"It's all right James. I took the cameras out before we stepped in the room and covered this one with a sticky note just in case," Amnesia says before she goes clicking away on the terribly slow computer.
"I just worry," he murmurs.
"I know."
He walks away keeping his head down, looking at books, scouting for anyone out of the ordinary. Anyone would think they were doing something dangerous not buying music on the internet. Amnesia is just about to get off of the computer but she wants to know what's going on back at the compound. She hasn't looked since she left. She does some more clicking, loops the signal through a few different servers on the other side of the world and just makes herself impossible to track before hacking into their security. She's confronted by audio of Sam confronting a breach of their perimeter. She's worried immediately and pulls up visual. There's a guy that can shrink down the the size of an ant, and he's completely kicking Sam's ass.
"Well, I guess they're doing fine," she murmurs in the midst of the fight though her heart is in her throat with worry.
"What?" Bucky asks walking back to where Amnesia is situated. "What'd you do?"
"Hacked into the Avenger's security footage," Amnesia murmurs. "That's Sam," she explains pointing to the guy being thrown around by what seems like nothing. Before the ant-guy takes off leaving Sam an embarrassed but unharmed mess. Amnesia can't help but breath a sigh of relief.
"What's attacking him? An ant?"
"Pretty much. I think you'd like Sam though. He's a good guy," she says and Bucky is immediately hit by jealousy though he knows it's completely unwarranted. "I hope he's okay," she says watching Sam lie in the middle of the grass, anxious to make sure Steve doesn't find out about the ant that beat him up. Bucky decides maybe his jealousy isn't completely unwarranted when he sees how worried she is. He gets even more jealous when he notices the zaps of light coming from her fingers, that happens when she's nervous and oh Bucky knows it. He rubs his forearm where he last experienced those tiny volts absent mindedly as he asks his next question:
"Do you...do you like him?"
"It's...complicated."
Bucky decides then and there, he doesn't like this Sam guy.
"Panic! at the Disco, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sheeran, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Disney instramentals, or Christmas classics?" Amnesia asks spreading out the vinyls she ordered as Bucky sets up their new turntable.
"I don't recognize any of those. Well I know Disney," Bucky grumbles. "Seems childish though."
"Ed Sheeran," Amnesia decides before opening the plastic wrap on that one. Once its set up, he shows her how to turn it on and soon enough they're listening to the smooth voice of Ed Sheeran, Amnesia's face lit with fascination as the platter spins.
"Come on," Bucky says grabbing her hand and pulling her gently to her feet. "And you put your hand here, I'll put mine here, and follow my lead okay?" Bucky instructs, teaching her how to dance. "Distracted?" He asks as the song changes watching her frown in frustration.
"All I can think about is you." She tells him honestly, her frown more prominent and absolutely adorable in Bucky's eyes. It's a concentrated sort of frown, and he realizes how much more focused she is than usual. He's got all of her attention and that is a very, very hard thing to do.
"No wonder you can't remember the dances I'm sure you looked up. Could it be the tables have turned and now it's me, causing you to forget?" He teases, Amnesia blushes and hides her face in his chest, a feeling he finds he enjoys very much.
"I don't like this song a lot," she murmurs and Bucky's chest vibrates as he laughs at her poor attempt to change the subject.
"Then it'll be easier to focus on me," he says, amused.
"Such a charmer."
"I know doll, now I step here, and you step there, one more, now we turn, step, step," Bucky carries on teaching her how to dance, and navigating them in a small circle. "I'm going to spin you now are you ready? Okay and spin, very good." They keep dancing, barely aware of the music playing, more wrapped up in each other, pausing briefly to switch the vinyl to the other side. Bucky remembers going out dancing with random girls and taking the most attractive one home. Steve was always there too, he didn't talk to girls much though. The girls never mattered to him, not even the ones he went on dates with. He wanted them to, but they didn't. The girl he's holding now, she matters and he wants to know what it'd be like to kiss her. If it'd be different kissing the only girl that matters than the others. He'd never though. He'd scare her away and she'd think he's a monster most certainly.
"James?"
"Hmm?"
"I just want you to know, I'm pretty sure I love you. Well, I do, love you that is. I'm not pretty sure, I know," Amnesia rambles.
"I love you too," he says stopping her from doubting herself or him. They continue dancing silently and Amnesia is thinking about switching the record but "Lego House" comes on and she heard that one before and likes it.
"Tell me to stop," Bucky suddenly says tearing Amnesia away from her thoughts, instead focusing on his blue eyes, watching as they flicker to her lips. She's aware of his hand lightly on her chin, guiding her lips to his.
Amnesia points to the plums and looks to Bucky asking the silent question he nods and picks two up slipping the vendor payment. He puts them in his pocket and laces their fingers together. Ever since the turntable came in, they've almost always been in contact with one another. Amnesia noticed almost immediately but didn't see a problem in it, whereas Bucky noticed a few days after and tried to rationalize it and got a little paranoid about it.
He chalked most of it up to being a Hydra habit, if he's near her, he can protect her like he did on some missions to other Hydra officials. In public, Amnesia likes it so she can communicate silently. Bucky wouldn't admit it but he liked having her there to anchor him. If he started to think too much as he's had to ever since Hydra screwed him, he's reminded he's out of there with every twitch of her fingers, or brush of her hair.
Bucky stiffens as he scans the area because he picks up on a guy staring at him like he recognizes him. The man takes off running and Bucky leads Amnesia across the street and to the paper. On the front page is Bucky's picture and something about blowing up some big-whig meeting.
They share a look and take off back to their flat.
"What do we do? Where do we go? They found us James!"
"No, they found me. We're splitting up. I'll lead them off, and then meet up with you," Bucky says calmly his hands on either side of Amnesia's face, forcing her to look at him.
"We will not split up, I will fry anyone that tries to do so," she says firmly catching his wrist when he tries to nudge her away.
"They'll be checking airports, we'll need to get a car," he says after kissing her forehead like she's his most treasured possession, because to him, she is. He's not stupid enough to let anyone know that though. It'd only put her in more danger, and he is afraid she doesn't feel the same way. Amnesia nods barely hearing him. Her brain goes a bit fuzzy every time he does something romantic. She's working on that. "Pack your stuff."
She pecks him on the lips. "Done," she says. "Anything I would take with me would only slow us down," she explains and he nods. Suddenly their door is thrown open and Bucky pushes Amnesia behind him, raising a finger to his lips, telling her silently to be quiet.
Steve Rogers looks over the dingy flat, frowning as he takes in the signs of two people living in the space. This couldn't be Bucky's place is his only thought. He remembered how messed up his friend was when he last saw him. He'd isolate himself no doubt, and this doesn't look like isolated. He walks over to the fridge and finds Bucky's journal, as he's distracted, Bucky leads Amnesia closer to the door, silently as possible. Someone says something over the comm and Steve replies with an understood, turning and seeing Bucky hiding Amnesia behind him. She surprises him. Out of all the people here, he least expected it to be her.
"You know me?" He asks Bucky.
"You're Steve, I read about you in a museum," Bucky says and Amnesia looks at him wondering why he doesn't tell the truth.
"i know you're nervous, both of you, and you have plenty of reason to be," Steve says giving Amnesia a hard look that she matches. "But you're lying."
"I wasn't in Vienna," Bucky says. "No, I don't do that anymore."
"Well, the people that think you did, are coming here now, and they're not planing on taking you alive."
"They won't touch him," Amnesia growls, speaking for the first time.
"Thi doesn't have to end in a fight," Steve says.
"It always ends in a fight," Bucky says giving Amnesia's hand a reassuring squeeze before letting go and taking off the glove that hides his metal arm.
"You pulled me from the river. Why?"
"I don't know," Bucky says truthfully.
"Yes you do."
Suddenly a flash bomb is tossed in through the window and Steve knocks it aside with his shield throwing the rest of them into action. Two members come in through the windows while the others work on the door. Amnesia makes quick work of the closest one to her, touching him and draining him of energy while Steve knocks out the other. Buck flies across the room to the other guy hitting him alarmingly hard. Steve grabs his fist.
"Stop Buck, you're going to kill someone," he says and Bucky pushes him down, punching through the floor and grabbing the "go" bag they had set up.
"I'm not going to kill anyone," he says softly and Amnesia glares at Steve for bringing up that sore subject.
"You too," Steve commands Amnesia.
"He's passed out, he'll wake up in twelve hours feeling better than yours," she mutters, staying close to her soldier. Another wave hits and they all duck behind Steve's shield, before Bucky just throws Steve at them earning a chuckle from Amnesia. He takes out the other two before Amnesia can get close enough to be of any help. She decides the only way she'll be useful is if she gets moving so that's what she does. She lights up the door the soldiers on the other side just finished shooting out and hears a body fall to the floor. Before Bucky pushes it towards them sending it flying.
Amnesia starts down the stairs taking out the soldiers in her way the way she had the first one and a soldier bursts through the roof of the stairwell shooting at Bucky. He blocks the bullets with his metal arm and hits him with the battering ram the other guys had. He sees how far ahead Amnesia's gotten and uses the guy's repeling system to get down in front of her, almost landing on the guy she just took out. He swings her onto his back and she holds on knowing he's about to do something stupid.
Long story short, they make it out of the building unharmed although Steve is quite annoyed at the almost body count and Bucky and Amnesia are both getting away from their pursuers, Steve Rogers being one of them.