Winter Soldier

A smirk comes across her face the moment she hears the snap of the cellphone camera. She takes another bite of her sandwich, leaning one hand back against the counter. “I’m pretty sure I’m real and you don’t look like you’re having a stroke. Then again you’re a hundred and something super soldier, so I don’t know what having a stroke would look like for someone like you.” Nat offers with a smile and the she hops down from the counter. “I guess I was brought back. For what reason, I don’t know. But it seems I haven’t missed much. You’re all still getting yourself in trouble.”

Bucky offered a pained smile and shrugged. “To be fair... I was doing fine in Wakanda, staying out of trouble and working with animals and... stuff, I was staying away from trouble but... Yeah,” he winced and shook his head. “Well... Welcome back, I guess, dying sucks and ah... If you need someone to talk to...” he trailed off and squirmed awkwardly in place, he never knew how to interact with people that had known him as the Winter Soldier, people he had hurt back when he had no control, “I can give you the number of my therapist, she’s in Wakanda, I don’t think I’d actually be of much help in that regard.”

Reports had just come in and the crime outdoors were starting to each an all time high and so was the radiation. That part she wasn’t too worried about, she had been reassured that some of the smartest science minds were looking into it, but the crime. That was something Carol wanted to get a hold of and try to put a stop to if she could. She was looking around for Steve, maybe even Thor to see if maybe they could finally convince SHIELD to let them go out and help the few law enforcement that they had. 

She was walking through the lounge, making her way to the meeting offices when she spotted someone. She remembered seeing him on the battlefield and at the funeral of Tony. He was Steve’s friend, Bucky. Carol nods her head at him. “The situation is bad from what I’m hearing and I’m going to go find someone that’ll give us the green light to go out and help.”

Bucky turned around and smiled, he didn’t know a lot about the woman, she was strong, strong enough to tear Thanos ship and fight him, she was also close to Fury and that’s about as much as he knew. He nodded his head in reply, after all that’s what they came here to do but then what? They could stop the crime as it was happening, hell maybe take the criminal to the police but would it actually accomplish something? Make a difference at all? The system was failing because there seemed to be no system and SHIELD looked like it was being ripped apart trying to help with the big and small picture at once.

“If they give you the green light let me know, this whole sotting around and waiting it’s... hard, different, I was usually asleep and just woken up to jump into action.”

His thoughts were interrupted as he heard someone approaching and he took a deep breath.

“Hello” he greeted with a smile. “It’s been a while since I’ve been back to this country...” Even longer if he didn’t consider his trips here as the Winter Soldier. “Do you know what’s the situation like?”