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Your leg was playing up.

Playing up being the nice way to put things.

The Pain really was excruciating, you could barely think through it. A thousand hot pokers were coming at your leg all at once, all over. It had come on suddenly after your talk with Barnes, and now you were sat on the edge of the sofa, literally screaming in pain as Bucky sat next to you, a hand on your back supportively, asking what he could do to help.

Of course he could do nothing, and Bruce wasn't there to even explain.

You just took deep breaths through the screaming, and decided to take your brace off, to give your leg some air.

Then the pain, just stopped. Not gradually, just all of a sudden, no pain whatsoever.

You furrowed your brows and after a minute said,

"It doesn't- hurt anymore." feeling a little embarrassed, in the last 5 seconds you'd just been screaming and now...

You groaned out in pain a little though as you lifted the leg of your trousers slowly to your thigh to just check on your leg.

But what you saw was-

Bad.

Both Bucky and you gasped.

There, on your leg, a little above your ankle, something was, what you could only describe as, burnt -deep- into your skin.

Blood all around and the skin inside the burn dark pink, you could see bone sticking out in places.

And what was burnt into your leg was clearly,

The HYDRA logo.

You turned to Bucky, at the same time he turned to you, your mouth open, words failing you, a look of pure undiluted terror on your face. His face deathly pale, and his breathing shaky, swallowing hard.

What.
The.
Fu-