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Natasha and Alyssa stood over Fury's dead body while Steve watched them from the back of the room.
"Guys." Steve said walking behind the girls but Natasha just walked out, "Natasha!" Steve yelled to his friend following after her.
"Why was Fury in your apartment?" Natasha asked the two arms crossed.
"I don't know." Steve answered.
"Ally?"
"I-" but she was cut off by Rumlow approaching them.
"Cap, they want you back at SHIELD." he stated before briefly looking at Alyssa.
"Yeah, give me a second."
"They want you now." Rumlow said sternly.
"Okay." Steve answered before turning back to Natasha.
"You're a terrible liar." Natasha spoke to Steve before walking off making Alyssa shake her head.
"Let's go." Alyssa said touching Steve's arm lightly.
"I don't want you in this." Steve said calmly.
"I can't stay out of it. Something about the assassin was so familiar. I know him and I need to know from where?" Alyssa pleaded. He hid the flash drive and looked at the girl in front of him.
"Fine. Come on." he instructed as the two walked towards Rumlow.
"Let's go."
"Yeah."
SHIELD-
"Captain Rogers." Sharon, Agent 13, spoke to Steve.
"Neighbor." he replied coldly.
"Ah, Captain. Agent Stark. I'm Alexander Pierce." a tall grey haired white man spoke.
"Sir, it's an honor." Steve shook his hand while Alyssa nodded her head as a greeting.
"The honor is mine, Captain. My father served in the 101st. Come on in." Steve entered but the man stopped Alyssa.
"I'm sorry, this is more of an interrogation for Captain Rogers." the man spoke. Alyssa looked at Steve who nodded his head at her.
"Just go find Natasha and stay with her, Doll. I'll come get you later." he nodded.
"I love you." she called out before Pierce closed the door in her face rudely.
She huffed before walking out of SHIELD and meeting Nat at a nearby coffee shop.
"Hey Nat."Alyssa sat at the table.
"What is Steve hiding?" Nat asked getting straight to the point.
"I was their but not in the room. I don't think Fury knew I was there. I heard gunshots and Steve dragged the body in and then Sharon came and called for backup and now we're here." Alyssa explained.
"Where's Cap now?"
"Interrogation."
"You chased the shooter. Do you think it's the Winter Soldier?" Nat asked. 5 years ago she went on a mission and said she was shot by a man with a metal arm.
"I don't know. What I do know is, I know him from somewhere." Alyssa said making Nat look at her weirdly.
"You passed out after the attack. Maybe you're just trying to make sense of something that's not there."
"I may have gotten weak after using my powers but I've never passed out before." Alyssa pointed at her friend.
"There's no way Fury would just die without leaving some sort of something behind." Nat knitted her eyebrows together in a trance.
"Steve put a flash drive in the vending machine at the hospital." Alyssa responded.
"Then let's go get that flash drive" Nat said pulling her friend out the shop and onto the hospital.
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Natasha watched Steve disguised as a civilian approached the vending machine looking dumbfounded to realize the flash drive was gone. He pushed Natasha into a room and backed her against a wall.
"Where is it?" he asked removing his hoodie.
"Safe."
"Do better!"
"Where did you get it?"
"Why would I tell you?" he asked close to Natasha's face.
"Steve." Alyssa called out. "What's going on?"
He relaxed at the gaze of his girlfriend but it immediately hardened again once Natasha spoke.
"Fury gave it to you. Why?"
"What's on it?"
"I don't know." Natasha said shrugging her shoulders. Steve's grip tightened on her wrist.
"Stop lying." he said through gritted teeth.
"Steve calm down." Alyssa pulled him backwards off Natasha.
"I only act like I know everything, Rogers." Natasha retorted.
"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?" Steve questioned Natasha.
"Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you."
"I'm not gonna ask you again." Steve said getting angry.
"I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years."
"So he's a ghost story."
"Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot out my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me." Natasha lifted her shirt to show the scar from the bullet, "Soviet slug, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis."
"Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried." Natasha held up the flash drive, "Like you said, he's a ghost story." Steve took the flash drive looking at his girlfriend that stood in between them.
"Well, let's find out what the ghost wants." Alyssa said walking out towards, "First we have to go change." she sighed leaving the room.
