Lovers in Arms | Bucky Barnes

Part 9

Steve brought them to Wakanda. After a short conversation with the king, they were allowed to stay there for a few weeks, just to get their shit together. Karol believes his name was T'Challa or something..? Who names their kid T'Challa for fuck sake?

Besides that, Karol thinks that the place amazing, it's high tech, but also primitive at the same time. She can't lay her finger on it. What she really loves are the weapons they have in their armoury. In the few days they have spend there she already got permission to train with the Dora Milaje and their weapons. She loves the vibranium spears and swords, and they let her train with the weapons whenever she wants. Karol screamed in excitement when she got the news. 

Trying to let go of any stress and worries, she throws herself into what she is good at. Fighting. Her skilled fighting techniques and smooth movements make it an entertaining pastime for Bucky. He regularly watches her while she trains outside, sometimes until the sun goes down. 

Today, like every day since they arrived, she is training, alone. The sun is already setting, the sky turns orange and frames Karol on the horizon. Bucky is watching her from inside through a floor to ceiling window. With crossed arms he is leaning against the window frame. Besides admiring her techniques, he is daydreaming about the night they spend together a few nights ago. 

He is abruptly interrupted by his least favourite person in this place. Sam walks up to him. "We need to talk."

"Why?" he scuffs, not in the mood to talk to him.

"They think we found him."

He catches Bucky's interest, he turns around an stands up straight. Finally, some useful information comes from the man. Besides Karol, he also wants revenge on Pierce, after what he did to both of them. He looks back through the window at Karol. He decides to find out what they have found about Pierce  and tell her later.

"Tell me."

"Come with me."

On his way to Steve, Sam tells how they traced Pierce. He doesn't care how they found him, he just wants to know where he is.

They enter a large room with walls filled with big screens which display documents, graphs and other nonsense. Steve quickly pushes the documents displayed on the large screens away when he hears them coming in. Bucky saw him do it, but pays no attention to it. He doesn't care, he just wants to know if they found Pierce, so they can here their sweet revenge.

"Bucky! We found Pierce."

Sam takes the remote and presses a map back on the screen. In the middle a red pulsating dot.

"So, he's there?"

Steve nods.

"Do we have a plan yet?"

"Not yet."

"Hmm, okay." Bucky's mind wanders back to the documents he clicked away when he entered. Maybe it has something to do with that? Bucky has to admit he is getting curious about it. "What were those documents Steve? The ones you quickly clicked away." Bucky stands there waiting with his arms crossed, his eyes narrowed starring at Steve.

"Just some evidence. Not relevant for finding Pierce." Steve lies.

"You're a terrible liar Steve, you're holding something behind. What kind of evidence? Show me."

"I don't think you want to see that." Steve makes his typical facial expression when he's worried about something.

Bucky ignores it and grabs the remote from Sam's hand and presses the documents back onto the screen. The well-known black-red logo with a skull and tentacles appears, a video starts playing in the corner of the screen. The first person he sees is Zola. In the corner a date. January, 1945.