Winnie? • The winter soldier

01

"Hey there kitten. You want your food?" The guard taunts.

"Then you gotta do a little trick kitten. Do a trick and I'll think about giving you your food, sound good?" He continues.

"Just give her the food. You know boss don't like it when you play your little games with the prisoner."

"Alright maybe next time kitten." He smirks as he slides the tray through the grate.

••••

"Come on! You'd think after a year of all of this you'd learn to just tell us what we want." A man scoffs sitting in front of a young woman.

The dark woman just stares ahead as if she couldn't hear him.

"Listen I just want to get this done and over with so I can go home."

"Sounds like a you problem." The woman quips.

"All we need to know is where either the tribe or your father is. I know you don't wanna keep doing this, princess." Princess a title she can no longer go by.

She stays silent showing no emotion as they place a blade into a fire making it glow red. They slowly start piercing the blade through the skin on her arm.

"Please..... stop." She whispers a tear threatening to fall.

"All you gotta tell us is where they are hiding. We know they're not dead or else you wouldn't have had this when we found you." He says holding the amulet she use to use to contact them when they'd send her away for training.

"Alright how about we put this pretty thing back where it belongs." He says putting it back around my neck.

To use the amulet you have to be part of the tribe and it has to touch your skin. It will glow to show that the other person wearing it was still alive.

"Sir it doesn't seem to be working are you sure you figured out how to work it?" One of the guards ask.

"Yes! Are you questioning my intelligence?" He barks back.

"Soldier put her back in her cell and keep an eye on the amulet."

A guy roughly grabs her arm dragging the girl back to the cell.

"Ouch! Could you be any rougher?" She scolds him as he throws her on the floor, knowing the answer to the rhetorical question.

"So what's your name?" She questions trying to figure him out.He's dressed way different then the other guards. He's wearing black leather and a black mask. Where as the other guards just look like they're wearing old military uniforms. Don't forget the fact that he's got an arm that is definitely not normal.

"The Winter Soldier."

"No, like your real name."

Silence

"Well I'm Armina but my family use to call me Minnie."

More silence

"The Winter Soldier is a bit of a mouth full. I'll call you Winnie. Get it short for winter but also rhymes with my name."

"Do you ever stop talking?"

"Do you ever stop being a Debby downer?"

"Please be quiet and just sleep." The man in the mask says sounding tired himself.

"Okay goodnight, Winnie."

"Goodnight, Minnie."
••••

"Oh come on princess! I know you can fight better then that!" Someone yells as she gets pinned once again.

"Get up and fight!"

She gets up and takes her stance and pounces unsheathing her claws just nicking his shoulder. She turns around just in time to duck from his punch rolling under him and tackling him from behind. He tries to flip them but gets held in place by her knees.

"Get up and fight." She whispers mocking him.

"Alright bring her back to her cell. She did good. We'll wipe her tomorrow." A look of confusion comes over her face.
••••

"What did he mean by wipe me?" Curiosity got the best of her as she asks Winnie.

He doesn't say anything just looks at the dark princess with pity.

"Please tell what he means by wiping me."

"Your memory. They're gonna wipe your memory and turn you into a soldier. Like me." He whispers slowly like he didn't want to tell her.

Silence sets in once again.

"Don't worry I'm gonna get you out of here." He whispers only shocking her even more.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean exactly what I said. I ain't letting another person end up like me." He says finally looking over at her.

"Are you gonna come with?" She asks not really sure why she cares.

He just looks at the girl a bit surprised that she even thought of him going with her.

"Get some rest."

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