The Other Rogers

Chapter 54

Steve and Bucky made it to Anya before anyone else did. The last time they had seen her, she had been standing alone in the middle of hundreds of bodies, all of them being Thanos' army. But as the dust and dirt had cleared for the second time, she wasn't there.

She laid on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from several wounds.

Bucky ran to her side, cradling her limp body on his lap, hugging her head to his chest, crying over her as he rocked them back and forth.

It didn't take long for everyone to join them, heading to where the sounds of the battle had ended. There were cheers of victory that all died suddenly when they saw the destruction that laid upon them.

Steve walked up behind Bucky, and saw his sister. Where he thought she would have pale and blue, her usual peachy skin shone almost blinding in colour.

Tony led the group of Avengers who hadn't been close enough to see what had happened. He stopped when he saw Anya laying in Bucky's arms and stuttered. "Is- is she..." He couldn't ask, it hurt too much to even suggest.

Steve turned to look at him while Wanda cried in her brother's arms and the rest of their family clung to each other.

There was a loud scream as Natasha and Clint joined them. She collapsed, her eyes wide and lips trembled. Crawling towards them, she paused in front of them, her hand gripping one of Anya's cold ones. Crying Natasha curled herself around Anya's legs, that hung off Bucky's knees. Steve's already broken heart shattered at the sight of his wife crying over his twin's body.

Leaning over her body with tears streaking his dirty cheeks, Bucky whimpered as he prepared himself to say goodbye. "я люблю тебя мой ангел."

He didn't want to say goodbye, didn't want to spend a life without her. He had gotten a short and brief taste of heaven when they had lived in Wakanda; but life was cruel. He didn't know how she had survived five years without him when he couldn't even last a few minutes.

"я тоже тебя люблю мой солдат." The reply was so soft he had thought he had dreamt it but staring back at him was Anya's beautiful blue eyes. However, they were different from normal, in her baby blue eyes were swirls of the Infinity Stones.

He laughed, sobs still racking through him. Pulling her closer he kissed her forehead whispering too low for the others to hear, "I thought I had lost you."

Anya giggled, her eyes bright with unshed tears, "I didn't let Hydra take you away from me, there was no way in hell Thanos was going to get away with it twice. Also it would be wayyy too cliché, don't you think?"

Looking around she saw Steve and Natasha smiling back at her, along with Wanda and Pietro, Tony and Pepper and the rest of the dysfunctional family they called their own. "That hurt like a bitch."

Everyone joined in the laughing, with Tony making their fits of laughter worse by yelling out, "Language!"

Steve hid his face in Natasha's hair while everyone else just continued laughing.

Bucky shook his head, aspirated but beyond happy, as the love of his life had survived the battle of their lives; they had all won.

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Looking around, Anya watched as everyone celebrated still on the battlefield. She still couldn't believe they had won, Thanos was dead, and everyone had come back.

At her feet laid the head of the Titan and she had to resist the urge to kick it or stomp it till it didn't exist. But a lightbulb went off in her head and she picked it up, shuddering as her bare fingers came in contact with its leathery skin.