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New York City
"It was the right thing to do, Steve." Sam patted Steve, who sat thoughtfully beside him on the park bench in front of the courthouse with his head propped up in his hands, on the shoulder.
"I know it was right, that's not the problem. The problem is I just put my first big love behind bars at close to a hundred years old."
"She deserves it. Not just for the reason that the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. knew about your best friend Barnes still being alive, but the fact that she was experimenting on Barnes with that fucked up scientist Zola on the side. She deserves to rot her last days in a dark hole underground."
"And now?" Steve inquired as he lifted his head from his hands and looked up at Sam.
"And now Peggy goes into the raft and rots there - like she should - meanwhile we go looking for your Best Friend and rescue him and try to figure out who the woman was that saved my ass."
"Do you think we'll find him? Do you... Do you think he can remember me?"
"I hope so."
"Yeah... Yeah me too."
Steve gave Sam a weak smile before they joined the others in heading back to headquarters.
In the meantime, Yelena, who had stayed home, had prepared some things.
In the conference room she had listed on a board, which assassinations could be assigned to the Winter Soldier.
She had searched for video recordings from various surveillance cameras and had more or less rolled up and studied the whole case of "How do we save Bucky?".
On the table, at the height of each chair, lay a thick file with the information she had collected.
Although Yelena may often come across as aloof and cold-hearted, this mission was of great interest to her.
She herself had spent most of her life in the RedRoom, losing her sister and her best friend, and she knew exactly what it was like to be forced to act against one's will.
Yelena couldn't and didn't want to imagine the hellish tortures Steve's best friend had to endure over the years and for herself this mission had the highest priority.
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Russia
After he and Daria had looked into each other's eyes for a while while they were lying on the couch, Daria was the first to fall asleep.
Bucky had been watching her for a while, slumbering like an angel in his arms.
