Find Me / Save Me (Bucky x Reader)

Sixty-Nine

"Honey I'm home! Make sure you two are decent!" I yell as I walk into the conference room, knowing that is exactly where I will find Nat. I find her there ending a conference call with some of our friends spread throughout the universe. I catch the tail end of her conversation with Rhodey and sigh, knowing full well that Clint's absence in her life and the actions he had committed greatly affect her. "You know you're supposed to be relaxing, not taking conference calls." I say trying to lighten the mood.

Nat shifts on her chair, trying to hide the emotion behind her eyes. "Yeah... well someone has to do this." I nod slightly, knowing this is the only thing that keeps her running, it has been what has given her purpose for the last 5 years.

"Maybe it doesn't need to be done." Steve's voice startles me as he comes in from behind me. "You know I can't stop this, Steve. This family is all we have. Everybody else can move on. But not us." Nat said softly. Steve nodded as he approached her and put his hands on her shoulder, placing a small kiss on the top of her head. "Not us, sweetheart."

"God. You two are just made for each other, aren't you?!" I joked as I took a seat opposite Nat, trying to lighten the dampening mood. They give each other a kiss in front of me for good measure and I cover my eyes in jest like a small school kid. "Cooties!"

"Really (Y/N)? What are you, five?" Steve comments as he takes a seat next to Nat. "No. But I hang around Morgan a lot. So it could be that!" We all laugh at that as an alert pops up in front of Nat. She swipes to answer it and were met with an image of Scott Lang.

"Oh! Hi. Hi! Is anyone home? This is Scott Lang. We met a few years ago, on your roof? I talked to Patriot Angel, and I had my mask on. You wouldn't recognize me."

"Is this a recording?" Steve asked, standing up from his chair. "Wasn't he blipped?" I said almost at the same time.

"It's the front gate." Nat says, tears in her eyes as she stands next to Steve and looks at him. I immediately jump up from my chair at her words, flying to go meet Scott at the door.

When I reach him, I pant out of breath, "Scott? Lang is that really you?" He jumps up at the sight of me. "Oh thank god! It's you! You remember me! We need to talk!" I am so shocked by his presence. How is he here? How is he back? That I just nod and lead him back to the conference room where I left Steve and Nat.

I'm too lost in my mind by the time we come inside to realize that Scott is a little lost in his own mind as well. "Scott. Are you okay?" Steve's words bring us both back to reality.

"Yeah. I'm fine." He mumbles a little before finally stopping his pacing and looking at all three of us dead on.

"Have you ever studied Quantum Physics?"

"Only to make conversation." Nat answers and both Steve and I look at her incredulously.

"Alright. So... five years ago, right before Thanos, I was in a place called the Quantum Realm. The Quantum Realm is like its own microscopic universe. To get in there, you have to be incredibly small. Hope, she's my... She was my... She was supposed to pull me out. And then Thanos happened, and I got stuck in there." Scott blurted out rather quickly.

"I'm sorry. That must've been a very long five years."

Scott looked at Nat and then shook his head before continuing. "Yeah, but that's just it. It wasn't. For me, it was five hours."

Five hours? I look at Steve and Nat and can see the confusion in their faces as well.

"See, the rules of the Quantum Realm aren't like they are up here."

Steve interjects as Scott begins to pace again. "Scott, what are you talking about?"

"What I'm saying is, time works differently in the Quantum Realm. The only problem is right now, we don't have a way to navigate it. But what if we did? I can't stop thinking about it. What if, we could somehow control the chaos, and we could navigate it? What if there was a way to enter the Quantum Realm at a certain point in time but then exit at another point in time? Like... Like before Thanos." His face is serious, as if he's been mulling over this for a while.