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in a world where howard stark has a genius sister, the war doesn't just make a soldier.
it makes a trio.
steve rogers is the compass. bucky barnes is the heart.
maxine stark is the spark with grease on her hands and sarcasm on her tongue, fixing radios, fixing rifles, fixing the people she loves because it's the only kind of praying she knows.
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but the future they used to joke about doesn't survive the 1940s.
bucky falls from a train and the world calls it death.
steve disappears into the ice and the world calls it heroic.
max gets too close to hydra's protocols, sees the pattern behind the cruelty, and hydra doesn't kill her.
hydra keeps her.
because she's useful.
because she's leverage.
because she's the one thing bucky's body will still recognize when his mind won't.
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