CAPTIVE [Bucky Barnes x OC] 18+

35 || Great Again

TW

brief mention of rape
murder
blood and gore

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"What..." Loki began, but closed his mouth when he realised he couldn't form the words that lingered on the tip of his tongue into a full sentence. Disbelieve clouded his vision as he looked at her.

"Not what, who" she said.  She wanted to extend her hand to greet him properly, but felt it wasn't the moment for pleasantries or respectful exchanges. She nodded at him with a tight-lipped smiled before it tugged at the corners of her mouth and burst over her face. "Emerald."

He caught that her voice was a tad darker than Marie's, a bit more sultry on its own accord. With a different accent. Something he couldn't quite name lingered in the way she spoke as the words rolled from her tongue.

Her eyes darted to the ground and she sighed heavily, supporting her hands on her hips.

"Well, well fuck me well" Emerald mumbled to herself. Loki noticed the annoyance that laced her voice. "Marie's gonna kill me for good when she finds out."

She brushed her hands through the sun-bleached blonde hair on her head and loosened the straight ponytail before she sloppily retied it again. Loki knew M would've never done it that way. She was too much of a perfectionist. This simple act made him realise clearly how far she had to be gone.

"When?" he asked confused.

"Trusts me, she'll find out. I can only take so much from her, but that'll" she waved her over the corpses of Marie's father and one of his protégés lying on the ground to their feet "that'll she remember and she'll be so fucking pissed."

Emerald raised her eyes to meet Loki's gaze. She enjoyed the confusion that softened his sharp features as it settled on them. A tingle swept through her body as almost soundless giggles slipped past her lips.

"Marie's knocked out a little" she answered the question forming in Loki's mind before he could ask it "was so taken aback by the sight of her father she basically collapsed inside herself."

She pointed to the man with the ponytail on the ground. His grey hair still had streaks of blonde in them, and a milky veil laced the piercing grey of his eyes the longer he stared into death. The longer Loki looked at him the more he saw the resemblance between him and the German assassin's face.

"Her fa... What?"

Loki was more than just confused. His eyes darted between her and the man on the ground and he felt his brain expand at the mass amount if information that was thrown at him. He was sure Marie had once mentioned her father was dead, at least that's what... Whatever he thought to himself, shaking his head slightly to get lost of the thoughts that stopped the gears in his brain from working properly.

Emerald chuckled again and shook her head as well. She clapsed her hands together and intertwined her fingers, stretching her upper limbs in front of her chest until her bones popped and a relieved sigh moved from her lips.

"I would like to ask you to leave" Emerald said. She whisked the Asgardian from his train of thoughts with her sudden statement.

"No."

"Oh c'mon. This isn't gonna end well and if you die..."

"The soldier will kill me if she dies. He probably doesn't know I'm here but if he finds out I was and didn't protect her he'll hunt me" Loki shot back. He was very well aware of the danger he got himself in for helping her, but that's why friends do for each other, don't they? At least that's what Loki told himself to defend his actions as he considered M a friend. At least something like that.