Annabelle Rogers - James 'Bucky' Barnes

Chapter Nineteen

Blood was hot, boiling from the inside at the thought of Annabelle being watched by this Claire girl. It was the only explanation the boys managed on short time before Annabelle came back.

Someone was controlling this poor girl, brain washing her even and using her to spy on Annabelle. It was made clear the last few days that James didn't know much about Annabelle's past but he definitely didn't think it was going to be something as twisted as this.

After gaining her composure, Annabelle made her way back into the meeting room telling Steve everything she knew about the 'three' girls. Deciding it was best not to not tell Annabelle about their discovery, and just get as much information as possible. Sam wasn't the biggest fan of keeping secrets from Annabelle, he's never had to do it before.

Doing her best to remember finer details about Claire, her home town and the schools they attended. Giving them any names or dates that popped into her head, like who the parents where, or if she ever saw any parents with Claire.

Standing up from the chair Annabelle flashed the group a warm smile before exciting the room. Spending what felt like hours analysing her past, her head was starting to ache and an overwhelming amount of emotions was flooding over her.

Emotionally drained and exhausted she flopped down onto her bed, staring up at the ceiling. Thoughts of her missed placed childhood swirling through her head.

Down in the meeting room Steve called the rest of the team in, wanting them debriefed as soon as possible. As they all strolled in Steve was pacing the room, stopping at the top in the table. Leaning on the table his fingers dug into the wood, gripping the edges. His face was full of concern and heartbreak as he was ready to explain to the team what was going on.

Catching on to the worry on his face Tony swiftly noticed it wasn't in concern of a difficult mission. It was the concern you have for someone you love and care for.

"Whats going on, Cap?" Strolling over, now breathing the same air Tony's face grew serious and dark. "Whats wrong with Chip?"

Gasping in a deep breath Steve knew he had to say something sooner or later. "I think there is more to Annabelle's past then we originally thought"

Faces mimicked each other as Tony's face turned white, full of the same concern Steve has been experiencing. He only ever used her name when it was serious. "Did you ever question how I have a relative so disconnected from my family but with my exact DNA? it's impossible."

"If they are a sibling.." Clint chimed in.

"Even then, with the serum altering Steve's DNA it wouldn't be that close of a match" Bruce spat out cutting off Clint.

"What about an off spring?" Steve questioned after moments of silence.

The team gave the same confused look towards the front. They could sense something was going on in Steve's mind, something he was still trying to figure out if it was possible.

"What are you thinking Steve?. Even if you had a child it would have had to happen after the serum was infused into your DNA. And even then, they would be at least 70 years old"

Steve picked up a photo from in front of him and handed it to Tony. "Look familiar?"

"Is that?" Steve nodded.

"How about this one? and this one?" Steve handed Tony two other photos. His hand through over his mouth as he fell down into one of the seats.

Flicking between the three photos, analysing each of them carefully, then going back at analysing them more. He looked up noticing all eyes glued to him, waiting for answers.

Throwing the three photos into the centre of the meeting table he took a step back, pointing at the photos. Completely lost for words. Sitting back into his chair he lifted up his hand, guiding the others to have a look.

"Who is this Tony?" Wanda questioned as the team all exchanged looks neither of them catching on.

"I've seen a similar photo before - Wait is this..?." James stumbled out his words, falling off into a whisper as he realised who was in the photos.

"Annabelle, those three photos are of Annabelle before she was adopted by Tony"

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Fuelled with fresh coffee the team started working their way through all of the files again, now having something to look for. Sure enough the more they looked the more connections they found to Annabelle.

This organisation was bad news , they where known for trying to create their own super humans. They started off by injecting different experiments and serums into teenagers they found on the street but soon discovered they couldn't control them.

They then started going younger and younger being able to brainwash them a lot easier, teaching them their 'ways', having their own schooling system which taught them to be grateful for the organisation.

Eventually they brought on a new scientist, he was the craziest out of all of them. He wanted to take it that one step further, creating their superhuman children in the womb.

Using donated sperm they would fertilise the egg, usually getting the sperm or the egg from a supernatural being. The complications started when they couldn't find many people willing to donate their sperm or eggs to an unknown organisation.

That's before the scientist found a way to form the DNA from the blood of a supernatural being and placing into the fertilised egg. It was a lot easier for their agents to get blood from required targets.

Once the egg was fertilised and ready they would insert it into one of their new agents, usually high school aged girls that they found homeless on the streets. Giving them a roof over their heads and food, the girls didn't know what they signed up for before it was to late.

One girl stood out from the rest, they picked her up in the middle on Central Park one wintery night. She was beautiful, long thick wavy blonde hair with these bright blue eyes that would catch the light off of any surface causing a twinkle. The head of the organisation Oliver Williams took a strong liking to her beauty, calling her the light in the sea of his darkness.

Jessica Bright fell head over heels for this man wanting to see the good past the monster that he was. Months into her becoming apart of the organisation, they found out that she was pregnant.

The evil man didn't jump for joy as a normal father to be would. This gave the twisted man an opportunity, a very devilish one at that. After spending countless nights within the lab, he snuck back into their room when Jessica was asleep. Injecting large needle with a electric blue vial into her cervix. He didn't fear the likely hood of a miscarriage, it was to big of an opportunity to pass up, his own super soldier child.

When Jess discovered what it was that he had done she fled their base camp, jumping on a bus and landing in a small little town a few hours out of New York. Giving birth to a beautiful little girl a month later. The birth was the latest piece of information the team had collected from their stakeouts.

Wanda had just finished reading the file, explaining to everyone about this poor girl Jessica, she didn't know what she was involved with and that poor baby. Tony snuck over to Natasha who was searching data bases for another information. He leant down speaking into her ear.

"Can you find out what happened to this Jessica Bright and her baby?"

Natasha nodded, frantically typing away at her computer. Tony was curious about the baby, did she service, what exactly was she injected with, is her mum still alive. He thought it'd be a great opportunity to find out some more answers, go straight to a live source. Not once did he expect it to make the turn that it did.

"Guys, you're not going to believe this but.." She spoke, still trying to process the information. "The baby was born May 16th 1996 and her mother passed away in 2001, the girls name on the birth certificate.... is  Annabelle"