Time Capsule ~Bucky Barnes~

Silence

A couple of weeks had passed since the first mission, the same routine happened, Aurora would be tortured for hours and then thrown into the room by Bucky's room. She would treat his wounds because he would get injured, Bucky changed his attitude towards Aurora instead of visibly showing his kindness he would voice it and allow her to read his mind. The only time they really spoke was when they were side by side in their rooms. 

Aurora stared numbly at her captors as she was pushed into a new room, a sigh escaped her lips as she saw Bucky on a chair, the girl sighed as Bucky stared at her and she knew what was happening. A man walked over to her with a certain look in his eyes, the girl looked away from him and listened to the words he stated. 

"Make him forget you. We can't do that, wiping his memory of you doesn't work, make him forget you." The brunette girl shook her head, she knew she couldn't do it, they didn't know that and she knew they would accept her answer of not being able to do it because she couldn't. 

"Why not?" 

"Because I can't." 

"Alter them then!" The girl flinched at the shout in her ear, she held herself together and stared back at the man. 

"I can't do that either." Aurora hissed as she was punched across the face, the brunette cried out as she was shocked by the electric rod. 

"I physically cannot take away his memories, It's not that I do not want, it's that I cannot," Aurora mumbled in irritation, trying to get them to understand but she knew it would not be easy or possible to get them to understand. 

Aurora watched as Bucky stared at her, she groaned as they manhandled her onto a surgical table, and she accepted her fate. They positioned her so she could see Bucky and he could see her, Aurora felt tears welling in her eye as they started prepping to do something to her, Bucky couldn't move they strapped him down and he was forced to watch whatever would happen to the girl. 

The brunette girl took a breath, she did her best to avoid screaming as they began her torture, Bucky was forced to listen to her screams, forced to smell all the blood and burning flesh. He listened to her screams for hours on end, watched her come in an out of consciousness again and again. 

Bucky watched as her blood dripped off onto the table, onto a puddle on the ground, he watched the sweat and tears roll across her skin. Bucky watched as the light in her eyes was sucked out as she was beaten and tortured. He watched as she was injected with some drugs, he listened to her mumble and shout out for help as whatever she was given made her delirious. 

After she came off the drugs, they continued to paint her skin with burns and scars, the shock that her body felt almost killed her from the continuous use of harm to her body. The brunette needed to be resuscitated, her heart needed to be shocked in order to work again. They decided that it was enough and they needed to ease off, so they threw the girl back into her room and took Bucky with them to go into his room. 

Aurora sat on the bed, too tired to move to get her food, too tired to do anything. Bucky sat against the glass keeping them apart, he watched as she traced some of the marks on her body and let the silence overcome her. 

"Are you doing alright?" The girl whispered, glancing at him as he laughed at her question. 

"You're stupid." He whispered back, watching the small smile form on her lips. 

"I know." 

"You will not survive if you do not comply." He informed, the girl nodded, giving him a gentle smile and hummed as she let out a breath. 

"I know that too."

"You died for a moment." He informed, Aurora lowered herself to be lying down in bed, facing Bucky and sighing as he pointed to her food

"You should eat." He noticed her untouched food but she obviously didn't want to do anything. 

"I don't want to move." The girl groaned as he gave her a pointed look, she groaned as she pushed herself out of the bed to get her food and then sat back down to eat her meal. Bucky gave a gentle look, watching as she took a couple of bites to get the nutrients she needed. 

"Just a little more." She did as told, taking a few more bites, which ended up bringing more colour to her face and making her seem healthier. 

"I realised something after that first mission we had together." Bucky glanced as she laid back down, he copied her actions and smiled at her reassuringly. 

"What was that?" 

"They torture you by taking away your mind, taking away your ability to be human and using pain a little bit as well. That's how they make you compliant. They'll never do that to me, they're never going to try and wipe my memories. They use pain to make me compliant, it's working but that's how they're doing it. Pain to make me compliant, they do it after every mission, we've already been on hundreds together and it's only been a couple of weeks. I'm so tired Bucky, make it stop, please." 

Bucky took her words, thinking about them, putting them together and realised that it was how it was with her, they would torture her and they wouldn't take away her life. Maybe they had something else planned for her, but this was how they did it with her and he couldn't stop it, even though he wished he could.

Aurora fell asleep, Bucky watching over her, not needing the need for sleep just this moment. The girl was young, she hadn't lived a life, she was in pain and he couldn't do anything to help her from feeling the pain and wishing she wasn't alive.