Project Silent Fox (Bucky X OC)

Chapter Nineteen: What to Do Next

Jacqueline struggled to open her eyes. It was bright and the light hurt her eyes. There was something touching her left hand but she couldn't tell what it was and a lump was laying on her stomach.

"Please come back Jackie. I can't lose you too." A voice mumbled. Jacqueline forced open her eyes and looked to her left. Steve was sitting in the chair holding her hand.

"Stevie?" Her voice was extremely weak. Steve instantly looked at her and stuck his head out of the room yelling down the hall. Jacqueline looked at her hands and noticed that she was missing her right arm. She had a metal arm like Bucky making her softly snort. She quickly noticed that the lump on her stomach was Jasper when he started attacking her face with licks. When Steve came back Natasha and Bruce was with him.

"You're awake." Natasha said smiling with relief at her as she sat up.

"And slightly intact. Where is the others?" She asked making everyone look down. "James? Daddy? Jessica? Shuri? T'Challa? Peter? Tony?" Tears started to run down her face as she got more desperate.

"Tony is in a coma. He strained himself while malnourished. Everyone else disappeared." Natasha told her as a sob shook Jacqueline.
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Jacqueline sighed and sat up in bed. It had been 6 months since she woke up but she was struggling. She really did have to give Steve props for attempting a life of normalcy for her but she. Just. Couldn't. She left a note for Steve telling him that she couldn't sleep and was going for a ride. She walked out the doors with Jasper at her heels and nano particles started to creep out of the metal in her arms forming her motorcycle. Jasper climbed up her leg and into her coat as the bike formed. She took off in the rain. She wasn't sure where she was going but she kept driving.

'Come on, Doll. I want a kiss.' Bucky's voice whispered in her ears.

'Jackie. Jasper missed you.' Sam's mocking voice said next.

'Mommy! Mommy! I look like you.' Jessica excitedly spoke.

'Well at least he pulled you back up.' Shuri laughed loudly.

'You are our unstable problem.' T'Challa said humored.

'I can't believe you can hold your breath for seven minutes.' Peter's baffled voice said.

Jacqueline stopped and turned off her bike. When she looked up she was at Tony's. Pepper's retreating form was seen running in the house. Jacqueline got off the motorcycle and the nano particles started to crawl up her body and back into her arm. Jasper jumped out of her coat and shook his fur out before trotting after her.

"Tony!" Pepper yelled as she ran in. Pepper ran back out hugged Jacqueline. Jacqueline smiled at her then looked at Tony.

"Can we talk?" She asked him. Tony led her to his workshop and looked at her. Jasper climbed up Tony and licked his cheek happily.

"What's wrong?" He asked her.

"I don't think I can do this. I can't just carry on with life." She said softly. "It's just Steve puts on this act. Like it's for me and it drives me insane."

"Then do the same thing you did last time everything got too much. Travel." Tony told her. "Steve is very infuriating."

"Tony. I tried to call Steve you told me not too." She said with a sigh knowing about their argument.

"Yeah well I thought it was a good idea at the time. He should have just been there with us." Tony said.

"You forget the only reason I was there was because I came to talk to you for Jessica's sake." Jacqueline pointed out.

"Yeah but think about it. You were coming to fix something that wasn't your fault. You were stuck between a rock and a hard place. I don't blame you for picking the way you did." Tony said standing with his hands on his hips.

"Did I believe we needed control yes but not in the way they did it. I wasn't going to sign the Accords." Jacqueline said as she watched Jasper jump down from Tony's shoulder and run off.

"You weren't listed in the Accords. You didn't have to sign it." Tony told her. Jacqueline snapped her head back towards Tony in shock.

"Was anyone going to tell me? I didn't have to go into hiding after the Germany fight." She said in complete shock. Tony just shrugged at her and she shot a half-hearted glare at him.

"Besides, Pepper is pregnant and I'm going to fuck a child up so bad." Tony said quickly as he flopped into Jacqueline's lap like the drama queen he is.

"I thought the same as you yet Jessica was a perfectly fine 5 year old." She said making Tony shoot up.

"I guess you're right." He said confidently.

"Besides, Pepper is gonna be here. She been keeping you from killing people since some time before 2008." Jacqueline added making Tony pout at her.

"Rude." He grumbled. Jacqueline opened her mouth to say something when the national anthem started playing on her phone. "Is that Steve?"

"Hey Stevie." She said answering the phone as Tony gave her an extremely amused look. "I'm okay. I swear. I will be home in like 30 minutes. Bye." Jacqueline looked at Tony and sighed. "I have to go." Tony nodded and pulled her into a hug. He didn't want to let her go but he had no choice. Jacqueline pressed a kiss to his cheek before walking back upstairs. Tony stood there and listened to Pepper talk to Jacqueline for a little bit. Then he heard her motorcycle start back up. Tony looked at the picture of him and Peter and a thought hit him. He ran up to the attic and dug through a box. He switched boxes until he found both frames he wanted. He cleaned them off and put both next to the one of him and Peter. The first was off him and Jacqueline standing in a lab working on his presentation for MIT before things went to shit. He smiled at Jacqueline. She had super short black hair here compared to the long brunette locks she had now. The second picture made him smile. It was when his father had custody of Jacqueline. She was laying on Tony and both of them were sound asleep. He smiled at the picture and looked at the computer to his left. He tapped the screen and a dot started blinking. He smiled as the bug he put in Jacqueline's arm started to work.
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Jacqueline reached the compound in half the time she told Steve and walked into a big chest. Arms enveloped her and the body completely relaxed. Jasper wiggled between Steve and Jacqueline.

"Steve?" She asked as he ran a hand through her hair.

"I was so worried when I read your note. Anything could have happened." Steve said softly.

"I just went to see Tony. Did you know I wasn't listed in the Accords?" She asked him as they walked back into the compound.

"Yes." He said as if it was obvious.

"Then why the fuck was nothing said to me." She hissed.

"It was easier if you were in hiding too then the government couldn't have targeted you to get to us." Jacqueline glared at him. "Yes we knew the government can't really scare you but we were worried about you." Steve started rambling on and on as she sat down in the kitchen at the table and he went to the counter but Jacqueline just kinda zoned out.

"I think I want to go travel again." Jacqueline said cutting Steve off mid sentence about the support group he was going to start. Steve was silent for a few minutes so she continued. "I feel like a part of me was ripped from me. I feel like I have to look for myself again. I know you have been doing all this because you think it'll help but I think I really need to go and do this." Steve still had his back to her and he let out a sigh. When he finally turned to face her he had a small smile.

"I want you to be happy. I want you to figure out whatever it is you think is out there but I don't want you to leave." He said softly. Jacqueline got up and went over to hug him he held her close and pressed a kiss to her head.

"I love you Jackie."

"Love you too Stevie." She said pressing a kiss to his cheek and resting their faces together. Jacqueline left the room with Jasper trotting next to her. Steve's smile turned into a frown.