They met Clint at the airport and Wanda threw her arms around Cassidy when she hopped out of the van.
"I was worried about you. I'm glad you're okay." The younger woman told her. Cassidy smiled, hugging her back.
"You don't have to do this Wanda, you can go back home and stay safe."
Wanda shrugged. "I want to be here. It was time to get off my ass." She joked, smirking at Clint. He opened the side door, revealing someone passed out. Cassidy raised an eyebrow and Clint put up a finger before smacking the man n the head.
He jumped up and scrambled out of the van and Cassidy turned away to stop from laughing, catching Bucky smirk at her as she did so.
"Captain America." The man said, staring at Steve like he was Jesus or something. Lang couldn't stop shaking Steve's hand and Wanda looked to Cassidy with a smirk. "It's an honor. I'm shaking your hand too long. Wow. This is awesome!"
He had to be the biggest nerd she'd ever met, next to Coulson.
Lang turned to Wanda and smiled. "I know you too, You're great."
"Look I know you know a lot of super people, so thinks for thanking of me." He said. "Hey man!" He told Sam.
"What's up Tic Tac."
"They tell you what we're up against?" Steve asked.
"Something about some psycho-assassins?"
"Were outside the law on this one. So, if you come with us, you're a wanted man." Cassidy looked down at her feet, then over to Bucky, who looked very uncomfortable.
He didn't think they should be doing this for him. He didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve them.
They want you. They both do. You deserve this. WE deserve this.
"We should get moving." Bucky told them. If they waited any longer there was a good chance they'd get caught.
"We got a chopper lined up." Clint said. Alarms started going off and a man came over the intercoms, speaking in German.
"They're evacuating the airport." Bucky said. Steve looked at Cassidy then back at the rest of the team.
"Suit up."
Thankfully Clint had brought a variety of guns for them, also including one of Cassidy's tac suits. She smiled and crawled into the van to change. When she stepped back out, Bucky was already in his gear and securing various knives to his person, which was extremely sexy. Dammit her soulmates were built like Greek Gods. He turned to her and his mouth dropped open.
She smirked, walking up to him, securing her guns in their holsters. "See something you like soldier?" She asked, stepping up to him, hooking her fingers in his belt loops, tugging him to her. She could see Bucky gulp and slowly nod his head, and she smiled even bigger, darting her tongue out between her teeth.
"Maybe. Maybe I see a lot I like." He told her before winking and walking around her to finish with his weapons. Cassidy stood there with her mouth hanging open for a second, a little shocked at what he said to her. From what Steve had told her, he always had a way with words, but she wasn't sure he would fall back into being the same Bucky he always was, because, well he wasn't.
Steve tried to make you stay back with Bucky and Sam inside the airport but you refused. You didn't want him to go out alone in case something happened. She didn't want to be right, but as they ran toward the helicopter Clint had procured for them, something attached to it and sent an electrical shock over it.
Cassidy swore as Tony and Rhodey landed in front of them.
"Man, it is so weird how you run into people at the airport." Tony said.
"So weird." Rhodey told him.
"Hear me out Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist. He's behind all of this." Steve reasoned.
"Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?" Tony asked. Cassidy stepped forward.
"Tony please. Bucky didn't do this. You have to believe me. Hydra was controlling him, just like that doctor was." She told him. He glared at her before looking down.
"I had more faith in you Cass. You signed the Accords and less than 24 hours later you're arrested with Spangles here. I expected more from you little Swan." Tony's words hurt her. He had no idea what she was going through.
"Swan?" Steve asked.
"Oh, your lovely soulmate never told you her code name and what it stands for?" Tony asked, glancing between the two. There was a reason she hadn't told Steve. She wasn't proud of it. It was a name other Shield agents had given her and eventually it stuck.
"They call her the Swan because she's just as beautiful and twice as deadly. She could make you feel like the only person in the world while killing you slowly and you'd beg for more."
"Tony that's enough." Cassidy told him.
"Cass." She turned to see Nat slowly walking toward them, clearly on Tony's side. "You know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?" Cassidy turned to look at Steve. She really didn't want to do this, but did they have a choice? Tony wasn't going to let them leave the airport.
"Alright, I've run out of patience. Underoos!" Tony yelled and Steve's hands were bound together with some kind of webbing, his shield flying up into the air and nto the hands of a scrawny kid in what looked like a spider suit.
"You've been busy." Steve told him.
"And you've been a complete idiot. Dragging in Clint. Rescuing Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place. You're even dragging your soulmate down with you." Tony told him. "I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."
"You did that when you signed." Steve said.
"Alright, we're done. You're gonna turn Barnes over, and you're gonna come with us, because it's us."
"Tony, he's my soulmate too. Please don't make me do this." Cassidy pleaded. Tony locked eyes with her for a second and she saw his face soften slightly.
"Look Cass, I'm sorry you got dealt a shitty hand, but your boyfriends a murderer and needs to turn himself over." The look on Cassidy's face instantly made Tony regret his words. He hadn't meant to hut her, he just wanted them to hand themselves over before they got hurt.
Sam's voice came through on the comms, telling them they found the Quinjet. "Hangar five, north runway." Steve put his hands in the air and one of Clint's arrows shot through it,freeing him.
Scott grew back to full size, knocking Spiderman over, running Steve's shield back to him. T'Challa took off toward where Bucky and Sam were, and Cassidy ran over, skidding to a stop in front of him.
"You don't have to do this please." She pleaded.
"He killed my father."
"No he didn't! Please." T'Challa did not hesitate to come for her. She was able to duck the first hit but he really did have cat like reflexes and the second hit got her in the side, sending her to the ground. She spun around, kicking him in the face, and jumped back up, pulling her baton out from behind her.
Steve was right behind her, throwing his shield at T'Challa. It bounced right off and it seemed like no matter what they did, none of their hits were landing. Damn vibranium. Rhodey came down with some kind of baton, but it exploded against the shield, sending all of them flying.
When Cassidy got back up, there was a giant explosion and she heard Scott say something about how it was supposed to be a water truck. She followed Steve and met up with the rest of the group as they took off toward the hangar. They needed to get out of there. They had almost made it when a surge of yellow energy burned a line into the ground. Vision.
"Captain Rogers, I know you believe what you're doing is right." He said. Tony, Nat, Rhodey, T'Challa and the Spider kid all lined up and Cassidy knew they were going to get out of fighting them. She took in a ragged breath, trying to keep her anxiety at bay. She really didn't want to do this. This was her family.
"What do we do Cap?" Sam asked, and Cassidy wished that he hadn't. She looked over at him and she could tell he was fighting with himself. If this ended badly, he would take all the blame, he always did.
"We fight." Cassidy closed her eyes and she felt a tug on her pinky. She looked over to see Clint looking at her, tipping his head in Nat's direction, nodding. They would both go to Nat. They knew how she operated on the field, it would be easy for them to subdue her.
Cassidy caught Nat's first punch, twisting her arm around her back and flipping her to the ground. She groaned and kicked her leg out, tripping Cassidy onto her ass.
"Oww." She gritted out, getting back up as Clint came in. They traded blows until Clint got her on the ground.
"We're still friends right?" Nat asked. They smiled at her.
"Depends on how hard you hit us."
Cassidy took that moment to get away, to get to Bucky or Steve. She met them behind a staircase and some crates, leaning back against it to catch her breath.
"We gotta go, that guy's probably to Siberia by now." Bucky told them.
"We gotta draw out the flyers." Steve said. They weren't gonna get anywhere with Tony, Rhodey and Vision still in the air.
"I'll take Vision, you guys get to the jet."
"No, you get to the jet. The rest of us aren't getting out of here." Sam told them.
Cassidy took a deep breath. "He's right. This isn't the real fight. You guys need to go."
Steve and Bucky looked at her with confused looks.
"Cass, no. If you get caught…." Steve started, coming over to her, Bucky right behind him.
"I'll be okay. Tony's not gonna hurt me, as mad as he is. You two just promise to come back to me okay?" She whispered, leaning her head against Steve's chest. She looked up at him and he kissed her softly, wrapping his hands around her waist. "Take care of each other." She whispered against his lips.
She turned to Bucky and gave him a small smile, reaching for his hand. "Come back to me okay? We're just getting to know each other." She told him. He pulled on her hand, the other one sliding behind her neck and pressed his lips against hers. It was slow and passionate and she swore she saw stars behind her eyelids. His tongue swirled against hers and her legs went weak, and she was thankful he was holding her up.
He pulled away slowly, resting his head against hers. "I'll always find my way back to you doll." He said softly.
Cassidy pulled back, smiling at him. "Well, at least you kissed me sooner than Steve did, he kept me waiting for weeks." Steve looked over to them shocked and Bucky laughed, actually laughed and it was the most beautiful sound she'd ever heard.
"Yeah, Stevie never knew how to talk to a girl, I'm not surprised that hasn't changed."