Teaser || Part I || Part II

WORD COUNT: 2930

WARNINGS: none

AUTHOR: Cass

It was only
two days after whole Andrea’s accident. She stayed in S.H.I.E.L.D.

Andrea was
looking at white wall still lying in her bed.
Suddenly she heard a voice .

“Hey… How do you feel?” It was grant. He solely sat on Andrea’s bed when she
sat up.

“Good… but
I still feel bad… because of this what happened two days ago.” She said sadly.

Grant
smiled softly and stroked her hair. “It’s okay, nothing too bad happened.
Everything is fine now.”

Andrea
sighed heavily and quickly broked down. She started cry. “No! It’s not! I’m a
monster! Machine… next Hydra’s experiment!”

Grant
looked at her. “Hey hey hey… Shhh…” He wrapped his arms around her and pulled
her into a hug. “It’s okay now. Andrea… please calm down.” Grant said and
pulled her onto his laps.

“But… l..
look… What I did… I hurt my dad… I wanted hurt you… Why… Why you tried to stop
me… I could kill you..”

Grant
stroked her cheek and sighed. “Because you are important to me. I wasn’t
scared… I will always try to protect you… I could die for you.” He told her.

Andrea
looked at him in shock.
“G-Grant… what are you saying..”

“All I’m
saying is…” He said slowly and kissed her. Andrea blinked but didn’t pull away,
she kissed him back.

“I just
love you.” He finished after braking the kiss “I will never let anything bad
happen to you.” He said and Andrea only nodded. Grant laughed softly and kissed
her again.

After few
minutes they both jumped surprised when they heard angry voice.
“Am I interrupting in something?!”
It was Steve and this time he was really pissed.

Grant
looked at Steve. Andrea also looked at him, he was really scared.
“Dad…. I  just… I mean we…” Grant looked
at Andrea.

“I can see
what you two are doing! I told you, she is Hydra’s experiment. She showed what
she is capable to. She is a dangerous creature!” Steve growled in a low voice
of his.

Grant let
Andre sit on bed and he got up. “No! She is not! I love her! And I don’t care
anymore what you think about her. Because I LOVE HER!”

“And you
are my son, MY son! And as long as I’m alive you will do what I say.” Steve
grabbed Grant’s arm and pulled him out of the room.
“I don’t care what you think about her. She is walking monster!” Steve growled
at Grant.

He suddenly
saw Bucky. “And you! Keep this thing away from my son!” Steve yelled at Bucky
and left hospital with Grant.

Bucky
blinked confused and watched as blond man left the building.
“Um… it’s nice… to see you two too..” He said slowly and went to Andrea’s room.

Girl was
hiding under her blanket, Bucky looked at this really worried. He sat on bed
and rubbed her back.

“Go away
Grant… your dad hate me…” She whimpered.

Bucky
smiled “I’m not sure if my name is Grant.”

Andrea sat
up and looked at Bucky from under blanket, “DAD!” She whimpered happily and
hugged to him tight.

“Calm down,
or you will break more of my ribs.” He giggled and hugged her back tight, “I
missed you, little one.”

“How do you
feel… w-what I did to you..” Andrea asked and looked at him.

Bucky only
smiled at her “For me more important is how you feel but… I only have few ribs
broken. I don’t know how many… I didn’t listen. I was more worried about my
daughter.”

Andrea
sighed and looked at him with tears in her eyes. “I… I didn’t mean to dad… I
don’t know… I was so angry, scared. This rage, it ripped me from the inside. I
wasn’t controlling myself. I’m sorry.”

Bucky
looked at her and put his hand on her cheek. “Sweetheart… please, shhh. It’s
okay, I understand, I good know this feeling.” He told her.

Andrea
nodded and hugged to him tight. Bucky spend few hours with her before he had to
go back.

---

Martha
knocked to Andreas door.
“Knock knock. How’s my favorite patient?” She asked and slowly sat on Andrea’s
bed .“I hope you feel better, Andrea. Just I wanna you to know that Bucky will
be able to take you home soon, I hope you are happy.” She smiled.

Girl only
smiled sadly and nodded “Yes… I wanna go home, to dad.” She said quietly.

“Andrea…
something’s wrong? I can see that you are quiet… and I’m sure that this time
it’s not because the thing that happened two days ago.” Martha sighed and got
up from bed. She walked to girl. “Come on tell me..”

Andrea
looked at her.
Andrea felt bad because of everything. Because of thing that happened, because
of Bucky and Steve and because of Grant. She told everything to Martha.

Martha
giggled. “Finally my son had shown some balls…” She muttered to herself and
sighed. “You know what… I think you shouldn’t think about this. Everything will
be fine. Things like this won’t happen again, Bucky is quickly returning to
health and Steve… He is himself, but don’t worry. I won’t let him separate you
with Grant. Now… It’s getting late, you should try to sleep a bit, okay?”

Andrea
smiled and nodded, now she felt much better “Thank you..” She said.

Martha
nodded. “No problem Kid… I will be back at morning to check upon you. Good
night and see you tomorrow.”  

---

Andrea
spent few days in hospital, after this time Bucky took her back home.

Girl
happily flopped on her own bed in her own home, Andrea sat slowly on bed and
looked at Bucky. “Dad… I… can we talk about me? I mean… about what I am?” She
looked at Bucky with her big puppy’s eyes.

Bucky
smiled sadly and nodded, he sat next to her. “Just… remember, no matter what I
always love you.”
Andrea nodded “Sure… I love you too, dad.”
Bucky smiled sadly. “So… it was fourteen years ago..” He began.

~~~~~~
fourteen years ago~~~~~~

 

“Everyone’s
down?” Steve sighed heavily picking up his shield from floor.

“Well, no
one shoots to us anymore, so I think yes, Cap.” Bucky looked around and smiled
at his friend.

Steve
nodded and put shield on his back. “So… Agents will go there and we will go to
main lab.”  Steve ordered and few agents
that were with them left them alone on the corridor “You okay, Buck?”

“I just…”
He looked around again, Bucky felt really uncomfortable. “Just… bad memories..
but let’s go. We should check what those sick bustards were doing here.” Man
muttered and started walking toward main lab.

Steve
followed his friend.

Main lab
was a huge room, filled with all kinds of weird things. Many books, boxes with
documents. Photos of some creepy stuff.

Bucky
looked at documents. “That makes sense…”
Bucky muttered.

“What is
it, Buck? What do you mean?” Steve asked.

“Look at
those photos, Steve… they were experimenting on people, kids… even unborn one…”
Bucky put few pages of documents on table.

Steve
looked at them. “Yes… Look… This woman… She got missing few weeks ago.” He
picked up documents and started looking trough them. “13 years old girl…
pregnant woman… Man from store… Mother and her newborn son… Everyone that ever
reported missing from city below.  Just
reading their treatment makes me sick…” Steve shook his head and shivered.

“I never
really met with such a cruelty from Hydra… I mean I knew they can be cruel…”
Bucky muttered, walking around in room, checking under tables and other place
where they could find something.

“I think
it’s more like new… branch of Hydra. All those adults that think they can make
Hydra great again… Like we can see they left really quickly… or those few that
we met were last one in here. I have no idea.” Steve shrugged “I will have to
move all those stuff to S.H.I.E.L.D, and I will have to send letters to
families… You know… When we were at war. I thought it is hard, but it’s harder
than I ever thought.” Steve said and looked at Bucky.

But Bucky
wasn’t really listening to his friend, he found small room. It had working
light and it was warm. There was small bed inside, some toys, small clothes
were laying on floor and on a small chair. “What the hell…” Bucky muttered and
walked inside.
“Bucky…” Steve blinked and followed his friend slowly.

Bucky
looked around, room was really small, but only now Bucky could see pink walls
covered in childish drawing, whole place looked better than whole place. Bucky
also saw table with long  tablecloth. He
could hear some quiet sounds from there. He slowly walked to table, man got
onto his knees and slowly moved tablecloth up.

There was
sitting a small girl. With short dark brown hair, she had big green eyes, small
pink lips and she was really skinny.
Girl looked at Bucky scared and moved herself away from man.

“Hey hey…
shhh… look, I’m not one of those man. They were coming to you? They were bad?
You are scared of  those man?” Bucky
asked quietly.

Girl
whimpered and nodded three times.

Bucky
smiled at her. “Hey, we are here to help you, little one. We will take you
home, to your mommy and daddy. Come on now… look I have this special hand… It
will protect you.” He said and pulled out his metal arm toward girl.

She looked
at him but after a minute she moved closer to him.

“That’s it.
You are a good and smart girl.” Bucky said softly and wrapped arm around girl.
Bucky hugged girl and got up from floor. “You are safe now, no one gonna hurt
you.”

Steve
looked at him. “What the hell are you doing with this child?!” Steve frowned.

“Calm down
Steve… She is just a child, she’s not gonna hurt us.” Bucky smiled.

“Look at
her! We know nothing about her. She is Hydra’s experiment. We don’t know what
sit in her.” He growled and took his shield in his hand “We can’t let her
live.”

Bucky
frowned. “Are you kidding me? She is just a child.” Bucky said hugging again
scared girl to him. “I don’t let you kill her, she is so small.”

“She is
Hydra experiment. You think why they keep her alive?” Steve said.

“Then why
you never killed me, Steve? I was an experiment too. Good man changed into
killing machine by HYDRA.” Bucky said and looked at girl. “Let me take care of
her… I promise… I will do everything.”

Steve
frowned. “Fine…” He put shield on his back. “But if anything ever happen
because of this thing… it will be only your responsibility.”

Bucky
nodded and looked at girl. “You see… I told you.” He smiled when girl looked at
him and smiled back. Her smile was still caused by her fear but Bucky could
feel that she was really happy because she was safe now.

Whole paper
work in S.H.I.E.L.D took a lot of time. Bucky saw girl’s documents but he
didn’t like what Steve wrote there. He agreed at those words only because Steve
promised she won’t ever see those documents.

Girl was
sitting at big metal table in lab. Bucky stayed close, while Martha was
examining her.

“She looks
healthy, I mean. She isn’t sick… but there is one thing.. that made me worry.”
She said and looked at Bucky.

“What is
it?” He blinked, he started feel something weird inside. Since they found her,
he got really attached to her. It was weird but nice feeling for him. It was
something new, something that made him feel warm inside. He wanted this girl to
be safe whole time. Was it because they shared similar life. Hydra’s
experiment, good person destroyed by sick people, loners found by good person.
He had no idea… but he really liked this feeling.

“I mad
X-rey. She has a metal hand…” Martha said.

Bucky
looked at her and at girl. “Um… Sorry Martha.. but I don’t see it.” He said
really confused.

“I also
thought it but look..” She walked to girl. “Will you let me show Uncle Bucky
the magic trick with your skin?” Martha asked, looking at girl.

Girl smiled
at woman and at Bucky, she nodded and giggled quietly.

Bucky felt
even more warm inside when he heard this quiet sound, he felt… good, he felt
happy.

Martha
nodded and slowly pulled off skin from girl’s hand “It’s some kind of… bionic
skin, I think I will send it to Stark. He will know what to do with it.”

Bucky
looked at hand “They… hide it… but why?” He walked to girl and took her small
had into his hands.

Martha
shrugged. “Maybe she had to be some secret weapon. We will never find out I
think. But as far as I see she is fine. We didn’t find anything bad in her. She
is just too skinny, but it will quickly go back to normal. You talked with
Steve?”

Bucky
nodded and sat on table, girl climbed on his laps by herself and put her hand
on his arms. Then smiled at him. Bucky smiled softly “Yes I talked with
him,  I want adopt her. Take her with me
to home.” He said.

Martha
blinked. “Are you sure? I mean we don’t know if she is 100% okay.”

Bucky
nodded. “I was in similar situation too… Steve helped me. It’s time for me to
help someone, we both are from Hydra’s hands… Who else will be able to help her
better than me.”

Martha
smiled softly. “If you say so Bucky.” She nodded. “She is three years old but
she doesn’t have a name.” She said and looked at Bucky.

“I thought
about one… Andrea, I like this name. I think it will be perfect for her.” Man
said and girl smiled at him.

Martha
smiled. “Okay, fine. Better go home now. She needs rest, food, water and love.”

First few
months with Andrea were hard.
It took Bucky long time to figure out what girl like to eat and what she
doesn’t like. What she likes to wear and what not.

Bucky was
giving Andrea almost whole his time. When she was asleep he was preparing room
for her. She was getting sick many times what meant that Bucky spent many
nights with girl in his bed, making sure she is okay. It was hard, Bucky was
making so many stuff at once that he slept when he could, while waiting at
microwave to stop, when Andrea was with Martha at her research, during girl’s
nap time.

But it all
was worth it. After few months Andrea started talk, she started eat properly,
she started smile more often, many night were peaceful for Bucky and for
Andrea. Bucky lived moments that he thought will never come to him. Visits at
playground, trips to cinema to see new move for children, walks to zoo. Bucky
couldn’t be more happy than He was with his adopted daughter.

He was
often leaving Andrea with Steve’s son and their babysitter. Steve wasn’t really
happy because of this fact, but Martha was really good in calming down her
stubborn husband.

When Andrea
met Grant she was even more happy. Bucky had to learn her good manners, how to
act around other people and explain girl that she isn’t weird but special.

---

Andrea
looked at him. “Dad… m… maybe you aren’t my real dad, but I never knew my real
parents… I love you… and… thank you for everything. All those sleepless night
that you spend with me, all this time that you gave me trough my whole life.”

Bucky
smiled and hugged her. “It was all worth it… Because now I have wonderful young
lady… and she is my lovely daughter.”

“Dad… Can
you do something for me?”

“What is
it, sweetheart?” Bucky sighed softly.

“Can… can
you do something so Grant will come here. Steve really made sure he won’t visit
me… and… I miss him.” She said sadly.

Bucky smiled
and ruffled her hair. “I will try my best. Now try to relax you are finally
home.

---

Next Andrea
got up really late. When she walked to kitchen she saw Bucky, Martha and Grant.

Grant saw
her and quickly walked to her. “I missed you!” He said and hugged her really
tight.

Andrea
giggled and nuzzled to him. “I missed you too… soo much!” She whimpered
happily.
Grant smiled and kissed her, after a long kiss he looked at her. “I missed you
harder…” He muttered happily.

Andrea
giggled happily and suddenly realized that Martha and Bucky were watching them
whole time. Grant saw how her face became red and looked at Bucky and his
mother.

Martha was
watching them, smiling gently. Bucky was looking at them with big smiled on his
face. “I am puking rainbows!” He yelled and laughed “So cute. Go upstairs… She
missed you. Just you two have to be quiet there.”

“Daad!!”
Andrea whimpered and her face became even more red.
Bucky only giggled and shook his head. “Go go, I will talk with Martha and
think what to do with our cap.”

Andrea
nodded and took Grant up stairs.

Martha
smirked. “They look cute together… I don’t understand why Steve hate her so
much.”

Bucky
nodded “I don’t understand since We found her…” He said softly.