Secretive - Bucky Barnes

55 || Cherishing || 🌶

[Nova]
»What have you been trying to do? Are you out of your mind or something?« Tony looks furious, the place between his eyebrows wrinkled deeply, face flushed as the tips of his ears. He wears his red and gold metallic suit, just his head human.

Natasha's left eyebrow moves upwards in a sharp bow. »Just don't let the kid down there.«

»Why is Pe-« Right in this moment, something from an open window shoots directly at me. I can move aside just in time and pull James with me, and for the next one, too, but the third hits my hand and ties it to the door handle leading into the cellar. Sticky and thickly, Peter just fixed me with his web. When he crawls in on the ceiling - I probably will never get used to the sight -, settling down next to Tony, his mask pulls in. »I'm sorry, Nova. Just following orders. Trying to protect everyone.«

Rolling my eyes, I try to yank my hand free, but it is for nothing. Damn these shooters. »Mhm, gonna remember that, Spider-Boy.«

»Why are you pinning my girlfriend to that door, Tony?« James's voice rumbles through the room like a wrecking ball. He walks in front of him feverishly angry, build himself up and almost inviting him to a fight.

Tony takes a step back, his brown eyes flickering. Something must have happened before between them, something severe. I never saw Tony retreating, even if it was just one unconsciously taken inch.

But this does not mean he would not know when to shut his mouth. »I don't know. Perhaps« he takes the step forward again, threatful, »because your girlfriend knocked out a super soldier in her bedroom. I don't know if that's some kind of fetish, but following Cap's reaction, this would have been a one-sided thing.«

»You take that back.« James spits, eyes stormier than ever, Tony trying to swim against the heavy waves of the bright big ocean during a cyclone. He steps a few inches closer, too, and almost stands nose to nose with Iron Man.

»Yeah, about that« I say, stepping in front of James. No one paid attention to me, big eyes watch my every move now from everywhere, wondering when I was able to cut myself free discreetly. »I'm not someone to cheat, and definitely not interested in anyone but James.«

Peter lifts his hand fast, ready to shoot again, but I am quicker this time; precisely thrown, my Shuriken pins the hand on the wall beside him by the material of his suit, not hurting him in the least. Guess he just has to solve the problem with the hole in the material, now. »Don't even try. I won't hurt any of you.«

»I told you everything was alright. She just wanted to get her way, nothing bad. She definitely would have had the chance to hurt me, and she didn't. I simply wouldn't have let her go alone.« Steve finally elaborates, his first thing to say. Other than these aforesaid people, only Sam is in the room.

»See? He's not even mad at me.« I indicate at the blond guy to the left of James, who is left of me.

»That's not what I said, neither.« he answers, his eyebrows narrowing. Guess that is ending up in another long conversation and apology, later.

»Nova« Tony draws the attention back to him again. Meanwhile, almost everyone stands there stubbornly, arms crossed before their chest. Everyone but Peter, who seems clueless as mostly. »If this should work, you really have to stop using the people around you for your advantages. We're no enemies. We need trust. Without it, this all is for nothing.«

Knowing he is right, I also am perfectly aware of never admitting it. »If I would want to harm you, half of you guys would be dead already.«

»Don't be so sure of yourself.« Natasha warns, almost hisses, a snake darting its tongue in and out, rattling with the tip of its tail.