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Highway: 5 a.m

„I don't unterstand why she would do this. I mean after we sorted out all that stuff with the the flag smashers, she seemed...", Sam searched for the right words to say, while keeping his eyes on the road.

"Happy?", Bucky questioned.
Sam gave him a small nod in return.
"Believe me she's everything but near that.", Bucky adds as he looks out of the window watching the world pass by.

"How would you know ? I thought you two didn't had any contact anymore.", Sam asked with a slight annoyed undertone.

"I don't need to see her to know that she's not feeling well, Sam. She lost her brother. Steve was like her second half. I remember when we were younger and back in the days...", Bucky smiled a bit and even Sam intensely listened now.

"Eve had hurt her knee, while jumping of that damn swing. Steve even told her it was a bad idea to do it and she still wanted to prove that she was capable of doing it.", Bucky laughed at that flashback.

"She fell, obviously and was the biggest cry baby ever, so we got home and Sarah tried to calm her down but it wasn't working. Steve scooped her up and gave her knee little magical kisses- that's what he was naming it.", now it was Sam's time to laugh at the story remembering Steve's caring nature.

„I remember Eve started to giggle, forgetting about her knee the second Steve even talked to her.", Bucky's voice now got a sad undertone.

„What I'm trying to say is, that she might be looking okay from the outside but that's just show. Nobody would be okay after that...", Bucky ended his little story.

"But she has us and we're finding her." Sam assured and gave Bucky a short side glance.
"And how do we do that. I mean finding her ?", he asked curios.

"They were searching for Natasha for 2 years and they only found her location because her and Eve were striking down the red room.", Bucky added.

"I know that. So I thought about it.", Sam got out of the car at the same guess station, where Eve had her little encounter with the cashier.
"A gas station?", Bucky asked curious.

"I bet Eve got herself a car and even if her intention was to get out of Washington as soon as possibly her tank would've been empty right now.", Sam stated as Bucky raised his eyebrow impressed by his analysation skills.

As Sam stepped a foot into the little supermarket. He scrunched up his nose in disgust. Bucky just let out a scoff at the smell of old sweat and dirt.

"Ey, Captain America. In my gas station what a surprise.", the man behind the counter gave the two a dark smile.

Sam's eyes looked up at the man, while Bucky was concentrated on the camera that was hung up in one of the corners.

"I'll take this.", Sam puts a couple of items on the counter and the man lazily scans them.
"I have a question. Was there a girl in here earlier ? Blond hair, green eyes, 5.5", Sam waited patiently for the man to remember.

„She's 5.6.", an annoyed Bucky trows in as he walks over to Sam. The man smirks a bit, as he licks over his dry lips slowly. He pretends to be deep in thoughts as his dirty grin grows.

„Yeah, I've seen her pretty little thing. She was looking way better than your description.", the man watched as Bucky's jaw clenched a bit.

„I would've loved to spend my break with her in the back.", that's when Bucky snapped. He pulled the man at his dirty hem half over the counter and shot daggers at him.

„Where is she ?", Bucky's voice was more like a warning than a question. Sams hand slowly gripped Bucky's metal one and pulled him away from the man behind the counter.

„A bit impulsive aren't we, big guy ?", the man asked mockingly.
„I can show you how impulsive I can be.", Bucky angrily replied.

Sam now got in between and shoved Bucky away from the counter, while their having a shushed conversation eyeing the guy behind the counter.

„Sam, this is pointless. Why would he know where she drove?", Bucky asked.
„I know you're right. I just needed confirmation that she was here to check if my plan could work.", Sam picked up his stuff from the counter and gave the guy behind it a last nod.

Bucky walked beside Sam, as the both of them were on their way back to their car. Sam opened the trunk, where he was picking out his laptop.

„So what you're going to, send her an E-Mail?", Bucky asked annoyed. Sam looks up at him in disbelief. „No? I'm checking if she's using some of the old tech that belonged to the team.", Sam obviously stated.

„You can do that ?", Bucky asked a bit impressed.
„Red wing was connected to Tony's tech because he made that thing for me. I'm in his security system. That means I can see, when someone of the team is still active. If Eve uses his tech then I will know.", Sam explained.

Bucky's eyes scanned the laptop screen, where a little blue dot moved around.
„See ? Wasn't that hard to find her. ", Sam states with raised eyebrows. Bucky just scoffed, while falling back into the car seat.

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"Eve...", a quiet voice brought the assassin back into the real word. Her head shot up from the desk it was lying on and had hit a desk lamp at full speed.

Eves hand was know holding her head as she looked around her seeing that she was still in Tony's garage. "Good morning seems like you fell asleep. Have you found something?", Pepper asked her in a sweet tone.

The blonde sat up quickly checking if Friday got through the systems. The data was now opened and was arranged at the middle of the desktop.

Eve's heart hammered against her rip cage as she thought about the possible outcomes of this situation and what to do next.

„Oh, I see you haven't seen it yourself. How about breakfast before you go ? I will leave you to yourself a bit and if you're finished you, Morgan and me are having breakfast.", Pepper offers.

The blonde assassin only gives a distant nod, completely focused on the little folder on the screen. Pepper seemed to understand the situation and left soon afterwards.

Eve's breathing quickend as she double clicked on the folder. It opened soon afterwards showing the first information.

Project name: Old World

The blonde red as fast as she could taking in every little detail. One sentence got her to hold her breath.

Project description:
"If you cut of one head, two others shall grow"

A thick lump formed inside Eves throat. Her chest began to tightened and her head began to turn as she read those words over and over again praying to herself that this was just a bad dream.

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And a new chapter again.
Don't worry a little spoiler Sam, Bucky and Eve will meet soon. I know it took a while but I had to build up the story around all of the characters to let them interact.

Hope you still like it x