An Empire Falls
As Steve flew the quinjet, Anna and Bucky sat awkwardly in the back. The blonde female had offered to fly the jet so that the two men could talk to each other easier, Steve had turned down the offering having remembered the time that she had tried to fly it before.
"What you did all those years, it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice" Steve tried to break the silence talking to his friend.
"I know but I did it" Bucky responded after a pregnant pause. The awkward silence was broken by Anna tossing a first aid kit to the Winter Soldier.
"Hold that" she ordered, as she pulled off her tank top, revealing the blood stained bandages across her chest.
"ANNABELLE" Steve shouted when he saw what she was doing, a blush going across his cheeks as he kept his attention on flying the quinjet.
"I don't need you to deafen me Steve"
"You need to put some clothes on Anna"
"There is nowhere here that I can change in privacy. So deal with it for the next five minutes, unless you would like me to bleed out let me fix my bandages"
"Sorry"
Turning her attention to Bucky, who wasn't look at her either, Anna rolled her eyes as she undone her bandages. "Bandages please" silently handing her what she needed, as the blonde took them she attempted to wrap them around her chest only to end up in a tangled mess.
"Here" Bucky offered as he took a hold of the bandage and starter to rewrap the wounds he blamed himself for, four slash marks going across her chest. As he tightened the bandages so they actually covered the injury, when he accidentally brushed his metal hand against her skin "Sorry."
"It's fine, it just startled me"
"How do you not know how to wrap a bandage?" Steve questioned, as he saw the scene playing out behind him.
"I've never needed to know how to do this in over a decade. Might need to start learning."
"You've bandaged up Ivy, Wanda, Clint, Pietro and Sam on multiple occasions"
"You left yourself off of that list" Anna giggled slightly as she let Bucky continue to wrap the bandage "Maybe I just like have an attractive man try and heal me … or it could be that I have never needed to do this to myself"
"When you were younger?"
"I healed Ivy and she healed me. I take it she told you about that?"
"Overheard her talking to Clint. I'm sorry Anna"
"If it never happened we'd have never gotten to meet, our lives wouldn't have crossed"
"All done" Bucky interjected as he tied off the bandage and handed the blonde back her top.
"Thank you" Anna responded, taking her shirt and pulling on her tank top "You can actually look at me now Steve"
…..
"You remember that time we had to ride back from Rockaway Beach in the back of the freezer truck?" Steve reminisced before they got out of the quinjet and to stop the doctor
"Was that the time you used our train money to buy hot dogs?" Bucky threw back
"You blew three bucks trying to win that stuffed bear for a redhead "
"What was her name again?"
"Dolores. You called her Dot"
"She's gotta be a hundred years old by now"
"So are we pal"
"Man you guys are old" Anna shook her head as she pushed them forward and out of the quinjet "Let's go boys"
"Anna"
"You tell me to stay in the jet and so help me I will end you"
"Let's go then"
….
Anna had split up from the boys, having figured they could cover more ground that way. Though her idea had not ended up going over to well with the two super soliders. "It's way to dangerous" and "You could be killed" were the main reasons she had been given, she had responded by telling them that unless they were made of vibranium she would be fine. Eventually relenting they let her go, well she walked off and left them to their own devices.
Spinning around when she heard shots being fired, Anna ran towards the sound where she saw the Black Panther slinking out of the base. Slowing her pace she followed him outside, where he kept going until he stood near the doctor. Before she could call out to him and find out what was going on, T'Challa took of his mask and walked closer to the Sokovian.
"I almost killed the wrong man"
"Hardly an innocent one" Zemo answered
"This is all you wanted? To see them rip each other apart?"
"My father lived outside the city. I thought we would be safe there. My son was excited he could see the Iron Man from the car window. I told my wife, 'don't worry there fighting in the city were miles from harm'. When the dust cleared and the screaming stopped, it took me two days until I found their bodies, my father still holding my wife and son in his arms, and the avengers they went home. I knew that I couldn't kill them, more powerful men than me have tried, but if I could get them to kill each other. I'm sorry about your father, he seemed a good man with a dutiful son"
"Vengance has consumed you, its consuming them. I'm done letting it consume me" the Wakandan retracted his claws "justice will come soon enough"
"Tell that to the dead" Zemo goes to shoot himself, before the Panther had him in a head lock, knocking the gun out of his hands.
"The living are not done with you just yet"
"That was an impressive thing you did just then" Anna spoke for the first time since arriving at the scene, sitting next to the King of Wakanda. "If it were me I wouldn't have let him live"
"I cannot let vengeance consume me anymore" T'Challa responded as he looked at the smaller female, the one who had thrown a car at him and the one he had almost killed in his search for revenge "I apologise for what happened in Bucharest"
"You don't have too, I got in the way of the attack on my own voliation. I'm sorry for throwing a car at you"
"It was justifiable. You are not fighting?"
"This fight is not one that I can apart of" Anna muttered before turning her gaze to where the fight was taking place before back to the knocked out doctor "However he was right. An empire did fall, I don't think that the avengers will be able to recover from this"