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March 27th, 1945

Mary and her Commandos stood on top of a mountain cliff side overlooking train tracks. Their camp site wasn't far off so she wanted to watch them in action for the last time before they all head home after nearly two years of being away.

She was standing beside her husband of three months and her brother. She smiled at them, she had news to tell all the Commandos, but she wanted to tell her two favorite boys her news first.

Mary Elizabeth Rogers-Barnes had found out weeks prior to this last mission that she and Bucky were to become parents. They had only spent a few nights together that intimately. They short honeymoon, and when they felt the moments were right. So it was more than a few.

She hadn't told anyone yet, she wanted to wait until their last mission was over with, but she couldn't hold it in any longer.

"Remember when i made you ride the Cyclone at Coney Island?" Bucky asks Steve as they prep to zip line onto a train to capture Arnim Zola, Red Skull's right hand man.

"Yeah, and I threw up?" Steve asks. Mary laughs a bit, looking between the two, "I remember that." She mutters.

Bucky chuckles, holding his wife closely to him, "This isn't payback is it?" He asks. Mary laughs even more, then her eyes widen, she feels her stomach start to reject what she had fixed everyone for breakfast. She quickly breaks out of Bucky's hold, carefully moving to a bush, and empties all the contents of breakfast into the poor bush.

All the men stop what their doing as they race to their nurse, who they've never seen sick before. Bucky and Steve are scared out of their minds as her husband rubs her back, holding her hair out of her face. Bucky looks her over, "Doll, you alright?" He asks.

Mary nods, wiping her mouth with her sleeve, then looking at all the Commandos, "I'm fine." She states, causing the men to protest instantly.

Dum Dum steps up, "No way in hell you're fine when you just threw up, Little Miss." he states.

Mary sighs, looking at everyone, "I wanted to tell you all after this was over with.. so we could properly celebrate."

Bucky's eyebrows draw closer in confusion, "Celebrate what, Mary?" He asks.

Mary shrugs, "Nothing much.. just the two of us becoming parents." She trails off, leaving all the men in shock before choruses of congratulations from the men start to flood Mary's ears.

Steve is the first to hug her carefully, "I'm going to be an Uncle?" He asks her, she nods, smiling.

"Yup, Uncle Stevie." She states, smiling, her hazel eyes then look at her husband, who still appears to be in shock. She walks over to him, "You alright there, Sarge?" She asks him.

Bucky blinks his crystal blue eyes, nodding slowly, "Just processing all of it.." he murmurs, a grin then forms on his face and he wraps his arms around his wife who he now knows is pregnant with their first child.

Mary's quick to follow suit, wrapping her own arms around his neck, "I take it your happy then?" She teases, causing him to laugh.

Bucky nods, releasing her and bending down to the same height as her stomach that is now carrying his third most special and loved person in his world, Steve now being bumped to third, Mary and their baby tied for first.

He presses his lips to her stomach through the heavy coat she's wearing to keep warm, "I love you so much." He whispers to the baby. Mary's grin can't possibly be any bigger when her husband does this.

But then all of them are brought back to reality as Jones gets a message through his communication, "We were right. Dr Zola's on the train. Hydra dispatcher gave him permission to open up the throttle. Wherever he's going. They need him bad." Their African American Commando and friend says to the group.

Mary looks at all of them, then turns to Steve and Bucky, "You boys come back to us." She states, referring to her and the baby she's carrying.

Steve nods, kissing her forehead before he hooks his zip line grip onto the cord.

Falsworth steps up past Mary, hugging her briefly, "Then lets get going because they're moving like the devil." He states

Bucky presses his lips to his wife's, it's different then the others they've shared before, it's full of intensity, passion and utter bliss. They break apart, smiling at each other, "I promised you that i would never let you lose anyone else. I intend to keep that promise til the day i die." He tells her, pecking her lips as he gets behind Steve.

Steve then turns his face into one of seriousness, "We only got about a 10-second window. You miss that window, we're bugs on a windshield." He states.

Falsworth chuckles, "Mind the gap." He states as they all move forward.

Dum Dum smirks, "Better get moving, bugs!" He shouts as Steve jumps off the cliff, holding tightly to the bar that's connecting him to the zip line, Bucky then follows after and then Jones.

She sees them land on the train, then she turns to the remaining men, "Be careful." She tells them.

Falsworth steps up, "Get back to camp and wait for us, Little Miss." He states, Mary nods, kissing their cheeks quickly before she runs carefully back to the camp site to wait out the mission.

Five hours go by until Mary heads Morita whistle to her, indicating they're back from the mission, she stands up, whistling back.

The men then break out of the tree line, none of their faces look happy even though she clearly sees they captured Zola, as he gripped tightly by her Commandos.

She scans through all of them, looking each of them over, but she doesn't see one man. Her husband. The man she is suppose to start a family with, the man she pledged herself too on New Year's Day.

"Where's James?" She asks the men. Steve then crumbles to the snow covered ground, breaking down into tears, his sister rushes towards them, the Commandos know what's about to be said, they shove Zola forward, past the siblings and into a different part of their camp.

Mary wraps her tiny arms around her brother's long frame, "Stevie? What's wrong? I've never seen you this upset?" She asks Steve.

Steve shakes his head, he subconsciously starts punching the white blanketed ground as tears will not stop falling from his blue eyes. His actions scare his sister even more.

"Steve! What's gotten into you! Where is James!" She exclaims, though deep down, she already knows what's happened.

"He's gone, Mary." Steve murmurs, his sister's hazel eyes soon become clouded with tears, "There was a Hydra agent that caught us off guard, he shot the blue light at us, it had broken through the train's side, opening up a huge hole. I was knocked out briefly, Bucky picked up my shield and started firing his gun at the agent to try and stop him. But it didn't." Steve explains as he sits up, looking at his sister, he pulls the two of them towards the fire to get warm.

"What happened next, Steve." She asks him, her mind screaming to know what happened to the love of her life.

"The agent shot another blue light, more powerful than the last one.. it bounced off my shield Bucky was holding, but it caused Bucky to be thrown out the open hole in the train." He stops himself, the memory being too fresh and too raw to say anymore. His sister is a mess when he stops.

She grips his uniform, looking into his eyes, "Is this a sick joke, Steven?" She asks, her mind telling her it's not true, that she's not just become a widow of only three months of marriage.

Her brother shakes his head, "I wish it was.. I tried to go after him, but when he tried to get close enough to grab my hand, the railing he was holding onto snapped.. and he fell off the train and into the ravine."

"No!" She screams, clutching onto her brother as her only living support left in her world, "No, it can't be real! It's not true!" She shouts again, not caring who hears her, "He'll find us! He promised he would never let anyone else leave me!" She screams into her brother's chest, "I don't even have a body to bury, Steve!" She shouts, her voice becoming hoarse, her body wont stop shaking. All her brother can do is hold her in his lap, keep her warm and mourn with her.

It's been three weeks since Mary became a widow and the Commandos returned from their missions. Since then, the Nazi's had bombed parts of London, destroying the Commando's bar in the process.

Mary and Steve sit in the destroyed bar, the nurse would drink her heart out if it wouldn't risk the baby's health, but she has the only part of Bucky living within her now, and there was no way she would put that precious gift in danger.

The radio plays an announcement to the public, "Blackout is still in effect throughout the London area. Please wait for the all-clear. Your attention, please. All citizens shall remain indoors until further notice. Blackout is still in effect throughout the London area."

Steve pours himself another drink, Scotch, Bucky's favorite. Mary drinks water, she hasn't spoken a word since they left the mountainside where her husband died. Neither of them care how dark it is outside, or if they're suppose to remain indoors. They lost someone close to them, and they had a right to mourn how they chose to.

The two siblings hear footsteps approach them, Mary turns her head, seeing Peggy, her eyes widen, the two friends hadn't seen each other since they left two years ago. She gets out of her chair, tears streaming down her pale face, wrapping her arms around her best friend.

Peggy's heart clenches at the sight of the girl and her brother. She knows what they lost, she had received Mary's letter a month ago, over the moon for her best friend, Mary had taken that leap of faith, it was time she did too.

The two girls hold each other before breaking apart, Mary goes back to sit down in her chair next to Steve. Peggy pulls up a chair from the bar that was still in good condition to sit at the table.

Steve looks up from his glass, seeing Peggy, a small smile graces his features, but it's not enough to take the pain he feels away.

"Dr. Erskine said that... the serum wouldn't just effect my muscles, it would effect my cells. Create a protective system of regeneration and healing. Which means um...I can't get drunk. Did you know that?" He asks the girls as he pours himself another drink, his sister nods.

"Your metabolism burns four times faster than the average person. He thought it could be one of the side effects." Mary says, shocking Steve in the process, but he chuckled dryly, if she was to say anything, it would be something medical. He thinks to himself, then looks up at Peggy.

"It wasn't your fault." She tells Steve. She's referring to Bucky's death, Mary winces at the thought, it's still too raw for her to process any of it.

Steve eyes her carefully, "Did you read the reports?"

"Yes."

"Then you know that's not true." He snaps, he blames himself for losing Bucky, if he had done better, Mary would still have her husband, a father to her child. If he had done better he'd still have his best friend, his brother.

"You did everything you could. Did you believe in your brother? Did you respect him?" Peggy asks him, Steve can't find the words to say, so all he can muster up is to look at Peggy in her wooden brown eyes as if he was saying yes.

"Then stop blaming yourself. Allow Barnes the dignity of his choice. He damn well must have thought you were worth it." She snaps, she is talking to Steve more than Mary. The nurse doesn't blame anyone but Hydra for the love of her life's death. But Steve blames himself for not catching him.

"I'm goin' after Schmidt. I'm not gonna stop till all of Hydra is dead or captured." Steve says suddenly, Mary and Peggy both nod.

"You won't be alone." Mary says in reply

Days later, Phillips, Steve, Peggy, Mary, Howard and the Commandos are gathered around a table with files and papers spread across it. They're planning their strategy of how to take down Schmidt and Hydra.

"Johann Schmidt belongs in a bug house. He thinks he's a God. He's willing to blow up half the world to prove it, starting with the USA." Phillips says to the group.

Howard steps forward, "Schmidt's working with powers beyond our capabilities. He gets across the Atlantic, he will wipe out the entire eastern sea board in an hour." He adds into the conversation. Mary looks up at him, she thought of Howard as a goofy older brother, and he liked her just as much. Mary was one of the only women Howard would never even dream of trying to pursue. He knew that even if he tried, which he never planned on doing, she would shoot him down figuratively and literally, because everyone knew who her heart belonged to.

"How much time we got?" Jones asks Phillips, looking at him.

"According to Mary and I's new best friend, under twenty four hours." The Colonel replies, Mary nods in agreement, he and and the nurse had gone to interrogate Dr Zola, the Colonel knew she wanted revenge, and he wasn't going to deny her it any longer.

The two walk into Zola's cell, Mary is holding a tray with a plate of steak and vegetables with a glass of milk, Colonel had offered her the chance to interrogate the Doctor with him. She eagerly agreed.

"Sit down." Phillips quips, the nurse and colonel sit side by side for the first time of ever knowing each other. Zola sits across from them. Mary sets the tray of food in front of the doctor.

"What's this?" Zola asks.

Mary narrows her eyes, "It's steak." She replies, "I cooked it myself."

"What's in it?" The doctor asks again.

"Cow. Doctor, do you realize how difficult it is to get ahold of a prime cut like that out here?" Phillips answers this time, "You going to let this woman down by not eating what she made for you?"

Mary smirks, over the few weeks after her and the Commandos returned, Phillips looked at the nurse differently, in a new light, he wasn't cold to her anymore, or harsh. He was almost kind to her in his own weird way. And she appreciated that.

"I don't eat meat." Zola retorts smugly

Phillips clenches his jaw briefly, then shrugs, pulling the tray towards him, "Why not?" He asks, starting to cut into the meat.

"It disagrees with me." The doctor says.

Mary's eyes narrow at the short man, but Colonel stops her, "How about cyanide?" He quips, starting to eat the steak Mary had prepared. "Does that give you the rumbly tummy too? Every Hydra agent that we've tried to take alive has crunched a little pill before we can stop him. But not you. So, here's our brilliant theory." He states, gesturing to himself and the nurse as he drinks some of the milk.

"You want to live." Mary finishes Phillips statement.

"You're trying to intimidate me." The doctor states to the two of them. Mary snorts, "I made you dinner." She retorts to the small doctor.

Phillips slides a piece of paper across the metal table to Zola, the doctor then begins to read aloud, "'Given the variable information he has provided, and in exchange for his full cooperation, Dr. Zola is being remanded to Switzerland.'" The doctor looks up at the two of them quizzically.

"I sent that message to Washington this morning. Of course it was encoded. You guys haven't broken those codes, have you? That would be awkward." Phillips tells the man, Mary chuckles briefly at his last sentence.

Zola looks at them with confidence, "Schmidt will know this is a lie." He states.

Mary narrows her eyes, standing up slowly, she places her hands on the cool metal of the table, "He's gonna kill you anyway, Doctor. You're a liability. You know more about Schmidt than anyone. And the last guy you cost us was my husband and father of my unborn child, along with Captain America's brother in law. So, I wouldn't count on the very best of protection." Mary snaps, shocking the Colonel briefly, he knew the loss of her husband hurt her more than he could fathom, he just didn't realize it would change her personality so drastically.

"There's you or Schmidt. It's just the hand you've been dealt." Colonel Phillips finishes. Zola's smugness slowly fades, but he tries to hide it. The nurse sits back down in her chair as Phillips keeps eating the food.

"Schmidt believes he walks in the foot steps of the Gods." The doctor says.

"Hmm." Both Phillips and Mary say together.

"Only the world itself would satisfy him."

"You do realize that's nuts, don't you?" Phillips asks.

"But the sanity of the plan is of no consequence." Zola replies.

Mary looks at him, "And why is that?"

"Because he can do it!" Zola shouts.

Neither Mary or Phillips are fazed by his outburst. Nothing really surprises the girl anymore. The innocence she had when she married Bucky was was shattered the moment Steve told her that her husband wasn't coming back.

Her innocence was replaced with a hatred for something she never thought she was capable of. She hated Hydra every fiber of her being.

"What's his target?" She asks him

"His target.. is everywhere." Zola replies to the girl.

"Where is he now?" Dernier asks

"Hydra's last base is here." Mary points to a picture she's holding, the picture is of a cliffside, "In the Alps. Five hundred feet below the surface." She states, tossing the picture onto the table. Everyone in the room watches her carefully, like she's a ticking time bomb.

"So, what are we supposed to do. I mean, it's not like we can just knock on the front door." Morita states, looking around at everyone.

Steve looks into Mary's eyes, the color in her once vibrant hazel eyes, now a dull gray, his heart clenches as she looks back at him, "Why not?" She asks.

Steve nods, "That's exactly what we're going to do."