'Till the End of Time - Bucky Barnes x OC - Eng.

Seventeen

A/N: Song recommendation: Unstoppable - Sia (Empowering) [Slowed + Reverbed + Bass Bossted]

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The key clicked in the door lock and she opened the door.

She was standing in a huge apartment on the Upper East Side. Upon entering, she was greeted by the warm rays of the sun shining through the huge skylight in the front hall. White walls and black tiled floor made the hallway seem endless.
From the hallway one reached all the rooms of the apartment.
The centerpiece was the huge eat-in kitchen,
dark natural oak floor, white walls, jet black furniture.
In all rooms contrasts were played with, no piece of furniture or decoration was randomly placed, everything was clearly planned.
The rent would certainly cost at least $10,000 a month.

$10,000 Rose apparently had.

She took off her shoes and walked into the living room, barely to be found on the black couch was her equally black cat Nyx.

She had discovered Nyx as a little kitten on the street and had taken her home with her, where she now lived with her for 3 years.

With a black tea sweetened with honey, she sat down on the couch and went through her emails.

After Hydra was overthrown in 2014, and thus she was finally 'free', she set out on her own.

Although the decades at Hydra, the freezing, the thawing, the initial brainwashing and the missions were hell, there was one positive side effect - she had made a name for herself.

Hydra had called her 'The Nightingale', because she struck mainly at night and was rarely found on the ground but on rooftops.

Besides, the name had a certain meaning. The Nightingale basically stands for love and beauty, but there is also a negative symbolism behind it.
The nightingale stands for the desire for freedom, it sings between life and death, it stands for darkness and for death.

The name stuck with her and she had many clients who hired her to do their dirty work.

In the end she led two lives on the one hand she was the deadly assassin and on the other hand she led a 'normal' bourgeois life.

She lived in the best neighborhoods of New York, had nice neighbors, a cat, a best friend named Julia and even attended an art class.

She told her friends and acquaintances that she worked for a secret service, which saved her from questions about her comings and goings at various times of the day and night.

She had to build a completely new identity when she was finally free.

Officially she was 25 years old, came from Cleveland / Ohio, was an orphan and was called Rose Buchanan.

Since Rogers was by now a famous name because of her brother, and they were also twins, she had no choice.
They were fraternal twins but still they had too much similarity to each other. Since she had not considered this when she registered and panicked when asked for her last name, she could think of nothing better than Buchanan.

No matter how hard she tried Bucky was always a part of her whether she wanted it or not.
Deep in her heart, the love for him was still burning, which was probably the reason why she didn't kill him on the roof.
However, the anger, disappointment and hatred she felt towards him and her brother was stronger.

She had never forgotten that they had betrayed her.

Both had forgotten her - then and now.

They lived their lives without remorse.