.

"Wait," Bucky looks up from the magnifier, sees the girl heading straight for them, when two arrows goes soaring through the air and a rope emerges from the head, wraps around her legs and arms and she goes stumbling.

"What?" Clint pulls out another arrow and closes one eye. "I could've taken her out."

"Hold on." Bucky slings the snipers strap over his should and scales down the tree, barley dodges the knife from the girl on the ground.

He doesn't say anything as he walks over to her, crouches down and stares as she struggles to move.

"Get away from me." She spits, sitting up and backs into a tree. Bucky follows, rests his hand on her cheek and fireworks bloom across his vision, fire burns along his skin.

He makes a noise, not really of disappointment or disgust, just of acknowledgement, because he's fated to a HYDRA agent. She's a HYDRA agent, and works for HYDRA. The very thing that's ruined his life.

Bucky shakes his head at his crappy luck, coming to decision as he pulls out a knife and drops it to the ground.

"What are you doing?" She snaps, watches as he stands and walks away. But Bucky doesn't answer, just climbs back up the tree and gets back into position.

"You took your time." Clint says, lets go of another arrow.

Bucky shrugs, rests the sniper on a branch and pretends he doesn't see his soulmate running away.