AN: this chapter had some fun with Emily and Bucky and no they will be together not at the age they are at. This chapter, more or less, paves way for what happens later with them and as well as help show of much Steve, Bucky snd Emily mean to each other. For the three of them been through a lot together before the war, during and after. Also, some of the parts of the story that you may have read in my other children stories, I am putting them here to be part of the story for this is where they belong.
Emily's pov, July 1927
Emily and Steve were running around one of the parks near the apartment building that they lived in with their father and in a couple of weeks that they would be starting school. Of which was something that they were looking forward to, while they were running around playing with each other that one of the bigger boys came over. Like before that he started to beat up on Steve, Steve started to fight back and Emily joined in to help him. The bigger boy pushed her to the ground before he resumed beating up Steve, Emily was about ready to join back in when all the sudden that the bigger boy was punched in the face. Emily knows Steve couldn't done that since the bigger boy was just teal enough that it would be hard for Steve to hit him in the face. Emily looked to where the punch came from and it was a boy that was a couple years older than she was. He has dark brown hair that couldn't be called black but it was darker than most brown hair people and his eyes were and a few lighter shades than her own blue eyes. He was not big like the one boy was but not exactly as small as Steve or Emily was either. The bigger kid grow a punch but the other boy duck and kicked him away before he walked back over to Emily and Steve as they stood back up. Emily has a couple of bruises and maybe a scratch or two but Steve had a couple more bruis es and scratch than she did.
"Are you two all right?" Steve spoke up first before Emily could say anything.
"I had him on the ropes." The older boy raised an eyebrow and looked at Steve.
"I live nearby, my mother can help you with the cleaning." Emily looked at Steve of who looked at her, asking if they should go with this boy or not. Honestly there was no reason not since he did just help them out, Emily looked back at the boy before she spoke.
"Would your mother mind?"
"No. I am James Buchanan Barnes by the way. You can call me Bucky." He held his hand, Steve and Emily shook it before Steve spoke.
"I am Steven Grant Rogers but call me Steve. This is my twin sister Emily Sarah Rogers."
"Nice to meet you." After a few minutes of walking that Emily and Steve were in the barnes household a couple blocks down form the park they were in. When the three of them entered the house that Bucky's mother made a fuss over them at once and started treating the few cuts that they got from getting beaten up. Bucky's mother also gave them some cream to use on their bruises before she made them some sandwiches since she said that they looked too skinny. Just after Bucky's mother left to get milk for them that Emily spoke up.
"Our father is nice but it's nice to have a mother worried about us."
"You don't have a mother." It was Steve who answered.
"I suppose we did, but she left us or died, our father doesn't like to talk about her too much. I think it pains him to talk about her." Just than Bucky's mother came back in with milk for the three of them.
"Here you go." Bucky took a gulp just after his mother gave it to him. "James Buchanan Barnes!" Emily giggled as Bucky spat the milk back into his glass and tried to look innocent to his mother. But it didn't help that when he started to blush when Emily giggled at him when he spat the milk back into his glass. His mother shook her head at Bucky. "You can be a handful." She kissed the top of Bucky's head before she spoke again. "No matter much of handful you are that you are still my Wind Prince." His mother gave Emily and Steve their milk before leaving the room once more, Emily looked at Bucky before she spoke.
"Wind Prince?" Bucky nodded.
"My mother likes to call me that."
"My dad likes to call me his little soldier or trooper. For I want to be a soldier just like him someday." Emily spoke up as Bucky looked at her.
"He calls me his Flower Princess."
"Flower princess, I like it." Emily blushed when Bucky said that, neither one were aware that Steve was trying to figure out of who was blushing more. After a couple more hours of being in the Barnes household that Emily and Steve were going to go back to their apartment when Bucky came over to them carrying a stuffed bear. He looked at Emily before he spoke. "Look, I had this bear since I was two, lately, I haven't be playing with him much." He handed the bear over to Emily. "I want you to have it." Emily took the bear from Bucky and looked at the bear, it was just like any other bear that she sees in the store, she always wanted a bear. But her father told her that there was a chance that she may not get one or the one she wanted and that if she does get one that it won't be for a while. Emily looked back at Bucky before she kissed him on his cheek of who blushed when she did that.
"Thank you. We will come back tomorrow that if our father doesn't mind." Emily and Steve left the house with Bucky staring the door of where Emily stood before she left.
Mary's pov
When Bucky brought he one set of twins back with him that she was worried of the state they were, Bucky explained of what happened as she treated the cuts, scratches and bruises. She couldn't begin to think of what she do if she was their mother as well, looking at the two in front of her that she knew that this two were different just like Bucky. However she has a feeling that their demigod powers were not hidden or whatever Bucky's father did. Notus told her that he didn't want Bucky to suffer because of what he did and told her that he used some of his powers to keep Bucky hidden from the godly world or anything godly expect other demigods. The moment that she saw them and when she started to treat them that she saw the signs of a demigod or some of the traits of a demigod that Notus told her to keep a look out if the sings should appear in Bucky. Mary wondered of who their godly parent was, when she would leave the room that she pause to listen to them. When they brought up how nice it was for them to have a mother to worry about them ease the unease she felt when she saw them. Because for a minute that they might be children of Notus as well, but if it was their mother that they didn't know than it was more likely their godly parent was their mother.
When she returned with the milk that Mary noticed that Bucky blushed when the girl, Emily, giggled just after he spat the milk into his glass and tried to look innocent. Honestly, Mary tried so hard not to laugh when Bucky did that, it was just so funny and that was not all but it seems that Bucky developed a crush on Emily even if he doesn't know it yet. Of which made the whole thing funnier, however she somehow managed to hold it and called him by the nickname she gave him since he was three and paused just outside the door to listen to what they say and she was close enough to watch them. When Bucky comment that he liked the nickname of Flower Princess that Emily blushed making it plain that she has a crush on Bucky as well. When Mary saw Bucky give Emily his stuffed bear and she kissed him on his cheek that Mary giggled from down the hall. She knows that she will have fun teasing Bucky for the next few years, not knowing in a couple months she would die from an illness that was not known yet. As Mary lay in the hospital that Bucky sat next to her wi worry in his eyes, she knows for a little bit of time that Bucky would stay at the Rogers house but she knows that Emily's father was also sick and she has a feeling it was only a matter of time before he dies as well. She would never see her son grow old, get married and have a family himself, as well as the hope that he would marry Emily.
"Bucky." He looked at her with worry in his eyes. She managed to lift her head up and reach out to take a box from the nightstand besides her bed before she place the box in his hand and put his other hand over the box. "This box contains a ring that has been handed Down for a long time. It is an promise ring, give it to the girl that you want to marry one day." Mary lowered her head back on the pillow of the bed and closed her eyes for the last time.
May 1929
It was a few months before her father died a year ago, since than that Emily, Steve and Bucky went into an orphanage. In a couple of months that she would be seven as well as Steve while a few months ago that Bucky turned nine. When Emily got there to the orphanage that they gave her dresses but she refused to wear them, instead she wore some of Steve's and Bucky's clothing. At the moment she was wearing Bucky's clothes and her hair was in a ponytail of which she usually wear and how she did her hair. She knows no matter what the three of them would be together and that if one was lost that they do all they could to get the lost back. The three of them were running down the hall before they ran down the stairs, When they reached the last few steps that Emily, Bucky and Steve jumped, when they landed that they started laughing. After a minute that Emily heard the voice she didn't want to hear.
"Bucky Barnes, Emily Rogers, Steve Rogers, how many times have I told you not to jump the last few steps?" The three stopped laughing when they noticed a man behind Ms. James that slaked over to Emily. Emily looked up at the man as he looked down at him, his eyes seem closed off, she felt cold and unwanted just looking at him. Than he spoke and his voice was cold and unwanting.
"Your name is Emily Rogers?"
"Yes." Emily tilted her head. "I thought Ms. James made that plain just now." The man looked over at Ms. James before he spoke.
"Why is she wearing boy's clothes?"
"I am not wearing boy's clothes, this are my clothes, Bucky gave them to me." No one paid any heed to what Emily just said, Ms. James shrugged.
"I gave her dresses but she refuses to wear them."
"The dresses itch. These are much more comfortable." The man looked at Emily again as the woman behind Ms. James walked forward.
"We been talking about adopting a girl." Emily scooted away form the man and towards Bucky and Steve.
"You are not taking me anywhere without Bucky and Steve." The unknown woman spoke.
"Emily, we only have room for one more."
"Than you are not taking me." But the couple really didn't pay any heed to what Emily said and adopted her, the man was forced to pick up Emily and out her over his shoulder before walking out of the orphanage. While the man signed the papers that the unknown woman went to Emily's room and got her things. Ms. James was holding Steve and Bucky back as the couple took Emily out of the orphanage as she yelled them. "Put me down, you have no say in taking me away from my family." The man spoke up.
"That is enough, Emily." Emily looked at past Bucky and Steve before she yelled at them.
"I don't know when or how but I will come back to you." Bucky yelled back at her.
"We will found you, I promise. For We are with each other till the end of the line." It was than that the coupe walked out of building and the door closed behind them. Emily started crying just before they left the building, Emily tried to get out of the man's grasp but couldn't. When he put her in the back seat that he locked her in before the couple got in themselves in the front and drove away. Emily turned around in the backseat of the car and watched as Bucky and Steve run out of the building and onto the road watching the car taking her away from them. Emily cried harder when she saw them looking after the car she was in and there was nothing they could do to get to her or to get her back. For it was too late to get her now, they don't know where she was going and she doesn't know where she was going and she was unsure if she would be able to get to them. But she made a promise when she yelled at Bucky and Steve that she will go back to them just like they would find her and that the three of them are with each other till the end of the line.
