Burn B•Barnes

Part 20

"Ahh Miss Brown, I've heard a lot about you, I'm Dr Raynor, Bucky's therapist" she shook Lyra's hand and Sam stifled a laugh, Lyra stood on his toe and he cried out in pain.

"This must be Mr Wilson" he shook her hand awkwardly and smiled.

"So nice to meet you. Thank you for getting him out." Lyra cheesed, the therapist shook her head plucking her lips. "Actually it wasn't me" the three of them tuned around and John Walker came walking through.

"Hey Christiana, it's great to see you again" he shook her hand and she blushed slightly. Lyra turned around to Sam and narrowed her eyes.

"You gotta be kidding me. You know him?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, we did some field ops back in the day." She blushed again and Lyra shook her head with rage.

"I heard you were working with Bucky, so I thought I'd step in. Bucky's not gonna be following a strict schedule any longer." John smiled.

"We haven't finished our work. Who authorized this?" She asked.

"He's too valuable of an asset to have tied up. Just do whatever you got to do with him, then send him off to me. Got some unfinished business, him and I. You too, Wilson. I'll be outside." Bucky walked out and Christina clenched her jaw in anger.

"James, condition of your release, session now. You guys too" she pointed to Sam and Lyra who groaned walking into a small room, and taking a seat next to Bucky.

"So... Who would like to start?" She pulled out he notepad and pen, and Lyra sat back on her seat huffing. "All right, look, Dr. Raynor? I get it, why you want me to talk to Freaky Magoo over here. But I'm 100% fine." Lyra stifled a laugh at Sam, who smiled at her winking.

"It is my job to make sure that you're okay. And so, yeah, this may be slightly unprofessional, but it's the only way that I can see if you're getting over whatever's eating at you." Lyra rolled her eyes and stood up.

"This is ridiculous." She stated, Christina motioned for her to sit back down and she sighed doing as she was told. "Lyra you are Bucky's ex, would you like to start?" Lyra scoffed looking away and Dr Raynor laughed.

"Okay, it goes like this. Suppose that while you're sleeping, a miracle occurs. When you wake up, what is something that you would like to see that would make your life better?"

"In my miracle, he would... he would talk less." Lyra stifled a laugh at Sam's comment and Bucky coughed loudly. "Exactly what I was gonna say. Isn't that ironic?" The Doctor rolled her eyes and slammed her notepad down.

"You guys are leaving me with no choice. It's time for the soul-gazing exercise." Lyra laughed standing up and looking at the doctor. "Look I'm fine, and I think this is more of an exercise for couples, which we are not, so I'll leave it to these two" she picked up her bag and walked outside.

"Ahh Miss Brown how are you?" John walker stood infront of Lyra and she stopped crossing her hands over her chest. "Listen Tom, Ron, John I don't like you, so leave me alone" she turned around and he grabbed her shoulder.

"Come on Lyra you know you want to help me, for Steve" she barged his hand off her shoulder and Bucky came running out.

"What the hell John don't touch her" Lyra stood behind him acting like a damsel in distress, and Sam came up next to Bucky.

"Gentlemen. Good to see you again. Look, if we divide ourselves, we don't stand a chance, you guys know that."

"So what do you do?" Sam asked.

"Well, the leader's name's Karli Morgenthau. We've been targeting civilians who've been helping Karli move from place to place.

They geotagged a location, then scrambled the signal. But our satellites have found their symbol popping up in various displaced communities all across Central and Eastern Europe."

"We think she's taking the medicine she just stole to one of these camps."

"Well, there are hundreds of those all over the planet since The Blip. So I guess you'll have to look real hard." Lyra came out from behind Bucky and stood next to him more confidently.

"Good thing I have 20/20 vision, huh?" Walker joked.

"Where is she now Walker do you know?" Bucky asked.

"No, we don't know, Bucky. It's only a matter of time before we find out." Walker raised his voice at Bucky and Lyra felt an hand tighten around her arm.

"Things are really intense for you, aren't they, Walker?" Sam crossed his arms over his chest, as Lyra slowly moved her hand down over Bucky's holding it. He calmed down straight away and she smiled over at him.

"Take it easy. Look, Walker's right. It is imperative that we find them and stop them. But you guys have rules of engagement and all kind of authorizations you have to get. We're free agents. We're more flexible. So it wouldn't make sense for us to work with you." Sam motioned for Bucky and Lyra to follow him but Walker shouted behind him.

"A word of advice, then. Stay the hell out of my way!"

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"So what are you thinking?" Sam looked at Bucky, who was deep in thought and then to Lyra. "Well, I know what we have to do. When Isaiah said "my people"..."

"Don't take that to heart, that's not what he meant buck" Lyra grabbed a hold of his arm, and Sam watched the movement between them both with his eyebrow raised.

"No, he meant HYDRA. HYDRA used to be my people." Sam scoffed and Lyra looked at them both confused. "Not a chance!" Sam shouted.

"Walker doesn't have any leads."

"Someone want to fill me in?" Lyra asked. The two continued to ignore her as they bickered. "He knows all of HYDRA's secrets. Don't you remember Siberia?"

"Zemo!" Lyra shouted in anger.

"Do you know why he put us through?" Lyra asked Bucky shaking his shoulders. Bucky stayed silent and Lyra looked at Sam, who was slowly agreeing with Bucky.

"So you're just gonna go sit in a room with this guy?" Lyra asked.

"Yeah" Bucky shrugged.

"Okay, then. We're gonna go see Zemo." Lyra sighed.