Datura - Bucky Barnes

Gehenna

Gehenna ~ a situation or state that causes great suffering or unhappiness

Steve Rogers POV

"Hey Buck. Do you want to train?" I walk over to a moody Bucky, who was picking at his food.

"Sure," he gets up from the couch and we head upstairs.

I put on my boxing gloves and pick out a punching bag.

A few minutes later the elevator rings and a girl comes out. She had light brownish blonde hair and blue eyes, like mine. That can't be her? Can it? I haven't seen her since she was 18. It has been 10 years to be fair.

"Hey boys," she says. That's her. That's her voice.

I run over to her immediately to hug her, "Thea? Is that you?"

She grabs a knife out of nowhere and cuts my shoulder before I could react. I step back slightly and apply pressure to the wound. She kicks me backwards, "I'm Datura. I don't know who the hell this Thea is but I'm only here to kill your ass. Promise."

"Thee? What are you-," Bucky walks up to her and she throws a knife at him. Damn Thea. Bucky tries to punch her, "Okay we're doing this now."

She dodges the punch and hits Bucky in the gut. Bucky falls back and I lunge at her once again, pinning her to the ground. She glared at me with murder in her eyes. What the hell? "Stop Thea. Stop."

"I'm not Thea," she pushes herself onto me and starts choking me. I didn't want to hurt her. I push her off of me and Bucky attacks her once again. I watch as she swings a leg under Bucky, making him fall. She climbs on top of him and punches his face repeatedly until he's unconscious.

I grab a comm from the box beside me and talk into it, "I need backup on the training floor now."

She looks at me and jumps out the window, breaking the glass.

I run after her, "Shit. Shit. Shit."

I see her roll onto the next rooftop and look back. I walk backwards to create speed and grab my shield. I run forward through the broken window and land next to her.

She whips out a gun and shoots it at me. I cover my body with the shield and throw it at her. She dodged it and grabs it, hitting me in the stomach. I hunch over and she walks over to me, pointing a gun at my head.

"Thea. Please. No," I grab her wrist. I need her to remember me. I look her in the eyes and for a split second, just a second, I see her recognize me.

I hear a whirring behind me. C'mon Tony. You have the worst timing ever. She pulls the trigger and I shut my eyes, waiting to hear the bang. She was out of bullets. I hear the click.

She hits me over the head with the gun and the last thing I see is her running away.

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Thea Rogers POV

I walk into the abandoned building that Pierce had given me directions to and was greeted to multiple guns. I rolled my eyes and continued walking, "Mission failed. Backup came too soon."

I sat down in the chair and cuffs immediately latched themselves around my wrists.

Pierce walks up and slaps me, hard. I spit out the blood forming in my mouth. Pierce started yelling at me, "You failed?! You had one damn job! To kill him before back up came!"

"Maybe if you gave me a better weapon," I snap back.

He wraps a hand around my throat, "Do you know what happens when you fail a mission?"

I choke on my words, having difficulty breathing, "Y-yes sir."

Pierce points to a guard, "You. Get the machine."

I say nothing, just glare at the asshole's back, knowing if I said anything the punishment would be worse.

The machine was similar to the cryofreeze one, but it was solely for torture purposes. And punishment purposes.

The guard places something in my teeth so they didn't break and so that I couldn't scream.

"Turn it on," Pierce instructs. I brace myself for the pain about to come as I feel the machine power up.

I feel a tingling feeling at first. I knew this feeling from previous failed missions, but it wasn't exactly fun.

My teeth clench and I scream as the sensation takes over my body. It felt as if thousands of needles were being prodded into me, but poison needles. They were burning my skin and poking through. I felt as if I was about to die. I screamed, but the mouth piece muffled it and made it come out as more of a loud grunt. My natural body's response was to fight it, and I struggled.

"She's trying to fight it. Bring it up to 7," I hear Pierce's voice over the pain.

I squeeze my eyes shut as the feeling increases, my skin burning more, the needles poking harder. I know it wasn't real, it was just a feeling, but the 3 hours I was strapped to that machine were very real to me.