What Should Have Been

The Magic Word (Chapter 9)

***Sage's P.O.V***

"So Bucky, who do you want to kill first?"

"Don't call me Bucky; that's not my name."

"Do you want me to call you 'Carl'?" I turned to look at him.

"No, god, that's worse. Bucky's fine." He smiled at me.

"That's what I thought." I smiled back in him and poked his side.

Bucky then poked my side. "Loser."

I laughed. "Carl!!!"

"Please, please don't call me that!"

"Shut up!" A random citizen walked up to Bucky and looked into his eyes and said, "That's not how you talk to a woman."

I stepped up to the man and grabbed him by the throat. "That is not how you talk to a human being. Oh wait, he's the winter soldier and I'm a demon." I flashed my black eyes. "Hmm, maybe that is how you talk to an immortal."

I smiled at the man before I broke his neck. "That wasn't very nice."

"Bucky, did I say I was nice?"

There was a moment of silence. "Good point."

Bucky threw his arm over my shoulder and we walked away from the dead body. "Do you remember when I rescued you from the Red Room?"

"Unfortunately, I remember everything from the Red Room."

"Really?" Bucky took his arm off me then took my hand and laced our fingers together.

I looked at our hands. "Yeah, I may have been 5 but I remember everything. Every lesson, every kill, even when Nat was rescued by you and you left me there for two years. They were so hard on me and they...."

I clenched my fist and I punched a wall. "Sageline?"

"You left me there, Bucky. You could have gotten me out along with Nat and you didn't. Do you know what they did to me in there, Bucky?"

"No."

"They tried to erase my memory and that's why, when you came and got me, I was beaten and bruised because they beat me every night; EVERY NIGHT!!! AND YOU LEFT ME THERE!!"

"Sageline, I'm sorry, but they would have noticed if both their top students went missing at the same time."

"It didn't matter, Bucky. I wanted out and I know damn well that you remember the look I gave you when you left with my sister."

"I do and it haunts me every time I see you." Bucky wiped away the tears that were spilling down my face.

I heard a woman walk up behind me. I pulled my knife out of my boot and sliced her throat, then I walked away.

"So where, exactly, are we going?" Bucky snaked his right arm around my waist.

"I don't know. I wanted to cause mayhem and kill people."

"Good answer, good answer."

My phone vibrated in my back pocket. I took it out and answered it. "Yeah?"

"Sage, whatever you think you are doing, you need to stop. Killing people to get revenge on the man that left you in the Red Room is not going to solve anything. Oh, and you're on television."

"Who is this?"

"Come on, Sage, you know who I am, it's Coulson."

"Hmm, well since I'm on T.V...." I pulled Bucky in and kissed him. I heard Coulson yelling at me from my phone hanging at my side. The kiss threw Bucky off at first, but then he got into it.