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❛ get in losers, we're going to therapy ❜

episode two, season one

"Did you know Steve Rogers?"

"I was two years out of West Point when Steve came back on the scene. I followed his career very closely as an Avenger. I like to think that I modeled my work after his."

"So you've always wanted to be a hero?"

"I liked that what I was doing would make people feel safe. Steve Rogers was the kind of guy who could do that, he gave me hope. Even though I never met him, he feels like a brother."

Hestia scoffed. "Brother my ass." she grumbled as she walked around her house, in search for a better shirt. She might not have been besties with Steve but she knew this much - Steve would not want this pompous asshole pretending to be Captain America.

A meow came from the couch and Hestia looked towards Alpine, who was peering at her with his big blue eyes. "You agree with me, don't you, Alp?"

Alpine meowed again and Hestia took it as a good sign. When he meowed again, Hestia saw him nudging the phone that was next to him. She frowned as she sat back down on the couch, causing Alpine to quickly climb in her lap.

She opened her phone as she looked at another missed call from Sam. "Fuck you, Sam Wilson." she muttered to herself as she dialed his number.

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"Shouldn't have given up the shield."

"Good to see you too, Buck." Hestia could see Sam rolling his eyes from where she was sitting on a crate.

"This is wrong." Bucky argued. He looked better with short hair - Hestia noticed.

"Hey, hey, look, I'm working, alright? So all this outrage is gonna have to wait. Now where is-"

"Good to see you too, boys." Hestia smiled sarcastically as Bucky and Sam's heads snapped up to her. She climbed down from the crate as she mentally complained at her suit again. "Long time no see."

"Hestia." Bucky sighed quietly, giving her the smallest of smiles.

"Well it's about damn time." Sam chuckled as he brought her in a hug. "What have you been up to, Tia?"

Hestia rolled her eyes. "I told you to stop calling me that."

"When have I ever listened?" Sam retorted as he went to ruffle her hair only for Hestia to close her fist and make him stop moving. Sam groaned. "Forgot about those annoying powers of yours."

Hestia rolled her eyes again before she turned to Bucky. "Buck, it's nice to see you again."

Bucky's eyes widened dramatically. "Hestia Flynn? Expressing something other than hate? Yeah, knew something was up the moment I saw you."

Hestia scoffed with a small chuckle. "Look who's talking." she gestured to his hair.

"Like it?" Bucky smirked.

"Ok break it up, you two." Sam grumbled. "And let me go, Hestia."

Hestia let Sam go as Bucky continued to talk to him. "You didn't know that was gonna happen?"

Sam shook his head with a frown as the trio continued walking towards a plane. "No, of course I didn't know that was gonna happen. You think it didn't break my heart to see them march him out there-"

"Pompous asshole." Hestia fake coughed.

"-and call him the new Captain America?"

Hestia silently agreed as Bucky argued. "Steve didn't want this."

Sam groaned. "Oh, my God. What do you want me to do? Call America and tell 'em I changed my mind?" Sam raised an eyebrow at Bucky. "Yeah, right. It's a great reunion buddy, be well."

"You had no right to give up that shield." Bucky continued.

"Someone kill me." Hestia groaned.

Bucky stopped walking - causing Hestia to almost walk into him - as Sam turned to him. "Hey. This is what you're not gonna do. You're not gonna come in here in your overextended life and tell me about my rights. It's over, Bucky. Besides I have bigger things to deal with now."

Hestia crossed her arms as she sighed and looked between the two. "Yeah, like what?" she raised an eyebrow as she looked at Sam.

He grumbled something as he took out his phone. "This guy." he showed them a photo of a masked person. "His connections with rebel organizations all over Eastern and Central Europe, and he's strong. Too strong."

"Stop assuming genders." Hestia scolded him while Sam shot her an incredulous look.

Bucky shot Hestia a small smile as he looked back at Sam. "And?"

"Well," Sam pocketed his phone. "He's been connected to this online group called Flag Smashers."

Hestia snorted and Bucky elbowed her lightly.

"Now, Redwing traced them to a building somewhere outside of Munich. So that's where I going."

"Well, I don't trust Redwing." Bucky retorted.

Hestia snorted again. "Well, you don't really trust anyone so..."

Bucky shot her a playful glare.

"You don't have to trust Redwing, but I'mma go see if he's right. 'Cause I have a feeling they might be a part of the Big Three."

Bucky furrowed his brows. "What Big Three?"

"The Big Three." Sam exclaimed as if it was obvious. Hestia looked at him like he was an idiot. "Androids, aliens and wizards."

"That's not a thing."

Sam nodded. "That's definitely a thing."

"No, it's not."

"Every time we fight, it's one of the three."

"Who are you fighting now, Gandalf?"

Hestia rubbed her forehead in annoyance. She should have stayed home with Alpine.

Sam looked at Bucky confused. "How do you know about Gandalf?"

Bucky looked smug as he answered. "I read The Hobbit in 1937 when it first came out."

Sam pointed at him. "So you see my point?"

"No, I don't. There are no wizards."

"Doctor Strange."

"Is a sorcerer." Bucky corrected.

Sam laughed. "A sorcerer is a wizard without a hat."

"And Sam is still Sam without one of his body parts." Hestia grumbled as she grabbed both of their arms and dragged then towards the plane. "Now get a move on."

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"How's Alpine?"

Hestia looked to her right where Bucky was leaning in to talk to her. She shook her head with the smallest of chuckles. "He keeps gazing at the single photo I have of you in my house. I think he's in love." she said sarcastically.

Bucky tutted. "Well, I don't blame him." he smirked lightly. "Tell him I haven't forgotten him yet."

"Will do." Hestie muttered as Sam cleared his throat loudly.

"One minute to drop off, Sam." Torres announced.

Sam and Bucky had a stare off before Hestia stood up, the two following her lead. Sam grabbed his goggles from a duffle bag as Bucky turned to him. "So what's our plan?"

Sam put in his earpiece as he looked at his two companions. "So no plan." Hestia said bitterly.

"Great." Bucky quipped.

"30 seconds!" Torres shouted.

"Enjoy your ride, Tia, Buck." Sam smiled.

"Don't call me that." Hestia and Bucky said simultaneously.

"Why not? Steve called you Buck and I always call you Tia."

"Steve knew me longer and Steve had a plan." Bucky said.

"Not always but whatever..." Hestia trailed off. "And you know I hate the name Tia. Too short."

Sam rolled his eyes. "I have a plan." he announced as he went to stand in front of the opened door.

"Really?" Bucky got up and and leaned next to Hestia on the crates. "What is it?"

Sam didn't glance at them as he jumped out of the plane.

"Great." Bucky said sarcastically. "Where's the chute?"

"We're at 200 feet. It's too low for a chute."

Hestia stood where Sam stood seconds ago as she peered outside. "Yeah no, I'm staying here. Thanks guys but uh, I'll pass."

Bucky came next to her and ripped off his sleeve as he looked down.

"Bucky, not the sleeve-"

He put a hand around Hestia's waist as her eyes widened in realization. "Don't you fuckin dare take me with you. This isn't a 'if you die i die' shit! I am not sacrificing myself for you-"

She was cut off by her own scream as Bucky jumped out of the plane, his arm still around her waist. He was yelling, she was yelling and she was pretty sure she was going to go deaf soon.

An idea came to her mind and just before she could hit the ground along with Bucky, Hestia used her powers to float herself while she watched Bucky hit the ground. She then lowered herself on her feet as he looked at her in disbelief. "Couldn't have done that with me too?"

"Not my fault you decided to pull me down with you." Hestia grumbled as she dusted herself off before she saw Redwing fly towards them and Sam's voice filled their ears.

"I have all of that on camera. You know that, right?"

Redwing flew in front of Bucky as he muttered. "Get out of my face, Sam, or I'll break it."

"Ok, head north. Come on."

Hestia helped him up. "Come on grandpa, we've got work to do."

"Who you calling grandpa, you brat?"

"Oh shut up, you idiot."

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"You're doing the staring thing again."

Hestia had to agree with Sam, it was pretty intimidating. The abandoned warehouse they were in was pretty dirty and after some failed attempts to destroy Redwing, Bucky looked like he was in a sour mood.

Bucky turned his stare towards Sam.

"They're in there."

"Where's the guy?" Hestia asked. "Or girl. Or anything else." she corrected herself with a wince.

Sam shot her a weird look. "I don't know. I think they're smuggling weapons, though."

Bucky cocked his head. "Well I think you could be right." When Sam hummed, he continued. "But there's only one way to find out. I see a clear path. I say we take it."

"We're not assassins." Sam argued.

Hestia rose an eyebrow. "I mean I wouldn't mind being one..."

Bucky grumbled. "I'll see you inside."

"I'm coming with you. I'm the one with the superpowers, I can literally crush someone's skull with my mind." Hestia looked at them, a challenging look in her eyes.

Sam made a disgusted face. "Now that's all I'm gonna think about."

Hestia rolled her eyes as her and Bucky snuck around the warehouse while Sam teased Bucky through the earpiece. "Look at you. All stealthy. A little time in Wakanda and you come out White Panther."

"It's actually White Wolf."

Sam made a confused sound.

Bucky and Hestia hid behind some shelves as they watched several people load something into some trucks. "All right, we're inside. Therefore, way ahead of you."

Hestia didn't jump when saw Sam appeared next to them while Bucky looked confused. "Hello. How are you?"

Hestia looked at him weird as Sam responded. "Good. What did I miss? Nothing."

"All right, let's go."

"No wait."

Bucky put out his arm. "I got a vibranium arm. I can take them."

"And I can fly. Who gives a shit?"

Hestia smirked. "Well, if we're comparing..."

Sam shot her a warning look and she kept in her laugh. "I want to see where they're going."

"There's two people." Bucky deadpanned.

"You only see two?" Sam asked as he looked at the device on his wrist. "Let's see what Redwing sees." the trio looked at the device and saw five people walking around. "Oh, look at that. How many people you see now?"

"Five. So they're strong. Whatever."

"You're so moody today, Buck." Hestia hummed to herself as Bucky pinched her waist.

"All right let's go."

When Sam tried to stop him, something clattered to the ground and the trio froze. All of the five people stopped what they were doing and looked at the place they were hiding but soon enough they continued doing their job.

As Sam looked down at his device, he muttered. "There's an eighth person, I think they have a hostage."

"Eight...?" Hestia asked confused just as Bucky grabbed her hand as he started running. "Dude!"

He ran faster, holding her to him before they arrived to the back of one of the moving trucks and Bucky threw Hestia on the door. She clung to it as he came beside her and opened it. "I could have used my powers, you dimwit!"

Bucky shrugged as he opened the door and let her in first. "Didn't think of it." he looked around the truck. "They're stealing medicine. Vaccines."

Suddenly, Hestia caught sight of a girl appearing from behind a crate and she hit Bucky to get his attention. He turned to look at her with a glare before he caught sight of the girl.

"Hi." he said as Hestia looked at him like he was an idiot. Hi?

The girl came out from behind the crate as she looked cautiously at the two.

"Bucky, Hestia, talk to me! What's going in?" Sam's voice came through the earpiece.

"Found the hostage." Hestia told Sam as Bucky looked at the unknown girl in concern.

"You okay?"

The girl started smiling and Hestia and Bucky shared a look that said 'what the fuck.'

Seconds later, Bucky was thrown out of the truck, Hestia following behind him. Bucky hit the front of the other truck as he grabbed ahold of a railing before he caught Hestia by the waist.

"I can technically use my powers." Hestia muttered as she blinked while they watched the girl put on a mask.

"Well then float us the fuck out of here, Hestia!"

Hestia used her powers to get them on top of the truck just as two people came charging at them. They caught ahold of Bucky's arms, trapping him as they held a knife to his throat. Hestia raised her hands in warning with a raised eyebrow but before she could attack them, another bulky man came from behind them.

She tilted her head as she assessed him.

Seconds later, the girl they tried to help jumped on the truck as she punched Bucky while Hestia fought with the other man. He was strong, she was stronger. And she'd been craving some action so she refrained from using her powers.

Redwing came flying out of nowhere and started shooting at the girl. Without hesitating, she jumped and caught Redwing, breaking it in half.

"I always wanted to do that." Bucky panted. "Hestia watch out!"

Hestia narrowly avoided a hit from the girl just as Sam flew down and started fightingher.

"Good of you to join the fight, Sam!" Bucky shouted as he attempted to break free from the two men.

"Oh, shut up and do something!" Hestia yelled as she hit the man in the stomach only for him to hit her back.

Sam was thrown on the other truck and Hestia avoided getting hit again. "Oh, I've had about enough now!" she groaned as she used her powers and threw the man far away from the truck.

Just then, a shield came out of nowhere and hit the man that was about to hit Sam. From a helicopter, came down a man dressed up as Captain America and Hestia immediatly rolled her eyes. She could smell his smugness from here.

He jumped on the truck as he hit the unknown girl while another agent hit her again as he jumped down from the helicopter.

They were suddenly all fighting again, and Hestia could say she was having fun. That was until-

"Sam. John Walker, Captain America."

Hestia scoffed. "Yeah, and I'm ugly."

Bucky looked at her weird, for a moment forgetting the fact that he was fighting someone. "No you're not-"

"Yeah, I know that! I just thought we were all saying lies." Hestia shot John Walker a nasty look as he ignored her.

His partner introduced himself as Lemar Hoskins.

Just then the girl attacked John again and Hestia was beginning to think they could be good friends. John threw his shield at a bad guy and Bucky caught it and Hestia had to look away because - damn.

Bucky jumped on the other truck and Hestia followed close behind, punching a guy on the way. It all went so quickly that Hestia saw Bucky falling far too late. He was holding onto the bottom of the truck while the girl was trying to get him to fall.

"Sam, I got this! Make sure Bucky's safe!" Hestia yelled as she punched a guy's jaw. How many fucking people were there?

"Sure, I'll go save your loverboy!" Sam responded.

Hestia groaned as she ducked an incoming punch. "Sam, I swear-"

The guy punched her in the face.

"Oh, that's it!" she used her powers to throw him on the side of the road. She put her hand on her cheek and winced. "That's gonna take a lot of makeup to cover up."

When she sees Sam flying away from the truck with Bucky in his arms, Hestia uses her powers and jumps from the truck. She lands on the ground smoothly and watches in amusment as Sam and Bucky roll around on the ground then stop as Bucky manages to be on top of Sam.

"Am I interrupting something?" Hestia asks with a smirk as Bucky quickly scrambles to his feet and sends her a dirty look.

"They were all super soldier."

Hestia massages her bruised cheek. "Oh, really? I didn't notice." she sighs. "That girl had great hair though."

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"Sorry about Redwing."

"No, you're not."

"He will be missed." Hestia smiles sarcastically as she walks beside the two.

Sam shoots her a look before he looks at Bucky again. "What's going on in that cyborg brain of yours?"

"It's computing." Bucky deadpans.

Sam points at him. "You know what? I can actually see it. I can see the gears turning. Oh, they're malfunctioning, shutting down. Yep, they're on fire."

Hestia snorts while Bucky remains blank faced. "We gotta figure out where the serum's coming from."

"And how the hell they got ahold of it after 80 years." Hestia points out as she holds her hands out at Bucky.

He looks at her with raised eyebrows, silently asking her if she was kidding. She raised her eyebrow and Bucky sighed as he stopped a little to let her jump on his back. Sam shot the two an amused look as Bucky tightened his hold on her thighs before he continued walking.

Just then, a car stopped next to them and John Walker smiled at them. "So that didn't go as planned, huh?" he opened the door to the military truck. Sam and Bucky continued walking as Hestia ignored John.

The car kept driving next to them as John continued talking. "Look, at least we know what we're up against now, huh? And we're pretty sure it's one of the Big Three, so..."

Hestia scoffed.

"Aliens, androids and wizards?"

Bucky clenched his jaw as his hands tightened around Hestia. "There's no such thing as wizards."

John raised his eyebrow. "Then it's aliens or androids."

"Or super soldiers." Hestia rolled her eyes.

Hoskins leaned back in his seat as he looked at them. "Shit. Super Soldiers, for real?"

Sam nodded as Hestia grumbled. "How about Bucky punches you so you can compare."

Bucky pinched her thigh and she hit his shoulder. John Walker sent her a weird look and she glared at him.

"Wow. All right, well, then we gotta work together."

"This dude's funny." Hestia chuckled dryly as she pointed at John.

Bucky agreed with her. "Yeah, that's not happening."

John tried to reason. "I think we stand a much better chance if we all just..."

"Just 'cause you carry that shield, it doesn't mean you're Captain America." Bucky scoffs.

"Look, I've done the work, okay?"