ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ɪꜱ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ
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I walked down the hallway, spotting Shuri speaking to a woman in Dora Milaje uniform. "Shuri!" I shouted excitedly and she turned to look at me and squealed. "Natalia, my favorite colonizer!" She said hugging me tightly as I laughed at her words. "Steve is out doing something but I got word that you finally got rid of the words." I said excited as she nodded quickly.
"Yes! It was successful, Ayo here helped him." She said gesturing towards the woman in Dora Milaje uniform. "Oh thank the gods, and thank you for helping him." I said nodding my head towards Ayo, she smiles at me. "Yindoda enenkani kakhulu, kodwa yaphumelela.." She said nodding towards me. He is a very stubborn man, but he got through it.
"Kwakhona, ndiyabulela kuni nobabini." I said nodding towards them as Ayo put her arm over her chest and walked away. "You are learning!" Shuri said as I flipped my hair dramatically, "I've been working on it." I said smiling at her. "How's your mother?" I asked as she led me down to her lab. Again, thank you both.
"She's been busy but she's fine." She said as I spotted Bucky moving is new arm around. "That arm is made from Vibranium." She explained as she caught me looking at it. "That's really nice of you, Shuri." I said looking at her as she shrugs.
"Come here." She demanded dragging me towards her station, "Shuri.." I warned making her laugh mischievously, "Natalia, I have a question for you." She said as I nodded towards one of the guards. "Yes?" I said looking at her.
"Did you and Mr. Barnes have a past relationship?" She said curious making me choke on air. "Wha- mmm kinda." I responded glancing at her then towards a tool that was on her desk. "Hmm, it's because when we would work on Mr. Barnes, he would call Mr. Rogers and your name out." She smirked looking at me.
"Ok, Shuri, I'm going to talk to James now." I said walking away from her and towards Bucky, I nodded at a nurse and she walked away. "How are you feeling?" I asked softly as he looked at me smiling. "I've been feeling but better, now that the words don't work on me." He said making me sigh in relief.
"I'm happy for you." I said sitting down beside him as he looked at me. "Where's Steve?" He asked making me sigh and look at him. "We're looking for a spot to stay for a while." I said trying to make a stupid excuse for Steve.
"Oh, why don't you stay here with me?" He asked me as I smirked at him, "Are you trying to sleep with me?" I said lowly making him chuckle at me. "Maybe." He looked at me, making me laugh loudly as he chuckled.
"Hmph, and they're not dating." Shuri said towards T'challa and he shakes his head, "It is very noticeable, and it is sad." He says before walking away from the couple who are talking and laughing. "They need to figure it out." Shuri said shaking her head and walking away from them.
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I walked in, looking around what looked like a living room and a kitchen. "Get comfortable." Zemo said walking away and through a door making me hum. "Are you good, Nat?" Sam asked me as I slumped down on the coach and I looked at him.
"Eh, just been feeling more drained than usual, she wants to come out and play." I said leaning my head back and shutting my eyes. "All of this is gonna drain you, Natalia." Sam warned making me sigh and look at him. "Sam, please, I got everything under control." I said giving him a tight smile and he scoffs at me.
Zemo walks out of a room rubbing a towel against his wet hair and I hear a door close making me sigh. "Well, the Wakandans are here, they want Zemo." Bucky said walking closer to us. I just clenched my hands feeling the familiar tingling sensation of my powers.
"Bought us some more time." He said as I began to do my breathing exercises that I was taught. "Were you followed?" Sam asked Bucky, "No." he responded as I opened my eyes looking over at them.
"How can you be so sure?" Zemo asked making me roll my eyes at him. "Cause I know when I'm being followed." Bucky responds back at him, "It was sweet of you to defend me at least." Zemo said standing by a stained glass window.
"Hey, you shut it. No one's defending you." Sam said towards Zemo making me chuckle. "You killed Nagel." He said making me stand up and walk towards them. "Which by the way was very unnecessary." I said pointing at him as he sighed.
"Do we really have to litigate what may or may not have happened?" He said placing a cup down beside Sam as I looked at him confused. "There's nothing to litigate, you straight shot the man." Sam said shaking his head whilst looking at Zemo.
"Sam, Nat." Bucky said and I looked at him spotting a phone in his hand. "What?" Sam said as I nodded towards him to continue. "Karli bombed a GRC supply depot." He said looking at the phone. "What? What's the damage?" Sam asked as I continued to listen.
"Eleven injuries, three dead." He read off of the article on his phone, "They have a list of demands and are promising more attacks if those demands aren't met in fault." He said making me run my hand through my hair.
"She getting worse." Zemo stated making me look at him, "Oh really? I haven't noticed." I said sarcastically looking at him and he ignores me. "I have the will to complete this mission, do the three of you?" He nodded towards us as I sighed.
"She's just a kid." Sam said to him lowly, "You're seeing something in her that isn't there, you're clouded by it." Zemo said looking at Sam as I glanced between them. "She's a supremacist." He said stepping away from us.
"The very concept of a Super Soldier will always trouble people. It's that warped aspiration that led to Nazis, to Ultron, to the Avengers." He said making my irises glow brightly at the name. "Hey, those are our friends your talking about." Sam defended making me lean against the counter.
"The Avengers, not the Nazis." Bucky backed up and I pointed at him. "He's right! Don't get that shit mixed up." I said loudly before Sam continued. "So, Karli is radicalized, but there has to be a peaceful way to stop her." Sam tried and I walked away from them and sat on the couch.
"The desire to become a superhuman cannot be separated from supremacist ideals. Anyone with that serum is inherently on that path." Zemo said as I glanced at Bucky. "She will not stop, she will escalate until you kill her." He said making me look at him. "Or she kills you." He said as I sighed shaking my head.
"Maybe you're wrong, Zemo." I said shaking my head as they looked at me. "The serum never corrupted Steve." I said pointing at him as he tilts his head at me. "Touché, but there has never been another Steve Rogers, has there?" He said eating as I looked away from them.
Bucky starts to move away from them, "Well, maybe we should give him to the Wakandans right now." Bucky suggested and I nodded agreeing with him, "And you'll give up your tour guide." Zemo said as Bucky sat down beside me and I smiled at him. "Mmm, yeah, I know my way around here." I joked making Bucky shake his head.
"From my understanding, Donya is like a pillar of the community, right?" Sam asked making me shrug my shoulders agreeing. "So, when I was a kid, my TT passed away." Sam began as I squinted my eyes at the unfamiliar word.
"Your- Your TT?" Bucky hesitated looking at Sam as I placed my head on his shoulder. "His TT?" I whispered making him look down at me, I froze on how close our faces were to each other. I glanced down at his lips as he does the same, "Yeah, my TT, yeah." He said and I looked away from Bucky, then to Sam.
"Who is your TT, Sam?" I asked looking over to him as Bucky placed his arm on the couch behind me. "Fine, when I was a kid, my aunt passed away and the entire neighborhood got together for a ceremony." Sam explained making me nod towards him understand.
I leaned my head back against the couch, "It was like a week long." He said as I moved around getting comfortable. "Maybe they're doing the same thing for Donya." Sam suggested as I nodded. "Worth a shot." Bucky said loudly making me smile.
So they're kinda getting along? "Your TT would be proud of you." Zemo said to Sam making me snicker. "Turkish delight." I heard Zemo said as I lifted my hand and messing around with my powers, not feeling as drained as I was before.
Zemo comes back into the room changed, "Let's go ask around." He said walking away and I quickly get up and walk behind him and the boys follow us from behind. "Shame what's become of this place." Zemo said as I heard kids playing and shouting making me smile.
"When I was young, we used to come here for fabulous dinners and parties. I knew nothing of the politics of the time. Of course." He said whilst I look around at the many windows, "Huh, lucky you, when I was young, I was strapped down on a table with serums being put in my body." I scoffed making Bucky nudge me.
"But I remember it being beautiful." I looked around spotting the poster I kept seeing everywhere. RESET. RESTORE. REBUILD. "I'm gonna take a look around upstairs." Sam said as I looked at him, "See what you can find out here and both of you keep an eye on him." Sam said directly to Bucky and I as I shrugged.
"I'll stay out of your way." He said walking away from us, I huffed as I walked away from Bucky and towards a couple, "Do you know where Donya Madani is?" I asked them as they stayed quiet and spotting fear in the woman's eyes making me back away from them.
I stood by the entrance as I spotted Zemo place a stool in front of the group of kids and dumping the candy on it. I squinted my eyes at the interaction between the little girl and Zemo. I felt Bucky and Sam walk up beside me as I kept my attention on the two.
"It's starting to feel like a dead end." Sam said as I sighed looking at them, "The hell is he doing?" Bucky asked frowning and I spot Zemo get up and speak to them then give them the rest of the candy.
He begins walking towards us and shrugged, "Cute kids." He said walking past us as I glanced at the kids who were sharing the candy among themselves. I walk away from them and walked towards the place we were at.
Sam closes the door, "Well, I got nothin'." Bucky said walking towards the couches and I sat down with him following me. "No ones talkin about Donya." He said annoyed making me huff. "Yeah, it's because Karli is the only one fighting for them." Sam said taking a seat on the other couch.
I looked at him, "And she's not wrong." He said glancing at us, "What do you mean?" Bucky asked from beside me and I glanced between them. "For five years, people have been welcomed into countries that have kept them out using barbwire. There were houses and jobs." Sam said shaking his head.
"Folks were happy to have people around to help them rebuild. It wasn't just one community coming together, it was the entire world coming together." Sam explained as I looked at him, "And then, boom. Just like that, it goes right back to the way it used to be." He said as I saw Zemo pour liquid into a teapot.
"To them, at least Karli's doin' somethin'." Sam said and I just stayed silent seeing how this was going to play out. "You really think her ends justify her means? Then, she's no different than him or anybody else we've fought." Bucky said pointing towards Zemo who's still messing around with the teapot.
"She's different. She's not motivated by the same things." Sam tried to say as I shook my head but not saying a single thing. Zemo walks towards us and a tray with the teapot and cups. "That little girl." I said nodding towards him.
"What'd she tell you?" Bucky continued for me as Zemo glanced at Sam, catching my attention. He leaned down pouring the liquid into a cup, "The funeral is this afternoon." He says as Sam looks at him confused. "Anything else you gotta say?" I said tilting my head at him.
"You know the Dora's coming for you any minute. In fact, they're probably lurking outside right now." Bucky said nodding his head as I narrowed my eyes at Zemo. "Silent all of a sudden?" I said making Zemo look at me.
"Leaving you to turn on me once we get to Karli." He said moving his head to the side. "Hmm, I prefer to keep my leverage." Zemo suggested making my eyebrows shoot up. Bucky stands up and walks towards Zemo, quickly grabbing the cup throwing it harshly against the pillar.
I quickly get up and stood in the middle of Bucky and Zemo. "You wanna see what someone can do with leverage?" Bucky warned him lowly as my back was to Bucky's chest, I put my hand up pushing Zemo back with my magic. "Back off.." I said as my irises burn, and I felt Bucky gentle grabbed my bicep and pull me back a little.
"Take it easy, don't engage him." Sam said getting up grabbing Zemo's bicep and I clenched my hands feeling as if I were losing myself a little from getting angry. "He's just gonna extort you two and do that stupid head tilt thing." Sam said as I started to breathe heavily and I quickly looked away spotting Zemo smirk at me.
"Let me make a call." Sam said as I pushed Bucky back feeling overwhelmed, "I-I need to go to the restroom." I stuttered walking away as I slammed the doors closed and I fell to the floor. I sobbed feeling the sensation run through my body. "No, no...no." I muttered looking around wanting to grab onto something.
I hear knocking on the door, "Lia, are you okay?" I hear Bucky ask as I swallowed a sob, "Yeah, just feeling a bit tired." I said still on the ground, "Are you sure?" He asked as I squeezed my eyes closed not wanting to take my anger out on him.
"Yeah, Buck, I'm good." I said covering my mouth, not wanting a cry to come out. "Okay." He said as I heard him walk away from the door. I let out a sob as I removed my hand from my mouth. No, I'm not okay. I'm suffering because I don't want to accept who I am and destroy the universe.
I continued to stay on the floor until I felt like I could actually move around but I didn't want the wall to come down, the one I built for these past years, to protect not only myself but others around me.
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A/N: well that was something 🥺😏😅, I hope you loved this chapter 🥺🥺🥺🥺