There was a lot to be said about your best friend, Bucky. You admired his tenacity and grit, as well as his all-encompassing adoration and love for those close to him, which you had admired and been in awe of. It didn't help the fact that you longed to be the one he stared at with such tenderness; you just missed the moments that he had.
⠈⠂⠄⠄ 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑨𝑰𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮
☤ Paramedic!Bucky Barnes x F!Reader
⠈⠂⠄⠄ 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑲𝑬𝒀
☤ 𝐀 + 𝐈 + 𝐅
⠈⠂⠄⠄ 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑭𝑰𝑪 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑻
☤ 7
⠈⠂⠄⠄ 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑫 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑻
☤ 8,266
⠈⠂⠄⠄ 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑵𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑺
☤ This menace has been in my drafts since maybe March of 2023 in light of an anniversary, and now I think I am ready for him to shine.
☤ All entries are written with a Chronic Illness effected F!Reader in mind, but it can be read as a 'normal' F!Reader.
These are in timeline order - this is subject to change as I add entries.
☤ 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐀 + 𝐅
It was a trope that you had read over and over in books – never once did you think it would apply to you, and you’d be stuck in the same vicious circle of pining over your best friend, Bucky. But then, he came home one night after a rough shift, grief-stricken and in pain, and he proceeded to change everything.
☤ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐅
While saving lives was Bucky’s passion and calling, you couldn’t help but have the need to be there to save him. And one day, you came up with the idea of how to stay with the guardian angel all through his shift.
☤ 𝐔𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐀 + 𝐈 + 𝐅
An unexpected emergency leaves you at the mercy of the two people you’d hope to never see in uniform, while simultaneously being grateful it was the two heroes you trusted the most.
☤ 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐅
After a bad night, you convalesce your slumber into the living room, only, when you awoke, something precious awaited you.
☤ 𝐀 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨'𝐬 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐅
Your surprise arrival at the station brightens more than Bucky’s day, and you couldn’t be happier to witness the joy in all of their faces when you revealed that you came bearing gifts.
Battles were fought and won, ruthlessly bloody and heartbreakingly sorrowful, for all. Especially your own warrior, who put his all into the work needed on the front lines, and sometimes, he needed protection of his own.
☤ 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧
⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄ 𝐅
The festivities of Christmas were often overlooked by Bucky in his job in favour of rushing off to save a life, but not this year — this year, you were there to bring joy to him, and to all of his team.
idk if this is touched upon yet but i wonder if we'll find out more about the "keep score" theme she's been going over across albums in ttpd:
so it goes: you did a number on me, but honestly baby who's counting?
hoax: you knew you won so what's the point of keeping score?
long story short: no more keeping scores, now i just keep you warm
like was keeping track of the times they hurt/won arguments/whatever it is a thing in the relationship?
i always saw it more as taylor discussing how her own beliefs about love were changing. she used to think love would be burning red, a game where you had to scheme to have the upper hand, born to be a pawn in every lover's game etc. -- and while there was some cat and mouse in the beginning, she was confronting how those games were a defense mechanism because she was afraid of revealing too much and being left.
Have you ever had that feeling of falling in love with a song that you just heard once? I mean, immediately after listening to it, you just want to put in on a repeat for the whole day.
Well, that's what happened to me with this song. It's from HYBS, the song called Tip Toe, and yeah knowing me, I definitely made a video out of it. And of course, with my OTP at the moment, our ShAmy.
We all have wishes, and sometimes, these get granted in mysterious ways. When it happens, reality seems to become a dream.
But what happens when the dream turns into a nightmare?
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Right now the link you'll find to read Little Shadows will open a pdf in Drive. I'll be working the next few days to have the option to open it without accessing Drive and also add an epub option, but I'm doing it like this for now because I'll be busy the rest of the day and can't trust I'll have time to not miss the release date. So if there are any problems with the link, please let me now, and I hope you enjoy reading it!!
I feel like the connection between "AYHTDWS" and "Say Don't Go" is her saying "all I'm asking is that you stay" and "all you have to do was ask me to stay".
In other words: commitment. All she wanted from him was commitment, even when she chose to walk away that's what she still wanted.
yeah, she wanted to be chosen! it's really heartbreaking to see how often this theme comes up in her music. actually, i always felt i must look better in the rear view, missing me, at the golden gates they once held the keys to...