Fated Marks

Third Person’s POV-

“I love you Will.” Hayley said tearing up as she walked towards him. She bent down and put her key to the apartment on the table. Will didn’t take his eyes off of her. The tears in his eyes stung as he struggled to hold them back.

The truth was that as mad and as hurt as he was he missed Hayley. She was his sister in everything but blood. His ride or die. She gave him a family when his own had turned his back on him. She got him through every heartbreak and rough patch. She nursed him through every cold and hangover he’d had since the day they met and when it seemed the world was against him she was there to remind him that no matter what came his way he wouldn’t face it alone.

He watched her and noticed thin she looked compared to the last time he saw her. The bags under her eyes were darker than he’d ever seen them meaning she hadn’t slept in a while. He hands slightly shaking meant she hadn’t been eating and was probably living off nothing but coffee. Then he saw the one thing that told him that whatever was going on with her, it was very bad. She wasn’t wearing her necklace.

Hayley straightened herself out.

“Goodbye brother.” She said before turning around and walked out of the apartment.

Will watched the door close and sat there frozen in place. He reached for his phone and dialed Natasha. She normally picked up on the second ring but this time it rang until he was forwarded to her voicemail.

Will got up and walked to the window. He saw Hayley talk to someone on the phone as she tried to wave down a cab. He could tell she was having a hard time keeping her composure. Even from that distance he could see her shoulders were tense.

He got his phone and dialed the one person he knew would answer without fail. Hayley got in a cab and left.

“Will, it’s not really a good time.” Tony said.

“Kind of figured considering Natasha isn’t picking up.” Will said.

“She’s a bit… unavailable.” Tony said. “Do you need something?”

“Hayley was here and I think something’s wrong.” Will said.

“What do you mean Hayley was there?” Tony asked.

“I’m calling her.” He could hear Clint say in the background.

“Hayley was where?” He could hear Bruce as well.

“With Will.” Tony said. “Did she say or do anything?”

“She pulled out some cash and stuff from under the floorboards.” Will said.

“Her stash.” Steve answered.

“She kept some cash and spare identities in case she ever had to leave.” Clint said. “Shit she’s not answering.”

“That explains why she wasn’t wearing her necklace.” Will said.

“You think she’d…” Thor started.

“Without a doubt.” Steve said.

“Did she say anything about where she may be going?” Tony asked.

“No she apologized and said goodbye. She mentioned something about trying to make things right.” Will said. “What’s going on?”

“Kind of a long story. Thanks for letting us know.” Tony said before hanging up.

“Can you track her phone?” Bruce asked him.

“What do you think I’m doing?” Tony said typing on his phone. “Shit, can’t find it she must be using a scrambler. Uh What is she thinking?!”

“She’s not.” Steve said frustrated.

“She is, She wants Nat back. She probably didn’t find anything and she thinks this is the only way to do that.” Clint said typing out another message on his phone.

“We must find her before her brother does.” Thor said.

“That’s just it, that’s what she wants.” Bruce said.

“Thor do you know what the meeting point he told her was?” Steve asked.

“No she just said it was an old diner from before.” Thor said.

“Well that narrows it down to every diner in America which is what, a couple million?” Tony snapped.

“We can have facial recognitions software running on every camera in the world.” Fury said.

“She spent most of her life hiding in plain sight, she’s not going to make it that easy.” Clint said.

Hayley’s POV-

Most of Grand Central Station was empty but I managed to get on the last train heading to Philadelphia. I was going to be early by a few hours but it would give me time to scout ahead. The good thing was that Liberty Diner was open twenty-four hours and they had Wifi.

I hacked into Rumlow’s phone and checked his location. He was still in DC but it was a residential area. He hadn’t made any calls and had already booked his flight.

Allison Adler’s First Rule of Business

Greed and Ambition make people very easy to manipulate.

Mom may have been a horrible person and made some very questionable decisions but she knew how to get what she wanted.

I looked over at the clock on the wall and saw that it was about to be three in the morning. Two hours until Rumlow showed up and exactly twenty-four hours before I was supposed to meet Hadrian.

I don’t think he’d kill me inside the diner. He wouldn’t risk getting banned from his favorite restaurant and never getting his hands on the best bacon cheeseburgers in the world. At least in his opinion.

I started thinking about the real best bacon Cheeseburgers in the world back in New York.

“Hey sweetie, can I get you a refill?” The waitress said.

“Oh yes, thank you.” I said giving her a polite smile.

“It’s awfully late for you to be out on your own.” She said.

“Or early depending on how you look at it?” I said making her chuckle. “Do you guys still have apple pie?”

“Actually we just pulled it out of the oven, would you like a slice?” She asked.

“Yes please.” I said.

Flashback- Six and a Half Years Earlier

“That’s your favorite isn’t it?” Allison said looking at the menu. “You always order apple pie a la mode when we come here.”

Allison looked over her menu to watch her daughter. Her twelve year old daughter sat across from her with her arms crossed and a skeptical look on her face. She hadn’t even touched her pie.

“Come on Calliope, desert for breakfast?” Allison enticed.

“Mom, can you just say it already?” Callie said.

“Say what?” Allison said arching an eyebrow.

“You always do this.” Callie said.

“And what am I doing exactly?” Allison asked.

“You’re bribing me.” Callie answered.

“Calliope I would never…” Allison started but Callie just gave her a hard look making her sigh. She missed the days when her daughter would just take her at her word without any arguments. Ever since they left Chicago everything was an argument.

“Every time you need me to do something for you and him you take me out, just the two of us. You take me to whatever place for breakfast at and order my favorite desert even though I haven’t actually eaten anything. Then you take me to museum or the zoo depending on where we are, the mall and buy me whatever I want, We catch a movie and then go to dinner where you tell the waiters it’s my birthday even if it’s not so I feel special. Then after I blow out the candles and we start eating you hit me with it.” She said. “So I’m going to save us both some time and say no.”

“Callie just listen.” Allison started.

“No.” Callie said. “I said I was done and I’m done. I’m not going back to that.”

“It’s just a simple favor…” Allison started.

“It’s always a simple favor with you and then I get dragged into your messes and…” Callie started.

“Calliope!” Allison snapped. “I am your mother and you will do as I say. I need you to put together a stock portfolio and start moving our funds into a new account. Our retirement account.”

“Retirement?” Callie said confused.

“Yes. Our Retirement. The past couple of weeks have been difficult to say the least and…” Allison said having a hard time getting the words out of her mouth. “You were right. We have been at this for years and there’s no reason for us to keep doing this. We have more money than we’ll ever know what to do with in our entire lives. We’re going back to Seattle and after this last deal is done we start over one last time, except this time no more cartel, mafia, or bratva. Just simple normal life with out real names.”

“Really?” Callie said hopeful.

“Really.” Allison said. Callie jumped out of her seat and move around the table to hug her mom. “Oh!”

“Thanks mom.” Callie said.

End Flashback

Third Person’s POV-

“We need to head back to New York.” Tony said.

“We already know Hayley’s not at the Tower.” Thor said.

“Doesn’t mean she didn’t leave any clues behind.” Steve said.

“We still haven’t found the mole.” Hill said.

“And we’re out of leads.” Tony said. “We’ve got nothing. Time’s running out for Romanoff and now for Hayley.”

“Or maybe we already found the mole?” Fury said.

“What are you saying?” Thor asked.

“You really think that Miss Adams just mysteriously disappearing the instant all of our leads dried out is just a coincidence? She had access to all of your confidential files along with Shield’s.” Fury said.

“She wouldn’t do that.” Steve said.

“Are you sure because from where I’m standing it’s the perfect explanation.” Fury said. “She’s extremely good at hiding in plain sight, she had connections to forgers, black market arms dealers, assassins?”

“She was a kid and didn’t get a say. Hayley doesn’t do that anymore.” Clint said.

“But she did. Just a few months ago a Moroccan crime lord got assassinated by a sniper that she supposedly set up for Adler to kill. She started a turf war that ruined multiple Shield ops. Adler’s working for who someone and maybe that’s exactly what they wanted.”

“She was protecting her sister.” Bruce said.

“Who was a member of a crime family specializing in art forgeries, theft and smuggling of rare goods that aren’t always legal.” Fury said.

“What are you trying to say?” Steve asked.

“I’m saying you all got played.” Fury said.

“She’s our soulmate.” Thor growled. “She wouldn’t betray us.”

“Then why did she run?” Fury said.

“Hayley wouldn’t do that. You don’t know her.” Tony said.

“Or maybe your feelings for her have blinded you to the truth that’s right in front of you.” Fury answered.

“Hayley doesn’t do anything without a reason.” Clint said picking up his bow and quiver.

“We should start at the Tower, look through those files she got from the phone. Maybe we’ll find where the exchange is supposed to take place.” Tony said.

Hayley’s POV-

I looked at the feed from the street cameras. None of Rumlow’s friends or any known shield agents had shown up in the area. Guessing Hadrian hasn’t shaken his habit of making enemies out of everyone he meets.

At exactly five am on the dot Rumlow walked into the diner. He took a quick look around before walking to the table and sitting across from me.

“Morning.” I greeted looking up from my phone. “How was the flight?”

“Cramped.” He said.

“Hello, I’m just gonna top you up sweetie. This the friend you were waiting for?” Meryl, Who the waitress eventually introduced herself as asked.

“I am.” Rumlow said with a fake smile.

“Not a bad looking friend.” She said giving me a wink making me snort.

“He’s a work friend.” I corrected.

“Can I get you anything?” Meryl asked him.

“Just a coffee ma’am.” He said.

“I’ll bring that right up.” She said walking away.

“Been here before?” He asked.

“A while ago.” I answered.

“Adler always stops by places like this when out on assignment. Said that no matter where you end up at least one thing is always the same.” Rumlow said.

“Here you are. And a menu in case you get hungry.” She said.

“Thanks Meryl.” I said before she walked off to go talk to the cook. “So I’m guessing Hydra…”

“What the…” He started but I ignored him

“…Has a ton of off shore bank accounts all under shell corporations or in bonds?” I asked.

“You shouldn’t know about that.” Rumlow said.

“Kind of like I shouldn’t know about you or Pierce?” I retorted. “You’ve worked with Hadrian long enough to know that he may have gotten the brawns of the family but I got the brains.”

“What do you want?” Rumlow asked.

“It’s not about what I want, it’s about what you want or else you wouldn’t have showed up.” I said. “Hadrian reports directly to Pierce, he’s the middle man between him and the rest of you, right?”

“Yeah.” He said eyeing me suspiciously.

“Guessing that comes with a lot of perks for him but for you not so much? I mean you got dragged with him to London when he kidnapped me in broad daylight and half the time you didn’t even know what was going on.” I said.

“I did get one hell of a payday though.” Rumlow said with a smirk.

“But was it really worth it? You were taking orders from a sociopath. He almost got you killed because he was throwing a tantrum. Any advice you offered almost got you stabbed and that was him on a more or less good day. I know you’ve seen him when it gets worse, when he just shoots and stabs because he gets bored.” I said.

“Nothing wrong with that if the job gets done.” He said.

“But you hate cleaning up his messes. You don’t want to be in another man’s shadow. You want to be in charge, you want to be Pierce’s right hand man. The one making the calls in the field, the Winter Soldier’s handler.” I said forcing myself to keep a straight face as I said that.

“That’s the goal.” Rumlow said. I took that as my cue to take out the flash drive I had in my pocket and place it on the table. He took one look at it and looked at me curiously. “What’s that?”

“A flash drive.” I deadpanned.

“What’s on it?” He said annoyed.

“Bank statements and wire transfers showing how much money Hadrian has embezzled from Hydra’s bank accounts since he started working for you guys.” I said and his eyes widened in surprise.

“Are they real?” he asked.

“If they’ll get you that promotion you want so bad does it really matter?” I retorted. He reached over but I moved the flash drive out of his reach.

“What do you want?” Rumlow asked.

“Three things.” I said. “First I want to Natasha before I go see Hadrian.”

“I can’t let her go without…” He started.

“Yes which is why I said I want to see her.” I said. “Secondly, I’m going to hand myself over to Hadrian but I want him taken out before he kills me.”

“I show Pierce those bank statements he’ll give the order anyway.” Rumlow said.

“I was counting on that.” I said.

“What’s the third?” He asked.

Third Person’s POV-

The second the quinjet was on the tower landing pad, Tony opened the back doors and he along with everyone else ran inside.

“Hayley’s got at least five hours on us.” Clint said.

“And we’ve got less than twenty hours before she goes to meet Adler.” Steve said.

“Bruce and I will go check the lab and see what she was working on.” Tony said.

“I shall go check her room.” Thor said.

“I’ll go with you.” Steve said. “An extra set of eyes is always good.”

“I’m gonna check a few things see if Nat managed to send a smoke signal.” Clint said.

“You really think she’d manage to get away?” Steve asked.

“Wouldn’t be the first time. It’s a long shot but it’s worth a try.” Clint said.

With that everyone went their separate ways.

Steve and Thor walked into Hayley’s apartment. Steve went straight to the coat closet and checked to see if the duffle bag filled with money was still there. It wasn’t so he went to the kitchen and checked the cabinet.

“I don’t think you’ll find anything besides chocolate bars and popcorn in there.” Thor said.

“No there’s also a cash store.” Steve said taking out a bag filled with money and checking the fake ID’s Hayley had in there. “Hayley’s emergency bag, it’s exactly the way she left it. “

“She wouldn’t use it anyway. Her brother took the box from the forger’s apartment. He knows all of her Identities.” Thor said.

“But we could have used them to find her if we knew which one she was using.” Steve said. “That’s probably why she stopped by Will’s apartment. Barton and Romanoff know which names are on these but not on the ones she kept over there.”

“Perhaps there are more clues in her room.” Thor said walking over to the room. They walked in but at first sight there was nothing out of the ordinary. Steve went to go look in her closet while Thor went to her nightstand. He opened all of the drawers and found her computer and tablet but nothing else. He set those aside before his eyes fell on the photo Hayley kept on her nightstand. He had seen it many times before but what really caught his eye was the necklace on the frame.

“There’s nothing in there.” Steve said.

“Perhaps Stark can find something in her computer.” Thor said picking up her necklace.

“That’s her necklace.” Steve said.

“It is.” Thor said.

“Captain Rogers, Mister Odinson, Sir requests your presence in the lab.” Jarvis said.

Meanwhile upstairs in the armory…

Clint moved the radio trying to get to the frequency he and Nat used whenever they needed to communicate without anyone listening in but he didn’t get anything. I threw the headphones he was wearing onto the table before slamming his hands on it in frustration.

He took his phone out and dialed one on his speed dial.

“It’s Hayley you know what to do.” The recording played followed by a tone signaling to start his message.

“Hales, I know you want to get Nat back and… I know you think this is the way to do it but it’s not. You made me… us a promise that you wouldn’t do things on your own that whatever happened we would face it together. It’s not too late. Please come back. We need you.” Clint said before hanging up.

“Agent Barton, sir has requested your presence in the lab.” Jarvis said.

“On my way.” Clint said walking out of the armory to the elevator. He pressed the button to go downstairs and looked up for a second when something caught his eye.

He walked into the lab where Tony, Steve, Bruce and Thor were waiting.

“Hey do you have the footage to the security camera in the elevator?” Clint asked.

“Uh yeah but I don’t think that’s really important right now.” Tony said.

“Did you find something?” He asked.

“Yes and no.” Tony said.

“We found the phone Hayley was trying to hack.” Bruce said

“Did she crack it?” Steve asked.

“Considering there’s nothing on the phone anymore, I’m going with yes.” Tony said.

“There’s just one problem.” Bruce said.

“Another one?” Thor said.

“Hayley got all the files she found on the phone and put them inside a virtual black box.” Tony said.

“A black box?” Steve asked confused.

“It’s like a virtual safe except unbreakable. Normally the key is something the user sets up like biometrics or a key except this one has a time lock.” Tony said.

“So it’ll unlock at a certain time. That’s good right?” Clint asked.

“No because she set the time lock for another forty two hours.” Tony said. “And before you suggest I hack into it, don’t bother because I already tried. She stored it inside Jarvis’ servers so almost an entire server farm is being used to run the encryption on it making it unhackable. I’d ask Jarvis to do it but it’d be like asking him to hack himself which goes against his programing.”

“Why would she do something like this?” Steve said.

“Tony get the feed from the elevator.” Clint said.

“There’s no way Hayley would leave it…” Tony said bringing up the feed on the screen. “Oh… She’s on camera leaving the tower.”

The recording showed Hayley getting in the elevator. Jarvis trying to warn her against leaving but she muted him. She then looked straight into the camera before signing something and tapping her arm. After that the camera shut down.

“Looks like she’s taking a page out of Adler’s book.” Tony said annoyed.

“Play it again.” Clint said.

“I didn’t see anything.” Thor said.

“She must’ve forgotten to shut down the camera.” Tony said playing the feed again.

“Stop.” Clint said. “She’s signing something.”

“ASL?” Bruce asked.

“Yeah.” He said.

“What does it mean?” Steve asked.

“She’s saying to wait.” Clint said.

Hayley’s POV-

I was sitting in the booth stirring my coffee. Rumlow was outside talking on the phone. Supposedly with his boss.

It’s been ten minutes and no Hydra agents had shown up to kill me yet. Guess telling him that I had a failsafe in place in case he decided to double cross me was a good idea. It wasn’t a complete lie. There was a failsafe he just doesn’t know that it’s going to end up in the right hands no matter what he does. He stopped pacing and looking inside briefly before nodding and hanging up. He quickly walked back inside.

“The boss agreed to everything you asked for. If you want to see your girlfriend and still make it on time we need to go.” Rumlow said.

“Okay.” I said grabbing a pen and a napkin. I wrote a quick note and took out all the cash I had on me, which was around five hundred dollars. I put them down and stood up.

“That’s a big tip.” Rumlow said.

“Meryl’s good company and she’s trying to put her daughter through college.” I said following him out.

He laughed at that. “You really are a goody two shoes.” Rumlow said.

“It’s not like I’m going to need the money where I’m going.” I said as he pressed a button on his keys and unlocked the car.

“You could have pitched in for gas.” He said

“I’ve seen the bank accounts, your boss can afford to reimburse you.” I said getting in. “How far away?”

“Buffalo.” He said.

“Buffalo?” I said, “Six, seven hour drive?”

“Less if we don’t catch traffic.” He said starting the car.

Six Hours Later-

I’ve been in awkward and uncomfortable situations before but six and a half hours in the car with Rumlow and his loud country music that, I was fairly sure he was only listening to, to get under my skin, and I wanted to scream. If it hadn’t been for the fact that I had downloaded plants vs. zombie on my phone and remembered to pack my phone charger I would have gone crazy.

It was around three in the afternoon when we finally made it to Buffalo. We didn’t exactly make it into the main part of the city. We ended up in the industrial side of town. Lots of run down and abandoned warehouses by the docks.

It didn’t look like anyone would ever accidentally wander over so I guess that’s why they chose it. The car stopped.

“Wait here.” He said getting out of the car.

Waiting inside the warm car or freezing outside in the snow, don’t have to tell me twice. I felt my phone vibrate and I picked it up to see I had a voicemail.

I debated whether or not to answer it when the car door opened.

“Let’s go.” Rumlow said.

“Right.” I said locking my phone and getting out.

“I sent the guys on guard on a lunch break. You get an hour after that you have to go.” He said.

“Okay.” I said following him inside. “Where’s Hadrian?”

“He went ahead to your meeting spot. Said he had loose ends in the area to take care of.” He answered.

“Oh.” I said with a grimace.

“What?” he barked out.

“I know what loose ends he’s talking about.” I said making a turn until we made it to a steel door. I looked around and realized that that was a door to a giant refrigerator.

Rumlow walked to the door and started opening the door. he stopped at the last minute and grabbed my arm.

“Ow.” I said trying to get his arm off of me.

“Making it look convincing.” He said in a low voice before pulling the door open and throwing me in. I fell down hard but on my side so it wasn’t too bad. The freezing floor kind of numbed the hit.

I sat up and heard quiet footsteps.

“H-Hayley.” I heard Natasha say.

I looked behind me and quickly stood up.

“Nat!” I said running over to hug her. I hugged her tight and felt how cold she was.

“W-what are y-you d-d-doing here?” She said through her chattering teeth.

“That’s kind of a long story.” I said following her towards the back of the freezer where there as was a small cot with thin blankets. I took off my coat and sat next to her before draping it around us using it as a sort of makeshift blanket to warm her up. Her thin cat suit probably wasn’t doing much to keep her warm.

“You want to tell me what’s going on?” Natasha said. I moved to hold her hand under the coats and blankets to help warm her up.

“You got taken on that mission and Hadrian offered a deal. I turn myself over and you go free.” I said.

“Hayley!” She said giving me a glare. “You fucking idiot.”

“Maybe but I’m the idiot that loves you.” I said with a smirk. She didn’t say anything; She just squeezed my hand a little tighter.

“He isn’t going to let you go.” She said.

“I know but I’m working on that.” I said hugging her and kissing the top of her head.

Third Person’s POV-

“I have Jarvis running facial recognition on Hayley. Don’t know if that’ll help but it’s a start.” Tony said.

“Any chance Kol or Rebekah might be able to help us find her?” Bruce asked.

“They can’t help. They’re in the wind too.” Clint said as he kept watching the same footage of Hayley again like he had been for the past several hours.

“Are you still watching that?” Steve asked.

“We’re missing something.” Clint said. “That gesture she makes at the end.”

“You said that was the sign to wait?” Thor said.

“It is but what she does afterwards tapping her wrist…” Clint said.

“It’s the same thing. It’s like signaling a watch, timing.” Tony said mimicking the gesture.

“Except she doesn’t do it like that. She raises her hand up, palm facing towards her and she taps the side of the bracelet she’s wearing.” Clint started.

“Bracelet?” Bruce said suddenly becoming more alert.

“Son of a bitch!” Tony said rushing over to the computer and freezing the frame. “She’s still wearing it.”

“It’s just a bracelet.” Thor said.

“It’s a bracelet with an integrated heart monitor connected to Jarvis.” Tony said.

“You can track it?” Steve said.

“A little bit of tweaking and no.” Tony said.

“No?” Clint said.

“It isn’t detecting the bracelet’s signal.” Tony said. “That shouldn’t be happening. I designed that thing to be water proof, fire proof, able to transmit from underground…”

“What if she doesn’t want us to track it?” Bruce said.

“That wasn’t there before.” Thor said pointing at a spot on the edge of the bracelet. “The bracelet is engraved but completely gold. But there’s something there.”

“It’s jamming the signal.” Tony said.

“She signed wait, and tapped on the bracelet next to that spot.” Bruce said.

“She wants us to wait to track the bracelet.” Clint said.

“Jarvis refresh, and see if you can find a signal.” Tony said.

“There is no signal detected.” Jarvis said.

“Keep checking.” Steve said.

“I don’t think we’re going to find the signal just yet.” Bruce said.

“What makes you say that?” Thor asked.

“She’s blocking the signal for a reason. She doesn’t want to be found not until she get’s what she needs.” Bruce said.

“Or until she finds Nat.” Clint said. “She’s not supposed to meet Adler for a few more hours.”

“Sir the bracelet’s signal has been detected.” Jarvis said.

“Where?” Thor said calling Mjolnir to him.

“Buffalo” Tony said.

“Buffalo?” Steve said confused.

Hayley’s POV-

“You remember the first time we…” I said.

“We’re being held prisoners in a giant freezer and you want to…” She started.

“No though sharing body heat is the best way to stay warm. I meant that phrase I said in Chinese.” I said.

“I still don’t know what it means and you better not say it now.” Natasha said.

“Nat.” I started.

“No. This isn’t how it’s going to end so don’t go there.” Natasha said.

“I might not get a chance to later.” I said.

“Hey, I’m not going to let anything happen to you.” She said putting her hand on either side of my face so I would look right at her. I put my hand on hers and moved it back down under the blankets so she would stay warm.

“I didn’t exactly tell you everything.” I said as there was a loud banging coming from the door.

“Hayley what did you do?” She said. I slipped off my bracelet and put it on Nat’s wrist. I took off the jammer and stood up as the door opened and five armed guards marched in. “Hayley” She said standing up and pulling me behind her.

“It’s okay. No matter what I love you.” I said moving in front of her. I hugged her tight and quickly whispered into ear before the guards pulled us apart.

Nat fought them and she took one of them down but then more guards showed up as they dragged me out. They didn’t let go until the dropped me in front of Rumlow.

“Ow.” I said.

“Time’s up.” He said.

“No shit.” I said glaring at him as I stood up. “She’s going to be okay, right?”

“Don’t worry, we’re under strict orders not to hurt your girlfriend or the rest of your boyfriends.” He said with a smirk. “We’re clearing out. We’ll leave Romanoff a way for her to break out.”

“So airport?” I said.

“I’m dropping you off. I have orders to make sure your ass is on the first plane to Chicago.” Rumlow said.

“Great.” I said with a grimace. This might be the last car ride I ever take and the music’s going to suck.