A/N: Hey guys! Heres chapter two and let me know what you think! Pretty please with a cherry on top?
Everyday for the next week Bucky made it a point to stop by the market to see if he'd run into Emily again with no such luck. He often found himself hoping that she was okay since there seemed to be something about her that had drawn him to her but he couldn't quite figure out what. The assassin often found himself thinking about her even though he didn't mean to.
Bucky's head snapped up and to his right when he heard what sounded like fighting and he saw Emily and a man in a heated argument.
Unable to just stand there and watch, Bucky started to approach.
"You are not the boss of me, Mike! Leave me alone and don't come near me ever again!" She snapped, ripping her arm from the mans ironclad grip only for him to push her, making her fall to the ground.
"Hey!" Bucky found himself yelling before he could even stop himself, but he was not going to sit by and watch a young woman get pushed around and unable to defend herself.
"Get lost! This doesn't concern you," The man, Mike, spat out through gritted teeth as Emily stood up, only for him to kick her and push her back down to the ground.
"James, don't interfere," Emily grunts as she painfully sat up, only for Mike to kick her harder as he turned and glared daggers at her.
"Oh you know this guy? What did I tell you about talking to other men, huh!?" He snaps with venom in his tone as he leaned down and slapped her across the face, only for Bucky to grab his arms and turn him to pin him to the brick wall.
"She doesn't need permission from you to talk to others." He hisses before finally letting him go.
"Fine. You can have her," Mike grunts, looking at Emily, "Don't bother coming home, you can also take Sasha. I don't want her if she'll turn out just like her mother." He adds before turning to leave and Bucky turned to offer Emily a hand and help her up.
"Thank you," Emily says as she stood and brushed her hands off on her dress before she turned to start walking towards the market.
"No problem. Who was that?" He asks as he looked around to make sure Mike was gone.
"My husband...well soon-to-be ex husband now I guess. We moved here together seven years ago, right after we got married." She explains with a sigh.
"He doesn't seem very pleasant," He says.
"He's not," she starts, shaking her head, "he actually used to be very sweet when we first got married. Always bringing me gifts, telling me he loved me, that kind of stuff. Then I got pregnant with our daughter, Sasha, and he became verbally abusive, then once she was born it became physical. He hits me." She adds with a sigh.
"Why not leave before now?" He asks as they crossed the busy street and started their shopping.
"I thought that having two parents under the same roof together would be the best thing for Sasha and the abuse gets so bad that i'm scared to leave. He threatens me, tells me he'll take Sasha away and i'll never see her again." The brunette explains as she started shopping, "but it looks like now I don't have a choice but to leave and be a single mom," she adds as she paid for her groceries.
"Well I know i'm still very much a stranger so you probably don't want my advice, but in this case that would be the best choice. You don't want her growing up thinking that that's normal and that's how a man should treat her. Has he ever touched her?" He asks.
"Not really. Once she was watching t.v and I guess it was too loud and annoying Mike and shes seven so she doesn't know any better, but he picked up the remote and he threw it at her and it barely missed her head." Emily says, letting out a shaky breath.
"Well you're better off. Any man who treats his family like that isn't worth it." Bucky says.
"Well thank you," she starts with a sigh, "I should get back, figure out where me and Sasha will live." She adds as she started to walk away and Bucky decided that he was going to follow her without her knowledge.
He was going to help her no matter what.
A/N: Well let me know what you guys think! I promise the story will pick up so please review and give me feedback, ideas, whatever it may be! Please? With a cherry on top?