Monster [Book One]

Chapter 7

Now the fun begins :)

Chapter Quote:

“I’m with you ‘til the end of the line.”

~Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes

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Chapter 7

Steve 

“After that, you can guess what happened seeing as how I’m here now,” Annabeth remarked, her eyes flitting between me and Sam.  When neither of us said anything, she added, “Well, at least you didn’t laugh like the other people did.”

“People laughed at you?” I asked.

“Yeah.  They didn’t think I was telling the truth.  I mean, a lot of stuff happened but I told you only the relevant stuff, the stuff that pertained to the Winter Soldier.”

“It was you!” Sam suddenly exclaimed.  She and I both looked at him. “I was the one searching for Rumlow.  You told me how to find him!”

“Oh my god, that was you!  Please tell me you kicked his ass for me?” Annabeth replied hopefully.

“Uh, honestly, he was getting the better of me.  But I’m not the one who got taken out by a helicarrier, unlike him, so karma hit him pretty hard.”

“There’s a god,” Annabeth laughed.

“Bucky remembers you.  He used your line,” I said.

“What line?”

“‘You’re my mission.’  That’s what he told me when we were on the helicarrier.  He got that from you.”

She smiled slightly. “What did you say?”

“I told him to finish it because I was with him ‘til the end of the line.  The latter part had been something he told me way back when.  But never mind that.  Thank you for taking care of Bucky as much as you could,  I appreciate it.”

“So… you guys believe me?” Annabeth asked hesitantly.

“You’re talking to a guy that saved the world from aliens and is friends with a god and to another man who flies with a winged suit.  Your story is not the craziest thing out there… although it hits near the top,” Sam said.

Annabeth grinned. “Thank you.  I think.”

“Do you think you can help us track him down?” I queried.

“It’ll be hard to do it from inside the prison, but yes, I can.  I’ll need access to a computer though,” she said.

“I didn’t mean you help us from inside the prison,” I replied.

She gave me a cautious look. “You mean…?”

“You’d help us outside.  Travel with us.  But there’d be rules.  You stay with me and Sam at all times.  If you leave the apartment, one of us has to go with you.  Understood?”

“Completely, but uh, do you think the prison will allow it?”

“I’ll talk to them.  In the meantime, go pack up.  I’ll have Sam stay with you.  We’ll leave when you’re ready.”

“Yes, Captain.”

“Please, call me Steve,” I insisted, giving her a smile.  She returned it and got up.  Sam followed her while I went to talk to the head of the prison.

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Annabeth 

Two weeks passed, and we had nothing.  I’d been able to show Steve and Sam the videos I had downloaded onto the flashdrive I’d taken the day S.H.I.E.L.D. had fallen to prove to them my story had been true and to access files on all the locations the Winter Soldier had been.  Steve was familiar to the Winter Soldier, so would the soldier go look for other things that he found familiar to help jog his memory?