AN: Hi again! Here's the next chapter of 'Her Eyes are Wild' and all I can say is that I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please review after you finish reading it and all criticism and complements are welcome. Also, I forgot to mention that TWS will feature heavily throughout the entirety of the story and I might give you a background oneshot of how the two characters meet, so...yeah. Enjoy!
Thank you to 'sleep-deprived000' for being an awesome friend. (Iwould recommend that you read her works 'cause they're awesome!)
Warnings: None worth mentioning but there's a major time jump from the last chapter.
Chapter one
Roughly 12 years later
A hand fell with a clatter onto the plastic surface of the table as Bucky Barnes, known to others as the Winter Soldier, dropped into the seat across from the pretty young woman sitting in the otherwise unoccupied booth, causing the woman to jump
"Jesus Snowman! Do you want to give me a heart attack?"
The former assassin ran a hand through his now short brown hair, leaning back in the off red and worn leather seat
"Course not. You wouldn't be much use if you were dead."
"Charming, and here I had the audacity to think that you actually liked me."
He glared at her, jaw tightening a little
"What did you want?"
"What is wrong with you today Frosty? You're acting off and you're grumpier than usual, which is not normally a good sign."
"It's nothing that concerns you."
"If it has anything to do with the HYDRA base that we're planning to take down next wee..."
He quickly clamped his non-metallic hand across her mouth, glaring at her
"Just go and reveal our plans to the world why don't you."
She rolled his eyes and licked his hand, smirking triumphantly when he pulled it away and wiped it on his trouser leg with a look of disgust
"C'mon Jamesy, who in here actually gives a shit about what we're talking about?"
"You should know Cecilia; that someone is always watching."
She looked around the diner, seeing only an old couple near the window on the opposite side of the room and a little girl with a mass of unruly red curls; the older woman was trying to convince the girl curls to eat the small piece of waffle that she had cut off for her. Cecilia raised an eyebrow as she turned her gaze back onto him
"Yeah, like a three year old and a couple of OAP's present such a terrible threat."
"You never know."
The waitress came over to the table and placed a stack of waffles practically drowning in syrup in front of Cecilia, along with a cup of tea that was more milk than actual tea
"Thanks."
She beamed up at the bleach blonde waitress, who returned it with a wink and a smile. Bucky just snorted as the woman waltzed away and began playing with a not quite clean fork
"Really? You decide that now is the best time to be flirting?"
"Oh Frosty, learn to live a little. It was harmless flirting, and it's not like I'm away to jump into bed with her and waste valuable quality time with you, and anyway, I'm dead set on men."
"Then why bother flirting with women when you're not interested?"
"Why bother with pining over a certain blond American Captain, when you keep running away from him?"
His hand tightened around the fork. The cheap metal bending under the pressure
"Oops, have I hit a nerve."
"I'm not pining."
"Please." She started cutting into her pancakes with the side of her fork "Ever since those memories of yours started coming back, you've been yearning like a Disney princess for her prince charming."
She shoved a forkful of pancake into her mouth when she finished. She looked smug for a minute, waiting for an answer, but it never came and the smirk dancing on her lips slipped away into a worried frown
"Seriously? No witty comeback?"
"He's beginning to catch up with us."
"Why does it matter? Don't you want him to?"
He swallowed
"It's not a case of me not wanting him to, it's just... He's too... perfect; and I don't want him to see how messed up I truly am, don't want him to see how little of the man he used to know is left"
Cecilia sighed, watching her friend through eyes disguised by green coloured contacts
"He probably already knows my friend; or at least has an idea, but that won't change his opinion of you because you are still his friend, and from what I've seen, he'd go to the moon and back for you."
"All the things I did though. The people I killed..."
"Are in the past. You were brainwashed Frosty; their deaths weren't your fault, they were HYDRA's, which is why we need to remove as much of the threat that's left as we possibly can before they can hurt anyone else."
"I suppose you're right."
She grinned, a stray lock of dark hair falling into her eyes as she pushed the plate of pancakes towards him
"Damn straight I am. Now eat those, they'll make you feel better."
"I somehow highly doubt it."
"Fine, they will give you enough energy to do more research with me today. We have rats to poison don't we?"
He rolled his eyes, but Cecilia noticed the miniscule smile tugging at the corners of his mouth as he poked at the already dissected pancakes on the plate. Cecilia watched him as he made a show of putting his first forkful into his mouth, smiling as he nodded in vague appreciation. 'I only hope that you'll be able to cope with what's to come snowman, 'cause I have a bad feeling that the rats are still multiplying in their nest as we speak.'
AN: Yeah, so... I know it kind of ended oddly and the chapter was mostly dialogue, but this is sort of a lead up chapter. As for the ending, well, let's just say I had a bloody hard time thinking of an ending for this and that's what I eventually came up with. Please read and review.