The Winter Witch

Chapter Nine: Ready to Comply

I was fast asleep in my room when all of a sudden, Bucky burst through my room and woke me up. "Wanda! Come on, wake up!" He shook me until I was finally awake.

"Bucky...? What's going on?" I asked tiredly.

He tossed my suit to me and started to pace around the room. "Amell is here. He found us. Me."

My eyes went wide. "What? How? I thought we were protected by Tony's force field or whatever." I replied.

Bucky shook his head. "I was wrong when I said we could take him. We were all wrong. He has so many guys working for him."

I quickly changed into my suit, my mind still wrapping around this. I could hear a lot of commotion coming from downstairs. "Where's Steve and Nat and-"

"They're all fighting off Amell's men." He replied. I heard a loud boom and I jumped a little.

Bucky came up to me and hugged me tightly. "We can still fight this." He whispered.

When he pulled away, he gave me a long kiss. I wanted to savor every second of it.

"We need to go help them." Bucky grabbed me by the hand and led me out of my room. That's when we were jumped by huge guys in dark stealth suits. Most of them grabbed Bucky and tried to sedate him. I unleashed my hex but I was picked up and thrown into the wall before it could get very far.

"WANDA!" Bucky yelled. I saw him try to fight the men off but I lost consciousness before I could see what happened.

I awoke on a cold hard floor of a tiny interrogation room. There was only a door and a large window. I got up and ran to the door. I jiggled the handle but it was locked. I tried my hex but it didn't work. I backed away from the door, running my hands through my hair. I turned to the window and saw Bucky in some sort of chair/contraption. I ran up to the window and banged my hands against it.

"Bucky!" I yelled.

He looked up and I saw relief in his eyes.

"It's going to be okay, Wanda." He said.

I wanted to believe him. I noticed a guy sitting across from Bucky. He was holding a red journal with a black star on it. I saw Bucky go tense.

"Where did you get that?" He asked through gritted teeth.

The guy, I'm assuming is Amell, opened the journal and started to read.

"Bucky...what is he doing?" I asked.

Bucky looked at me and gave me a sad, defeated smile. "We'll be okay. You'll be okay. You guys can get through this."

I didn't understand. What was he talking about.

"James Buchanan Barnes. I've been hunting you for a very long time. Now I get to relish in the fact that you're MY soldier." Amell said, snarky like.

"My name is Bucky." Bucky replied quietly.

Amell laughed. "Say goodbye to your girlfriend, Bucky."

What the hell was going on? "Bucky! What is going on?" I yelled. A tear slipped down my face but I quickly wiped it away.

"Longing." Amell said.

I could see that Bucky was fighting whatever was going on. Which I still didn't understand.

"Rusted."

"Stop." Bucky said quietly.

"Furnace."

I pounded on the window. "What are you doing?" I cried out. "Let us go!"

"Daybreak."

"Stop..." Bucky pleaded.

Suddenly, it hit me. Amell was reverting him back to the Winter Soldier. This can't be happening. Amell's words were very clear. Bucky would be 'his' soldier. I clenched my fists and then unleashed a massive amount of my hex. It bounced off the walls but I kept fighting. "Bucky! You can fight this!" I cried out.

"Seventeen."

"Benign."

Nothing was working. "Bucky!" I screamed.

"Nine."

"Homecoming."

Bucky looked at me and I looked back. Tears were flooding my eyesight. I kept pounding on the window.

"One."

Bucky started to tense up even more.

"Freight Car."

Then everything went silent. My hex raveled back and I stopped pounding on the window. My palm slid down but I held it there.

Finally, Amell spoke up. "Soldier?"

It seemed as if Bucky was staring into nothingness. "Готов выполнить."

I fell to the floor, tears just pouring down my face. Ready to comply...