Lovers In Crime (A Winter Soldier Fan-Fiction)

Chapter Six

. . . WITH STEVE & SAM . . . 

Stood in a huge abandoned warehouse after saving Bucky and hiding away Sam watches as Bucky comes around to consciousness with his metallic left arm clamped in a huge industrial vice.

"Hey, Cap!" Steve goes over to join Sam, he looks at Bucky, arm still in the vice. 

"Steve." Bucky says groggily. 

"Which Bucky am I talking to?" Steve asks sternly, watching his oldest friend try to come to his senses. 

"Your mom's name was Sarah...You used to wear newspapers in your shoes." He chuckles at the last bit, fond memories washing over him. 

 "Can't read that in a museum." Steve softens, glad to see a glimpse of his friend. 

"Just like that, we're suppose to be cool?" Sam looks between the two men skeptical. 

"What did I do?" Bucky asks pained and full of sorrow. 

"Enough." 

"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 all that just to get 10 minutes with you. I need you to do better than 'I don't know.'" Steve believed his friend but was also desperate to get to the bottom of it and clear Bucky's name along with his own, he imagined by now things weren't looking good for him or Sam either. 

 "He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where." 

 "Why would he need to know that?" 

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

 "Who were they?" 

"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum." 

"They all turn out like you? Sam ventures. 

"Worse." 

"The doctor, could he control them?" 

"Enough." 

"Said he wanted to see an 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." 

"Is that what she is? The girl?" Sam looks at Steve and Bucky. 

"No, Y/N isn't one." 

"Do you know what she wanted, why she was helping the guy?" 

"I thought she wanted to take me back to Hydra, we were a team." 

"A team...? She was with you on the bridge right?" Steve crosses his arms.

"Y/N was brought up at Hydra, she didn't know anything outside of it, I thought she wanted to go back but she tried to stop the guy from using the words." Bucky looked down sadly. 
"You think she was trying to help you?" 

"Maybe, she and the Winter Solider were, close" Bucky sighs. 

"How close is close.." Sams mouth twitches slightly but at the seriousness of the situation he decided to keep a tight lip. 

"Close... she would do anything for him... I don't know about Bucky though." Bucky says avoiding eye contract... but not before Steve and Sam caught a glimpse of confusion, torment and the sense he was being pulled in two different directions. 

Sam steps up to Steve, they face away looking at the empty warehouse. "This would have been a lot easier a week ago." 

 "If we call Tony . . ."

"No, he won't believe us." 

"Even if he did . . ." 

"Who knows if the Accords would let him help." Sam finishes Steve sentence for him. 

"We're on our own." 

 "Maybe not. I know a guy." 

. . . END OF STEVE & SAM. . . 

. . .NORMAL POV. . . 

The cold made you shiver, the bruises now showing on your ribs and face. After all the time spent away, you never thought you'd be back at a hydra base ever again.  

"You're going to wake them all up?" Your stat props up against the wall as the chambers open. 

"No my little friend, I'm going to put a stop to the winter solider program, and then I'm going to put a stop to the avengers." he raised a brow at you before taking out a gun and shooting each of the other winter solider in the head. As scared of them as you had been in the past, and as unstable as they were... you'd never been more horrified as you watch the tanks close again, bullet holes in all their heads. 

"If you're going to kill Bucky, you're gonna have to kill me too" You try to stand and stumble towards Zemo but as you do he catches you pulling your arm behind you back. 

"Oh I'm not going to harm a hair on his head.... someone else is going to do that for me." He whispers in your ear. 

"Mission report 1991..." you half whisper... Howard and Maria...Stark...Stark as in Iron Man. "omg you can't! He won't understand!" you beg loudly but Zemo just smiles.

"Get comfortable.... we have company coming soon and you're gonna want to see this." He chucks you into a room before closing the door and setting up a video player.