Bucky's Arrival

chapter 10

 Bucky looks around as Wanda leads him into the motel room. It's small, with 2 beds, a chair at a small round table, and a box TV nailed down to a dresser.

 Pietro comes in and pushes Bucky towards a door across the room, which Bucky can only assume is the bathroom.

 "Go shower, I can't stand your stink anymore!" He says.

 "Pietro, be nice." Says Wanda. "But he's right. You should shower." She adds, speaking to Bucky.

 Bucky walks into the tiny bathroom. He tries to figure out what to do. He remembers Steve bathing him, and he remembers HYDRA bathing him. Steve would wash him nice and gentle in warm water with nice smelling soaps. HYDRA would spray him down with freezing water from a hose. He doesn't know which is the right way, and can't figure out how to do either way himself.

 He walks back out of the bathroom.

 "What's wrong?" Wanda asks.

 Bucky can't form an answer verbally, he doesn't know why he can't figure out talking. He knows he used to be able to talk. So he just shrugs.

 "Come on." Wanda says, pulling Bucky back into the bathroom. She turns on the water. "Do you need help?" She asks.

 Bucky nods.

 Wanda starts getting him undressed. Pietro walks in then. "Wanda!" He exclaims.

 "He needs help." Wanda says.

 "I'll help him then. You go buy supplies. He will need clothes to put on, anyway."

 Wanda walks out and Pietro gets Bucky undressed. He gets Bucky's pants down and gives him a look that Bucky thinks is best described as "disgusted". He feels an emotion he doesn't think he's felt in decades. He wonders what it is before remembering. He's embarrassed.

 "Wanda?" Pietro calls. She comes in and her eyes widen a little when she sees, but she isn't as blatantly disgusted as her brother.

 "Don't worry, Bucky. We'll get you taken care of." She says. "You better be nice to him, Pietro. No teasing. He's been through enough."

 "I wasn't teasing!" Pietro calls after Wanda as she leaves.

 Pietro removes the overflowing diaper, making the disgusted face again and holding it as far away from himself as possible. "Get in the shower." He says before leaving the bathroom.

 Bucky turns and steps into the shower. The water is warm as it hits him. He can't figure out how to wash, but he assumes Pietro will be back to help him.

 Pietro doesn't come back for 10 minutes. "You haven't even washed yourself yet? What have you been doing?!"

 Bucky shrugs. He really needs to figure out speech again. He wants to tell Pietro he needs help.

 Pietro grabs a tiny plastic wrapped bar of soap off the sink. He unwraps it and handed it to Bucky. Bucky looks at it for a moment, and looks to Pietro for some kind of direction.

 "Seriously, man?" Pietro says. He takes the soap back and rubs Bucky all over with it. He washes him everywhere except his ass and between his legs. 

 "You wash yourself there. Go on." Pietro says.

 Bucky rubs the tiny soap on himself just as he watched Pietro do it. Then he lets the shower spray rinse it off.

 Pietro turns off the water. He starts to pull Bucky out of the shower, but seems to change his mind. "You just stay in there until Wanda gets back. Better to have a mess in the shower we can just spray off than a mess to clean off the floor." He says. He does grab a towel off the rack and wraps it around Bucky's shoulders though, and another towel which he wraps around Bucky's waist. Bucky is grateful for that. He would have been cold.