Forget Me Not - Bucky Barnes X Steve Rogers X OFC

Running, Driving, Escaping

Bucky froze in panic only to be pulled into Steve's room by Addy, the absent soldier was the only one to have a fire escape just outside his window and that was what they would use to escape. Addy thought that whoever was forcing their way into the apartment at that every moment was after Bucky, agents of HYDRA looking to reclaim their best asset even after four years of peace. Bucky was shoved rather unceremoniously out the window and made his way to the ground quickly followed by Addy who again took his hand and pulled him up the street to the apartment building's garage where she kept her car but when she crept inside and began making her way towards the silver hatchback she saw several armed people standing guard, whoever was after them had obviously anticipated a chase. “They've got my car surrounded, we have to get out another way” Addy whispered to Bucky who was crouched beside her, Bucky peeked his head around the cement wall they were hidden behind and saw what she was talking about. Those men were packing some serious heat, almost an excessive amount of weapons actually considering each person had a belt of grenades and huge automatic guns with large ammo clips. “Do you recognise any of them?” Addy asked but even when Bucky studied the bad guys’s faces he couldn't remember having seen any of them before. “Alright, give me your phone” Addy said and Bucky handed it over quickly wondering if she intended to call Steve for help but instead she launched the phone clear across the car park hitting an expensive looking car that immediately began making a horrendously loud alarm sound. “Mr Donald's car makes an alarm easy, we'll use it as a distraction” Addy said grabbing Bucky's hand to  pull him to an old looking car parked near the exit, “Don't let me down Mrs Lee!” Addy said to herself as she opened the driver door and reached up and flipped down the visor whereuppn a set of keys fell down onto the seat, Addy then nodded for Bucky to get in the car and she started the car before stomping on the accelerator and rushing out of the car park. The old car was nearly silent and was clearly well looked after and the sound of the other car screeching it's alarm masked the sound of their escape. For now they were free. “Get my phone, throw it out the bloody window” Addy ordered as she wrestled off her backpack, Bucky had to paw through the contents for a good minute before he found the phone in the very bottom. “What if Steve calls?” he asked anxiously and Addy sighed, “They can use that thing to trace us Buck, I have Steve's number memorized and once we are a safe distance away we can buy a burner phone and call to tell him everything besides, I've got a direct line to SHIELD and Tony's AI” Addy promised taking the moment to place her hand reassuringly on his leg. Bucky rolled down the window and threw the phone out onto the street where it was promptly ran over by another car. “Won't someone miss this car?” he asked then and Addy laughed, “Mrs Lee let's me use this car for emergencies, she can't even make it down the stairs to drive it so I pay for its upkeep” she explained leaving Bucky thinking the woman next to him was clearly an undiscovered genius. They sped down the freeway and Bucky couldn't help but look in the mirrors just to make sure they weren't being followed, at that moment he noticed a large black SUV coming up rather quickly behind them, the vehicle's tinted windows too dark to reveal who was inside but he had a bad feeling they were about to find out. Seconds later shot were fired shattering the back window and making Addy swerve violently to avoid getting hit by the following rounds of bullets that were fired. “Get down!” Addy ordered as she cut off another car to get ahead and put some distance between their car and the SUV that was just behind them. “Bucky, go into the glove box and get me the ear piece in there, I need to get in touch with SHIELD right now to provide some cover fire” Addy ordered as she wove between the traffic, Bucky opened the glove box and dug out the plastic box containing the ear piece which he handed to her. “Fury! It's Mars, we've got a situation on the motorway. We're being pursued by an SUV and taking fire, I've got Bucky in the car too and it think he's the target. Get a jet out here now” she demanded pressing the button on the earpiece, she listened for a minute and her face grew white with unbridled anger. “What bloody good are you if you can't help anyone?” she shouted which gave Bucky the indication that Nick Fury had denied her request. Addy pressed the button again and ended the call before pressing another. “Stark! It's Addy, I need you to give me control of the iron legion. Yes! Right now! I've got my iron tracker on, send them to my location and have then armed and ready to fire” Addy shouted as yet another round of bullets penetrated the little car narrowly missing Bucky's head as bullets shattered the front window. Bucky waited with baited breath hoping that this man Stark wouldn't be foolish enough to deny Addy her request like Fury had been, she didn't have time to wait for a reply however because at that moment a bullet entered the car and lodged in her shoulder making her cry out in pain. Blood was blooming across her wool cardigan like a wave and Bucky could see that Addy wouldn't have the strength to keep the car going for long. Just as Bucky was about to begin moving Addy from the driver seat so that he could drive an explosion sounded behind them. A wave of metal men flew from the sky and began firing at the SUV until it exploded, “Pull over” Bucky begged and Addy complied, her hands clutching the wheel weakly. They ended up on the side of the road and Bucky wasted no time in pulling Addy free from the car fearing that any of the bullets now lodged in its metal exterior might make it explode. She was gasping painfully as he set her down, her head leaning on his shoulder as he worked to strip off the bloodied cardigan so that he could see the damage. “Bucky!” she suddenly cried gripping him like a vice and as he watched on with a mixture of horror and fascination he saw that the bullet that had been deeply lodged in her shoulder was now being forced out, the metal falling with a plink! to the ground. The entry wound sealed itself up like magic and there was no more blood spilling from her body. “Could you do that before?” he asked as he picked the bullet up off the ground to show her, she shook her head and locked eyes with him, sky blue eyes staring fearfully into his own. “I don't think they were after me, I think...I think they were after you” he said quietly, he had read all his journal notes about being the winter soldier and while he knew HYDRA was still lurking about in the dark like the bogeyman but  they weren't the ones after Addy. “Stark, the iron legion did their job. Call them home” she said reaching her hand to her earpiece to press the button before taking a moment to listen to the reply crackling out of her earpiece, “Tell Steve we're fine, me and Bucky. We can't go back to the apartment, whoever is after us will be crawling all over the place waiting for us to come back, they made a mess out of chasing us so collateral damage isn't an issue for them at all. We need a safe house and a way to get there” she said with a shiver that had Bucky extending his arm to draw her closer to his side where he was radiating heat like a campfire. “Is it safe? We won't put Laura and the kids in danger?” she asked and then she smiled, “Tell Clint thank you, we'll be there soon” she said finishing off her call. “Tony's having a jet pick us up, Clint has a safe house for his family and we'll be joining them for a while” she said as she wrapped her arms around him, pulling him closer, Bucky rested his head atop hers and smiled, they had survived. For a moment he mused on how good a team they were although he clearly didn't need this level of violence in his day to day life. Bucky let Addy rest while he thought, when he thought of Tony Stark images of a quirky man dressed in a suit of scarlet metal armor came to mind and when he thought of Clint his memories revealed a man who had an affinity for bows and arrows. His memory was coming back in strands and shards but it was better than nothing. Even now as he looked down on Addy he wondered how on earth he'd ever forgotten her.