The Witch

Chapter 20

It's been another year. I'm madly in love with Bucky. I know he feels the same but he hasn't said so yet. I know he is still afraid of getting too close, afraid that the Winter Soldier would take over again or even that HYDRA would find him. This past year was peaceful and calming. Bucky seemed to be finally finding peace. He still had nightmares but they were coming less and less. I had visited Lila and Cooper once a week just as I had started to visit Renesmee, Bella and Charlie once a week. I visited Steve a week after they fought Ultron and won. He introduced me to Wanda. She was the Scarlet Witch. I rolled my eyes when I heard that. I helped her gain control of most of her powers, but since she wasn't born a witch but was created, I couldn't help her gain control of all of them. Her magic was chaos and if wielded correctly it could do a lot of good, but it also held a lot of potential for evil as well. Bucky and I were out at the market. Bucky was looking at some plums. Back when I took him to Carlisle, Carlisle had informed us that plums were known to have a healing ability on the mind and could help when having trouble remembering things. Bucky has had a plum addiction ever since.

"How are they? Are they good? Give me six, thank you." Bucky was saying to one of the vendors. He was dressed in a black cap and casual jacket while I was dressed similarly. We walked along scanning around. Across the street, we spotted a twenty-something vender at a news-stand watching us. Bucky glanced away, then looked back at the vender who was still watching him. The vender ran from his kiosk as we went over and Bucky picked up a paper. On the front page there are surveillance-photos of a man and the headline: 'Winter Soldier cautat pentru Bombardmentul din Viena'. Bucky glances around tensely. I looked around but knew we were about to be the most hunted people on this planet. We rushed back to our apartment to see the door open. Peaking in, I see Steve In his dark blue, armored suit with his shield on his arm. He was looking around, there was a mattress with disheveled covers and various bits of cheap looking furniture. The kitchen and bedroom are in the same room. Steve finds Bucky's notebook on top of the fridge. He picked it up and opened it. While his back was turned, Bucky and I walked in, shutting the door, not making a sound.

"Heads up, Cap. German Special Forces, approaching from the south." Sam's voice came through a radio.

"Understood." Steve said back. Bucky was now standing behind him. Steve slowly turned around to face him. "Do you know me?" He asked, already knowing the answer but wanting to hear it from Bucky. I was standing behind Bucky, outside of Steve's view. Bucky just stared at him.

"You're Steve. I read about you in a museum." Bucky answered, not wanting to let his friend know that he did in fact know who he was.

"They've set the perimeter." Sam's voice informed us. I step out, letting my Asgardian armor materialize, changing my clothes.

"I know you're nervous. And you have plenty of reasons to be. But you're lying." Steve argued while glancing at me.

"I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore." Bucky said, trying to defend himself.

"They're entering the building." Sam's voice came through the radio. I looked around, trying to find the best course of action.

"Well, the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive." Steve said. I snapped my head in his direction, not liking this conversation.

"That's smart. Good strategy." Bucky said, agreeing with him, whipping my head around to look at him wided eyed really not liking that he was agreeing with Steve. Bucky glanced at me, his eyes softening a little.

"They're on the roof. I'm compromised." Sam claimed. I could hear the armed police men running upstairs towards us.

"This doesn't have to end in a fight, Buck," Steve tried to reason. Bringing my hand up, placing a magical block on the door, making sure they wouldn't be able to break it easily.

"It always ends in a fight." Bucky said, not allowing Steve to talk him out of fighting for his freedom that he had just started to enjoy.

"5 seconds", Sam said through the radio.

"You pulled me from the river. Why?" Steve asked. I rolled my eyes at him, knowing this wasn't the most important thing right now.

"I don't know." Bucky answered, not wanting to tell him the truth.

"3 seconds!" Sam exclaimed.

"Yes, you do." Steve argued.

"Breach! Breach! Breach!" Sam said, as a grenade crashed through the window. Bucky quickly kicked it at Steve, and he smothers it with his shield.

"Shoot the door!" I heard someone shout in Romanian outside the door. I took the block from the door just as the cops slammed the battering ram against the door. Bucky shields himself and I with the mattress against an attack from the window. He blocked the door with a table as cops swung in on cables. Steve pulled the rug from under a police officer, sending him flying. Bucky slammed another police officer into the wall. I was using magic keeping the bullets and officers away from me.

"Buck, stop! You're gonna kill someone." Steve protested. Bucky slammed Steve down and punched a hole in the floor beside his head.

"I'm not gonna kill anyone." Bucky disagreed, he grabbed a backpack from under the floorboards and threw it out of the window. The three of us get behind Steve's shield to avoid gunfire. Bucky shoves Steve and he knocks a cop over. Bucky holds up his metal hand to repel the bullets, then slams a cop into some shelves. Bucky picked up a large cement brick and slammed it into a cop. Steve was fighting a cop on the balcony. A cop shoots around the door outside. Bucky punches through the wall beside the door. He lays into the cops. I watch as a cop descends through a sky-light on a zip wire. I was using my magic to stop the police without really harming them. Staying beside Bucky, he grabs the cop's gun and slams him into the wall. Bucky bashes a couple of cops with the battering ram. More of the police team hurried up the stairwell. Bucky grabbed me around the waist and jumped on the zip-line-guy and swung us down a level.

"Suspect has broken containment! He's headed down the east stairwell!" A soldier informed everyone. Steve joined us on the same level just to see Bucky continuing punching the police. Bucky tossed one of them over the railing. I was quick to grab him with magic and tossing him onto the wall beside Steve. While Steve looks at Bucky wearily.

"Come on, man." Steve complained. Bucky breaks a banister, taking me once again by the waist and swinging us down on it. Bucky lays into more cops and takes them out. A cop aims at us and Steve knocks the gun from his hands with his shield, which sticks in the wall. Bucky and I leap down the stairwell and grab onto a railing. We climbed up, then ran along a corridor and leaped off a balcony. Bucky tumbled onto the lower roof of the neighboring building while I sat myself down gently. He found where his backpack was and picked it up before grabbing my hand so we could continue running. A muscular man clad entirely in black, slams into Bucky from behind, knocking both of us down. He had a full face mask with pointed ears. He extends his fingers and sharp claws pop out. He attacked Bucky with sweeping kicks and slashes. Bucky fought back but was kicked into a wall. The cat guy went to swipe his claws and spun gracefully. Bucky narrowly avoided being slashed. Purple mist floated around the cat guy, making him look at me. Bucky looked at me as well. The cat guy tried to move but was quick to learn I had full control. I tossed him away from us, giving Bucky and I a chance to get away. Cat Guy didn't give up too easily, though he lunged at Bucky with his claws, but Bucky was quick to grab his wrists. A soldier fires a machine gun from the chopper that had been flying around. I'm quick to place a shield blocking myself and Bucky. The ammo bounced off of the Cat Guy's armored suit. I was focusing on keeping the shield up as Sam flew down and shoved the chopper off course. Then swoops towards street level. Bucky breaks free from his attacker, slings his bag on his back, Grabs my hand and runs and jumps down a level. I knew Steve was following us. Gunfire from the chopper tears up the sidewalk. We jumped down through an opening and landed in an underpass. We ran through the traffic. I turned my head back to look, seeing the Cat Guy and Captain America drop down and chase after us. A Special Forces Vehicle pursues all of us.

"Stand down! Stand down!" Someone in the vehicle yelled through a speakerphone. The vehicle closes in, blue lights flashing. I watch as Steve leaps onto the vehicle and splinters the windshield. The driver stops, Steve yanks him from the vehicle and kicks the windshield out, then drives off. Still chasing after us. We ran over the top of a speeding car, outpacing it. The cat guy is a few cars behind, keeping pace with us. The cat guy leaps on the back of the 4x4 that Steve's driving. Steve swerves from side to side, trying to throw him off. Several police cars joined the chase. Steve side-swipes another car and drives on. We reached a fork in the road and faced oncoming traffic. Bucky leaped over a barrier with me following him. Steve drove right through the barrier. A motorbike was speeding towards us. Bucky grabbed the handlebar and spun the bike around in mid air, throwing the rider off. We get on the bike and ride away, sending cars careering out of the way. Steve keeps on our tail with cat guy holding onto the back of the 4x4. We all rocket through another underpass. I watch as Sam flies into the underpass. Cat Guy leaps off the front of the 4x4 onto our motorbike. Bucky flings him over our heads and the bike leans down on its side. Bucky kicks our assailant away, straightens up and rides on. Cat Guy then catches a ride on Falcon's leg. Sam tried to kick the cat Guy away. Bucky throws a sticky bomb and blows up the roof at the end of the underpass, bringing down tons of rubble. Cat Guy leaps off from Falcon and throws both of us off the motorbike. Steve swerves the 4x4 through the rubble, leaps out and pulls the cat guy away from Bucky and I. Steve stands, facing the cat guy. Armed police arrive and surround us, guns aimed. War Machine leaps down from above and raises both hands. I looked at Bucky holding my hand out to him, he shook his head, knowing I was offering to get us out of there.

"Stand down, now." Rhodes commanded, Bucky and I stood beside Steve, who put his shield on his back. "Congratulations, Cap. Violet Witch, You're a criminal.", Rhodes states as police move in and force Bucky to his knees. The cat guy raised his hands. A cop moves Steve's arms behind his back while another one moves my arms behind my back. The cat guy retracts his claws and pulls off his mask, revealing his face. Steve and Rhodes look curious at the guy. I just rolled my eyes at the prince of Wakanda

"What's the order?" A soldier asked in Romanian.

"Your highness." Rhodes greeted T'Challa. I looked at Bucky as he was hauled flat on the ground. Bucky met my gaze and gave me a small sad smile before shaking his head at me. He knew I could still get us out of here if he wanted me too.