UPDATED. I FIXED THE TYPOS AND JUST ADDED SOME DEPTH AND SUCH.
It's been so long! BUT I GRADUATED COLLEGE. I have my degree in English and Psych AND NOW I'M WORKING RETAIL! Woooo! Anyways, quick chapter inspired by a very recent event in my own home tonight with a stink bug. I hope you're enjoying the start to summer! It's been in the 80's where I live lately and I am so so happy. Not so happy at night, because my A/C doesn't work well, but oh well. It's not -13 ad that's what counts.
Don't forget to review! Hope you all like it! And please let me know if you catch spelling or typo mistakes. I don't have a beta and sometimes I don't catch my own mistakes.
Amelia didn't enjoy cleaning. Who does? But when the music is playing loud, and no one is on the apartment floor, it can be almost enjoyable. Especially when she's listening to her Broadway station and belting out along with Idina Menzel while Defying Gravity as she is making her way to the bathroom. You'd think a bathroom shared by two men would be gross and disgusting, but Bucky and Steve kept everything clean. Especially Steve, he was pretty meticulous. Natasha bought him a label maker for Christmas once as a joke. He has only used it a couple times, just to annoy Bucky, really. At least, that's what he said. Bucky on the other hand, while not dirty, was just a tad bit messy. It was common to find clothes thrown around his room, clean clothes, usually. And no matter how obnoxious Amelia was about pointing out that there were two hampers in the room. One for dirty clothes, and the other for clothes such as "worn but not really dirty" or "tried it on, didn't work and I'm too lazy to hang up." It was essential to have both. Sometimes Bucky remembered them. Sometimes. At least he never threw about his tactical gear in his room. Those suits were kept with the others, in a specific and separate laundry room and Amelia was extremely grateful. There were also separate showers to wash off after missions. Powerful showers like none Amelia had ever seen. She was almost positive the showers were Pepper's idea.
Wicked turned into Rent as Amelia finished the sink and toilet, moving on to the tub. She pulled back the shower curtain and her stomach dropped and she let out a blood curtailing scream that could wake the dead. She was expecting maybe some dirt and grime, and possibly blood, but a humongous brown spider? Nope. No. She ran from the bathroom, knocking over the cleaning supplies on her way. She made it into the kitchen before stopping and ripping out her ear phones. Her heart was racing and she was mumbling "ew ew ew ew" over and over.
Amelia wasn't afraid of spiders. She could handle them. But spiders the size of both her hands she could not handle.
"Jarvis, what the hell kind of spider is in that bathroom?" She screeched, gripping the countertop ash her knuckles turned white.
"It appears to be a camel spider, Miss." Answered the AI.
Amelia cringed. If she remember correctly, camel spiders were not native to New York City. So how in all that's good and holy did that spider make it to New York? An idea popped into her head and it was not a happy one.
"Jarvis," she said quietly. "Where was their last mission?"
"I'm afraid I cannot answer that, Miss. However, I can say that Camel Spiders are common in the region they visited."
So it was a stowaway. As soon as that thought crossed her mind, Amelia let out a strangled noise. It could have been in their room! IN their bed! It could have been in the kitchen! She was getting antsy now, and her skin was crawling and her growing anxiety was making it worse. She couldn't be in the apartment, but she couldn't leave the spider alone in the apartment with all their things. What if it moves? What if they lose it? And how in the world did two super soldiers and a spy not notice a giant spider? Weren't they supposed to notice all the little details.
"Jarvis-"
"Sergeant Barnes is in the gym, Miss."
Amelia didn't thank him as she rushed out of the apartment, not even bothering with shoes and having no care that her socks were were mismatched with the Little Mermaid on her right foot and Wonder Woman on the other. She nearly ran into Bruce on her way down, knocking a stack of papers out of his hand, and barely heard his call if she was all right. She was too busy trying not to squeal like a five year old and jump around wiping imaginary spiders off of her.
Bucky was sparring with Steve on the mats, while Natasha was watching. She barely registered Clint on the treadmill as she ran ran right over to Bucky, somehow dodging Natasha's attempt to grab her. Thankfully the two men spotted her just in time to stop swinging. Amelia ran right into Bucky's chest, his blue eye wide at the state of her. He didn't even get a chance to talk before she was squealing.
"ThereisareallybigspiderandIsweartogodwhenImeanbigImeanbigandYOUDIDN'TEVENNOTICEYOUBROUGHTITBACKWITHYOU and please just kill it!" She said all of this so fast that Bucky didn't understand any of it. He gently clamped his hands on either side of his face and told her to take a breath. She did. But her heart was still racing and she could feel herself shaking.
"OKay, try all that again," he said gently.
"There's a really big spider in the bathroom and I mean, really big."
There was a pause. A long pause. Amelia could see Bucky's lips twitch as if he was trying to hold back a smile. "That's it? Just kill it?"
"NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IF IT WAS LITTLE I WOULD IT IS A HUGE SPIDER JAMES BUCHANAN AND I WOULDN'T BE FREAKING OUT IF IT I COULD JUST SQUISH-"
"Okay, okay!" Bucky's hands moved from her face to her shoulders, growing concerned. "Breathe. Relax, just calm down."
"IT'S IN THE BATHROOM IT COULD HAVE BEEN ON MY STUFF IT COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE BED."
"All right! let's go squish this thing." Bucky looked from Steve to Natasha, both of whom backed away with smirks on their faces. He rolled his eyes at them, but the thought of how silly and just so normal this was of the boyfriend killing a spider for his girlfriend was keeping him from being too annoyed. He grabbed Amelia's hand and left the gym ignoring the sniggering of the two he left behind.
Amelia was breathing heavily all the way back to the floor with both hands wrapped around Bucky's, who was grateful she was squeezing the life out of his metal hand and not his flesh one. Super solider or not, with all the adrenaline running through her at the moment, she might break a finger. When they got to the floor, Bucky had to almost drag her out of the elevator. She put up a little bit of a fight.
"Amelia, come on. It's just a spider. It's more afraid of you than you are of it."
Bucky was trying really hard not to laugh at her. How could she possibly be this worked up over a spider? Amelia glared at him as he opened the door to the bathroom and peeked in the tub.
"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!" He leapt out of the bathroom so quickly Amelia had to jump out of the way. If looks could kill, Bucky would be dead. "Still think it's funny?" She hissed. Bucky slammed the door shut and stared at her with wide eyes.
"You didn't tell me the spider was a big as my head!"
If Amelia had been calm, she'd be laughing at the absurdity of the situation. She opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by a very worried looking Steve and Natasha.
"What is going on up here?" Steve placed his hands on his hips looking between the two of them.
"We can hear you two ladies screaming almost down to the gym." Natasha smirked and opened the bathroom door. "All of this for a-oh."
Steve followed behind her and froze. "Holy shit."
"Language, Rogers."
"Funny."
Natasha ignored him and turned back around. "You know, I can understand Amelia's panic. But not you, Barnes. Who'd have thought? The Winter Soldier, afraid of spiders. And here we were fighting you with guns on that bridge."
Bucky glared at her and before he could answer Steve chimed in. "Bucky never liked spiders, actually. I was the one killing them all the time while he cowered in the other room." Bucky's glare turned to Steve, who only laughed.
A slow grin slid onto Natasha's face. "What?" Steve was almost afraid to ask.
She shook her head. "Nothing, I'm just picturing a tiny you killing spiders…" She trailed off as she started to laugh.
"Don't you have something better to do?" Bucky half barked, half teased.
Natasha smirked at him and entered into the bathroom. Before anyone could stop her, she shook the shower curtain and the spider came crawling out into the hallway scattering Captain America, The Winter Soldier and his girlfriend. Natasha laughed harder than she ever did in her life. And by the time Tony and Clint showed up, and all of them had their respective weapons and shield out, Natasha was filming this entire thing. The camera was shaking and her laughter over powered most of the cursing, blasting and banging, but the video of the Avengers failing to catch a spider went viral so fast it broke internet records.