Zemo comes back into the room changed, walking away with them close behind. "Let's go ask around. Shame what's become of this place." Arabella was looking tenderly at the kids that were playing and laughing together. Bucky watched lovingly the smile Arabella has plastered on her face.  Her smiled, maybe wasn’t wide enough that her eyes disappeared, but her smiled was beaming at the childish antics of the kids playing. She looked just like a mother. And damm would she be a good one, Bucky couldn’t help himself of thinking about a life with her. "When I was young, we used to come here for fabulous dinners and parties. I knew nothing of the politics of the time. Of course. But I remember it being beautiful.”

Arabella’s smiled turned from a an affection to a sorrowful smile. How she wished that her childhood was a bit more free, or that she even had one. Bucky noticed this and placed a hand on her shoulder.

 "I'm gonna take a look around upstairs." Sam said "See what you can find out here and both of you keep an eye on him."

"I'll stay out of your way." Zemo said walking away from the group.

Arabella turned to look at Bucky, who was already watching her. “I am going to see what I can find.”

Bucky was about to protest against her choice, but his brain stopped functioning once he felt a soft pair lips close to his mouth. His mouth was a bit opened in shock, and when he finally snapped out of it, He realized that Arabella was no longer there, and had walked away from him. “She will be the death of me.”

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Arabella approached one of the kids who were playing, Arabella noticed one of the girls looking at her with a pink tint in her tiny cheeks. Arabella made hand gestures towards the little girl to come to her. The little girl nodded towards one of the alleys near, where they could talk. Arabella followed the little girl into the alley, she kneeled in front of her. “ Do you know a Donya Madani?”

The little girl nodded shyly, Arabella smiled at the little girl with that motherly aura around her which made the little girl walk closer to the elder woman. Arabella unclipped her necklace in a heart shape, and walked around behind the little girl placing the necklace on the little girl’s neck. As soon as she walked in front of the little girl, she told her everything she knew.

“Go play.” The little girl left Arabella standing there alone in the alley. Watching how the little girl had a better childhood that she ever did, or at least had one. 

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Arabella entered only to come across the other three who were too busy engaging in a tense argument. Bucky turned to look at Arabella, as he was the first one to notice.

"What did you find?" 

"The funeral is this afternoon." Bucky gives the woman a proud grin.

"You know the Dora's coming for you any minute. In fact, they're probably lurking outside right now." Bucky told Zemo, as Bucky pulled Arabella closer to him.

"Leaving you to turn on me once we get to Karli. Hmm, I prefer to keep my leverage." Bucky pulls away from Arabella, as he walks towards Zemo, quickly grabbing the cup, throwing it harshly against the pillar.

"You wanna see what someone can do with leverage?" Bucky warned him, Arabella placed a hand on his back pulling Bucky a bit back from doing anything that he later on felt guilty about.

"Take it easy, don't engage him." Sam said getting up grabbing Zemo's bicep  "He's just gonna extort you two and do that stupid head tilt thing. Let me make a call." 

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"Let's go, we're heading to the funeral." Sam told the team. Arabella was putting on a jacket that Bucky had found for her

 "Karli Morgenthau is too dangerous for you guys to be pulling this shit." Walker cursed 

“How the hell did you two find us?” Arabella questioned the unwanted duo. The men who were surrounding her look at her shock, as soon as the curse word left her mouth.

Walker and Lamar walk down the stairs, Lamar was the one who answered Arabella"Come on, you think two Avengers, and a blonde beauty can walk around Latvia without drawing attention?" Bucky glared at Lamar as soon as the word beauty left his mouth,

 "No more keeping us in the dark." Walker said angrily. Arabella had urged to slam her head against the wall, until she no longer could remember who John Walker was. "You could start by telling us why you broke him out of prison."

"He did that himself, technically." Bucky nodded at the answer Arabella had given Walker. 

"This better be an unbelievable explanation." John tried to walk closer to Arabella’s face, but was stopped by the harsh glare Bucky was giving him. The glare almost made him shiver.

"Hey, take it easy before it gets weird." Sam said coming between Bucky and John, as he had seen John taking a step forward and Bucky’s hand twitching (he knew that Bucky was about to throw a punch).

"I know where Karli is." Zemo catches the attention from the unwanted American duo.

"Well, where?" Walker asked, shaking his head.

"All we know is, it's a memorial." Arabella noticed two little girls holding each other's hands, one of the girls was the one Arabella had spoken before in the alley. "So, we're gonna intercept her there." Both Zemo and Arabella started to walk towards the little girls, they had talked earlier.

"That means civilians, high risk of casualties."

 "All right, good, we'll move in fast. Take her by surprise." Walker added to what his friend said.

"No, I wanna talk to her alone." Sam refused Walker’s plan

 "I'm not losing her again." 

"Look, the person closest to her died, she's vulnerable. Is there anytime to reason with her, it's now." Sam explained

"What? No, wait, no!" Walker tried to deny Sam’s idea "No! Stop, hold on. Stop, okay? I think we're way past reasoning with her, unless you forgot the fact that she blew up a building with people still in it."

"Sam, you walk in there cold, she could kill you, man." Lamar tried to reason with Sam.

"And if I go in hot and it goes wrong, more people will die." 

"You'll let him do this?" Walker questioned "Are you two gonna let your partner walk into a room with a Super Soldier alone?"

"He's dealt with worse and he's not our partner." Bucky said

"I used to counsel soldiers dealing with trauma, okay? This is in my wheelhouse." 

"Yeah, I know and I know those soldiers, which is why I know this is a bad idea."John commented through gritted teeth. 

"Wait, John." Lamar stopped John from continuing walking "If he can talk her down, it might be worth a try." 

"We'll deal with you later."

 "Oh, I'm sure it will all come to an agreeable conclusion. our associates are just up ahead."Bucky looked at Arabella, who was too busy looking at the little girls with a fond look. "Hello, my friend." Zemo greeted one of the little girls.

"This is for your family." Zemo said, handing her euros and she quickly took it.

 "Can you show us the way?" Arabella asked both of the girls. The little girl, who had her necklace, took Arabella’s hand on her tiny one, pulling her along, while the men walked close behind. Bucky was admiring the way Arabella was a natural at being a motherly figure. They soon came across a door which both the girls nodded towards it. They understood that who they came for was behind it.

"Karli's in there." 

As of right now I am doing count of how many more chapters until I finish this book, and I came to the conclusion that it will have at least 5 to 10 more chapters.

My Karli fanfiction will must likely update tomorrow, as well as the Narnia fanfiction.

I will be trying to prioritize this book, until I complete it since the next book it's about our dear 'flying chicken'.

Author out.

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