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James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes was something of a forever chemical—living in history for 90 years due to cryo-freeze. A forever chemical. Never dying—never breaking down. Bucky could take a shot and keep going. Well, he used to be able to. Last year, Bucky started dating this girl—y/n—about a year ago when she joined the Avengers. Once they started dating, Bucky stopped volunteering for missions, and Tony stopped putting him on them. Tony also stopped putting y/n on missions. The reason for this was because Tony knew that Bucky wanted to marry her, so he wanted to keep the off missions and out of danger. Y/n didn’t now Bucky wanted to marry her. That plan worked—for a while. After about a year, Tony had no choice but to send them on this mission—the rest of the Avengers were in Romania on a mission. This mission was very low risk: just a tech relocation. (Which was code for ‘Tony needs a piece of tech that was in a guarded warehouse). The mission was going fine, though Bucky was a bit rusty—moving slower than he used to due to misuse. The warehouse was in the middle of the forest, snow covered forest; littered with guards. The guards had all been taken care of, and Bucky and Y/n had gotten the warehouse (shed) open, the tech was right there. But there was actually one guard left. A guard neither of them heard until his gun went off—shooting Bucky in the back. If Bucky did survive this, it wouldn’t be heroically. Based off the place he was shot, if he lived, he would be paralyzed from the waist down.