Agent Stark || BUCKY BARNES [1]

002 ― Captured

1943 ― Austria

WHEN HOLLAND STARK WOKE UP, she was confused about her whereabouts. When her eyes adjusted, she looked around and noticed that she was in a cell. It was cold, it was dark, and she didn't know how she got there. The last thing she remembered was helping with Steve's serum injection... then she remembered the explosion... and then she remembered being knocked out.

"No..." Holland said as she looked around. She stood up and walked to the cell bars and noticed the lock, and her eyes widened. "No, no, no..." She had trouble with confined spaces, she was very claustrophobic, and it happened because of a mishap during hide-and-seek when she and Howard were kids.

Bucky Barnes, who had been captured by HYDRA a few days ago, heard her voice, and he knew it sounded familiar. He moved to the end of his cells and gripped onto the bars, and when he looked in the direction that the voice was coming from, his eyes widened. It was the girl he met a little over a week ago at the Stark expo.

"Holland...?" Bucky said. Hearing her name, Holland looked through the cell bars to the cell that was right across from her, and her eyes widened. It was the guy that she briefly met at her brother's Stark Industries Expo a little over a week ago. James... but he said that she could call him by his nickname.

"Bucky...? What are you...-Where are we?" Holland asked.

"I'm so relieved to see your face...-" He said, and then he was confused. How did she get mixed up here? He decided that was a question that only she could answer, but he didn't think after seeing her at that expose a couple of weeks ago that he would be seeing her again. He wanted to see her again.

Just not under these particular circumstances.

"How did you end up here?" Bucky asked.

"Steve, he...-" Bucky cut her off as she was trying to gather her thoughts. She was speaking out loud about the last thing she remembered.

"...-Steve? What happened to him? Is he okay?" Bucky asked, and Holland nodded her head.

"He's fine... he's okay. Um, I was recruited by the SSR, Howard was working with other scientists on a super-soldier serum, Steve got injected, he's okay, there was an explosion... one minute, I was chasing after the guy who did it, the next minute... I wake up here." Holland said. Bucky frowned; he already knew what was going to happen. They were going to use her.

"Holland...-" She cut him off.

"...-How did you get here? Actually, better question, where is here?" She asked.

"This is a HYDRA Prison camp in Austria... some of my men and I were captured, brought here. They have us working on some plane... but my guess is they brought you here to try and recreate the serum." Bucky said, and Holland sighed.

"Mr. Barnes is correct." A new voice spoke as he walked into the room, and it was the voice of Arnim Zola. "And you, Miss Stark, are going to help us make the serum." He said.

"I don't know how they did it. I wasn't involved with the process." Holland said.

"Leave her alone," Bucky called out, but he was ignored.

"Then you're going to figure it out," Zola spoke as he unlocked her cell and roughly grabbed her arm.

"No... no..." Holland said as he shook her head.

"Holland, it's okay, it's okay... we're going to get through this," Bucky said as Zola dragged her away.

She had no idea what was in store for her.