[UN] LOST {Bucky Barnes}

8. Smithsonian

I'm woken up by the sunlight streaming through the open window and James muttering words in his sleep. Although that's the first night of proper sleep in a real bed I couldn't help but feel even more tired then I did before.
"James" I hiss elbowing his side.
"Wha.." he groans his eyes fluttering open.
"Come on let's go." I say climbing out of the comfy bed.
"Go where?" He yawns.
"In the hotel lobby I saw a leaflet for the Smithsonian they have a Captain America exhibit they might have information on you" I explain.
"When do we have to leave here?" I asks propping himself up in his elbows and watching me as I collect articles of clothing from the floor.
"We have two hours I'm going to jump into the shower" I explain opening the bathroom door and carrying in my clothes from yesterday. I strip out of my tank top and skinny jeans before spending a good ten minutes trying to work the shower. After finally getting the perfect temperature I jumped in and I instantly felt to the warm water sooth my aching bones and sting the cuts on my body I never knew I had, I probably stayed in there way longer then I should of, just standing under the hot water enjoying the feeling of it on my skin. In Hydra we only ever had cold showers, everything was so cold in Hydra, I mean we did get frozen a lot.
After spending way to long in the shower I hop out and dry myself before slipping into my skinny jeans and a plain white shirt with a red and navy plaid shirt over the top. I quickly blow dry my long brown hair before exiting the bathroom.
James is sat on the edge of the bed with his head in his hands, groaning in pain.
"Whats wrong? I chime making him jump.
"Just remembering something" he sighs standing up. And that's when I realise he's shirtless. My eyes couldn't help but wonder his bare toned torso, I then notice the red, slightly swollen part of his shoulder where his metal arm was adhered to his shoulder, it looked painful.
"It doesn't hurt" James answers as if he read my mind. He gets up and enters the bathroom before locking it.

Once we had checked out of the hotel we got a taxi to the Smithsonian using the credit card Leigh gave me before the mission.
"This may or may not have a few Shield or Hydra agents in there but they won't be on the look out for us so we can just sneak past them."I mumble to James as we walk up the white marble steps of the large museum.

"Woah" I gasp as we enter the Captain America exhibit. It was huge, his face was everywhere. There were kids running around in Captain America shirts or shields, it was quite cute.
"There's you" I nod my head towards the giant picture on the wall of captain America surrounded by soldiers, to his right was James with short hair, he looked so much more alive. I read all their names on the giant wall, Bucky Barnes, Steve rogers, dum dum Dugan, Gabe jones, Montgomery falsworth, Jim morita and jacques dernier. Together they made the howling commandos, a team of soldier lead by captain America during world war 2.
We wander over to the small section of the exhibit that was literally dedicated to James or Bucky as he is referred to in this.
"Wow you are a fossil" I giggle reading over the information. He was best friends with Steve since school and supposedly died fighting along side of him.
"He was my best friend and I can't even remember him." Bucky sighs reading over the information again hoping it would trigger a memory.
"Do you want me to leave you for a while?" I ask glancing at him.
He nods his head and I shoot him a small smile before leaving him to think.
I stroll around the exhibit and look around, learning an awful lot about Steve and Bucky. After about 20 minutes of looking around I notice near the entrance of the exhibition in the corner was a smaller exhibit that had my face plastered on it.
I curiously glanced around before shuffling over to the slide show that played about me.
Alex Vogel Zeller was a bright and smart person. She was born on February 15th 1990 in a small town in Russia. she worked for OSCROP, Stark Industries and SHIELD. She had many friends and a loving boyfriend, she was known for being outgoing and sarcastic at the wrong times. She had an effect on everyone she met and could make anyone smile. On July 18th 2014 she was sent on a mission by Shield which resulted in her death. She will be dearly missed by everyone.

I glance up at the screen above the plaque that had flowers and notes by it and watched the slide show play. One of them was a picture of me and Tony Stark toasting with some coffee, another one was a video of me in New York taking down a group of terrorists with the avengers, there was one of me with my arms wrapped around a man with black hair and bright blue eyes and there was a group picture of me in paint balling gear covered in paint with a bunch of people including the black haired boy, that picture made me laugh because it closely resembled the huge picture on the wall of the howling commandos.
I was snapped out of my daze my a sudden pressure in the back of my legs. I turn around sharply thinking I was being attacked but turns out a small girl round about 8 or 9 had run into the back of my legs. She had this long silver wig on and was wearing a jacket that resembled mine.
"S-Sorry" She stutters shyly.
"It's okay sweetie" I smile crouching down and helping her up off the floor.
"What's your name?" I grin at the girl.
"Addy" she smiles confidently.
"Well Addy that is one hell of a costume"
Her eyes go to the exhibit behind me before landing on me again.
"You're Alex. You're the artic fox" she gasps her face lighting up.
"Shush" I chuckle pressing a finger to lips.
"Addy!" A Middle Aged woman yells hurrying over towards us.
"Mom look who it is" Addy cheers as I stand up mentally cursing myself.
"Oh my god you're dead" the mother gasps.
"Clearly" I say sarcastically glancing around.
"You're evil you work for HYDRA I have to call for securi---"
"NO!" I yell cutting her off mid sentence.
"And why shouldn't I?"
"Everyone thinks I'm dead. I am off Hydra and Shields radar. Me and my partner we are on the run we escaped from Hydra and they're wicked experiments and missions. I never wanted to be apart of Hydra and I will never go back" I explain.
"Mom where's Simon?" Addy pipes up.
"Oh for gods sake, Simon!" The mother suddenly yells and a little boy just a bit older then Addy comes running out of the crowd with a captain America shirt on.
"Stop running away like that" the mother hisses.
"Look Simon It's Alex!" Addy cheers as the boy stares at me in awe.
"You're Iron Mans best friend and Captain Americas girlfriend you're so cool" he gasps. I choke on nothing at his last remark.
"Im what?" My eyes widen looking up at the mother and she just shrugs.
"Hey babe ready to go" Bucky says wandering over and wrapping his arm around my shoulder.
"Bucky she knows it's us" I chuckle.
"Alex you had one job" he groans rolling his eyes.
"You're Bucky barnes!" The little boy shrieks.
"We have a few little fans" I smile.
"Cute but we better go we can't risk anyone else seeing us." Bucky urges.
"Right lets bounce...it was nice meeting you please don't tell anyone" I smile at the mother before looking down at the small children.
"See you around soldiers" I salute at them both and they both salute back before I'm dragged away by Bucky.

"What happened to the whole don't get seen thing" he mumbles as we leave the building.
"She won't say anything" I reassured him but mainly convincing myself.
"Did you remember  anything?"
"No but at least I know more about me, did you remember anything?"
"I'm apparently Tony Starks best friend and Steve's girl friend... those memories are making a little bit more sense" I trail off my cheeks heating up at the thought of dating someone I had a mission to kill.
"So" I change topics "tell me about yourself Sergeant Barnes" I grin turning to him as we walk away from the museum.
As Bucky goes on about all the stuff I already knew since I read it, I couldn't help but watch his body language and notice all the little things about him like the constant confusion that riddled his face as he talked about his life, or the way his eyes looked bright with curiosity as he goes on about Steve Rogers.
I glance at his lips for a second, I had the compelling urge to have them against mine, but these alien (watch out Tony) feelings were pushed back by the familiar sharp pain in my temple; a memory.

"I win" Steve smirks as my body is slammed into the soft padded floor of the gym in the avengers head quarters.
"Alright calm down its only the 5th time you've won" I roll my eyes at him as he moves his hands from my shoulders to either side of my head so he was directly above me.
"You need to learn how to surprise the attacker, you're too predictable"
"Oh really Captain, what if I where to do this" I wink before leaning up and colliding my lips with his soft warm ones. This took him by surprise, I took the opportunity and flipped us over so I was the one on top.
"I guess that could work, but I won't be too happy with you making out with the enemy" Steve smiles as he pulls away before shoving me off him.
"Are we done here I'm scared something more will happen in here" Tony gags entering the gym.
"Just jealous Tony" I giggle getting to my feet.