The Winter Soldier and the Waitress

Chapter 8

Bucky was not happy. He should be. He should be on cloud nine. Just a few weeks ago the woman he's madly in love with agreed to give a relationship with him a chance and it's been going great.

The problem was her ex boyfriend was still around.

Bucky currently stood in a conference room with Tony, Steve and Colin. For the past couple of weeks Tony had been combing through the contracts hoping to gain some insight into who was really behind this, but none of it was real. Fake names, corporations. It was all a front. He assumed that once they got all the information they could from Colin, they'd send him off to another safe location. He was wrong.

"What do you mean he's staying?" Bucky asked glaring over to Tony. "I thought we all agreed. We question him, get as much information from him as possible and then he's gone. He can't stay here."

"What happens when they find him again?" Tony asked looking over to Bucky. "Let's put it all on the table. There are very dangerous people out here who want access to high security cargo planes. We have to assume they want that security to smuggle something. With the possibility of HYDRA's involvement, I would think it's nothing good." he pointed to Colin. "The only thing stopping them is not having this guy's signature."

"C'mon, there has to be ways around that." Bucky said before turning to Colin. "Couldn't your father just sign the contract? Him being here is pointless." he turned to Steve. "He can't stay here Steve, you know he can't. I promised Grace-"

"My father is sick." Colin suddenly said and they turned to him. "He's been having seizures, early onset alzheimers. He'd taken a sabbatical from his duties and I was in charge." he shook his head. "We were in the middle of getting ready to announce his retirement and my shift to CEO." Colin turned to Bucky. "Right now I am the only one who can sign off on anything to do with the company."

Bucky shook his head as he slid a hand over his face. "Send him off the grid. Have one of your AI's monitor him." he turned to Tony. "Anything, but get him out of here."

"Buck," Steve stepped forward to calm the man down. "I get this isn't the most desirable solution, but Tony's right. We agreed that Grace and Trey staying here was the best solution because they were safer with us watching them. The same is true for Colin. His life is in danger, and he's also in the middle of something we need to figure out. We got to protect him." Bucky grit his teeth as he looked over to Colin who didn't seem too bothered by the idea of being here.

"Fine, then he doesn't leave the east sector of the compound." Bucky said looking between Steve and Tony. "He doesn't step foot in the main building, or the north living quarters." Bucky turned to Colin. "You will not see or speak to Grace or Trey." Bucky turned to leave.

"He's my son." Colin suddenly said and Bucky stopped and turned to the man. "Look fine, she wants to pretend I'm not here, whatever, it doesn't change that I'm his father and I deserve-"

"You deserve what?!" Bucky said taking a step forward, prepared to beat the shit out of this man for even thinking he deserved anything after what he did, only for Steve to once again block him. "Stay the hell away from them, or swear to God, it'll be the last thing you do." Bucky pulled away from Steve before stalking from the conference room.

The room was quiet after Bucky left. Tony turned to Steve before looking over to Colin.

"Well, now that that's out of the way." He said turning to Colin. "You think of anything new, make sure to share with the class. Otherwise, I'm going to comb through your company's records to find something." Tony nudged his head. "Like the metal arm man said, you stay in this building. You need anything, just tell FRIDAY and she'll get it for you." Tony turned to leave but stopped and let out a sigh before turning to Colin. "He was also right about you staying away from Grace and Trey Harris. That's your number one rule Tate. You break it, I won't stop him from kicking your ass." with that Tony left.