Dark Angel
THE NEXT MORNING
Bucky's eyes opened and he turned his head to the right, looking for her, she was still there sleeping. He thought about last night, could he trust her?
Could she trust him?
Could he trust himself?
Bucky shook those thoughts from his head, if he was going to trust her to get them out, then he was going to have to know more of her history. So he sat up and rubbed his face, as soon as Abigail woke he would ask her about her past.
Abigail woke with a start, feeling someone's eyes on her back. She was quickly shifting into her wolf forum when a strong hand grabbed her shoulder, Abigail turned and looked. It was the man who had brought her here, she relaxed a bit as his hand descended from her shoulder.
He still hadn't told her his name, he was strange. Very silent and often spoke with his body language. Which was better if they needed to talk with out using words, what his body language told her he was troubled.
"What?" She said softly, there was no one else to trust here. And he was right. He did bring her here, but 'Ahl-Gharha' couldn't hurt her. It also looked like he was about ready to explode when he talked about Ahl-Gharha. Abigail hadn't seen his face yet, because most of the times it had been hidden in the shadows. The only thing she could see clearly was he blue eyes that seemed to go right through her...
Abigail sat up and watched the man descend back into the shadows where his bed was. He sat down and looked at her, once more the only thing she could see was his eyes.
"What?" She asked again with a frown, wishing he'd let her see his face. A glint caught her eye, the way the dim light over head showed his metal arm a bit. It moved and she flinched, the man's eyes squinted a bit, but he said nothing. His metal arm went and rubbed his face, it must've been cool, because she heard him let out a small breath.
Abigail tilted her head to study him, under his t shirt he had muscles, really good and worked out muscles. His arm bulged with power, she could see veins straining under his skin as his hand tightened into a fist.
"What's your name?" She asked him, her eyes searching his.
"The Winter Soldier." He replied with hesitation, as if that gave her anything about him.
"No your real name." She said with a half smile. The man didn't answer for a very long time, as if he was thinking about his name. Then he spoke, she heard his lips parting as he did so, "Barnes..." that name sounded familiar.
Abigail sighed, "Your first name." Then he didn't speak, his shoulders got tense as if he was going to explode in anger he has been holding back for a long time.
"I-I, I don't remember.." He said as he let out a shaky breath. Abigail instantly felt even more hate for 'Ahl-Gharha', he had wiped him of his name and only given him his last name. She growled loudly as the wolf threaten to break through her skin.
"I think we should wait." The man called Barnes spoke up, she stopped the wolf.
"Why?"
"Because if we stay he'll think we won't try."
"But if we stay he might think we are planning to escape."
Barnes didn't say anything else. Then he stood and walked over to her, casting a shadow over her, his body language told her to trust him. Abigail looked up at him, then she recognized him. She stood up and he took a couple steps away from her.
"James." She said, she had seen his face in a museum. James Buchanan Barnes, Captain America's war team mate and best friend.
"What?" He asked as confusion showed in his eyes and on his face.
"Your name is James Buchanan Barnes! Your best friend is Steven Rogers, I saw you in a museum." She was suddenly getting excited and she didn't know why, "Steven Rogers is Captain America!"
Shock flooded Bucky as he heard Steve's name and his own name. Steve was Captain America? His best friend, and he tried to kill him? How was he in a museum, confusion was still clear in his brain, then little memories came back to him, guns, knives, Steve, pain... falling...
"No." He said sharply, stopping her in mid sentence and stopping the memories. She was talking about his past when he stopped her, "No." He repeated, "No, no, no." He continued to say no over and over again as anger built up in him, Steve his own friend! He remembered him!
His metal fist struck out at the door, putting a dent in it. Then his fist continued to hit the door, he could hear something tearing as the girl joined in beside him. She rammed her shoulder into the door, excitement flooded her body and he could feel it. With both of their forces combined, the door would be down in a few seconds.
*Cue Music*
And which it was.
Guards came running up from both directions, Abigail didn't know which side to attack, so she lunged to the right, dodging bullets and hoping James was doing the same. Soon Abigail had that side controlled, she turned, not knowing what to expect.
Bucky stood there, both sides heaving. He looked down at the bodies and quickly dropped the machine gun he held in his hands, he flinched. More deaths on his hands. He remembered everything and the memories were overwhelming, he wanted to collapse and never get back up.
But he needed to help Abigail escape and that was what he was going to do. Bucky turned towards her, his eyes cold as if he was on a mission. To keep the pain away, he would go into mission mode so he wouldn't feel anything, "Let's go." He said as he walked past the huge wolf.
She followed him silently, her ears perked for any danger. Her eyes flicked to his metal arm that had just now raised up, it was signaling her to stop while he checked it out. Abigail growled lowly, but stopped and waited for him to go on.
He turned around the corner and disappeared. Then there was a snapping sound and a bionic noise, then a couple more of each noise. Then a whistling noise, her name was lowly called and she decided it was safe to come out. There was three guys dead on the ground, their neck's snapped to the side. James had taken one of the machine guns and was creeping around.
"Your swords are over there, I need to take care of something." James said as he pointed to a door on the right, Abigail nodded even though he couldn't see it.
"There might be a couple guards in there, get the silver pistol and an extra clip." He said, then he went around a corner and was gone.
Abigail sighed softly, but did as she was told. She stood up on her hind legs and broke down the door and snarled at the two men. Both started to shoot at her, her paw went out and struck both of them. They hit the wall so hard that she heard their bones break, Abigail smiled in satisfaction. She scanned the room, see that it had a lot of weapons.
She found her swords that were still in their holsters and put them on, clipping them around her neck and around her waist.
(You'd think if she gets stuck it will kill her. Nope she's a werewolf and there are emergency straps)
Abigail found the silver pistol beside his mask and goggles, what happened to him? How did he become cold? Well she new it was 'Ahl-Garha's fault.
She grabbed the gun and an extra clip, then she was out looking for James. She turned the same corner he did and found a hall with a few dead bodies. Then she heard crunching noises and she made her way over to the sound, Abigail heard yelling as well, but she couldn't make out the words.
Then James walked out of the room and went over to the huge werewolf and took the gun from her, "We should go." He said as he walked past her. She got down on all fours and walked after him, he still held the machine gun in his hand. Then they walked by a power grid and he unleashed the machine gun on it, "It's going to blow." He said as he dropped the machine gun and made his was over to the exit. She stood up again and put the clip in her right hand, she grabbed James by the waist then put him behind her, "Buckle the straps on my swords and then hold on to them." She said to him, he did as he was told.
Abigail broke the door down and ran out, she heard James's ragged breath in her ear as she prepared to jump the fence it was around eight feet, she could make it. And she did, Abigail landed on all fours and started running.
She didn't know where she was running, she just knew they had to get away. After they left the lab, it blew up into pieces with an awesome explosion.
Abigail pushed on with James clutching her swords and her fur as they ran. Then she felt James slipping off, he was doing nothing to stop himself, so she stopped and he fell to the ground, sobbing noises coming from his mouth.
Bucky crumpled to the ground, sobs wracking his body, but no tears were shed. All the pain and death he caused came flooding back to him. He couldn't stop himself, Bucky couldn't even move as sobs continued to wrack his body, he felt like Steve when he was having those asthma attacks and he couldn't catch his breath or stop himself.
Bucky didn't want to stop himself, so he and Abigail just stayed there. Her hand on his shoulder as he sobbed, his eyes looked into her red, brown and silver eyes.
He saw the wolf face disappear as the human face came back, he looked away when he saw sympathy for him in her eyes.
"I'm sorry."