WHO: Clint Barton (616), Natasha Romanoff (MCU), Bucky Barnes (MCU) WHAT: Getting out those feels WHERE: By the Doors, then to Clint's nest most likely WHEN: After this. RATING: Starting low but maybe will raise it later? Definitely emotions cometh.
I'm at the doors.
Well, shit. Finding out that Natasha was at the doors wasn't a good thing. Bucky could come up with a list of reasons why she was there, after he'd read over her exchange on the network. None of them were good. Having read enough to understand what happened, Bucky knew then that Natasha wasn't the only one to give her life. Stark had done the same. And everyone who was lost then came back, which included himself. Bucky didn't take any comfort in that though. Not really. Of course he'd be grateful to know his life had been saved, but knowing that she was gone made it hard to find a lot of joy in it. He didn't like knowing that both Natasha and Stark had to be sacrificed in order for others to be brought back to life. It was as he'd said to her when she first arrived; her life wasn't any less important than his or anyone else who perished the day Thanos snapped his fingers. And neither was Stark's. No matter what resentment Bucky still held toward him (which if he was honest wasn't really that much anymore), he would never say his own life was more important than Stark's, nor would he think it right that he or anyone else had to die in order for the universe to be restored. Just as he hadn't thought Steve had been right to put that plane down in the ocean that caused him to be frozen in the ice for so long.
He understood it. He did. Bucky had been willing to sacrifice himself when he saw the hell Steve's allies had been put through and what their fate was going to be in the aftermath of that fight at the airport. Hell, he'd given up in the fight with Stark in Siberia when asked if he remembered killing his parents. He only started fighting again when Steve was involved, otherwise he would've let Stark take him out. But just because he understood the motivation behind what both Natasha and presumably Stark had done, it didn't mean he condoned it. They were also a lot better people than he was. Their sacrifices were far more impacting than what his would've been, so it wasn't exactly something to be compared.
As soon as she'd given the location, Bucky was on the move. First to get Clint, who he found along the way, then the two of them made their way to the Doors. There was an understanding there; they were relieved to be in this together, because they both had ways of reaching Natasha that were different but also very in sync. They also just.. had each other, and that in of itself was a comfort. Natasha was hurting, which meant they were hurting too. If they could find some relief in being together in this, then that was a good thing.
"Whatever she needs, yeah?" Bucky said. With his human hand, he reached to squeeze one of Clint's as if to silently convey whatever you need, too. They were all in this together. "If we can get her back to your place, I think it'd be best." Bucky had the goat at his house and Clint had the nest. Definitely Clint's place was best.