One Chance (Bucky Barnes x TFAWS)

Chapter 5

"Thanks for bailing him out," Sam says to Dr. Raynor.

"It was actually not me who got Bucky out," she says walking through the waiting room.

"Christina, hey! Good to see you again!" A familiar unpleasant voice calls out. John fucking Walker.

"You've got to be kidding me," I snarl. 

"Bucky won't be having a strict therapy schedule anymore. He's too much of an asset," Walker says.

"Under whose orders?" Dr. Raynor asks.

Walker smiles and points to himself. "Just do what you gotta do and send him off to me. We got some unfinished business, him and I. You too, Wilson, Stark. I'll be outside."

Bucky is led through double doors to the front desk. His face filled with annoyance and irritation.

"James, condition of your release, session now," she says, "You too, Brianna and Sam."

"Fuck," I groan.

"So you've been ditching therapy?" Sam asks.

"I guess I just don't have anything to say," I say coldly.

I follow the boys and Dr. Raynor to an interrogation room for our group therapy. I have seat in the middle of the boys, looking at the floor the whole time.

"So who would like to start?" Dr. Raynor asks. None of us speak up. "How about you, Brianna?"

"No thanks. I'm good," I say with a fake smile plastered to my face.

"I think your partners should know a little about you if they're gonna be working with you. We all know Sam's background and James'."

My breathing stops and my heart races. I can even feel a bead of sweat forming on my head. Anxiety taking over my body. But I let my cold exterior take back over.

"They know me well enough," I say with a cold, blank expression, keeping my head low.

"They don't even know your real name," she says.

"How the hell do you know-"

"In order to do therapy, I have to have a complete, truthful background on my patients. Tony Stark gave me your story years ago, just in case," she explains.

"What is she talking about?" Sam asks. The only ones who knew the truth were Tony, Pepper, Steve, Natasha, and Fury. 

I take a deep breath before speaking, "My birth name is Bianca Volkov. I changed it to Brianna when I was adopted by Tony...That other name...is not my name anymore."

"Tell me about your childhood, Brianna," the doctor says.

Another deep breath as I glare at her. I know she's trying to help, but she's really pissing me off. I try to stay calm so I don't lash out on anybody. "I grew up in a place called the Red Room. Same as Natasha... I was taken from my family when I was 4, and I was there until I was 13."

"What happened in the Red Room?" She asks me.

"They trained us to be assassins," I state plainly.

"Then, what?"

I sigh out of annoyance of all the questions one after the other. "The leader of the Red Room, Drakov, sold me to Hydra. Where they injected me with the new serum and..." I trail off, knowing this is the part that haunts me the most. I continue looking at the ground. Too embarrassed to show my face to Sam and Bucky.

"And what?" Dr. Raynor inquires.

"I can't."

"Can't what?"