Blurred Bloodlines

"We made a mistake."

Sam looked over at Wanda and saw her cheeks were wet with tears.

"We should not have woken him up."

Pietro laid a hand on his sister's shoulder.

"He had to know, Wanda. It would've been much worse if we hadn't have woken him up before finding her."

She sniffled and nodded before looking up at him with a smile.

"When did you become so wise?"

He smirked at her. "I've always been wise, sister, I just like being a pain in the neck."

Sam chuckled.

"Well, you might want to rethink that approach with Bucky."

The speedster rubbed the back of his neck."Yes, well..."

Wanda giggled at the pained look on his face.

Sam bumped his shoulder into Pietro.

"I'm just messing with ya, kid."

Scott shook his head and laughed.

/ ~ / ~ / ~ /

Bucky still couldn't believe what he just watched.

He had a daughter...and her name was Rebecca. He wanted to both laugh and cry at the irony of it all.

His little sister Becky was the light of his world and she was ripped away from him and now the same thing happened to his little girl.

Fate must really hate him.

"What happened to her?"

Steve sighed.

"Nat is working on it as we speak. The girl-"

He was interrupted by his phone going off in his pocket.

Cap pulled the phone out and checked the message.

'Found the girl. Targeting me. Will dump info in old location. You know which one.'

Steve's eyes widened.

'Nat found Rebecca?'

Bucky looked at his friend's face worried.

"Steve, what is it?"

"Nat just found Rebecca. Well, more like Rebecca found her. HYDRA sent her after Nat."

Rage boiled through Bucky's veins.

"Steve, tell me the truth...they turned her into me? Into the same thing I was? Into a killer?"

The pain that filled his friend's face hit him hard.

'No...'

He shook his head.

"Damn it!" He sent a medical cart flying across the room.

All of a sudden a blur of blue and silver skidded to a stop beside Steve.

"Did you just say that Black Widow found her? She found 'malen'kaya luna'?"

Bucky's eyes narrowed at the young man in front of him.

'Little moon?'

"Just who the hell are you and why are you calling my daughter, 'little moon'? Her name is Rebecca, damn it."

The young man stilled, turning slowly to face the former assassin.

He squared his shoulders and glared at Bucky.

'If I'm going to die, at least it won't be as a coward.'

"I was one of the only friends your daughter had while she was under the thumb of Baron Strucker. I gave her that nickname because that is what she is to me. A pale moon, shining pure light into the darkness."

Bucky stood up, a deadly look on his face.

Steve held a hand to his friend's chest.

"Buck? Calm down. He's here to help us find her."

Buck glared.

"That may be so, but that doesn't mean I trust him one bit."

Cap chuckled.

"What's so funny, Cap?"

He shot a smirk at his friend.

"Just thinking of all those gals you dated back in the day. I bet this is exactly what their fathers' went through too."

"Shut up, punk."

"Never, jerk."

Pietro looked back and forth between the both of them, feeling for the world that if the Captain hadn't stepped in, he might not be standing there still in one piece.

"Hey Steve, you didn't tell me what happened to the mother? To Syrena?"

"I don't know, the file I have now just said that she was your protégé from a botched mission. You trained her for-"

"Thirteen years."

Just then a memory struck him like lightening and shook him to the core.

/ ~ / ~ / ~ /

"Again!"

They circled around each other, each sizing their opponent up.

It was supposed to be a typical training day, but that day he noticed something different about his charge.

She was pulling her punches, barely tapping him.

He hit her hard in the stomach, dropping her to her knees on the floor.

"Hit harder! Or I will break your arm next!"

The young woman looked up at him, anger flashing in her eyes. She flipped back to her feet and threw a punch at him, then she dropped quickly and swiped at his legs with hers, causing him to stumble back a few steps.

He tilted his head at her in abject pride before squaring his shoulders and advancing on her.

She visibly shivered.

He threw a metal fist towards her face, which she dodged by ducking down then kicking her legs up and wrapping them around his neck and locking the cybernetic arm to her chest with both arms. She threw her full weight at him which caused him to stumble again. When he was off balance she pulled back and flipped him over, pinning him to the ground and dislocating the elbow of the metal arm.

His arm whirred and grinded before finally the joint clicked back into place. He threw his elbow into her stomach, before reaching up and grabbing her throat before rolling over and reversing their positions. His heavy weight settled on top of her slim, featherlight frame, her legs splayed out on either side of his hips.

They both stilled as their eyes locked.

She looked up at him with wild eyes, her chest rapidly rising and falling as she struggled to catch her breath.

That was when he noticed that he was breathing as heavy as her.

Then she did the unthinkable.

She fisted both hands in his hair and pulled, slamming their lips together, and drawing blood from his lips.

She kissed him.

And he kissed back just as hard.

The copper tang in his mouth had never tasted sweeter than in that moment.

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