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ALEX MADE HER WAY DOWN ELUSIVELY TO AN ABANDONED PART OF THE BUILDING. SHE WAS WITH SAM, AND they had Bucky restrained. 

"Interesting way of keeping him restrained," She said when she entered the room. 

"Had to make sure he didn't pull anything else."

"You put on quite a show up there in the compound, Mr. Barnes,"

Bucky simply looked up at her. "As did you,"

"What did I do?" She merely laughed. 

"I've never seen a woman with such..... abilities,"

"I'm not sure if you were going for a compliment there, but your delivery sucks, man." Sam spoke.

Their eyes all turned to Steve, who came running in. 

"Steve," Bucky breathed. 

"Which Bucky am I talking to?"

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes," 

Alex's eyes softened at Bucky recalling memories of her friend. He was almost human, and you could almost forget what he had just become. 

"Can't read that in a museum," Steve smiled. 

"Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?" Sam spoke. 

"What did I do?" Bucky reluctantly asked. 

"Enough," Alex chimed in. 

"I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put in me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words--"

"Who was he?" Steve cut him off. 

"I don't know."

"People are dead. The bombing, the setup--the doctor did all that just to get ten minutes with you. I need you to do better than 'I don't know-,"

"He wanted to know about Siberia, where I was kept." 

"Why would he need to know that?" Alex stepped toward him. 

"Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier."

"Who were they?" Sam spoke up. 

"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum,"

"They all turn out like you?" Alex jabbed. 

"Worse," He looked up at her. 

"The doctor, he could control them?" Steve asked. 

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