Selene pulls Bucky's hair back and ties it with a headband as he sleeps with his head in her lap, his feet across the back seat. Natasha sleeps in the front and Steve drives.
"Thank you" Steve tells Selene, glancing at her in the rear view mirror. "For helping us find him" Selene nods and looks down at Bucky. "It's okay to care, Selene" he tells her. "It's okay to want something" she strokes Bucky's cheek.
"I've been alone for a very long time, Steve, I'm not sure I know how to....let someone in"
"You've already let him in, Selene" Steve tells her with a smile, she smiles a little and looks down.
"Did he tell you how we first met?" she asks, Steve frowns.
"When we introduced you?" he asks, she shakes her head.
"No, long before that, the day he fell from the train" she answers. "I smelt the blood and I found him lying in the snow" she looks down at Bucky. "He was still conscious.....semi-conscious....and he kept saying your name, over and over again" she looks to Steve. "I dragged to this cave...tried to keep him warm...tried to save his arm....we were there for about 3 days" Bucky groans and nuzzles into Selene. "When these KGB agents found us...the sun had just risen and...I was useless, I couldn't stop them from taking him, or me" Selene and Steve share a look before Selene notes the changing colour of the sky. Steve follows her eyes.
"The sun" he states. "Selene" he looks to her worried as she stares at the sky.
"How far out?" she asks.
"At least three hours" he answers, Selene nods and looks down at Bucky.
"Guess it was too much to ask for" she whispers. Bucky groans and wakes looking up at Selene.
"Selene" he whispers and reaches up to stroke her cheek before sitting up and looking outside. "Selene" he states more worried. "We have to find shelter" Bucky tells Steve as he takes Selene's hand.
"Buck, we're in the middle of nowhere" Steve tells him back. "We're at least an hour from anywhere" Bucky looks around the car before looking to Selene. He's not loosing her. Not now.
"Pull over" he snaps, Steve frowns but does as he's told, Bucky shrugs out of his jacket, and wraps it around Selene pulling the hood up. "Are there blankets in the trunk?" he asks, Steve nods and climbs out of the car moving around to the trunk, Natasha wakes and watches them with a frown. Steve climbs back into the car with a pile of blankets from the emergency kit, he holds them out to Bucky who grabs one and turns to the window beside him and covers the window with the blanket before leaning over Selene to so the same to the one next to her. Then the back window, only half, only the half on her side, and then finally he hangs a blanket between Selene and Natasha. "Okay" he breaths, Steve starts the car again and drives away, Bucky taking the last blanket and shifting closer to Selene, the two of them pressed against one another. "Come here" he whispers pulling her onto his lap, she curls against his chest and he pulls the last blanket around her, just to be sure. "Pick up the pace, Grandma" Bucky teases, Steve shoots him a look as Natasha chuckles away. Selene curls a hand into Bucky's shirt and presses it over Bucky's heart. He presses his head to hers and wraps his arms around her tighter.
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Selene groans as she wakes and stretches out before sitting up, she's sleeping in some form of lab, Tony and Bruce sat at their computers, Bruce glances to her.
"It's the only place in the facility that is completely sun free" he tells her and nods to Bucky, who sleeps on the medical bed, his metal arm propped up in equipment. "He thought it best plus...I think he's worried about you vanishing" Bruce whispers.
"Heard that" Bucky mumbles. Selene smiles and stands moving to him as he looks to her.
"How are you feeling?" she asks brushing his hair back. He nods and lifts his face, she smiles a little and kisses him back, he threads his human hand around her neck.
"I feel we missed something" Tony mumbles with a smirk, Bruce hums in agreement. Selene pulls back and looks to them.
"How's his arm?" she asks. Tony moves closer.
"Well...good news: they didn't do more damage"
"And the bad news?" Bucky asks.
"We're not sure there is bad news" Bruce offers. "Your arm has been modified to...change with you" Bucky frowns. "Your...wolf form will be larger, more muscular, and your old arm would have looked out of place..." Bruce moves to Bucky's new arm and touches a small button on the back of his arm. "Right here..there is a mechanism that when you feel the change you press...." Bruce presses it and Bucky's arm starts changing, the plates whirling and shifting till his arm is twice the size as it is supposed to be, Bucky stares at it. Bruce presses the button again and it withdraws.
"Okay" Bucky mumbles. "Okay I can....." he takes a deep breath and clings to Selene's hand. "Deal with this....it's just once a month right?" he asks.
"Lycans now aren't restricted to the moon phases" Selene corrects. "But other then a full moon....it is....voluntary" Bucky nods a little. "You can control this" Selene whispers to him, he looks to her and then nods.
"You must be tired and hungry" Bruce offers looking between them and then unlatches Bucky's arm. "Try not to over do it" he warns as Bucky slides off of the the bed and takes Selene's hand, they leave the lab together.
"I've seen stranger relationships" Tony mumbles, Bruce nods.
"Most of yours come to mind" Bruce tells him back with a smirk.
"Hahahah. So funny" Tony throws a pen at him. Bruce chuckles dodging it.
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Winter's Immortal (CWAC Book One)
FanfictionBook One of the Crossover Within A Crossover Series. "Selene's almost forgotten she's a woman, she's absolutely focused on killing, and she's really good at it. Then, she meets Bucky, she starts to get a... kind of memory of what it's like to be hum...
