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Hi everyone! Just a quick announcement from the author of this fanfic. For all my fanfics, I like to have around 40 chapters, 45 at the most. With this story, I think its safe to say that I've exceeded the limit. And I'm not planning on finishing this story very soon. I think what I'm going to do is wrap things up around chapter 75, maybe a little more than that because I've got a lot of ideas for some post-movie ending action.
Long story-short, just because I get to the scene where Cap decides to turn into a popsicle doesn't mean that's the very end of Evangeline's story.
Okay, you may continue. Thanks again for reading!
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"You're an idiot."
"Quite the contrary actually," Howard retorted from the pilot seat of the plane. It was almost midnight and the duo were a little less than ten miles from the Hydra base Evangeline would be infiltrating when Mr.Stark decided to say one of the stupidest things the woman had ever heard in her life. "This plane is a functioning prototype for my new auto-pilot sequence I've been working on for months."
"I'm not letting you tag along for this," Evangeline refused the notion. "I wouldn't even let Bucky or Steve come; why the hell would I allow someone inexperienced with actual battle hang around? You'll just get yourself killed!" A pocket of turbulence jostled the two in their seats and she gripped her armrests so hard that her nails dug into the fake leather.
What the hell was Howard thinking? He could've tested his plane any other time besides then; why would he suddenly choose now while they were flying in enemy territory? When they both knew good and well that there would be no backup if the mission failed and everything went to complete shit? With the wind slamming against their plane like ocean waves at high tide, it didn't matter if Howard's 'auto-pilot' worked or not- their ride was going nowhere but down without Stark present.
"For the love of God, you have a daughter! What the hell is September going to think when her papa dies because of your stupidity?"
"I'm not going to die!" He yelled back over the sounds of the engine and the wind blowing outside their windows. "Trust me! Look!" Using his teeth, he pulled up his sleeve and exposed the skin of his right forearm. What Evangeline saw sent a tornado of fury through her bones and her teeth gritting in anger, her hands becoming as hot as irons and melting the leather of her armrests. The veins in his arm were giving off a faint, orange glow.
Just like hers when Hydra first started pumping that damn serum into her system.
"See! I'll be fine!"
She couldn't believe it. After everything in those damn labs- The pieces suddenly clicked together and it all started making sense. It was why Stark needed so many blood samples, why he needed to know what was in her veins at nearly every waking moment of the day, as she slept and woke up in the mornings.
Howard was injecting it into himself behind closed doors.
He wasn't helping her, he'd used her.
"YOU BASTARD!"
All she could see was red in the corners of her vision. Like water filling the belly of a sinking ship, this betrayal flooded the space in her heart she kept for her friend. The pungent smell of smoke flooded the cockpit til Howard could hardly see through the glass windows. Without waiting for any clearance from the ignorant asshole before her, Evangeline pried her hands from the sticky melted leather of her seat, climbed out of the cockpit and into the cargo bay, kicked the plane's door open and leaped out into the dark abyss of night.
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