The Red Star

Chapter 15

Jay had her back against the half destroyed pillar as she held her side. She was practically panting for air and the moment she peeled her bloody hand away from her wound, she gasped. This mutant was more powerful than they had thought and wasn't alone .

"Steve!" Jay shouted to him.

He was currently beating down one of the less powerful mutants when he turned around.

"We need to get out of here!" Jay was practically screaming .

Steve was about to reply when a ball of energy sent him flying through the glass of one of the shops.

"You are zee vun zere looking for." The mutant's Russian or Swiss accent was heavy as he spoke.

"Who are they ?" Jay shouted back, her blades appearing over her hands.

"Zey don't like to be named. I verk for zem, so I von't say. You must come and meet zem."

"Like hell I am." Jay mumbled to herself .

She looked back to where Steve was thrown and saw him, picking himself up slowly. Making eye contact with him, she turned to her left to see Bucky, almost frozen in terror. His face flashed through her mind as the memory of seeing him at the cabin hit her hard. For some reason, something triggered his PTSD.

"Bucky?" Jay called, but he didn't move from the cover of his wall.

"Oh!" The mutant continued, "You are here Sgt. Barnes? Vell," he chuckled, " Vut a pleasant surprise."

"Who the hell are you?!" Jay shouted, angry at his taunting of Bucky.

"My name is Alec Sarcoffky. I vas one of zee scientists who, well, created zee Soldier."

Jay looked at Bucky, pain and horror twisting his face. He held his head as he tried not to scream as the ghost of pain washed over him, little by little.

"What are you doing to him!?" Jay screamed.

"He is remembering. Soon pain vill be over. Soon I vill have you and my Soldier again." Alec added.

Without even a split second waisted, Jay swung out and launched herself, full force at the tall, curly, dark haired man. She hit him hard and she dragged him across the majority of the mall floor. Jay stood up, pain racking her body, and she looked down. Blood dripped from her two blades as Alec shut his ice blue eyes in pain. He arched his back a bit then dropped.

"You sick bastard!!" Jay shouted, driving the blade into his abdomen. He screamed, as she lifted him up from the ground, shiethed on her blade.

"Who. Do. You. Work for?" Jay demanded, her jaw and teeth clenched.

Alec let out a laugh, the coughed as he struggled to breath.

"I am not~~~~a traitor~~to my master~~~"

Jay drove the blade deeper, so that his stomach was against her fist. Alec screamed again then spat blood on her face saying,

"Go to hell!"

Jay felt a wave of cold go over her as the brown and grey of her wings seemed to melt to black. A smirk came over her lips and she dropped him on the ground with a thud. She knelt over him and turned his face to her saying,

"If I'm goin ta hell, then your coming with me."

The next moment she threw a punch at his face, but he remained conscious.

"Just die already!" She screamed continuing a flurry of hits that left her with blood on her fists and blouse.

"Jay stop!!!!" She heard Crys scream.

She suddenly stopped herself and looked at Alec, labored breaths escaping his swollen lips. Jay leaned close to him and whispered,

"You hurt him. Put him through hell." She paused and added, "Now it's your turn, you sick bastard!!"

She then threw her last punch that caused a loud crack to be heard, and then silence.

Jay was breathing heavily as she stared at her hands. There was too much blood. She felt her stomach turn.

"Oh" she wimpered with realization. She stood and remained staring at her hands then said, "oh!" She fumbled to a trash been while saying,

"Please God, no!"

She then ran into the trash bin, vomiting harshly. After a few dry heaves, she fell to her knees, her whole body trembling uncontrollably. She then let out a heart wrenching sob that caused Crys to suck in her breath as tears came to her eyes. She felt arms go around her and recognized the feel of them.

"Just breathe." Bucky whispered shakily. "Breathe, Bluejay."

He rested his chin on her head as she remained slumped over in his arms on the floor. Her shoulders shook with sobs as her body trembled with terror.

"He hurt you ." She sobbed. She wrapped her arms around his metal one, and laid her bloodstained and tearstained cheek on it saying, "he hurt you."

A strange sound came from Bucky's lips, almost inaudible except to Jay. It sounded like a part sob part angry groan. She didn't care any more. She sobbed in his arms as he wrapped himself around her whispering,

"Just breathe. Breathe Jay."