The week and flown by with James and Robin watching all different types of shows and movies, things that she knew that he would love and things that she didn't really care if he liked because she was dying to watch it. They had listened to every CD album that she had in the apartment, from the class rocks to the new age stuff and Simon had hidden under she bed. They spent it together, mostly hiding in her apartment because Robin was still a little too freaked out with what that woman had said to get out and do very much of anything outside. She denied that anything happened to anyone who had not been in the apartment when it happened, told everyone she was fine, but she was scared out of her mind, that lady had know too much for Robin's comfort, she knew things that Robin had never wanted to be brought back up again. She had nightmares that brought everything back, dreams that reminded her, now they were happening every night.
But when Saturday night came around, she had hired a babysitter, gotten everything planned out, and allowed Jordan to fully take advantage of getting both her and James ready for the big party. Robin, for once, was the easy one to get ready for a party. Jordan did her hair up with some little curler poofs to make her hair look somewhat like the time, did a more natural look compared to the smokey-eye look that like loved to give her when they went out, and some bright red lipstick. So when Robin was putting her outfit together, Jordan started to work on making James look like the time period as well, working to get his hair into as tight of a bun as he possibly could because a solider of the time, or even now really, would never have hair as long as James had it. Though if you asked Robin, she loved his hair that length. But she allowed and trusted her friend enough to leave them in her bedroom as she sneaked into the bathroom and pulled her pinkish-red dress over her body, over her tights.
" You look like Agent Carter." Cecilia said, already in her footsie pajamas as she looked to her sister from the doorway.
" Captain America's lady friend from the 1940's?" Robin asked as she put some pearl earrings in.
" Uh huh." Robin said as she jumped onto the bathroom counter.
" Well I am honored to hear that, she was a fierce and stronger woman in her prime." Robin smiled as she ruffled her sisters hair.
" He looks just like he used to look." Cecilia whispered, she still knew that James a Bucky and didn't need Robin to tell her differently.
" Does he look pretty?" Robin whispered while she still tried to hide her smile.
" The prettiest man in the forties." This made Robin chuckle a bit. " But you look stunning."
" Well thank you, Miss Cecilia." Robin smiled as she nuzzled her noise against her little sisters.
" He's ready!" Jordan yelled as she could hear him clapping with his work as she picked up her little sister and went into the room, nearly dropping Cecilia when she saw James.
He looked just like he had in the picture. Robin swore that Jordan had went to DC, stole the uniform Bucky had worn, and placed it on James. He had the hat, the tie, the whole outfit that a solider would wear for a formal occasion in the 1940's, well James was now wearing it. He was clean cut and really looked like he had only slightly shaggy hair. Robin's mouth felt like it was on the ground when they finally looked at one another, her a girl from the time period and him Bucky Barnes the hero of the war. All she could do was stare at him, he looked amazing, he looked. . . well he looked the way that he used to, the way that he should look. When he smiled at her, it was seductive, like he knew that he was something hot and she instantly started to blush. She felt foolish for starring at him, but she really could not help it, man did he look good. From the way that he looked at her, the way that he smiled when he did, she could tell that he thought the same about her it was just that he was better at hiding his awe.
" I think that I did a pretty damn good job, what do you think Celie?" Jordan asked with a proud smile as Cecilia went and surveyed James.
" He needs a medal. They 'oould have given him one. But you did good." Cecilia nodded as James picked the little girl up.
" You really think that they would have?" James asked to Cecilia as Jordan rested his arm on the girls shoulder.
" I know they oould have. Captain America would have made sure that you got 'hat 'as supposed to be yours anyway. After all, you nearly died." Cecilia said, placing her hand where the medal would have been pinned to his chest.
" She's good when it comes to stuff about Captain America, she knows basically all there is to know about that man and then a little more." Robin said with a wink.
" We're going to have a Captain America talk sometime in the near future." James said with a smile as he placed the girl back onto the ground.
" Really?! I should go get everything ready then!" Cecilia said as she pushed past Jordan and Robin to get back into her room.
" Not tonight!" Robin called to her little sister with a sigh. " I guess I should go say goodnight to the two of them before we leave." Robin said as she excused herself from the bedroom.
She had kissed both of them goodnight before she had to go and reapply her lipstick again. When she got back to her bedroom she stood outside of the door, thinking that she was in the middle of hearing Jordan hitting on James, trying to get him the switch sides yet again, but found something else, something that scared her a bit. Jordan was threatening James, and it sounded like Jordan really meant it, there was no hint of funniest or even his normal flamboyant side coming out, just serious and threatening and almost sinister. It really, honestly, frightened Robin.
" We both know who you really are, I never thought that the rumors could have been true. The thing that Robin doesn't tell anyone, the thing that her siblings don't even know about, I was her last bodyguard. Yeah, little old me, see people never would expect me to be able to hurt them, let alone kill them, that's why Jason and Ivy picked me out. Bet you didn't even know their names before you shot them dead, or even cared that they had names. I can't believe that I am even allowing the Winter Solider to live."
It was true, everything that Jordan had said. He was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, not a very good one, but he had been one. It had been his first, and his only, job while working for S.H.I.E.L.D, to guard and protect Robin from the world. He had only been twenty when he took over from another agent's position, Robin had been seventeen and they clicked right from the start. Though she had never been able to get him to say it, she thought that he was still protecting her, under S.H.I.E.L.D orders, even after her parents died, even after S.H.I.E.L.D was no longer really S.H.I.E.L.D, Jordan was still protecting her, still doing whatever it was that he was known to do, he was a good friend, but he was an even better actor, even Robin knew this. It made her shudder, thinking that she knew just as well as Jordan that it would be a fight to the death if James got up and started to fight the man off, though Jordan acted like he was made out of toothpicks, the boy really had muscles and could lift about two-hundred pounds the last time that they had checked at the gym, Jordan was a force to be recoded with, a force that Robin trusted with her life and the lives of her siblings. He was like a big brother to her.
" Don't think that we both do not know that that creepy ass lady was right about one thing. Robin is in love with you, maybe she can't see how much of a danger you are to have in the household, but I do. And if you think even for a moment that I am going to allow you to hurt Robin, Cecilia, or Simon, you better think again because I will make sure to bury you so deep into the ground that even that mental arm will not be able to dig you up." He said and James said nothing. " You need to tell her." He hissed as he started coming towards the door, robin running to the doorway and putting on some heels, the first pair that she could find.
" Hey, what were you two talking about back there, trying to steal my man again?" Robin asked with a smile, trying to seem like she wasn't scared of anything.
" Well you know me, little bird, gotta try with the masterpiece that I gave you." Jordan said, looking back at James to see James look from me to Jordan. He wasn't scared, he looked more like a wild animal trapped.
" Well don't bother, he's still mine." Robin hissed as Jordan went to the door.
" I'll see you both at the party, I'll stay here and wait for the babysitter to get here, I think that your car from Mister Stark is waiting downstairs. I gotta make myself look fabulous. . . well more fabulous than I normally am." Jordan said.
" He got us a car?" Robin smiled to Jordan as he just nodded.
" He said that for Hot Legs he would do just about anything, so he rented a car for you to make a grand entrance with and I think that he's even allowing you to drive it. You gotta tell me how on earth you got him to fall for you." Jordan said with wink.
" She's good at making people fall for her." James said with a smile as he placed his arm out, Robin wrapping her arm around his instantly as he opened the door.
" Thanks Jordan, make sure that they get some homework done and that they do not kill the babysitter before you leave. I had the last one vow to never be around kids again after they duct taped her to the closet door!" Robin said as she lightly touched her friends arm.
" I'll do my best but hey, if it's me or her that they're gonna tape somewhere well it's going to be her." Jordan said as Robin busted out laughing as she went downstairs and nearly dropped to the ground when she saw the car that was waiting out front with Happy leaning on the hood.
It wasn't from the 1940's, but Robin could still love it no matter what. It would look a little odd, people who looked and dressed like they were from that time driving around in a dark blue 2014 Chevy Camaro. She had never driven a sports car before, hell she had never even been in the passenger seat of a car like this or really driven before, she had her license but she had always been the one to seat in the backseat and look pretty. But when she turned the key and listened to the engine roar, she knew that James was in a whole new world and he should have feared for his life. Her wild child side was something that he had never seen before that moment, and with the look that came to his face, Robin finally knew what it was like to see the fear of god come to a mans face.
When they got to the complex that was holding Pepper's party, it was like walking the red carpet, it was something that only Tony would try and pull of, there were people taking pictures, people begging people to sign autographs, and people wanting interviews. Robin had been placed in her car line right before Pepper and Tony were going to be getting there, so she knew that she was really one of Pepper's favorite people because she could tell that there was more than one Avenger that had already made their appearance at the carpet from all of the different fans that were here. And Jordan, of course, was no where to be found. The stress level of her night had gone from being a ten out of ten to a ten-hundred out of ten. She pulled onto the carpet and was the first woman to get out of the drivers seat of a car, smiling and placing her arm around James's, she felt like she was going to the Oscars rather than going to a birthday party.
People asked her the basics, what era she was supposed to be, where she had gotten her dress, and who was she with. When people tired to ask James stuff, he would just look back to Robin, making both her and whoever was asking them questions laugh. With all of the different pictures that were being taken of Robin, she always instantly went back to her old model mode, smiling with her eyes at all times and making sure that not do any crazy faces. James, well James just looked like he was a deer in headlights. Some people tried to ask how they had met or specific things to James, or they would tell him how much he looked like. . . well how much he looked like him, and to that statement James with smile, looking even more like Bucky, and tell them thank you. Robin would be able to tell that he was starting to get a little uncomfortable and rushed them through most of the rest of the interviews, knowing anyway that most wanted to get to talk to the famous Pepper Potts and Tony Stark.
" We could run out the back right now, it this is too much for you." Robin whispered as she held onto the mans hand as they finally got into the building.
" No, this is something that you want to do and therefor this is something that I want to do." He smiled down to her, sending butterflies through her stomach as they walked down the stairs, there were people at the party that she doubted even Pepper knew for her party but then she saw the people that she also knew as well.
" Ten o'clock." Robin whispered as she pulled James in the opposite direction, toward the bar. Steve Rogers was smiling and being talked down by a thousand different girls, all wanting a piece of the super solider. " Calm down, he's being talked to by so many different women, I could have him out of here within five minutes."
" Hows that?" James asked with a smile.
" Just tell one of those girls that he is willing to allow her to bring him back to her place. Whichever lucky girl would I chose would drag him out of here." Robin said as James chuckled.
They socialized with people, staying as far away from Captain Rogers as they possibly could because even though James wanted to be there for her, he wasn't ready just yet to go over and face the music of talking to his best friend yet again. When they opened up a separate area for people to dance in, James had to race to keep up with Robin to get in there. Robin loved to dance, it was something that she had thought about doing when she was a kid, though she realized that she did not have the ankles to do it for a profession, she still danced whenever she could. Ballroom, tango, twerking, it really didn't matter Robin loved it all. Though she couldn't get James to come onto the floor with her, he watched, leaning off of a banister that went all the way up to the ceiling with a smile on his face as her and Jordan took the the floor.
It started off in the 1920's, the roaring twenties. Tony had made no expense to get a real band. Jordan and Robin danced to the Fox Trot, The Charleston, and anything else they could think of. Every twenty minutes or so they would go on to the next decade, Jordan and Robin being able to do most any of the dances that others could do and would just make it up if they could not think of anything, Robin laughing the whole way. When they finally got to the area that they both were in, Robin could herself getting all excited. Swing dancing had been a big thing back then, something that Robin had studies and had been able to do pretty when whenever Jordan asked her to dance, it had been something that could be so fun and exciting and so slow and sexy when it wanted to be depending on the music. Robin allowed the beat and the music to just take her until she felt a tap on her shoulder, Jordan spinning her around at the exact moment and her hands clapping together as she faced Steve Rogers.
" I could have sworn that I heard somewhere that you don't dance." Robin said to the new beat to a slower song, looking over his large shoulder to find that James was watching very intently.
" Yeah well, my perfect dancing partner cannot stand for very long now." Captain Rogers said, Robin could see the sorrow in his eyes.
" Well I'm happy to be a distant second." She said with a faint smile.
" So what brings someone who likes to through her shoes at people to a party that looks down on people kicking their shoes off?" He asked as he spun her around.
" Pepper's my boss." Robin smiled as he had a look of shock on her face as she looked again to find that James looked more panicked as she gave the man a faint smile with a wink, letting him know that it was fine.
" How'd you get him to come out in public, looking so much like he used to?" Captain Rogers asked, knowing what she was doing.
" He was the one that dragged me to this, to be honest and you can thank my friend for getting him to look like that." Robin smiled as the music started to pick up once again, the slow song keeping too many people off of the floor. " Alright, some me your moves!" Robin laughed as Captain Rogers started to look a little afraid.
" You know, I was never good at this when I was in the time!" He said, looking flustered to the girl.
" Watch my feet." She whispered with a smile.
Don't let the man fool you, he was an amazing dancer. One moment she would have her arms wrapped around his body and then the next he would be spinning her around, bouncing apart, he was a good little dancer, though she did not know if she could count it as a swing dance, they were doing something. Robin laughing and smiling the whole time that they danced. She even bumped him with her butt one time, light and seductively, knowing that was something that someone had not done before. Robin felt like she was on top of the world and then something happened, Captain Rogers was smiling as he twisted her around, making her spin a bit away from him and right into the arms of James. She was a little dizzy and getting sick of being tossed from man to man, but was kind of happy that she was with James.
" I thought you didn't dance." Robin laughed as he spun he around, his eyes going from Rogers back to Robin.
" Well, this is something that I remember." James smiled, looking to Captain Rogers.
" You remember loads of sexy stuff." Robin called over the music. One moment she was standing up, the next she had Jame's legs over her body and he was sliding her on the ground, making her laugh the whole time as he flipped her right over his back. Yes, this was something that he truly did remember.
" Catch me!" She screamed as she ran and jumped right into Steve Rogers arms, spinning her around before bringing her back to the ground, dancing with him for a few moment before she felt James's had come down on her arm, spinning her and bringing her back to him once again.
" Way to go Robin!" Jordan called out before she noticed that they kind of had a little crowd watching them.
" I'm going baby!" She screamed back to her best friend as the music, still in the same song, got a little slower. Robin getting a little slower, pressing her chest against James's leaning her back out a little as she felt his arm resting at the curve.
" Would you look at her!" Pepper cried out.
" Never knew she could dance." Tony said, a little shocked.
" They must have practiced this forever!" Pepper said.
" No, he's just really good at dancing." Captain Rogers said. Robin pulled her arms up and wrapped them around James's neck.
" Alright lets go!" She cried out as the music started to pick up. James picked her up, so easily, put her on his knee for a moment and then spun her out of his arms all together. When she spun back together he hook his arm around her and swung her over his back, bringing her back to her feet and back to Steve.
They used to do this when they were in the 1940's, this was something that James was remembering in the moment because he looked so shocked when he turned to find Steve there before he would smile once again. Steve took her and flipped her in midair, making her shriek with excitement, her heart was racing with all of the different flips and twists that these two had her doing, she felt like she was in a acrobat show. Some of the most basic of training she had gotten from her parents was one of the only reasons why she was able to wrap her bodies around them and keep from trowing up because she had learned how to handle stuff like this before. Robin and Steve kicked and swung their bodies until he swung her out, her right between James and Steve as she looked twice before letting go of Steve's and right back to James. He smiled as Steve shrugged with a smile, it was the first time that James had not been running from Steve, she knew, he was starting to remember his best friend. James spun her around so that she was not facing him before he wrapped his arms around her torso, pulling her up as she kicked off of the ground, bringing her legs straight out in front of her body as he swung her around, bringing her body under his legs and acting like she was a Skip It. After the second time around she kicked her feet up, which told the man to put her back on the ground.
" Jordan!" She yelled as she ran to Jordan, spinning her body around in midair, trusting falling him as he caught her she kicked her feet in the air, laughing as he pushed her back towards James.
" Woo hoo!" Was the only thing that Jordan could get out as Robin ran back to James, jumping and being caught by James who lifted her so she was in the air once again. He then brought her down, spun her in his arms and wrapping her body around his back once again before spinning her back around, cradling her and spinning her around and then bringing her back down to the ground as the music stopped. Her laughing the whole time as he let her go she just kept spinning until she came back to Jordan, who caught her and held onto her.
" You were amazing!" Jordan cried out as Robin wrapped her arms around his body, she was now actually starting to feel dizzy as the world started to finally spin. But she could hear people clapping and she could feel her body heaving from laughing.
" Welcome for the forties Baby!" She cried out, still laughing.
" Where did the four of you learn to dance like that?" Pepper cried out as Robin looked over to find James awkwardly smiling as Steve just looked to him.
" A League of Their Own." Jordan and Robin admitted to.
" We kind of lived through that time period." Steve said as he placed on his hand, James looking from Robin back to Steve when she nodded and shook the mans hand.
" It's time." Jordan said to James, looking him dead in the eyes.
" What's time?" Steve asked as he was the one that looked the most confused.
" Robin, we need to talk." James said with a sigh as he lightly took hold of the girls shoulder. Robin could feel her heart and stomach drop as she looked from face to face, hoping for a good answer that no one had.
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