Lovers In Crime (A Winter Soldier Fan-Fiction)

Chapter Thirteen

 Steve having just shaved off his beard sighs and looks into a side mirror... 'what the fuck happened'... suddenly the mirror starts shaking, slowly at first, and then severely. You portal into his room. 

"Steve..." You motion to follow him though another portal you'd made, throwing him a shirt to wear as he buttons it up you walk though the portal and out into the  Avengers Compound, were you join Nat, Bruce and Rhodey staring at the Benatar being carried by Carol Danvers ... the superhero known as Captain Marvel.. you'd never seen her before but you'd done your research. As she lands the spacecraft you all continue to walk over, nervous hope there would be more of you onboard. The landing gears deploy as they touch down and the entry hatch opens. Tony being supported by Nebula, hobbles out the space craft... Steve runs to Tony to help him stand up. Tony grips Steve's arm as he joins him.

"Couldn't stop him." He breathes out, looking like absolute shit. 

"Neither could I." Steve reassures his friend.

 "I lost the kid." Tonys breath hitches, you struggle to hold back a little sob, hand flying to your mouth as you think about young Peter disappearing into dust, this wasn't fair. 

"Tony, we lost." You try to make him feel better, he sees your face and knows immediately that Bucky must have gone too. 

"Is, uh...?" Tony struggles to ask about Pepper hoping the same wasn't true of her. 

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Pepper comes running out, she and Tony embrace.

"It's okay." He breathes heavily, not sure at this point who he was trying to convince... nothing was ok. Rocket sits down with Nebula and takes her hand, both silently mourning their losses. 

In the Avengers Compound, you all sit in a living room area. Tony is sitting at a table, getting blood for healing. A holographic casualty report lists the names and faces of those lost to the Decimation. Bucky's face pops up on the screen and your heart tears itself apart, Thor puts a gentle hand on your shoulder squeezing it before he sits down. Steve looks over to you concerned but you look away not wanting anyone to see you so fragile.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth" Rhodey starts, flicking through information on the screens.

"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working are trying to take a census. And it looks like he did... he did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out fifty percent, of all living creatures." Nat leans across the table... keeping herself together better than anyone else in the room. 

"Where is he now? Where?" Tony pipes up, stat in a chair with his drip, looking more angry than anything else. 

"We don't know. He just opened a portal and walked through." He looks over to a sullen-looking Thor, sitting on a bench, seemingly deep in thought

"What's wrong with him?" Tony follows Steves gaze. 

"Oh, he's pissed. He thinks he failed. Which of course he did, but you know there's a lot of that's going around, ain't there?" Rocket remarks, also sounded more angry than anything else. 

"Honestly, until this exact second, I literaly thought you were a Build-A-Bear." Tony quips, usually you'd laugh but all the humour in your body seemed to have left when Bucky disappeared. 

"Maybe I am."

"We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep Space scans, and satellites, and we got nothing. Tony, you fought him." Steves arms are folded.... you sense immediately that this wasn't going to go down well with Tony the second it came out of his mouth.