Datura - Bucky Barnes

Travail

Travail ~ a great state of suffering of body or mind

One of the guards unhooked me from the machine and I fall to my knees, panting and gasping for air.

"Get some sleep. Tomorrow you will go again," Pierce walks away with the H.Y.D.R.A guards at his tail.

I stand up slowly, flip his back off, and walk to my cell. It wasn't much. It had a lumpy bed, a toilet with a curtain around it, and a chair.

I lie down on the bed, uncomfortable. I stare up at the broken light fixture as I think about the mission. Who the hell was he? Who is Thea? Did she look like me?

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The next morning

All right. Round 2. The security systems were clearly upgraded so I circled the building. I saw a door that said "Kitchen" and opened it. Delicious aromas filled my senses and I tried my best not to drool.

A young woman approaches me, "Who are you?"

"Sorry lady," I punch her in the face, knocking her out. I drag her into a nearby supply closet by the legs and take her hat and coat.

Getting dressed into them, I walk back out. I tie my hair up into a small bun and walk towards the stairs.

Training

I open the door to see the broken window from last night. No one. I get back to the stairs and continue walking.

Bar

Meh. Worth a shot. I see Popsicle standing there alone.

"Hey Popsicle," I look around and make sure we're alone.

"Popsicle?" he raises a brow.

I shrug, "Didn't know your name."

"Steve. I'm your brother, Thea," he walks closer to me.

I grab my knife and point it at him, "Okay Steve. I don't know if your deaf or something but I'm Datura. Not Thea. I don't have a brother."

"Look I'm not going to hurt you," he walks even closer.

"Aw well that's too bad. Because I will," I chuck my knife at his face and he ducks. I run at him and grabs my other knife. He falls back and I hold the knife inches from his face. He grabs my wrist, forcing me to drop the knife. I get off of him and grab a glass bottle. He punches me in the face and I drop the bottle, stumbling back. The glass shattered. I take my gun from its holster and shoot it at him multiple times.

He dives under a table and I throw the gun away, hearing the empty click.

"Thea stop!" he yells, "You know me!"

God my head hurts so much. I feel like I know him and I'm trying so hard to remember, but the harder I try the harder something pushes back. I don't know what but my head feels like it's exploding.

"Shut up! I'm not Thea! I'm Datura!" I yell at him, "I don't know who you are."

He looks behind me for a moment and before I could turn around, something hits my head, and I black out.

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2 hours later

Bucky Barnes POV

I was thinking about Thea. I remember her from the HYDRA facility. I failed her. I didn't mean to but I did. Was this my second chance? I wonder if she remembers me. Why would she though? They clearly wiped her like they did to me.

I enter the elevator and decide to get a drink. I needed to clear my head.

I hear a commotion coming from the floor and seen Thea fighting Steve, again.

Her back was facing me.

I slowly crept to grab a glass bottle as she tried to shoot Steve. Steve looked at me and I motioned for him to be silent.

"Thea stop!" he yells at her.

She looked as if she was about to break in half, "Shut up! I'm not Thea! I'm Datura! I don't know who you are!"

I understood the feeling.

I walk behind her and smash her over the head with the bottle. She falls into my arms, unconscious.

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Thea Rogers POV

"You can't kill her Tony!" I hear Popsi-Steve yelling.

I open my eyes and see 4 faces. The robot, Steve, Metal Arm, and a woman.

I look at my hands, which were cuffed to a bed.

Steve looks at me, "Oh good. You're awake."

He sits in a chair next to me. I sit up in the bed staring at him. I watch as he just stares at me, and I stare at him. He kind of looks like me. He has my eyes and hair. Am I high?

"I'm not going to hurt you," he tells me.

"Well that sucks because I'm going to kill you," I reply.

"No you're not. Because I know you remember me Thea."

I raise a brow, "Then uncuff me."

The robot spoke, "You can't do that Rogers."

"Robots can speak? Damn," I look at the blue battery thingie.

The robot rolls his eyes. Oh so robots have sass now too, "I'm not a robot."

"You have a blue glowy thing between your man boobs. If that doesn't scream robot I don't know what does," I point to his chest.

"Its a heart implant genius."

I ignore him and look at Steve, "So. Gonna do it?"

He looks at me for a moment then removes the cuff. I look at him for a moment and tilt my head slightly. I did not expect him to actually do it.

He walks away and opens a draw, pulling out a small photo album.

"Look Thea. Your full name is Theadora Marie Rogers," he opens it.

"My name is not Thea. Got it? I'm Datura," I tell him.

He sighs, "Datura. Look at these photos. This is us. Me and you when we were younger. Look at this one," he points to a picture of a 16 year old girl that looked like me, but younger, on the back of an 18 year old guy that looked like him, except much smaller. Damn talk about glow up.

I run my fingers over the photo and desperately try to remember.

Whatever force was stopping me from remembering seemed to crack for a moment, and it was as if a memory creeped through.

Flashback, Thea is 16, Summer of 1936

"Get back here Steve!" I chased him across the carnival grounds. He was not fast, but I was still nowhere close to him, being a young girl.

I caught up to him and stole my ice cream cone back, "I hate you."

He chuckles slightly, "I know you do."

I hug him tightly.

Back to normal

"I remember that," I let a small smile creep onto my face, something I haven't done in 75 years.

A smile appears on his face too, "That's great! Do you remember anything else?"

I think again, but whatever was wrong with my brain pushed back harder, causing me to wince and frown, "No. I'm sorry."

"That's okay," he gives me a hand out of the bed.

"Why don't you go to the kitchen? Bucky go with her."

I nod and Metal Arm follows me. We walk in silence until I decide to say something, "So. Do I know you too?"

He doesn't talk for a moment, "No."