Chapter 5
Bucky fell to the mat, completely exhausted. Everytime he tried to make a break for it or come at you to get free, you took him down. You. A five foot nothing girl kicked the winter soldiers ass. You layed down next to him on the mat.
"Are we able to talk now? Frankly, because I'm kinda tired of being locked in here with a stubborn ass."
He scoffed. "What the hell was that? You said you were a mutant. Not the most amazing fighter I've ever seen."
"Thanks, but flattery won't get you out of here. And as for what that was. I don't know. It's just who I am. You've never been on a mission with me and you've been avoiding me so you wouldn't have known."
"I'm an ass."
"Yes you are."
He rolled on his side, facing you and you turned your head towards him.
"Okay you win. You want to talk, let's talk."
"Okay, for starters we're going to talk about feelings. I'm not sure why everyone here feels the need to avoid them like the plague, but we're going to discuss them. And your misguided placement of feelings onto me."
"Misguided? Are you kidding me? I love you! I remember always loving you!"
He jumped up and started pacing. You sat up and crossed your legs in front of you.
"Bucky, you don't love me. You just don't remember correctly. Try to think back. You thought you loved me, hell I thought you loved me. But it wasn't true."
"I remember loving you!"
"Bucky, stop pacing. Come sit here in front of me. I'm going to do something and you can't tell anyone. Only people who know are Loki and Thor."
"What are you going to do?"
"Shhhhh. Sit still. Try not to fight me, it'll give you one hell of a headache."
You leaned forward, grabbing his head in your hands. Closing your eyes, you pushed into his mind. You could see all the damage that had been done by HYDRA. It broke your heart. You started trying to smooth out the edges of the memories still left. Think of them as vhs tapes, unravel them too much they stop working. Smooth them out and rewind them they work like new. After you smoothed the last one, you let yourself out of his mind and ran to the trash can. It always made you sick when you messed in peoples minds.
"What did you do to me, Bethy? You spun around to look at him.
"You remember?" He had tears on his cheeks. You started crying, and ran to him and hugged him.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't remember."
"Shhhh. It's ok. You do now. But now, we have to talk about what you did remember and what you plan on doing about it."
"Ok. After you tell me what you did to me."
You sat down again.
"I didn't even know I could do it until a couple years ago. Loki actually discovered it. Ten years ago, I was on a mission with Logan in Peru. I was captured. Apparently the bastards heard about all my powers and wanted me to be their puppy. I was held for 2 weeks. During those 2 weeks, they kept injecting me with something. I didn't know what it was at the time. It didn't really do anything to me, so when I was rescued I didn't think anything of it. Fast forward to 3 years ago. Loki came to live in the tower. He kept staring at me and honestly it freaked me out. He confronted me one day, screaming about me being placed here to spy by the Jotunn. I thought he was insane. Long story short, they injected me with Jotunn DNA and it managed to meld into my own. I can do some things they can."
"Wow. That's amazing. Terrible that they experimented on you, but amazing."
"Yes. No one knows though. Loki and Thor, only because they did some spell to confirm it but you can't tell. Who knows what anyone would do."
"I won't. "
"Ok. So now that thats over, let's get down to buisness. You have to tell him."
"What? No! I can't do that! "
"And why not?"
"Because I just can't! I can't ruin our friendship, it's wrong!"
"Bucky, this isn't 1940 anymore. It's not wrong. It's never been wrong. You love who you love. There's nothing wrong with that. You deserve to be happy, and if that's who makes you happy, go for it."
"He doesn't feel the same."
"Don't be so sure about that."
"What?"
"When he realized you were still alive, he went crazy. I started to notice it wasn't just friendly concern, so I locked him in here until he confessed."
"So this wasn't your first time?"
"Nope and I gotta say for being the winter soldier, you cracked pretty fast, sir."
"What? We've been here for 8 hours!"
"Stevie lasted 3 days."