There Will Be Blood • Bucky Barnes

• Chapter Sixteen •

Azar found herself waking up in a room, guarded by two armed agents. She looked around the room, spotting a vase of flowers on her right.

She smiled slightly before looking at her left, seeing her twin sister asleep in the chair beside her bed.

"Arty.." She called out, her voice raspy.

The eldest twin woke up immediately and saw that her sister was awake. "Hey.." She smiled softly. "How are you feeling?"

"Like I had a building dropped on top of me.." Azar jokingly replied with a soft laugh, wincing as she held her stomach.

"Careful." Artemis warned gently. "You're still in the process of healing."

A sigh escaped from the youngest twin's lips as she settled down.

"What happened up there?" She heard her sister ask causing a frown to etch its way on her face.

"He was there.." Azar replied slowly.

"He stared at me so coldly, void of emotion." A frown came over Artemis' face as she listened to her twin's words as she explained everything that happened between her and Bucky on the Helicarrier. "The last thing I remember was hitting the water."

Azar looked down at her hands, playing around with them as silence fell between the sisters.

Frowning to herself the youngest spoke up again. "You didn't have to do that, you know." She said.

"Do what?" Artemis frowned slightly.

Azar gave her a pointed look. "Give up your job at SHIELD." She replied. "I know how much you loved being an agent."

"I did.. I did love it." Artemis smiled slightly. "But I love my little sister more." She leaned closer as Azar looked at her with a frown.

"Azar, I am so sorry.. I know you hate me for not saving Bucky when we saved you from HYDRA and I know that for the past 8 years since that day, I haven't been a very good sister to you.." She paused for a moment, letting out a shake sigh. "But we're all that the other has.. I'm not about to lose you over some job. This is my chance to fix things between us.. Be how we used to when we were 16.."

"I don't hate you.. You were just following orders." Azar smiled slightly. "But I'd like to go back to how we were.. I missed having my big sister around."

A soft smile etched it's way onto Artemis' face and the two sisters pulled each other into a tight embrace - the eldest minding her sister's healing wounds.

"And you were right." Artemis said as they began to break away from the hug. "He is worth saving." She smiled softly at her sister, who returned the smile with a small one of her own.

Her mind ran to Bucky. Was he alive? Did he get off the Helicarrier in time before it crashed?

Where was he?