Eligible Bachelor ✔️

Chapter 15

I'm harshly slammed into a chair, my hood removed. Once my eyes focused I realized I was sitting in my father's office. I tried to get up but was slammed back down again.

"Don't make me have to restrain you."

I grunted, "so they were right? It was you? How could you take Bucky? How could you take me?"

Vincent scoffed, "well you weren't supposed to be taken." He looked up behind Melody, "someone got a little overzealous."

I looked back to see Rumlow behind me.

"Sorry Boss."

I shook my head, "how are you even alive? I thought Bucky shot you."

He shrugged, "wasn't fatal."

I looked back at my father, the rage welling in my gut, "where is Bucky?! I want to see him!"

"Bucky." Vincent rolled his eyes as he pointed to a screen, turning it on to display a groggy Bucky, tied to a chair.

I turned to face the tv, "please I'll do whatever you want, just let him go."

Vincent laughed, "funny, that's what he's been saying."

I groaned as he turned on the audio on the feed and I heard Bucky.

'Just let Mel go. I'll do whatever you want. Please.'

I watched them inject Bucky with something, making his head slump. I tried to stand up, feeling Rumlow's hand on my shoulder. I grabbed his hand, using my body weight to flip him onto his back at my feet.

Vincent stood up, "so they were right, you were trained to fight. By who? When?"

I shrugged, standing up as Rumlow grunted. I pressed my foot into where he was shot, hearing him yell out. "I've been trained by Natasha Romanoff since I was 15. There's a lot you don't know about me father."

He scoffed, approaching her side of the desk, "what? Like you and Steve Rogers? You think that what? You can marry Captain America? Become an Avenger? I told you to stay away from Tony and the Avengers! And here you are, a fucking slut for them. Rogers, Barnes."

I felt my face get red with anger as I heard Rumlow laughing from the ground, making me dig my foot in deeper, "Bucky is my friend! And I love Steve! Tony is my uncle, and they will come for me!"

"He isn't your friend!" Vincent brought his hand up, backhanding her across the face, making her fall to the ground, "he killed my sister!"

I did my best to fight off the stinging of tears, not wanting to give him the satisfaction as I felt the pain searing on my cheek. I spoke softly, "he didn't."

"What did you say?"

I groaned, standing back up as Rumlow moved away from me, "I said he didn't kill her, not really. He was brainwashed."

Vincent shook his head, "he pulled the trigger. But you've changed my mind. Here I was trying to get to Barnes, when you could be the more useful one."

"What do you mean?" I watched him nod to Rumlow as I felt a blow to the back of my head before everything went black.

Vincent look at Rumlow as he caught her, "take her down to Barnes."

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I woke up, groggy as I heard commotion around me. I watched them strap an unconscious Melody onto a table next to me. "What are you going to do to her? Please, just let her go. You have me, I won't resist. Please."

Vincent scoffed as he watched them strap his daughter to the table, "well, plans change Mr. Barnes. I've decided to go a different route."

"It's Sergeant Barnes. And what do you mean? What are you going to do?" I tried to break against the restraints, but whatever they kept injecting me with was making me too weak. I watched them stick needles into her arm, draining her blood. "What are you doing?!"

Vincent laughed, "we're going to drain her, and replace her blood with yours. We have been unsuccessful with conditioning you as the Winter Soldier, so I'll make my own."

I felt them stick me as they began to transfer my blood to Melody, "no! You can't do that! She's your daughter! You don't even know if it will work! You could kill her!"

He shrugged, "well then I've gotten rid of my two biggest nuisances. Win win." He got close to Bucky, leaning his hands on the arms of his chair so he could get close to his face, "or I will succeed and I'll have my own weapon against the Avengers." He scoffed as Bucky tried to fight against the restraints, amusing him. "Either way, you die."

Before I could respond I felt another injection before everything went black.

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"I found Buck!" I found a seemingly lifeless body of my oldest friend tied to a chair in the basement of Vincent Carbonell's building.

"Is he alive?!" Natasha came running into the basement after finding the rest of the building empty.

I heard the panic is Natasha's voice as I checked his pulse, "barely." I looked around to see an empty table next to him and blood all over the floor, "what happened here?"

Natasha shook her head, "I don't know. Let's just get him back to the compound. We're going to need him if we are going to find Melody."

I nodded in agreement, removing all the restraints and wires and needles from him before handing Natasha my shield. I picked Bucky up, throwing him over my shoulder as I followed Natasha out of the building. I could only imagine what happened to Melody. I laid Bucky on the ground of the jet as Bruce looked over him, "he'll be okay, won't he?"

Bruce nodded, "yeah. They underestimated how quickly your cells as super soldiers replicate and produce fresh blood. He needs some time."

I nodded, "so they left him because they thought he was dead?"

Bruce shrugged, "I can only imagine. It looks like they tried draining him of his blood. Why would they do that?"

I sat, looking at Bucky's body, "and where is Melody?"