WinterShieldShock- BAMF Agent Darcy who was in the middle of a check in call- that Bucky and Steve OBVIOUSLY are listening in on- when the situation goes FUBAR and Darcy gets to be BAMF while Steve/Bucky both get to FLIP OUT??? please? I need it
MORE TROUPE FAVS -grabby hands– this one is gonna have heavily implied blood and violence in it. Darcy is not a happy camper and there’s HYDRA to destroy you see.
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Steve and Bucky waited by the phone religiously whenever Darcy was scheduled to make a call back to base and report in on her mission. They were rare, as Darcy usually got called in to get the high profile information, the things that New SHIELD would want to know. Most times she called to let Coulson know that she was on her way back with the target, whatever that happened to be.
It wasn’t much, but Bucky and Steve still waited for that call whenever they could, because it let them know that Darcy was coming home. And they knew her well enough they could usually pick up from her voice alone if she was hurt, or if something had gone wrong.
So when Coulson called them in for her check in call- he’d learned to just let it happen instead of having the Winter Soldier team up with Captain America to get unauthorized access to the call themselves- they were waiting outside his door.
The tension nearly bleed out of both of them as Darcy’s voice came over the secure line, their Super Soldier hearing letting them pick up her side of the conversation as if she was standing in front of them. “Hey PC-” she never used Phil’s actual name even if she was sure her line was secure “I have everything under control here, and I’m bringing back some souvenirs for your collection! It was pretty-” her tone, previously pleased and happy trailed off.
“Spark?” Phil’s voice was steady as he spoke the code name Darcy had picked for herself in reference to the Thor incident with the taser.
“Adams, what the fuck?” her voice was sharp and dangerous and Steve and Bucky both tensed even as Phil straightened.
“Hail HYDRA.” was snarled over the line before it suddenly cut out to the sound of an explosion.
Bucky and Steve were already running for the nearest jet by the time Phil hung up the phone.
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Darcy fucking hated HYDRA.
She’d hated them for what they caused Steve and Bucky to suffer, and had set out to get rid of as many bases and members as she could. As she’d recovered, destroyed, and tracked down every HYDRA base and mole she could get her fingers on that feeling had only intensified.
She loathed them entirely, and discovering a plant on her mission just as she was getting ready to wrap it up was just not something Darcy was going to let stand.
She peeled her lips back, squinting through the smoke left behind from the explosion Adams had set off and crawled her way towards the nearest door. She needed to get out of the smoke and figure out what the fuck had happened to the rest of her team and if she had more than one ass to kick.
She hoped Bucky and Steve hadn’t been listening to that call, even though she knew they would be.
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Bucky paced the back of the plane even as Steve piloted the both of them towards their girl.
He couldn’t sit still.
Why was it always fucking HYDRA.
Every goddamned time.
Bucky was so sick of them sticking their noses in where they shouldn’t. His eyes narrowed, hard like arctic ice, as he resolved to show them exactly why they should never touch any of the Winter Soldier’s people ever again.
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Steve didn’t do well piloting planes.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t, that he wasn’t good at it. It was just that every time he got behind the wheel, so to speak, he remembered the feeling of ice water filling his lungs, and the shock of water so cold slamming into his body.
So generally speaking, Steve would let one of the others fly if it was needed.
But this time….well this time it was Darcy, and she was standing against HYDRA, and Steve would not- could not- let their girl face the people that had hurt Bucky so much, caused so much, on her own.
Even if he could already hear her telling him that she ‘wasn’t a damsel in distress Steven,’
God he really hoped she got out of the explosion alright.
If not-
Well.
Steve’s eyes flashed back to a pacing and furious Winter Solder.
If not, Steve and Buck would see HYDRA razed to the ground even quicker than had already been in progress.
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Darcy tracked the last three members of a nine member team, not including herself or Adams.
Of the twelve agents that had come to this ‘abandoned’ base, only three were left standing, and all of them were HYDRA. The rest of her team hadn’t made it.
And Darcy was fucking enraged.
They were good men and women, and these sons of bitches had cut their lives short for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Had killed them for a chance at her.
At Captain America’s and the Winter Soldier’s girl.
That had plans to program her, to brainwash and destroy her, so they could lure ‘the Captain and the Asset’ in.
Darcy Marie Lewis was not a fucking damsel in distress, nor was she bait she was the fucking dragon and she was going to burn this mother fucker to the ground.
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Steve and Bucky arrived to a smoking ruin.
Bucky had been the one to jump out of the plane sans parachute this time as Steve landed the jet, both with their hearts in their throat and their stomachs in their toes.
All they could think about in that moment was the explosion that had cut the communications with Darcy.
All they could think about was if they’d find her alive in the rubble that was still smoking.
Steve damn near collapsed with relief when he caught the familiar voice quipping from a hidden little alcove of rubble that gave her a perfect view of their approach but kept her hidden from anyone approaching “About time you two showed up! I had the party without you!”
Darcy came out of the rubble coated in dust and dirt with like streaks of blood in a couple of places and a good collection of bruises, but otherwise whole and alive.
Bucky slammed into her first, dipping her backwards as he slanted his mouth of hers, hard and desperate and relieved. It was messy and frantic, all clashing tongues and clicking teeth as Bucky tried to pour himself into their girl through her mouth.
Steve bounced lightly in place wanting to do the same, but also keeping watch while Bucky had his moment of ‘thank fuck you’re alive and not in HYDRA hands’ kissing.
As soon as Bucky had pulled back and lifted Darcy back into a straight standing position Steve moved. He didn’t dip her, instead lifting her clear off the ground and claiming kiss swollen lips for his own. He was just as through as Bucky had been, all hard, adrenaline fulled relief as he relished in the fact that Darcy was here in his arms, alive and breathing and well.
“Come on,” he breathed against her lips when he finally pulled back “let’s go home”
Darcy smiled at the both of them rolling a flash drive through her fingers “I even have all the information for Coulson too.” the smile faded and her eyes turned back to the side of the rubble. “I need the two of you to help me bring some agents home before we can lift up out of here. I dont… I don’t want to leave them here.”
Steve and Bucky frowned, knowing exactly what must have happened to put that tone and face on Darcy.
“Of course, doll.” Steve agreed, even as Bucky spoke at the same time, voice steady and even:
“Show us where.”