AN: I know a lot of things might be confusing in the beginning and I didn't explain a lot on purpose to make it a bit more interesting but don't worry I'll explain everything at some point :) Also I'm not enteriely sure how regular I'm gonna past but I'll try to update as often as I can!

"It is time, once again." A knock followed the voice, the girl knew all to well. she sat on the bed in her room. It was more like a cell, but she had spend so many years there that it slowly, very slowly started to feel like home. The door opened to reveal a man clad in a military uniform. "Get ready, you have two days to find him and bring him back. If you fail, well, I don't think I have to remind you what happens if you fail." His voice had been cold and emotionless like always. "He was last seen in DC, if you not back within three days, we will come to find you." She gave a short nod, before he removed the cuff around her ankle and she disappeared. She opened her eyes to find herself on the roof of a skyscraper. She looked around for a second, confusion washing over her.

They said DC. This is New York.

She took a deep breathe, before she let her eyes scan over the crowd walking the street. He has to be here, otherwise she wouldn't have teleported to New York. With a sigh of relief her eyes settled on the man with longish brown hair, he was wearing a leather jacket and a glove on one hand, covering his metal arm. Her eyes widened slightly when her eyes fixed on the men walking beside him.

Looks like our friend found you before I did, love.

She watched them for a while unsure what she should do next. Steve had found him and he would never let him return. A shiver run down her spin, when she thought of Steve's reaction to her involvement in it. She decided to approach them, after all she only had three days to figure everything out. Taking another deep breath, she teleported to a near by alleyway. She pulled her sleeves over her hands, before pushing into the crowd. As soon as she reach them, she placed her hand on Steve's wrist, convinced that Bucky's reaction could have attracted much more attention that she would've want. Steve turned around, the confusion on his face quickly replaced with shock. "Alice?" His voice was barely over a whisper, but it seemed like Bucky had heard him anyway, because he twisted around quickly. "We should get off the streets, before we have this conversation." Alice' voice sounded strange and unfamiliar, probably because of the lack of use. Steve nodded, before he turned to a third man. "We need to get out of here, right now." The man nodded, before he started to look around. "Stark?" Steve nodded once more, before the man started to walk off. Alice was about to follow him, when she realised that Bucky was still looking at her and hadn't moved an inch. "How?" was all he could mutter, before Steve pulled him along. She followed them through the crowd, trying to keep the paranoid and anxious feelings at bay. Now wasn't the time to have an anxiety attack, she needed to figure out what to do. This was not how this mission was supposed to go. Alice expected it to be like all the times before. They send her out to get him, she would find him confused, remembering little bits of his past, she would spend a day with him, before they had to return. They had to return, they always had to. She learned it the hard way, she still remember the pain in his eyes.

Alice shook her head to get the image out of her head. She swallowed heavily trying not to think of the consequences should they not be back in time. It was the third man's voice that finally managed snapped her out of her thoughts, "Here we are, Stark Tower." Alice looked up at the modern building, quickly looking around the street, scanning for anything suspicious. Nothing. She let out a sigh of relief, before following them into the building. All of them stepped into the elevator. "Sam," Steve started, finally revealing the third man's name. "Do me a favour and distract Stark, while we are having a little chat?" Sam nodded, getting of at the first stop. When the door opened again Steve and Bucky left the elevator and Alice quickly followed.

"You came to take me back." Bucky stated sitting down at the table in front of them. Alice looked around, it looked like a normal, very modern flat. "Yeah." She muttered, pulling at her sleeves. "You are supposed to be dead." Steve spoke up, looking at her with a mix of confusion and shock, but also relief. "I know." Alice mumbled, feeling very self-conscious under their gaze. "And now you are working for HYDRA?" Disbelief laced Steve's voice. "I suppose." Steve sat down, covering his face with his hands, while Bucky was still staring her down, scared to return to his former employer and confused by Steve's statement. In the time he had spend with Steve, he had remembered a lot about his former life, but he couldn't figure out how Steve knew her. "You have a lot to explain, Alice." Steve muttered, she gave him a short nod. "I know." Alice finally sat down as well. "I don't know where to start" she chuckled dryly, glancing at the two of them. "How much time did the give you?" Bucky interrupted, before Alice could say anything else. He remember how she had tracked him down all the other times, she always waited as long as she could, before she took him back. "Two days to find you, on the third they will come and find me." She stated, playing with her fingers, so she didn't have to look at them. "I won't let you return to them." Steve looked at Bucky, before he turned to her. "and you won't return either."

Before either of them could utter another word, the door burst open. "So it is true." A woman with red hair stood in the door, her arms crossed in front of her. Steve stood up, going over to talk to her, their voices so low, Alice couldn't understand a word. "I hope you know, that if I had a choice I wouldn't take you back to them." Alice mumbled, looking up at Bucky. He nodded his head, before he muttered a "I know", she had always told him that, making it clear that even she was not acting on her own accord. It always made him wonder, what HYDRA had on her that they managed to control her, someone, who can teleport where ever she wished to go. What would she leave behind, when she decide to leave during one of her missions. "Did you even check her for any weapons?" Alice's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "I'm not carrying any weapons, never have, never will." She turned to look at the two of them. "Nat, she won't hurt any of us." Steve reasoned, while the redhead seemed to argue with herself. "You know, who she is though right? They don't call her 'Goddess of Death' for no reason." Bucky focused on Alice again, when he saw her flinch, when Natasha revealed her code name. He had never seen her fight anyone and it made him curious, how she got that name. "Trust me, as long as Bucky and me are around and no one threatens her, nothing will happen." Steve's voice reached Bucky, making him even more curious, he had always only been her mission, why should he have such an effect on her. Natasha sighed, shooting a glare at Alice, before she walked towards the door. "I'll be outside, just in case." With a quick nod from Steve, she finally left.

"How do I know you?" Alice flinched, when Bucky said those words. Of course she knew that he had been brainwashed over and over again, leaving him to only remember her from tracking him down. But deep down she had hopped he remembered her from their childhood.