Different as Night and Day (Winterfalcon)

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Sam's POV

"Where's Steve?"

Everyone stood quietly until I looked at Tony blatantly confused.

"What do you mean where's Steve?"

"He was upstairs with you guys. Or that's what I thought...?"

We all looked to the door as a panting Steve hurled himself into the lab.

"Steve??" We all asked at the same time. Tony immediately rushed to help the star-spangled man.

He was still panting, but inbetween breaths he got out a story.

"Winter *pant* Soldier upstairs *pant* he's here *pant* to kill us *pant* need to *pant* stop him." He took a minute and caught his breath. "His targets are everybody as far as I know. He has order to kill-"

I put him against the wall before he could get out anything else. I had a fist full of his collar and slammed him into the lab glass.

"WHAT THE HELL SAM?! PUT ME FUCKING DOWN!!!"

I gave only a low growl as everybody backed away from us. Nobody moved to stop me.

"The Steve I know wouldn't swear. And answer me this Cap, how did you know who his targets were?"

Steve's eyes flickered and he grimaced in pain. He turned his head to get away from me. I looked behind his ear, seeing a small metal disk. Carefully I moved to pull it off and immediately the man flinched in pain.

That's when I noticed the red octopus-like label.

HYDRA.

"Tony. Come here and look at this. We need to get it off him now. Nat and Vis help me hold him."

Nat and Vision came over to me as they each grabbed an arm. Tony came closer, he looked like he was about to cry, what was that all about?

The billionaire took a shaky breath as he stared at the disk.

"We can take it off now. I don't know how much pain or damage it'll cause but it doesn't look terribly wired into his system."

That's all I needed to hear.

Call me cruel or blunt. Maybe you could even say I was bitter.

Before Steve could realize what I was doing I ripped the disk off from behind his ear.

Screams filled the lab. Bruce and Wanda covered their ears. Nat and Vision held Steve down. A small trickle of blood went down his neck, it appeared to be stuck in his neck like a pin. Tony pressed gauze to the wound and dressed it before I could even move for a bandaid.

I glared at him. Go ahead you know you wanna call me harsh. I don't care. Especially not now. I would forgive Steve later. Unfortunately it explained his nasty behavior and his rude jabs at Bucky. He was being controlled by HYDRA to get to Bucky. "You better explain now. Because we have a trained assassin after us."

"I'm sorry," he spoke quietly. Tony looked at him with extreme sympathy. I wish they would just kiss already. If Bucky and I were obvious to Nat and Wanda then they were like neon signs. They weren't fooling anybody sorry. He continued bring me out of my thoughts of matchmaking.

"I was cornered and they stuck that in me while I was getting Bucky in Bucharest. They've been taking spans of time from me, using me and controlling my moved with some new technology. They threatened to hurt all of you as well as physical pain for me. Funny how such a small device can cause a lot of electrocution." He laughed and all of us just listened.