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Chapter 29
Hello There

Auras. That was the only way, and simplest description that could be given to describe the way the lights looked dancing together in one central ball. Blue, purple, red, yellow, green, and orange streams of light moved with and around one another just as if they were consciously dancing and moving about. It was as if they had a life of their own, and in a way, it was the most beautiful thing Jamie had ever seen in her life.

And it wasn't just beautiful either. The feeling around her and the beautiful performance was electrifying. She had never felt so energized and anxious or alive! It was truly a wonder to behold, and it was all there in the darkness where nobody else could possibly see. It was just Jamie, and Jamie alone.

The brunette stepped towards the anomaly, not quite knowing where her footing would go, or even if there was ground beneath her feet, but she couldn't just stand back and watch. No, she had to move closer. She had to reach out for the beauty, the elegance.

The power.

Jamie stepped forward, her eyes fixated on the lights circulating around one another. As if in a trance, she raised her forward, her every intention to take the light into herself. She didn't know how, she didn't know why, but she needed it.

The light apparently, did not want nor need Jamie though. As she approached closer, her hand almost making contact with the whirling phenomenon, the lights scattered out, as if frightened off by the intrusion of the woman. Frantic, Jamie spun around, her eyes searching the darkness around her for any sight of the now mission illuminations. It was as if they were never even there to begin with. There was absolutely no sight of them.

Then, out of nowhere, something struck Jamie in the back, causing her to fall completely on her front. An intense familiar pain rippled through her body, rendering her immobilized for several seconds. She barely had enough strength to move. When she could, Jamie rolled over just in time to see one of the lights rocketing towards her, indicating that one of the lights was what just struck her. And just like that, as it raced towards her, the other colors joined it for a rainbow stream.

Jamie raised her hands up in defense. She focused, her intention was to use an energy surge to push back whatever was coming back to attack her, but when she tried to push the energy out of her body, she found there wasn't any.

All she could do was scream as it hit, the pain the only thing she could concentrate on.


Jamie shot up from the spot she was resting in on the rooftop in Santiago, Chile. The pain from her nightmare followed her into reality. At least it was no longer dark. It was warm and sunny. They were taking shifts watching the building down the street, and it had been her turn to get some shut eye while some of her Brits stayed up, though it had been Graham's turn to turn in as well. However, she couldn't have been asleep for more than thirty minutes.

Former Colour Sergeant Cameron Rhys was crouched next to her, looking at her rather concerned with those brilliant blue's of his. HIs blond hair was no problem, too short to fall into his face. In fact, he barely had any at all. He prefered to stick to how he had it when he was in the Royal Marines.
Just beyond Rhys was a concerned former Corporal William Dove. He was looking over Rhys's shoulder, though he still held his sniper rifle in his hands from the position he had been holding looking over the raised ledge of the building they were stationed on. Just beyond him was former Private Jack "Jackass" Shearer, who was looking through a pair of binoculars instead of towards Jamie.

"You're alright, Jamie?" Rhys asked, his hand on her arm to steady her. "You're burning up."

"I…." Jamie panted, looking around.

"You were flaring in your sleep," Dove told her, looking just as concerned as Rhys.

"What the hell is your problem?" Shearer asked.

"J-Just a nightmare," she croaked out.

"Here, drink some water," Rhys

"Thanks," she uttered, taking the canteen from the man. She could've gulped the whole thing down if she didn't want to take all of his own water. She was still in pain, for some reason she couldn't figure out. It was only a dream, after all, so it didn't make any sense that she'd be in pain, but there she was in that exact state.

It was terrifying too, since she knew exactly what the feeling felt like when she was hit by all of those lights. It felt like what happened in the first dream like this one where she walked on an unknown place towards a cavern with a purple ball, before she was forced to fly out and got hit by a geyser. And, even before that in real life.

It was the same feeling of having the tesseract take her over.

But why was it coming back up now? Was was she being haunted by it in her sleep and waking up as if it had actually happened? And why was there more than one? Where did all of the other colors come from? Were there more different colored tesseracts? Jamie didn't know, and she knew she probably wouldn't get an answer.
"What the bloody hell were you dreaming about?"

"It's hard to explain," she muttered. "I don't think I could even explain it."

"I'm surprised you didn't wake Owen up," Dove mumbled, getting back into position.

Owen Graham was asleep next to her. His playful face smooth and peaceful. Graham was the most care free of the team, and he was always cracking jokes at the most inappropriate times. It was honestly what they all needed to keep their sanity with the stuff they had to go through though.

"I'm surprised you didn't give our position away," Shearer grumbled. "All that blue glowing shit is like a neon sign telling Cerberus where we are."

"Now, Jack, she wasn't flaring that much," Dove scolded.

"No, but he has a point," she admitted. "I'm good on rest. We can't afford something like that happening again anyway."

"You sure? Rhys asked. "You look exhausted."

"Yeah, I've just been having a lot of those dream lately," she answered. "I'll be fi-"

"Guys, we've got a lot of movement," Jack piped up, interrupting her.

Each conscious individual turned to peer over the ledge. And just as Jack said, there was a whole lot of movement at the Cerberus building. It had been about two weeks since Jamie joined them in staking out the building, and they had been there far longer than she had. They were getting a read on the activity around the building. Shipments going in and out, even placing trackers on the trucks to see where they were going. They were having a whole lot of luck finding out affiliated locations to this one. That was saying something seeing as every time they found one of Cerberus's locations, it was generally getting blown up very shortly after. This was a new record for them.

"Looks like they're moving out," Dove said.

"How long have you they been sitting in the place?" Jamie asked.

"We think five months or so," Rhys answered.

"Have they had this much movement like this at all in that time?" Jamie pressed.

"I wouldn't have brought it up if they did," Jack grumbled.

"How do you want to do this, Rhys? It's your mission, your call," Jamie said, turning to the leader.

"Well, we gotta get in there to get whatever intel we can from their system before they blow the place," he thought outloud.

"And from what we know and my calculations…." Dov muttered, "we have about fifteen minutes before that happens."

"So the easiest thing to do for the intel is to set in Solace with the extractor, while we try and block and take in as many Cerberus prisoners as we can," Rhys decided.

"Sound good to me, but….what exactly is an extractor?" she asked.

"This," Dove answered, tossing her a small flash drive. "Plug it into their server and wait until it finishes loading their intel. It'll automatically do it all for you, so no hacking skills required."

Thank God, she thought, standing up to check how many ICERS and how many real bullets she had. She didn't have the time for the ICERs, so lethal was her only real option right now. "Covert or make some noise?"

"I think it's a little too late to sneak in. They're leaving for a reason," Rhys said, getting ready himself, as did Jack and Dove, while Jack kicked Graham awake. "Make as much noise as you like."

"Will do," she said. "You have blueprints on the facility?"

"I'll tell you where to go once you get in there. "You'll need to be on the third floor."

"Okay, I'll let you know when I'm clear," Jamie said, finally getting to her feet.

She stood up onto the ledge of the building they were hiding on, and just like that, jumped forward and burst towards the building. Below Jamie could see frightened or excited people looking up towards the skies at her, wondering who she was, or if they knew, in awe that she was there, or terrified that something horrible was going to happen. She couldn't focus on them at the moment though. The Brits would get them all to safety, hopefully, and she could go in and do her job.

She counted the floors and before entering the building, she raised her hands and shot at the glass to make sure it was cracked and fragile enough for her to break through. Once making contact Jamie rolled, small fragments of glass sticking to her uniform and in her hair, but luckily not scratching her.

The second she rolled back up to her feet, she came face to face with a Cerberus soldier. The two reacted at the same time, but Jamie was a bit faster than he was. Jamie reached out, just as he moved his handgun to point at her. She grabbed it and pulled his arm past her while her other hand opened out in front of her, palm open as she shot out an energy blast to him. She didn't let him go though.

As Jamie moved down the long hallway, her free hand grabbing the man's gun out of his hand so she could use it instead of wasting her own bullets, she held him while the three other shocked soldiers finally regained some composure. Jamie pulled the man she had a hold of down slightly, just enough where she could turn and raise a hand over his shoulder and back towards the group. She shot at the man to her left in the hallway, before dropping her cover since his knees gave out.

She shot at the middle man, then at the one of the left, though her aim wasn't as good at the first time. She only nicked his shoulder. He yelled out in pain and aggravation, giving her enough time to jump and roll over the body before her. On her assent, she reached out and grabbed the gun out of his hand, and raised a foot to kick him backwards. She used his own gun on him, nailing a headshot.

The guy from the middle charged forward, taking out a knife from his pocket, but he didn't get a chance to use it because Jamie grabbed his wrist and then swung herself upside down, her free hand supporting her on the floor as she swung around. She managed to flip the man and pull her gun out to take him out within a matter of seconds.

Panting, Jamie got back up onto her feet and put her hand to her ear to press the button on the comm. Link. "I'm in," she barely got out. "Which way do I go?"

"Your tracker shows you on the other side of the building from the control room," Dove told her. "From your tracker…...uh, go left and then take a right. Go all the way down the hallway. You'll see a room labeled 'supply room.' That's what you want."

"Got it. Thank you, Dove!" Jamie answered, running down the path he told her to take.

Jamie ran off to to the control room, and really ran right passed the door that Dove had instructed her to go into. If the plan was to deceive people from finding out where the control room was, it was a very effective way to go about it. It was definitely not very flashy at all, and honestly, Jamie though it looked more like a janitor's closet than a door to the whole brain of the building.

Jamie barged in to fins it was completely empty, which was a welcome relief. They had most likely been the ones to evacuate first. It didn't really matter if they had or not. To her, it just made her job a whole lot easier in plugging and extracting the data. So she quickly plugged in the device and looked around just to make sure she didn't miss anything. Most of the stuff around her was security, or a whole bunch of tech she didn't understand and far more suited for Tony than her. Again, it didn't really matter to her. She wasn't going to complain.

Or….she wasn't until she noticed the small little clock on the large control panel with a little red letters counting done from seven minutes.

"Of fuck," Jamie muttered, placing her hand onto the comm. link in her ear. "Guys, you read me?"

"Yeah, what's up Solace?" Rhys answered, sounding very much out of breathe.

"We've got a problem," she informed him, glancing at the count down, then to the drive to see if it was done yet. "The place is set to blow in six minutes. Have you cleared the area? Has the building started to evacuate?"

"Evacuated? No, the only thing that's come out are the shipping trucks that we saw before." Rhys answered.

"Are you telling me they're going to blow it with everybody still in it?" Graham asked.

"Jamie, you gotta get those people out of there!" Dove ordered her.

Better said than done, Jamie thought, frantically looking around for something on the control panel to help. It was no use, it was all gibberish to her, even with the Spanish labeling, she didn't know what this button did in combination with the bazillion other colorful buttons around it.

The only thing she could really think of to pull the fire alarm on the wall out in the hallway. The device connected to the computer lit up green, indicating the information had finished extracting. Jamie pulled it out and rushed into the hallway, slamming into the wall nearly on top of the alarm. She pulled it, and all of the emergency lights on the wall, lining by the ceiling went off, giving the hall a much more red and orange feel that sterile white.

"Get ready," Jamie yelled in the comm. over the sound of the deafening noise. "You're going to have a whole lot of people leaving all at once.

She wouldn't have been able to hear a reply even if she waited around to hear one. Jamie ran down the hallway, following the signs on the walls to the stairs, all the while yelling out in Spanish that everybody needed to evacuate. That it wasn't a test and the place was in danger.

She did that until she got to the stairs. Once she was inside, she continued to yell at the gew people that actually were in there. She went down a floor, and entered the floor instead of continuing her way down, yelling the same message she had upstairs. Jamie did this over again until she reached the bottom floor, where she found people running about frantically, trying to leave the building all at once. She knew she had gotten them panicked, but she would've rather them knew that they were in danger and actually leave instead of just staying in and ignoring the "drill" they most likely all thought it was.

She flew over their heads and went to the large glass windows that lined the "lobby" area of the Cerberus facility and blasted them out to hopefully give the people another exit. She looked down at her watch and saw there was only a about thirty seconds left. She moved back to the ground waving her arms and screaming at the crowd of people. She needed them to run. She needed them to run fast.

She watched person after person running by her, no doubt making it to safety and clear out of the blast radius. However, she couldn't help but notice things that she never thought she'd notice about Cerberus people.

These were just people. They were dressed in nice work clothes and suits and secretarial garb. Some were tanned bronze, others pale. There were skinny short people, and tall fat people. There were pretty people, and average, and ugly people.

Fuck, half of these people probably don't even know what Cerberus does, Jamie realized. Cerberus wasn't just crazy madmen that liked to inhumanely experiment on soldiers. No, it consisted of good people being deceived.

And as Jamie stood there, her eyes noticing all of these little details on people, the crowd finally starting to thing, though there were still some struggles she was concerned about, her eyes zeroed in on someone helping a couple people that had been knocked down in the run. He was a good sized man, taller than her, but shorter than Steve. He had long, greasy hair pulled back in a tiny ponytail, though the black ball cap that covered his head made it hard to see it on the back of his head. He wore a ratty old gray sweatshirt and a plain pair of jeans. Over all, he looked like a normal person.

Only Jamie knew far better than that. He wasn't a normal person. For as long as she had been alive, that man was never just a normal person. No, he was a comic character. He was someone her and her brother looked up to as they were children. He wasn't just a sidekick, he was a partner and a best friend to the man she was secretly in love with.

The man was Bucky Barnes.

Bucky looked up at her with blue eyes, knowing very well who she was, or at least an association, and could tell she knew who he was. His eyes narrowed in a glare, obviously giving her the feeling he resented being caught.

But before Jamie had the chance to even call out to him, she heard the frantic ramblings of a mother calling to her son. Jamie turned her head, blue eyes making contact with the sight of two pedestrian; one mother, and on the other side of some late escapees, a small girl, no doubt her daughter, separated from her mother.

Jamie didn't even have enough time to look down at her watch to notice the place would blow in three seconds. The only thing she had time for, the action done without needing to think about it whatsoever, was dive to the young girl and grab her, bringing her down to cover her with Jamie's body as the loud boom that could be heard all throughout Santiago.

The walls crumbled all around them, and Jamie did her best to project enough energy above them to try and keep as much of the debris away from her, but there was only so many smaller pieces of building that Jamie could keep away. The much larger pieces were far too heavy and required far too much energy that she didn't possess at the moment to keep away. So Jamie and now fainted little girl were trapped under rubble.

And Jamie wasn't uninjured. Getting pelted with concrete, metal and glass definitely entailed getting injured. It wasn't as bad as it could've been though. She was covered in bruises and little cuts, but for the most part, she was definitely lucky. Within a week, all of her injuries would be healed.

But in order to heal, Jamie needed to be found and rescued with the little girl. There were too many layers of debris above her to be heard yelling out, plus there would be far too much noise on the street to begin with. There was no use in wasting the oxygen they had by yelling.

All she had to do was wait.


It felt like an eternity down there. Jamie definitely wasn't a fan of small spaces. Not after having lived more than a year in a cold, dark, hopeless cell. Being confound with the thought that they might never be rescues was something she actually tried to avoid, and when she couldn't, it was pure hell for her. She had a hard time trying to prevent herself from hyperventilating, and even though she was doing a horrible job at remaining calm, she was doing it by some miracle.

In reality, it only took about an hour for her to be dug out, but by that time she was barely conscious and in severe pain from the massive bruises covering her body. She was pulled out first, and in turn, her locked hands around the child's arms pulled the unharmed kid out of the whole.

Panting heavily, Jamie stared up at the blue sky, her eyes barely able to focus on anything. But once she finally caught her breathe, her head turned to the person that had rescued her. And it definitely wasn't one of her Brits.

Bucky Barnes stood up and started to head down the mound of debri. It took everything Jamie had in her to make her voice come out of her ash coated throat. "W-Wait," she called ever so quietly. She didn't think Bucky heard her, but a couple steps later, he stopped and glanced back at her. "T-Thank you," she coated out. "For saving us…."

Bucky just stared at her, not making any indication that he was going to respond to her. She didn't really expect him too. After all, he was in hiding. He was no doubt going to run off and escape to some other country far away from here to avoid attention and getting under the radar of Steve. The man turned and started to talk again, but he froze, once more, when Jamie called out to him, still as softly as she had before.

"You don't have to be a gun anymore, you know. You can be whatever you want, whoever you want," Jamie told him. "And if that person wants, or needs any help, he can always come to us. We'd help you no matter what."

He narrowed his eyes, but it was obvious by the way he licked his lip that he was shocked by what she said. He didn't try and move this time, taking in everything she was telling him, which was a very good sign if anybody asked her.

"I can't make you do anything, Bucky. And I'm not going to," she said. "You're free to go if you want. But I just want you to know that you can come home to us. We're always here for you."

He stared a little longer, and he opened his mouth as if to say something, but before he could get it out, there were shouts from the other side of the mount, making their way up.

"Solace? Solace!"

There were four distinct voices calling out for her. Her search party finally started to make their way towards her. Jamie ignored them for the moment though, Bucky being much more important to her than the overall mission. But when she looked back, Bucky was nowhere to be seen.

Jamie sighed and just stared at the spot where he had just been standing. She had just let Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers best friend get away after all of their work in searching for him after everything that happened with SHIELD and HYDRA.

There was one thing that kept replaying in her mind though. Something that she'd lose sleep over until she did it. What the hell and I going to tell Steve?


So there we have it! The beginning of the shitstorm. Well, I honestly hope everybody liked the chapter. It was a really hard chapter for me to write, and I'm not completely happy with it Oh well, it's out now. Let me know what you think and please leave a review to tell me what you liked and/or what you didn't!

Thanks go to the following for their reviews on the previous chapter:

BowlofCereal- Yeah, StillDoll13, who owns Taylor, always has the best nicknames. She's just so sassy.

WriterGirl1198- Yeah, Tay is great. She get Jamie too loosen up and not take things as seriously all the time, because she's trying to get Taylor to either behave or to relax. And I know how you feel on the whole ex-best friend thing. The same thing just happened to me recently.

KnowInsight- Yeah, interesting things always happen when Taylor is around. Lol

CJ/OddBall- Jamie doesn't really care if she gives Taylor DNA at this point, because she trusts her. He knows she'll tun tests and whatnot, but she wouldn't do anything to put Jamie in any danger. Johnny won't be back for a little while, but I might have him in some phonecalls if I remember….I think Steve not commenting on Taylor's language is because he doesn't want things to start off shaky between then, because she's important to Jamie, so he wants to get along with her. And yes, I have seen a lot of Chris Evans's movie. I haven't seen The Losers though. I've seen Push and Snowpiercer, What's Your Number, Play it Cool, Before We Go, most of which I recommend.

Guest- Taylor's supposed to be annoying. She doesn't know how to act around people, so that's the point. Lol

Jedi Jelsa777- ...Still more writers block, and of course, its just in time for classes to start next week, which means less time to write. Stupis 18 Credit hours….

Fangirling007- I'm sure StillDoll13 will be thrilled that you love Taylor so much!

The girl with no life- Well, after the long arc that involves no cuteness, there will be boatloads of fluff and cute and bonding!

Seasidewriter1- That seems to happen to me a lot too, and I have no idea why. I'm glad you got to read the chapters though! There will be a lot more Taylor and Sam scenes as well, we're trying out the couple.

FelixFelicis02- I'm so glad you really like my story. Thank you so much! Oh, you just make my week! It's a good thing you'll be watching Agents, because Jamie's going to be in quite a few episodes in the next several chapters to come. But I hope you liked the chapter and thank you for your review!