#ask healer reader

i loved this request. so much. this belongs to my healer series, you don’t need to read it to read this! (you should tho)

It was dark. The tower is quiet, Stark, Rhodes and Romanoff asleep now. He knows that the new team healer has been in the Tower for a few hours now, and Bucky knows he should’ve met him when the team did, earlier in the day.

But he’d heard laughter and noise, knew that it was loud, and he wanted to be there, really, but whoever would have to heal him- it would be a lot for him. Bucky knew that, and the healer- he had to know that too.

So here he was, at 11 at night, standing outside the room of the newest addition to the team, and he’s nervous to meet him.

It turns out he’s wrong- about it being a he.

Because the door swings open, right after he knocks once, and he’s greeted by the most beautiful sight he’s seen in- well, his whole life.

The team’s healer is a dame- wait, no, a woman- and she’s so pretty, looking up at him with bright eyes and a smile, such a beautiful smile, light on her face and expectant, is he supposed to say something?  

“Uh-Hi.” Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.

“Hey,” she says, her pretty mouth curling upwards even more as she huffs out a laugh, “You’re Barnes, right?”

She’s wearing a Stark Industries shirt, only a little higher than the pajama shorts she’s wearing, and he should really stop letting his eyes rake over her, it’s not good for a first impression.

“Yeah. I missed your meeting, and I just wanted to say hello.”

She beckons him inside with a wave of her hand, also assuring him that she didn’t mind his absence.

“I can’t come in-“ he blurts out, even though he wants to. She looks so pretty, and the way she spoke- she sounds so kind, sweet, like someone he would want- and that’s the whole trick of it, isn’t it? He can’t want someone. She’s smiling at him, bright and gorgeous, all the affection of someone good, someone who shouldn’t have to deal with the mess he is. “I have to train. Now’s the only time I can do it without Stevie hovering, you know? But I’m sure I’ll see you around.”

It’s a flimsy excuse, and something in him tightens at the hurt look that flashes across her face, but it’s gone as soon as it comes, and she nods, pats his hand before giving him another smile, her eyes bright.

She closes the door, and he lets out a breath he doesn’t know he was holding, and he knows that he won’t be able to avoid her forever.

Well, he’s fucked.

it’s hereditery! she’s far from the only healer in the world (and her powers actually go quite a bit beyond healing) but she comes from a family that didn’t think it was particularly good, kind of thought of her having magic like her being cursed at birth. people like tony (who she met in her late teens) helped her see her powers as a gift and be proud of them. i also believe that since she can’t self heal, if she gets seriously hurt they’ll have to call another healer to help her

i think she would be very insistent on tony getting a ptsd dog, especially because he’s not as social with the other tower members, and she’s very insistent he has company. bucky spends some times with him too, and it slowly just becomes the Avengers Tower Dog, and the reader would love having him around. She and him have a sort of kinship (she can tell when he’s in pain, what he wants) and bucky even gets jealous sometimes  :))

so, i think sam and her don’t talk much. they like each other, but most of their interaction comes out of missions. she respects him, more than anything. understands his morals. steve doesn’t really have to talk to her about protecting bucky because she is so protective of him. she just wants him to be happy and safe, and the way she reacts to him coming home is a big sign of that. steve trusts her. 

mainly soft, gentle stuff like katy kirby. she’s a big fan of gentle things, she just likes him to have something going. if he has music on, he can focus on it if he’s anxious.

okay so healer!reader is generally a very positive, healthy force in bucky’s life. he tries to convince her, a couple times that he’s not worth it, that he’s not what’s good for her. after all, she literally heals people, from the inside out, takes their pain and melts it away. he sees himself as the exact opposite. and she’s been “broken up with” a couple times, where she comes home to him and he’s CONVINCED she should come home to someone else. they work it out though, and she tells him fiercely he’s worth it, and she wants him to know that she believes that.