𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒~ 𝐵.𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠

THIRTY SEVEN

"The receipt for your gear." Sharon tells the two boys as she joins the room that we were sat in. "Bird costume'? Come on." Sam moans making me laugh, "it is a bird costume technically." He turns to me with a dead stare, "you zip it." I can't help but laugh even harder. Sharon leaves for a moment making the atmosphere become awkward. "How long?" Steve doesn't even need to elaborate on the question because I knew exactly what he was asking. "Just under a year." He lets out a shocked breath, "why didn't you-"

"I'm sorry I wanted to, I did but..." I trail off, "he didn't want you to." He wasn't wrong but I can feel the hurt in his voice and that wants me to tell him that he is, "partly, not yet anyways and besides, I was embarrassed I couldn't bare to face you." I tell him making his face soften, "Rosalie, you never need to be embarrassed around me, you're like my sister and I don't care whatever you've done I'm always gonna be here for you." He tells me sincerely both of our eyes filling with tears."I would totally give you a hug right now but." I joke pulling at my arms which were shackled down to the chair, it works because he lets out a small laugh. "I asked them not to." I shrug, "it's alright, it's one way to get me to stay."

Sharon returns and then pushes a button which stops the restriction on the audio from Bucky's evaluation, "I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions. Do you know where you are, James? I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James." Something about that evaluator was giving me the chills, he seemed off of maybe I was just being paranoid. "My name is Bucky."

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"Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?" Steve asks making Sharon shrug, "Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" She suggests, "Right. It's a good way to flush a guy out of hiding. Set off a bomb, get your picture taken. Get seven billion people looking for the Winter Soldier." He rationalises, "You're saying someone framed him to find him." I nod, "he couldn't have done it, he was with me." I say, it was physically impossible for him to have done this without me knowing, we spent all our time together hauled up in our shitty apartment.

"Steve, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing." Sam interrupts, "We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads." Steve replies, "Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would." Almost instantaneously Sharon and I look to the evaluator on the screen, her eyes narrow as we watch him. Then suddenly all the power went out. I struggled in the cuffs as Sharon told the boys where to go. I pulled desperately but to no avail, letting out a small frustrated yell I close my eyes and the concentrate. I freeze the metal and I don't stop not until it shatters. I pull my arms free and dust them off before I follow after everyone else.

Bucky stalks through the building's ground floor. He batters two guards. With tech-glasses on Tony takes cover behind a pillar and I do the same. Tony then taps a wrist-control which becomes his Iron Man-glove. He zaps Bucky with a stun-burst before Bucky can shoot a guard. Tony rushes for him, firing again. Bucky ducks the blast then trades blows with Tony, firing the gun. Tony has the Iron Man-glove over the barrel, blocking the bullet. He pulls the gun barrel loose then Bucky smacks him backwards. Sharon and then Nat both go for him. They both land kicks and punches, then Bucky flips Sharon head over heels. She smashes onto a table and falls unconscious then Natasha leaps on Bucky, legs around his neck. He slams her onto another table and grabs her throat.

"You could at least recognize me." She wheezes, her face going red. In worry I run and push him off of her, he quickly turns and tries to punch me but I duck and slide underneath his arm. "Bucky please please be in there." I say as he goes in for another hit, I move back after he lands on one my stomach, he takes a step forward. "Bucky please I don't want to hurt you." He doesn't respond instead I have to catch his hand to stop it from hitting my face. I then punch him in the face making him stumble back as I quickly use my powers to trap him in a box of ice. He glares at me in a murderous way as he begins to punch at the ice with all his strength, it begins to crack but I try to make it thicker and stronger.

The amount I had to concentrate was beginning to hurt my head and I wasn't so sure that I could keep it going, he smashed through the ice and grabbed me back the neck. He slammed me into the wall, I begin to claw at him as my breathing became laboured, oh my god I think he was really going to kill me, I couldn't let him do that, it would destroy him.

He grabs my arm and snaps it as I try to hit him in the head making me scream out in agony as it falls limply the bone sticking out oddly from under my flesh. My vision was beginning to fade away and I couldn't breathe much. Suddenly I dropped to the ground gasping desperately for air as I watched T'Challa kick Bucky away from me. I can't focus on their fight as I'm fighting to stay conscious, my head was pounding and my arm was throbbing I was in so much pain I didn't think that I could hold on.