Next time Alice came to her senses, she was in a very familiar cell. The first time she had been in there, she had laughed at the agents, who had put her in there, before she had teleported back in the hallway and had killed them. However Hydra had learned their lesson and somehow developed a cell, which deprived Alive of her powers. She was sitting up in her cot, leaning against the wall, growling and groaning in frustration. She leaned her head against the wall, there must be a way for her to get of here and then she could save Bucky. She chuckled cynically, the chances of that happening was getting smaller and smaller. However a small amount of hope remained, Steve knew they were both alive and he would come.

Alice was pulled from her thoughts when the door opened. An agent stood in the doorway. "Come on, tracker dog. You have business to attend." He smirked at her, before pushing her in front of him and out of the door. She was guided down the hall until they were back in the room with Bucky. He shot Alice a quick reassuring smile, while she was pushed into a chair, her hands and feet cuffed to it. "It's nice of you to join us, McStay." The higher ranked Hydra agent smirked at her, while he played with the scalpel in his hand. "Let's get started shall we?" Bucky's grunts soon filled the silence, while this bastard was slashing Bucky's skin with the scalpel over and over again, leaving numberless cuts on his chest. Meanwhile Bucky's gaze was fixed on Alice, hoping she could read in his eyes that everything will be okay.

The agents had left the couple after their torture session. Both strapped in their chairs, their eyes never leaving the other's. "Stop feeling guilty." Bucky broke the silence, causing Alice to look away, tears filling her eyes. "How can I?" Her eyes flitted back to Bucky, a sad smile on her face. Voices and gun shots erupted from the hallway, causing the assassin and necromancer to look at the door. Hope filled Alice, did the others came to get them? Soon their door was kicked open and Hydra agents filled the room. "Sedate them for a save transportation." One ordered, while he prepared two syringes. Oh no! Alice started struggling again, causing her chair to fall over. "Get her back up." The same agents ordered, while two other pulled her back up. Alice could see Bucky struggling against his restraints without success and before Alice knew it everything went black.

Bucky shouted at the agents to back away from Alice, however no one reacted in anyway. "He's next." The agent stated, handing the syringe over to a different agents. He clearly knew better than to get closer to him. And Bucky proved him right, when the agent with the syringe stepped too close, Bucky head-butted him, causing the agent to black out. He growled at the other agents, when they tried to step closer. Bucky realised that the agents grew restless, while the shots and fighting nice came closer and closer. "Knock him out! Quick!" The agent ordered, walking to the door to check. "What are you waiting for?" He shouted at the men crowding the room, but all of them seemed rather hesitant to approach the super soldier.

Before any of them made a move, the agent on the door was pierced by an arrow. Soon after a familiar shield hit his face, knocking him out. Steve filled the door in an instant. The stare down between the remaining agents and Steve was almost comical. None of the agents moved until Cap took a step towards them. Suddenly the agents realised what they had to do and started to attack Steve and Clint. The agents weren't much of a challenge for the two superheroes and soon enough, Barton was removing Bucky's restrains, while Alice was picked up by Steve. "Let's get out of here." Steve ordered, telling the other over the comms that they had found the two and were bringing them back to the quinjet. Steve took the lead, Bucky followed him, while Clint covered their back.

"They gave her something to knock her out." Bucky was sitting on the chair next to Alice's bed. They were in the infirmary of the tower. Bruce and Tony gave Alice a once over check, extracted some of her blood to find out what Hydra had used to knock her out. Bucky was still very antsy and on edge. It hadn't completely sunken in that they were save for now. They had done it once again, they left Hydra behind for now. "She shouldn't wake up before tomorrow." Bruce informed him, looking at the tablet in front of him. "You might want to go up to your room and get some sleep." Bucky just shook his head. He couldn't leave Alice. But he was sure he looked like hell and he seemed to be proven right, when Steve stepped into the infirmary with look of concern on his face. "You should rest." Steve pulled a chair on the opposite side of the bed. "I will when she is awake." Steve chuckled at Bucky's respond. "We both know you won't, not until she is out of here." Bucky gave a short chuckle, before his eyes settled on Alice again. "How are you?" Bucky took a deep breath before he answered. "I'm fine, Steve." Bruce had cleaned the cuts earlier, stitched up those who needed stitches and bandaged them. "Only a few cuts, nothing too dangerous." Bucky reassured his friend. Steve nodded, before he looked at Alice as well.

Movement woke Alice. Her eyes snapped to Bucky who was twisting and turning in a chair, mumbling incoherent words. "Bucky!" Her voice was raspy, while she stretched out her arm to shake her lover awake. His eyes flew open and settled on her. "You are awake." He sounded dumbstruck. He continued stare at her, causing her to furrow her brows, but before she could say anything, he had her in a tight hug. "I thought you would never wake up." His voice trembled, initiating pain to spread through her chest. "How long was I out?" She wrapped her arms around him, burying her face in his neck. "Almost a month."