Proving to be difficult Undercover!Bucky Barnes x Reader

It doesn't get easier (2/2)

"What exactly is your plan here Steve?" After making sure Y/N was locked up and secured Nat had gone back to the control room where Steve was still sitting roaming through file after file, and data after data.

"We have to find him, Nat. She probably knows where he is and had this all planned we just need to get her to tell us where he is."

"And if you're wrong? What if she has no idea and is just an innocent citizen who wanted to help us?"

"I have to be right Natasha. I can't-" He choked back the sob trying to escape his throat. "I can't lose him again."

Natasha walked over to her friend pulling him into a deep hug. "We will find him. But in case this turns out to be a dead-end why don't you let me check out some possible locations ok? I think you'll find somebody else for the interrogation."

Steve just nodded and after staying in the embrace for a moment longer he left to confer with the team. In the meantime, Nat took her place in front of the screens but after even just a couple of seconds, it was clear that she wouldn't be able to find anything here on her own. She was good but this was more of a job on Tony's level.

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"Is he awake yet?" "Negative Sir the target is still unconscious."

The first thought on Bucky's mind when he woke up in some kind of darkroom wasn't Where am I? or What happened? after years of experience, it was pretty clear that he had probably been kidnapped and judging by his last mission and the general style of the location it was probably Hydra.

Now Bucky knew that technically Shuri had gotten every little trace of the programming out of his head but he still couldn't get rid of the Anxiety clouding his head in the first moments of consciousness. The time he had spent with Hydra had been the worst in his life, he almost hadn't survived it the first time, who guaranteed that he would make it a second time?

It was impossible to know how much time he had spent in the ever dark room but it didn't stop him from trying even if the counting of every second was just his try to keep his thoughts at bay. After all, it wasn't just him in danger. He didn't remember leaving Y/N's room before waking up here so what if they had captured her too...or worse. No Bucky couldn't let himself think about any of it he had to find a way out. But how?

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"NO NO NO NO SHE IS LYING I AM TELLING YOU SHE HAS TO KNOW SOMETHING!" Steve was livid. It had been two days since Bucky had vanished and he had been interrogating Y/N pretty much day and night but nothing. She kept telling him that she didn't know anything. She even tried to sell him some lie about her and Bucky but that just couldn't be the truth. He was tired and angry and...and so exhausted. After everything he had promised himself to never let anything happen to his best friend ever again and here he was losing him all over again. If only he hadn't convinced him to take that mission.

"The has to be something !" He exclaimed again throwing the chair standing in front of him through the room with all the uncontrolled strength the serum had given him. "...something...anything." He repeated over and over again as he sunk to his knees, the tears he had given up fighting flowing freely down his face.

"She has to know...something...anything." He whispered one last time before curling up on the floor letting the sobs take over.

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