Mind Control - OC X BUCKY BARNES

Chapter 14

Steve takes Diana to see Peggy, and then meet his new friend Sam Wilson, they then grab a late dinner and head back to his apartment, his neighbor coming out with a laundry basket and talking on the phone. She looked familiar to Diana...but she didn't know how.

"That's so sweet. That is so nice. Hey. I gotta go, though. Okay, bye." She hangs up the phone. "My aunt, she's kind of an insomniac....Yeah." She nods as Steve smiles.

Steve looks at her laundry basket. "Hey, if you want...if you want, you're welcome to use my machine. Might be cheaper than the one in the basement."

"Oh, yeah? What's it cost?"

"A cup of coffee?" Steve smiles.

"Thank you, but um...I already have a load in downstairs, and, uh...you really don't want my scrubs in your machine. I'm just finished orientation in the infectious diseases ward, so."

Steve nods, "Ah, well, I'll keep my distance."

"Well hopefully not too far." Steve nods and turns to go into his apartment. "Oh, and I think you left your stereo on."

Steve frowns, "Oh. Right, thank you."

"Yeah." Steve watches her go down the stairs before turning in suspicion to his door.

"You call that flirting?" Diana asks, going to the window and climbing through.

"Not the time." He follows her. They climb through his window and quietly walk along the wall, Steve grabs his shield as they turn the corner to see Nick sitting in the dark.

"I don't remember giving you a key." Steve sighs in relief.

"You really think I'd need one? My wife kicked me out."

"Didn't know you were married." Steve tilts his head as Diana frowns, she knew he was never married.

"A lot of things you don't about me."

"I know, Nick. That's the problem." Steve turns on the lights and they notice Nick's injuries for the first time, but Nick indicates for them to be silent, turns off the light and writes something on his phone and shows it to them; "ears everywhere"

"I'm sorry to have to do this, but I had no place else to crash."
He writes another text; "Shield compromised"

"Who else knows about your wife?" Diana asks.

"You and me"

"Just...my friends." He stands.

"Is that what we are?"

Nick nods, "That's up to you."

Suddenly Nick is shot three times through the wall and collapses, Steve looks out the window as Diana drags Nick aside, following them back.

"Nick! Oh god!" Diana yells out.

"Don't...trust anyone." Nick hands her a flash drive, squeezing her hand as he passes out.

"Nick!" She puts pressure on his wounds.

Suddenly someone breaks in, "Captain Rogers?" They see the neighbor walking in with her gun pointed. "Captain, I'm Agent 13 of Shield Special Service."

"Kate?"

The neighbor nods, "I'm assigned to protect you."

"On whose order?"

She notices Nick lying injured on the ground. "His." She kneels down to him and grabs her radio. "Foxtrot is down, he's unresponsive. I need EMTs."

"Do you have a twenty on the shooter?"