A/N: Sorry I didn't post sooner, but was having some technical difficulties and I couldn't log on. Please enjoy!


Once everyone finished breakfast, they got into their bathing suits. Bucky wrapped his arm in plastic wrap, in case he decided to go in.

By that time they had all finished, Natasha had already gone down to the lake again. The three boys walked down together chatting.

"So Bucky, you knew Natasha in your past?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, but I don't want to talk about it." Bucky said.

Steve took that as a cue to stop questioning him, he didn't want to push him to aggression.

"Wow, I think you guys take longer to change than I do." Natasha joked.

Sam spotted the handgun on the pick nick table.

"What's that for? Is it not safe to be here?" He asked.

"No, it's just for hungry wildlife or worse." She said casually.

"Worse?" Steve asked.

"Sketchy trespassing hunters and the like." Natasha said waving her hand to brush it off like it was nothing.

"You speaking from experience?" Sam asked, stepping into the lake.

"Yes." She stated

"What happened?" Bucky asked, brow furrowing and also stepping into the water, followed by Steve.

"So a few years back, I was out here swimming close to sunset time. I heard crunching twigs in the brush, so I grabbed my handgun. Soon two, obviously drunk hunters came out of the woods and started coming towards me with great interest. I yelled at them, telling them to get off my property. They didn't yield, so I told them it was private property, they said 'good, then no one will hear you scream' and they made to grab me, I dodged them and fired a couple warning shots, and that scared them off." She explained.

"Wouldn't that be illegal?" Steve asked. "The trespassers, not you."

"There were no witnesses and I don't think the sheriff is gonna take the word of an out-of-state girl over two Maine hunters." Natasha shrugged.

"I would have killed them." Bucky shrugged, diving in.

"Yeah, but then the fault gets put on you not them." Sam pointed out.

"Yeah, but they deserved it." Bucky said.

Since Bucky was probably never going to see eye-to-eye with them on this, they decided to drop the subject.

They continued to swim till lunch. When everyone started getting hungry, Natasha revealed that she had brought down a cooler with lunch in it so they didn't have to go back to the house. Everyone got out of the lake and sat down at the pick nick table to eat.

"Surprisingly, this plastic wrap is working pretty well." Bucky admitted.

"That's good." Steve said biting into his sandwich.

"Sheesh, it's awful hot! It must already be 90 out!" Sam stated, taking a swig of some soda.

"That seems very un-Maine like." Steve said.

Natasha snorted. "Last time I was here, the whole week was 90 degrees everyday."

"Shoot!" Sam exclaimed.


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