'Till The End of The Line

Prologue

Life since the blip has been different. I lost the one person I loved deeply and that had become a sanctuary when the love of my life was turned to dust in the snap of Thanos fingers, as well as a brother to me. I met the love of my life in high school, who would eventually ship out with the 107th Infantry in 1943. I too was headed out to war, but as a combat nurse. I remember the day we met crystal clear even though it was roughly 80 years ago. Yeah, myself was superhuman much like Steve Rogers aka Captain America and James Buchanan Barnes aka Bucky aka The Winter Soldier.

When Bucky was taken by Hydra the first time, my world was shattered. Steve had promised me he'd find him and bring him back. I knew he would, little did I know that I would get captured in the efforts by Hydra as well years to come. I was captured in the 1960s when I was working alongside Howard Stark making more Super Soldier Serum. The reason for that, I was the first one of Stark's completion of making a Super Soldier since Captain, and because I knew the makings of the serum as I worked hand and hand with Howard. Howard had taken me in when Steve and Bucky were gone. I had no one else; the man gave me life and work.

I would be brainwashed by HYDRA forced to help create more Winter Soldiers while the love of my life was in a frozen casket ready to be used as a weapon of war and destruction. Give me the name of Winter. As the soldiers were created they wanted me to oversee the program full force forcing me to work alongside The Winter Soldier becoming a leading part of his and my own path of destruction.

In 1991 I began to regain my memories, but hid the fact I knew who I really was. The memory of my true self came when The Winter Soldier and myself were assigned to assassinate one person I will forever hate myself for, Howard Stark and his wife, Maria. The Winter Soldier killed Howard while I forced his wife to watch the killing, then killed her with my bare hands with the snap of her neck as she pleaded for me, 'Skylar to spare her life and she'd save me from Hydra'. I was confused by those words and quickly snapped her neck and retreated back to The Winter Soldier, calling him James in the process causing him to look at me confused as we destroyed evidence of our being there.

In 2011, my memories all began to fall into view. Keeping them to myself and watching Bucky work alongside me destroying everything and having to continue to act as if I was brainwashed by HYDRA. Staying there and not running from HYDRA's captivity only because I couldn't leave Bucky's side, even if that meant living a horrible lie and killing. I fought to get him to remember things in private more and more. Calling him by his first name James. Telling him that I needed something to call him by and he looked like a James. He accepted it saying it was only fair when he called me Winnie, short for Winter which I hated.

In 2014 after the altercation with the Avengers, Bucky's memories started to come back. He tried to go into hiding without me, but I quickly found him not letting him get far from my reach. His memory of me is finally completely there, letting me stay in hiding with him. We stayed in hiding until Captain and the reset of SHIELD came knocking on our door to capture us thinking we were still brainwashed by HYDRA. Eventually we were both captured by SHIELD, which was corrupted by HYDRA at the time.

Bucky and I would eventually end up in Wakanda. Bucky would eventually go back into freezing while Shuri began to work on freeing him from his past Winter Soldier life, while she worked differently on me. We would spend the next few years in Wakanda until it was time to save the world once again.

2023 the blip would happen and I lost Bucky because of it. I spent five years in hell without Bucky. I was hard to handle. Steve struggled to handle me. Natasha struggled to handle me. I went rouge for awhile. I went on some machines. I went on to try and clean up the world, but it didn't work. I came back home broken, tired and hungry. Steve scooped me up and took me to Wakanda and begged them to put me into Cryo until we figured out what we could do because he thought I was going to end up dead. They agreed and that's where I went for the rest of the time until it came time to fight again.