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*~Homecoming~*
Chapter 7 - Love Confession
Evie sighed when someone burst into her room.
"What were you thinking, Evanna Ross?", Steve Rogers was standing in the middle of her little Hotelroom and Bucky right on his heels. The Captain was clearly the one in charge and eyed her with anger and worry in his gaze, but it was Bucky's face that made her shiver out of fear. Bucky was mad and Evie thought he would beat her up any second.
"Sam told me, that you used a telephone box to call Ava in Argentinia and then while you were out in the street, some government guys tried to attack you.", so Sam had been the one who sold her out to the Captain.
Now it was Bucky who stepped in front of Steve, who was surprised that Bucky took part in this.
"Are you out of mind?! Do you know what could have happened to you?! You put us all in great danger!", Bucky growled at her and Evie was shocked that he spoke to her that way. She always thought of Bucky that he'd be the one with whom she had formed a bond over these couple of weeks, but she must have been wrong.
"I am fine and besides, Sam was with me!", she tried to defend herself, but neither Bucky nor Steve backed off.
"You called Ava behind our backs, Evie. You must have known that the government is looking all over for us. We are criminals in their eyes.", Steve's voice was now softer and Evie refused to look at Bucky so she kept her gaze on her Captain.
"I promised her i would call if something came up. And Tony is a very big something, so excuse me very much for warning my friend!", Evie knew that playing the sulky one would not get her anything with these super soldiers, but she did it anyways.
"You know that even one false step could be the death of all of us. Are you even thinking about what that could mean for us? For me and Steve?", Bucky asked her and his voice was low, dangerously low.
Before she could yell at him how he could imagine her not thinking about these two, Steve put one hand on his shoulder and Bucky closed his eyes while gritting his teeth.
"Get out. Now.", Evanna spoke quietly and looked away from him. She saw in the corner of her eye, that Bucky gazed at her again and wanted to step forward, but Steve held him back and ordered him to let him talk to Sparks.
Bucky reluctantly left the room and Evie was alone with Steve Rogers.
"I have to apologize for him. You know in the army you learn that we only function as a team or as one unit. So there can't be any mistakes, because the consequence might be the death of one of your comrades.", Steve told her, before he sat down on the edge of her bed and tapped on the place beside him, an invitation for her to sit down next to him, which she took.
"And with your phonecall you endangered us all. Bucky might have seemed angry, but he was just worried to death, that you might have gotten hurt. He didn't even let Sam finish explaining and was already on his way to your room.", the two looked at each other and she sighed in defeat.
"Okay, i'm sorry. I didn't mean to do something so dangerous. And i forgive Barnes, but he has to apologize first. But don't tell him. He has to do it without any help from you.", she said and Steve grinned happily at her.
"Yes, Ma'am.", he did a little playful salute her way and stood up.
"You already leaving, Steve? We haven't talked with each other since we met in the forest of Wakanda.", Evie grabbed his hand and Steve's smile became more and more soft, before he squeezed her hand and sat down beside her again.
"Alright. But isn't Sam more suited for these kind of talks, because he's your best friend?", he asked innocently and he tried to keep it cool, but Evie could see that he was a little bit bothered by the fact, that Sam was her best guy friend.
Evanna couldn't help but giggle at him and Steve immediately blushed at that.
"W-what is it?", he asked innocently and looked down at their hands in his lap.
"I just don't believe that such a cute little puppy is one my best friends.", she laughed and nudged him with her elbow. The questionmarks were written all over his face.
"You know, i don't have one "best friend". You're important to me, just like Sam.", she explained and remembered a similar conversation with her brother, Alec.
"What about Bucky? I never asked you, but while we were trying to save him and ended up fighting with Tony and the others, i noticed that the two of seem to glance each others way pretty often. Especially lately.", Steve smiled at that and she sensed the teasing that would follow if she said something wrong.
"Actually i don't know what that is between us. I guess he resembles you a bit when you woke up in the 21. century and didn't know anything or anyone. So i just wanted to help him and you for that matter. We saw how that turned out.", Evie shrugged her shoulders and stood up.
"How about i'll talk with him? You know, ask him if he likes you?", Steve said innocently and Evie blushed furiously, but turned her back towards the super soldier.
"D-Don't you dare, Rogers. Are you playing matchmaker with us? If so, then you don't have to trouble yourself on that front.", she said flustered and tried to get her heart to calm down. She hoped, that Steve wouldn't do anything on that matter, if he still did, then Evie just had to kill him and then herself after that, so no one would know about that.
"Well anyway", before Steve could anwser, Evie spoke up, "nice little chat we had. I'll go downstairs and see if i find the other guys. Maybe Scott wants to play some cards or anything.", she rushed out of the room and quickly made her way into the motel lobby.
Just as predicted Scott, Sam and Bucky were down there. Scott ate a sandwich, while Bucky and Sam glared in opposite direction, they were obviously angry at each other because of Evanna's and Sam's encounter with the government in town.
When she approached their table, only Bucky and Scott looked up. Sam still pouted.
"Where's Steve?", Scott asked, after he swallowed and Bucky seemed to be on guard, while watching her as she sat down next to Sam.
"He'll be down shortly.", Evie responded and snatched the little cookie from Sam's coffee, who protested shortly after that before she send him a little glare and Falcon closed his mouth obediently.
"What did you talk about?", Bucky asked, his voice low. He surely was still angry at her for ordering him out of her room before.
"I bet he confessed his love for her and they made out.", Sam grinned at the evil glare Scott, Evie and Bucky send him after that.
"Who confessed his love?", Evie wanted to punch Steve in the face for just appearing out of nowhere behind her and scaring the shit out of her, but she calmed down pretty quickly.
"Oh, Sam said you confessed your love to Evanna.", Scott said and looked confused towards Steve, whose face blushed at that. Bucky and Sam also noticed that. Sam whistled quietly and Bucky growled in his seat, while averting his gaze from his best friend.
"You're all a bunch of idiots, you know that.", Evie snorted and closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to deal with these children anymore. She wished Ava was here with her, or Natasha. They would let them know where they stood.
"But what about the niece of Peggy you like so much, Steve?", Sam said after nipping at his coffee. Evie crossed her arms infront of her chest, displeased about the new topic, Sharon Carter.
"I'll be honest with you, Stevie. I don't know about this. Bucky told me you kissed her and all, but she's Peggy's niece!", Evie looked skeptical towards her captain, which earned her a scowl.
"Wait, i thought Steve has the hots for Evanna?", Scott interrupted them confused and everyone sighed.
"I think we should talk about something else. We still don't have the Red Book and what are we gonna do when we obtained it?", Bucky rubbed his temple with is index finger and looked at Steve.
"It might be a good idea to find someone who could get that code out of your head, so these commands don't effect you anymore.", the Captain suggested and Evie thought about other possibilities to heal Bucky with instead.
"What about the X-Men? My brother Alec is with them and Professor X is a strong telepath, maybe he can come up with a solution for our... soldier problem.", Sparks looked at the Winter Soldier and smiled carefully at him, afraid he might not respond to her attempt to make up. His eyes became softer but he didn't smile at her, maybe he was still offended by the way she had treated him earlier.
"You have a brother with the X-Men?", Bucky asked, curiosity flashed over his face and she grinned at herself, while thinking about her baby brother.
"Before i joined Shield, me and Alec lived some time with the X-Men. You know, trained my powers, so i don't go around and shock people by touching them. When i left for Shield, Alec stayed behind.", Evie explained and Steve laughed at her.
"You joined Shield, because you waited for me to wake up.", he reminded her and she snorted.
"You knew each other that long?", Sam exclaimed and stared at them, like that were such great news.
"Well, Steve is a superhuman, so i was curious and Wolverine got on my nerves, so i left the X-Men. I helped Steve to adapt to the 21 century. Some time after the aliens and Loki attacked New York i was invited to join the Avengers. And then Shield was destroyed and i met Bucky and Sam. And that was it for my adventurous past. Any questions so far?", she laughed and looked at the guys.
Scott reluctantly lifted his hand. Evie rolled her eyes and called his name.
"That was very interesting, but shouldn't we come up with a plan?", Ant-Man escpically looked at Steve while saying this.
"Right. Thanks for reminding me, Scott.", Steve said awkwardly and looked at his four comrades.
"The place where the Red Book is held is some miles north of a city called Surgut. We will meet heavily armed Hydra agents. Scott and Sam will check out the base and then Evie, Bucky and me will infiltrate the building without any solo attempts or reckless attacking, are we clear?", at the last part the captain looked at the only woman in the group, but she kept her gaze down.
"Evie, it's also important that Bucky is never alone. We don't know how much these Agents know about the Red Book and what it does, but that possibility is still there, so one of us has to stay by his side the whole time. Understood?", Bucky nodded, visibly annoyed that Evie or Steve had to babysit him on this mission, but he understood, that he also might attack his comrades with one tiny mistake, so he kept his mouth shut.
So did Evie. She had seen what destruction the Winter Soldier could cause and that he was a killer machine, not recognizing any one who dared to get in his way. Evie hearts throbbed painfully at the thought that Bucky wouldn't regonize her anymore if he was like that. She knew that she could never stand the dead look in his eyes. Evie had already seen them once and never wanted to see them again.
"I'll protect him, Steve. I give you my word."
