VIRIDI INVIDIA | harry potter | avengers

22

22; you smile like
a toad

Chastity lays flat on a rooftop, having slipped away from her mother's watchful eye. She's found Sargent Barnes, shopping leisurely in a local market.

He doesn't look like someone she would suspect capable of the explosion. No, he looks more like an up close and personal kind of guy.

As he walks down the street, he scans every angle he can, discretely. He can't exactly look up and spy the young goddess but he feels as though he's being monitored; and not just from one angle.

Chastity then spots redwing, Sam's trusty robo-bird that monitors from above. She reaches out with her magic, catching the small machine and turning it to face the camera toward her.

"Sam." She smirks, feeling his unease ripple from across the street. Her power lurches toward him and she can see him recoil from the ink black magic. "Care to tell me where my uncle is?"

The Falcon clamps his mouth shut, flaring his nostrils in tight rage. The teenage witch rolls her eyes.

"I'm not against you here, I really don't think Barnes did it."

Meanwhile, Bucky returns to his apartment, slightly trashed and certainly filthy; just as he left it. But the man in tight blue spandex? Definitely not where he left him.

Steve places a hand to his ear, straining to hear Sam's warning, "Heads up Cap, German special forces approaching from the south... and your niece is on the roof across from me."

The captain stifles a smirk, he knew she would come.

He slowly rounds on the man he once knew as a friend. Seeing him look almost normal compared to the last time he laid eyes on him.

"Do you know me?" He's hopeful.

Bucky stares at him, straining to remember, "You're Steve." He starts, surprising himself at how easy the name comes to mind. "I read about you in a museum." He decides.

"They've set the perimeter." The ear piece crackles. Steve knows he can't ask Chastity to help. It would be expose her side in all this and he wants to keep that card close.

Steve sighs through his nose. "I know you're nervous." At his words, his old friend flashes through the eyes of the wary assassin before him. "You have every reason to be. But you're lying."

Bucky panics a little, but covers it well. "I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore." Chastity, who can't hear anything but can see the men surrounding the building, pushes more thoughts to Sam.

'Best move things along bird boy. I'd rather see Uncle Steve alive for my graduation.'

Sam rolls his eyes but relays the information to Steve.

"Well the people who think you did are coming here now. They don't plan to take you alive." Steve takes a step toward the shorter man.

He deflates slightly, "that's a good strategy."

Suddenly, Chastity is startled by the sight of armed gunmen surrounding Sam. He frantically murmurs into his ear piece before the men take him. He looks for the ravenette across the way but finds nothing. He huffs a breath of relief before facing the cops and taking them down one by one.

"This doesn't have to end in a fight, Buck."

The brown haired man snarls, "it always ends in a fight."

Sam manages to whisper into his ear piece one last time. A warning, "5 seconds!"

A cop readies a battering ram on the other side of the door.