Crazy Attraction

Chapter 4

Bucky smiled some as Harley happily ate her second burger.

"Better?" He asked, pouring her a drink and moving his hands to start bandaging the blisters on one of her feet.

Harley hummed in approval, giving him a wink.

Clint smiled slightly. "Been a long time, Barb."

"Yes, it has Ястреб." ¹ Harley replied before downing the drink and slapping at Bucky's hand.

He chuckled lightly and moved back. The other Avengers watched Bucky and Clint Harley with slight caution. They didn't know what to do.

Tony, needing answers, spoke up quickly. "Why did Uncle Gene send you away?"

Harley froze tears welling immediately. "It's great." She responded to a voice in her head, not responding to Tony before she got up and quickly ran off.

Bucky sighed with slight anger. "Seriously, Tony." He got up to follow her. "God, you're an idiot." Bucky grabbed the food Harley hadn't eaten and went after her.

Tony stared in shock while Clint stared at him in slight anger.

"What?" Tony asked, looking at jim.

"Look, I get she's your cousin, but she's not the teen you remember." Clint's mind went back to the first time he encountered Barbie. "She's been changed in a bad way." Clint left to go to his room.

As he was in the closet, Bruce and Nat stepped in.

"Aren't you being harsh on Tony?" Bruce asked.

Clint shook his head as he pulled out a wooden trunk. He ran his hand along the diamond and spades symbol carved into it.

"That's your circus trunk." Nat stated.

"No, mine is the one with the Hawk on it. This is Barbie's." Clint replied, picking it up.

"So that's how you know her." Bruce acknowledged.

Clint nodded. "We were in the circus together. It was home for me, a mission for her. I was the only one left alive besides the animals." He then walked out with the trunk to go find Harley and Bucky.

¹ Ястреб - Hawk