Part 8- Backfire (hahahaha, I'm so funny)

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HI!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! SO, I WAS SCROLLING ON TIKTOK AND APPARENTLY C.C. RELEASED THE TITLES OF THE WICKED POWERS SERIES, WHICH IS GONNA BE HER LAST SERIES. THE FIRST ONE IS CALLED THE LAST KING OF FAERIE, THE SECOND IS THE LAST KING OF HELL AND THE THIRD IS CALLED THE LAST SHADOWHUNTER!!!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! I'M OVERWHELMED AND ON THE VERGE OF A MENTAL BREAKDOWN AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT WAS THE TIPPING POINT BECAUSE I WAS ALREADY EMOTIONALLY EMPTY BECAUSE I JUST WATCHED ENDGAME, IT WAS SO GOOD AND DEPRESSING. IMA HEAD TO BED NOW, ENJOY A CHAPTER

Shadow Bucky thought. Who that was, he couldn't quite remember. But she was special. She'd been one of HYDRA's soldiers. She-

She wasn't supposed to be awake.

The winter soldier had put her in the cryo tube. He remembered what the general had told him. 

She'll be preserved for fifty years likely. At least until we kill the other girl. The one who makes her resist us. They cannot be together, no matter how strong they are together.

Then how was she awake?

But she was. And she stood before him with fire in her eyes and ice in her voice. 

She grabbed him by the front of his shirt, the fire she'd started glowing behind her, giving her the appearance of an angel come from heaven to curse him into hell, her halo shining like the sun.

"If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you," she quoted. 2 kings 1:12 he thought. She put a strange penlike object against his skin and his clothes and she began to draw. From those symbols, fire ignited, burning him. He fought the screams that threatened to escape as excruciating pain rippled through him. She turned on her heel and ran away. 

Bucky frantically moved to try to put the fires out, but he watched in amazement as the marks quickly faded from his skin and the fire died down. He paused. The burns and their sharp pain remained, but the fire was... gone? He wasn't on fire anymore.

Oh wait, but the room still was.

Hesitantly, he pressed a shaking hand to one of the marks on the floor and watched as it faded and the fire died. He crawled furiously around, touching the strange marks and putting out the fires. The doors behind him busted open as he touched the last one.

"Bucky!" Steve cried out.

"Oh, hey Steve, she got away," he replied.

"Why is the fire alarm-WHY ARE THERE BURN MARKS ON MY FLOORS?!" Tony asked.

"Uh, she kind of set the place on fire,"

"How? It's stone and metal!"

"I don't know, but it didn't work out as she intended," Bucky said.

"What? Why not?" Steve asked.

"Because she set me on fire-"

"She what?!" Steve interrupted.

"Yeah, but the weirdest thing is, the fires suddenly... stopped," Bucky continued.

"Hold on, back it up to when she set you on fire, why?" Steve asked.

"Because she's Shadow. And the Winter Soldier was the one who locked her in the cryo tubes at HYDRA"

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Jinx is fighting, screaming, kicking, trying to get away. They got her. Did they get Dina? Why did Lilith take over, why did she let them get caught? Normally Lilith runs off, she doesn't like serving HYDRA that much, she'd rather be on her own. This thought makes Jinx feel uneasy. She'd been caught before, but they'd normally just lock her in a cell for a few nights before they tried to bring out Lilith. Before then though, Dina would have found her.

But tonight, they weren't going to a cell. Tonight, they went deeper.

The soldiers handed her off to another, a tall man with long brown hair and a metal arm. She'd seen him before, but never this close.

"Солдат, брось ее в" the general commanded. Soldier, throw her in.

Nonononono, she thought when she realized what was happening. She'd heard of these things, the cryo tubes. They were going to freeze her alive. She fought, she kicked, she screamed, but she was not as strong as the winter soldier. He shoved her in and closed the door.

As the temperature began to drop, she heard Lilith's voice inside her head.

This is for our own good Joy. Your parabatai makes you fight me, keeps you in control. When she's dead in fifty some years, I will take control, once and for all. That was the last thing she heard for three years.

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So cold. So, so cold. Jinx thought as she opened her eyes. Dina was kneeling beside her, drawing warming runes on her skin. She shivered. 

"Dina?" she croaked out.

"Oh, Joy. Thank the Angel," Dina whispered as she wrapped her arms around her parabatai. 

"Who-How-What happened," she asked as her teeth chattered. Why was she still so cold?

"They froze you alive. It-It's been three years," Dina replied.

Jinx froze. Three years? How could it have been three years?! No, it couldn't possibly have been three years...could it? And why was she so damn cold?! 

She wanted to burn, she needed to burn, she'd burn in hell so long as it meant that she wasn't this cold.

So long as she burned Hydra and the Winter Soldier.

12:12:2023

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