This is My Life Now

Chapter 2

We arrived in London the next day for Peggy's funeral. Sam joined us as well to support Steve. He was quiet most of the flight and up until we got to the church and stood outside the front doors.

"Don't leave me," Steve mumbled grabbing my hand and gripped it tightly.

"I would never," I squeezed his hand back before we entered the church. Steve was asked to be a pallbearer so he left once we found a spot. I wish Lincoln could have had something like this. I watched as Steve and Peggy's other family members walked in at the beginning of the funeral. Steve's eyes were red and once he joined me he gripped my hand as he did earlier as I held onto his arm.

"And now, I would like to invite Sharon Carter, to come up and say a few words," the preacher began.

A woman with blonde hair walked up to the podium and I immediately recognized as a Shield agent.

"Margaret Carter was known to most as a founder of Shield. But I just knew her as Aunt Peggy. She had a photograph in her office. Aunt Peggy standing next to JFK. As a kid, that was pretty cool. But, it was a lot to live up to. Which is why I never told anyone we were related," Sharon explained, "I asked her once how she managed to master diplomacy and espionage at a time when no one wanted to see a woman succeed at either. And she said, compromise when you can. When you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty, to plant yourself like a tree, look them in they eye and say, 'no, you move,'"

After the funeral was over Steve stayed in the church so Sam and I left him before waiting in the lobby when we ran into Nat.

"Where's Steve?" She asked.

"Still in the church," I answered before she walked passed us. They both walked out a few minutes later and Nat left for Vienna. We went out for lunch and ran into Sharon before we walked back to the hotel together.

"My mom tried to talk to me out of enlisting...not Aunt Peggy. She bought me my first knife holster. Very stylish," she laughed.

"CIA has you stationed over here now?" Steve asked her.

"In Berlin, joint terrorist and task force," she answered before we got to the hotel.

Steve walked her to the elevator as Sam and I waited watching the tv in the lobby when Vienna appeared with the UN building in flames. I walked towards the elevators and found Steve and Sharon talking, "Steve, there's something you got to see," I breathed in quickly as they both followed me.

"Who's coordinating?" Steve asked.

"More than 70 people have been injured. At least 12 are dead including Wakanda's King T'Chaka. Officials have released a video of a suspect identified as James Buchanan Barnes, the winter soldier. The infamous Hydra agent linked to numerous acts of terrorism and political assassinations," the reporter said.

"I have to go to work," Sharon sighed as we all agreed to go with her.

Once we were in Vienna we split up as Steve left to call Romanoff, Sam and I waited in a coffee shop. I sat a few seats down from him and slipped on my sunglasses as the news played on the tv. Steve joined us a bit later.

"Did she tell you to stay out of it?" Sam asked her.

"She might have a point," I mumbled.

"He'd do it for me," Steve said simply.

"1945, maybe. I just want to make sure we considered all our options. The people that shoot at you, usually wind up shooting at us," Sam gestured between me and him.

Sharon came up beside me suddenly. "Tips have been pouring in since the footage went public. Everybody thinks the Winter Soldier goes to their gym. Most of it is noise, except this," she handed me a file and I passed it on to Steve, "My boss expects a briefing and he pretty much now so...that's all the answers you're going to get."

"Thank you," Steve nodded.

"And you're going to have to hurry. We have orders to shoot on sight," she answered before leaving us behind.

We found the address to where Bucky was living and made a plan of attack. Steve went to his apartment while I waited in a nearby undercover car watching the perimeter.

"Heads up, Cap. German special forces approaching from the south," I told him watching the men in uniform run by.

"Understood," Steve answered. I watched as another person show up on the UV screen knowing Bucky was there.

"They've set the perimeter," Sam informed us from the roof.

"They're entering the building," I added.

"I'm compromised," he answered.

"5 seconds," I watched as they went upstairs, "3 seconds."

"Breach!" Sam yelled before a gas grenade was thrown into the room.

They fought throughout the building and I saw Bucky jump from the building over the rooftops. Another man came out of nowhere in a full on cat suit, "Woah, we got another enemy. I mean everyone is our enemy right now but this guy has claws," I told them.

"Sam, southwest rooftop," Steve ordered.

"Who the hell is this guy?" Sam asked.

"I'm about to find out," he answered before jumping from the apartment towards Bucky when a helicopter started to shoot at them, "Sam."

"Got it," Sam answered.

"Do you want me to...." I started to ask.

"No, stay hidden we need back up if it goes south," Steve ordered.

"They're on the street now," I told them.

"Okay, maybe we need back up," he answered before I threw the computer to the side throwing the car in drive and speeding their way.

I went to the underground tunnel and heard the cop sirens in the distance. I sped up weaving in and out of the cars as I caught up I saw Steve slam into the cop car. I pulled up beside him, "Get in." As soon as he was in a sped back up as we followed Bucky and the cat guy, when he suddenly jumped on the side of our car. I swerved trying to get him off but he didn't budge, "Sam, I can't shake this guy."

"Right behind you," he said as I heard more cop cars behind us.

I swerved into the car beside us in attempt to get him off.

"Adeline!" Steve yelled shielding his face as his window cracked.

"What? My driving should be the least of your worries right now!" I fought back. Bucky was just ahead of us as we got to the end of the tunnel when cops surrounded us and Bucky jumped to the next lane and I followed going through the sand stoppers.

"What the hell?" Steve said as we made it through.

"Okay, we seriously are not fighting about my driving right now. You'd do the same thing," I rolled my eyes. Bucky grabbed a biker throwing him off his motorcycle going back into the tunnel as I u'ed and followed. As we got closer I heard the cat guy on the top of the car before he pounced onto Bucky's bike. Bucky shook him off as they both slid to the ground, "Shit!" I swerved to the left just missing the cat dude as Bucky ran. Steve jumped out following him and Sam flew by with the cat dude on him. I followed in the car when I saw Bucky throw something into the ceiling and it exploded as I tried to avoid it but the car hit cement rolling multiple times before I was out.