AVENGERS CIVIL WAR

Chapter 3

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Sharon didn't want to keep the secret but she also didn't want to disobey Natasha's direct orders. She could feel the team's disapproval, the silent looks. They knew that she knew where Natasha was. Sharon tucked away into her bedroom, sank onto her bed and picked up the phone. Her fingers knew what numbers to type even before she realised it.

"Aunt Peggy?"

A voice, gentle and familiar answered, "Sharon, dear?"

Relief surged through Sharon, hearing her aunt's voice. "Hi. How are you?" She asked with a hint of concern.

"Better than you are, from the sounds of it." Sharon faintly smiled. Her aunt was always so perceptive. "What's wrong, darling?"

Sharon exhaled slowly. She didn't want to overwhelm Peggy by unloading all of what had been going on lately, so she deemed it best to stick to the biggest issue at hand. "I need your advice."

"God knows I have plenty of that."

Sharon chose her words with care. "I was trusted with information and sworn to confidentiality. I just know everyone is pissed at me and worried. I don't know what to do. Should I tell them?"

"Can you tell me what it is? Is it to do with Steve?" Peggy said the word 'Steve' with extra concern.

Sharon bit her lip. What the hell, she thought. Might as well tell her, she has a right to know. "Not exactly Steve...It's to do with Bucky Barnes. Barnes isn't dead, Peggy. He didn't die back in the 1940's."

There was silence on the other end for a long moment. Sharon prayed she hadn't put her aunt into shock.

"James is still alive." It was a whisper of disbelief, with a touch of relief. Peggy switched to briskness. "What's happened to him?"

"He was captured by Hydra, frozen for years, let out on missions occasionally and then Hydra wiped his mind and froze him again. He was a Hydra assassin. He killed-"

"Howard and Maria Stark, didn't he?" Peggy's voice hinted at the fact she had suspected it for years. "We knew it was a Hydra assassin. Someone fast, a better marksman than anyone else the world had seen. I know only a few people who could shoot like James was able to..." She trailed off, and Sharon suspected that Peggy was thinking back to the missions back in the 1940's with the handsome young soldier. "What's going on with him now?"

"He's been captured again by some people and one of ours went to go get him. Without orders." Sharon diverted 'trigger words', such as Natasha, Russia, and Hydra, from getting picked up on the system, in case anyone was listening.

"Does anyone know?"

"Just me."

"Keep quiet. They'll only go looking and get in where they don't belong." Peggy's reply was definite.

"They'll hate me for it," Sharon resignedly murmured.

"Sometimes secrets benefit others in the long run," Peggy answered. "If the person I think went after him, they've got it entirely under control."

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Natasha knew where to find Bucky. She had vague memories of the place he was hidden, memories that haunted her constantly. To go back would be torture, but she knew Bucky as undergoing every form of hell. All she needed was a way to get in. She could break in, but the guards were everywhere, and heavily armed. She didn't want to risk it. Instead, she decided she needed to punch a free ticket in.