Old acquaintances cause problems

Wanda's view
Happy, I sat across from Bucky and ate my paprikash. Cooking with him was the funniest thing I'd experienced in a long time, he clearly hadn't been born to cook and still had paprikash on his face. But cooking had distracted me from the fact that Pietro was on a mission and Loki was on Asgard. It wouldn't be like I had a choice, I didn't stand a chance against Pietro if he let the protector hang out. I looked behind me at the mess we had both left behind "I say we sneak away and hope someone else cleans up." I scraped the last of the sauce off my plate and licked the spoonful with relish.
Bucky grinned slightly "That's by far the best idea you've had in two hours." he looked at the mess and seemed as keen to clean it up as I was. All at once I felt a twinge in my arm. I looked down at myself and spotted a needle with a container attached that had bored into my arm.
"Wanda what is it?"
I pulled the needle out and threw it on the table "What the hell?" I muttered.
Then everything happened very quickly, armed soldiers stormed the room. I wanted to jump up and take them out with my powers but I got dizzy and just managed to stay on my feet.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Bucky pulled me behind him and took up an attack stance.
"I thought that was obvious." a shiver ran down my spine when I heard Bruce's voice, he pushed his way through the men "The Kraken heads are pretty treacherous, aren't they."
It was only then that I noticed the men's uniforms, it couldn't be. Hydra was history, this just couldn't happen. I scraped all my willpower together to be able to fight, because whatever they had injected me with made me pretty much defenceless and Bucky wouldn't be able to take them all on.
Bruce grinned sadistically "Get them." the soldiers ran towards us. Bucky started flailing wildly, sometimes taking out several men at once, no wonder, sheer panic was driving him. I hurled a man against the wall with my powers, I felt another sting, this time in my throat. I staggered back, a soldier grabbed me by the hair and flung me through the air as if I weighed no more than a feather. I landed crashing against a wall, muffled by the sound of Bucky screaming my name. Coughing, I struggled to my feet and suddenly Loki was there. I didn't know why or where he came from, but in a blur I could make out him sweeping through the ranks of men, mopping the floor with them. Even when they shot him several times with the anaesthetic that had knocked me half out, he kept going. Suddenly Loki began to twitch and convulse uncontrollably, froze in mid-motion and fell to the ground. Bruce appeared behind him, holding a stun gun. Immediately several men pounced on Loki and tied his hands, kicking him until he was finally unconscious. I tried to get to him "Leave him alone!" I shouted desperately, but one man grabbed me from behind and threw me over his shoulder. I kicked and screamed. For now I also saw Bucky, who had been overpowered by six men and was still trying to free himself somehow. My blows were getting weaker and weaker, but I didn't want to give up. My body saw it differently, my sight became more and more blurred, black bars pushed their way into my field of vision until everything just went black.

I woke up on a hard surface. I looked around and spotted Bucky cowering in a corner with his hands buried in his hair "Bucky." I croaked. My throat was burning like hell. Bucky looked up and then came crawling over to me. He pulled me into a sitting position and there I could see the cell, which was all smooth concrete, no windows, the only exit, was an iron door. The little light was provided by a neon lamp. "How long was I out?"
Bucky shrugged "Don't know exactly, a couple of hours maybe."
I had been out for hours.
"Hey it's going to be alright, we're going to get out of here." Bucky supported me lightly from behind so I wouldn't fall over backwards again.
"Yes we will!" now that I was no longer drugged I could use my powers again and blast the door with it. I spread my hands
"Wanda don't..." shouted Bucky, but it was too late, glistening pain shot through my whole body and I was shaken by spasms.
The next thing I knew I was on my back and Bucky was kneeling over me worriedly "Wanda, please say something!" he pleaded.
"Ow." I croaked out. What had that been, I grabbed my neck and could feel something metallic. I looked down at myself in panic. A metallic ring was hanging around my neck. I clutched it with my hands and tried desperately to get it off "Bucky what is that?" I felt like I couldn't breathe.
"It gives you an electric shock every time you try to use your powers," came a voice from the door. A man stood in the doorway, two guards standing behind him. Unconsciously, I moved a little away from the door and pressed myself against Bucky.
The man in the door grinned maliciously "Come on you have an appointment." the two men approached me, pulled me to my feet and dragged me out of the cell.
"Don't touch her." roared Bucky, the leader kicked him in the face, he remained lying there moaning.
I heard the door slam again. I was pulled further and further until we came to a room. The two men chained my hands with two hand chains that were anchored in the wall two metres above the floor. I could barely stand. "What are you doing!" I shouted at them. The two just kept silent and left. The man who had kicked Bucky in the face remained "You shall learn what happens when you run away."
Everything tightened inside me as he pulled out a stun gun. Desperately I tried to get away from him, to break free of the restraints. Amused, he laughed "Believe me Ivan no one can escape." he turned on the shocker and pressed it to my stomach.
I didn't want to scream, I didn't want to give him that satisfaction, but I did anyway. Every time he sent electricity through my body I screamed.

Bucky's view
Each of her screams only made me more desperate. I beat my human fist bloody on the door and screamed for her. But it was no use, she wouldn't hear me anyway. I slid down the wall and covered my ears. I didn't want to hear it, I couldn't hear Wanda screaming over and over again, it broke my heart. But it was even worse when she stopped screaming and just whimpered. She shouldn't be here at all, it was all my fault, if she hadn't been so weakened by what she had done to me, she would have been on the mission and wouldn't be here now. Suddenly the door was pushed open and Wanda was thrown in. She stumbled two steps and then fell apart. I was there just in time to catch her. I rested her head on my lap and brushed her sweaty hair out of her face "What have they done to you." I whispered.
She managed to smile "It's not that bad." she had a coughing fit and shivered.
A tear ran down my cheek, I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her to me a little "It'll be alright." I murmured. Wanda fell against me, and was asleep after only a few seconds. I slid backwards against the wall and leaned against it. Again and again I heard her screams echoing in my head. Eventually, I too lost the battle against tiredness and fell asleep, very reluctantly.
I woke up in the middle of the night when I heard a scream. My first thought was that they had taken Wanda again. But the Sokovian was still slumbering in my arms. But whose scream was it then that had woken me up. The next long-drawn-out scream ran through my marrow and leg. For now I knew whose scream I had heard. It was Loki's scream.

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