The Crow - (Bucky Barnes X OC)
She was trained to remember everything.
He was built to forget.
For years, the Crow has lived in the aftermath of other people's deaths.
Created by TALIC to steal and preserve human memory, she follows behind assassins and leaves with what their victims knew. Names. Secrets. Entire lives. She was never supposed to care about any of them.
Until she met the Winter Soldier.
Their paths cross again and again, two weapons built by different hands for different purposes, until something neither of them was conditioned for begins to take shape between them.
A year later, the Crow has a new name, a tenuous freedom under S.H.I.E.L.D., and people determined to teach her there might be more to life than being useful. But when that freedom begins to feel suspiciously like another kind of ownership, she follows the one secret she has kept from everyone all the way to Romania.
There, she finds the Winter Soldier again, secluded from the world, and he does not want to be found.
Unfortunately for him, she has a particular knack for uncovering secrets.
What begins as a wary truce becomes coffee, books, home-cooked meals, old records, ridiculous notes, and the dangerous discovery that somewhere beneath everything done to them, there are still two people capable of wanting ordinary things.
But neither TALIC nor HYDRA built weapons just to let them walk away.
And when the past finally comes looking for them, surviving it may require her and Bucky to become the very things they're trying to leave behind.