[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

In a blink of an eye, the two have lived in Brooklyn for three weeks, and Kelly has also explored a better mode of switching between the United States and Germany-Germany is six hours earlier than the United States, and of course she has to be in America sleeps - so her day will have two afternoons: wake up in the morning, run in the morning, have breakfast, apparate to Germany, which is usually already two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and then have dinner in Germany (for her it is After lunch), I returned to the United States, and it was already noon in the United States, and then I spent the afternoon and evening in the United States.Of course, it’s not like this every day. She only needs to go to Germany for about three days a week to read the news, observe the situation, find more convenient assassination opportunities, check out locations, etc., so usually she can still enjoy a normal morning the next day. .

This weekend is such a normal day, at least this morning started normally, Kelly and Bill had breakfast, and Bill went to Stark Industries: the bad thing about being a translator is that you have to work overtime when you need it.Kelly, on the other hand, set off to the supermarket two blocks away. Of course, there were more convenient shopping places nearby, but after the initial nostalgia passed, she was also interested in exploring America in the 1930s.

It should be said that it was normal until she was on the way back from the supermarket with the bag in her arms - the accident started when she was two streets away from home when she suddenly heard a noise coming from an alley, and Kelly did not restrain her curiosity Heart, took a look inside.Just in time to see a familiar blond figure.

"Are you here to say it again? Come on, say it again if you have the guts?" Steve was surrounded by two people, with their backs to her, and one of them almost poked his nose with his hand.

"You shouldn't steal from that old man, I'll say that whether you're in the stationery store or here." Steve refused to budge, Kelly frowned, hesitated, and walked over quickly.

"Why are you here, Steve? Me and Bill are looking for you." She said, grabbing Steve's arm, and dragging him towards the entrance of the alley without any explanation—the two boys on the opposite side had already rolled up their sleeves. Woke up.They are not very big, but they are at least taller than her. Even if they have practiced taekwondo, there is an objective gap in strength between men and women. Kelly doesn't think she can easily bring them down.

But Steve wrenches her hand away, annoyed, "No, Kelly, I'm not done yet, someone needs to tell them it's wrong to—"

"Is this how you correct? Get beaten up by them?" Kelly asked in a low voice.She suddenly felt someone approaching from behind, she immediately turned around, with her back against the brick wall, turned her head to look, but saw a third person appearing out of nowhere, blocking the entrance of the alley.

"Where are you going, chick?" He whistled frivolously and smirked, "We're all here, why don't we have some fun together?"

Kelly glanced at the three of them quickly, stretched out her hand and pulled Steve to lean his back against the wall: "Yes," she smiled sweetly at the third boy, "I also I think so."

Then she turned her face violently, and with a flick of her hands, something like bread and apples in the bag crackled and smashed the opponent's head and face.Before the other party woke up, Kelly twisted her waist and kicked sideways, hitting the other party's abdomen.

"Drowsy!" she whispered at the same time.The wand was bound to the inside of her left forearm by a wand sheath, but she had no time to take it out and it was impossible to take it out in this situation, so it was more like a wandless magic, and its effectiveness was naturally greatly reduced.However, it is enough for a moment of urgency, this kick plus the power of the curse is enough to kick the opponent to the ground, and he was dazed for a long time before getting up.

But the other two were not slow to react, and Steve was punched in the face immediately, and hit the wall behind him hard - the alley was too narrow, otherwise Kelly believed that he would definitely fall to the ground.The second person came towards her, she had no time to turn around, she bowed her waist, and narrowly avoided the blow.

"Please, hurry up!" She reached out to grab Steve again, trying to drag him away, but he struggled to let go again, and Kelly had to let go quickly, blocking her body in front of her. Opponent's next move, "Do you really think getting punched will make them realize their mistake? That will only fuel their arrogance!"

"And escaping will be more—" Steve said halfway, he was hit again, he staggered up from the ground, and finished the second half of the sentence panting, "It will make them continue like this, they You’ll feel like no one dares to stand up to—”

"You're hopeless," said Kelly, a little exasperated.She kicked up, but the opponent grabbed her ankle and caught her straight.Fortunately, she reacted quickly, the other foot bounced quickly, and also kicked at the opponent, forcing the opponent to let go.Kelly turned half a circle in the air and barely grasped the landing, but was punched by the opponent in the shoulder, immediately lost her balance, and fell to the ground staggeringly.

"This girl is quite hot." The person who knocked her down did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but looked at Kelly with explicit eyes-Kelly was sure that she had been stripped naked in his mind, which made her She felt sick from the bottom of her heart.As she quickly got up, she muttered: "Armor protects you!"

This was just a precautionary measure, but maybe the other party saw her as a girl and looked down on her opponent too much—at least it was not because of any gentlemanly demeanor. Anyway, until she stood up completely, the other party just stood there idly and did not make any further attacks.Kelly took the opportunity to ruthlessly stomp the foot of the man lying on the ground - of course she had the sense of propriety and wouldn't step on it to break a bone or something, but his right arm will definitely hurt for a while.

"You know..." The other said something more, but Kelly didn't give him time, she was fed up with his disgusting voice.She quickly took two steps forward, punched out, and whispered at the same time: "Let the strength loose!"

The opponent's arm softened enough for Kelly to hold his hand with one hand, and her other hand struck out hard, hitting the bridge of the opponent's nose immediately.She had learned before that the bridge of the nose was one of the most vulnerable parts of the face. Sure enough, the other party wailed, covered his nose and staggered back, temporarily losing his fighting power.

Kelly didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and then flew up, kicking the raised fist of the man who was facing Steve.Even she was barely able to deal with a boy half a head taller than her, and Steve was totally being overwhelmed, and Kelly could only barely get out of the way in the past - it wasn't entirely Steve's weakness For this reason, his opponent is also the strongest among the three, and Kelly and Steve will only maintain a tie if they join forces, so that they won't immediately fall into a disadvantage.During the fight, she glanced back anxiously, and the other two had already staggered up, "You just refuse to leave, don't you?"

"Steve? Steve!" Before Steve could answer, Kelly suddenly heard someone calling his name from afar.Steve bit his lip, but Kelly caught on right away.

"Bucky!" She yelled loudly, and almost at the next moment, Bucky rushed into the alley like a cannonball.

The fight ended with the three of them sitting on the floor of Kelly's house, each applying potion and bandages.Kelly, who was the least injured, had to go to the supermarket again. At least her injuries were not on her face, and the advantage of being able to use magic was that she would never be short of money in a society that used paper money—she could spend a piece of money at any time. Dollar bills were turned into one hundred dollars with a Long-lasting Transfiguration Charm, and until that version of the coin was out of circulation it wouldn't suddenly turn into a piece of paper in the hands of the shopkeeper.By the time she came home again with a load of bread, apples, potatoes, and iodine, the boys had pretty much cleaned themselves up.

"I'm sorry, Kelly," Steve apologized awkwardly to her, and his determination to the three punks was gone now, "you shouldn't have gotten involved in—you Could have gone first."

"I'm afraid you're a little late in saying that." Kelly glanced at Bucky, "Does he have this kind of penchant for being beaten?"

"Absolutely." Bucky shrugged. "While it's appreciated, I'd say, don't encourage this guy."

"As if I wanted to encourage it." Kelly gave Steve a reproachful look. "This guy is so rooted in the battlefield that he can't be pulled away."

"You really could have left it alone—"

"You don't mention that to Bucky, I want to say it's sexist." Kelly deliberately made a straight face, but she saw Steve's blushing and embarrassment, and laughed again: "It's just a joke .”

"It's not discriminatory, but it's rare for girls with your skills." Bucky interjected, "Kelly, are you interested in participating in the YMCA? Or have you already participated?"

"YMCA?"

"The YMCA," Bucky explained, "has a program that encourages teenagers to exercise, and they provide very cheap venues, sometimes even for free, you know, boxing, fighting, you can practice there."

"Bucky is No.4 in this year's YMCA lightweight boxing competition." Steve added proudly.

"Sounds good." Kelly thought for a while, "I learned the Taekwondo heavy-leg method, but I have less boxing practice, and it's not so suitable for actual combat. Maybe I can learn boxing? Is there a coach there?"

"Yes, but very few. It's a public welfare organization. Usually, the students practice with each other." Bucky said, "I can teach you if you want to learn, if it doesn't offend you. You can also teach me Taekwondo."

"Okay, but I think you should take Steve with you." Kelly said, "I think he should learn some fighting skills, how to use strength to fight when he is weak-since you are determined not to Ken learns how to escape." She turned to Steve in the second half of the sentence.

"If you can teach him escape skills, I am very supportive, but I personally think it is probably impossible."

"Okay." Kelly shrugged and sank into the sofa opposite the two. She waved her hand to stop Steve's rebuttal: "Anyway, are you coming?"

"Come on, why not?" Bucky put his arm around Steve's shoulders, "Come on."

Steve looks at them with a little struggle, and finally gives in to Bucky's persuasion.

"Okay," he said, "I'll go too."

Kelly didn't believe in Christianity before. Of course, living in the United States, the influence of Christianity is unavoidable after all.But then being a wizard, studying History of Magic, and then joining the YMCA felt kind of weird.But anyway, there is no way in this world to detect whether she is a wizard or not, and Kelly hesitated for a while before letting go of the question.

Considering that most of the teenagers have to go to school, there are usually more intensive training sessions on Saturdays and Sundays, but there are also people there after school on weekdays.Kelly went there very regularly every day - she didn't have much to do besides collecting intelligence in Germany and learning magic at home from a stack of books she brought from Harry Potter.After the first day, the coach said that her upper body strength was insufficient, so Kelly went to exercise every day.

There she saw Bucky a lot, but rarely Steve.Due to physical reasons, Steve always came intermittently, and couldn't even do a few push-ups.Kelly and Bucky sometimes teach him tricks, and more often they fight.She clearly felt that Bucky was giving way to her, a little frustrated, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"You're a girl, Kelly, it's normal." Bucky reassured her, "See you on the weekend?"

"See you on the weekend." Kelly tied her ponytail with a rubber band, watching Bucky and Steve leave the YMCA one step ahead.

But neither Bucky nor Steve showed up on Saturday, nor on Sunday.Sitting in Germany on a Monday morning — a German afternoon, of course — and flipping through the papers, Kylie felt a little apprehensive, since neither of them is one to skip appointments.On Monday afternoon, Bucky still didn't show up. Kelly finally couldn't bear it and knocked on the door of Barnes' house after dinner.

Mrs. Barnes, with short brown hair and a lovely round face, opened the door and was visibly surprised to see Kelly: "Oh—hi, Kelly. What's the matter?"

Kelly and Bill visited the Barnes house when they moved in, and they didn't know Mrs. Barnes very well, but Kelly wasn't in the mood for any further greetings: "Sorry to bother you. You know, Bucky and I Steve is both at the YMCA, supposed to practice together on the weekend, but neither of them showed up for two days—"

"Oh! I'm sorry, he must have forgotten." Mrs. Barnes said, and Kelly raised her eyebrows suspiciously. "He's taking care of Steve in the hospital, poor boy."

"What happened to Steve?" Kelly asked, frowning.

"Asthma, pneumonia, high fever—every time he was admitted to the hospital because of these problems, too many times, I'm afraid I have misremembered." Mrs. Barnes shook her head sadly, "Bucky insisted on going, and I There's no way to say no - after all, his mother is still suffering from pneumonia and can't take care of him herself."

Kelly hesitated for only a second. "Do you know his current hospital and ward number?" she asked.