Find Her

Part 3

In the lab, Lillian sat on the examining table while the doctors looked at her throat. Bucky sat across the room from her smiling at her whenever she looked at him in order to calm her.
"What was done to you to make you loose your voice?" The doctor asked.
Lillian wrote in her notebook, "I was forced to drink something that burned." The doctor read it out loud. Bucky clenched his fists and set his jaw firmly.
"Was I there?" Bucky asked her. She shook her head 'no' and he let out a sigh of relief. He was afraid that he was the one that poured whatever had silenced her down her throat. He could not live with himself if he had been the one to take her beautiful voice away.
The doctor continued to examine Lillian then stepped out of the room for a moment to discuss the situation with one of her colleagues. Bucky took this time to stand up and move to Lillian. She wrote something down in her notebook then handed it to him. "You used to call me Angel" it said.
"I remember. I called you that because I was the Devil of Hydra. It seemed fitting." She took the book from his hands and he stepped directly in front of her and placed his hands on the table on either side of her. He was so close to her that his nose touched her hair and he could smell her shampoo. Roses. She kept her head down while she wrote something down. Bucky kept his eyes closed as he kissed her head lovingly and gently. She finally finished and she turned the book to him. Bucky didn't move his hands and instead just looked down at the text as it sat on her lap. Now it was her turn to examine him. He had grown some thicker stubble and his hair was longer than she remembered. It was different but she like it. It kind of  even made him more handsome. His shoulders were broader and his muscles in general were much bigger than she remembered. Even his arm had been given an upgrade to match the size of his flesh arm. He was still incredibly handsome and smelled better than the last time they saw each other. Steve had managed to find the cologne that Bucky used back in the day. The brand name had changed but it was still the same scent. She continued to examine him as he read the text.
"You aren't the Devil. That was not your name there. You were the Winter Soldier. If anything you should be calling me Summer or Autumn." Bucky chuckled.
" Why not Spring?" He said. Lillian scrunched her nose and shook her head in a no motion. "Yeah you're right. You're more like Summertime anyway." Bucky said before he placed his hand on the back of her neck and kissed the top of her head. Just then the doctor came back in to deliver the news.
"I've spoken with my colleagues and I think we can fix your voice." Bucky and Lillian smiled happily at each other. The doctor explained what the procedure would entail and explained that she wouldn't be able to speak for another two weeks after the procedure. She was eager to agree and they performed the procedure the next day.
Two days after the surgery Bucky and Steve sent themselves on a mission to take out a Hydra facility. Bucky went to Lillian to tell her and naturally she was upset. She just got Bucky back and she didn't want to lose him again. He placed his hands on her face, "It's only going to be a couple of days, I promise. It will be easy. There aren't even any soldiers or agents there." The tears rolling down her cheeks as she nodded her head in a yes fashion killed him. He knew that she was scared but it would only be a couple of days. Right?