I end up being paired with Thor for the fight which turned out to be bigger than we were expecting, but still not so much we couldn't handle it.
It wasn't a major Hydra base but it seemed to be home to testing units for new weaponry. And they put those weapons to good use, I had a couple of near misses but thankfully Thor and I worked well as a team - not quite as well as I do with Bucky I noticed, and then pushed that thought to the back of my mind.
When we get back to the compound I notice Bucky heads in a different direction than the rest of us, heading over towards the lake rather than into the building with everyone else. I consider following him, but I can tell from his thoughts that he needs to be alone for now.
I take myself off to my room and have a shower, needing to clear myself from the grime of the fight as well as training.
In the shower I take some time to think about the last few weeks, how it's been just over a month since I was reunited with my brothers, and our bond is stronger than I ever could have dreamed it would be. And then that troubled, sweet hearted man, that somehow has become a key member of my life, who's smile I can't seem to shake from my mind, and whose laugh rings in my ears.
I don't know what's happening to me, or what this feeling is, but there's a part of me that is scared of it, and a part of me that never wants it to go away.
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Althea
RomanceThor and Loki's younger sister Althea the Goddess of Power comes back into their lives and ends up travelling to earth with them where she meets the Avengers and the one and only Bucky Barnes.
