Divided We Fall (Bucky Barnes)

Romania

Bucharest, Romania. 

Bucky arrives at a fruit stand and buys some plums. In a cap and jacket Bucky walks along and scans around. Across the street he spots a vendor at a news stand staring at him. As he walks to the stand the vendor runs away. He picks up a paper and reads the headline: Winter Soldier cautat pentru Bombardmentul din Viena'. He glances around tensely.

In a small apartment Steve is in his Captain America suit. Anne wears a blue and white suit, the shoulders are cut out and there is white detailing around the suit. Anne spots a notebook with colorful tabs. She opens to the purple tab and reads.

In my dreams there's this girl. Her hair is long, milky chocolate, and wavy and her brown eyes are mesmerizing. She wore this black shirt and green pants that I had seen  many times before. She was at the Triskelion but I still don't know who she is. I get this fluttery feeling in my stomach when I see her and my heart beats fast. I think I loved her at some point before Hydra and in my life before this. I want to remember her a part of me aches terribly like I miss her in a way. 

She smiles, turns the page, and reads another entry

I know who she is. Her name is Anne Taylor. She was Bucky Barnes girlfriend before he died in 1945. She called me Bucky. If I am Bucky Barnes then whatever time we had together was short, and she needs more time. We had a moment on the helicarrier where she asked me what they did to me. She held my face as tears streamed down hers. All I wanted to do in that moment was hold her. 

Anne stops reading and closes the book. Sam comes over the radio. 

"Heads up. German special forces are approaching from the south."

"Copy that." Anne says.

She and Steve turn around to see Bucky staring at them. Anne's heart skips a beat.

"Do you know us?" Steve asks.

"You're Steve... That's Anne. I read about you two in a museum."

"They've set the perimeter." Sam says over the radio again.

"I know you're nervous, and you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying." Anne says.

"I wasn't in Vienna I don't do that anymore." Bucky states.

"They're entering the building."

"Well the people who think you did are coming here now and they don't plan on taking you alive." Steve says.

"That's smart. Good strategy." Bucky says taking off his glove revealing his metal hand.

Anne's heart breaks. His beautiful blue eyes tell a story that Anne and Steve haven't hear yet. Years of trauma built up to this moment.

"They're on the roof. I'm compromised." Sam informs them.

"This doesn't have to end in a fight Buck." Steve says.

Bucky sighs. 

"It always ends up in a fight."

"Five seconds."

"You pulled me and her from the river. Why?" Steve asks.

"I don't know."

"Three seconds."

"Yeah, you do." Anne says gulping back tears.

"BREACH! BREACH! BREACH!" Sam yells and a grenade crashes through a window rolling towards Anne. 

Bucky jumps in front of her and kicks it to Steve who smothers it with his shield. Cops outside slam a battering ram against the door and Bucky shields himself from gunfire with a mattress. Anne creates an ice shield from the ground covering herself. Cops swing in on cables and Steve pulls the rug out from under one of them. Bucky slams another policeman into a wall.