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❛ 𝙾𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚁𝚄𝙽 ❜

❝ Bye Bye bikinis ❞

𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐉𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 the next day, looking for Natasha, but instead she found Steve standing infront of a snack automat that stood in the large hallway.

Anastasija casually stood behind him popping her bubble gum as she watched him through the glass of the automat.

Steve abruptly turned around and grabbed the blonde woman harshly by her arm as he dragged her into the next empty room.

He smashed her hardly against the wall and Anastasija looked up at him shocked, her eyes widening. Steve eyed the woman in front of him seriously, "Where is it?"

"Safe."

"Do better", Steve immediately spatted out in anger. "Where did you get it?", she questioned him interisted.

"Why would I tell you?", he asked her narrowing his eyes at the blond women. "Fury gave it to you", she quickly connected the hints.

She narrowed her eye at him, "Why?!" Steve avoided her question with another one, "What's on it?"

"I don't know", she responded shortly.
"Stop lying", Steve whispered angryly as he glared at her.

Anastasija furrowed her eyebrows at him, "I only act like I know everything, Rogers."

"But you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?", he asked the women which leaned against the wall now.

She raised her eyebrows at him, "Yeah, seems to makes scenes." Steve lost his patientcy and grabbed her on both of her shoulders. "I'm not gonna ask you again!"

"I know who killed Fury", Anastasija quickly spoke up again and Steve looked at her surprised as he let her arms go.

The woman looked up at him, still leaning against the wall. "Most of the intelligence communities doesn't believe he even exist, the ones who do, call him the Winter Soldier. He is credited with over two dozens assassinations in the last 50 years."

Steve raised an eyebrow at her, "So he is a ghosts story?"

The women looked at him with an raised eyebrow before she continued, "Five years ago, Nat and I were escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at our tires near Odessa. We lost control— went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there."

She paused for a moment before she continued, "I was covering our engineer, so he shot him straight through me", she lifted her shirt up to show him her scar.

"A Soviet slug, no rifling." She lightly smirked before she joked, "Bye Bye Bikinis."

Steve scoffed and looked deeply into her eyes, "Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now." He raised an eyebrow sarcastically.

She ignored that statement, but couldn't help that the corners of her mouth twitched up for a second.

"Going after him is a dead end, I know, I've tried", she spoke up, her smirk fading again as their faces were still only centimeters apart from each other.

"Like you said, he is a ghosts story", she held up the flash drive for him to take.

"Interisting, good that I'm practically indestructible", a voice suddenly interrupted them, their heads snapped towards the door where Juliet stood, leaning against the frame.

She held her hands into the air, "Relax, I'm here to help guys!"

Anastasija eyed her the flash driver still in her hand, "Why would you help?"

"I've got personal interisted in this", the brunette told her shortly with a serious expression on her face.

Steve slowly took the flash driver from Ana's hand as he looked at the two women, "Let's find out what the ghost wants."

On their way to the Mall, Steve had informed Anastasija and Juliet that the S.H.I.E.L.D Agents tried to capture him and the two women nerveless decided to stick with him.

Steve had a cap on and a brown jacked on, while Anastasija wore a red wing and a jacked with a hood. Juliet was not wearing anything to cover herself up, S.H.I.E.L.D didn't knew who she was so the brunette was safe for now.

They all walked through the mall together as Anastasija spoke up, "First rule of going on a run is, don't run, walk."

"If I would run in these shoes, they would fall of", Steve told her as he looked around.

After a little while they finally reached an Apple Store. The flash drive was highly secured so Anastasija needed a some time to crack it and get the information they both wanted.

"The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are", Ana explained to him while she tried to open the file that was on the flash drive.

"How much time do we have?", Steve asked her still looking for S.H.I.E.L.D Agents.

"About 9 Minutes from-", she stuck the flash drive into a MacBook Pro, "now."

After a moment Anastasija looked at Steve again, "Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands"

"Can you overwrite it?", Juliet asked her, moving closer to her. She looked over her shoulder on the screen at the same time Steve did.

"The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly", Anastasija said looking up into at Steve with a smirk.

He quickly glanced at her and than back at the Computer. "I'm going to try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from", Ana continued to explain.

In that moment an Apple employeer approached them, "Hey can I help you guys with anything?"

Anastasija smiled while she grabbed onto Steve's Arm, "Oh, no my Fiancé and my best friend were just helping me with some Honeymoon destinations." She placed her chin onto his shoulder and smiled sweetly.

"Right, we're getting married", Steve told the man, grinning like a dork.

"Congratulations! Were do you guys thinking about going?", he asked them curious. Steve looked at the monitor and saw the signal traced to somewhere in New Jersey.

"New Jersey", Steve read out loud, looking back at the guy.

The guy looked at Steve and narrowed his eyes. "I have the exact same glasses", he stated but Steve remained silent.

"Wow you two are practically twins", Juliet told him with an sarcastic voice.

"Yeah, I wish", the guy laughed at her words. "Specimen. Uh, if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron", he said while walking backwards.

When he was gone, Steve immediately turned back to the blonde woman, "You said 9 Minutes, come on." He nervously looked at the Computer infront of them.

"Shh, relax", Ana tried to calm him down. "Got it", she smirked as she looked at him again. "You know it?"

"I used to", Steve answered her in a low voice. "Let's go", he said while he grabbed the flash driver.

The three quickly walked out of the shop and immediately saw a couple of S.H.I.E.L.D agents that walked through the mall.

"Standard tac-team. Two behind, two across, two coming straight at us. If they make us, I'll engage, you hit the south escalator to the metro", Steve said to her looking around.

"Shut up, put your arm around me and laugh at something I said", Anastasija instructed him quickly.

Steve was confused, "What?", he asked the blonde with furrowed eyebrows.

"Do it!", The brunette woman besides them exclaimed before Steve quickly laid his arm around Ana's neck and they began laughing. The Agent passed them without noticing the two.

They continued their way to the escalator to drive down into the first floor, but Rumlow was on the other escalator coming right towards them.

Anastasija's eyes widened as she quickly turned around to Steve. "Kiss me", she instructed him seriously.

"What?", he asked her, not quiet believing she just said that to him.

"Public displace of affection make people very uncomfortable", she rammbeled looking at him.

"Yeah, they do", he said to her in a duh voice.

She quickly grabbed his face and brought their lips together, Steve laid his hands on her waist and their lips moved in sync.

Anastasija had a weird feeling in her stomach, something she never felt before, it was like electricity was flowing through her entired body, but she quickly shook it of.

When they were out of Rumlow's sight she leaned back and their eyes met for a split second.

Anastasija slowly turned around, "You're still uncomfortable?"

She began to walk down the escalator followed by Steve. "That's not exactly the word I would use", he answered her still surprised.

Juliet made a slightly disgusted face as she followed after the two, felling like she was kinda third wheeling right now.

They quickly left the mall and Steve stole a car on the parking lot so they could make their way to New Jersey.

After a while of driving Ana's feet laid on the dash while she gazed at Steve from the side, "Where did Captain America learned how to steal a car?"

"Nazi, Germany, and we are borrowing it, take your feet of the dash", he said while looking at her for a short moment.

She took her feet from the dash, still looking at him with her piercing eyes.

Steve was way to tens, she decided to loosen him up a bit, "Alright, so I have a question, which you do not have to answer, I feel like if you don't answer it tho you kinda answering it-", she said to him smirking.

"What!?", he stopped her rammbeling, Anastasija looked at him smiling sheepishly. "Was that your first kiss since 1945?"

"That bad, huh!?", Steve joked looking at her for a short moment. "I didn't say that", she chuckled.

"Well, it kinda soundes like that's what you're saying", the Captain contered looking at the street again.

"No, I didn't, I just wondered how much practice you had", she tried to explain herself. But Steve interrupted her again, "You don't need practice."

"Everybody needs practice", Juliet suddenly exclaimed from behind them, looking at Steve shocked.

"It was not my first kiss since 1945, I'm 95 not dead", he stated giving Anastasija a look from the side.

"Nobody special, though?", she asked him, curious what his answer would be. She kinda hoped that he would say no, because than it would still be possible that she had a chance with him.

Steve scoffed before saying, "Belive it or not, it's kinda hard to find someone with shared live experience."

"Oh, that's alright, just make something up", the women told him.
Steve looked at her as he questioned, "What like you?"

Ana gave him a look, "The Truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not a things to all people all the time, so do I." Steve gazed at her as well, "It's a tuff way to live."

"It's a good way not to die, tho", she answered to the blonde man.

Steve still looked at her, "You know, it's kinda hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is."

Anastasija knew that he meant her, she looked back at the street and then back at him, directly into his blue eyes, "Yeah", she sighed, her gaze laid on Juliet for a moment, who also looked at her.

There was silence before she decided to ask Steve something, "Who do you want me to be?" Steve smiled at her, "How about a friend?"

Anastasija scoffed befor she started chuckling, "There is a Chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers." They held eye contact for a moment before Steve looked back at the Street again.

After a while of driving they finally arrived at their destination. "That is it?", Steve questioned while walking towards the big fence.

"That's what the coordinates say", the Russian replied following him and Juliet.

They slowly entered the abandoned camp and Steve carefully looked around, "This Camp is where I was trained", he told Ana, walking besides her.

"Changed much?", she asked him searching for something conspicuous.

"A little", he answered her quietly while thinking back to the time where he was just a young boy who just wanted to be a solider and do good for his land.

"This is a dead end. Zero heat signature, zero waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off", Ana's voice interrupted Steve thought back to 1945.

The woman looked at her scanner while Steve and Juliet turned around to her, but then Steve suddenly got an Idea.

❝𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈'𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞❞