Louise smirked only slightly as they were reaching the Allied Military camp they had once left. The sky slowly brightens with the cloudy sunlight, fog descending in the tall trees surrounding them. Bucky and Steve were chatting most of the way, the men they had saved quantifying in several hundred soldiers. Her two best friends frequently look at her, speaking quieter with each look that has her rolling her eyes. Louise touched her temples softly, feeling her mind in control, finally after hours of focusing through the night. Bucky spoke to Steve suddenly, his movements slowing to move next to her as some of the other soldiers moved away for privacy.
"So.."
"Hmm?" Louise replied, only giving him a side glance as they walked. An unspoken awkwardness shrouding them as they walked in silence as the soldiers next to them chatted.
"Why were you at the factory?" Bucky spits out after a minute, slowing to a stop as he had grabbed her arm softly to do the same for her.
"I went in to look for the soldiers and you." She responds, wanting to continue walking as some soldiers gave them side looks as they passed.
"All right, how did you get into the factory?"
"I slipped in luckily." She continues to avoid the real question.
"Well, then. Will you tell me how you acquired the skills to be able to slip unnoticed into a heavily advanced guarded factory full of H.Y.D.R.A. soldiers?" Bucky pushes, as Louise sighs and begins to walk again with Bucky trailing behind her.
"Hey." Bucky tries as Louise glares at Steve as she catches back up to him in the front of the soldier herd.
"I'm a spy. I went through training, it's as simple as that." Louise answers with a glare, as Bucky looks to Steve for help.
"Since when did you become one? When I left you were still a girl who was love sick and followed us around like a puppy." Louise froze, as everyone around them did for a second as she turned around to face her friend duo. Her eyes glared at every person looking on, even Steve swallows in slight nervousness as everyone stared.
"Love sick, puppy, right." Louise says as she takes a few steps to stand right in front of Bucky, her height only and inch or two shorter. He stared on in slight nervousness, maybe that was the right term; Louise's mind beginning it's connection into every person's mind around her as she loses some control of her actions.
Louise slams her fist into the Bucky's left side of Bucky's face, her strength from Erskine's serum knocking him to the ground with ease. The same hand unsuspectedly whipping across Steve's face who stumbled quite a bit back from her force. Her mind gave every man a headache, each one of them looking at her.
"If I hear another word, I'll do the same to all of you!" She shouts, every person silencing and staying silent for the last mile as they finally reached the camp in the mid morning. Louise kept her pace in front of the men, her body quickly disappearing in the haze of soldiers coming to see the fallen army return with Captain America.
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Louise stood halfway across the Westminster bridge, her light eyes staring up at Big Ben during a cloudy day. Slight heavy footsteps near her as she tenses and awaits for the person to stop. Her head turns softly, her eyes linking up with James' blue ones as he stood next her leaning against the metal railing.
"Lou-"
"Hi." She speaks up, and he looks up after staring at the ground.
"I apologize for my reactions and actions towards your new profession and I did not mean to insult you about your life in New York." Bucky says as if he'd been rehearsing it for hours, she looks to him again, facing him fully in her thin crimson sweater.
"Okay." Louise says, forgiving him some as she stepped by him without any words. His instinct to follow her, but he stopped.
"Are you coming?" Louise asks, knowing she was missing the initial meeting with Steve, Peggy, and Colonel Phillips about H.Y.D.R.A. Bucky jogs to catch up with her, his body close to hers as she leads them back to the military shelter.
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Louise styled up into a blue swing dress, her natural dark hair lightly curled on her shoulders. She swiped some lipstick upon her lips, a peach-ish colour making her lips full. She exited from her temporary apartment somewhere in Europe, Peggy waiting on the street in her government issued dark car. She gave Louise a smile as she entered the left passenger side and drove towards the bar where Steve was recruiting.
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Louise follows Peggy inside the bar, her dress swaying softly as she walks in. Many men pausing their speaking, singing as Peggy led the way in her red dress. Louise's royal blue dress had small embroidered flowers at each shoulder, a small tie at her collarbone that hung down. She gets a respectable nod from the Howling Commandos, a group that they had saved from the H.Y.D.R.A. base. Many others stared a bit longer as they passed to the other side of the bar that was more calmer than the choired one they had just passed.
Louise slows as she holds her thin dark blue sweater in her left arm, her wallet in the side hand. She lets Peggy enter the other side; her body was clothed in a dark scarlett dress that hugged her figure. The singing started up again after a second as Louise finally reached the other side of the bar. Her light eyes pausing on James and Steve, both of them enthralled by Peggy.
"Ma'am." Bucky says after Steve had acknowledged her.
"Howard has some equipment for you to try. Tomorrow morning?" Peggy says towards Steve, mostly there for him, Louise deduced. She kept her head down slightly, wondering why she agreed to come with her.
"Sounds good." Steve responds, Bucky's head softly turning to see Louise with her head turned away. His bright blues scanning up and down her dress, a soft smile on his lips as she captured his attention.
"I'll see you, top squad is prepping for duty." Peggy speaks to Steve as Bucky turned his body towards Louise and lifted his left hand to raise up her chin so she'd face him, her bright eyes looking up surprised.
"You still like music?" He asks, and Louise blushes lightly and smiles. Bucky steps out in front of her, catching eyes with the Commandos that cheered him on from behind her.
"Come on then, doll." He whispers, and pulls Louise towards an open space in the bar, where the music was playing loudly. They watched as Steve and Peggy conversed for a few more minutes and separated, Bucky taking her attention as he led their close movements. Their bodies moved together as the song was slow and he held her close.
"I'm sorry for ridiculing you. You have to know I'd never say anything like that to you and mean it. I'm a jackass, I get it. But I refuse to let you hate me forever." Buckys says close to her, making her stare into his eyes.
"I already forgave you, James. You should know that." Louise responds, a chuckle leaving his lips as they continued dancing. Steve this time, watching them, their chemistry that was seen all along their childhood.
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Ardent || MCU
Fanfiction"Are you ever gonna let me save you?" "I'm not your typical damsel, James." Louise was a woman with many skills, baking, dancing, knife throwing, undercover ops, etc. Well, she learned the last two while her best friends fought in the second World...
