Time Bomb

Chapter 10

"Where were you? I was getting worried." Clint asked, following me to my room.
"Bucky and I just drove around for awhile. That's all. He showed me this cliff top that overlooks the entire compound, it was beautiful." I answered and went into my bathroom, turning the shower on before heading to my closet to grab a towel. He grabbed me by my shoulders and stopped me in my tracks.
"Oh my god, you had sex. I can see it in your eyes. Good shit, Dani girl!" He said proudly.
"You know, for someone who is basically my brother, you sure are excited that your sister had sex." I chuckled and shook my head.
"So you're not denying it??" He said teasingly.
"Nope. Not even gonna try to. You know me too well for me to lie to you." I said and brought my towel into the bathroom. I closed the bathroom door just enough so he wouldn't be able to see me as I undressed and got in the shower. The hot water soothing my cold body.
"What, no details?" He asked from outside the bathroom.
"Oh my god, Clint. You don't need the details! Go away!" I said and heard him laugh as he left my room.
I washed my hair and body, shaved my legs and got out. I wrapped my towel around my body and brushed out my hair. I traced over the bite mark Bucky left on my collarbone. Smiling at the memory that will never fade.
"A little birdie told me you had sex tonight." Nat said as I walked out into my room.
"Dear god, Nat. You scared me." I said and walked over to my closet. She came up to me and poked at Bucky's bite mark.
"Oh, you got it good, didn't you?" She asked, eager for details.
"I swear to god if I tell you anything and you tell Clint, I'll kill your myself." I said, looking at her sternly.
"I swear on everything I won't tell. Come on, just girl to girl." She said and sat down on my bed.
"Let me get dressed and I'll tell you." I sighed and shook my head. Knowing I wasn't going to win with her on this. I put on a pair of pajama shorts and a hoodie I stole from Clint months ago.
I sat down next to Nat who was also in pajamas and we talked about my experience with Bucky on his bike. A huge smile plastered on her face the whole time. She didn't interrupt though, she let me get it all out before she said anything.
"So tell me, how was he? I mean yeah too told me what happened but how was he?" She asked.
"Oh, Nat... he's a god. A whole different side of him and even myself came out. A fierce, sexy side of me that I didn't know existed until that moment." I said. Not mentioning at all about what happened before the kiss or how that was even brought on.
"Oh, Dani I am so happy for you. So what's next? Are you two dating or was it just a hookup?" She asked.
"I'm not sure. It didn't feel like just a hookup, you know? It felt like... incredibly intense sex between two people who had finally decided to make that jump. It was eager. It was needy. Like we couldn't get enough of each other." I said, smiling at the whole scene flashing back in my head again.
"I get it, hon. You don't have to give anymore details. I already know how you feel about him just based on the look you have in your eyes now and especially whenever you look at him." She smiled and squeezed my hand.
"I think you two would be absolutely perfect together. Don't you dare give up on that. You should see the way he looks at you from someone else's point of view. It's like he's staring into another dimension. Lost in your eyes every time." She added and stood up.
"Alright, I'll let you get some rest. It's late and I have training in the morning for a mission coming up. I just wanted to give you a woman's ear to talk to instead of a man's. It's always nice to have another girl around." She smiled and walked out. Leaving me alone with my thoughts.

-3am-
I woke up screaming and clutching my chest. The nightmare I had just seen feeling all too real. I tried to get up to go to the bathroom so I could splash water on my face but couldn't even stand. I fell to the ground instead. My body having different plans for me.

—Bucky's POV—
I woke up startled by a scream from the room next to mine. Dani. I got up and quickly ran over to her room. What I saw when I walked in broke my heart.
Dani was laying in the floor in the fetal position, her hands clutching to her chest. A soft yellow glow emitting from her. I knelt down beside her and gently put my hand to the side of her face. Her eyes shooting open, full of fear.
"Hey hey hey, it's okay. You're okay. I'm right here, doll. Look at me." I said, attempting to calm her down.
"Bucky?" She managed to get out. Just then, Clint came running into her room, immediately at her side.
"You have to bear hug her. Cross her arms across her chest and press her tightly against your own. Do it, Barnes!" He instructed and I did.
"The pressure helps slow her heart rate if you've got her in a tight enough hold. It also helps the nuke in her chest settle back down." He added, rubbing her back across her shoulders softly.
"How do you know about that?" I asked him, I thought I was the only one.
"It's happened one night after we had met. I had been on my way to come visit her after one of my shows and saw her bolt off in the direction of the forest. So I followed her, which proved to be difficult cause she can be really fast when she needs to. I was barely out of dodge when she blew. It took out a good mile or two in every direction around her. That's when I truly knew she was special." He said. I could see his facial expression changed as he remembered the event.
"How'd you find out?" He asked, turning to face me after turning her bedside lamp on.
"I found her on the roof a few nights ago. She had been up there with her guitar and after singing something, she had laid back against the concrete floor and must not have noticed when I came out there to check on. She got startled and jumped off the roof, running off over to the clearing a few miles out... and well. She blew up." I said and he slowly nodded his head. Remembering how it felt for him to see it firsthand too.