My Life Before You

Chapter 24

Bucky's POV

I'm instantly dropped on my face and the person runs the other direction. "Wait!", I shout from the ground. I stumble a bit as I pull myself from the ground. I quickly follow behind the stranger, tripping on ruble from time to time.

Why am I even chasing them? Just because they looked like y/n? Or it is, y/n. My conscious spoke to me. "N-no, y/n, she's...dead". I couldn't stop my legs from running. I had to make sure it wasn't y/n. There was a little part of me that had hope it could be her.

"Buck, we got the situation under control. A couple of our men are going to deal with the rest", Sam spoke through the earpiece.

"Sam! What's your 20?", I shouted. "I'm flying over behind you-", he paused before continuing to speak. "Buck, why are you running?"

"That person in front of me. Do you see them?", I asked frantically. Why is it so hard to reach them? The serum makes me faster than the original human speed I should be able to catch up with ease. Unless...they aren't human. Y/n isn't human.

"Yeah, what about them?", he asked. I could hear the engine of his wings above me. "I need you to grab them!"

"Why?"

The stranger started to go faster. I couldn't keep up with them for much longer. "SAM! NOW BEFORE THEY GET AWAY!"

"Geez alright", Sam sped up and flew right over me. Wanda following behind. She must've been listening in. Sam flew as close as he could then swooped down and grabbed the person from under their arms and flew them up.

3rd Person POV

Just by their figure Sam could tell it was a woman. "Ma'am please stay calm. Uh...", he wasn't really sure what to say next. He didn't even know why he needed to grab the poor woman in the first place. "Bucky, I got her what do you-", Sam could feel the woman moving and looked down to them.

Their eyes locked and Sam almost lost his grip at the sight of their face. "Y/n?"

Just as he said her name the woman uppercutted him
in the chin causing Sam to let go. The woman then fell on top of a building using her power to soften the blow. She started to run across rooftops. "Wanda, get her now!", Sam ordered. "Treat it as a threat!"

"What?!", Bucky shouted. A threat?! Why the hell would he order that? Looking up he could see the woman running with Wanda flying on her left. Bucky was on their right running through the streets trying to keep up. Wanda's hand started to glow red.

Bucky reached out his hand towards them. "Wanda, wai-". It was too late. Wanda shot a powerful blow to the woman knocking her off the building to the ground.

The woman's body came in contact with the ground and a giant crater formed. Bucky quickly ran over, but a yellow blast shot him back. Before he could hit the ground he was caught like before. The woman had caught him once more.

She gently set him down. Sam and Wanda landed right next to him. Both in fighting positions. Bucky just stood...frozen. The dust around the crater slowly cleared. The woman's figure was more clear as she stood in front of them just a few feet away. The dust finally settled and her face was fully shown.

"Y-y/n?", Wanda whispered.

The woman lifted her hands and they began to glow. She shot another ball of magic, but a red barrier blocked it. Wanda had stopped it.

Quickly Wanda shot her own ball of magic and it smacked the woman straight in her head. The woman fell back to the ground, instantly knocked out.

Bucky ran over and checked to make sure she was still alive. "What did you do to her?", Bucky asked.

Wanda stared at the unconscious woman. "I...I calmed her mind causing her to fall in to a trance?"

"Trance?", Bucky said confused. "Just know she's fine", Wanda said, not wanting to explain.

Bucky quickly stood up. "Take her to the compound"

"That's all you have to say?!", Sam said in a slightly raised voice. "Y/n is unconscious right in front of us and-"

"Y/N IS DEAD!"

Sam and Wanda stightly flinched at Bucky's sudden outburst. "This...", he pointed towards the woman. "This is not y/n because as far as i'm concerned she's 6 feet underground"

Not giving them time to speak Bucky quickly walks away.

"Wanda-", Sam is interrupted by quiet sobs. He sets his hand on Wanda's shoulder. "You go home, okay. I'll deal with this". Wanda looked up at him. Her eyes already red and puffy. "S-Sam, is it really her?"

He looked back to the unconscious woman lying on the ground. "I...I don't know. Just go home and collect yourself. We need to figure out what to do with her at some point". Wanda nodded her head and flew towards the compound. Passing Bucky at some point.

Sam pulled out his phone and made a call to the compound. "Hello?", a man on the other side of the phone said. "Happy, send some more of your men out to my location. I need them to pick something up for me"

"Got it", Happy said automatically. "I'll have a group be there in 5 minutes". The phone call ended and Sam put his phone away. Walking closer to the woman he crouched down next to her. He sat quietly as he examined her face. "It really is you y/n".

"Bucky, might not see it, but I can tell. I mean how could I not recognize my family?"
His eyes began to sting as tears filled his eyes. "Our lives are pretty fucked up, huh?"

Y/n's eyes stayed closed and not a word was spoken. Sam continued to stare. "God y/n...where have you been all this time?"

Sam stood back when he heard the foot steps of Happy's men running towards him. "Captain America, sir!", one of them shouted.

Sam walked away from the body and passed the men. "Get the woman and lock her in our strongest cell we have", he said without looking back. The man nodded his head and ordered his men to get the woman.

Sam quietly walked back to the compound.
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