The Witch's Bodyguard [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Ma Linglong had actually met Bucky, just a week before Dumbledore's death.

After she learned the secret address from Button, Ma Linglong set off. It didn't take her long to find Bucky. If I have to say, it was actually Bucky who found her first.

Ma Linglong was harassed by a few homeless men, and Bucky just passed by. The drama of a hero saving the beauty can always make men relax their vigilance, and the image of Ma Linglong seems to make Bucky feel familiar, so he can't help but stay longer. He still has an inexplicable sense of familiarity with the girl.Then, as he approached Ma Linglong, Bucky suddenly remembered that when he had aimed at Stark, the girl was there, she was wearing a red dress, like a striking target.

Bucky still remembers Ma Linglong taking Stark and disappearing under the lens of the Winter Soldier's sniper rifle.

"Who are you?" Bucky asked vigilantly. He was holding the fruit and meat he bought from the vegetable market. That should be his dinner. He bought a lot, and his hands were covered with plastic bags. .If it wasn't that his appetite was so good that he could finish it in two days, it meant that he was hoarding food.

Encountering harassment was a drama deliberately arranged by Ma Linglong. She knew he was nearby, and she also knew how to better attract Bucky's attention without disturbing a killer, causing him to notice the abnormality and shift positions in advance.Bucky is a modified Muggle, and Ma Linglong's tracing spell will not work on him. Once she loses track of him, she is likely to lose this opportunity.

As Steve said, Bucky is a good guy, and when he is out of the control of the HYDRA organization and is no longer brainwashed, even if his hands are bloody, Bucky will not condone the crime under his nose.

"Lilian." Ma Linglong replied, "You can call me that."

She is not here for revenge, Ma Linglong just wants to see with her own eyes what the third man in Trelawney's prophecy is doing, and, if possible, she hopes to help him restore his memory, which can be regarded as an end to Howard's worries .

"I've seen you." Bucky was very defensive, as if Ma Linglong was a terrorist more terrifying than him.

"Yes, you almost killed me." Ma Linglong said.

"So." Bucky clenched his fists, and he might throw away the food bag and run away at any moment, "Are you here to kill me?"

"Do I look like a killer?" Ma Linglong asked back, "The kind of killer who is above you, do you think I have the ability to kill you?"

"You have superpowers." Bucky said. He remembered it clearly and never forgot it. Bucky searched the surroundings with his eyes and ears. If he didn't find an ambush, it didn't mean he was safe. "You are Tony Stark's woman."

"I don't intend to kill you." Ma Linglong said, she tried her best to make her voice sound less cold, but it didn't seem to work, "I just want to know, do you remember Howard Stark? "

"I remember the name." Bucky ran Howard's name over in his head, "but I can't remember how I met him. I think I used to be friends with him. I forget a lot of things, my Memories are messed up."

"Steve Rogers?" Ma Linglong continued to ask.

"I know who he is, Captain America." Bucky said without hesitation, but not in a gentle nostalgic tone, but in a more unfriendly tone than before, "What the hell are you trying to do, you came alone? "

"Is your dinner fried steak?" Ma Linglong asked seriously.

"Is this a code word?"

"I'm just hungry. If you don't mind buying me a dinner, I think it's safer to talk at your house than this place."

Bucky lived in a slum, and there were several illegal firearms and grenades hidden in the room. He had only moved to Romania not long ago, and for about a month, Bucky lived reclusively, cautious and suspicious.

He knew that he was a wanted criminal, and he was tracked by the United Nations on the global wanted network for 24 hours. He didn't want to be caught, and he didn't want to expose himself, so he never interacted with others.Bucky didn't know why he took Ma Linglong back to his temporary residence, it was an extremely dangerous move, he didn't know her at all, and she looked like she was going to take him to jail, or put him behind his back. The kind of person who is cold-hearted.

Bucky fried the steak very old, which was worse than Stark's. He seemed to do it on purpose. The food that is not easy to digest can support him for several days. Whether as a soldier or a tool for killing, he It's like never enjoying life.Bucky's pockets are full of high-calorie food, most of which are dipped in chocolate, and a lot of compressed biscuits. He seems to be on the run at any moment.

"What do you want from me?" Bucky's source of income depends on selling information. He holds the secrets of many organizations around the world, and each item is marked in his mind like a computer file.

In order to let Bucky put down her hostility, Ma Linglong provided her own situation, about her identity and secrets: "I can try to help you recover your memory." She said, "I guess this is what you dreamed of."

Bucky didn't seem to be unfamiliar with the "wizard", and he quickly found the content about wizards in his mind.

Ma Linglong was not surprised that he could do it. She believed that there were indeed dark wizards inside Hydra, and they did not hide themselves from Bucky.

"Just like that?" Bucky didn't believe it.

"That's all." Ma Linglong said.

However, Ma Linglong did not do this in the end. She found those forcibly closed memories in the depths of his brain. She saw Bucky's birth, growth, and friendship with Steve.

Ma Linglong couldn't connect this man with the Winter Soldier no matter what, he was an innocent boy, at least until he was 25 years old.Bucky's dream is by no means to become a top killer, he is eager to join the army, he wants to drive away the invaders, he is a great young man with a sense of justice no less than Captain America.Even in the face of the brutal brainwashing torture by the Nazis, he resisted with his own willpower for several months before gradually losing himself, while ordinary people have fallen as early as a few weeks.

The relationship between Bucky and Howard, to be honest, Ma Linglong was a little shocked, they have so many intersections, they can even be called friends, they have common hobbies and similar tastes.When Steve speaks righteously, they always make jokes about his seriousness tacitly. Although Howard pays more attention to Steve, after Steve fell into the Arctic Ocean at that time, he also did it for Bucky. Saddened by his death.

She even saw the past between Bucky and Natasha. For the two killers trained by the former Soviet Union, they can still express their love so purely.

"I'm sorry, James Barnes." Ma Linglong finally gave up her plan, and she even felt that she almost became a heinous bastard, "I can't restore your memory."

"No, I have a feeling, I seem to remember something, and those fragments keep jumping in my mind." Bucky said excitedly, "If you go deeper?"

"I can't do it, my strength is not enough to wake them up." Ma Linglong lied, she could actually use Legilimency to help him retrieve his lost memories, even though it was only part of it, it was enough for him to be himself again.

He would think of Steve, and of Howard, and of Natasha, the woman he had been very fond of.

But that was undoubtedly an extremely cruel move to the person involved. Not only could he think of good things, but he would also think of his original intention of becoming an American soldier.It is very likely that Bucky will completely collapse. He will not be able to accept what he has done after being transformed. Bucky will find that his past life is so twisted and inhuman, even though it was all manipulated .

Just thinking about the car accident in which he personally killed the Starks is enough to make Bucky want to die.

Ma Linglong finally understood why Howard begged her to keep it a secret, because once Bucky remembered everything, he would spend the rest of his life in shame and pain.

Howard doesn't want to see this happen to Bucky, because he already knew the relationship between the Winter Soldier and Bucky, and he knew it before Howard met Maria.He found out about the Soviets' plan, and he knew that Bucky was still alive, to be reformed, just like he had reformed Steve.

Howard had tried to find Bucky, and after he lost Steve, he thought it would be the best reparation for Steve to at least find Bucky, even though there was a good chance that it would no longer be the Sergeant Barnes that Howard knew.

But Ma Linglong couldn't find more information about Howard from Bucky's memory. She couldn't know why Howard kept insisting that he was responsible for his own death. Before he left, he repeatedly told Ma Linglong that Bucky was innocent. Yes, something amazing must have happened during this period, but Ma Linglong had no way of knowing the truth.

"I can guarantee that you will be safe staying in this place." Ma Linglong said to Bucky, "I have already set up a barrier at the door of your house to prevent those who arrest you and those who have bad intentions against you people enter."

"Why are you helping me?" Bucky asked puzzled.

"Because you are so unfortunate."

Bucky looked at her blankly.

"But I still hope you promise me that you will never appear in front of Tony Stark." She couldn't force herself to remind Bucky of those cruel pasts, and what made Ma Linglong even more sad was that she couldn't even speak Tell Stark the truth about his parents' death.

"why?"

"Because he is just as unfortunate."

Stark's misfortune is caused by the Winter Soldier, and the Winter Soldier is just a puppet, all this seems to be an unsolvable maze.Ma Linglong left Romania with a very heavy heart, she really wished that she had never been to that place, or, she hoped that Bucky was originally a villain who did not deserve sympathy.

Steve seemed to have sensed something from Ma Linglong's thoughtful expression, and his eyebrows were unconsciously drawn together, but in the end he didn't ask anything.

After that, Ma Linglong went to Stark's studio again. The password at the door was changed, and Steve's access was withdrawn.

The research of Dr. Stark and Dr. Banner is very slow, and it can even be said that there is no progress. The two have been struggling with the database for two full days and nights.Three days was obviously not enough time, but Stark knew he couldn't get more, and he knew how Steve and Thor would react if they knew what he wanted to do with the cane.

The two blond and blue-eyed muscular men probably wouldn't be able to reason with him. Their fists were harder than steel plates, because Stark had already made a mistake.

Perhaps this is not a mistake for Stark, but before all experiments are successful, any behavior with potential safety hazards is wrong in the eyes of the messenger of justice.

Steve would tell him "You shouldn't be nosy, Stark, we are the only ones who can threaten the earth, think of the weapons you invented." And, Thor would say in his thunderous voice... He presumably wouldn't say anything high-sounding, Thor would just take the cane, and destroy all the data Stark got from it, with his damn hammer.

"I think you'd better stay away from the cane, dear." Stark's voice suddenly appeared behind Ma Linglong, "The radioactive source on it seems to have affected you?"

Ma Linglong was taken aback for a moment, she rubbed her eyes, and said, "How is it possible, I remember I reminded you to stay away from it."

"But Banner and I don't want to keep our hands on the metal handle and stay still." Stark said, although his face was not very good-looking, but his demeanor was relaxed.

Ma Linglong immediately let go of her hand, and she realized that her thoughts were in a trance and wandering for a moment: "I'm just trying to communicate with it."

"But your face has been ugly since you held it." Stark said with concern, "Don't do dangerous things, okay? You worry about the problems of the wizarding world, and leave the trouble here to me. If you have nothing to do You can do it, you can go shopping, go shopping, and have some fun for yourself. I found that you have become frugal recently, you don’t need to develop this habit, how about buying some expensive things?”

Ma Linglong nodded obediently.

After leaving the studio, she immediately called Loki. Ma Linglong still remembers the disgusted expression on the evil god's face holding the smartphone, as if it was a discarded product.And Ma Linglong needs Luo Ji to bring a mobile phone so that he can contact him at any time.

"It is very impolite to interrupt a gentleman enjoying an opera. I want you to know that I am seeing the key part." Loki said slowly, and it was very quiet around him. Loki sat alone in the VIP room, except for Ma Linglong, no one can disturb him.

"Your cane." Ma Linglong said, "I don't understand."

"Why, it began to read poetry?" said Loki.

"I'm now disturbed by its energy. I can't concentrate. It seems to want to tell me something, but when I plan to go deeper, I become very irritable." Ma Linglong ignored the evil god's joke , "What the hell is it?"

"I don't know." Loki said, leaning back in his chair leisurely.

"That's your cane."

"Are you sure?" Loki laughed twice, "I thought you should remember that I got it from the Kirita."

"Okay." Ma Linglong was about to hang up the phone.

"Wait a minute." Loki said, "As far as I know, you seem to have done something to the stick. Since it has the power to control people's hearts, it is easy to perceive the darkness in your heart. I guess you have something to do with it. It resonates to a certain degree, it is trying to get you closer to it, or vice versa, the premise is that your power is strong enough to make it surrender. It seems that you did something shameful and difficult when I didn't know I'm really curious about what I said."

"Thank you." Ma Linglong said, "I will give you a ticket to a Shakespeare play as compensation."

One hour before the celebration party, Natasha found Ma Linglong. She seemed to realize that she had already met Bucky. Natasha might want to know something from Ma Linglong. The idea was told to Ma Linglong.The girl didn't expect that Natasha knew that the Winter Soldier, that is, Bucky, was related to the death of the Starks, and she didn't expect that she would find out that she had visited Bucky.

"Did you restore his memory?" Natasha asked briefly.

"That's the original plan." Ma Linglong responded more simply.

"Thank you." Natasha said, obviously she also understood that Bucky would not restore his memory, or rather, it would be better for him not to recall all the past so quickly.

"How do you know, Winter Soldier and Stark's parents." Ma Linglong said.

Natasha had to tell Ma Linglong some cruel facts: "I have seen a list, a long time ago, the name of 'Black Widow' was not so famous at that time, and the name of Howard Stark was on it ...after decades, people on the list died one after another, I know the Winter Soldier did it, and when I say the Winter Soldier, I don't mean Bucky. I'm not trying to absolve him, I mean, the Winter Soldier is In a team, every killer's code name is called this name, but when it happened to be his turn, the opponent happened to be Howard."

Perhaps, that is not a coincidence.

Ma Linglong felt her heart beat twice. These things that were far darker than the magic she was familiar with came from the Muggle world: "The list that James Barnes let you see?" She knew their relationship, Despite the fireworks.

Natasha shook her head: "No, I guess James hasn't seen the list." The female agent's stomach tightened because of her own words, "He's just a killing machine under orders. The Soviets transformed James. They wanted Captain America's best friend to come Against him, it was a vicious but perfect plan, and they almost succeeded."

"You love him?" Ma Linglong said.

"Once," Natasha said, "but I still want to save him."

"How do you want to save him?"

"Delete those memories that may cause him regret, and let him rebuild a brand new self." Natasha said to Ma Linglong, "It should be easy for a witch to do, Is it right?"

Wanting to make Bucky's pain suddenly easier, Ma Linglong always thought that he would need to use some powerful spells to defeat him, but it was not necessary. Restoring memory is the most ruthless act of revenge for Bucky: "You Are you negotiating with me?"

"It's a deal."

"I'm sorry, Natasha." Ma Linglong said regretfully, "I won't do this." The look on Natasha's face made Ma Linglong unable to bear to speak too seriously, "I know you want to help James, I've seen most of his memories, and I know he's a good guy, his behavior is out of his control, he's pathetic. You want to help him escape pain, but that's not fair to Stark."

"It's good for Stark to make James forget about his actions, it's good for Steve," Natasha said.

"That's only good for James." Ma Linglong pointed out sharply, "You love him, Romanov, and I love Stark, before and now. I pity James, but he must not forget that once He forgot, or his memory was modified, have you ever thought about it, he won't even say a word of apology."

"He is a victim." Natasha said calmly.

"Stark too." Ma Linglong said.

"You're right." Natasha said in a low voice, she felt sorry for Stark, "then why don't you tell Tony the truth, tell him where his enemies are, tell him that his parents How did you die?"

"I made a promise." Ma Linglong said frankly, "I can't speak to Stark, I can't even write it down to let him know, I have to keep a secret for someone." She regretted agreeing to Howard, but if If she doesn't agree, it will be difficult for Howard to reincarnate smoothly, "You don't have to ask me who the other party is, I won't tell you, I just want you to know that if one day, James Barnes makes a move to Stark himself Any hurtful behavior, I will make him think of everything."

Natasha's expression was extremely complicated.

"I'm sorry, Natasha." Ma Linglong said sincerely, "I've already let him go once."

The author has something to say:

Saw the new Spider-Man yesterday, and I don't think it would have rated so highly without Nini in it, but I'll watch it again.