I'll Find You

Seventeen

"Where is it?" I say, as Natasha pops a bubble with the gum I hid it behind.

"Safe." She replies,

"Do better!" Steve butts in.

"Where did you get it?" They begin in a word to word combat, and I close my eyes, so I didn't get to annoyed.
"Why would I tell you?"
"Fury gave it to you. Why?"
"What's on it?"
"I don't know."
"Stop lying!"
"I only act like I know everything, Rogers"
"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"
"Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you."
"I'm not gonna ask you again
"I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years."

"So he's a ghost story." Steve says after that pointless fight. I waited and looked around non chalantly as possible.

"Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me. A Soviet slag, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis."

"Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now"

"Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried." She holds up the flash drive and Steve grabs it. "Like you said, he's a ghost story."

"Well, let's find out what the ghost wants" I say and grab the flash drive from Steve.

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"First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk."

"If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off." Steve says, as they enter the Mac store. I walked across the place in a Victoria secret as they did whatever they had to do. "Evelyn? You good on lookout? Be ready. The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are." I nodded and pretended to be looking at bras and panties.

"How much time do we have?" I ask,

"Uh...about nine minutes from... Now."

"The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from." Natasha says, I patiently tap my foot and wait.

"You said nine minutes, come on." Steve said, someone wasn't being patient.

"Shh, relax. Got it." There is a silence and I look over the glass barrier to see men fast walking around. "You know it?"

"I used to. Let's go." I watch them from the other side and I begin walking keeping my distance.

"Standard tac team. On your left." I say,

"Shut up and put your arm around me, laugh at something I said." I hear her in the mic.

"What"

"Do it!" Steve quickly puts his arm around Natasha and laughs. I roll my eyes and begin running down the steps. I look over Rumlow.

"Rumlow is on the escalator." I say, and pull out my glasses as I make it to the door.

"Kiss me." She says, I feel my heart stop, but don't turn around.

"Okay I'm off." I say, and before Steve says what. I shut it off.

"You still uncomfortable?" Natasha says as we drive to Wheaton.