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Morning glories. September 23rd, 2014.Various amounts of different colored Morning glories stand in front of Sam’s door in a beautiful pearly white vase. He picks up the vase to inspect the flowers admiring the vibrant blues and purple flowers. Sam isn’t really surprised to get flowers on his birthday but wonders who sent them. No one he knows would seem like the person to send him flowers aside from his sister, Sarah. As he looks at the plants he finds a note stuck in between 2 petals that read: Happy Birthday my Rose. Rose? That seemed kind of weird. Who the hell would call him rose. As much as he wants to keep the flowers he has no choice but to throw them out with the vase.He walked out of the door, closing the door behind him and jumped by the sudden movement of the door next to him.“Oh hey Wilson. What are you doing with flowers?” His neighbor asked. It was just Matthew of Mat for short he was probably out to go to work.“Oh these. I just don’t really like them so I’m throwing them out.” He replied, trying not to uncover what he's actually doing. He doesn’t want to alarm Mat and create more danger to him.Mat just shrugs and leaves with his keys rattling on his carabiner. Sam also leaves in the other direction taking the stairs as a substitute for his usual morning runs. When he reaches the dumpster he throws the flowers out and closes the opening.Bzz Bzz. His phone vibrates in his back jeans pocket. He stops in his tracks and pulls it out, seeing a message from Steve.Happy birthday man!ThanksNo problem have a good dayYou too!At least someone other than Sam’s family remembered his birthday. Steve has been Sam's new best friend after the whole Winter Soldier event. They go on morning runs on Sundays and Steve beats him in every race they have. Damn his superhuman body.
When Sam reaches back up to his apartment he finds the door wide open. He reaches for his gun, which isn’t there. He was in too much of a rush to get rid of the flowers that forgot to bring his gun with him. So he just went in unarmed. He scoped out his kitchen where an empty plate was with a knife and a jar of peanut butter was. He walked into his bedroom where he saw a lamp was on. What was he supposed to do? He didn’t know what to do other than text the stealthiest person he knows.Nat I think there's someone in my apartmentHe hears a ping from inside his room. Now he knows what's going on. He walks in to find Natasha on his bed with a piece of toast in her mouth reading a book.“Really girl?” He asked with disappointment on his face. He was scared for nothing.“What? Your bed is so comfortable. Anyways, Happy birthday Sammy.” She smiles at him, putting her book down. Nat was another one of Sam's very few friends. She was reliable and sometimes knows Sam more than he does.“Why are you here! You could’ve just texted me. I didn’t need a heart attack on my birthday, Nat.”“I’ve missed you Sammy. Is that not a good enough reason to see you?” She tilts her head innocently.“What are you really here for?” Sam knows Natasha wouldn’t admit something like that so there had to be something she wasn’t telling him. Most likely a mission. So long birthday break.Her face goes plain and dark. “We got a mission. Iceland. Someone got a nice little hint from an unknown supplier and now we're on the case. One of Hydras CEO’s was spotted. Calls himself Arnold. Real name, we don’t know yet. Late 20s, blonde hair, blue eyes, 6’2 and Russian.” Sam could tell the last part Natasha added was something she really didn’t want to share. Sam might not know Nat that well but she knows enough that anything to do with Russia brings back foul memories.“And why do you need me for this exactly?” Sam stares“Well who else is gonna play as the hot damsel in distress at a bar that Arnold can pick up.” Nat winks at him giving that classic sarcastic smile. Obviously she was joking. Right?
When they reached Iceland they came to the small town of Bolungarvik. It was nothing more but breathtaking. The town was bordering the clear blue ocean. It smelled like salt right when they came out.S.H.I.E.L.D or at least what remained of it had booked them a small 2 bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Bolungarvik. It was modest and had a great view of a mountain with snow on the top. The settled in their rooms, Natasha tried to find more information on Arnold and found very little in the S.H.I.E.L.D database, even the highly private ones. Sam was also in his room just on his scrolling on his phone looking through videos to try and find a clearer image of Arnold's face.The next day both Natasha and Sam wake up to a doorbell ringing. With the trauma they carried they both woke up in an instant grabbing for their bedside gun. Sam ducks down to the floor and pops his head out of his room to see if the door was open. Across from him Natasha was also looking at the door. Their eyes met looking at the door and looking back to each other. There was just silence, no more rings, no knocking, just silence.Sam nodded his head to the door indicating that he thinks it’s safe to move forward. Natasha nodded back and moved fastly but quietly, Sam followed. Nat looks into the peephole and looks back at Sam with furrowed eyes.“They’re. Flowers?” Natasha says looking back at Sam. Black roses to be exact. In an off white artistic vase that you would see in a Goodwill. The off white and the black roses created a contrast.Sam’s heart drops. At first he thought it was just a secret admirer, but now that he’s changed locations it was weird. Someone was after him. “Shit.” He says under his breath. He opens the door and stands to look at the floors.“What the hell are you doing?” There was a strain in Natasha’s voice. “Why the fuck are their flowers in front of our door?”Sam was sighing and picked up the flowers. “Yesterday I got a vase filled with Morning Glories. There was a note saying ‘Happy Birthday my Rose.’ I think that this is from the same person.” There was yet again another note reading: Why did you throw away my flowers, doll?“And you didn’t think to tell anyone?” Natasha shrugs her shoulders. “This is dangerous. You're putting this entire mission and yourself in jeopardy.” She grabbed the vase from Sam throwing the roses out of the vase and looked inside. Nothing. Just water.“What? You think this is my fault. I thought this was just a harmless fan.” Sam says.“Oh my god Sam. Any ideas of who this might be?” She asks. Sam looked like he had no idea who could be sending these. Maybe it was just some weird super fan, but following him all the way here is kind of much. He shook his head.
A few days later the thought of the flowers were out of both of their minds. The thought of Arnold was taking over. Natasha infiltrated the Hydra radio line and found out where Arnold and a few other Hydra members were gonna meet up today. A local bar where they were gonna give some alien tech leftover by the Chitauri.What Sam didn’t know was that Arnold was. Gay. He was gay. And Natasha brought Sam here for two things, to help from above, and to seduce Arnold. Sam was obviously not very happy to hear this.“Are you kidding me Nat!? This is what you really brought me for. First of all, why me? And second of all, you could’ve told me beforehand!” Sam was basically screaming at her in the middle of the kitchen while they were eating oatmeal for breakfast.“Calm down Sam. First, have you seen your ass? It’s like every gay guy dream to get their hands on. Second, I knew you were gonna blow up on me and not go with it.” She looks at Sam kind of disappointed.Sam puts his palm to his head, “Well obviously I’d be mad! No offense but I don’t wanna act like a gay guy just so some man can touch my junk and reel him in Nat. You couldn’t have chosen someone like, I don’t know Banner?” He walks up and down the small living room of their apartment.“Pfft. Bruce? He’ll get too scared to even go into a gay bar by himself. Plus he doesn’t have the same precious baby face you have.” She pouts at Sam annoyingly knowing that his small baby face was his weakness to being cute.“Oh my god Nat. I’m gonna kill you someday.” He says rushing off to his room slamming it right in her face. Knock Knock. A sound that haunts Sam now. He opens his door back and looks back at Nat. They both have a gun in their hand and rush to the door. They nod in agreement and Sam kicks the door open.“This is getting out of hand Sam. After we're done with this mission, I’m taking this matter to Fury and the other Avengers.” Nat picks up the flowers and puts them on Sam’s chest and which he grabs.Just a bouquet of flowers again. This time they were Queen Anne’s Lace flowers in a perfectly made bouquet which was different from the last two that were in vases. They were in a baby blue laced wrapping paper with a big white bow. There was yet again, a note, this time saying: Don’t go on this mission sweetheart.Sam really wished he had stayed home now. All this HYDRA alien tech trade and now the flower thing coming back up was giving his brain a heart attack. He decides to dispose of the flowers by going on a walk and throwing the flowers in the ocean.He finds himself on the end of the small town at the ocean. He takes the flowers and throws them, leaving only the wrapping left. It was pretty, it was a heart design. On his way back Sam stopped by a few stores looking at some souvenirs he could take home to Sarah and the boys.He found his horse with a saddle that says welcome to Iceland on it. It was corny so he bought it and got 2 small kids shirts for Cass and Aj. Once he left he was greeted by Natasha outside of the shop leaning against a wall.“We gotta get going Sammy. It’s better for us to not be spotted out in the open.”“Then why are you out here?” Sam asks. He thinks he knows the answer. She hates the quietness of the house.“I hate how quiet it was in the house.” Sam was right. She can’t take the silence, it fills up her brain with the time she would hear screams from the ballet room and then silence again. Knowing that in that room, someone had just died from a failed attempt to leave the Red Room.Sam looked at Natashas sad eyes. “Come on. We should head back.” Sam gives Nat his hat and puts an arm around her shoulder as they leave the store's area.
Later that day Sam is seen in a black button up, few buttons undone and tight black pants.“Testing testing. Can you hear me Sammy?” Nat asks from the ear piece.“Loud and clear Widow. Where's our guy.” Sam is inside the bar looking around for the blonde hair blue eyed boy. There were at least a hundred people in there that fit most of that description. Everywhere he walked he could feel that guys were checking him out. That’s what you get for having America’s Ass and Thighs.“He doesn’t seem to be in the area. He might be in one of the VIP sections.” Sam could hear Natashas violent typing. “Look at your 6. You see that? He's guarding the VIP section. Go over there and make out with him or something.” Natasha laughs a little bit but tries to contain it for Sam's sake. Sometimes Sam thinks she’s just there to ruin his life.“We can’t just sneak in or something? Or maybe even-” Sam was quickly cut off by Natasha.“Don’t be silly Sam, that's too much work. Also I like putting you through this. It makes me happy.”Sam just sighs and curses Nat under his breath and walks over to the bodyguard. He looks at him up and down, biting his lip. The man takes interest and smirks, so Sam drops his gay pride pin on the ground and seductively but also somewhat oddly picks it up in the position where he was basically rubbing the man's dick with his ass.“This is VIP only princess. I don’t think I can let you in without a pass.” He grabs Sam’s ass, licking his lips. Disgusting Sam thought.“Who said I wanted in? All I want is you in me, daddy.” He turns to the bodyguard looking at his lips then eyes. Classic, he used to do that to girls in highschool to try and act like he was interested in them and was totally not gay. What a damn parallel.“Pfft-” Sam could hear from his ear piece. Natasha was laughing at what she was hearing. “God. Daddy? Really, you couldn’t come up with anything else.” Sam holds back his mouth from telling her to shut the fuck up.Sam just ignores it and watches the bodyguard look at his watch then back at him. “I guess I could spare just a few minutes. If you can make me satisfied at that time.” He winks.“I could do it in under 3 minutes.” Sam grabs his hand and leads him to the bathroom. Once he was into a stall a loud crash was heard. Sam had knocked out the man completely. “I’m sorry to do this to you man.” He sighs and strips off his and the man's clothing. They switch clothes and Sam comes out looking like a bodyguard with his black suit, sunglasses, and VIP pass.He approaches the entrance to the VIP area then hears, “Nice work Sammy. I almost didn’t think you had it in you, Daddy.” Nat can’t contain her laughter when saying that, she slaps her knee and keels over.“Haha Nat. Very funny. I’d like to see you try and seduce that man. Now just tell me where this room is.”“You’re no fun Falcon. He’s in room 3b, be careful the sensors collected that there are 2 other people that are in there. I wasn’t able to identify them, I’m too far away.”“Don’t worry. I got this.” Sam cleans off his suit and walks in the room. He spots Arnold the hot tall blonde, his eyes roam to find yet another bodyguard with long hair and sunglasses facing away from Arnold. Probably because of the security issue the 2nd party had during trading secret HYDRA weapons.“Now who is this? I don’t remember this place hiring any new members. What’s your name sweet thing?” Arnold gets a real good look at Sam with all his curves. The man next to him was also staring at him with wide eyes. Everyone wanted a piece of the Falcon.“I’m new here sir. The boss told me to come here saying I’m a gift for you.” He glides over to Arnold with confidence then sits down on his lap. Looking straight into his eyes then taking off Arnolds tie then his own.“I’m not very comfortable with these people watching us. I-i’m sensitive to that, it’s so embarrassing.” Sam says shyly hoping that Arnold would dismiss the 2 men away so they could have some, “Alone Time.”Arnold made a hand gesture for the man sitting next to them to leave. “Unfortunately sugar, this one has to stay.” He says pointing up at the bodyguard, still facing one side of the wall.Sam would just have to find out how to get rid of them both. First, he thought he could shut Arnold up by putting a knife to his throat then grabbing another to throw at the guard. That might be too risky if he doesn’t aim for the right spot, also it would be loud if a body fell. Security would definitely be called.Then all of a sudden the bodyguard turns around with a piece of cloth in his hand and covers Arnolds mouth and nose with it. As an instinct Sam gets a knife out to protect himself from any danger. The glasses fell off of the long haired man's face, causing Sam’s eyes to open wider than they have ever had.It was James Buchanan Barnes with an unconscious body in between them. Those steel blue eyes give Sam flashbacks of when Bucky ripped off Sam’s wings months back.“Thought I told you not to go on this mission, sweetheart.”
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Sam’s heart dropped. He has been looking for this man for months and right when he stops looking. He comes out of nowhere. Not to mention he's the mysterious flower man as well?!“Sam, what’s going on? I see movement in the room. Are you okay?” At that moment Sam couldn’t say anything. “Falcon, do you copy?” Sam could hear the worry in her voice and got the courage to respond.“I’m good Nat.”Bucky tackles Sam to the floor, taking out his ear piece and crushing it with his metal arm. Sam tries to hit back, hitting Bucky on the back with his arms, kicking him in the legs. It was no use, he couldn’t beat a super soldier in hand to hand combat. Bucky grabs Sam’s wrists and slams them to the ground pining him under.“Stop. Don’t move unless you wanna get caught.” Bucky growls. Sam was about to bring his knee up in between Bucky’s legs to hit it where it hurts. But someone else got to them first, a large barrel filled with a liquid, probably alcohol was thrown at Bucky. It was Steve fucking Rogers and Natasha Romanoff standing in front of them.Bucky went crashing into the wall and Steve lent out a hand to help Sam up. “What are you doing here Cap?” Sam asked.“I guess you could say I was in the neighborhood.” Steve said, smiling at the man next to him.“Come on. We gotta go, a part of HYDRA already left. Steve grab Arnold would you?” Nat chuckled and just ran outside giving Sam an ear piece to replace the broken one. Sam and Steve followed outside where there was a motorcycle and a really nice fucking sports car.“I call driving it.” Sam says, looking at Steve. “Put that hunk of junk in the trunk.” Steve just looked at him disappointed and handed him another earpiece.“That was a foul joke Sam. Even me, an old man, knows that.”“Focus boys. The target is 5 miles away. I’m sending you a shortcut for you guys to take while I tail them down. If you see in the back Sam, your wings and everything are in there for you.”Sam looked back with a grin on his face, this was getting serious. Sam started the car and was about to step on the gas to leave until a loud bang hit the car and sent them swerving. An unknown life form was on top of the car. Sam and Steve had a pretty good guess of who the hell it was.Bucky plunges his metal arm into the roof of the car trying to steady himself on the almost moving vehicle. Sam steps on the gas and races to the checkpoint Natasha sent. He would make sharp turns every chance he had in hopes that it would cause Bucky to get off. It didn’t work.“You better get up there and do something about our old friend.” Sam faces Steve eyes batting at him and the road. Steve nods and gets out of the moving car trying to grab Bucky. They fight for a while before Steve could get an actual hit in, it didn’t last long until the Winter Soldier beat him up.A loud thump was heard and Sam looked back to see Captain America in the middle of the road with his shield meters away.The next thing he knows Bucky is inside the car next to him. “What the-.” He looks at him and then the road trying to keep steady. Sam tries to fight off Bucky with still one hand on the wheel.“Don't worry Sammy. I won't hurt you.” Bucky winked. Sam couldn't believe what was happening. “Eyes on the road sweetheart.” He moved Sam's eyes back to the road.“Sam, what's going on? Steve disconnected.” Natasha asked.“I got Bucky Barnes right fucking next to me Nat. Let's talk later.”“Wait what?! What happened Wilson?”Sam turned off his ear piece. He went back to fighting Bucky trying to push him out of the car. Flailing his arms around, Bucky wasn’t really fighting back, just blocking. Instead of trying to keep fighting Sam stopped the car abruptly and quickly got out. He went to the back to grab his wings from the back. Bucky followed but Sam was already in the air, looking around for where Natasha was.“I’m coming right now, Nat.” He put his fingers to his ear piece.“Took you long enough Sammy. Fuck, one of the members is running away with a briefcase.”“The Chitauri tech?”“Yes! Where’s Cap, Sam?!” Sam could hear the rustling coming from Natasha’s side.Sam turns around to try and find Steve. He was on the ground fighting off Bucky, struggling to fend off from Bucky.“A little preoccupied.” Sam replies and flys over to Nat. There was a loud explosion where the fighting was. “Nat! Are you ok?”“Here comes trouble.” She grunts looking up to see a man in a metal mask.“Shit.” Sam flies down and crashes into the unknown man. “I got this Nat, go after the case.” He says struggling to fend off the man. Sam goes back up and sends some bombs to the enemy. He was getting shot at, one of them landed on his left wing. He was losing altitude and the shooting wasn’t stopping either.“I got you bud.” Someone yelled. It was Steve with Bucky? They were both attacking together.“Желание.” The metal mask spoke.Then again, “Ржавый.”Bucky screamed. Covering his ears.“Семнадцать.” He was laughing.Sam realized what was going on and kept attacking the man. But he sped up and kept reciting words from a red notebook.“Рассвет. Печь. Девять. Добросердечный. Возвращение на Родину. Один. Товарный вагон! Winter Soldier. Attack them.” He pointed at Sam and Steve.Sam was about to fly when he felt something pulling at his leg. Bucky weighed him down and slammed him into the ground. A little later Sam’s wing was gone, again, because of the same person. He got back up and punched Bucky in the gut which did absolutely nothing.“Nat, how are we looking on the case?” Sam asked, pinned on the floor by Bucky. He was getting choked and it was hard to stay conscious.Steve threw his shield to Bucky’s head but it was caught by his metal arm and thrown back. Sam was free but Bucky’s focus went to Steve.“This isn’t you Buck! Please stop. I don’t want to hurt you!” Steve yelled trying his best to not hit Bucky in fatal areas.There was no response. Just Bucky staring coldly at Steve.“I’m really sorry to do this to you Buck.” Steve closed his eyes and brought his shield to Bucky’s stomach and then to his head, knocking him out.Sam was brought back to the metal masked man. He was about to hit him in the face when a red mist was around his fist. He tried moving his hand but there was a barrier stopping him. He looked up to see a young woman fiddling her fingers.“I got the case Sam. Where are you guys, what’s going on over there?”“Bucky’s down, the metal guy is still fighting. They got some kind of witch with them, young I think. We gotta get out of here, without reinforcements were done for.”“Hill’s already sending a quinjet to us. It should be here in 5 minutes, I'll see you in 2.” Nats motorcycle roared.“Cap! We gotta get out of here.” Sam rushed over to where Steve and Bucky were.“We're not leaving till we have that book Sam.” He pointed to the red notebook with a black star. Sam ran to it but the metal mask was already there picking it up.The girl was also already there, “I wouldn’t try anything if I were you. Give us the Winter Soldier and maybe you will face mercy.” She had an accent.“You don’t know what you're doing kid.” Sam said. He jumped up and shot mini bombs in her direction. There was smoke everywhere and both him and Cap were going after the girl and man. Steve threw his shield to the kid, which knocked her off her feet.As they were fighting Nat showed up to help. Not so long after that the quinjet landed. Steve picked up the unconscious Bucky and everyone else followed. Leaving the masked man and the girl on the ground looking up at them.The girl brought her hands up but the man brought them back down, saying something to her.“What the fuck was that back there.” Sam asked taking off his wings, or what was left, and his goggles.“Gonna have to specify Sam. Was it the Winter Soldier coming out of nowhere or that magic red girl?’ Nat sat down on the side seats of the jet letting herself catch her breath.“You're missing something. Bucky, turning into the Winter Soldier when that guy said those words.” Steve said.“All of them! It’s like it was planned. How did they find out we were gonna be there?”“At least Arnold didn’t know.”“Well he’s probably not in a high ranking in HYDRA to know. I mean did you see that guy, he was basically a metal man. That girl too, she was scary.”“We don’t know anything yet. Once we get back to the Avengers tower I’ll see what I can do to identify them and find more out..” Hill chimed in.Sam finally sat down from the stress. How did HYDRA know they were gonna be there? How did that guy know how to turn Bucky into the Winter Soldier? The thought of the Winter Soldier made his mind go to the red notebook. They weren’t able to get it in the end.
When they got back to Avengers Tower, Bucky was put in a containment cage that locked both his hands and feet. The room was secured by some of the best agents.They decided to have a team meeting with the Avengers and some of S.H.I.E.L.D. Tony, Bruce, Clint, Nat, Thor, Rhodey, Steve, Nick, Maria, and Sam. They wanted to discuss what they should do with Bucky.“Did we really have to have a family reunion just to decide what to do with wannabe Iron man, or should I say titanium man. Let's just give him to the feds and go to bed.” Tony whined.“What no. We can’t do that. Bucky is innocent, he doesn't mean to hurt people, it's HYDRA that is doing this to him.” Steve argued.“Ok and if that is true what was he even doing there?” Maria asked, looking around at everyones furrowed faces.“Bucky told me that he was there to help. That he and we have a common enemy. HYDRA.”“So, he was trying to help fight the red girl off?” Nat asked.“Hold on, red girl?” Clint looked surprised it was the first anyone had heard of this.Sam sighed and explained, “Ya there was this girl, she had like witch powers. I was going in for a punch when this red sort of mist was around my fist and when I tried to punch it just wouldn’t let me. He was trying to help fight, but.”He didn’t know the right words to say so Steve cut in. “But this guy read these words from a notebook, I think it was in Russian and it triggered something in Bucky's mind. This guy started ordering him to attack us and he did.“So the words triggered Bucky to turn into the Winter Soldier.” Bruce questioned, they could tell that he was onto something. “Where is the notebook now?”“We weren’t able to get it.”“So if those words make whoever says them be in control of him, can’t we just control and use him to become an Avenger?” Thor answered.“That is wrong on so many levels dude.” Rhodey says.
“How was Bucky even brainwashed?” Nick asked, no one truly knew the answer to that. Bucky wasn’t a person to really talk.“We don’t know. Let’s ask when he wakes up. Maybe if we find out we can find a way to reverse it. Bring him back to normal, no Winter Soldier in him.” Hill stood up and went to the nearest computer. “Let’s wait for now. You all get some rest. I’ll figure out who the girl is.”
They all agreed and went back to their rooms to sleep or do whatever they do at night. Steve followed Sam into a guest room. “What were you even doing in Iceland Steve?” Sam nagged, sitting down on the bed.”“I was following a lead on where Bucky was. I had no idea you and Nat were on a mission there. I saw you in the club so I looked at close signals and it led me to Nat. She told me the situation, and told me you got a secret admirer. Any guesses who it is?”Sam just sighed and rubbed his forehead. “Now I do. I think it might be Bucky.”Steve was taken aback. He knew that Sam and Bucky didn’t know each other so it was a surprise. “What? How do you know for sure?”“Well on one of the flowers I got there was a note that said not to go on this mission, sweetheart.” Sam cringed from even saying the word. “When I found out Bucky was also at one of the VIP rooms he said that he told me not to go on this mission. Then called me sweetheart again.”“W-what? Have you guys secretly met before?” Steve's eyebrows furrowed.“What no of course not. I’m just as confused as you are.”“Oh ok. Let’s just talk more about this tomorrow, we could both use a good night's rest.” Steve walked away to the door. “Night Sam.”“Night Cap.” Sam saluted. He huffed and melted onto the bed.He was so confused. Bucky is actually a good guy, and also in love with Sam. Sam barely knows who he is, and he sure as hell doesn't think Bucky knows anything about who Sam is. It was tomorrow's problem. For now it was just time to lay back and fall asleep.