Losing him was blue, like I'd never known
Missing him was dark gray, all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know
Somebody you never met
Adelaide Herrmann has so many secrets and is good at hiding all of them.
Only one person knows the real Ad...
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"What are we doing at the hospital?" Adelaide asked, following Steve through the hallways.
"Just give me 10 minutes." He stopped at a vending machine.
Adelaide tried not to be obvious about looking over her shoulder, a habit that had become second nature. She adjusted her hat over her face and zipped up her jacket.
Natasha walked up to them.
They all huddled into a nearby room. Steve dragging them both by the arm.
"Where is it?" Steve demanded.
"Safe." Natasha told him.
Adelaide blinked in confusion at what they were talking about.
"Do better." Steve told Natasha.
"Where did you get it?" Natasha asked.
"Why would I tell you?" Steve retaliated.
"Fury gave it to you. Why?" Natasha asked again.
"What's on it?"
"On what?" Adelaide asked, her hands in the air in total confusion.
"I don't know." Natasha admitted.
"Stop lying."
"I only act like I know everything, Rogers." Natasha said.
Adelaide checked the halls one last time. "The hard drive?" Adelaide asked. They both ignored her. She didn't know how Roger's got his hands on it but now he had lost it.
"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"
Adelaide scratched her forehead, accepting she was not in on their secret, but knowing it was about the hard drive. So now she knew a little more.
"Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you." Natasha explained.
"I'm not gonna ask you again."
"I know who killed Fury."
"Nat." Adelaide cut in. She slowly shook her head. Steve looked between the two of them.
"Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists. The ones that do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years." Natasha watched Adelaide rub the bridge of her nose in frustration.
"So he's a ghost story." Steve said.
Adelaide sighed. "He's the only other super soldier from Hydra. And he's entirely real."
"She's right. Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot out my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff. I pulled us out. But the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer so he shot him straight through me."
