Miss Velvet

8

Velvet took her new assistant, Bobby, for a tour around her stable and Morgans place, showing him everything he needed to know to help her care for the horses and riders. She also had MJ coming in on weekends to help with event coordination for Morgan's place. Tony hoped to host some small shows to give Morgan practice and prepare her for larger events.

Everything was, fine, Velvet kept telling herself. It had been 3 weeks since Bucky had left and she had received one text from him letting her know he would be gone for awhile but that's all. Most of the team was on the same mission but Nat was dealing with an injury and Peter still had school so hadn't gone with them. He did come up on the weekends with MJ and helped Velvet with chores and lessons.

Velvet tried not to think about Bucky and what he said before he left but failed miserably. His stormy blue eyes haunted her sleep and the memory of that kiss months ago kept replaying in her head.

After the 5th week Velvet received a strange package, in it were some pics from her rough times after her accident. She was in the middle of some crazy drugged sex act with more than one other person a few guys and a girl all In various stages of undress. Lines with a pile of white powder, a bong with a pile of weed next to it and tequila shots on the table and everyone was licking, sucking, fingering and/or fucking.

She closed her eyes, wondering where this came from as there was no return address and the postmark was Manhattan. She didn't see her ex Roger in the pic so he must have taken it. It was a graphic reminder of the lowest time of her life. Why would anyone do this, what's the point? All the important people at the top already knew the basics of her past but this was much more detailed than what she told them. She didn't think Tony or Fury would care, Steve might but hopefully he would understand.

Of course if these were leaked to the public it might become difficult for them to defend keeping her on considering the classified nature of most of their work and the inherent risk of an addict spilling something they shouldn't. It could even affect Serenity as many parents wouldn't want their kids around a drug addicted whore.

Bucky didn't know, they talked about a lot and he knew she had an addiction problem in the past and had done some awful thongs to feed that addiction but she didn't get into the gory details, hoping to keep it in the past. He was willing to accept what he knew about her but what if this was too much.
That thought made her realize that she wanted him, wanted to give him, give them a chance. But what if this ruined it?

The stress was spiking her pain and making her stomach sick, she worked so hard to move on from those mistakes but apparently someone didn't want that. It had to be Roger but did that mean he was in NYC?
Velvet sat In her office and sighed, dialing Nick Fury's line to see if he was available today. Unfortunately he was also out of town and Maria had meetings all day so she made an appt for tomorrow, hid the package away and tried to find something, anything else to think of.

In Argentina the team was looking into some suspected Hydra/Nazi collaborators but having a hard time gathering intel on their movements or plans.
Bucky was antsy, wishing he could at least text or call Velvet but Steve wouldn't hear of it. Too much risk of being traced. Bucky could barely sleep and when he did he never knew if he would have a good and sexy dream about Velvet or one where the Winter Soldier hurts her or Bucky can't stop one of his enemies from hurting her. Either way he woke up drenched and unable to focus for awhile.
'Wanna talk about it, Buck?' Steve finally asked.

'Dunno what to say, nothing I can do but wait it out till we can go home and hope she hasn't given up because of our stressful lifestyle. Talking won't change anything.' Bucky responded.

'Maybe a little time away is good for both of you. You were together every day for over a month and that can get intense so some time to think about what you both feel and want might bring clarity to you both.' Steve advised.