Save Me || Bucky Barnes

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While Sam and Bucky were both busy helping each other get the third and final chip into the last helicarrier, Steve headed back up to the control room to assist Maria. His main goal was to protect her from attackers or help her with the computers if she needed it.

When he got up to the control room, he tapped lightly on the door with his knuckles before announcing that it was him. 

"Come in then." Maria muttered from behind the door. As Steve walked in, Maria was already sitting back down and tucking her gun back into her belt.

"What are you doing up here?" Maria continued to say as Steve set his shield against the wall closest to him.

"I figured you could use some company. Plus I figured Sam and Bucky had everything under control. It's not like I can get onto the third helicarrier now and help them." Steve shrugged as he pulled up a chair next to Maria, who also shrugged and continued doing what she was doing before.

Not even five minutes later, Sam was shouting Bucky's name from the top of his lungs.

"What the hell is going on?" Maria grumbled as both her and Steve's attention turned towards the windows. They couldn't see anything, but they knew something was happening. For a few agonizing seconds, they continued to sit in absolute silence, neither one daring to breath.

Then, after a while, they saw someone plummet off the third helicarrier.

"Who is that?" Maria asked, scared of the answer.

"It's Sam, I'm pretty sure it's Sam." Steve answered frantically as he rushed to the window to get a better look. As soon as he saw the parachute floating through the air, he knew for a fact it was Sam so he turned around and told Maria.

"Damn good thing he has a parachute then." she commented before she turned around to keep track of the countdown and the helicarrier's position.

"Bucky? Barnes, come in. Are you okay?" Sam could be heard over the comm system as soon as he hit the ground. Steve waited anxiously by the window, waiting for a response from the brunette.

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm still on the helicarrier." Bucky responded a few seconds later. Steve closed his eyes and let out a sigh of relief as he pinched the bridge of his nose between his thumb and middle finger.

"He's gonna give me a hernia one of these days." Steve muttered quietly to himself before he walked over to Maria and sat down beside her again. He ignored their conversation as he turned his attention towards the monitors.

"Isn't that Rumlow?" Steve asked, pointing to a figure on the screen that moved rapidly through the halls, taking out anything and anyone they saw.

"I'm not sure, but I would assume so." Maria responded before the radio Maria took from one of the HYDRA technicians crackled to life for the first time in a while.

"Sir, Council's been breached." 

"Repeat, dispatch." a male voice responded. Steve looked at Maria as if to say "I told you it was him." Maria rolled her eyes as she focused her attention back to what they were saying.

"Black Widow's up there." HYDRA dispatch stated.

"Headed up!" Rumlow responded before turning tail and heading towards the stairs. Steve shared a worried look with Maria before she nodded her head and asked for Sam over the comms.

"Yeah?" he replied.

"Rumlow's headed for the Council." she stated, hoping he got the message.

"I'm on it." Sam replied before the comms went silent again.