PROLOGUE
( saving barnes. )

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Life on the brink of danger and death is something Gem Halloway has grown accustomed to. Avengers don't cry over the loss and the risk. With every choice, every move, there are perils beyond comprehension. It's an understanding Gem has harboured from the start.

  But, humans are fickle creatures. Gem simply never considered that maybe she was one of them— one of those beings who find their loyalties shifting on whim. The truth is, what good is loyalty when it moves like mist? There one second, and gone at dawn.

  And the basis of Gem's being has always been her desire to do good.

  However, when the lines between what's good and what is right begin to blur, Gem finds that change is inevitable. She is a morphing being, susceptible to things she never thought possible. She has loyalty, but how can it prove strong when she's faced with the impossible?

  Gem Halloway has a choice; to throw away the trust she has laboured to build, or do the good thing. The right thing. The one purpose she knows from the bottom of her soul is worth fighting for.

  The world is changing... the world is complex. Gem understands nothing of it, but what she knows is that good people deserve to be saved. Good people deserve chances, and when bad things happen; good people deserve to be loved.

  Bucky Barnes is a good person, and Gem Halloway is going to save him.