House of Memories. // Bucky Barnes.

Part twenty: Arrangements.

TW: there is a part in this chapter where there will be mention of self-harm, if you are not comfortable I ask you either skip this chapter or the part. 
This is also the second last chapter and the next chapter will be House of Memories last chapter. 

Novah's POV:

The air was getting crisp as fall was coming to an end, weeks had felt like months in this prison. I was used as a lab rat serum injected into my system on a daily leaving my body feeling foreign and used. Josh was planning a wedding and it was coming up quicker then we were hoping for, Bucky was still the soldier he had nightmares about and every chance I had alone I tried breaking free from this place only I was not strong. I struggled fighting back these days as it felt like every-time I did try it would end in a needle going into my arm.

Walking to the window I grasped the bars in my arms desperately trying to pull them off only my arms were not strong, the strength I was supposed to be getting was not working and as much as I was glad it was not right now it could come in handy to get myself and Bucky out of here. The night I broke the counter at the base it shocked myself and everyone since that night I have not had that kind of strength again.

"Well, well isn't it the soon to be queen of the Joshua's world." I turned to see Heather standing there glaring at me, "he's requesting you, not for treatment this time just as his spouse."

"I'm not his spouse."

Heather stepped forward she was a bit taller than I was in heels but the face she had made me know she was not as soft as she played to be that day. "I don't give a shit what you are, Novah. I am doing my job and you are going to listen to me, understood?"

Looking up at her I nodded following her down the halls. "Where's Bucky?" I asked looking out the windows trying to find him.

"Barnes is training right now, take a look." She stopped us in a hallway pointing out to a training ground where I saw Bucky standing there sweat dripping down him as he held his knife against a recruit's throat. "Impressive, isn't he? We never had someone of such strength before and he could take out almost an entire army just by himself. He is extremely useful to Josh."

"He is not a weapon!" I growled as I kept my eyes locked on Bucky who was training.

Heather let out a chuckle before looking over at me. "If he wasn't a weapon, he wouldn't have easily turned into one." She tugged my arm making me follow her back down the hall.
We entered the training yard as Joshua sat at a table drinking coffee reading the news of what he would call the outside world. "Morning, Joshua dear here is your prize." Heather did not sound happy at all.

Joshua smiled as he glanced at me from his newspaper. "Take a seat, love." I cringed at his words but scared of the outcome I did as he said. "As you know we are set to be married." Josh put the paper down and turned his attention to me as he set a smile on his face knowing mine didn't have one.

"You are making a mistake; you know you'll just be digging a grave by the end of the day."

Licking his lip's, he let out a soft chuckle. "Novah, I brought you here today to tell you that your treatments for today and tomorrow are cancelled?"

"Did you finally get a heart?" I rolled my eyes going to take a sip of water.

"No, we are set to be married tomorrow."

Spitting out water all over Heather who was stood in front of me my eyes widened as she looked at me disgusted. "What!?" I looked at Joshua who stood up and pulling me to my feet as well. "You're joking right? God I rather have the serum then marry you!" I yelled.

"We marry at sunset tomorrow. Tomorrow you will become my wife and then we really start the process of strength the end goal my love is to end those who stand in front of us and right now that is your sister." I froze when he said those words, flipping back to the front page I could see Nat's photo with Steve as she was putting up signs with my face on it. "She's offering a one hundred-thousand-dollar reward for you, and I know there are a lot of people who would scoop that up in a heartbeat." He stepped closer to me "We already had some people come too close to here, and well we don't take kindly to strangers, so we made sure the bullets were at least nice for them." I gulped hearing those words. "Novah you are going to be the best wife."

Going to place his arms around me I lifted my fist going to hit him only for him to catch my arm and kick my stomach making me fall back against the stairs. Letting out an oomph I looked to see Josh smiling as he put his jacket back on. "I'll see you tomorrow my little assassin."

Looking around I could see a few people looking at me, including Bucky himself which broke my heart. He walked over peering down on me, "Let me help you-"

"Don't touch me!" I hissed looking at the soldier who was fully decked out in fighting gear. "If you really want to help me Bucky, either get me out of here or kill me." He laughed at those words as he shook his head. "Of course, your orders are to keep me alive right?"

"Let's get you back to your room, Joshua doesn't want you getting sick before the wedding."

Walking down the halls with Bucky we remained quiet as we could until we reached my door where he followed me into my room. "Tell me, do you not love him?" Bucky asked.

Looking at him as if he were joking, I could see the stupid stern face on him. "I don't. Love is such a weird word to me, I had freedom for a little bit, and I felt as if I loved that and who maybe I had in it but it's mind blowing how quickly that all changed in a day." I looked down trying not to let him see me so upset.

"You weren't taken from that?"

"But I was, you claim you are only the soldier you are right now, but I've seen you differently Bucky, the first time I seen you yes I admit you tried to kill me but that is when I started searching for you?"

"Me?" he was taken back a bit.

Nodding I stood up walking close to him studying his outfit. "Yes, something about you drove me mad and when you weren't this you were someone, I was close to- very close to and I need to know he is still in there, Bucky" I almost begged him.

Rolling his eyes, he looked down at me. "I don't know how you plan on-"

"This-" Grabbing his knife from his belt I held it against my arm. "The Bucky I know wouldn't let me hurt myself in any single way." I went to go cut my arm when I felt hands on my wrists and feeling the blade being knocked out of my hand as my body was shoved against the bed with Bucky falling on top of me.
Looking into his blue eyes I could see the slight fear in them "He's still in there, Bucky I know this isn't you." I placed my hand on the side of his cheek but this time he didn't flinch.

Bucky pulled away before grabbing his knife. "I'll see you at the wedding, Novah." Before exiting leaving me alone in the room.
As much as I did not want him to leave, I knew this moment would have an impact on him. However, I did need to think of something before tomorrow sunset.




Natasha's POV:



I sat staring at a map that was projected on top of the table trying to desperately find something. It has been weeks and we had come up with nothing, Tony was up most the nights with me trying to think of something but whenever we did, we would end up back at square one. "How much sleep have you had?" Tony asked walking in with a two cups of coffee handing one to me. I looked up at him with my blood shot eyes which made him nod. "You haven't have you?"

"it's hard to" I sighed leaning back in the chair. "Novah is my baby sister and just knowing she was captured for years and then she had the slightest bit of freedom? I don't know something about it kills me." Rubbing my face so I didn't cry more then I already did.

Taking a seat across from me Tony nodded as he ran his finger around the rim of his cup. "Your sister is strong, just like you Natasha."

Steve came jogging in with Wanda, Thor and Bruce not far behind him. "Someone is at the gate!" He said putting on the security camera.

"What? The last person who was at the gate was Scott?" Tony looked at the feed. "Zoom in"

Zooming in I could see T'challa and Okoye both standing there waiting to be let in with Shuri standing between the two. "Hold on, we will let you in." I said over the intercom so they could hear me.

Steve jogged out to go meet them. "What bring the king here?" I smiled softly at the old friend of ours.

"Good to see you Natasha, we heard you guys needed help locating the winter soldier?" He smiled as he stood proudly beside his little sister.

Steve nodded as he stepped beside me. "We do, how did you guys hear about this?"

Smiling Okoye held up the missing person paper I had of my sister and one of James. "Once we heard about this, we knew something was wrong? Tell me, what happened?"

I rubbed my face. "He let his feelings get in the way, he blindly went into a battle he knew nothing about."

"Ah love can do that for sure" Shuri smiled as she walked over to Tony's fancy table.
"Luckily I am here, and we bring good news we can find the soldier for you and wherever he is, surely she must be as well."

Looking at Shuri as she plugged in her computer to Tony's she began typing fast as she entered codes into her system. "What do you mean? How can you find them so easily?" I looked at T'challa.

He smiled softly. "When the white wolf stayed in our grounds we helped him train to not be who he once was but we didn't expect him to fall in love and be weak- which is our bad for not thinking of what could be- we installed a tracking chip in his arm as Okoye wanted to always make sure he was okay and deep down she felt he needed it in case something bad did happen- which something bad has happened."

"You put a tracking chip in his arm? That is not freedom" Tony said scrunching his brows.

"Ah-ha! Got him." Shuri smiled proudly showing us the screen. "He is in the mountains, quite a journey I must say you would have to leave now if you wanted to get there by afternoon." She looked and scrunched her face.

"What? What's wrong?" I said trying not to panic too much.

Shuri gulped as she zoomed in pulling the screen up for all of us to see. "We have an issue, does this not look like a-"

"A wedding" I gasped feeling my blood run cold. "Novah said this guy was crazy and I believe it, this has to be him forcing marriage." I looked at her. "Can you look through the cameras? Find Bucky and find Novah, please."


Nodding she began scooping through the feeds and stopped when she seen Bucky's. He was tied to a chair his body covered in sweat. Joshua stood close to him as he smiled down on Bucky, seeing his lips move I looked at her before I could say anything Shuri replied with "On it" turning on the audio so we could hear what they were saying.

"She got close to you tonight didn't she Barnes. I cannot have you distracting her from her mission. We are going to stop that right now and you my friend will have a new mission. The Avengers, I want them gone I can't have her thinking there is hope for her."

Tony sat up from his seat. "I want to punch this guy!" he growled watching.

Steve flinched as he heard Joshua speaking the code words that triggered Bucky and I could feel Okoye tense up beside me, placing a hand on both they looked down at me and nodded knowing I was just trying to help them. Steve flinched as Bucky said he was ready to comply, and I could hear Okoye release an angry sigh. "Shuri, can you find Novah? I asked snapping her gaze away from the soldier they worked so hard to get rid of.

Flipping through the camera's we stopped when we found Novah standing by a small window with bars on it. "She's there-" I let out a sigh of relief seeing her standing there. "Can we give her a sign? Any, we have to get her out of there." I almost begged.

Nodding Shuri fiddled with some commands and held the microphone. "Speak quietly, we want to make sure only she hears." She said handing me the mic.

Letting out a deep breath I could feel everyone's eyes on me making me ten times more nervous than I already was. "Novah?" she looked around the room. "Novah, can you hear me?" I said softly seeing my sister.

"Natasha?" she looked around, "where are you?" she circled around looking.

"Not there, listen Nov- I am at the compound. Shuri tracked you guys we are going to leave as soon as we are done talking."

Novah shook her head. "It's no use, you need Fury's okay and Josh is setting his guards high for tomorrow. Nat, I'm scared I don't want to marry him!"

I could tell she was working herself up. "Here let me talk to her" Tony said grabbing the mic, I didn't want to take that away from him as I remember him giving me good talks as well when I needed them and right now, she needed it. "Novah listen to me, you are a Romanoff and let me tell you this they sure do not give up, I seen you fight kid, and you are strong."

"Tony-"

"Listen to me" he cut her off. "You proved that to me when you showed up at my house after I almost wanted to kill you for putting my kid in danger, but you showed me that you were determined to keep anyone safe including Morgan." He smiled softly as he rubbed his face. "She misses you, kid- she asks about you all the time and when we get to see you again and that bunny you gave her? She goes nowhere without it and wont sleep without it as well, so kid we will be there to get you and you need to fight I promise."

"What about Fury?"

"Don't worry about him, I can handle him." Wanda said as if she had somethingplanned.

Novah nodded before looking around and at the camera. "You don't have long.This wedding is set at sun-set and it's already almost one in the morning."

"Then let's get cracking." I spoke. "We'll see you soon, Nov" after that Shuri stoppedthe feed and made sure she blocked out her codes, so they weren't onto them.

"We are going to assist you. Okoye can help with Barnes as she worked with himlots."

Nodding I grabbed my jacket. "Thank you."

Steve looked at us all as he opened the door. "Avengers, let's go."