CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Evelyn, Steve and Sam caught a Quinjet to Bucharest, Romania, the place where Bucky was last spotted. Evelyn made sure her motorbike was with her so that they could make a quick escape if needed.

Steve and Evelyn went to Bucky's apartment building and broke into his room. It was a fairly small apartment with a kitchen, dining room and bedroom all in one small room and the toilet and shower in a separate room.

There were newspapers covering the windows so that no one could see in and a single mattress with a blanket and a pillow. Evelyn walked towards a shelf and took out a diary. She opened it up.

1935

Evelyn smiled to herself. She, too, wrote down all of her recovered memories in a journal, just in case she forgot again.

"Heads up, guys. German Special Forces, approaching from the south," Sam informed.

Evelyn heard a small creak from behind them, very faint, but she noticed. Evelyn turned around and saw Bucky coming in through the fire escape.

"Understood," Steve said. Bucky looked at Evelyn and she sent him a brief smile, one he didn't return.

Steve turned around and looked at Bucky, his shoulders visibly relaxing after not having seen his best friend in two years. "Do you know us?" Steve asked him.

He hesitated. "You're Steve and Evelyn. I read about you two in a museum," Bucky answered and then looked up at them.

"They've set the perimeter."

"I know how you're feeling, Buck, I honestly do. But that was a lie," Evelyn told him, placing the journal down.

"I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that any more," Bucky quickly said.

"Told you," Evelyn looked at Steve.

"They're entering the building."

"Well, the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive," Steve stepped forward.

"That's smart. Good strategy," Bucky walked towards his door and looked down at his gloved hand. Evelyn heard feet sounding above them and briefly looked up.

"I should've worn better clothes," she mumbled, looking down at her black jeans and adidas jumper.

"Told you," Steve whispered to her.

"Watch this, Steve," Evelyn told him, before a gold shimmer covered her body and she was suddenly standing in her uniform.

Steve smiled lightly. "Still not used to it."

"They're on the roof. I'm compromised."

"This doesn't have to end in a fight, Buck," Steve warned him.

"It always ends in a fight," Bucky pulled his glove off.

"Five seconds."

"You pulled us from the river, why?" Steve urgently asked.

"I don't know."

"Three seconds."

"Yes, you do."

Evelyn cracked her knuckles and neck.

"Breach! Breach! Breach!"

A flash bang was thrown through the window and into the room, so Steve hit it away with his shield. Another one went through a window and Bucky kicked it to Steve who placed his shield over it.

Evelyn heard people start banging on the door as Bucky pulled his mattress up and placed it against the window. Evelyn rushed towards the table and flung it over the the door, making it lodge itself.

Two men crashed through the window and Bucky quickly knocked one out while Steve went up against another. Seeing Bucky's journals on the bench and knowing that he would want them, Evelyn grabbed them and shoved them into a bag she made appear out of thin air.

Bucky kicked a man and Steve turned him around. "Buck, stop!" Bucky turned around. "You're gonna kill someone." Bucky shoved Steve to the ground and then punched the floorboards that was beside Steve's head.

"I'm not gonna kill anyone," Bucky told him. He pulled out a backpack and threw it out the window and supposedly onto the roof next door.

Someone began shooting at them and Bucky was quick to jump in front of Evelyn and block them with his metal arm as she strapped the bag to her back. Steve placed his shield in front of them as another man walked in. Bucky pushed Steve towards the new guy, making Steve go through the window.

Evelyn shook her head at Bucky. She threw a random book at the man that was shooting her as a distraction before flipping him through a table and knocking him out. Bucky grabbed a large brick and smashed it at the other man.

"You're gonna have a fun time paying for these repairs," Evelyn told Bucky as they walked towards the front door.

"What makes you think I'm coming back?" He asked.

Evelyn nodded, "Good point."

Bucky pulled the table that Evelyn lodged into the door away and punched his metal arm through it. He pushed the door off its hinges and into a man. Evelyn ran besides Bucky and flipped over one of the men, then kicked another's side and pushed him down the stairs.

One came through the window on the roof and Bucky once again stood in front of Evelyn and guarded her with his metal arm. She held her hand out and froze the man's gun quickly.

Evelyn ran down the stairs as Bucky used the man that was hanging from the roof and jumped down to a lower level. She punched a man's stomach and flipped him over before running towards Bucky and pushing a man towards him. Bucky quickly grabbed onto his chest and slammed him into the ground.

Bucky and Evelyn sent each other a quick look, falling back into old habits with fighting together again. Evelyn turned around as Bucky did the same, so they were back to back, and he took out the men in front of him as Evelyn did the same. Bucky threw one over the railing and Steve caught him.

"Come on, man," Steve told him.

"Technically gravity was going to kill him, not me," Bucky said as he elbowed a man's head. Bucky grabbed onto the railing, broke it, and swung to a lower level.

Evelyn ran down the stairs towards Bucky and turned to the side and kicked a man into the wall, then turned around and elbowed another in the head, then proceeded to flip him over. A man aimed his gun at Bucky and Steve quickly threw his shield at him. Bucky and Steve's eyes met before Bucky jumped off the railing.

Evelyn rolled her eyes, "Still the risky one."

Evelyn watched where he landed before flying down to where he was. Bucky just barely grabbed onto the railing as she made it, so she quickly grabbed onto his hand and pulled him up.

"What would you do without me?" Evelyn teased.

"I wouldn't know because you keep popping up out of nowhere," Bucky smirked and then kicked a door off its hinges.

He stalked along the corridor for a bit and then ran and jumped out of the building. Evelyn ran and jumped also, landing onto the roof with a roll. Bucky quickly grabbed his backpack and ran and Evelyn was close behind him.

Something flew out of the sky and knocked into Bucky, making him roll on the ground. Evelyn stopped running as the Black Panther landed in front of her.

"Oh great," she mumbled, realising T'Challa must be there to avenge his father. Evelyn stood slightly in front of Bucky for safety. "T, he's under my watch. He didn't do anything."

"Do you have any authority?" Bucky whispered.

"Ah....no," Evelyn replied.

"Oh great," Bucky mumbled.

T'Challa took a swipe at Evelyn with his claws but she quickly ducked and punched him in his mid section. Bucky stood besides Evelyn and they both began to fight the Black Panther. She threw a punch, he blocked. He threw a punch, she blocked. They fought together in rhythm. Bucky got a little too close to the Panther and T'Challa kicked him towards the vents. Seeing as Evelyn knew Bucky would be okay, she ran to his backpack and put it onto her front, clipping the straps.

"Now I look like a fucking turtle," she mumbled to herself, having two bags with one on her front and and the other on her back.

T'Challa flipped Bucky over onto his back so Evelyn ran up and side kicked it away. He took a swipe and Evelyn with his claws but she was quick to dodge them and then punched his vibranium suit.

A helicopter began firing at them so T'Challa stood in front of Evelyn to block the bullets. "All of you guys have been gentlemen today," Evelyn noted. Sam flew in and hit the chopper away. T'Challa turned around and Evelyn quickly kicked him, then ran with Bucky towards the edge of the roof.

They quickly looked down from the roof and Evelyn grabbed onto his side. "Don't let go," she warned. Evelyn jumped down from the roof and landed onto the ground, then put Bucky on the ground beside her.

"Thanks," he said, before she gave him his back and they continued running.

The helicopter began shooting at them again, so they weaved to get him lost until they reached an underground highway. Bucky and Evelyn jumped down onto the road, then began running away from the cars. Evelyn pressed a button on her watch to call over her bike.

Evelyn briefly looked behind her to see that T'Challa and Steve jumped down also, which just made her run faster. Evelyn was slightly behind Bucky as he got a head start. If there was a blockage of cars in front of them, they would run up the back of them and then over it.

Bucky and Evelyn slowed their running quickly when police blocked the road. She heard a motorbike coming from behind her as Bucky flipped a motorbike into the air and then landed on his. When the sound of Evelyn's motorbike became louder, she did a back flip into the air. The world seemed to go in slow motion and as soon as her flip was finished, she landed onto her bike and then sped after Bucky.

Bucky and Evelyn weaved through cars and the middle of the road, trying to find the quickest route. Evelyn could hear Steve's car behind them, meaning that the Black Panther was close too.

The Panther jumped onto Bucky's motorbike but Bucky was quick to get him. His bike tilted to the side and Bucky used his metal arm to stop the fall. He kicked T'Challa off and then continued to speed next to Evelyn.

When they reached the end of the tunnel, Bucky planted a bomb onto the roof of the exit. The two of them drove past it before it exploded. Evelyn's bike was suddenly tackled from behind and she fell off the bike. Bucky turned around to face Evelyn and quickly jumped off of his and ran towards T'Challa.

T'Challa tripped Bucky over and then stood over him, ready to slash him when Steve came and tackled him off.

Evelyn stood up beside Bucky as police cars surrounded them. War Machine landed beside them and aimed his repulsers at T'Challa and Bucky.

"Stand down, now!" He ordered.

Evelyn looked up to the sky when she noticed something come and fly at her. It was awfully quick, too quick for her to process anything at first. One part wrapped itself around her neck, the other attached itself to her hands and magnetised them together. It wasn't long before Evelyn began to scream at the top of her lungs.

The electricity ran through her body fast and Evelyn landed onto the ground quickly. She couldn't make a move to take it off; her hands were tied. The electricity only intensified and her screams got louder. Steve bent down besides Evelyn and fumbled with the neck piece, trying to find a way to take it off. His eyes began to water as Evelyn wriggled and screamed even more, but Steve only noticed one thing on the piece. 'Stark' was written on the back of it.

Bucky looked down at Evelyn with sad eyes, knowing that he couldn't do anything to rid her pain, even though he wanted to. He wanted to kill the person that would do such a thing to Evelyn, to make them feel the pain that she was feeling. T'Challa didn't like the way that Evelyn was being tortured, as she was innocent in his eyes. Sam himself began to get teary as his best friends screams only got louder.

"Congratulations, Cap and Eve. You're criminals," Rhodes told Steve, looking down at Evelyn. He, too, wanted to take the device off, but didn't have the remote to do so.

"Get that off of her now!" Steve and Bucky glared at Rhodes at the same time.

"I don't have the remote," Rhodey told them. The group just stood there and waited for the German Special Force to lock them all up and bring them in, not being able to do anything to Evelyn to ease her pain.
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- it's my seventeenth birthday 😁😁 -

^^^^Thought I'd keep that note there because GODDAMN I'm now turning 24 in a week 💀

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