❝Go-go to hell.❞ ❝I'm on my way, but looks like you'll get there first.❞ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ In which a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent begrudgingly rises up to the occasion only for it all to fall apart. ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ APPEARS ON: Disney's official reading list ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ BOOK 1 OF THE ABSOLUTION SERIES ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ [COMPLETED - PARTIALLY EDITED]

The Winter Soldier... A Sargeant... A former HYDRA assassin... A broken man ready to move on. Maya Alton... A Red Room orphan... A previous HYDRA experiment... A broken woman who wants to forget her past. When Steve Rogers finds out that his best friend is alive, he searches. He searches every road, every city, the whole world for the Winter Soldier, ready to bring him home. When Natasha Romanoff finds out that another assassin from the Red Room is still alive - desperate to right her wrongs - she searches. She searches the whole world for the old myth known as the Shadow, ready to help both herself and the rumoured assassin. After the long years of searching for the Shadow and the Winter Soldier, Steve and Natasha finally find their acquired targets, and they've engaged, chasing after the pair and bringing them back home to the Avengers facility. Bucky and Maya are pushed together, from training to therapy to time in the lab to even living with one another. Them falling in love is practically inevitable. Right? ~ Complete