Second Sphere

Thats not what I meant

The party is loud and crowded and find myself babysitting Zemo.

"That dress fits you well little dove." Zemo tells me, leaning in close to be heard over the loud music. I can feel his hand hovering above my waist.

"If you touch me, I will break your fingers individually. Slowly." I say sweetly.

Zemo backs up careful not to touch me. After a while Sam comes to take over guard duty.

I find Bucky in the crowd. "What did Zemo tell you?" He asks me.

"He likes the dress." I say pursing my lips.

"I'm sure that went well for him." Bucky comments.

"I told him I would break his fingers. I've been wanting too since Selby's bar." I laugh.

Bucky let's out a small laugh and pulls me closer to him, ducking down to talk so he doesn't have to shout over the music. "That's my birdy."

"I thought you were still mad at me." I say wrapping my arms around his neck.

Bucky shakes his head, "I was, a part of me still is. We can talk about that another time."

I nod, "What changed?"

Bucky grips me a bit tighter, "I saw you in that dress," he pauses for a moment. "And I saw the way Zemo looked at you in it."

"I don't know whether to be flattered or annoyed. I'm not here for you to get under Zemo's skin." I pull back from Bucky.

"Birdy. That's not what I meant." Bucky sighs.

I walk off and after a while Sharon finds us. "Hey guys, I found him."

"Here we go." Sam says.

The next morning we make our way to shipyard.

"Madripoor could give New York a run for its money." Sam says.

"They know how to party." Zemo replies.

"With that bounty on your head. The longer you're in Madripoor the less likely you're ever leaving. Alright he's in there. Container 4261 I'll keep watch while you guys talk to Nagel. But hurry. We're on borrowed time." Sharon hands us all ear pieces that we put in.

Sam opens the container, "Hey Sharon you sure this is the right one? It's completely empty."

"Positive. It has to be." Sharon replies.

We walk inside the container and Zemo investigates the back of the container. He pushes opening a secret door, we can hear faint music coming from it.

Apart from Zemo we all have guns at the ready. Sam stops the record.

Nagel turns around and gasps when he sees us.

"Dr. Nagel?" Sam asks.

"Who are you? What do you want?" He asks quickly.

"We know you created the super soldier serum." Sam says.

"Get out of my lab." Nagel commands walking past Sam.

"Hey!" Sam starts. Nagel pauses when he sees Bucky and myself. "You know who they are right?" Sam asks. "This is Baron Zemo." Sam explains. "I know you've heard of hun, too, right?" Sam grabs him by the arm guiding him against a wall. "You seem like a pretty smart guy. So you better become conversational real quick."

"How about a counter proposal?" Nagel says, somehow still confident. "Make me a better offer and I'll talk."

"Guys we have company." Sharon comes in over the headset.

Bucky takes hold of Nagel and slams him into a chair pointing a gun at his head.

Sharon comes in again. "Every bounty hunter in the city is here. We gotta go!"

Bucky shoots behind Nagels head and the man flinches. "Okay. Okay. I was brought into Hydra's winter soldier program to pick up their work after the five failed test subjects in Siberia. When Hydra fell, I was recruited by the CIA. They had blood samples from an American test subject with semi-stable traces of serum in his system. After much labor, I was able to isolate the necessary compounds in his blood. I was a god. I did what no other scientist since Erskine was able to do. But mine was going to be different. No clunky machines or jacked up bodies. Mine was going to be subtle, optimized. Perfect."