Fight Like A Girl

PART TWO - CHAPTER SIX

Washington DC, 2014

To say they were worried would have been an understatement. Steve and Bucky both hadn't stopped watching the yellowed eyed Woman's form who was currently passed out on the side of the bench furthest from them, her face twisted in discomfort and pain and her already snow white complexion was ashen gray and clammy, under her eyes had began to bruise and her body shivered and twitched sometimes so badly they were terrified she was having seizure. Sam was the one out of the three who knew the most about medical attention being a trained Pararescue, the behavior the young woman had been exhibiting showed clear signs of poisoning, she needed medical attention and soon or even a super hero of her caliber wouldn't make it.

"She needs medical attention now or what ever you guys put inside of her is gonna kill her." Sam barked at the guards who he happened to have been the closest to besides Tayla and Bucky.

One guard flicked out a baton causing it to shoot up with high voltages of electricity causing Sam to jerk back slightly his face growing more pissed as the time passed.

The jolt of the truck gave Tayla a jerk as her eyes fluttered open causing her to look around her in deep confusion, Bucky, Sam, and Steve were all sitting on bench like seats as was she. They were chained, hands to ankles and ankles to floor like a prison transport. As she looked over to her furthest right she saw three guards at the end f the benches and one that sat facing towards the doors as if to cover everyone. The one sitting in the center called to her, her instincts screamed at her 'Ally!' and she couldn't comprehend why so she focused her sights solly on that guard. What she wouldn't give to have Zachery's abilities of the mind to dive inside their head and find out if her instincts were true or if they were playing tricks on her due to the poison dancing around inside of her blood stream.

Her boys all looked at her and each other shocked but watched her as she and the middle guard seemed to have a stare off. They watched as Tayla searched the guard from head to toe and as the guard shifted slightly more toward Tayla the half wolf and half human woman took a deep and painful breath taking in the scents around her when suddenly she did something that caught Bucky, Steve, and Sam all by surprise.

She genuinely smiled at the guard.

Suddenly the guard threw a second baton at her which she caught easliy and flicked it with lightning like speed smashing the nearest guard in the head with it using enough force to gave the front of his skull in with one blow causing him to drop dead as the middle guard disposed of the other guard with a smash of the baton knocking their gun down as they raised it and raising their leg up smashing a savage kick to their head causing their neck to snap and the body to drop unceremoniously to the ground over the top of the other guard.

The middle guard dropped the baton and reached up and grabbed at the helmet pulling the thing off with a little difficulty revealing a striking young woman whose gorgeous macho brown eyes twinkled something fierce as they met Tayla's smiling face.

"I don't see how these fuckers do it man, that damn thing was squeezing my brain!" Danielle scuffed tossing the helmet to the side as she rushed forward to begin unlocking Tayla's chains.

"Danielle." Steve smiled which the darker skinned young woman returned with a mock salute "Sup Captain." 
Sam looked like he might have been in love making Tayla chuckle and him to mock glare at her.

Once she had Tayla unchained she hurriedly unchained the others before the truck came to a stop. Danielle or Danny as she preferred, carelessly shoved the bodies over to leave the center of the floor uncovered as she placed some device on the flooring and hit a button making it turn effortlessly cutting a perfect circle with a brilliant red lazer. Once that was open Danny climbed down opening the drain lid and went down first with Tayla next and Bucky following closely behind making sure she was ok. Sam and Steve quickly followed leaving the truck empty exactly two minutes before Rumlow and his lackeys opened the door.

Making their way down the drainage tunnels, Tayla had one arm wrapped securely around Bucky's shoulders which he kept there with his metal arm using his flesh arm to hold her around her torso to him as they walked slower then the rest of them who all followed Danny who walked at the front.

"You aight doll?" Bucky asked, his voice concerned and cloaked in fake playfulness as he noticed her getting weaker.

"After all the shit I've survived in 27 years" Tayla croaked out "I'mma be pissed if I die from this bullshit."

Bucky bit his lip hard drawing the taste of blood into his mouth. The thought of Tayla dying leaving him stuck in this world where she would no longer exist made his heart skip beats. He couldn't, more like wouldn't make it. If Tayla died and he was still alive he wouldn't hesitate to eat a bullet. Sure he would still have Steve, but not having Tayla even as a friend was the most unbearable form of torture he had ever heard of in all his years and he had used and had been the subject of just about every form of torture known to man.

She couldn't die, he wouldn't let her.

"Oh come on Wolf Girl, you ain't dying you just a little banged up is all." He chuckled with no real humor "Can't check out now gotta keep us bozos in line."

She smiled a sweaty and pained smile in his direction and let her head lightly fall to his shoulder as it got a little harder for her to walk "I don't blame you, you know."  She slurred her eyes far away.

Bucky faltered.

"I know you still have nightmares and I know you'll probably have them the rest of your life." She continued "You and Steve you guys have been through so much. You guys have given up so much and had so much taken from you."

She leaned up slightly to press a soft kiss to his neck causing her to jerk to a stop and turn to face her as tingles unlike anything he had ever experienced rushed through his body.
He held her against his chest as he gazed into her glossy blood shot eyes and she smiled at him so purely it made him feel like everything broken inside of him shifted somewhat back together.

"You've suffered so much James." Tayla softly spoke her words sad and full of emotion he couldn't place "If I could take that pain from you I'd do anything to spare you from it. Anything."

Bucky held her a little tighter to him as if he was unsure if she would fade into shadow unable for him to physically hold on to at any moment.

"You're gonna find happiness in this world James Buchanan, you're gonna have so many good things come your way because You. Are. A. Good. Man. No matter what you've done, no matter what they've forced you to do I forgive you for your wrong doings because you are not one of them. You are a man of honor, you are noble and kind and compassionate and a total geek because Steve told me about the Science conventions and thats the cutest thing ever." Tayla whined leaning into him making him chuckle through tears he didn't know were falling.

Glancing down his emotions turned frantic as he noticed she had dropped limp against him.
He frantically pulled back grabbing her by her face as he saw her eyes resembled glass and she wasn't breathing while yanking her up into his arms and in his frantic mind did the one thing he prayed would some how help save her.

He ran.