Ashes Behind Us || BUCKY J. BARNES

Before you ever had a name, you were trained to kill. Before you ever had a choice, you were taught not to want one. Escape was only the first battle. SHIELD says you're free now- but freedom feels like sleepless nights and haunted silence. It feels like a trap. Then a mission unearths old enemies, the world burns, and the Winter Soldier stands in the ashes with you. Old instincts falter. Both of you were made to kill. Neither was made to love. And yet, in the chaos, you keep finding your way back to each other.