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"Where the hell did Steve run off to again?" Bucky asked, trailing close behind Steve's twin sister. Eliza was practically sprinting in her shiny black pumps, somehow keeping more composure than the soldier behind her, who was stumbling to keep up.

"Probably to enlist again, which I explicitly told him not to do, but whenever did that kid listen to me," Eliza was starting to feel the effects of her shoes digging into her heels, and her breath running out as she kept power-walking to find her brother.

"That kid is like- an hour older than you. Just remember that."

"He has the maturity like he's five years younger," she chided.

"You just don't know when to give up, do you?" Eliza and Bucky both heard the voice at the same time, making her stop dead in her tracks.

"I can do this all day"

That's all the two needed to hear before they were taking off down the alley to see Steve get clocked in the face, and fall on the ground in the corner of the alley.

"Steve!" Eliza yelled, running over to her brother. The boy looked to her and snarled. She looked back at him with a death stare, completely ready to kick him where the sun didn't shine.

"Hey!" Bucky yelled, grabbing his attention. "Pick on someone your own size."

Bucky dodged the boy's feeble hook, and retaliated with a punch to the jaw. He threw him forward onto the concrete, but the boy braced himself and remained standing, giving Bucky the opportunity to kick him, sending him forward and running out of the alley.

"Sometimes I think you like getting punched," Bucky commented, taking Steve's hand in his.

"I had him on the ropes," Steve replied.

"Funny, 'cause it looked to me like you were getting your butt handed to you," Eliza said, making the two men smirk.

Bucky bent down and picked up Steve's enlistment forms, causing Eliza to sigh out of frustration, putting a hand to her face. "How many times is this?" Bucky asked.

Steve shrugged. Bucky looked over the form. "Oh, you're from Paramus now?" Eliza looked to her brother quickly and smacked him upside the head. "You know it's illegal to lie on the enlistment forms."

"And seriously, Jersey?" Eliza added.

"You get your orders?" Steve asked Bucky, changing the subject from his lies. However Eliza would be having a serious conversation with him later.

"The one-o-seventh. Sergeant James Barnes. Shipping out for England first thing tomorrow."

Steve sighed, "I should be going."

Eliza looked to her brother and friend with a small frown of disappointment. Bucky noticed how distraught the two looked.

"Come on, guys! My last night! We gotta get him cleaned up," he says, looking to Eliza.

"Why?" Steve questioned, looking up to Bucky.

"Where are we going?" Eliza asked.

"The future."

•••

"I don't see what the problem is," Bucky shrugged. "You're about to be the last eligible man in New York. You know, there's three and a half million women here."