You'd never been the kind of person to talk to someone you had never met before, like everyone else as a child you were told to not talk to strangers and for you that had essentially carried in to your adult life.

But when you saw Bucky sat on a bench by himself a gut feeling told you you needed to go and talk to him.

He seemed surprised at first, that anyone would even want to speak to him but once you'd somewhat rambled on for a few minutes you got a response out of him.

That was a fair few months ago now. To begin with the two of you would only meet on that bench in the park, perhaps once or twice a week, but then it got to getting coffee beforehand and then walking to what you had dubbed to be your bench. And then it graduated to seeing each other pretty much every day in one way or another, which was surprising to you as you always had a habit of keeping to yourself.

Earlier that morning you had had a text from Bucky to tell you that he couldn't meet with you that morning, something having come up at his work, which was convenient for you as you'd also had a call from work to tell you you needed to meet Mr Stark at his compound, rather than the tower.

The compound was daunting to say the least, but you put on your big girl pants and went regardless.

Pepper had come to meet you out front, as she knew you didn't know your way around, so it was good to see a familiar face.

"Hey Pep," you greeted her.

She smiled at you, pulling you into a hug. "Sorry for the late notice on this, Tony decided he just needed you to brief the team on your end of the project today," she informed you as she quickly guided you through the maze of the compound. "By the sounds of his ramblings today, he wants you to start with him and Bruce as soon as."

You nodded along with her and eventually the two of you reached a large conference room, with a face in there that you were not expecting to see.

"Y/N?!" Bucky questioned, utterly confused but getting up to greet you anyway.

You accepted his hug, as you always did because who could turn down a hug from a guy like him, and then looked up at him with a smile. "Well, you are someone I was not expecting to see at work today."

He chuckled. "Our work lives are one thing we've never discussed huh?"

You laughed, nodding in agreement but then turning to the sea of confused faces.

"Yo Terminator, you know her?" Tony called out as he wandered around the room.

Bucky rolled his eyes at the nickname but nodded, looking down to you with a smile.

"I thought cyborgs couldn't make friends," Tony commented with a smirk on his face.

It was your turn to roll your eyes as Bucky went back to his seat and you gave Tony a pointed look. "You're not funny Tony."

He shrugged. "And here I thought we told each other everything Y/N."

Laughing, you crossed your arms. "Yeah like about today? And suddenly deciding to start this bloody project of ours?!"

"Well technically, I did tell you, just very short notice," he tried to defend yourself.

You shook your head, but then smiled as Bucky got up to pull a seat out for you.

"Why did no one say that Robocop here was such a gentleman?" Tony quipped.

Bucky rolled his eyes once again as he went to retake his seat.

"Just because you display zero signs of chivalry Stark does not mean that it is dead in all men," Bucky commented dryly, crossing his arms.

It seemed as if everyone else in the room had forgotten they had work as they all turned to watch the sarcasm contest between the two idiots.

You cleared your throat to make everyone look at you, most with curiosity but Bucky with something you hadn't seen out of him before – fondness? Affection?

"If you two are done with your little pissing contest, no matter how adorably cute one of you may be," you stated and you saw the smile on Bucky's face from your words. "Let's get on with the task at hand, yes?"

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Written by Hannah.

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