[AU] it's about the doing

Sharon wakes up too warm from a dream she wishes didn't have to end: in it, Bucky came to Madripoor and promised to stay, to get her home. Bucky, and Steve, and Nakia, and Sam and Nat and –

It's a second before she recognizes why she's too warm, and just what that solid weight next to her means, and she scrubs sleep out of her eyes and stares, drinking him in like she can't get enough.

She can't. She's not sure she ever will. "Bucky," she says, her voice rough with sleep and relief. "You're here."