Hockey Rules (Bucky Barnes AU x NHL)

Where is Emma? *

*~* Bucky *~*

I was talking with Adam, waiting for Emma to come back when Nat came up to me.  "Hey James, have you seen Emma?"

"Yeah, she just stepped out to the restroom." I looked at my watch.  "Wow it's been like 20 minutes."

Nat's face dropped.  "Did she take security with her?"

"No, she just went next door." Realizing my words, I took off to the hall doors.  I yanked them open and headed to the restroom that was 20 feet from the hall.  I burst in there. "Emma! Emma, are you here?! Doll, are you here?!"  I checked all the stalls.  They were empty.

"Barnes!" I heard Adam calling me.  I raced back outside.  Adam and Nat were frozen in shock, looking down at something.  I pulled my head down and followed where they were looking.  It was a bag, Emma's bag. Something shiny was next to it.  Her ring.  I went to grab it but Adam stopped me.  "It might have prints," he said.

I nodded my head when the realization hit me.  Emma was gone.  The three of us ran back into the hall. Nat went to find Clint; Adam went for Ryan which left me trying to find Scott and Steve.   Luckily, they were together but Steve could see the look on my face and knew something was wrong.  "Bucky? Bucky?! What's wrong?"

"Umm Emma.  Emma. I can't find Emma.  We found her purse and her ring outside the bathroom."  The shock was starting to lift off.  "Oh my God, Emma is gone."  My knees started to get weak.  Steve grabbed me to hold me up.

"What do you mean you can't find Emma?" Scott asked.

"She said she needed to go to the bathroom and I let her go but when Nat started to look for her I realize that she has been gone for 20 minutes.  I checked the bathroom but she's not there.  Scott, where is Emma?"

The room started to realize that something was wrong.  Tony immediately called Boston PD and explained the situation.  10 minutes later, I had an officer questioning me on the events of the evening.  We also explained about Alex and the threats that he had made against her.  I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that Emma wasn't there.  Our big night and she wasn't there.

The police examined the "crime scene" as they were calling it for an hour.  It was now two hours since Emma was taken.  I was starting to lose it. Eventually hotel security found the camera footage outside of the ballroom.  We watched as Emma went in, came out but someone tapped her neck and she collapsed in the guy's arms.  He carried her away toward the back of the hotel.  And just like that, my fiancé was gone.

My blood began to boil over.  I could feel all the anger raging inside me.  I was going back to my Winter Soldier mode.  Steve could see it.  "Bucky, you need to stay focused.  For Emma.  You can't lose it."

"I'm going to murder him, Steve.  He took her.  He took my Emma.  I'm going to get her back."  I pulled my phone to call Bergeron, the Bruins captain, when my phone started to ring, with the last person I thought would ever call me.

*~* Emma *~*

Ok so what were the rules again.  Number one, don't date the players.  Rule number two, don't fall in love.  And rule number three, if I can't follow one and two, make sure he was worth it.

Bucky was worth it. I knew that in my heart.  The asshole in front of me that tied me to a bed, he was my biggest regret.

"Alex, please let me go.  I won't say anything I promise." I pleaded with my captor. "I just want to go home."

"Now why would I do that Emmalina. Hmm?  We belong together.  I told you, you are mine." Alex got closer to me, stoking my hair.  "God, I forgot how soft your hair is, Emmalina. I'm so glad that I was able to bring you home."

I started to cry and flinched away from his touch.  "You've been watching me."

"Of course, I was Emma.  I needed to make sure you were ok.  To know when it was safe to bring you back.  Well, I had people watching over you."

I started to cry harder.

"Don't cry baby," he cooed at me.  "We are going to be so happy together."

"Please Alex, just let me go."

"No.  You have been a bad girl.  Accepting a proposal when you were already engaged.  To me."  He leaned down to kiss me.  I had to sit there and take it, crying because this wasn't Bucky.

"First, we have to make some changes to your look."  He grabbed my jersey, grabbed a knife to cut it from my body.  He saw the name and made sure to slash at it as well.  "Tsk tsk, wearing another man's jersey.  And from a different team too.  We can't have that now can we Emmalina?"

My heart broke as I saw the pieces of my jersey on the floor. I hoped that he didn't notice my necklace.  Bucky's light, to bring him home.

My left arm was getting sore from being tied to the bed.  "Please Alex, I promise, I'll be good.  Please let me go."

"No, my Emma, I can't let you leave.  I should have never let you leave the first time.  You. ARE. MINE!" He yelled in my face.  I flinched away and he grabbed my chin to force me to look at him.  "Say it."  I clamped my mouth shut.  He raised the knife still in his hand and put it on my neck.  "SAY IT!"

"I'm yours," I whispered.

"Louder."

"I'm yours, Alex.  All yours."  The tears kept streaming down my face.  His face split in a huge smile. My heart was hurting, saying the words.  They were a lie.  But it hurt putting them out there in the universe.

"We are going to have a wonderful life together Emmalina.  You'll see.  I will give you the world; you'll give me the family I want.  We will be perfect together. But for now, you'll stay here.  We need to wait until they stop looking for you.  You'll never see any of them ever again."

The man was crazy.  He had fully lost his mind and now I wasn't sure what he was going to do to me.  I shift my body on the bed.  But then I felt it.

See the worst habit I have is putting my cell phone in my back pocket.  I've had it stolen a couple of times but I never broke the habit.  Which was now dead useful.  Alex left the room after giving me a kiss, telling me he would get me something to eat and be right back.  As soon as the door closed, I reached over to pull it from my back pocket and dialed.

"Doll?"