A Little Calm in Wakanda

Part 1

All Marvel characters are property of Marvel, I will give them back when I am done. I only own Katrina Hawke.

This takes place between

Captain America: Winter Soldier & Civil War

After traveling and eating nothing but fast food for a couple of days I decided I wanted fresh fruit, so I went to a vendor around the corner from the hotel in Bucharest. As I was walking up, I noticed a guy in a blue ball cap and casual clothing. I walk up next to him and tell the vendor in Romanian that I will take two plums. The guy in the ball cap, pulled low over his eyes, started chuckling.

"What?" I asked him, almost afraid I butchered the Romanian language somewhere because I hadn't spoken it in so long. "Did I say it wrong?

"No, it's just nice to hear an American accent speaking Romanian." He smiled at me.

"You have a nice smile. I'm Katrina Hawke." I introduced myself by holding out my hand.

"I'm Bucky." He shook my hand. I looked him in the eye.

"You have the most intense blue eyes I've ever seen." I told him as I took his hand and a jolt like electricity ran through me. I saw a series of flashes - Flash: this man in a WW2 military uniform, "Sergeant Bucky Barnes reports for England tomorrow with the 107th." I heard him say. Flash: him looking up from a table at the person releasing him. "Steve?" I heard him whisper. Flash: him marching next to the guy who is known as Captain America. Flash: him falling off a train car into a canyon. Flash: him being dragged leaving a trail of blood where his left arm used to be. Flash: a man telling him that it's okay, he is the new fist of Hydra. Flash: him doing horrible things, his face void of emotion. Flash: Captain America with a puzzled look on his face asking, "Bucky?" and I heard this man say, "Who the hell is Bucky?" Flash: them fighting hand to hand on an airborne ship. Flash: Captain America freeing him from debris and told him that he is not going to fight him and telling Captain America that he is his mission. Flash: Captain America telling him that he will be with him till the end of the line. I see this man stop and look very shocked and confused. Flash: Captain America falls into the river and this man pulls him out and leaves him on the beach. Flash: this man goes to the museum and read about himself as being Bucky Barnes, Steven Rogers' best friend.

I came back to myself lying on the street in the arms of one James Buchanan Barnes, Bucky.

"Are you okay?" He asked me as he thanked the person who gave him a bottle of water. He tipped it up to my lips. I grabbed the bottle and drank greedily, sitting up on my own. He asked if I'm ok again.

"Oh, yeah, sorry." I stood up. I gestured towards a little park. "Let's go over there. I don't like attention." We walked over to a more secluded area that had a bench. We sat and he looked at me with concern.

"What happened?" he asked. I took a deep breath before answering.

"It's a long story." I told him.

"I've got time." He answered.

I looked up into his eyes, "I know who you are, James", I started. He looked at me in shock. I continued, "When I shook your hand, I saw flashes of your life up until now. I know you are James Buchanan Barnes, you fought in WW2 with the 107th, captured, experimented on, saved by Steve Rogers, your best friend. You were thought dead when you fell off a train car into a canyon during a mission with the Howling Commandos. Your left arm was torn off in the fall, Hydra found you, gave you a metal bionic arm and they made you, their assassin. You were kept in frozen cryo in between missions. You were tasked with killing Captain America, Steve Rogers. You were beating him to a pulp, but something stopped you. He fell into the river, you dragged him out of the river. You went to the Smithsonian and read about yourself, but you are very confused as to your past." When I finished I started shaking.