A/N - I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in ages! I've been busy working! Hopefully this chapter is good for y'all. I promise at some point Steve and Ellie will get to go on a date! I'm just trying to follow the timelines of the MCU!

The view was beautiful up here. You could see almost everything, the sun beamed down on my face as I allowed the breeze to rustle my hair. It was now midday and the plan of action to capture Jasper Sitwell was in play. I was waiting on top of this building with a sniper, Sam was going to call him and get him to the top of the building. If he resisted I'd just simply aim for him and that should give him a little encouragement. Steve was also up here with me to help interrogate Sitwell when he joined us. 

"Beautiful view aint it?" Steve said from behind me as I nodded

"It's the best" I smiled

"I was on about my view" I looked behind me and saw he was watching me intently "You look so peaceful up here. What's on your mind?" he questioned

"It's just beautiful up here. The higher up I am the closer I feel to my Mum. It sounds crazy-"

"I don't think it sounds crazy at all" he smiled as me as he grabbed my hand "Have you ever met your Mum?" he asked as I shook my head

"She left after I was born, all I have of her is my Father's stories" I explained "My Dad met her on a holiday in Greece, said it was love at first sight. He actually ended up proposing to her a year later. They had me when they were married for 2 years and she had to leave after she birthed me. Told my Dad it was for our safety" I told him

"Did you tell her that you don't need protecting?" he joked as I chuckled "I can imagine a baby Ellie, strutting around like the strong, independent child she is"

"Oh you best believe it old man, I was running before I could walk" I smirked as Steve smiled at me "I could cook before I could talk"

"That I can believe... Your food is the best" Just then Steves phone beeped "Get in position. Jasper is on the move" he said as I nodded

"Sir yes Sir" I walked to the edge of the building and picked up my sniper. Looking through the scope I saw Sam who was on his phone before pressing it to his ear. I moved my gaze over to the building where Jasper was shoo-ing off the guards around him. "Target locked" I confirmed as I watched Jasper look down at his chest where my laser was pointed at. He began to walk with Sam towards our building and when they were out of sight I dropped my gun down, this better work, I waited for Steve and Jasper to reach the roof whilst I hid behind the door, I was only there as a precaut- Jasper was thrown out onto the roof by Steve causing me to jump ever so slightly.

"Tell me about Zola's algorithm" Steve demanded as Jasper rolled along the roof due to the force he'd been pushed with. He stood up a began to place his glasses back on his face as Steve stalked towards him and I quickly followed suit. Man his butt did look good from behind.

"Never heard of it" Jasper whimpered,

"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?" I questioned as Jaspers glaze fell on me, he was now walking backwards. Not wanting to take his eyes off us,

"I was throwing up. I get sea sick" Just like that Jasper reached the end of the roof and Steve grabbed ahold of his jacket to stop him falling. "Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof?" he chuckled nervously. "Because that's not really your style, Rogers"

"You're right" Steve said as he let go of Jaspers jacket, "It's not" He took a step back and Jasper looked at me as I smirked "It's hers" and with one swift kick I sent him tumbling off the edge of the roof. His screams got weaker and weaker as we waited and waited, holy shit Sam I hope you got him. Suddenly, as if on cue, Sam flew up with Jasper and placed him on the rooftop with us and landed beside me, I let out a chuckle and both of them looked at me,

"I'm sorry, it's the goggles I can't get over."

"Zolas algorithm is a program... It's for choosing insights targets" he explained between trying to catch his breath,

"What targets?" Steve pushed,

"YOU! HER! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Under Secretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa City, Bruce Banner, Dr Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA" he whimpered, "Now or in the future."

"In the future? How could it know?" I question him as he turned away from me and let out an evil laugh. A confused look fell on all of our faces,

"How could it not?" he laughed as he stood up and got in my face, "The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it" a smirk fell on his face. Oh how I'd love to smack that off him, "Your bank records. Medical histories. Voting patterns. Emails. Phone calls. Your damn SAT scores!" he gasped as he looked over at Steve, "Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future." Let me hit him again Steve, please. I beg.

"And what then?" Steve pushed as a look of realisation fell on Jaspers face.

"Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me" he admitted, I grabbed the cuffs of his jacket and pulled him close to me,

"Not if we kill you first" I spat as Steves arm came between us and pulled me off him,

"What then?"

"Then the Insight helicarriers scratch people off the list... A few million at a time" he admitted, "It can't be stopped this time" he told us as he looked at me, "Because the only man who could is dead" Why is he giving me that look? I looked over to Steve who was just as confused as I, same with Sam. I glanced back at Jasper who was smiling at me, "Your Dad." As if a switch flipped inside of me I roundhouse kicked his face, he fell to the floor and Steve's arms wrapped around me, holding me back from getting to him as Sam grabbed Jasper.

"What did you do?" I screamed as I felt tears welling up in my eyes, Jasper wiped the blood from his nose and continued to smile at me, "WHAT DID YOU DO?" I cried as the tears began to flow down my cheeks,

"Heil HYDRA" Jasper smirked as Steve lifted me up and carried me away from him,

"Get him to the car" he ordered Sam as I watched Jasper being picked up by the collar and taken off the roof. I kicked away from Steve but his arms never left me, keeping me in one place as I cried. Thunder rumbled through the air as the clouds began to grow darker and darker by the second. Tears fell from my cheeks as I continued to fight against Steve's hold on me. "Ellie" he soothed as he released my body. I collapsed to the floor in hysterics as rain began to pour down on us, Steve sat next to me, pulled me into him and he stroked my hair as he rocked me back and forth. "Ellie" he whispered, "I need you to calm down Ellie. I promise we'll find out what happened but we need to get to Pierce quickly, maybe he can give us some information."

"I just w-want him back Steve" I sobbed as his hands ran up and down my arm lightly, soothing me as I listened to his heart beat in his chest.

"I know you do Ellie. I promise we'll get some answers. I promise."

***

Soon enough we were travelling down the highway, Sam driving with Steve in the passenger seat, myself next to Jasper, making sure he didn't try and make a move.

"HYDRA doesn't like leaks" Jasper worried, he leant forward to speak to Sam and Steve as I grabbed his suit and pulled him back. He needs to be careful. Not wearing a seatbelt is fatal.

"Then why don't you try sticking a cork in it?" Sam growled as he continued driving,

"Insight is launching in 16 hours guys, aren't we cutting it a bt close?" I questioned, poking my head as far as the seat belt would let me.

"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the helicarriers directly" Steve explained as I sat back, Jasper must've thought this whole thing was a seesaw cause he sat forward again.

"What? Are you crazy? That is a terrible idea!" he shouted as a large thud sounded on the roof of the car. I looked up as the window to Jaspers side smashed open and an arm reached inside and grabbed Jasper, throwing him out. I grabbed his arm to stop him from flying out of the car and onto the road as he screamed and looked at me, "I don't wanna die!" he cried as the mysterious arm grabbed his body and flung him from my grasp, he threw to the otherside of the road and hit a truck. Yeah he's dead. I unclipped my seat belt and jumped onto Steve in the passenger seat, pulling his head into my chest to protect it as bullets flew through the roof and onto the back seat. Sam swerved the car and Steve pulled the handbrake, halting the car to a stop as a man was thrown from the roof in front of us. I watched as the broke his fall before stopping his movement with a metal arm scraping the floor.

He stood up, his long hair covering the mask over his face and faced the car, I grabbed my gun and held it up to begin shooting before we were rammed into by a jeep at the back and our car began to move forwards. We moved at a rapid pace towards the mystery man who jumped over the car, hooking his hand onto the windscreen and falling on the roof, smashing the back window as the gun slipped from my hands and onto the floor. I rummaged around for the gun by Steve's feet as the arm once again broke through another window, this time grabbing the steering wheel and pulling it out of the car.

"SHIT!" Sam shouted as I got the gun and held it to the roof, letting off shots as to where I thought the man would be. The jeep stopped pushing us and for one moment we were free wheeling on our own before it smacked into us again, pushing the car towards the dividers which flipped the car over. I felt Steve's arms around me tighten as he grabbed his shield and smashed the car door, allowing us to fall out of the car before it landed. We skidded on the door as Sam fell off and rolled over and I threw my arms out, getting the wind to push us to one side to avoid being run over. Like hell I was surviving a crash like that just to die from someone running me over. Steve and I stood up, looking around for Sam as I was pushed to one side away from Steve, I watched what sounded like a missle hit Steve's shield and send him flying over the bridge.

"STEVE!" I cried as I looked back at the mystery man with the metal arm. I threw both my arms up in the air, two cars now flying towards them as the ducked out of the way and began shooting at Sam and I. We took cover behind some cars and I began laying down some fire on our end, the guy launched another grenade at me and I dodged it by jumping over the divider and taking fire. I continued running as they shot at me before a car exploded and came tumbling at me, I jumped off the bridge and flung my arms out, flying me under it and towards the other side before landing on one of the HYDRA bastards, knocking him out and grabbing his gun. I quickly took the opportunity to shoot the next one before having to take cover due to them realising I was there. Shit these guys are getting close! I jumped over the edge of the bridge once more and began running, checking over my shoulder to fire a few shots at them.

I looked back to find Steve on the ground with his shield, a guy with a machine gun firing a lot of bullets, I stopped to turn back but saw Sam on the bridge, taking down a few of the other guys around him. Mystery man was nowhere to be seen. Fuck that. He's walking towards me. OK OK OK... A plan. I need a plan. DISTRACT! I grabbed my recording device and pressed play before fucking out of the way and watching him stalk towards the car. I watched him roll a grenade under the car before aiming to ensure my death. Arsehole! As the grenade exploded I ran at him, using a nearby car to launch myself up and swung my foot into his face, causing him to drop his gun. I quickly swung my leg around him from my jump and pulled out a garrote to choke him.

Unfortunately for me the smart son of a bitch lifted his hand up to stop me choking him and rammed the back of himself into a car, causing me to fall back, he used his momentum to then throw me off the car and in front of him. Shit the fucking bed how strong is this guy? I watched him pick up his gun as I grabbed my last life line and threw a taser disk, it landing on his arm and causing him to drop the gun once more. Giving me enough time to get up and run. How was this guy so good? What in the world happened for him to have a metal arm?

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" I shouted to civilians running in my path as I threw my arm to the right for the wind to push them to the pathway. As I ran further I heard a gunshot and fell to the floor behind a car, I rolled onto my back as my hands made their way to my abdomen to quickly see they were covered in blood. The son of a bitch shot me. I looked up to see the man jump on a car and aim his gun at me. Looks like it's time for me to join you Mum. Not just yet. With that I saw Steve run at the man with his shield, the man swung his arm around and hit his shield. What the fuck? He pushed the shield to one side with his other arm and kicked Steve back, falling on the roof of the car himself before getting back up and shooting at Steve who had ducked below his shield to dodge it. Steve ran out of my line of sight and with that so did the man as I looked back down at my wound. I was going to die if I didn't get this sorted ASAP.

I rolled myself over and felt my back for an exit wound, FUCK! OK good at least it's exitted. I closed my eyes and I felt around the wound and hovered my hand over it. I took a deep breath as I placed my hand on it, screaming out at my hand burned into my back, cauterizing the wound. I rolled on my back as I hissed in pain. Holy shit balls that fucking hurt! And I still had to do the fucking front. I looked down at my abdomen, blood pouring out as I heard Steve and this guy fighting still as I held my hand over this wound and clenched my jaw before placing my scolding hot hand over it. I quickly removed it and hissed in pain, my head hitting the concrete underneath me as I took a moment to breathe. OK, moments over.

I groaned in pain as I pulled myself up using the car as support, my cool hand still over the cauterized wound whilst I looked up and saw Steve throw the man over his shoulder, his mask falling to the floor. Heck yeah! get him Steve! As the man stood up I looked at his face for a moment, he looked oddly famili-

"Bucky?" Steve said in shock, hold the fuck up what?

"Who the hell is Bucky?" the man growled as he raised his gun at Steve, out of nowhere Sam came, hey Sam, thanks for joining us buddy! Thankfully he had the element of surprise and was able to kick Bucky over. How in the world was Bucky still alive? Steve told me he'd died on a mission... Like right in front of him. Shit, I should probably do something... oh hey there new toy! I looked at the grenade launcher Bucky had been using earlier and grabbed it, leaning against the car fully as this took both my hands. OK, aim near him, not at him. If this really was Bucky I don't think Steve and I would end well if I murdered him. I watched Bucky raise his gun at Steve who was just stood there in awe and I immediately pulled the trigger, the recoil pushing me back slightly as the grenade went into the car next to Bucky. Steve looked back at me and we made eye contact for a moment before looking over back to Bucky or at least where he should've been. Where did he go? It didn't take long for me to fall to the ground and Steve ran over to me, 

"Ellie!" he exclaimed as S.H.I.E.L.D vehicles came charging towards us, blue lights flashing before coming to a halt. Men flooded out of the cars but my eyes fell on my least favourite arsehole... Rumlow. Wanker. I was grabbed and thrown on my knees as he held a gun to my head. I heard the hum of a helicopter and behind us was what looked to be the press, typical that these arsehole film everything. Rumlow dropped his gun ad ordered the men to do the same as I smirked, "Not here, not here!" he ushered as he placed handcuffs on my wrists and got me to my feet.

"What? Don't want to shoot America's superheros in cold blood?" I questioned as he threw me into a van along with Steve and Sam. Well shit. I sat with my handcuffed hands against my wound as I threw my head back against the window. Two S.H.I.E.L.D or 'HYDRA' soldiers coming and sitting with us as we heard the van doors closed and set of to our impending death. The ride was silent pretty much the whole way until Steve piped up.

"It was him" he muttered as I lifted my head up and looked at him, "He looked right at me. Like he didn't even know me" he explained as he met my eyes, 

"How though Steve? He died in front of you" I asked as his head dropped again.

"Zola... Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall" Well that makes sense. "They must've found him and..."

"None of that is your fault Steve" I assured him as he looked at me then back away again,

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky" he muttered, I winced in pain as we went over a bump and my arms dropped from my wound,

"We need to get a Doctor here. She needs to be seen to" Sam told the guard who just whipped out their taser, threatening him. Sam remained silent as I watched the guard turn and taser the other, knocking them out, holy shit what? The guard then removed their helmet to reveal no other than Maria fucking Hill. Holy shit, you sly cow.

"That thing was squeezing my brain" she said as she looked at myself, Sam and then Steve. "Who's this guy?"