Saviours || Bucky Barnes [2]

Reality

Avengers: The Age of Ultron | Saviours | Reality

"I love you, Avery Lola Rogers..."

"You are the Winter Soldier. Our most magnificent weapon of the century..."

"You are my sister ... nothing could stop me from loving you..."

"Don't let them change you ... you be a good girl, Avery..."

...

"This is your first test." Dr Zola appeared by her side, holding out a pistol in his hands - waiting for her to take it. "Shoot them." Gesturing to the three small children knelt in front, shaking with fear - silently begging this to be a nightmare. Hoping they weren't actually away from their parents ... about to die. Rags were stopping them from talking, tear stains were evident on their paled cheeks.

Without even thinking, Winter grabbed the gun from the little man - aiming it at the kids. And one after the other, they fell to the floor with an identical bullet lodged in their skulls.

This woman was a monster.

...

Avery's grasp was slipping from the train, the wind brushed past her with a vicious push - she could barely breathe. "Steve..." She whimpered breathlessly, feeling her grip slipping, "James..." She looked up to see her two boys disappearing from sight - their soulful eyes being the last thing to vanish, it's like they were fading from existence. "Don't leave me!" She screamed with desperation. "Please! Don't leave me!"

Her grip fully lets go, her body began to fall from the sky with a hefty drop. "Ahhh-!"

x-x-x

Back to the present; Ava's body jumped and jolted off. Her breathing was erratic and heavy, it's like she had no control over her body. "Ahhh-!" A scream ricocheted out of her mouth, her eyes snapping open while a large gasp filled the air.

"Avery?!" A very frantically worried male's voice started to cut through her undetermined haze. "Ava, calm down - it's okay! You're safe!" The voice was speaking in her ear as her eyes clenched shut again, her heart constricting as the recognition came to her. Steve.

Ava's muscles clenched while her head began to shake in a hasty manner, "Not real..." She started to mumble to herself. "Not real ... none of this is real." Her voice broke, arms wrapped around her shaking figure. Everything that replayed through her head ... all those things she's done ... no, that couldn't have been her. She couldn't do all those things ... could she?

She barely recognised the pinching pain in the human arm through her mumblings, but even so, her body began to slump with tiredness - her words beginning to slur as her mind started to shut down. Her last words before darkness took her were, "I'm a monster..." And with that, her unconscious body fell into the arms of her brother - her eyes rolling to the back of her head - back into the mind of nightmares.

...

Steve looked down at his sister with worry sharpened in his eyes. "What's wrong with her?!" He insisted, a hard note in his tone while his eyes narrowed dangerously with protectiveness - as if daring anyone to lie to him about his sister's condition. He carefully picked her up, placing her back onto the medical bed she been on before.

"I-I'm not sure," Helen Cho stuttered slightly, glancing to the monitor that showed Ava's brain activity. Helen Cho was the main doctor when it came to the Avengers getting injured - she had a small body, she was of Asian descent but as much of an American as everyone else was in this city. "At least, I'm not a hundred percent sure. Her brain waves are acting like an amnesia patient who's started to regain their memories back, but this is..." She didn't really know how to put it. "...I've never seen someone remember something at this extreme level and from the looks of it, it's taking a toll on both her mind and body."