Tenebris Angelus

Chapter 15

Bucky's PoV

I go to walk away, "you missed". I turned around and see Angel smiling at me. "I'm going to leave you two to talk" Steve says and left, I sit down next her. She looks at me with her eyes now one green and one purple, she's still beautiful. She smiles and lifts her hand towards me, she stops when she sees her hand. Her smile goes and she carries on staring at her hand, I interlock my metal hand with hers and she looks at me sadly. "You're still beautiful" I tell her and she lays back down still holding my hand.

Angels PoV

I lay down trying to forget about my awful hand, I'll figure out later why it's lilac but right now I want to sleep. Sam walks in "Angel! You're awake" surprisingly Bucky didn't let go of my hand instead he tightened his grip like if he let's go I'll disappear. Sam looks at our hands then at Bucky then back at me "when did you two get so cosy?" He asks, "can you please get me some water?" I reply quickly to avoid his question and he nods. "This isn't over by the way, give me details later" he walks out and Bucky smiles slightly.

"Yǒuyuán qiānlǐ lái xiānghuì" I say quietly. "What?" Bucky asked looking at me, I smile remembering sensei. "It means 'fate brings people together from far apart" he looks at me in awe, a look I'm not used to. "I forgot you're from China" he says more to himself, I laugh a little "yep good ol' times".

He looks down at our intertwined hands and then back at me, his thumb gently makes circles on my hand. "I guess I join you with the different hand thing" I laugh and he just stares at me, "What? Why are you staring?". He lets go of my hand and moves towards my face slowly moving a piece of hair out my face, I close my eyes slightly at his touch.

I've never wanted to kiss someone so much in my life. Maybe if I just kiss him then the feelings will be gone, yeah I'm probably feeling like this because I want to kiss someone. He leans towards me and I lean forwards slowly closing my eyes. The doors swing open and we both move quickly. Seriously?! Great timing... not! I'm going to kill them. I death glare the person who interrupted this moment. "If I had a gun I would have shot you for that" I mumble at Sam. Way to play it cool Angel, A plus for effort.

He shrugs "I got you water". From the corner of my eye I see Bucky giving Sam a death glare, Sam just smirks. "I would say sorry for interrupting but I'm not really sorry" he snorts and I give him a look. "Bucky you should go take a shower and eat something" Sam says sitting down in another chair next to me, I look at Bucky and he looks like he hasn't slept in ages, "As much as I hate to agree with Sam he's right Barnes you stink" I smile. He stands up "I'll visit later" he smiles at me then glares at Sam before walking out.

"So... I think there's something you need to tell me" Sam leans back into his seat and I blush a bit. Jeez Barnes what have you done to me?

"Nothing is going on for the 10th time" I sigh and Sam looks pointedly at me, "mhm whatever you say". I roll my eyes playfully, after hours of laughing and telling embarrassing stories he left. This is the first time in ages I've been alone and I don't know if I like it.

I hear a bang from outside and sit up quickly bringing my knees to my chest. I start shaking and nearly crying, I can't be taken not again. I close my eyes and try to calm myself down when the door opens and a figure slowly walks in. I look around the room quickly for anything I can use against them, nothing. It's late meaning the lights in my room are dim and all I can see is the silhouette of a person.

The figure gets closer and I fling myself out of the bed not caring about breaking the wires hooked to the machine. I land on top of them and put my arm over their neck, "it's me" Bucky tells me calmly and I instantly move my arm. I place my head on his chest and he brings his hand up stroking my hair softly. He picks me up and places me back into the bed "Well you probably broke the machine". We both laughed.

"What are you doing here so late" I moved to look at him and he shrugged "couldn't sleep". I nodded knowingly.

He looked down at his hands shyly. Aww this is the first time I've seen him shy. He looks back at me "sorry for trying to you know" I cut in "kiss me?". He nodded and I smiled "Well maybe I would have kissed you back".

His eyes widen "oh... I want to kill Sam so much right now", I laugh at him and he blushes a bit. "Your laugh is cute" he mumbles so quietly I only just heard. I smile at him and turn my head catching a glimpse of the machine which showed my reflection.

My hair is now white with blue streaks through it, one of my eyes have stayed purple whereas the other went back to my original green. I look away and lift my hand to look at it, my fingers are a purple which lightens up to a lilac at my hand and slowly fades up my arm. I put my arm back down and close my eyes to stop myself from crying.

Bucky grabs my hand and I instantly pull it out of his grasp, I open my eyes to look at him. "Please don't touch me..." I say quietly "... I'm a monster". He instantly moves forwards and puts his hands on my face making me look at him, "you never have and never will be a monster". I hug him and he returns the hug straight away. I pull away from him and I stare into his beautiful eyes.

"Can I kiss you?" He shifts nervously and I smirk leaning forwards "Are you sure you want to? I mean I probably smell horrible". He smiles looking into my eyes then back at my lips, "I'm actually surprised you still want to, I mean I probably smell horrible and I look like some weirdly drawn monster-" before I could finish I was cut off by a machine beeping loudly making me flinch. Bucky hugs me tightly and I slowly fall asleep in his arms.