A/n Sorry, so sorry.
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The news from Europe was that the Nightmare drug was created in a place call Gotham City back in America by a Dr. Jonathan Crane and Hydra was helping fund the development of it. The arms being delivered into Hydra was brought and delivered by who they believe to be a General Garza although no record linked the man to Hydra, Carly would become very still at the mention of the man and leave the room as quickly as she could. This was a clear admission that she knew of him. It was during one of the many meeting she couldn't escape that the pieces were finally put together and the team looked for him another way.
"No money has been paid into any bank account in Garza name, no paperwork. Nothing linking this man to Hydra." Natasha reported. She knew in her gut that this man stank of Hydra and criminal intent but there was nothing legally linking the man. She glared around the table taking in her companions.
Barton was drinking coffee from the coffee jug and looking at the photograph of Garza with narrow eyes. He too knew this man had to be involved in the criminal underworld. He could smell it.
Stark was tapping away on his Stark Pad, occasionally muttering to himself. The man never shuts up.
Banner had taken off his glasses and was pinching the bridge of his nose against the oncoming headache he could feel. The Nightmare gas could be devastating if released, and he was already thinking of possible formulas to use as a antidote towards it, although he still needed the chemical make up of the gas to begin.
Rogers was frowning at the information as he sat beside Barnes. There had to be some way to link the Major and to stop Hydra before they destroyed everything.
"They must pay him somehow." He says
Barnes mirrored him although he glaring at the photograph trying to force his brain to recognise anything about the man. He gritted his teeth at the pain. He saw Carly shift and avoid looking directly at the man in the photograph, not for the first time. She knew something about him.
Carly didn't want to look at the major longer then she had to but she couldn't help the snort at the mention of payment.
"he isn't paid in money." Carly pauses as the others note that she might have more of an idea then their gathered intelligence. "He prefers girls"
"You're saying he is paid in women?" Barton said slowly, the horrors of the world still getting to him sometimes. The world was an ugly place.
"No, girls. As in eight to twelve year olds."Carly says,
The room became silent as the information sunk in, only Barton's muttering of "sick bastard" could be heard.
Natasha watched Carly carefully. Watched as she avoid any action with the major and how she held herself. How the younger woman leaned ever so slightly towards Barnes as he laid his arm across the back of her chair, careful not to touch her but to let her know he had her back.
Banner also watched the young woman remembering a conversation months ago where Carly had mentioned that although she was quite fond of the Doctor she was still more scared to him as a man then his alter ego, who she met only once for about three seconds.
Natasha phone bleeped, "Fury wants a meeting. Tomorrow 0700. The final results from Friday will be in and all cross reference checks will be completed. Tomorrow we take down Hydra." She paused long enough to look around the room, "I suggest we prepare." She stood and slipped from the room. The others followed after, filing out silently.
That night Carly stood by the large bedroom windows of Stark towers dressed only in a large over sized T-shirt and a pair of legging, she signs up towards the sky before looking over her shoulder with a small affectionate smirk at the man on the bed. He was fast asleep laying faced down spread eagle a crossed the bed, his finger tips of both hands dangling over the sides. Apart from the sheet covering him, Carly knew he was naked, his dark hair was already sleep rustled and Carly felt a swell in her chest at the sight.
Carly's phone lite up with a soft ting as it received a message. She glanced at the sleeping man before replying. She frowns slightly and shut her phone off before moving to negotiate the long arm on the side that had silently become hers.
The arm moves and curly around her waist pulling her towards the semi wake man as he kissed the back of her head. She turns and buries her head under his chin and curled her own arm around him.
"how'd you know it was me?" She murmured into his chest.
"Who else is going to crawl into my bed?" He muttered back, eyes closed in hopes sleep would retake him.
"Hm, I could get the receptionist from floor five to come in." Carly teases. Barnes groans and tighten his hold on her, intwining his legs with hers. Carly chuckles and snuggles against him.
Tomorrow everything would change.
The following morning, Carly was already up and dressed before she attempted to wake the man in the bed. She sat beside him simply gazing at the man as he slept. Years of being a blank faced weapon and only made him look more gentle and innocent in sleep.
He phone buzzes to signal that they had an hour to get ready and be down stairs for the meeting. She signed, not wanting to wake him.
"James," she called leaning over his shoulder slightly to catch a slight farrow of his brow before he rolled over suddenly and yanked her down onto the bed. Carly squeaks before letting letting out a chuckle. "J-am-es. Come on. We got to go." But Barnes wasn't listening. Having woken a while ago he pressed kisses to her neck and shoulder from where he pinned her to the bed. She reminded him of a time long ago, before the soldiers and when he wasn't Bucky or Barnes but just James. He kisses the side of her mouth.
"we have time." His voice ripples deeply from sleep, he aims for her mouth this time but she turns last second with a small grin.
"No, we don't have the time. We have less then an hour, and you take longer then that in the shower." This time he caught her lips with his own and kissed her deeply. Barnes smiles at the feel of her hands twisting in his hair. When they parted he briefly lays their foreheads together, before pulling back enough to see her clearly.
"If that was true, you wouldn't be pulling me to you." Carly blinks up at him to find her arms and legs have curved into that familiar frame of his. "I could half that time, you know, if I completed somethings out here." He have her a cheeky boyish grin before nipping at her jaw. Somethings were currently pressing its self against her upper thigh. Carly pushes down the grin that's tried to form and the heat on her cheeks. The man knew how to make her squire and blush. "Wat'ch say baby doll?" He rumpled deep in his chest as he let his plump lips skim the sensitivity skin covering her collarbone and looks up between dark eyelashes. –who could resist?- Carly bit her tongue and swallows hard.
Barnes teases the bare skin on her knee as he pushes up the skirt he's positive she must of poured herself into earlier.
"you have half an hour." The smirk on his face irritated her no end so she added "think you can do it, Old Man?" The outrage pout of his face made her bite her lip to stop from laughing.
Safe to say the pair were late for the meeting. Fury was not happy.
"now that everyone is here." Fury growled towards Barnes and Carly "the final reports have come in. I want you to round them up and bring them in. Alive, if you must, for questioning. Hydra's been one up on us too long. Hiding in plain sight. " Fury nodded to Agent Hill who hit a few buttons on her Stark pad. Images of a group of men the Avengers knew sprang to the screen. "Don't trust anybody until these guy are taken out, split up." And with a flicker of his leather jacket he was gone.
"We split up, take the tower. " Rogers stood taking charge. " Stark check the camera lets us know what floor they are on, stop them from realising what's going on until it's to late. Banner, find us somewhere to store these bastards and to keep them from calling for back up. Barton, you and Natasha start from the floor up, meet us at the the R&D lab. If your not trained in combat meet us there too, the rest of us start from the top of the tower pushing them towards the others."
The group slip and Carly, Barnes and Rogers split on the top few floors before Barnes and Rogers regrouped as they came upon John Hardwick Jr as he hurriedly sent a message from his office but before he could call down to his fellow comrade Rogers and Barnes stepped out.
The man visibly flinched at the sight of Barnes shadowy features.
"Hardwick" Rogers calls stepping into the mans path, Barnes beside him blocking the corridor . "Why am I not surprised you're part of Hydra."
Hardwick glared hard at them, pulling out and aiming his gun at Roger's, putting his finger on the trigger.
"Didn't think you would be, Rogers." The man pauses and shoots them a smug smile. " but I bet that was" he gestures with a nod behind the pair.
Barnes glanced over his shoulder to come face to face with the barrel of a gun. His gaze flickered up the owners arm to the face. He couldn't put into words how he felt. The sudden drop of his stomach made him feel sick, what was left of his heart was being crushed in the delicate hands of the person he had given it to.
Carly levels her gun at Barnes head, a blank empty look on her face, looking right through him like she doesn't even register that she knows him.
