theredwidow
"𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴"
In the 1950s, ten year old Elowen "Winnie" Vance was taken from her home in the Appalachian Mountains by Hydra. Her gift of photographic memory was soon abused and twisted into something far more dangerous through decades of chemical enhancement and conditioning.
Winnie became a living archive designed to hold the memories of the Winter Soldier.
Every time before the man was wiped, he was forced to pour his life into the child. She holds his childhood in Brooklyn, his first kill, and every secret he ever had.
To preserve their "hard drive", Winnie is forced to stay young via Hydra's stabilising youth serum, trapping her in her ten year old body. Without constant top ups of this serum, her body and mind would begin to wither.
Following the fall of the Triskelion, the Winter Soldier goes missing during his mission. Hydra's last resort is to send Winnie to find him, armed with the trigger words to bring him home and reset his mind once again.
But when Winnie comes face to face with the ghosts of Bucky's past, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff, everything changes. Faced with a choice between the masters who keep her alive and the man whose soul she carries, Winnie chooses to run.
Now, she is the most hunted girl in the world. She is the key to Bucky's lost past and decades of buried Hydra secrets, but as her serum runs low, the clock is ticking.