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She could hear Bucky moving around behind her – going through his usual nighttime routine and trying to make as much noise as possible while doing so. A signal to Bex that she should also be moving towards bed. Thankfully for the mission coordinates in front of her, she had a lifetime of ignoring her brother. Moving from her place on the couch, she grabbed a beer and settled back down, picking up another file. True, she could have just gone through it all on her starkpad…but there was something oddly fulfilling about flipping through a paper file. Feeling the pages in your hand.

Eventually, the moving about stopped and a hand came down on her shoulder. “I know. I’m moving that way, I swear. I just…Dino is 90% sure he has a lead on Viper and I want to look over the building schematics again.” It was different than the stuff Bucky now dealt with as a member of the Avengers, but whatever. Bex liked being with their old team, doing things as they always had. Even if the higher ups hated it. “I will not get lectured by Pegs again for having not done my homework. But I promise. One more hour and I’ll be up.”

She knew she, and the house, were quite a sight – broken glass everywhere. Doors off their hinges. Windows smashed in. A small fire on the kitchen stove. Not to mention the two dead Hydra agents on the dining room floor. Hydra agents that Nat was calling Coulson about.

It was a slow process, her recovery. But every day she remembered a little bit more -- about Bucky, about their life together, about who she was before she became ‘the Captain’. Problem was, while those memories were slowly coming back to her, the memories from her time with the Red Room and HYDRA were as vibrant and brilliant as ever. All those people. Those deaths. 

All that blood coating her hands.

Bucky Cap is being demanding, too.

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Tony released his breath sharply and stared down the man who had ended up so highly ranked in his nation’s enemy’s army, and didn’t know what to say. The man was royalty, much as he was himself, a prince to his premature king, but he didn’t know how that would be better.

His first act on taking over the kingship had been to reach out to the opposing nation, to hope and stop to the hostility on both sides, and their response had been to send a prince and their dearest symbol over to negotiate. He presumed. It was entirely possible he was utterly wrong about the motivations, but the other man didn’t seem hostile, so he could only hope his carefully worded missive hadn’t been taken in offense.

62. Demigod AU

Stella was more than aware of how odd a couple they had to make, a daughter of Apollo and a son of Hades, but honestly? She didn’t care. She never had. Not even when they were back in school.

Though, she had to admit, for all the strange looks, their relationship had been a lot easier in school. Mostly due to the close proximity. School at least forced Bucky to come up from the Underworld. His sister too. Nowadays, Stella sometimes felt like it was pulling teeth to get the two of them above ground.