N-701124 {b. barnes}

THE NURSE, THE ASSASSIN, AND THE LONE SURVIVOR

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"Colonel?"

"What's on your mind, Sergeant? Can't you see I'm busy?"

"Care to go dancing?" Bucky's blue eyes sparkled playfully.

She didn't have the heart to say no.

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They met as young teenagers and somehow never parted ways. Neither of them expected for one dance to turn to something more. After leaving home and starting school, life takes a dramatic and heartbreaking turn. How could she have been so stupid to think she was special enough for someone like him?

Belle sets off and joins the army as a nurse. When a new group of soldiers come in a few months later, she doesn't expect to see his face. There's still the same tension between them. The same tension that never left, even after being apart for years.

She doesn't know if she'll ever be able to trust, let alone love him, again.

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All she wanted was a normal life. A life where she wasn't used as a weapon to where she wasn't expected to fight for everything she wanted. The war ended years ago. They won the war, but there's always more to fight for.

"This doesn't have to end in a fight, Buck."

"It always ends in a fight."

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They won, but at what cost? She's alone in this world. Alone in a world she hardly knows. The future is almost too much for her. Tipping her to the edge, making her fall, breaking her more than she ever thought was possible.

"What's on your mind, Colonel?"

"I want to go back until he's awake. I can't do this without him. He's everything to me. After everything I've done to him, I don't deserve him. He deserves better."

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