THIEF | BUCKY BARNES

TWENTY

MISTAKES
❝Just me and you.❞

Odessa looked up to Bucky anxiously, he traces patterns on her thighs with his fingers as he hummed a soft tune.

"James?" Odessa whispered, causing him to stop humming and give the girl his full attention.

She didn't answer for a while, which panicked Bucky further. The dark haired man sat up and reluctantly pulled the girl up with him.

"What happened?" Bucky questioned, he grabbed the girls hand and ran his thumb over her knuckles. "Did someone do something to you? Did they hurt you-"

"I think I made a really big mistake." Odessa whispered softly as she looked him directly in the eyes.

Bucky furrowed his brows and nodded, wanting her to continue.

"The day before you came back, I did this task, where I had to steal from a fake store they had set up." She paused. "I think I slipped up and mentioned that I have siblings."

"They didn't know before?" Bucky questioned, noticing the panic on her face.

"No. I don't think so anyway." Odessa shook her head. "I'm scared, James, I don't want my siblings to die for my slip up."

Odessa chewed at her bottom lip anxiously, she linked her fingers with Bucky and sadly smiled.

"I need to leave." She whispered, the second that she said those words, she regretted them. "I need to find them and make sure that they're okay. That they're alive."

Bucky pulled away from the girl and walked to the opposite end of the room. He angrily ran his hand over his face and turned to look at her.

"You need to leave?" He questioned.

Odessa had tears forming in her eyes, she didn't want to leave him. She wanted to stay by his side forever.

"I need to make sure they're okay. I don't want my siblings to pay the price for my mistakes." She whispered, she wanted him to do desperately understand. "Don't you have siblings?"

Bucky furrowed his brows before sadly whispering,

"I don't remember."

"I'm sorry." She paused. "But I can't get out of here without your help." She hated asking, but she needed too.

Bucky walked over to the girl and knelt down in front of her. His hand grabbed hers and brought them up to his lips, pressing them together.

"We can get out together." He suggested, he didn't want to lose her. "I'm going on another mission tomorrow, what if we can both get out, we won't even have to think about this place ever again." He paused, looking up to her hopefully. "Just me and you."

Odessa allowed her lips to part in shock, she didn't understand why he would do that for her. Her lips curled into a small smile as she leant forward to rest her head against Bucky's.

"I'd like nothing more." She whispered closing her eyes. "Just me and you." She repeated, her smiling growing. "Sounds like a plan."

Bucky smiled, he let out a relieved chuckle as he cupped the girls cheeks, connecting their lips for a brief second.

"They'll be after you, you know that right?" Odessa questioned.

"I know, but I'll have you. And if I have you, then that's all I need." Bucky responded honestly. "I just need to do this mission first, then me and you, we're out of here."

Odessa nodded in agreement, she liked the sound of it just being him and her. No training, no early mornings or late nights, no HYDRA.

~

Odessa had fallen asleep in Bucky's arms, and she looked so peaceful. It brought a smile to his face. He slowly rolled the girl off his arm and shoot of out the room.

His eyes landed on Alexander Pierce, Bucky held his head up high as he walked over to the man.

"Dessie is coming with me on the next mission." Bucky ordered.

Pierce chuckled and shook his head before saying,

"That's not possible."

He couldn't let Odessa out of his sight. The last thing that HYDRA needed was someone escaping and leaking all of their secrets, especially if that person was rumoured to be dead.

"Either Dessie comes, or I don't go." Bucky's jaw tightened as Pierce looked at him in disgust. "It's your choice."

"James, this isn't a discussion." Piece looked at the man, he was much taller and stronger than he was, but he had to confident in himself and remain in control.

"Your right." Bucky nodded. "It's not. Either she comes with me or I don't do it." With that Bucky walked back to his room and left Pierce completely and utterly speechless.