Where You End, I Begin | Bucky Barnes

There are places the world forgets𑁋buried beneath concrete and silence, where people aren't broken so much as remade.

She was one of them.

Piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing left that belonged to her. Only what they needed. Only what they built. Except for one thing𑁋one person she was never meant to keep. The only constant in a place designed to erase them both.

She remembers the way he moved. The way he stood just close enough to feel real in a world that wasn't. The way he chose her𑁋more than once𑁋before breaking something open long enough for her to run.

She doesn't know why.
She doesn't know what it cost him.
Only that when she looks back, he's the last thing she sees before everything else disappears.

S.H.I.E.L.D. finds her before she can figure out how to exist outside of it. Gives her structure. A purpose. A way to survive in a world that doesn't come with instructions anymore.

But somewhere out there, he's still fighting a war he never left.
They call him the Winter Soldier.
She calls him something else.

And she's going to find him.
Even if it means tearing through everything they tried to turn her into.
Even if it means remembering the parts of herself she was never meant to keep.