It's Been A While

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Cap and I are fugitives. We're running from SHIELD, the very place that gave us our home. We were with Cap's running buddy, Sam when our car flipped. I saw an arm that was too familiar for comfort. My soldier. From all those years ago, he was back. Here, and now.

I turn to Sam and Steve. "Go. I know him. I may be able to reason with him."

Steve has other ideas, "What? Nat, no! This guy's crazy!"

"Cap, get your and Sam's asses out of here. I've got this," I start towards my soldier, ignoring the protests of Steve and Sam. My soldier turns to me, his blue eyes full of spite and fury. I know Russian will be my way in, so I start speaking to him in Russian as I did when we were younger. "Bucky, do you remember me?"(Russian)

My soldier glares at me, which I take as a no. But he reaches up and takes off his mask, then, in Russian, "Who's Bucky?"

Of course he wouldn't remember that. So I try a new approach, and still in Russian, "It's your little spy."

Bucky's eyes suddenly get wider and he slips from Russian to English, "Natasha? Is it really you?" He shakes his head. "Stop it, emotions."

That's when I get an idea. Not a very smart one, but it would work. I walk closer to him and knock him unconscious, hopefully this will let him regain control over his own mind again. He falls into my arms, so I start dragging him away. Steve and Sam apparently saw the whole thing, and they have looks of disbelief when I drag my soldier over.

"Are you going to gawk or are you going to help me get him into a car?"

Sam and Steve help me get the man in the car before we drive off to a hidden location where we take the man into a building, tying him to a chair. Now, we just wait for him to come to.

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