Till The End Of the Line

Who the Hell is Bucky?

Y/n POV

You and Natasha ran into the local emergency room after receiving a phone call from Maria Hill. Steve was pacing back and forth in the waiting room before we locked eyes, without thinking I ran into his arms. There was no point in being mad at him anymore, who knows maybe it was time I moved on from Bucky, and instead be with my childhood best friend, maybe it was always meant to be. I was just too blinded by Bucky to even know. Maria walked into the waiting area, me and Steve released from our hug and Natasha, Steve and I followed her into a closed room with a large glass window overlooking the OR where Fury was being operated on. Everything seemed to be going well at the moment.

"Tell me about him" Natasha asked Steve

"He's fast and strong. Had a metal arm" he told her

Natasha's eyes started to wander, like she just figured something out. But she didn't say anything because at that moment Nick Fury started to crash, the surgeons frantically grab the crash cart,

"VP is dropping" a nurse said

"Charge to 100" the surgeon said

"Clear'' another nurse said, they continued to do this for around 30 seconds..."charge to 100, pulse?" Negative, "charge to 200, pulse?" None. They gave up and covered the man with a sheet.

"Time of death?" The surgeon asked

"1:30 a.m" I whispered under my breath, Steve looked down at me, both of our eyes locked in with each other.

"I have to go," I said before turning around and walking away. I heard Steve's footsteps starting to follow me before Nat grabbed him, "I think she wants to be alone Steve."

I wasn't totally sure why I was crying, being I only knew Nick for a short while, but along with Natasha and Tony he took me under his wing, like a mentor. He was tough but I was practically a soldier, endured the same training as Steve and Bucky did so I was used to it. I decided to just call an Uber back to my apartment, it was easier to be alone when I grieved.

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I was sitting in my bed looking out at the city. My apartment was fairly large because Tony Stark had purchased it for me. For some odd reason Tony didn't hate me, maybe it was because I was close with his father or just that I was a decent human being. But Steve knew Howard and was usually a decent human being but Tony didn't like him all that much.

Majority of my apartment was pretty average, it was a more older style look but I liked it that way, there was brick throughout most of the apartment. My bedroom was pretty large, but the view. That million dollar view was amazing, it overlooked most of the city, even in the far distance I could see stark tower which I'm pretty sure was changed to something else. My apartment  was about five blocks from Steve's, so that was nice.

I was drinking an iced coffee while reading the newspaper and listening to the sound of the streets below. Most would hate that sound but there was just something about it that was oddly peaceful, until I got a phone call from Steve.

"Hey"

"Y/n, where are you?"

"At my apartment?"

"Ok I need you to meet me at that one coffee shop, a few blocks down, I have stuff to tell you"

"WHAT THE-" someone in the background followed by glass breaking and some man screaming bloody murder. Just then Steve hung up.

"Steve?" I said into my phone, "great I always have to save everyone's ass"

I put a few small guns into a hollister that I strapped around my waist and a pocket knife and a taser. I wrapped my jacket around me so that none of my weapons could be seen. I would have liked to not go to jail today.

I ran down to the coffee shop where Steve asked to meet, but found people running and screaming and then I saw Steve's shield about five feet from a city bus. I looked up to see a dark figure about to shoot at some guy. I pulled out two of the guns and shot at him, he turned around with some big ass gun, well now I made him mad.

I made a run for it and got far before setting my phone down playing an already recorded message as a trap. I hid behind a car waiting for the mystery man to make a move. He rolled a bomb under the car followed by an explosion. I jumped up and shot his arm, it was metal. He must have been the guy who killed Fury. Since that bullet did absolutely nothing, the element of surprise was lost he held up a gun to me before Steve ran up tackling the man, Natasha ran up shooting at the guy when Steve wasn't close to him, but the long haired assassin shot Nat right in the shoulder, I ran up to go help her because she was bleeding out. Steve ripped off the mask that the man was wearing. He was about ten feet away and on the ground I ran up to Steve to tell him to get help because of Natasha. The tall, cyborg-like man stood up. We locked eyes with each other.

I gasped, me and Steve both said at the same time, "Bucky?"

His deep blue eyes weren't the same as they were when I last saw him, he seemed different. But that was him. That was James Barnes standing in front of me. But those eyes, they weren't filled with joy and hope like they were. They were sad and lost. What the hell had happened to him.

"Who the hell is Bucky?" He said walking towards us before some guy in a bird costume kicked him down.

Just then groups of S.H.I.E.L.D agents showed up, I assumed they were going to arrest Bucky.

"It's about damn time you showed up" I said looking around

"Agent Y/l/n, drop your weapons and get on your knees" Rumlow said

I was confused, being that I thought Rumlow was on our side, an agent held a gun to Steve's head, "not here" Rumlow said, "not here!" He repeated

We were all sitting in the back of a van being carried who knows where. I sat next to Nat putting pressure on her wound. "She needs help," Steve said to one of the guards. They pulled out a taser and zapped the other guard next to him. They pulled off their helmets and revealed Maria Hill, here to save us.

"God that thing was hurting my brain" we all looked at her, "who's this guy?"

"Yeah that's what I wanna know" I said, "along with, why the hell is Bucky now trying to kill us? AND why was I held at gunpoint by people who I thought were on our side?"

"Hydra, it's all hydra. They've been feeding off of S.H.I.E.L.D's for decades, stealing our information. And when Bucky was experimented on, whatever Zola did must have helped him survive that fall. Oh and that's Sam." Steve explained to me

"So I died for nothing?"

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"GSW, she's lost around a pint" Maria said running into a big building in the middle of nowhere

"More like two" I yelled

"Let me see her" a doctor said

"They'll wanna see him first" Maria said

We walked into a room, with a hospital bed, sitting on that bed was Nick Fury. Somehow alive.

After Nat got treated and Fury was babbling on about how broken he was, and explained just how he was still here.

"Why? Why keep so many secrets?" Steve asked

"Can't kill you if you're already dead, and I didn't know who to trust."

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