Crimson Cascade Sequel

8

As Bucky drives the two of you home you fill him in on the details that he had missed at Faye's.

"Seems simple enough," he answers.

You take your phone out of your pocket and go to dial Rian's number, Bucky looks over at you, "what are you doing?" he asks.

"Calling Rian, we can swing by wherever he's at and get a sample of his blood."

Bucky reaches over and takes the phone from you, cancelling the call, "sorry Doll, your not going anywhere your resting up tonight, doctors orders."

"And who's the doctor?"

"Me."

You smirk and giggle, "i can get on bored with that."

Pulling up to the house you exit the car, close the door and hold onto the bonnet to steady yourself, you hated to admit it but Bucky was right, and you still didn't feel 100%. You breath in deep and watch as Bucky makes his way over to you, "i got you," he says sweeping you off your feet.

Once inside he gracefully places you back on your feet.

"I'm going to run a bath," you tell him as you head up the stairs.

"Okay," he says softly as he watches you walk up the stairs, making sure you were not going to fall back down them.

You light some candles while the water and bubbles fill the tub, you look hesitantly at it before getting in, a couple of hours ago you were dying in one and it still had you a little scared. You take a deep breath and sink into the warmth, relaxing your muscles and mind, but you just couldn't shake the thought.
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You get out just before the water turns cold, and your thoughts make you spiral more. You wrap yourself in a plush white towel and head into the bedroom where you see Bucky. He had arranged the beds pillows so he was half propped up, the quilt softly lay just under his belly button and his human arm settled behind his head as he relaxed watching a film on the TV.
You don't say anything as you drop your towel and get in next to him, nestling yourself into his side your head laying on his chest. He brings his arm from behind his head and wraps his around your back with his hand finding its resting place on your waist, your fingers trace little circles on his stomach.

"What's wrong?" he asks quietly.

You take a moment before answering him, "I dunno, I guess today had me scared, I was so close to....," you trail off. You still hadn't stopped drawing small circles on his abs, you hadn't noticed your body language but Bucky had.

"There's something else," he say concerned.

You stop your fingers and think over his question again, then you pin point it from somewhere deep inside you, "seeing you with Rosie," you pause to look up at him, "I took that away from you."
Bucky new what you ment without you elaborating but you continue, "I knew it wasn't an option for me after Tan turned me, but you still had that until I....,"

Bucky wipes the tear from your eye, "if it wasn't an option for you then it was never an option for me either, and I knew that going into the relationship back in Bucharest, when I was still human," he says truthfully.

You squeeze onto him holding in your urge to breakdown and cry.

"Just because we can't have children doesn't make me love you any less," he gently lifts your chin for you to look into his eyes, "you remember that," he whispers as he kisses the top of your head.
You give him a weak smile and a nod of your head, scared if you were to talk you would let the flood gates open.

"Come here," Bucky says as he inches his way down the bed into a lying position, he lays on his side and pulls you into him, his strong arms wrapped around you with your head buried in his chest taking in his sweet scent.

He kisses the top of your head, "I love you, (y/n)."

"I love you too," you whisper.
You lay in his arms, his rhythmic breathing helping you drift off to sleep.

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You wake still wrapped in Bucky's arms but you were in the small spoon position, as much as you didn't want to you decide to get up to start your day. The two of you get dressed in loose clothing, joggers and over sized t-shirt, as you head down to the kitchen you hear the tail end of your phone vibrating on the kitchen counter.

When you press the screen of your phone you see you had 12 missed calls from Rian.

Bucky looked over your shoulder, "you think he's found someone else?"

But before you could reply your phone was already buzzing again in your palm, you hit the answer button.

"Fucking finally," he whispers angrily to you, "when the hell were you gonna tell me?"

"Tell you what?," you answer in confusion.

"You didn't catch Sofia?!"

"Shit," you whisper.

You hear a commotion in the background, "you and your boyfriend better come here now!"

"Where are you?"

"Hustlers strip club on 51st St, but if I can get out I'm not hanging around."

"We'll be right there," you tell him as you hang up the phone.

"Sofia's gone after Rian, we better go help," you tell Bucky.

You run back up the stairs and change into something a little more outdoorsy, Bucky does the same, and within no time your in the car headed for his location.
You pull up to the club that was strangely deserted, you had expected patrons to be littered around possibly injured and scared but there was no one. Both of you walk cautiously into the club, you take a deep breath before taking a step through the curtain that separated the entrance from the main room, unsure of what you were about to see.
There were 4 bodies strewn across the room, one slumped over a table and two laying on the floor face down, Bucky checks one of them as you make your way to the 4th that was front and center tied to the stripper pole.
You walk up to the body and look at the state he was left in, torso tied to the pole hands tied behind his back, his head hung lifelessly. You lift his head, it was Rian.

"(y/n)," Bucky says in a serious tone.

You knew why he was on high alert, all the bodies had been desiccated.

"They've been here a while," Bucky tells you.

"How is that possible? I just spoke to Rian 10 minutes ago?"

Bucky doesn't answer but stands looking around thinking, "no ones called it in either," he points out.

You stand something wasn't right.

"Call it in," Bucky tells you, "get Ross here to clean it up."