Brooklyn - Bucky X OC Love Story

18 - Explanation

Emilia and Bucky sat together on the edge of the bed they would be staying in tonight, just enjoying being with each other again. Emilia felt like this was all too good to be true, that he was here with her now, that he was alive. She was almost thankful that she was taken by Hydra so she could be alive and young right now to see her husband again.

"How did this happen, James? How are you here?" Emilia finally asked. She had explained her side of things, but now she was curious what happened. She already knew it had something to do with Hydra, it had to. The thought kept sneaking into her mind, the last thing Hydra said before she was frozen. She was 'his' greatest weakness. But she couldn't force herself to remember more, no matter how hard she tried.

Bucky sighed heavily before explaining being dragged from the snow after falling from the train. Only seeing everything as a blur as he was rapidly losing blood from his arm, he remembered seeing his bloody stump of an arm dragging through the snow, leaving a trail behind them. He went through how Hydra brainwashed him, experimented on him, how they basically made him a walking and talking weapon. He explained how for the last 70 years he was taken in and out of cryo, his mind erased everytime, used for their own sick agenda before thrown back into the freezer until he was of use of them again. He explained the trigger words, he explained killing Howard and Maria Stark. He explained gaining himself back, even if only a little, in DC and saving Steve. How he spent the last 2 years hiding, gaining back his mind, trying to remember who he was and his life. Lastly, he explained what was going on now. That he was accused of killing a king, that he and Steve were wanted men, being hunted by Tony Stark as well as the authorities.

"Doll, I don't know why Steve got you involved, we're fugitives..I'm so sorry." Bucky said with a heartbreaking sigh.

Emilia put her hands on his face, feeling his warm skin on hers, staring into the blue eyes she'd missed for a lifetime. "I'm glad he did. I'd follow you to hell if I had to." She said confidently.

"Even now? Even with what I've became? Em, I'm not the same man anymore, I'm a monster." Bucky said with another sigh.

Emilia glared at him, moving her hands from his face to his shoulders. "You're not. You're the same James I've known and loved for a lifetime. What they did to you, isn't you." She reassured him.

"I've killed people, Em." Bucky said. He rested his forehead against hers, closing his eyes. He wasn't sure how Emilia looked at him the same after hearing about who he had been for all these years, but she did.

"And I save people, our karma is balanced." Emilia said with a quiet laugh, shrugging her shoulders.

"You're still a nurse? I was hoping you'd write that book. When all this was over, I was going to find it." He said with his usual charming smile. But she couldn't see it, their foreheads were pressed together, her eyes closed. She could feel his warm, minty breath on her face as he spoke.

"Doctor now, actually. I never wrote the book. Maybe when this is over, I will." Emilia said. She leaned in further, pressing her lips to his for a moment. "I've missed you. So much." She confessed. She tried so hard to fight back the tears that were fighting their way to the surface, but she lost that fight. A few stray tears fell down onto her cheeks as she breathed in Bucky's scent.

"I've missed you, doll." Bucky said back. He held onto the back of Emilia's neck, pulling her to him again for a heated, passionate kiss. Their lips moved in sync until Emilia slipped her tongue into his mouth, their tongues tangling together in perfect sync. Bucky tightened his hold on Emilia, pulling her closer to his chest as she sat in his lap. Emilia quickly shifted to straddle him, wrapping her arms around his neck as their kiss got somehow even more heated, more needy.