[Reader x Bucky] After stopping a robbery you're given sanctuary by the Avengers after exposing yourself as an unregistered mutant. You've always been on your own but now you've found a family. Tony was the cool older uncle. Natasha, the sister you never had. Steve was always there for advice and Sam was your partner in crime. But Bucky? Bucky was something else entirely.

What if Wanda and Pietro had trained with the Winter Soldier while they were volunteering for HYDRA? What if further down the road, while helping Captain America search for his friend, Wanda comes across a familiar face?

[Reader Insert] [BuckyXReader] The Avengers find you on the run from a dark past and ask you to become their newest recruit. With the ability to teleport anywhere instantaneously you struggle with the idea of having a home, and family. A story in which your walls are slowly broken down, just in time for you to need them when your past finally catches up to you.

COMPLETE A/U: Amanda Armstrong heads to Georgia as a graduate student in Atlanta, and meets deputy Rick Grimes by accident. Will Rick and his son, Carl, help Amanda adjust to her new life in King County? Can she overcome her past memories? Will Amanda help Rick and Carl overcome their own pasts too?