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· 。ﾟ୧ ⋆. 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦. ₊˚.༄
ACT TWO ━━━ CHAPTER TWELVE,
❝ you must be the infamous james
buchanan barnes . . . ❞

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𝓙ames Buchanan Barnes stood by a fruit stand. He picked up a few plums before looking at the person behind the stand.

The Winter Soldier asked the person who was selling the fruits something in Romanian, Bucky smiled and paid the man when he replied with the price.

After buying the plums, the man stood in the middle of the street. Bucky looked both ways, he saw a small figure appear beside him making him take a double-take.

There stood Lucrecia who looked at him in wonder, Bucky jumped when he saw her there. He frowned when he looked at her, a hint of fear in his eyes.

Bucky saw that her eyes were set on his left arm, his metal arm. He covered his arm with his right one, backing away from her.

Lucrecia held an amused smile when she read his mind, "You think I work for Hydra."

Bucky's eyes widened at her statement, he did actually think she was working for Hydra. A random woman just happens to appear beside him, he immediately thought of Hydra.

"Don't worry, I don't work for them nor am I associated with them. Atleast not anymore," Lucrecia muttered the last part but Bucky still heard. He furrowed his eyebrows, looking at the short girl up and down.

He couldn't deny that she was attractive, she looked like a doll.

Lucrecia looked up at him, he was about 6 feet. Chiseled face and steel blue eyes, he was extremely buff and had a cool metal arm.

"So," she started, "you must be the infamous James Buchanan Barnes."

Bucky gulped when she looked him up and down, same as what he did to her earlier. After all of the stories she heard about him, she was excited to finally meet Cap's bestfriend from the '40s.

"Not talkative, huh?" Lucrecia asked, noticing how he hasn't spoken a word since she arrived. Bucky didn't answer, he just stared at her with an unreadable expression.

Lucrecia tilted her head at him, "Not talkative, then. Got it, JB."

Bucky frowned as he looked down at her. "JB?" He questioned, tilting his head in confusion.

Lucrecia lifted her eyebrows when he finally spoke, his voice was rough and deep. She loved it. The Maximoff girl nodded, giving him a smile.

"JB, James Buchanan or James Barnes, whichever you prefer. Actually, now that I think of it, that would mean Justin Bieber and you don't look like him. Let's change that nickname, how about . . ." Lucrecia's eyebrows pinched as she thought about what she should call him.

Bucky smiled amusingly at her, she was adorable when she rambled about a nickname for him. Usually, he would be attacking her right now but she didn't seem like she was there to hurt him. Bucky was working on changing how he communicated with people, maybe this girl could help him.

"Oh, forget it! I'll think of it later, I'm here for a reason." Lucrecia said making Bucky tense at her last statement. The youngest Maximoff saw how he reacted to her statement making her sigh and shake her head, mentally scolding herself in her head.

"Look, I'm not here to hurt you, Bucky-"

"My name isn't Bucky," he cut her off, giving her a small glare.

Lucrecia furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, giving him a weird look. "Okay . . ." She said slowly, moving her head to the side but still looking at him. "Anyways, as I was- Where the hell are you going?"

Lucrecia's eyes followed Bucky as he walked towards something on the other side of the road. She groaned and followed him, I need to get paid for this.

"Lu, any updates on Bucky?" Steve asked through the earpiece.

Lucrecia tapped on it, teleporting over a car as she still followed the man with a metal arm. "Working on it."

The Maximoff girl arrived beside the tall male, looking at the newspaper in his hand. It was the picture of him in Vienna, the one that was in the footage of Bucky in the parking lot after bombing the place where King T'Chaka of Wakanda died.

Before she could say anything, she was shoved against the wall. Lucrecia groaned in pain and looked at Bucky who had his hands on her shoulder, his eyes glaring deeply into her soul.

"What do you want from me?!" Bucky asked at her through gritted teeth, banging her on the wall again when she didn't answer.

"Ow, calm down! I told you, I'm not here to hurt you." Lucrecia reminded him but Bucky just got angrier.

His scowl deepened and his glare hardened. "I'll say it again; What do you want from me?" Bucky repeated with gritted teeth.

"And I'll say it again; I'm not here to hurt you," Lucrecia replied sarcastically, annoyed of the man already. His short-temper was definitely something.

Bucky ignored her statement and wrapped his metal hand, which was covered with a glove, around her throat, squeezing it. Lucrecia's eyes widened as she looked at him, she would've used her powers to pry him off but he had both of her hands positioned above her head with his flesh hand.

Lucrecia hummed amusingly, "Hmm, kinky," she winked at him which got a confused look from Bucky.

Bucky grunted, "Listen, here; Whatever you try to do, I'll-"

"You'll kill me?" Lucrecia finished, doing her best to speak properly since the grip he had on her neck tightened. The Maximoff girl chuckled softly, looking at him right in the eye, "Trust me, you aren't the first person from Hydra that I've fought."

Bucky narrowed his eyes at her warily, he liked how she had enough confidence and gut to talk back to him. If someone dared to talk back to him, Bucky would've shot the person in the head, but with this one girl, he didn't want to. She was amusing to him, he secretly liked her flirtatious ways.

He might've liked her enough to not kill her . . . yet, but that wasn't enough to believe whatever came out of her mouth.

"Is that right, doll?" The pet name made Lucrecia's cheeks burn up, a light pink tint resting on the apple of her cheeks.

Bucky noticed and smirked teasingly which made Lucrecia's cheeks turn even more red from embarrassment.

"Lu?" Steve's voice snapped her out of her little staring contest with Bucky, the girl blinked and looked to the side. "What's the status with Bucky?"

Lucrecia looked back at Bucky who simply stared at her, she gave him a flirty wink which made him frown and look at her with confusion.

Bucky looked up and saw a single line of violet mist heading to him from her fingertip. Before he could even react, the mist reached to the side of his head, on his temple, as his irises glowed a bright violet.

As if he was hypnotized, which he was, Bucky was unable to stop himself as he backed away from Lucrecia, letting go of his hold on the girl.

Bucky blinked, only to find Lucrecia nowhere in sight. He blinked a couple of times again, rubbing his eyes. He didn't know what just happened, one second he was trapping her against the wall, and the next, he stood a few inches away from the wall and Lucrecia was nowhere to be found.

The Barnes male frowned deeply, greatly confused. He shook it off and began heading to his apartment.

In his small worn-down apartment, Lucrecia Maximoff appeared beside Steve Rogers who sighed in relief when he saw her.

"Thank God, I thought Bucky did something to you. You weren't responding, I was terrified." Steve said, looking at her with a relieved look.

Lucrecia just offered him a reassuring smile, "I'm fine, Stevie."

The Maximoff girl looked at the item in his hand and tilted her head at it. Steve was holding a small notebook with various writings and pictures in it.

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

"Understood."

Lucrecia frowned slightly when she felt another presence in the room, Steve seemed to notice too since the two of them turned around at the same time. It was Bucky.

"Huh, that was faster than I thought," Lucrecia said out loud, gesturing to how fast he arrived. Bucky didn't look at her, his eyes set on his former best friend.

Steve looked at him with a cautious look, trying not to scare him. "Do you know me?"

Bucky blinked at him, seeming to be frozen for a moment. "You're Steve," He responded. "I read about you in a museum."

Lucrecia hissed in emotional pain for Steve, that must've hurt. Imagine your best friend saying that they know you because they read about you in a museum . . . that's going to hurt.

"They've set the perimeter."

The female in the room felt bad for Steve but she also knew that was he said was a lie. When she compelled him, she also dug into his mind. He was remembering, just not everything.

Steve put the notebook down on the counter slowly, "I know you're nervous, and you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying."

Bucky shifted slightly, Lucrecia barely even caught on to it. "I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore," He told the two of them, hoping that they would believe him.

"They're entering the building."

Steve looked out the window for a second before looking back at Bucky, "Well, the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive."

"They should know better. He isn't lying," Lucrecia defended Bucky, looking at the brown-haired male. Bucky averted his eyes to her, giving her a grateful nod.

"That's smart. Good strategy," Bucky stated.

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

Lucrecia turned her direction towards the door, having heard footsteps coming their way with her enhanced hearing.

"This doesn't have to end in a fight, Buck," Steve told him, trying to prevent him from killing someone.

Bucky stepped closer to the door, "It always ends in a fight."

"Five seconds."

Lucrecia immediately placed an invisible barrier around Steve and herself, placing one on Bucky as well, just in case.

Steve kept looking out the window, knowing that they were running out of time. "You pulled me from the river. Why?"

Bucky took off his glove, revealing his metal hand. He looked at Steve and Lucrecia, "I don't know."

"Three seconds."

"Yes, you do," Steve said in denial, not believing that Bucky would just save him from drowning when he was supposed to be the soldier's "mission".

"Steve, we're running out of time!" Lucrecia exclaimed, holding her hands out at the door which earned a curious glance from Bucky.

"Breach! Breach! Breach!"

Steve quickly lifted his shield, pointing it at the window as a grenade went in. It rolled to Bucky's size, the Winter Soldier kicked the grenade to Steve and the American hero covered it with his shield, making it blow inside.

Bucky covered himself with the mattress when shots were fired. A man came in from the window and landed on the ground as pointing his gun at them, he was about to shoot but was thrown out of the window by Lucrecia.

Another man came in through the door to the balcony, Bucky kicked him in the chest making him fall.

"Buck, stop!" Steve warned him, turning him around. "You're gonna kill someone."

Bucky ignored him and shoved him to the ground, he punched the wooden floor right beside Steve's head. "I'm not gonna kill anyone," He told Steve, taking out a backpack from under the floor.

The two Avengers watched as he threw the bag outside, it landing on the rooftop of another building beside his apartment building.

Lucrecia stood infront of the two males, protecting them from the gunshots and placing a small barrier infront of the three of them to avoid getting shot.

Steve, who had also positioned his shield infront of him, was thrown to one of the shooters by Bucky.

"Steve!" Lucrecia cried out as she shot a blast at one of the men. The Maximoff girl followed Bucky out the door when he broke it down, him fighting them and Lucrecia shooting blasts at them.

One of them broke through the glass ceiling with a rope attached to his waist, Lucrecia made him freeze before he could even shoot.

Bucky used the frozen soldier as an advantage to go down the stairs faster, fighting more of them as he descended down the flight of stairs.

Lucrecia flew down as she shot at the men wearing black on her way, all while following Bucky.

She watched as he jumped from the apartment building to the rooftop on a building right infront of them. He rolled but quickly stood up, running away but was knocked down by someone from the back.

He looked up to see a tall figure in a panther suit, his helmet completely covering his face and silver claws coming out of his fingertips. He positioned himself in a catfighting pose.

Bucky and the unknown man then starting to fight while Lucrecia just stood on the balcony, watching them.

Trying to act as if she hasn't just been watching Bucky fight someone, she quickly started to float in the air just as Steve arrived.

He looked at her and nodded, signaling for her to head down there and help him. Lucrecia nodded in reply and flew down to the rooftop, her lower body and her hands being covered with violet mists.

She landed on the ground with a thud, her knees bent and her palms facing the ground. She looked at the two people fighting with her glowing violet eyes, Lucrecia sent a blast to the unknown guy which made him fly back and to the wall.

Steve backed up just as Sam came soaring in their direction, "Sam, southwest rooftop."

"Who the hell's the other guy?" Sam asked.

"About to find out," Steve took a big leap, landing on the side of the rooftop and rolling to the ground.

The other guy aimed his claws at Bucky's neck, about to either scratch his neck or stick his claws in his throat. A violet mist surrounded his hands, stopping him from doing anything of the sort.

Just as Lucrecia was going to send him flying back, a helicopter came above them and started shooting which made her place a force field around herself.

The guy in the cat suit didn't seem to get affected by the bullets, though. It was like his suit was indestructible.

Sam kicked the tail of the helicopter making it face away from the fight. Cat guy immediately started to fight Bucky again once they weren't getting shot at, his hands no longer trapped by Lucrecia.

Lucrecia's fingers flexed as she lifted him in the air and trapped him there which Bucky then used as the perfect opportunity to escape. He took his backpack and jump off the rooftop.

The Maximoff girl moved him to the edge of the rooftop and thrust her hand forward which pushed him backward and sent him down where he, unfortunately, took a hold of the side of the building and slid down, his claws leaving markings.

Both he and Bucky were racing down to the ground, Steve and Lucrecia went down behind them.

Steve looked at her, the two of them running after the other two. "You seriously couldn't have sent him in the opposite direction?"

"Sorry, I panicked," Lucrecia apologized, breathing heavily as she ran the fastest she has ever ran in her life.

Bucky jumped down to an underground road, moving to avoid getting hit by the car that was heading his way. He turned around and started to run, the guy in the panther suit and the two lovebirds jumping in after him and following the ex-Hydra soldier.

Lucrecia got tired of running and instead, started to float in the air. Her body was flat as she followed after Bucky, right above the moving cars.

Multiple police cars followed after the four of them, but Bucky led them into a trap which got them stuck. A motorcycle was coming right at him, he smoothly took ahold of the handle grip, throwing the motorcycle driver off of it and turning the vehicle around, jumping on it and then driving away.

Lucrecia was impressed at how smoothly he had done it, he also looked very hot while doing it.

Bucky drove away with Steve, who was in a car that had the cat guy on top of it, following him and Lucrecia right on his tail, sending violet orbs at him but he seemed to always avoid them.

Black Panther stepped over the top of the car and to the front where he jumped off and headed to Bucky. The Winter Soldier took ahold of his neck before he could even touch him, the guy struggling as he was getting choked by Bucky.

The motorcycle tipped over to the side, Bucky scraped his metal fingers on the concrete with Black Panther behind him. He went to strike at Bucky but the blue-eyed man threw him off the motorcycle before he could do it.

He stood up and looked up to see Lucrecia flying past him, he leaped in the air and took a hold of her leg making her lose her balance a little bit.

"Hey! Get off, dude!" Lucrecia exclaimed, looking at him with a scowl. She kept trying to kick him off but he wouldn't get off which made her groan.

Bucky attached a bomb to the end of the tunnel, Lucrecia stopped in her tracks when it blew up right infront of her. The guy finally let go of her and popped the back tire of the motorcycle that Bucky was riding which made Bucky fall off.

Steve ran out of the car as it flipped, Lucrecia flew out to the light right behind the American hero.

Police cars came from every direction making all of them stop fighting. War Machine landed a few feet away from them, he stood up and pointed his palms at both Bucky and the random guy.

"Stand down, now," Rhodey ordered.

Guns were pointed at the four of them which made Lucrecia act out of habit. A violet mist formed on her fingers which Rhodey noticed.

"Maximoff, don't even try," Rhodey stopped her from placing a barrier around them which is what she usually did.

Lucrecia sighed and got rid of the violet mists, putting both her arms up in defense just like Steve did, looking at Rhodey with a straight face.

"Congratulations, Cap. You're a criminal."

Guards came up behind Bucky, grabbing him and making him kneel on the ground. Sam came up to them with his arms raised as guns were pointed at him. The unknown guy raised his hands up in defense slowly. Guards took Steve and Lucrecia's arms and placed them at their backs, the two of them watching as he retracted his claws and took off his helmet, revealing his face.

Lucrecia's eye grew wide at who it was. T'Challa, Prince of Wakanda.

"Your Highness," Rhodey addressed him.

𝓛ucrecia, Steve, Sam, and T'Challa were placed in the same car, Sam and Lucrecia seating at the back and Steve and T'Challa in the front.

The four of them were being brought to the SHIELD headquarters.

"So, you like cats?" Sam asked T'Challa out of the blue which made Lucrecia let out a quiet laugh.

"Sam," Steve warned him.

"What? Dude shows up dressed like a cat, you don't wanna know more?" Sam questioned.

Steve ignored him and looked at T'Challa who seemed to be in his own world. "Your suit . . . it's vibranium?"

T'Challa turned his head to Steve but not looking at him in the eyes. "The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations. A mantle, passed from warrior to warrior. And now, because your friend murdered my father . . . I also wear the mantle of king. So, I ask you as both warrior and king . . . how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?" He asked.

Steve looked away from his accusing gaze, his expression guilty of something he didn't even do. Steve took responsibility for what Bucky had done, blaming himself instead of his ex-bestfriend.

The rest of the car ride was silent, none of them spoke or moved.

Lucrecia got out of the black van with the help of Steve who held his hand out for her, she took it and stepped down. The two of them looked at where Bucky was, he was placed in a large container that had the number 23 on it. Bucky felt both of their stares and kept his head down.

Lucrecia turned around, her expression morphing into a hard look as she saw who stood a few feet away from them. Her jaw clenched as Steve walked to the group, Lucrecia following since their hands were still intertwined.

"What's gonna happen to him?" Steve asked as the four of them walked towards Sharon Carter and a short man.

"Same thing that ought to happen to you," The short man answered. "Psychological evaluation and extradition."

"This is Everett Ross, Deputy Task Force Commander," Sharon introduced him, seeing the confusion on their faces.

"What about a lawyer?" Steve asked.

Ross chuckled lightly, "Lawyer. That's funny. See their weapons are placed in lockup. We'll write you a receipt."

Guards walked past them with their suits and weapons. "I better not look out the window and see anybody flying around in that," Sam said before he followed them inside.

The rest followed suit but Lucrecia and Steve stopped when Ross held his hand out infront of them, the duo looked at him to see him looking at Lucrecia's hands.

"Another thing," Ross beckoned for a guard, he went up to Lucrecia with a pair of metal dungeon hand chains.

Lucrecia's hands let go of Steve's when the guard attached them to her hands, the chains covering her entire hand so that she couldn't do her magic.

Her jaw clenched as she stared at them, Steve looked at them with wide eyes. "Is that necessary?" He asked Ross who nodded.

"I know about her abilities, it's a safety precaution. So that no one gets hurt," Ross replied which made Lucrecia glare daggers at him, her violet eyes flashing.

She smirked slightly when she saw him visibly gulp. Lucrecia gave Ross and Sharon one more glance before she walked away, following where Sam had gone to.

Steve looked at Sharon who lowered her head, he gave her a look of disbelief knowing that she was somehow involved in the decision to let Lucrecia wear the chains. He shook his head softly before walking away as well, placing his arm around Lucrecia's shoulders as he tried to calm her down.

The two of them looked back at Bucky only to see him staring at them with an unreadable look on his face, they kept their eyes on him the whole time until the doors closed.

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a/n: btw, her dungeon chains
are just like elsa's

word count: 3910

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