So This Is Love...

Chapter 14 || African Coast, The Truth Comes Out, Vision & Saving Sokovia

Steve and I woke up the next morning with his arm wrapped around me, I smiled as I turned to face him, "morning."

"Morning sunshine," he says, "how'd you sleep?"

"Mm better than ever."

He smiles then tightens his hold with his arm wrapped around me, he kisses my cheek then when I turned I kissed him on the lips. We then got up, got dressed and met up with everyone in the lab.

"He's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place," Maria says.

I stand next to Steve, "fatalities?"

"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see," she says.

"Maximoffs. Well, that makes sense he'd go to them, they have someone in common," Steve responds.

"Not anymore."

Maria then hands Steve a tablet showing a photo of Strucker's dead body with the word "Peace" written in blood on the wall that was next to him, as I looked in seeing it with Steve I couldn't help but look away from seeing the sight.

I overhear Clint's phone call, "that's a negative, I answer to you. Yes, ma'am."

"Barton, we might have something," Steve interrupts him.

"Gotta go," Clint says hanging up the phone. 

I crossed my arms as both Steve and I look at him confused, "who was that?"

"Girlfriend."

Steve and I gather up the rest of the team to talk about what we know, Steve shows them the photo of Strucker's dead body.

"What's this?" Tony asked.

"A message, Ultron killed Strucker," I tell them.

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us," Tony then says.

"This is a smokescreen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha asks.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss," Steve tells us.

"Yeah I bet he...," Natasha begins then stares at the computer monitor, "Yep, everything we had on Strucker has been erased."

"Not everything," Tony says to us.

We began to go through the physical files that we have on Strucker, I was next to Steve, "known associates, well, Strucker had a lot of friends."

"Well, these people are all horrible," Bruce says looking through them.

"Wait I know that guy," Tony says as Bruce passes him the photo he was looking at, "from back in the day, he operates off the African coast, black market arms."

Steve gives him an accusing look that makes me half smile at Tony, "there are conventions, alright? You meet people, I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about finding something new, a game changer, it was all very 'Ahab.'"

Thor then points to the scar on the back of Klaue's neck, "what's this?"

"Uh, it's a tattoo, I don't think he had it..."

Bruce then identifies the brand on Klaue's neck on the computer, "oh yeah, it's a word in an African dialect meaning thief, in a much less friendly way."

"What dialect?" Steve and I asked in unison.

"Wakanda? Wa...Wa...Wakanda," Bruce tries to say.