The Assassin Shadow - Bucky Barnes

Chapter 1

I've been in Hydra all my life. Being experimented on and tests were my daily life. Until tonight, the hydra base was attacked by the americans. All I can hear is gunshots and screams. I don't wanna die, I'm so scared. I run in the hallways until I find a pile of boxes, I'm small enough to hide behind it. I wait here for so much time that I almost feel like I'm gonna fall asleep.  I hear footsteps and they're getting closer and closer. I hide my face in between my knees, I really hope that it's not the red face guy.

"Wait, Steve, is that a child?" one of the men says.

"I think so, but how did she arrive here?"

The two men look at each other before turning to me again. I looked at them and they could see the terror in my eyes. The one with brown hair came closer to me and that made me back up even more against the wall.

"Hey, hey don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you sweetheart."

The man seems to not be lying but can I really trust him? I guess that I don't have any other choice.

"Buck, we're in Germany, I don't think she can understand you. She probably speaks german."

"They actually teached me three languages. English, the one I'm the best at, German and Russian."

The two men look at each other again and they look like they're trying to speak in the mind of the other so that I don't know what they're saying to one another.

"Come on kiddo, get on my back I'll take you somewhere safe ok?"

"But you look hurt, I don't want to hurt you even more"

"It's fine, come on!" He says with a smile.

I climb on his back and hold on tight to his sweater. We start walking, I don't really know where but probably out of here.

"What's your name, sweetie?" He asks

What can I say to that? What's a name? Is it an animal or something like that?

"What's a name?" I ask the men.

It looks like the blond one wanted to cry but I don't understand. Why is he upset?

"That's what you're called, you know, like my name is Steven Rogers."

Wait what I'm called? Oh! So it's like when they call me stupid and subject!

"Oh well my name is Stupid and Subject!"

I can feel the man holding me on his back is starting to feel bad after what I said but why?

"That's not your name, kid, it's just some bad things that they say." The Steven guy says.

"Okay, but I don't have a name then." I say sad

"Everyone has a name, we're gonna find you one." The brown guy tells me.

"What is your name?" I ask him.

"My name is James Barnes but call me Bucky and you can call him Steve."

Okay, it's not that hard, blond guy's Steve and the brown guy is Bucky. Bucky? It sounds nothing like James.

"Why do I have to call Bucky when your name is James?" I'm really lost right now.

"Well because it's my nickname." I think he saw my interrogation point in my eyes because he started speaking right after it. "A nickname is pretty often a version of your name but shorter. For example, my whole name is James Buchanan Barnes so Bucky is short for Buchanan."

Now it's more clear and I understand. Why do they have to speak with scientific vocabulary? I'm just, wait, how old am I again?

"Excuse me, Bucky?"