Broken Remains || Bucky Barnes

There's More of Them

Nikita's POV

I was sitting, leaning against the wall when we heard him waking up.

He looked at his arm surprised. We had to put it in a big metal clamp.

"Hey, Cap!" Sam called for Steve.

"Steve." Bucky's voice was hoarse.

"Which Bucky am I talking to?"

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes." He chuckled lightly.

"Can't read that in a museum." Steve sounded relieved.

"Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?" Sam asked raising a brow.

"What did I do?"

"Enough." Steve told him.

"Oh, God, I knew this would happen. Everything Hydra put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words."

"Who was he?"

"I don't know."

"People are dead. The bombing, the setup...the doctor did that all just to get 10 minutes with you. I need you to do better than "I don't know."

"He wanted to know about Siberia. Where, I-we were kept."

Bucky looked up giving me a quick glance.

"He wanted to know exactly where."

"Why? That place has been abandoned for years now." I stated trying to hide the fact that I was uneasy.

"Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier."

"Meaning, there's more of them?" I really could feel those daggers Steve was giving me. It felt like they were going straight through my heart. "I thought they all died."

"Well they are still alive."

"Who were they?" Steve asked.

"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in Hydra history. And that was before the serum." Bucky informed us.

"They all turn out like you?" Sam asked.

"Worse."

"The doctor, could he control them?" Steve asked.

"Enough."

"Said he wanted to see and empire fall."

"With these guys he could do it. They speak 30 languages, can hide in plain sight...infiltrate, assassinate, destabilize. They can take a whole country down in one night, you'd never see them coming."

Sam walked over to me and Steve so we could have a quiet conversation between the three of us.

"This would have been a lot easier a week ago."

"If we call Tony..."

"No, he won't believe us." I interrupted.

"Even if he did..."

"Who knows if the Accords will let him help." Sam stopped him.

"We're on our own."

"Maybe not. I know a guy."

Sam went to call up a friend of ours, while Steve and I called Sharon to get our gear back.

*Steve's POV*

"...Okay, thanks."

I hung up the phone. "Sharon said she'll meet us at the airport in 30 minutes." I informed Nikita and Bucky.

Nikita sat in a corner alone.

"Hey, did you know about this?"

"I don't know. At the time I couldn't remember a thing, I couldn't think for myself. By the time I left Hydra, it never crossed my mind that they might have lied to me."

"Well, it's not your fault." I comforted her.

"Yeah, I guess."

"First rule of being a hero is: Don't beat your self up." I told her.

"Hero," She laughed. "I've spent more time running from the government than saving it."

"Ever thought about retiring?" I asked her.

"Wow. Is that your way of getting rid of me?" She joked.

"That's not what I said."

"It kind of sounded like that's what you said." I looked down at her.

"Funny. Really, I'm laughing so hard." She leaned back.

"Well, you should be. I'm a fun person." She twisted the string on her army jacket.