The grey sky had consumed the morning land in London. Clara was putting the wine glasses back in the cupboards after a party with her friends last night. She almost dropped one and her heart went in her throat and then she heard the bedroom door open.
'How many glasses were out?' Bucky asked his girlfriend as he shut the door behind him.
'Well we have nine glasses and I can only find eight of them,' she sighed as she turned to face him. 'Lucy and Tamsin don't half make a mess.'
Snorting, Bucky sat down on the red sofa and turned the TV on. This Morning was on and he frowned at the story of the woman who had quadruplets.
'I bet her downstairs is like a…'
'OK,' Clara placed her hands in the air. 'I really don't need to know the last bit of that sentence.'
Without warning, Bucky's mobile started ringing loudly so Clara told him to answer it. He hesitantly agreed and left the sofa to retrieve the phone in the bedroom. The female schoolteacher then loaded the dishwasher and shut the white door.
'I'm sorry,' she heard her partner say. 'You want us to do what, Director Fury?'
'I need you to get that chest inside the Research Centre. It holds secret information stolen from S.H.I.E.L.D and in the wrong hands, it can start World War Three.'
Bucky placed the phone on loudspeaker. 'But how do we get inside the Research Centre? We don't have passes or anything.'
'Well they're being delivered to your door right now as we speak and as you are the only former operative in London, you will have to do it. But essentially you will have to break into London's most secure research centre.'
Bucky's eyes engulfed as he looked up at Clara and hers did the same.