2023
It's been several months since Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff gave their lives to bring back the trillions murdered in the decimation.
In the wake of the post - apocalyptic clean up, and the entirety of the universe adjusting to home the life...
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• • • "Take my hand, take my whole life too For I can't help falling in love with you"
Elvis Presley, Can't Help Falling in Love
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C H A R L I E was sitting in the emergency room, an ice pack on her ankle that sat raised on a chair. Her ankle was numb from the ice that had been sitting there for an hour. She had already filled out paperwork and was now waiting for a doctor to bring her in to get an x ray done.
Her phone had died after her last update to Addie, and she was left flipping through old magazines and trying not to stare at everyone else waiting in the room.
She had just closed the magazine when Bucky Barnes came running into the room. His eyes searched the room, moving past her for a split second before moving back.
Relief filled his body at the sight of her sitting across the room. And when their eyes met and she smiled, he felt like crying.
"What happened?" Bucky asked when he approached her. He leaned down to hug her, holding her tightly against him. And when their hug ended he looked down at her ankle. "How long have you been here? No doctor came yet?"
She saw how quickly he got angry over that and she reached up to grab his metal arm. "Hey, it's fine. I'm okay."
He looked at the nurse by the receptionist desk before deciding that making a scene wouldn't be in her best interest. So instead he knelt down to look at her ankle himself.
"How did this happen?" He said and looked up at her. Charlie hesitated for a moment, and Bucky picked up on it immediately. "Tell me."
She noticed how authoritative his voice had become, and she hardly recognized the man before her. Usually he was mostly relaxed and peaceful, but the worry in him was much too great for him to relax.
"Uh..." Charlie started. She was nervous; she knew that he would be angry. "So after I got out of work, um, Noah was waiting for me."
"At work?" Bucky asked, moving the sit down next to her. His anger was only beginning to grow.
"Yes. He wanted to talk... to talk about, well it's not important I guess. But we had a fight. I'm pretty sure he was high or drunk or both! I don't know."
"Tell me everything."
"He was warning me about you. And he tried to take my keys and he pushed me against the car and then when I was getting into it he slammed the door on my ankle."
