Resilience | S. Rogers [3]

10 | RED ROOM

Or An Avenger

June 2016

Bucharest, Romania

Rose knocked on the cabin in the woods feeling the invisible string thicken, pulling more strongly. Everything was dark around her, the moon didn't light up her surroundings that much because of the tall trees. There was a light inside the small house.

The door opened slowly, hesitantly, although, despite having no similar power, the person behind it had a feeling of who it was, his rational mind made him be careful just in case. Steve's eyes glanced through the gap, his stance relaxing as he shared a look with her. "Rose"

She was okay.

She'd found him, though that wasn't exactly a surprise.

The person behind her was though.

As soon as he opened the door a little more, he caught the frame of the man behind her and tensed straightening his shoulders.

"It's okay," Rose reassured. "He's with me. He wants to help."

Steve diverted his piercing eyes from the King of Wakanda to Rose, silently wondering why she'd brought him. She sent him a nod, trying to lower down his guard.

"As your friend said, I'm here to help. I don't want to fight," T'Challa emphasized. "I know what truly happened now, and I know what happened to Mr Barnes. I'm sure, Agent Thompson wouldn't have brought me here if she didn't think so."

Rose wasn't sure if that title applied to her anymore, but she appreciated the gesture.

Steve glanced inside, Bucky most likely, before opening the door. Rose and T'Challa went inside. When she saw Bucky, she smiled at him with a closed smile, glad that he was okay but not happy enough to fully grin due to the situation. He sent her a tiny smile.

"I gotta say, I thought about a lot of places when looking for you, but I wasn't expecting you coming back here," she noted.

"Well, we figured that they wouldn't think he was going to be in the same place they found him," Steve mentioned still glancing warily at T'Challa. "And Buck said he needed to come back for..."

A meowing was heard. A white cat appeared near Bucky, rubbing its back on his legs, he was sitting next to the main table.

"Her name is Alpine," Bucky let out tightly with a straight face, also looking at the Wakandan with caution. He petted the animal with his only hand.

"Are you okay?" Steve asked Rose. "How's Tony?"

"T'Challa says he wasn't hurt too seriously," she recalled what she was told when they met again avoiding the first question which didn't go unnoticed by any of the men. "He'll be alright... You two seem alright," she noticed after checking over them to see if they were injured.