Lovers in Arms | Bucky Barnes

Part 7

Bucky slowly regains consciousness. He wakes up in a barren cell on the cold, concrete floor. As he tries to sit up, a stabbing pain in his stomach plagues him. When he's woken up enough and can focus again, he hears someone screaming in the nearby cell.

It takes him a while but he recognizes her voice. Karol is screaming and punching against the steel door. "I'm going to fucking kill you when I get out!" followed by hard blows against the metal door. It sounds like Karol is also locked up and trying to break out.

"Karol?" He shouts with a raspy voice.

"Bucky! You're awake! I- I'm so sorry! I didn't... I didn't mean to!" She pleads.

Bucky tries to stand on his feet but can't yet, his head is spinning and his wound has started to bleed again, his stitches must have come loose. Fuck. He tries to keep pressure on his wound as the blood seeps through his fingers. "Where's Steve?"

"He escaped with Sam. I woke up from the mind control when they dragged you to that cell."

"Better late than never." He smiles softly and groans.

"I'll get us out of here!"

He hears Karol moving in her cell. She tries to break in the reinforced door again. He looks up at the door in his own cell. It has steel-reinforced concrete walls and doors. Impossible to break in that easy.

"These doors are too strong to break in. Trust me." He looks around, looking for another way out. " You're more likely to punch a hole through the wall than through those doors." Bucky sighs. "Steve and Sam will come back for us, they shouldn't take long." He hears Karol sigh and plop down on the floor.

"Bucky?"

"Yeah?"

"What if they get their grip on us again?"

"That's not going to happen. Together we stand strong."

Karol hangs her head and sighs. This was of course not the plan. She should have impaled Pierce when she had the chance. Now they are both stuck again and who knows what HYDRA is up to.

Bucky leans against the wall, thinking about how they can escape. How long it will take for Steve to show up again. Thinking about the time he rescued him from the HYDRA research facility back in '43.

Lost in his thought of train he notices Karol is really quiet. Normally she isn't the quiet type. "Karol?"

He hears her shuffling in her cell again. "Watch out, I'm coming!"

"What? What do you mean?"

Before he gets an answer, he hears Karol going at it again. Why is she doing that? Stubborn girl... Suddenly he is sprayed with bits of concrete and debris. He covers his face with his arm.

"Surprise!" shouts Karol, her arms stretched, and a grin on her face. She punched through the wall and is now standing with Bucky in his cell. Her fists are open and all bloody from the blows against the concrete walls. She wipes them clean on her pants.

"Come on! Get up" She grabs his arm and helps him up on his feet. "Like you said, we're stronger together, right?" She says to him with a smile on her face.

Bucky laughs at her optimism. "Glad you're here, but how do you plan to get out? Don't know if you noticed, but we're still in a cell." he asks sarcastically.

"I'm glad you're amused." she growls at him, not appreciating his pessimism. "We can get out if you help me."

"I told you already Karol, those doors are too strong."