Winters Beauty

Chapter One

I was sitting in the back of the armoured car next to my partner. We had been working together for many years but haven’t had any time to really talk or do anything outside of our missions. So at this point we were still virtually strangers.

I hear some of the men that are in the back of the car with us talking. At first it was just normal mission stuff that they talk about all the time on missions. But after about 10 minutes, their mood changed and they seemed to get a bit nervous. I looked over to my partner to see him intently staring at both of them back and forth.

After a couple minutes of him doing this I was starting to get a little uncomfortable too. So I made the brave choice to finally say something to him. “Are you ok?” I said quietly into his ear. The second I started talking, he whipped his head around to look at me. And at that moment I regretted speaking at all.

He quickly grabbed my wrist with his metal arm and held it up and looked straight into my eyes. And I understood why those guys got so nervous with him staring at them. His eyes were piercing and it looked like he hadn't slept in years, which I could understand given the conditions that we were constantly in. And then he finally spoke. “Don’t talk to me. Ever.” It was less so a threat and more advice. I just nodded my head and looked away. Once I turned away, he let go of my wrist and went back to staring at the other men in the car.

After about another half an hour someone shouted from the front.”Приготовь их, мы здесь!” Which I knew meant we were there and we were going to start fighting soon. Me and him stood up, but he pushed me back onto the seat and gave me a look. And was in no way about to disobey him, so I stayed seated.

He went up to the front of the car and only about a minute later we rammed into the back of another car. I was shocked and violently hit the back of the car. I got up quickly and ran to the front to look out the window to see what was going on. What I saw was my partner jumping off the front of our car and onto the one that we had rammed into. And at that moment all chaos ensued.

Our car rammed into the other one again and I saw my partner rip the steering wheel out of the other car. The car flipped and the people inside fell out. My car stopped and one of the men gave me a gun. I walked out and went up to my partner. He was standing at the edge of the bridge we were on looking down to see the targets. I got to him and said “Need help?” with a little smirk on my face that he could not see because of the masks that we were wearing. “I got him, you get her.” He said while pointing in the direction of where I needed to go. “Copy that.” I said as I started walking in the direction he pointed to.

I jumped down off of the bridge and started looking for any sign of movement. Out of the corner of my eye, I see someone stop at the edge of the bridge and shoot up at my partner. She hits his glasses that he had put on before he got out of the car. She ran away and started shouting at people to get out of the way. I aimed and shot her in the shoulder so as to not kill her. She quickly ducks under a car in shock and looks around for a sign of who shot her.

Then my partner comes out of nowhere to detain her. But before he can a man with a shield comes running up to him. He tries to punch him with his metal arm but connects with the shield and it makes a sound like a large bell. I look back at her to get her but she is gone. I want to try to help my partner because he is in a pretty big fight which is uncommon for him. But I know that I need to find her so we can get them both at the same time, so I go to look for her.

But right after I get a couple feet away I hear a metallic noise and turn around. The man he was fighting looks at him for a couple seconds before saying, “Bucky?’ And without hesitation my partner says back,

“Who the hell is bucky?”