"Because I know my Bucky."
That sentence hung in the air for a couple of minutes while I drove.
"Here." I quickly turned off the engine and fallowed my Dad inside.
"We need a doctor! Anyone!" My Dad bursts through the front doors.
"Steve, Steve what's wrong?" Sam came running to us.
"Bucky choked himself. Can you get us a docter?" My Dad said calmly, which was surprizing.
"Sure, Docter Farley! You are needed on ground 1!" Sam ran to a phone on the wall and talked into it. He ran back over to us. "Why do you think he choked himself?"
"Flashbacks." Was all my Dad said.
Who I assumed was Doctor Farley came running down the stairs. "Who is this?"
"James Barnes, he choked himself, he's not dead, just knocked out." My Dad says.
"We need him in an opperating room. Nurse Crowley! We need you!"
A women who looked about 5'0, with another foot of attitude came rushing into the room. Her brown hair was swept tightly into a bun at the nape of her neck and her footsteps make silent pings on the polished floor as she ran.
"We need a gurney!" She called. "What happened to this man?" She peeked under the flannel blankets.
"He choked himself." My Dad said stiffly.
"With his metal arm. Got that." She pulled the gurney over to her side. "Put him on here." She said.
My Dad placed Bucky on the gurney and held his metal hand as they swept him away to the opperating room. My Dad was placed in a room where he could watch.
I ran into the room to see my Dad, not crying. Which was surprizing. "Dad, Dad are you okay?"
He gazed into the opperating room. "I can't beleive he did that. He didn't ask for me or anything."
I hugged him. "Dad, people do that when they think they have no way out. Bucky had a bunch. He'll be okay."
He sat back in one of those hard plastic chairs. "Now he has to live here again."
I sat down next to him and rubbed his back. "Dad-"
He stood up. "I'm fine. I'm fine. It's him I'm worried about. Fuck, now he's suicidal. Great, just great." I saw him grit his teeth.
"Dad, he's got the best people to take care of him." I said and leaned into his shoulder.
"Yeah, he'll be here for another twenty years again." He put his face in his hands.
I rubbed his back and looked in the opperating room. "Dad! Look! He's waking up!"
My Dad stood up. It was true, Bucky was coughing and sat up, but then laid back down when he realized where he was. "Please! Just let my die!" He cried. "Steve! Steve where are you?" He thrashed around.
My Dad stood up. "Bucky?" He ran toward the door.
"Dad! Can you just walk in there?"
My Dad paused in the doorway. "I'm Captain America. Of course I can."
I managed a smile. But the sceane was too painful. Bucky was yelling at everyone to let him die. All he wanted was to see my Dad.
After an hour, he finally calmed down because my Dad was holding his real hand.
They moved him into a room where my Dad could stay with him, I had to go home though. I thought about asking Jake if he wanted to stay over, since it was a weekend but he was at the beach and I still hadn't gotten him a anniversary gift.
While I drove home, I didn't play music. I just thought. Maybe Sophie and Anna could come over. I didn't feel safe sitting in an empty house for the whole weekend.
I parked the car in the garage and went inside. The house seemed to have lost it's joy and color.
I threw my bag on the table and picked up my phone to start a group message.
Hey Sophie and Anna, do you guys mind having a sleepover tonight? My Dad is out for a couple of days w/ Bucky probs.
Sophie texted back first.
Sure! I'll be right over!
Aw yeah! I'm flying over!
Flying?
With my hammer dummy.
So that ended our conversation. I was thankful no-one asked about Bucky.
While I was waiting, I turned on all the lights to make it not so dark. After a few minutes the doorbell rang. I basicly ran to the door to find Anna standing there with wind blown hair.
"Anna!" I hugged her right there in the doorway.
"Hey... Peggy. Are you okay?" She hugged me back.
My eyes prickled. "Yeah, is Sophie here yet?"
"I saw her running on the way here." Anna plopped her bag on the couch.
"Running?" I asked.
"Yeah and she was texting someone."
"Oh, texting someone huh?" I said as Anna sat down on the couch.
"Yeah, and Sophie never texts anyone." Anna said and pulled out her phone. "She said she's almost here."
Right then the door flung open and Sophie stood in the doorway. Laughing at her phone. "Hey guys." She jumped on the couch next to me. "What wrong with Bucky?" Still looking at her phone.
Anna set down her phone. "Yeah, what happend?"
I crossed my arms. "I'll tell you guys if Sophie tells us who she's texting."
Sophie finally looked up from her phone, and... blushed. "Why do I have to tell you?"
"Because you never text." I said.
"Fine." She blushed. "It's this guy I really like at school. His name is Eddie Greg. I met him in my archary class." If possible, she blushed more.
"Oh I've heard of him!" Anna said. "He's cute..." She trailed off.
"Anyway, he really likes me. Like actaully accepts me for who I am. Not the great Black Widow and Hawkeyes kid. Just Sophie Barton. Who can split his arrow in half." She muttered the last part.
I hugged her. "Aw Sophie..."
"Okay! Enough about me, what happened to Bucky?" Sophie yelped.
I stared at my hands. "When I got home from school after the fight with Rylen, my Dad was training and I told him about the fight. We were in the kitchen and he told me to go check on Bucky. So I did. The lights were off and when I turned them on, Bucky's metal arm was clamped around his throat." I finished.
"Aw Peggy. Is he at the VA?" Anna hugged me.
I sighed. "Yeah. He kept yelling at them to let him die and was calling for my Dad and stuff. He probabely can't live with us anymore." I sniffed.
"Peggy. It'll be okay." Sophie hugged me and then reached into her bag. "Look what I brought!"
I smiled. "Monopoly." It's the girls tradition to play it whenever we have a girls only sleepover.
Sophie started setting it up. "Guess what I saw when I was at the store?"
I picked my usual figurine. "What?"
"Avengeropoly." Sophie snorted.
"Really?" I said. "How desperate are they for money?"
"Actually, it was the last one on the shelf and-" She reached into her bag.
"Let me guess, you bought it?" Anna looked up from her phone.
Sophie pulled it out of her bag. "Yup! I call Black Widow!" Sophie called.
I sighed. "Captain America."
"Thor." Anna set down her phone.
Sophie rolled the dice. "Should I buy Stark tower?"
We all laughed. But then I remembered Jake. "Hey you guys. What should I get Jake for our anniversary?"
Sophie gives me a look. "I don't know." She shrugged,
Anna smiled. "You should take him on a date! I mean, you guys could take a night out. You're almost seventeen Peggy. You could just walk around town and go to dinner!" Anna said thoughtfully.
I sighed. "Maybe. And yes Sophie, you should buy Stark tower."
Hey guys! Sorry this is so short! I just wanted to get it updated as soon as possible! I don't have anything else to say so review!
P.S. I just started watching Doctor Who on Netflix!
