The Angel Dressed In Black

Chapter Eleven

Warnings:Major Angst Incoming. Bad Hydra snatching Isabelle, Heartbroken and Infuriated Bucky (Winter Soldier Rage) 

It had been two weeks since the first night they spent together and every time Bucky would look at Isa with heated blue eyes she would blush and bite her bottom lip. Their interactions caught a lot of cooing from Nat and Wanda and multiple times of teasing from Sam.

It was a cold day and Isa, Emerald, Bucky and Steve were clearing out a Hydra base in southern Russia. Everything was going good so far, that is until while the two girls were clearing the top floor they got blindsided by over 20 Hydra agents rushing them. 

Emerald was at one end of the long hall while Isa was at the other and it seemed like they would make it when out of nowhere an agent snuck up behind Isa. Emerald had seen him and tried to call out to her but it was too late. As Isa turned she was hit in the head at the same time a needle was jammed into her arm.

"Isabelle!" Emerald screamed, as the black haired assassin hit the ground. Emerald hit the two agents near her and hit her com "Bucky, Steve, Come quick Isa needs Help!" She screeched into the coms as she tried to get to her sister.

The two super soldiers had been a floor below them but when Emerald called out that Isa needed help they raced to get there. By the time they had gotten to the second floor, they were just in time to see Emerald surrounded and an unconscious Isabelle being dragged out the door at the far side of the hallway.

A rage ran through Bucky's blood like no other as he smashed through the nearest agents with a blinding force, his determination to get to Isabelle burning through him like an inferno. He had to get to her, he just had to. He hit the agent near him with his metal hand hard, and a satisfying crunch of his skull hitting the wall greeted him.

Unfortunately by the time the trio had killed the agents and made it to the door at the far end of the hall, kicking it open just in time to see a helicopter flying away with Isa inside. The sight caused Emerald to scream and try to race after it only for Steve to hold her back.

"Sestra...No!" Emeralds heart wrenching cry pierced the air at the same time as Bucky's heart shattered.

She was gone.....the love of his life was gone

Steve had to carry a distraught Emerald back to the Quinjet with a silent Bucky racing behind him. Only after strapping her down to a bench and her passing out, was Steve able to solemnly get the Jet running and fly back to the Avengers compound. The whole way there Bucky sat silently, the memories of the last time he spoke to Isa assaulting him. 

He had been angry with Tony for separating them for this mission and had taken that anger out on her. He could still see her tear filled eyes as he had stormed out of her room, her weak cries of his name ringing in his ears as she tried to get him to come back.

The thought of never seeing her again lashed out at him, dark tendrils of despair gripping his broken heart like angry vines. He wiped at the tears that had pooled in his eyes angrily as he vowed then and there that he would get her back. He would scourer every Hydra base he could find until he had her in his arms again.

The rest of the team was waiting for them to get back and when they entered, Steve holding an unconscious Emerald a very angry and distraught Bucky behind them the team surrounded them.

"What happened to Emerald?" Nat asked in concern, her eyes flicking to Bucky then searching for Isa. "Steve, where's Isabelle..."

Steve didn't get a chance to answer, Bucky's reply coming out cold as he barely held only the raging anger inside him.

"She's gone...."

"What!" Nat, Sam, and Tony screeched at the same time.

"Hydra...they ambushed us, and got Isabelle. We couldn't get there in time." Steve said as he made determined strides to the med bay so Emerald could get checked out. No sooner had he gotten Emerald to the doctors that a distraught Bucky Barnes started to drop to his knees, Steve just barely catching him as wracking sobs of sadness came from the brown haired man.

Nat had moved beside Steve and hugged Bucky from behind, tears filling her own eyes. Sam and Scotts faces were ashen as Clint held his hand over his mouth. Tony was already on the phone furiously arguing with someone. Angrily Tony hung up the phone, a curse leaving him as he sunk to the floor trying to stop the oncoming anxiety attack. The team was broken.

Emerald was under heavy sedation in the med bay for the next few days, an eerie silence filled the compound as everyone was too distraught to speak. Bucky was even far worse off than Emerald, he was barely eating, definitely not sleeping and his normal cerulean blue eyes were now a stormy grey. Any time Steve or Nat tried to convince him to eat he would snap at them or just plain glare. 

Tony got the worst of it from him, having to fight Bucky off as the ex-assassin had come at him one day in a livid rage. It took Steve and Sam holding him back and dragging him away; Steve pinning him forcefully to a wall as he shouted angry Russian curses Tony's way, blaming him for the reason Isa was taken. Only after Steve had threaten him that he would be sedated to, did Bucky storm off and all but barricade himself in Isa's room.

He lay in her bed, her scent still faintly on her sheets as if she had just recently left the bed. Clutching her pillow tightly in his fists he broke down again, his heartbroken sobs filling her room.

The team had been gathered in the common room not to long after Bucky had stormed out and Tony was swearing up and down about Bucky attacking him. Nat quickly spoke up to defend Bucky, lashing out at Tony as well

"Can you blame him? Honestly Tony, how would you feel if someone took Pepper from you?!" She roared, rounding the couch to slam her fists angrily against Tony's chest.

"I get that Natasha I really do," Tony said as Clint grabbed Nat, pulling her back from him. "But there is no reason to come at me like that"

"He blames you," Steve said, his voice as cold as his eyes as he stared Tony down "You had switched the teams up on us. I told you it wasn't a good Idea but you didn't listen"

"I was just doing what I was told!" Tony shouted "Fury told me to pair Emerald with Isa and you with Bucky. He figured they could get into places you two lugs couldn't fit into"

"Well clearly he was wrong!" Nat spat at him her eyes flashing in rage, as she struggled in Clint's hold.

"Clearly! An I informed him of that fact!" Tony shouted back before storming out of the room, probably off the lab.

It would be a long time before things could be righted in the compound or even in the teams' lives all together.