[ viii. eight ! ]
❛ 𝙷𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙾, 𝙾𝙻𝙳 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳 ❜

❝Who the hell is Bucky?❞

𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 modern looking building together with Senator Ster. The two men embraced for a short moment and then, Stern walked away leaving Sitwell and his bodyguards alone.

On the other roof, across the street, Anastasija could watch Sitwells perfectly as he got a call that was probably from Sam. "So, what is your personal interisted?", the blond russian asked the brunette besides her curious.

There was a short silence, Anastasija still eyeing Sitwell on the other side of the street. "They killed my mother", the brunette answered her after a moment. Anastasija wanted to look up but stopped herself at the last second, she had to keep and eye on Sitwell.

"That sucks, I'm sorry."

Juliet nodded eventhought Anastasija couldn't see it, "Thanks."

The man on the other side of the street turned to his bodyguards and seemingly told them to leave, so his men left and Sitwell finally answered the phone.

From her position the russian had a good view at him and the street. Her sniper rifle aimed at the man as he looked around, probably searching for Sam.

"I never knew my parents, came to the KGB and was my hole childhood trained to be a killer, so I guess I win", the blond muttered as she calmed at Juliet who looked at her surprised.

Meanwhile Sitwell seemed really nervous, he turned the other way and spotted Sam sitting a few feet away from him raising his drink in the air.

After a short moment the man looked down at his tie and saw a small red light from the gun that Ana pointed at him.

Steve threw Sitwell across the rooftop without any effort while Anastasija and Juliet followed behind him. "Tell me about Zola's algorithm", Steve demanded loudly. 

"Never heard of it", Sitwell answered him while he sat his glasses straight.
"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?", Steve continued to question him as Sitwell walked backwards

"I was throwing up, I get seasick", Sitwell answered the two sarcastically. Steve forced Sitwell to the edge of the rooftop, the man was about to fall but Steve quickly grabbed him by the shirt.

Sitwell just smirked at the blond man "Is this little display meant to insinuate that you can throw me off the roof? Cause it's really not your style, Rogers."

Steve just looked at him, "You're right. It's not. It's her's." He answered him while he stepped aside making space for Anastasija to kick Sitwell off the roof.

While the man fell screaming Anastasija slowly turned to Steve, "Oh, wait. What about that girl from accounting, Laura—?", she questioned him.

"Lillian. Lip piercing, right?", Steve looked at her. "Yeah, she's cute", Ana said watching her friend.

"Yeah, I'm not ready for that", Steve answered the blond women.

They looked at each other in silence and Ana couldn't really place the emotions that laid inside his look.

But she didn't had the time to think about it more because suddenly, Sam, in his Falcon jet-pack suit with wings, flew up holding Sitwell and threw him down on the roof.

Steve and Anastasija walked towards Sitwell as he held his hand up in fear, "Zola's algorithm is a program for choosing Insight's targets", he immediately spilled to them.

"What targets?", Juliet questioned the HYDRA agent. "Rogers! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to Hydra! Now, or in the future", Sitwell explained to them still catching his breath.

"The Future? How could it know?", Sitwell laughed at the question. "How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught Hydra how to read it."

Steve, Anastasija and Juliet look at him in confusion, "Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates peoples' past to predict their future", Sitwell explained to them.

"And what then?", the super solider asked the man who still sat on the ground. "Oh, my God. Pierce is going to kill me", he exclaimed upsed.

"What then?!", Steve asked him again, this time louder as Sam grabbed Sitwell's shoulder.

"Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few millions at a time", the man with the glasses answered them in fear.

As the group made their way down the stairs towards their car Juliet walked besides Anastasija and smirked at her, "Your though, I like you."

The russian let out a laugh as she smirk at the brunette as well, "You're cool, I guess."

After that the five quickly got into the car and Sam drove them all to Triskelion as fast as possible.

Steve sat in the passenger seat next to Sam while Juliet and Anastasija were in the backseat with Sitwell.

"Hydra doesn't like leaks", Sitwell stated looking at them seriously.

"So why don't you try sticking a cork in it", Sam said as he watched the road.

Ana leaned to the side and spoke to Steve, "Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here."

"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly", Steve explained to the blond woman behind him.

"What?! Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea", Sitwell immediately spoke up from the backseat. He had just finished his scentence when something landed on the car roof with a lout rumble.

They all looked up and suddenly something pulled Sitwell out through the window and threw him into the oncoming traffic killing him.

Ana was shocked, she knew exactly who that something was. Then someone started shooting them through the car roof.

Ana reactet quickly and climed on Steve's lab, grabbing his head and trying to shield him from the bullets and Juliet did the same with Sam.

Sam quickly pulled the break handle making the shooter drop down onto the street.

And in that moment they saw him the Winter soldier, the ghost story. Ana's eyes grew wide, she could still remembered how he shot her the last time the two met. She would never forget this moment.

Anastasija quickly grabbed her gun and was ready to shoot at him when another car smashed into the trio's and pushed them along.

Ana's gun fell out off her hand and the Winter Soldier jumped back onto their car as he smashed his hand though the windscreen. Sam tried to drive the car away but the Winter Solider suddenly pulled out the steering wheel.

"Shit!", Sam shouted shocked as
Ana grabbed for her gun on the ground. And as soon as she had the gun the women started shooting at him. But the Winter Soldier jumped onto the vehicle behind them.

Steve tried to break the door open with his shield while Ana was still sitting on his lap. It would be very intimate position if they weren't fighting for their lives right now.

"Hang on!", Steve shouted, the car rolled over, but he broke open the door in time.

Holding onto Anastasija, Juliet and Sam, they slid on the car door through the large streets.

The Winter Soldier was joined by some HYDRA agents before they all started shooting at the four.

Ana heavily breathed out as the Winter Solider fiered at Steve and her. But Steve quickly pushed her aside and was hit by the full force.

He flew backwards over the bridge, as Sam, Juliet and Ana scattered all and run off in different directions with the Soldier shooting at Anastasija.

She managed to shoot him in his eye goggle mask and quickly jump over the wall. She roll herself over the street, otherwise she would get hit by a car.

Ana stood up and rolled over a car that was coming towards her while the Winter Solider still shot at her.

She ran and hide behind the next car that was coming through, but the Solider shot it making it flly over the bridge.

Exactly at the same time, Anastasija jumped off the bridge and shot a modern grappling hook at the bridge so she could easily land on her feet. But the young woman didn't stopped, she continued running for her life.

But as she wanted to step out under the bridge she saw his shadow on the ground.

He was only waiting for her to come out, so he could kill her.

The russian stopped and looked up watching him load his gun, he didn't saw her yet.

Anastasija decided to attack him first, so she began shooting at him. He immediately retreated and hid behind the wall. Now he definitely was angry, she thought.

So it was best for her to run and hide, Ana begann running and hide behind a ambulance waiting for the solider to show himself again.

When the assassin came out behind the wall, she immediately started shooting at him with two guns, until her magazines were empty.

She stepped back and the Winter Solider started shooting at the ambulance were she was hiding. She stared to run again, this was not the day she would die.

She looked back and saw him following her. Ana continued running along the streets of Washington, until she got an Idea.

The former spy grabbed her phone and played an old playback she had from her voice.

She quickly placed it on the floor and left to search for a good hiding spot.

After a short moment, she saw how the solider arrived and her plan seriously worked. He really thought the playback was Anastasija.

He carefully rolled a bomb towards the playback and when it exploded Anastasija jumped on the car, pushed herself up and then jumped directly at him. She kicked his gun out of his hand and sat on his shoulders.

The blond quickly grabbed a roap from her pocked and tried to strangle him but it wasn't as easy as she thought.

The two fought for a moment but then he crashed her against a car and threw her off.

She hit a car and fell to the ground grunting in pain, but despite the pain she was feeling right now, Ana stood up. She didn't had time for a pause.

He was going to kill her if she didn't run, so she stood up and threw a little machine at him that electro shocked his metal arm.

As soon as it hit him, she stared running again, "Get out of the way! Out of the way!", she shouted at the civilians hectically while she was running for her live.

But suddenly as she didn't expected it she got shot into the shoulder. A loud grunting escaped her mouth as she fell to the ground and looked around. The women sat on the ground leaning against a car, her breath heavily as she was scared for her life.

Her eyes were filled with fear as she breathed heavily and fast. Ana shallowed as she pressed a hand onto her shoulder, that really wasn't her day. She looked around in fear but didn't saw the Winter Soldier come up from behind to shoot her.

She turned her head and looked at him. That was it, she thought and she had so much things she still wanted to do, hell she didn't even figure out her feeling for Steve.

But right in that moment Steve jumped in and attacked the brunette assassin. They fought and the Winter Solider tried to shoot Steve multiple times but didn't succeed.

Steve managed to kick the gun out of his hand but he had another one.
At some point the Winter Soldier took Steve's shield and threw it at him but Steve managed to avoid being hit.

He approched the assassin, so the Winter Solider grabbed a knife from his belt and tried to stab Steve multiple times. But the super solider always avoided the knife, he managaed to disarm him and kicked the man hardly against a car.

But the Winter solider stood up again and punched Steve, which ended with them continuing to fight with each other.

Steve grabbed the assassin and threw him over his shoulder, the man's mask suddenly fell of as he rolled over the street. The brunette landed on his knees and slowly stood up, looking around.

Steve had a stunned look on his face, he couldn't believe his eyes, "Bucky?", was all he asked his old best friend, that he believed to be dead.

"Who the hell is Bucky?", the man questioned him and went to shoot at Steve but Sam flew in and threw Bucky aside.

The man stood up and tired to shoot at Steve again, but Ana quickly grabbed the gun from the floor and shot at him while leaning against the car for support.

Bucky quickly threw a bomb at Steve and ran off, Steve deflected the bomb with his shield as it exploded.

When they look at where he had stood a second ago, they realized that he was gone and Juliet was approaching them from afar.

As she arrived by then the four heard a couple of sirens and in a couple of seconds they were surrounded by a couple of Hydra agents being led by Rumlow.

Ana still held her shoulder that hurted badly, she had lost a lot of blood. "Drop the shield, Captain! On your knees! Get on your knees! Now! Get down! Get down!", Rumlow shouted at Steve who held his hands up.

"Get on your knees! Down!",
Rumlow demanded still shouting at him. He kicked Steve's leg and Steve kneeled down, "Don't move", he said to the Captain.

"Put the gun down. Not here. Not here!", he said to the Agent. The Agent lowered his gun, the HYDRA agents then take Steve, Sam, and Anastasija into custody.

The four were escorted in a big van when Steve looked at Ana sadly, "It was him. He looked right at me and he didn't even know me."

Ana could understand that he was sad but her shoulder hurted and the bloodloose didn't really helped with that.

"How's that even possible? It was like seventy years ago", Sam asked Steve as Juliet nodded her head agreeing with him, "Yeah."

“Zola. —Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43, Zola experimented on them. Whatever he did, it helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him", the super solider explained to Sam guilty.

"None of that's your fault, Steve", Ana said looking at him still holding her shoulder, she felt tired and she just wanted to sleep.

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky", Steve told her quietly as he looked to the ground. Sam suddenly noticed Anastasija bleeding from her shoulder and looked at the guards.

"We need to get a doctor here.
We don't put pressure on that wound she's going to bleed out here in the truck", he explained to the two guards. 

Suddenly one of the guards pulled out an electric rod and neutralized the other guard and knocked him out. The guard then took off his helmet and revealed himself as Maria Hill.

"That thing was squeezing my brain", she stated, Sam looked at her in confusion and then to Steve.

"Who's this guy?", Agent Hill questiones looking at Sam.

Hill took the small group to a secret facility and as soon as they entered the building a man ran towards them immediately taking care of Ana's wound.

"GSW. She's lost at least a pint", Maria told the man, "Maybe two", Sam added.

"Let me take her!", the Doctor said while approaching the group.

So Hill took them to Fury, who was alive and lying in his bed, the trio look at him in shock, Ana's eyes were tearing up.

She ran to him and hugged him with her good arm, it still hurted like hell but it was worth it.

Fury hugged her back, "About damn time", he said smiling, but they hadn't really time to catch up because the Doctor came to patch her up.

After that Fury explained to them what injurys he had, "Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache.”

"Don't forget your collapsed lung", the Doctor added standing beside his bed. "Oh, let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good", Nick joked.

"They cut you open, your heart stopped", Ana said still disbelieving that Nick sat infront of her as the doctor took care of her shoulder.

"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it", he explained to the group.

Steve finally spoke up, "Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?"

"Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful", Agent Hill told the Captain crossing hat arms over her chest.

"Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust", the Director said looking at them.

"Wait, does Natasha know?", Ana asked the two. "Oh yes, she does", a voice from behind her spoke up, when she turned around she saw her twin leaning against the door frame.

Anastasija brought her into a hug, "You know for a moment I thought I would never going to see you again", she told the rheared.

"I know, I heared that you had a reunion with the Winter Solider", her twin said to her smiling lightly. 

They let go off each other and looked at the group which had started talking again. But Juliet approached the red head with a big smile on her face. "Hey, Juliet Troy", the brunette said as she shook the russian's hand. "Natasha Romanoff."

❝𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈'𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞❞