An Arrow and A Knife

Chapter 10: Heartless

Sam's POV:

"I cannot believe I let you talk me into following you through a timeline that we've never been to!" Sam yelled in frustration as they walked down the busy street. It looked like New York, only 10 times more crowded.

"Will you stop your batching. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. We either find the team or find Julie. Either way it's a win win."

Sam rolled his eyes at Bucky, shaking his head he looked across the street at the neon sign that flashed the words Last Resort. Sam eyeballed Bucky as he looked at the street signs confused on where they were.

"Come on Robocop, let's grab a beer and discuss our next move."

"Fine but only one," Bucky gave him a hard stare as they walked into the bar. The music blared right through them when the door opened, playing Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard.

Sam and Bucky stopped dead in there tracks when they noticed the half naked women walking around the bar.

"It's a strip club?" Bucky questioned as one of the women winked at him.

"Nice observation genius."

"Heres another one for you, look who's on the stage," Bucky pointed as a very beautiful half naked woman was dancing on the pole.

"No fucking way."

Loki's POV:

He wondered if he stabbed Clint only one time to shut him up, if the rest of the team would be upset.

Clint and Nat were going through Bullseyes apartment, trying to find any clue on where he may of taken Julia.

Nat rummaging through paperwork that he had scattered on his dining room table. Clint going through the book shelf and every drawer he had, every once in awhile he would look in Loki's direction and shake his head.

"Do you want to say something to me, Robin Hood?" Loki gave him a condescending smile as he leaned against the wall.

"Yeah asshole. That maybe if you had done the ONE THING you were supposed to do, we wouldn't be in the fucking Multi Verse looking for Jules!"

"Come on then, let's hash this out, shall we," Loki spread his arms open as he gave Clint an open invitation to hit him.

Clint took a running start as he threw his things down and lunged at Loki, but Loki's body disappeared. Loki stood by the front door laughing as he watched Clint hit the wall first.

"Stop it!" Nat yelled, running over to Clint, making sure he hadn't hurt himself by playing Loki's game.

"Aw he's fine. Quit mothering him, he needs to get something off his chest so I let him."

"No what you did was cruel. We need to hurry up and find Julie before something happens to her, and you're not taking that seriously!" Nat's chest was huffing out by how angry she was, but Loki felt his anger start to rise from her remark.

"Taking this seriously? I was the first to volunteer, you think I don't understand that this is my fault?! What the hell do you think I'm doing here?!"

"Wasting everyone's time," Clint mumbled as he grabbed onto the corner of a chair and hoisted himself up.

Red flashed over Loki's eyes as he drew out his daggers and paced over towards Clint. Before he did anything, there was a loud knock on the door.

They all looked in the direction of the door, no one knew where they were. Nat nodded at Clint as he carefully walked towards the door and peaked out of the peep hole.

"Jesus christ," Clint opened up the door as Sam and Bucky walked in, holding onto a person with a bag over there head.

"What the hell are you guys doing? Kidnapping civilians?" Nat walked over to them with a wide eye look of fear in her eyes.

"Not exactly," Sam sat them down as Bucky ripped the cord from the wall, using it as rope to tie them down. Before Nat could say anything else, Bucky ripped the bag from their head.

Julia.

A very red, and angry Julia sat in the chair, screaming for them to let her go. But she didn't look the same, her hair was cut into a stylish Bob, alot thinner too.

"Jules?" Clint asked in a shaky voice as he kneeled down in front of her.

"Who the fuck is Jules? And who are you assholes?"

"Oh shit." Realization spread across Nat's face.

"It's the other Julia," Loki said quietly.

"But ... I thought she was dead?" Nat looked at Clint, he looked just as equally confused as she did.

"Dead? Are you guys going to kill me?!" Other Julia shrieked as she began to thrash uncontrollably in the chair.

"No we're not going to kill you," Bucky said annoyed, tightening the cable around her.

Clint's POV:

After an excruciating hour of trying to calm the other Jules down, she finally relaxed enough that Clint could talk to her. He filled a glass with tap water as he set it right in front of her, he them grabbed his knife and cut off the cables so she was no longer restricted.

"If you run, someone here will catch you. We just want to ask you a few questions, then you can be on your way," Clint dragged a chair over as he sat down right in front of her. She hesitated for a second before nodding her head in agreement.

"How do you know Benjamin Poindexter?"

Clint watched her carefully as she swallowed hard first before answering.

"He's my ex boyfriend."

"We were under the impression you had been killed in a car accident," Loki drew out his words carefully as he saw her mouth tick into a frown as she shook her head.

"Is that what that psychopath said?"

"Tell us what happened," Nat cut in as she crossed her arms and stared at her hard.

"First of all, we had been dating a few months. When I came over to this shithole apartment the first time, I asked to use his bathroom and I found photos of me all over his wall. Photos from when I had blonde hair a year ago. He had been stalking me! I broke up with him and he went totally fucking crazy so I had to get a restraining order." Other Jules was shaking as she spoke about Bullseye, Clint and Nat gave each other a look whether or not they should believe her.

"Who are you guys?" Other Jules asked.

"We're from a different universe, where Jules is my girlfriend," Clint stated, he saw Loki's shoulders square up, walking so he was in front of Clint.

"Excuse me? Your girlfriend?" Loki asked in a sarcastic tone, Clint only rolled his eyes.

"How did you find her?" Nat asked Sam and Bucky, Sam giving Bucky a sly smile.

"We found her at a bar," Bucky answered quickly.

"At a strip club, she gave Bucky a lap dance," Sam retorted, Bucky glared at him, shooting daggers into his eyes.

"Well how else was I going to get a private dance to kidnap and bring her here," Bucky said exasperated as he threw his hands up .

"So can I go?" Other Jule asked as she stood up from her chair.

Clint chewed the inside of his cheek, placing his hands on his hips.

"First, can you tell us which places Benjamin normally goes to?"

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