CROSSBONES PT TWO
Andrei took me inside an elevator. I needn't count the seconds or the minutes to understand this was taking a little too much; it was like there were at least four more floors under that club.
“You alright honey?”,he hummed at me.
“Yeah..”, I stretched my neck a little, “I just don't really fancy elevators”,I sighed deeply.
He didn't comment on that, seeing how it was a weird thing to say. Rumlow and elevators truly didn't work all that well together. Given than last time I had to jump off,what, five floors at least- with Steve around me as we headbutted the road.
The doors opened after a clicking sound was heard. Andrei walked out first, motioning his hand, cuing me to go along. The hallway was mostly dark, dim lights on the top every couple feet to give some faint lights.
A part of me believed i'd actually meet Rumlow at the end of the hallway. Another part of me though just couldn't shake off that feeling that something wasn't right. It couldn't be that easy.
After a couple of minutes walking down ,having uttered not a single word, I was right next to Andrei. We stopped before a big steal door.
He pressed a few buttons on the screen over the handle,and as the clicking sounds were heard,we simply waited.
“I wouldn't do that if I were you”,i said in a low voice, still looking at the door.
“W- what?”
“Your breath stinks, but I haven't smelled an ounce of alcohol out of you. You're clearly more sober than I am”,i stated. “Plus, I can feel the metallic needle of the syringe you want to stick on me. Not a good idea”.
Andrei took a step back, gulping down,his eyes wondering all over the place. I massaged my temples.
“I'm not about to kill you- unless you give me a reason to. They probably told you they'd pay you good for this. Said they'd just have some fun and then that's it. Sounds about right?”
“I- how, how do you-”
“Rumlow is far more dangerous than you think. I suggest you get the hell out of here as fast as you can”.
Andrei was pacing up and forth brushing his hair behind; i'd say he was having a panic attack, but given the fact that he was about to drug me- well, I wasn't feeling very empathetic.
That was when we heard a sound behind those doors; much like levers and gears spiraling.
“You- you don't understand! He's gonna- Crossbones' gonna kill me!”,he yelled at me. “My ma, my pa- he's gonna kill all of us!”
“Oh shut up”, I said annoyed,my eyes still on the door as it was about to open. “He clearly didn't believe you alone would be efficient enough to drug me- any of us. He did that just to annoy me. Or Steve. I don't know. But either way- you're not important enough. He probably doesn't even remember your name”.
Andrei raised his eyebrows at me. His face filled with horror mixed with just a tad offense. But then he noticed the red sparkles around my fingers, and took a few steps back.
“What are you?”
“An Avenger. Now get out before you get burned”.
He rushed towards me, grabbed me by the arm. I pulled my face, surprised by his move. I looked down on him, waiting for him to say something.
“An Avenger? Why the hell are the Avengers here?”,he almost yelled. “You're gonna get us all killed!”
“Aight”, I clicked my tongue, now seeing that this wasn't going to go away on it's own. “Off you go Andrei”.
I pulled my arm,causing the floor to move under his legs. Andrei let out a gasp as he was pulled all the way inside the elevator. With another pull of my arms I closed off the steal doors of the elevator.
“At last. Quiet...”
The door didn't reveal much. As I walked in,there was more darkness,and after I took a few steps forward the door closed behind me. I could see a light lit up at the end. It was a small round table,too small though,resembling a nightstand.
It had a phone on it which started ringing as soon as I went closer. I looked at it, let it ring for a few moment. I could feel that I wasn't alone in there.
“Hello, you reached Durex rubber company. How may we help you today? Feeling a little itchy?”, I asked, high pitching my voice.
“I can see you've spent a lot of time hanging around Stark”,he said in an awfully low voice.
The floor was vibrating, each wave more frequent than the last one. I couldn't concentrate enough to make up a number just yet though.
“How rude of you- to miss your own party. You didn't actually count on me getting drugged, did you?”
“And you didn't actually believe that you'd get Romanoff and Rogers in Romania without me knowing. Did you?”
I bit my cheeks. I should drag this on for as long as I could. Tasha had given me many,many toys and if there was something i'd have learned from all this time with her-
Okay. That's a big,fat lie here. I have no idea how the hell she does this thing where she can track down people through phones, or computers or whatever. All I know is that I should keep him on the line. The longer- the better.
I pulled my wrist up; putting the phone in between my ear and shoulder, I began pressing some buttons on the screen over my bracelet. I could swear she does the same thing every time,and yet I just can't remember how.
“Well, you're welcome”,I huffed out. “ I mean, I did save you the trouble of hunting us down. We're basically rats in a cage right now, aren't we?”
This was the point where I let out word for them to come down. I reached the intercom line and began writing the message which was to be sent. By now I could tell that there were at least thirty men down here,waiting for Rumlow to give his order right after this cute little chat.
“I'm not naive Pearse”,he said. “first I had Barnes on my ass for almost a month- now it's like the Avengers get together party”.
“We had nothing to do with Barnes- if that's any consolation”.
“Well, neither did HYDRA”.
“Yup”,i hummed. “Turns out Bucky boy's working solo these days. I'd hate to be the one to stand on his way. I mean- have you fought him? He's a real pain in the ass”.
I could listen to his heavy breathing on the line. I'd just sent word out and put my hand down as I picked up the phone again.
“Roger's isn't the only one on my list Pearse”,he huffed out, and I could almost picture the grin on his face. “Susan will make sure both you and Cap suffer before bringing you before me”.
“.....Susan?”