BLACK AND WHITE | BUCKY BARNES x OC

part four

-2 months later-

Bucky POV:

Nat nudges me in the side and smiles, "You ready, White Wolf?" I smirk and push her back and shake my head. Ever since I told her my new name after leaving Wakanda she can't stop teasing me about it.

We're in the backseat of a car after landing in Russia and heading to wherever Fury wants us to go. It's been a long two months but I'm ready to get back in action. It's also been a long two months of realizing seeing color is the best damn thing. But...it's also been a long two months of ignoring Steve's calls, emails, and texts. Also, I've been thinking about her almost every damn second since I last saw her at the wedding.

I promised myself I wouldn't do that to Steve and so far I kept my promise. Steve should be meeting us with Sam and then we plan to head straight to our mission's coordinates right after. It's going to be a long night, especially knowing that Steve will bombard me with questions.

Nat sees me thinking hard and clears her throat. "You know, Steve has been telling me that you're ignoring him." I side eye her and she raises her hands up in surrender, "Don't shoot the messenger. He's been busy with his two month honeymoon with Leila and he just wants to see how you are. He misses you."

I shrug my shoulders and fiddle with my fingers that are laying on my lap. "I just needed space, Nat. Nothing serious." I can't tell her that every night I dream of Steve's wife and wake up in cold sweats unable to go back to sleep. Her eyes pierce my soul every time I close mine and her voice echoes in my mind even in my dreams. It's turning more into a nightmare the longer I go without seeing her. But doing so would ruin me.

That's why I have been keeping my distance from my only best friend. In these two months I've become close with Nat and Bruce, but mostly Nat. She seems to understand my underlying thoughts even if I haven't told her yet that I can see colors. It's like she already knows. But she doesn't know who caused me to see color, yet.

The ground becomes rocky under us as the car drives us to our point. It's a small city outside of Moscow and it looks inhabitable. Broken windows, tarps covering buildings, and those buildings standing half way as they continue to slowly crumble. Fury sure knows how to pick our meeting locations.

The car pulls to a stop and I get out of the car and hold the door for Nat. We walk towards one of the dusty buildings to our right and there's a long corridor that takes us to a courtyard. There we see Fury sitting with Agent Hill. They're both deep in thought and then look up when they hear our footsteps on the gravel.

"Nat. Bucky. Thank you for meeting us," Agent Hill says sternly as she stands tall. She looks to Fury and he nods and stands up.

"Welcome back. I hope you both are well rested. We're going to be busy this week." Fury tells us. Nat and I look back at each other and then back at Fury. We already know the mission is to stop a new radical group from making more super soldiers like me. But we didn't get any more information on the name, the people in the group, or who made more of the super soldier serum.

"So what are we exactly doing here? I haven't gotten much intel," I say abruptly.

Agent Hill crosses her arms across her chest. "Let's wait until Sam and Steve arrive."

And as if on cue, I hear footsteps behind me and turn around and see Steve and Sam walking in. Sam smiles at me and I give him a small nod. I dare to look at Steve and lock eyes. It's not that I'm afraid of what he'd do to me if he ever found out about me seeing color. It's what he would say if he found out who made me see color. There's too much at risk.

Steve and Sam find a place next to Nat and I find myself fixing my posture as Steve decides to be right next to me. We're both tall but I win by a few inches after the super soldier serum. I can feel his body tense up next to me. He definitely will be asking me why I've ignored him for so long.