Chapter 14

By: MysticFantasy

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Clint smirked when he walked into the room and saw Steve lying on his back while holding his pillow over his face.

"No offence Cap but doing CPR on another guy is kinda gross." he said as he sat next to the bed.

"I'm going crazy just lying here and doing nothing all day." Steve admitted as he removed the pillow from his face. "How much longer do I have to be like this?"

"Just two more days." Clint answered.

"My wounds are gone and I feel fine." Steve said. "I should be out there with all of you looking for Bucky."

"We don't really have any leads right now. So you're not missing much." Clint informed. "Plus, if Natasha and Bruce see you walking around they'll easily put you back here. And we know that Natasha will make sure that you stay there."

Steve lightly smirked.

Clint was right about Natasha. If she caught Steve walking around before he was officially released then she would most likely break both his legs and ankles.

The captain was also sure that she would ask Thor to put his hammer on top of him to make sure he didn't move. But Steve was the only person they knew who could move Mjolnir besides Thor so that idea was out.

And Steve was sure that Bruce and Fury would also be upset if he was disobeying medical orders.

"You sure there aren't any leads?" the soldier asked.

"None." Clint answered. "Believe me, we're looking for anything. Do you know of anything that might help?"

"Everything that I know about Bucky I already told you guys." Steve answered.

"Any place that he might like most when you were guys were friends during the war?"

"Just the Stork Club." Steve answered. "I'm pretty sure it's gone though."

"Could have been replaced by something." Clint suggested in hopes of keeping Steve's spirit up. He knew that Steve had explored very little of the city since he'd been revived because he knew that everything had changed while he'd been in the ice.

There were very few places that had stayed the same over the years.

"I never thought that this would be something I would go through in my life." Steve said out of nowhere.

"How so?" Clint asked curiously.

"Being Captian America, getting to go to war, meeting all of the people I knew...ending up in the future, fighting against things that would have just been called science fiction, meeting and being teammates with the Avengers...Honestly, I thought that I was going to die shortly after Bucky had left with the 107th. From either my health or getting beaten to a pulp by bullies."

"You never know what life is going to throw at you next." Clint said as he recalled all of the things he'd gone through in life that he didn't think would be possible.

"Got that right." Steve agreed. "One of those things for me is that I never thought that my best friend could have survived such a fall and is now hunting me down."

Clint remained silent. What could he say to comfort the soldier when he himself admitted that he'd never expected someone from his past to still be alive and wanting him dead?

Everyone heard the famous tales of Steve and his team from the war. They all knew about James 'Bucky' Barnes and how he and Steve had stuck together throughout the harsh years of their youth.

How someone like Bucky Barnes could become someone like the Winter Soldier was a complete mystery to everyone and Clint could only imagine how Steve was actually handling it.

The captain was a master of hiding his emotions on the outside but on the inside his feelings were as chaotic and uncertain as the very war the super soldier had fought in.

At times, Clint found himself being super careful around Steve since none of them had ever seen him lose his temper before. He always seemed to keep his anger and frustrations in order.

To them it made Steve all the more unpredictable. They feared that if they saw Steve's anger he would be a greater threat than the Hulk.

It made Clint wonder how Steve was going to be when he was strong enough to face off against Winter Soldier.

Would Steve try to talk to Barnes or would he have to stop him?