Bucky's Hope (A Bucky Barnes Love Story)

Chapter 42

Bucky's POV:

When the last memory faded away I was a little out of it and it took me a few moments to realize where I was again. I then noticed that I was in Winter's stall with Wanda next to me.

"My God, Bucky, I can't believe she went through that," Wanda said.

"Neither can I, but I just realized something."

"What?"

"Before the last memory ended I heard Matt tell the guys to try and get a hold of Tony and Pepper."

"Yeah, so?"

"Wanda, the entire time we have been here I never noticed either Tony or Pepper act so overprotective of Hope, do you know what I mean?"

Wanda was silent for a moment, "They don't know about what happened, but how?"

"Hope won't say but if we talk to Matt, he might tell us."

"I think you're right, but it will have to wait till morning."

I nodded in agreement, "Come on, we might as well head to bed."

We headed back to the house, when we got inside we notice that no one in the living room, probably all gone to bed, I bid Wanda good night and I was about to go up to my room but stopped and walked over to Hope's, I stood outside her door trying to hear if she was awake still.

"FRIDAY, is Hope still in her room."

FRIDAY: Yes and she is sleeping.

"Is she by herself?"

FRIDAY: No, Mrs. Stark is with her keeping watch over her.

"Alright, thank you FRIDAY."

FRIDAY: You're welcome Sergeant Barnes and have a good night.

With that, I headed up to bed for the night, unsure if I was going to get any sleep after everything I saw tonight, but somehow I was out for the night. In the morning I was the first one up so I quickly got ready for the day and then headed out to the barn so that I would be able to talk to Matt when he first got in, when he got in I was waiting by Winter's stall.

"Sergeant Barnes, good morning, is Hope up yet?" Matt asked.

"Matt, you can call me Bucky, but um, not sure, though I doubt Pepper is going to let her out of the house let alone out of bed today."

"Yeah, I won't be surprised either, but that's okay, the guys and I will get everything done here," Matt then started to walk away to get started but I quickly called him back.

"Say, Matt, can I talk to you about something?"

"Sure thing, what's it about?"

"Not here, I don't want anyone overhearing us right now."

"Let's go into the office," Matt pointed to the office in the barn, I walked in first with Matt right behind him as he closed the door.

"What's going on?"

"It's about Hope."

"What about her, did something happen last night after we left?"

"No no, she's fine, Pepper was with her all night."

"Wait, really?"

"Yes," I was hesitant for a moment, "Alright, I'm just gonna come out with it, Wanda and I know about what happened to Hope."

"What do you mean?"

"We know about the attack."

"How?"

I sighed, "We saw it through Winter's memories last night."

"Um, okay, how was that possible?"

"Wanda's powers, she said that Winter has been worried about Hope and she wanted us to know about what happened to her, so Wanda was able to link us both to Winter and we saw her memories of the attack."

"Damn, so what did you want to know?"

"We realized last night that the entire time we have been here we never noticed Tony and Pepper acting overly protective of Hope if you know what I mean because, in her last memory, I saw when you told the guys to get a hold of them to tell them what happened."

"Yeah, they don't know anything about what happened, not even about that rescue."

"But how is that possible, wouldn't FRIDAY have notified them?"

"Normally yes, but Hope did something to keep FRIDAY and us from letting her parents know."

"How was that possible, what could she have done to keep them in the dark."

"I'm still not sure, all I know is that after Hope was taken to the hospital, all the guys tried to call Mr. and Mrs. Stark but the calls would not go through, and when they asked FRIDAY to notify them she couldn't either, she said that she was locked out from contacting them, and when we tried other ways to get a hold of them we kept getting blocked, it was close to where I was gonna drive out to New York to have them fly back, but didn't."

"What happened?"

"She woke up, Hope had been in a coma for two months, and by the time I was starting to plan to get ready to leave, we got the call that she was awake, and of course, we all rushed to the hospital."

"Who all knows?"

"Myself, the guys, of course, Mrs. Williams, Kaitlyn, and Dr. Gray, that's it."

"And none of you tried to tell them?"

"Hope swore us all to secrecy, Dr. Gray of course can't say since it's patient confidentiality, and she threatened us too."

"Hope did, for real, she does not look like the type, and with what did she threaten you guys with?"

"The guys and me, bodily harm and the promise of releasing something deathly embarrassing of each of us, Mrs. Williams was no need, she loves Hope like a granddaughter so she would never tell a soul, as for Kaitlyn, those two are like sisters and Hope trusts her unconditionally and would never want to break her trust so she, of course, would never spill either."

"Wow, makes me wonder what she has on you guys that would make you keep shut?"

"Me too but I would never chance it, although recently, I did give her the ultimatum of going to see a therapist about this, or else I would tell her parents."

"And did she?"

"As far as I know that's where she has been going once a week for the last few weeks."

"So the panic attacks she had yesterday, could they have been because of the attack?"

"For sure, I don't doubt it, Hope is still skittish with being touched by men, the guys and I were an exception because she trusts us, as for you all, she already knows everything about you all since you work with her dad, she already trusts you."

"Okay, I get all that, but if she trusts me then why the second panic attack?"

"What were you two doing before it happened?"

"I kissed her."

"Is that all?"

I thought for a moment thinking and then I remembered when she froze in my arms.

"I was holding her in my arms and at one point pulled her against me and she froze, that's when she started to freak out."

"Damn, that must be what triggered her, because of the rape she must be terrified to do or be intimate with a guy."

When Matt said that, all I could feel was a combination of anger and sadness, all for Hope, how could monsters have done that to Hope, my heart broke for her, what could I possibly do to help her?"

A/N: DO NOT GIVE UP ON HER BUCKY!!! That's all I will say, and I'm sure you all will agree with me, and now I feel like I'm gonna cry.