A Warm Winter

Chapter 7

Vidia woke up in the morning to the sound of the shower running. She looked over towards Bucky's bed and saw an imprint in the sheets where he had laid. She sat up and putting her hand on her forehead, let out a sigh. Getting out of bed, Vidia walked over to the bathroom door and waited until Bucky got out. Not long after the shower turned off, the bathroom door suddenly opened to a wet Bucky wrapped in a towel from the waist down.

"Agh!" Vidia threw her hand over her eyes.

"Jesus, Vidia, what are you doing?" Bucky closed the door and spoke through it.

"I needed to pee!" Vidia couldn't help but let out a small smile. She thought the situation was funny.

"Okay, well I figured you would still be sleeping. I left my shirt out there can you grab it for me please?"

"Yeah," Vidia saw his shirt lying on the floor and picked it up. She couldn't help but get a whiff of his scent and held the shirt up to her face, smelling it. Not long after she realized what she was doing she went back over to the bathroom and knocked on it. The door opened a crack and Bucky's left arm peered out from behind the door. Vidia took a minute to look at the metal arm then put his shirt in his hand. The arm retreated back into the room as the door closed, "Can you hurry up please?"

Bucky rolled his eyes from the bathroom. He dressed himself then opened the door and looked down at Vidia, "Quick enough?"

Vidia felt little air coming to her as she looked at him and nodded, "Just fix your stare. You look like you want to kill me."

The two switched spots and Vidia closed the door, now in the bathroom, "Well, maybe I do," she heard from outside. Vidia quickly undressed herself and went in the shower.

After washing herself she got out and got dressed. She wrapped her hair up into a towel and walked out. The T.V. was now on as Bucky slowly smiled and let out a little chuckle at seeing her.

"If you're going to laugh at me because my hair is in a towel, then let me tell you that every girl does this and if you ever want a girlfriend you will have to deal with this." Vidia sat down on her bed, looking at him.

"Oh, I don't doubt it," Bucky said while watching her.

"I'm starving we need to eat."

"No, what we need to do is find out where I'm going next."

"Why can't we go back to Florida? I'm not even sure why I have a warrant on me; I haven't even done anything." Vidia stood up and flipped her head over, removing the towel from her head.

"Because the girl that we saw wasn't there when the police showed up."

"What?" Vidia looked at Bucky who pointed at the T.V. It was now showing an officer's body-cam running into the small diner. It was completely empty. No body was laying over by the wall.

"Witnesses described you and me at the scene and that's it. The girl got up and left before the police got there and after we left."

Vidia sat back down, looking at the T.V., "So what's our next move?"

"I can't go back. Hydra knows I was there and it wouldn't be a good idea. You, however, can go back and explain what happened."

"No, Bucky, I'm not leaving you by yourself."

"Vidia, they trust you, okay? If you tell them it was someone from Hydra they'll believe you and then you can get S.W.O.R.D. on your side to help find Hydra." Bucky put his feet on the ground and leaned over onto them.