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iii. ndezela

ndezela
'revenge'

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Zakiya sat in between Wanda and an agent from Haiti. Zakiya watched King T'Chaka give his speech and felt something trigger her softly.

Something was about to happen, she thought. She looked around the room, worry and curiosity consumed her face.

"You feel it, too?" Zakiya faced Wanda and nodded. Zakiya's instincts, smelling propane in the air. And it was coming from outside.

"Oh my god." Zakiya said breathlessly before her gaze went to T'Challa. He smelt it too and he so met her gaze. She nodded to him before he nodded.

"EVERYONE DOWN!" He shouted as he went for his father, but the bomb went off, rocking the entire building.

Wanda held onto Zakiya as the bomb erupted almost half of the entire building. Zakiya heard shouting and cries and looked over their table and saw T'Challa approaching his now dead father.

"Oh no. Oh my god." Zakiya once again was breathless. She helped Wanda to her feet and quickly approached T'Challa. He was holding his father, tears falling from his eyes as realization hit him way too hard.

"T'Challa, we have to go. This building will crash down on all of us if we don't leave." T'Challa looked up at Zakiya before looking at his father; kissing him on the forehead before Zakiya helped him up.

"Come on. This way!" Zakiya heard as she looked up and saw Natasha approaching them.

"You okay?" Natasha asked as Zakiya nodded. Wanda used her powers and smashed the door open.

"Come on, let's get you guys out of here."

~

"Zakiya? You okay?" Zakiya sobbed quietly over the phone as she talked to Sam. She sighed as she looked around before answering.

"I—I don't k—know, Sam." She stuttered before she ran a hand through her hair.

"I could have save him, Sam. If I had been faster or if I had known that the bomb was right there, he would have been alive. God!" She exclaimed as tears covered her vision. She blamed herself for not saving King T'Chaka. She literally felt bad for T'Challa. Speaking of T'Challa...

"Listen, Sam. I have to go. Call me if anythjng happens." She stated as she sniffled.

"Sure will, Z. And hey, don't feel bad about not saving the King. Nobody would have known where that bomb was. Nobody could have prevented it from happening. You know that, right?" Zakiya responded with a soft 'yes' before ending the call and approached T'Challa.

"In my culture, death is not the end. It's more of a stepping off point. You reach out with both hands and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into the green veld where—you can run forever." T'Challa stated as Zakiya smiled softly.

"That sounds very peaceful, T'Challa." T'Challa met the young woman's gaze before looking at his father's ring.

"My father thought so. I am not my father." Zakiya's smile slowly faded and it turned into fear really quick.

"T'Challa, Task Force will decide who brings in Barnes." Zakiya watched as T'Challa stood up which caused her to mimick his actions.

"Don't bother, Ms. Lawson. I'll kill him myself." Zakiya's heart raced as she watched T'Challa walk away. She sighed audibly before her phone ringed. She looked at it and saw it was Steve.

"Hey."  Zakiya

"Hey, I heard about what happened. You alright?" Steve

"Yeah. I'm fine. I need to go find Wanda and Natasha. They disappeared after we got out of the building."

"Listen, I need you to meet me at the café across from the hotel. We have things to discuss."

"If you want to go and help Barnes, I'm in. Only because he's my best friend."

"Okay, then. Well, see you then."

"Okay. See you then."

The call ended and Zakiya sighed with guilt. She knew Steve was still mad at her. She didn't accept his love and apology for her, and now he's just a leader to everyone now.

Thinking about it brought a pinch of pain to her chest. She quickly pushed that aside and went off looking for Wanda and Natasha.

~

"Zakiya."

"Steve. Sam."

Zakiya pushed her glasses on her face, doing her best to cover up her eyes as she spotted guards across from the bar.

"So, what's so important that you wanted to discuss?" Zakiya asked as she looked over at Steve. He sighed before he grabbed her hand softly.

"I want you to reason with Bucky. I'll be there as your back-up. But we will only have 2 minutes before German police tear down the place." Steve stated before Zakiya nodded and sipped some of the water in front of her.

"I got what you need. It's not much, but it will lead you to Bucky." A woman said as she came up beside Zakiya and handed her a file. Zakiya nodded before taking the file and smiling.

"Thank you, Agent Carter."

"Please, it's Sharon."

"Well, thank you, Sharon."