Chapter 19: Spanlged Pain in the Ass

We dangle for a little while as we here Sam and Bucky fitting through the coms. I then shoot a rope from my hand and pull us onto a sturdy platform. That's when we here Sam's voice over our earpieces.

"Cap, Dal come in. Are you guys ok?" He asks frantically.

"Ya were good just hanging out" I respond out of breath.

"We're still on the Helicarrier, where are you?" Steve asks, getting to his feet as I sit on the ledge.

"Im grounded, the suits down. Sorry Cap. It's just you two." Sam sighs, obviously upset.

"Don't worry we've got it" Steve responds and pull me to my feet.

I create a golden platform for the two of us and quickly float us up to the Helicarrier platform.

"Are you sure you can get the job done Steve?" I ask

"We're putting in a targeting blade, not too hard." he responds with a chuckle.

I shake my head trying to get him to understand what I mean, "That's not the job I'm referring to." I sigh placing a hand on his shoulder.

"That's why I need to do this myself." he responds.

I feel a sharp pain in my side as I fall away from Steve. I try to grab for his hand but he pulls away and jumps to the side, hanging onto the Carrier. I glance down and see a metal disk clamped to my side, shocking me. The thing Hydra used, that inhibited my powers. Steve's gonna get it later, I'll slap him I swear! I continue to tumble towards the ground and as I do, I think of a way to not kill myself without using my powers, because well I can't!

That's when I realize that the Helicarriers were launched from water below us. I'm a good 8,000 feet from the ground, so I have to do this quick or I'll be a squished blueberry. I place my hands at my side and link my legs together and angle myself towards the water, I quickly begin to more towards the water below. This is still going to hurt. I'm about 5,000 feet away I stop turning as I get into a perfect spot over the water, not to close to shore, not too far. I'm now 1,000 feet and I'm closing in. I get ready to hold my breath and as I reach the 50 foot mark I close my eyes and take in one last gulp of air and let the water hit my face. As soon as I make contact with the water, I spread out my limbs, to stop my from plummeting any deeper.

I open my eyes for a brief second and then turn my body towards the surface. The pain in my side doesn't cease, I fact it grows more prominent. I'm going to kill Steve! I test to see if my powers work as I breach the surface, put all I get is a pain in my wrist and blurred vision. I then hear a muffled buzzing in my ear and quickly take out my ear piece, not wanting an electrical device in my ear while I tread water.

I make my way back to shore, front crawling the entire way. Steve's lucky my mom taught me how to swim, if she didn't I would be dead! I finally make it back to shore and scramble onto a landing pad. I lay down catching my breath for about 15 minutes until I open my eyes again. That's when I see it, the guns locked on each other, opening fire, pieces of the others falling from the sky into the water below. Then it hits me, Steve's still up there.

"STEVE!!" I shout, knowing that it won't help, but deciding to do it anyways.

That Star Spangled Pain in the Ass is gone, before I really knew the guy. But I gather myself and look for the positive, millions are saved and Hydra is stopped. Steve would have wanted that. And hen I realize something else, the guy was supposed to have died 70 years ago and didn't, I won't give up on him just yet.

I continue to watch as the ships burst into flames and soon begin to fall from the sky, a little to close to where I'm sitting, so I decide to make a run for it and meet up at Fury's landing site. The guy planned his entrance and everything, talk about having swagger.

Once I finally reach the landing pad, Fury and Nat are already boarding. So I tag along and hop on after them. Nat turns to me, surprised at me being here.

"Nice to see you too" I say with a smile.

She raises an eyebrow, "I thought you were helping Steve?"

"Well he threw me off the Helicarrier with this thing shocking the powers out of me." I respond, holding up the metal disk.

Nat's eyes go wide with surprise. Then she does her famous little smirk. "He's independent, what can I say?"

I smirk but then Fury grabs our attention. "Sam needs a lift!" he shouts pointing towards a building being destroyed by a falling Helicarrier. I grab a headset from Natasha and listen in on the conversation.

"Where are you?" Nat shouts.

"41sr floor North West corner." Sam shouts back in a panic.

"Ok stay where you are!" Nat responds.

"Not an option!" he shouts back.

That's when we see Sam burst through the window of a floor two stories above us. Fury tilts the helicopter on its side to catch Sam, who is plummeting towards us. I slide open the door and let him fall in. He nearly falls right through, seeing as he pops off the door at the other end.

"41st floor --- I said the 41st floor!" he shouts at Fury, catching his breath.

"Well they don't have the floor numbers on the outside of the building" Fury answers calmly from the pilot's seat.

"Hill do you have a location on Rogers?" Natasha asks through the headset.

"No" she replies, sorrow filling her voice, I can only imagine her face.

"We need to look for him!" I shout at Fury and that's when Natasha places a hand on my knee. I shake my knee and look up at her. Tears welling up in her eyes and that's when a feel a small tear drop roll down my cheek. As soon as it falls, I wipe it away. I then look at Sam, his head sagging, staring at the floor.

"Circle around the wreckage. We'll find him!" I say, raising my head, already searching the ground below for my Spangled friend.

It takes us nearly half an hour to find him, we picked up Maria so she could join the search as well. All she did when entered the helicopter was give each of us a hug. But I didn't give up, I was even the one who spotted him, at first Natasha didn't believe me but when I pointed him out she screamed at Fury to land. With that the four of us hauled Steve into the helicopter and headed to the hospital.

The entire ride, I held a cloth over Steve's gunshot wounds, he had several. As I watched him stir ever so slightly, I wondered how he pulled himself ashore, or if he did that at all? Maybe Bucky truly does remember him, even if it's only the tiniest bit. Maybe Bucky will show up again, but for now I think he'll stay a ghost. As for Steve, he'll be in the hospital until he's fully recovered, I'll make sure of that.

Awww Dahlia and Steve's friendship gives me major feels! What do you guys think?

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