Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The Chronicles Of Gracie Hart

We Remain Blind To What We Refuse To See

We sat in a car hot wired by steve Natasha in the back seat me in the passenger seat steve driving "where did captain America learn how to hot wire a car"Natasha asks "nazi germany and we are borrowing"he says "take your feet of the seat"he says to Natasha "alright I have a question to ask you both which you don't have to answer I feel if you don't answer it though your already answering it"Natasha rambles "what"me and steve sigh at the same time she smirks "was that the first time you guys have kissed like have you two ever thought about getting together cause I think you'd be cute together"Natasha says I from so does steve I look down at the necklace I constantly wear with my engagement ring on "no"I say to Natasha looking up and back at here "what she said"steve says "oh really you guys have been best friends for how long and not once did you two think of getting it on I mean your both virgins right"she continues I scoff "Natasha shut up"I snap "we are like siblings besides Gracie has always been in love with..."he drifts off not sure if the mention of his name will set me off I look at him so does Natasha "not me"steve finishes "you mean the Sargent she was due to marry before he got killed"Natasha states "wow"I say loudly "you really love to watch us squirm don't you"I sigh "I'm just saying he's gone and you two well you get each other maybe you two together wouldn't be such a bad thing"she sighs. I look at steve who is visibly uncomfortable. "What about you you got a guy"I ask changing the attention to her "no"she smiles "how do you date I mean like you can't just tell them your a spy"I ask "I just make something up"she replies "why would you do that"I frown "the truth is a matter of circumstance you don't have to tell people things all the time like they don't have to tell me anything they don't want to"she shrugs "that's a tough way to live"steve frowns "it's a good way not to die though"she sighs "you know it's kinda hard to trust someone when you don't know who that's someone truly is"steve states "yeah what do you want me to be"she asks steve "how about a friend"he says she laughs "there's a chance you might be in the wrong business for that rogers"she smirks.

A few hours later we get to the old training camp the location of my first job the place steve grew into the man he is today. As we at out the car I feel a Odd sense of home. "This is it"steve says as we step to the gates "it came from the coordinates"Natasha says "so did we"I say smiling up at steve who smiled down at me. It was dark by the time we had looked around half the camp "this is where I was trained"steve says "and where I took up my first job as a doctor scientist I learned a lot here"is smile remembering me walking around these grounds looking out for twiggy steve "pre serum of course"I smile kicking some stones with my feet. "Has it changed much"Natasha says "a little"steve says as he stands reminiscing "this place is a dead end there's not heat signatures or even radio"Natasha's says putting her scanner down "whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off"Natasha's says "no way I would have seen that"I shake my head. "Your right"steve says looking over at a new building

We walk over to it "what is this"nat asks "army regulations forbid Storing ammunition within 500 yards of the barricades" steve says "shit your right"he frown only now noticing it "this new building is on the wrong place"steve says as we get to the door. Steve breaks the lock with his shield and we continue down the stairs turning on the lights a room full of desks are revealed the shield symbol painted on the wall at the far end "this is shield"Nat frowns as we walk in further "maybe where it started"I say looking at the dusty desks and chairs. we walk into a back room on the wall staring back at us are 3 frames photos "there's starks father"nat sighs "howie"I smile gently at the formal picture of my old friend steve looks over at me the other 2 photos consist of Chester and Peggy "who's the girl"nat asks steve ignores the question walking further into the room Nat looks at me raised eyebrow "her names Peggy she's steves well um kinda ex I guess"I smile lightly walking after steve who seemed to have taken interest in a bookcase at the back. If your already working in a secret office"he starts opening the book case to a lift "why do you need to hide the elevator"steve finishes. We get in Nat using her scanner to find code to send us down. Once down the doors open into a dark room the 3 of us walk in blindly walking forward until the lights turn on revealing a computer form the 40s "this can't be the database this technology is ancient"Nat scoffs as me and steve look around stunned. Nat puts the memory stick into a slot of the one piece of tech that isn't as old as me and steve this turns the computers on around us. "Initiate system"a computerised voice says typing the question on the screen in front of us. I step forward typing yes on the screen. "Shall we play a game"Nat smirks at me and steve who both frown "it's from a movie called saw"she says me and steve share a look "seriously Gracie like I get steve not knowing it but you"she scoffs "I'm 95 years old Nat even if I don't look it I bet me and you would both be into very different hobbies in our spare time"I sigh as the computer starts up. That's when a familiar voice sounds out of the computer "rogers, Steven born 1918. Hart, Gracie born 1918"it says the camera moving in between me and steve before moving to Nat "romanoff, Natalia born 1984"it says "that's so weird for a recording"Nat frowns "I'm not a recording female I may not be the man I was when the captain and ms hart took me prisoner in 1945 but I am"the computer says making another screen pop up with a picture of zola on it me and steve gasp I step back a little "you know this thing"Nat frowns confused "Arnim zola was a German scientist who worked for red skull"steve explains looking round the back of the screens "he's been dead for years"I add "correction look around you I've never been more alive"he says in his computerised voice. "In 1972 I revived a terminal diagnosis, science could not save my body but my mind however that was worth saving on 200 feet of data banks"he explains as steve walks next to me from behind the screens "you are handing in my brain"the computer voice says as the sketchy face on the screen mouths "how did you get here"I ask "operation paper clip after world war 2 shield recruited German scientists strategic value"Nat explains "and they chose you a nasty low life scum"I hiss squeezing my fists together "oh now now Gracie are you still mad about our tiff"he says I'm sure if he were here in real life he would have a smirk on his face one of be happy to wipe off "they wanted me to help there cause and I wanted to help my own"he says steve holds my fists gently "hydra does with red skull"steve argues "cut off one head 2 more shall take its place"he says while making 2 faces on the screen "prove it"I snap"accessing archive"he says before he shows red skull explains hydra and how it was built of wanting to take freedom but how people thought back he shows tapes of hydra and me and steve fighting with the commandos "after the war shield was founded"he says showing a picture of Chester Peggy and howie in the room upstairs "I was recruited the new hydra grew a beautiful parasite inside shield for 70 years hydra has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war and when history did not co operate history was changed"he explains I can feel my heat rate picking up "that's impossible"I spit out Nat steps closer to my side seeing my distress "shield would have stopped you"Nat said "accidents will happen"he says showing news paper articles of howie and Maria's death and furys deceased file. I choke a little tears welling in my eyes "you killed Maria and Howard"I try cover a sob steve laces his hand with mine I ty stop the tears from falling. The guilt is eating at me of course howie and Marie were murdered why couldn't I see that I think to myself "hydra made things so chaotic that humanity was finally ready to submit its freedom"he says shooting images of CCTV cameras "then its security"he says showing a satellite "once the purification process is complete hydras new world order will arise"he explains I close my eyes as tears fall I wipe them away with my free hand "we won captain America your death was with just as much as your life.. nothing and as for Gracie we'll all these years you have lived the high life we grew right under your nose you were fixed on remaining blind"he mocks steve has had enough letting go of my hand he punches the screen smashing it "as I was saying"zolas voice returns on another screen "what's on the drive"steve says "project incite requires incite so I wrote a algorithm"he reveals "what kind of algorithm what does it do"Nat asks stepping forward "the answer to your question is quite fascinating unfortunately you shall be to dead to hear it"he says just as the lift closes steve tries to stop it with his shield but is to late. Nats scanner beeps "steve Gracie we got a boogie short range ballistic we got 30 seconds"she says. "Who fired it"I ask "shield"Nat replies "I'm afraid I have been stalling captain"zola taunts "admit it it's better this way we are all out of time"he says as steve panics looking around he sees a floor panel ripping it up "Gracie"he calls to me as the beeping gets louder and more frequent. Just then everything explodes steve grabs me and Natasha and we jump into the floor him using his shield to hold above us the forum crumbles above us to much for steve to hold up we get buried.

I'm stuck under rock "steve"I call as I hear him struggling "Gracie you okay"he asks "I'm fine just.."I struggle to get free "a little stuck"i say steve crawls to me lifting the rock from my leg I scrape free crawling to Nat who is out cold "Nat"I call feeling for a pulse "she's just out cold"I assure steve he pushes the massive rock on top of us off allowing us to crawl out into the now open top he lifts Nat as we get out of the rubble carrying her. We look up as cars loom over us pulling over just above where we are "go"I say as we rush away before brock and get down here.