Hard to Love (Bucky Barnes fanfic)

Chapter 37

2 months later

"That all you got Maximoff?" I taunt playfully as we both lightly bounce around the training ring

Oh yeah, suppose I should catch you all up on things.
I finally got cleared about a month ago so I'm able to train and go out on missions again and free of those bracelets. And by missions it's mostly stakeouts, attending conferences with mayors or military generals, and small tasks like the occasional bank robberies. Tony, Bruce and even Shuri all ran numerous tests on me and my new unhinged powers. I'm not sure what exactly they were looking for but hey, I'm able to use my powers again so I'm not complaining

Bucky and I have miraculously not been caught, though there were a few very close calls, only excuse I have is we just can't seem to keep our hands to ourselves. Especially when Bucky goes out for prolonged assignments and we don't get our daily dose of one another. But that makes for mind blowing sex and the best sleep ever when he returns. I've also had to help Bucky whenever he has a nightmare which has been... interesting. He always starts with small twitches and mumbled words, that's the best time to wake him or else he'll start screaming and thrashing around. One time he almost swung at me in his sleep, my fault for trying to pin his arms down to protect himself, but thankfully I was able to block it with my energy

Bucky still beats himself up for it no matter how many times I say it's okay. One time I had a nightmare and launched a wave of energy out of me flinging Bucky across the room. Luckily no damage was done to him or the wall. Since then I've told him we're more than even on the whole thing but I know he still feels bad about it all

We've also been training together a lot more. Clint had joked about wanting to see the two ex-Hydra soldiers fight one another and I jumped on that opportunity almost instantly. Obviously no powers are involved since it's mostly to test our hand to hand combat. Now I know what you're thinking, 'Bucky definitely wins 'cuz he's a super soldier' but he only wins maybe sixty percent of the time. I'm light on my feet so I dodge, weave and maneuver around him with ease. It's also thanks to a few moves Natashas taught me while working with her

Anyways, I think that's everything so, back to whatever the fuck I'm doing right now

Wanda tilts her head ever so slightly before forming a ball of red energy between her hands, red strings coming from her fingertips and swirling into a dense scarlet orb in the palm of her hand. She cracks a smirk just as she shoots the energy ball towards me. I throw my hand out, conjuring up my own waves of energy and aim them at the incoming object. My black energy engulfs her red one, both of them fighting the other and swirling together to make almost a red mahogany shade. That is, until my energy won the short lived battle and the ball imploded

"You might just be better than me," Wanda comments, looking at the spot where our powers met. "At least, one day that is." She flashes a toothy smile towards me to which I return with an eye roll

"How's about this, I'll let you continue to be the best fighter if you teach me how to fly properly. Deal?" I ask, dusting off the imaginary dirt from my hands

I've been itching to better get a handle on my levitating skills since before my HYDRA abduction. Only a handful of people know about the small progress I've already made and thankfully no ones told Tony yet. He'd probably slap those wristbands back on me permanently

Wanda rolls her eyes jokingly, letting out a small chuckle. "Deal. But if you bust your ass, I was never involved." She starts for her workout bag by the door

I follow her lead and grab my bag as well, Buckys dog tags lightly jingle from within and I almost pray that Wanda didn't hear it. She doesn't seem to have noticed anything as we continue to exit the training room and make our way to the elevators so I shrug my brief worry away