Chapter Ten: Finding Ultron & Saving Chalsea

Chalsea groans in pain as she slowly stirs awake and places her hand on top of her head as she sits up slowly and leans back against the wall. She looks around the dimly lit cell with droplets of water falling from the ceiling. She wraps her arms around herself to keep warm as she moves closer to the doors of the cell. "Don't get too close to the doors, he has spies everywhere." A female voice calls from the shadows. "Who's there?" She calls out while turning around quickly. "I'm not going to hurt you. I'm Wanda Maximoff, that's my twin brother Pietro. The robot came to us asking for our help but then I looked into his mind and I saw so much death and we refused. Getting our revenge on Tony Stark isn't worth millions possibly billions dying." The woman now known as Wanda explains.

"Why would you want to get revenge on Tony Stark?" Chalsea asks. "He is the reason for our parent's death. Leaving us orphaned at a very young age." Wanda states while her eyes start to glow red. "I'm sorry but Tony Stark doesn't make weapons anymore. He hasn't since he was taken and tortured. That was about seven years ago it was his godfather Obadiah Stane selling the weapons to the underground black market. When Tony found out about it he put a stop to it right away and destroyed all the weapons sold." Chalsea replies. "How do you know so much about that?" Wanda accuses her. "Because I was there when it happened, I've lived with Tony since I was fourteen. I was around for the whole thing." Chalsea states while defending her uncle.

"Then you won't mind if I look into your memories to be sure." Wanda asks while stepping closer to her. "Go right ahead, the only thing you will find is everything I told you." Chalsea says while giving her the go ahead. Wanda goes into her mind and looks through all of her memories, even the ones about Bucky and how she wanted to tell him about her feelings. "Ok I believe you and my brother and I will help you get word to your family. Do you have something that anyone from the team gave you?" Wanda asks her. Chalsea looks back and forth between her watch from Tony, her bracelet from Bucky. "What are you going to do with it once I give it to you?" Chalsea asks hesitantly. "It will help me establish a connection with whoever gave it to you and I can tell them where we are." Wanda explains. "Ok but I want this back. It's very special to me." Chalsea comments while handing her the bracelet Bucky got her for her birthday.

Wanda takes the bracelet and closes her eyes and Chalsea watches her closely as her hands start to glow red. "They got the message and are on their way. The man who gave you this bracelet is very worried about you." Wanda states softly while handing Chalsea back her bracelet. "Bucky." She whispers quietly as she holds the bracelet against her chest gently. "So what do we do now?" She asks the two. "Now we wait, prinţesă." Pietro replies, coming over to wrap his arm around her shoulder. Chalsea takes a step away from him and over to his sister to wait for the team to arrive. They arrive quickly and take down Ultron before he does any damage to Sokovia and hurts anyone else.

The three of them hear a set of footsteps running towards the cell and they quickly hide behind a tipped over table. "Chalsea! Are you down here?" She hears a familiar voice call out. She looks around the table to see a shining metal arm. "Bucky!" She exclaims happily as she crawls out from behind the table and up to the cell bars. "Oh thank god!" He sighs in relief as he stops in front of the bars. "Step back and I will get you out of there." Bucky tells her softly. She takes a step back to stand by the table and watches as he uses his metal hand to break the lock and open the cell. She rushes from the cell and jumps into his waiting arms wrapping her arms around him tightly and burying her face in his neck.

He holds her close and breaths in her scent and squeezes her waist gently. "Are you alright? You're not hurt are you?" He asks while pulling back to get a good look at her. "No I'm ok I'll just have a really bad headache for a little while but other than that I'm fine." She replies while looking deep into his steel blue eyes. He brings his metal hand up and gently cups her jaw and rubs his thumb along her cheekbone. She places her hand gently on his wrist and rests her forehead against his. They both lean in slowly and just when their lips are about to touch another pair of footsteps run up. "I found them!" Sam calls out to the others. Chalsea and Bucky pull away from each other quickly and clear their throats.

"Uh, this is Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. Wanda is the one who sent you the message on where to find me." Chalsea says while blushing slightly. "Yeah hey thanks for getting the message to us. If you come with us we will get you outta here." Sam offers while they run from the room to join the rest of the team. "DAD!" Chalsea exclaims while running into her dad's arms. "Hummingbird." Bruce replies holding her close. She smiles happily as she hugs the rest of the team, even the new red guy. "Let's get out of here." Tony comments as they all walk onto the jet. Chalsea takes the empty seat next to Bucky and the whole ride back to the tower they take small sneaking glances at each other.

"What's wrong with you two. You're both acting strange, usually you would be talking and joking around." Steve points out while looking between Chalsea and Bucky. "What, nothing is wrong, we're fine." Chalsea replies while fighting a blush. "Like she said everything is fine. It's just been a long day." Bucky agrees. "Ok if you say so." Clint replies suspiciously. The rest of the journey back to the tower is spent in silence. Once back at the tower Chalsea rushes off the jet and to her room. Bucky quickly follows a few moments later heading down to his room so as not to get bombarded with questions. "Sam, please tell me you did not interrupt them two having a moment back in Sokovia?" Steve asks hopefully. "When I found them they were hugging. I didn't see anything wrong with that." He explains. "If I may interrupt, I believe the two of them were about to kiss before he showed up." Wanda interjects from her position next to her brother.

"Sam!" Steve, Tony, Natasha, Thor, Clint and Bruce exclaim. "I'm sorry I didn't know. It looked like they were just hugging." He defends himself. Natahs walks up behind him and smacks upside the back of his head. "Ow!" He pouts as he rubs the back of his head. "Serves you right." She states with a glare at him.

Up in her room Chalsea takes a nice long warm shower before changing into a pair of black silk sleep shorts and a matching purple silk tank top. She gently puts her hair into a loose braid and grabs one of her fluffy blankets and sneaks off down to Bucky's room where she knocks on his door. Knowing who is at his door Bucky opens it just wide enough for her to scurry in before closing it behind her and locking the door. She stands in the middle of his room shuffling her feet and looking down at the floor. "So are we going to talk about it?" She asks in a barely audible whisper.

"Come sit down." He comments while walking over to his bed and motioning to the seat next to him. She shuffles over and sits down bringing her legs up to her chest and wrapping the blanket around her. "I'm not going to say it was in the heat of the moment because that would be a lie. When the truth is I like you Bucky, I always have I tried to fight it so it wouldn't ruin our friendship but no matter how hard I tried my feelings just wouldn't go away." Chalsea confesses while looking anywhere but at him. He gently takes her chin between his thumb and forefinger tilting her face to look at him. "I feel the same way, I've been wanting to kiss you for a year. I just never could find the right time or build up the courage to tell you." He tells her softly.

She looks into his eyes and brings her forehead to rest against his gently with their noses touching. "There's no one to interrupt us now, so what's stopping you?" She asks while glancing down at his lips and back up to his eyes. He gives her a soft heart stopping smile before pulling her the rest of the way in and their lips finally connect like two pieces to a puzzle. The kiss is slow and sweet and filled with the emotions they both have been dying to say. He breaks away when she needs to catch her breath and rests their foreheads together again. "Come on let's lay down. It's been a long night and with that headache you're gonna want to get some sleep." He says while placing a gentle kiss on her forehead. She lets out a small yawn as Bucky adjusts them to be laying down with her head on his chest before pulling the covers up and over them both.

She snuggles closer with her face buried in his neck and his arms around her lightly holding her against his chest. She places a soft kiss on his jaw before slowly falling asleep in his arms. He smiles down at her peaceful face before kissing the top of her head and drifting off to sleep. Natasha goes up to Chalsea's room to check on her but finds her room empty so she runs off to tell the others that Chalsea isn't in her room. They search everywhere in the tower except for Steve and Bucky's and that's the last place they look. Upon arriving at Bucky's room and unlocking the door they find the two of them curled up together fast asleep and they both have happy and content smiles on their faces. So the team decides to leave them alone and let them sleep all deciding to go to bed themselves.