Don't go where I can't follow. WHO: Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers WHERE: The Sleepy Hollow WHEN: Monday evening WHAT: Arrival; finding each other. WARNINGS: None STATUS: In Progress
The last thing Steve was sure he remembered, was hitting the water of the Potomac River, which meant his thought upon waking up in a dimly lit hotel room (after acknowledging how stiff he felt and that he'd really thought getting shot would feel different) was: if this is what the future looks like, someone really dropped the ball.
He sat up on the bed slowly, trying to recollect if the things he might have remembered that happened after the river were true. Meeting Natasha and Nick in the graveyard, waking up in the hospital with Sam, all of that seemed just a little too surreal right now to be real. When he'd been frozen in the Atlantic, he'd had dreams. Not many, but a few. Waking up with Peggy, surviving the crash, all things he'd wished had happened. Now that he found himself in a strange hotel, he worried that it was all happening again. That his friends were gone and he was going to have to adjust to some new time, place and problem that needed to be fixed. Hell, maybe Nick Fury would show up from the shadowy corners of this room any minute now to tell him what in the blazes was going on.
Rogers wasn't really in the mood to sit around and wait for that, though. He pulled himself out of his bed and looked around the room. His shield was propped up on a wooden chair, but besides that there was nothing in the room he recognised as his own. He for off the mattress, picked up his shield and slung it onto his back before reaching the door to the room. Whatever was on the other side of that door, he might not know, but that had never stopped him from soldiering forward. He was afraid, sure. Sure was healthy, and without it a person could never be quite aware of their own courage.
He opened the door.
And at that exact moment, almost a though his door faced a mirror across the hall and not the entrance to another hotel room, the door opposite his opened as well and he stood staring, half dumbstruck, at the man from the other room.