It's not what it seems

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Bucky was there. Why? I wondered about that for what seemed like hours. Why would he be here? I could only find one answer to that question. Hydra, they got to him before we did, that's why T'Challa didn't come for us... How could we have been so stupid? At that point I was tired, so I decided I'd try to sleep. It took me some time to fall asleep and I woke up screaming thanks to my nightmares. Again, I saw Bucky standing in front of my cell. It scared me that he was there. I couldn't see his face, for that he was too far away, but I was sure his eyes were on me. He stood there for a moment and then he walked away. It was kind of weird, was he assigned to watch over me or something? Wouldn't it make much more sense for him to watch over Rogers? Maybe they were afraid he'd recognize him and would try to help him. But, they could brainwash him if he did right? They probably didn't want to risk it though, easier for them too.

This went on for several days, and with "this" I meant, me waking up screaming thanks to nightmares to find Bucky staring at me through the bars of my cell. Until one day he wasn't staring through the bars, but directly at me, standing just three feet away from me. It scared me that he was so close. "Bucky, what are you doing in there?" "The screaming is driving me insane." "The KGB will come for her the day after tomorrow, just deal with it for a while longer." "No. I can't." The other guy sighed, "Bucky, she'll be gone soon enough." "Not soon enough if you ask me. Can't I just kill her? Tell 'em she committed suicide or something, they'd probably believe that." "Bucky..." "I can't take it anymore." "Oh well, she means nothing to me anyway, I'm just here so she doesn't escape, and if she dies she doesn't right?" He sounded tired, like he already had a whole argument with Bucky and just gave him what he wanted. Bucky dragged me out of my and put a gun to my head. Then he suddenly shot the other guard and dragged me through the hall to a door.

The door led to a stairs, which led to a basement. There he dropped the gun. I looked at him wide-eyed with no clue of what had happened. He turned on the light and in the basement I saw a bed, a couch a table with some chairs and a television. There was a door to my right, and the stairs was behind me. "You okay?" Bucky asked me. "I-I have no idea," I answered. "You look kinda confused." "Yeah, I wonder why that is." "That sounded pretty sarcastic." "I'm glad you noticed." "Now you sound angry." "No really?" "Hey, don't be so mad, I did save your life okay?" "Oh did you?" "Yes, don't you get it, I'm on your side." That took me aback. "How can I trust you?" "I don't have anything to show you to make you trust me, but I can tell my story and hope you believe it." I nodded, "Go on then." "Do you know what happened after Germany, to me and Steve I mean?" "Not really no, how's that relevant?" "We fought Tony, and after that, Steve brought me here." "I thought Tony wanted to help you guys." "He did, until he found out I killed his parents. Anyway, T'Challa thought his forces wee strong enough to keep Hydra out the door. What he did not know was that Hydra was a parasite in his forces, just like it once was a parasite in S.H.I.E.L.D. They knew where I was, were to find me and the defrosted me after they took T'Challa down. He's somewhere in this building, I don't exactly know where. They wanted to brainwash me, but somehow I could convince them it wasn't necessary. I told them I was disoriented thanks to the ice, that I didn't know where I was and what had happened to me for the last three years. They were stupid enough to believe it." He took a deep breath. "Then you guys came here, I was locked away, looking after the prisoners, not really needed at the time, but then Sam went out for some shopping and they saw their chance to catch guys and lock you up." "Why? Why didn't they take Sam too?" "Because they like drama and wanted someone less valuable to bring the story to the Avengers." "Sounds like the stuff villains do." "They assigned me to watch over you because they were afraid that, if they'd let me watch over Steve, I'd recognize him and help him escape."

I believed him, I know when people are lying, so this meant that either, telling the truth, or, he was very good at lying. I hoped it was the first one and I chose to trust him. "And... this place is?" "Oh uh, this is where I sleep, please don't mind the mess." I looked around, the floor was full of clothing and candy wrappers. There were dirty dishes on the table, his bed was full of popcorn. "Yeah, you shouldn't have said that." His face turned red. "Uh... I uh... you're suitcase is over there... maybe you should take a shower, put on some clean clothing and uh... come back into the room when I cleaned it up." "Where's the bathroom?" "It's the door to your right." "Alright, and when I'm in there you're here cleaning up?" "Yes..." "You won't enter that bathroom?" "No." "Good Bucky, not that it really would have bothered me if you did." I winked and walked to the bathroom.