(I was inspired to write this piece after going to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, So MAJOR spoiler alert! Do not read if you haven't seen it yet. If there's enough interest in this story, I'll post more chapters, so please review. This story takes place after Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Bucky has been recovered from Hydra. It's now up to Steve to introduce Bucky to the 21st Century. Sorry this is so short, but I wanted to have a prologue to set the scene. The next chapters will be longer, I promise. Enjoy)
Prologue
Steve Rodgers sat in the hospital room, waiting for his friend Bucky to wake up. It had been seventy years since they had seen one another (Not counting the times The Winter Soldier had tried to kill him), but neither had aged since 1943; Steve because he had been encased in a block of ice in a state of suspended animation, and Bucky because Hydra had kept him cryogenically frozen, only thawing him to carry out assassinations as the Winter Soldier. Hydra thought they had wiped Bucky's memory; but Bucky had remembered Steve. After all, how could you really forget the person who had been your best friend for twenty years? After nearly killing Steve, he had dragged him out of the water and gone back to Hydra, not knowing what else he could do, but he was starting to remember. Remembering Steve, World War Two, and everything that Hydra had done to him since. Once Bucky realized what Hydra had done to him (and had tried to do to his best friend) he would no longer take orders from them. However, Hydra didn't tolerate defiance. They tortured him for weeks, starving him, beating him, and shocking him, trying to wipe his memory again; but it didn't work. The Winter Soldier would not comply. They would have killed him if Steve and Natasha hadn't recovered him, a two person strike team that incapacitated all the Hydra members around Bucky.
From the Hydra base, they brought Bucky straight to the former S.H.E.I.L.D. wing of the Hospital, where they would be able to take care of him. They had bandaged his wounds and put him on an IV but as long as he remained unconscious, there wasn't much more they could do for him. Steve had been with him the entire time, refusing to leave his side until he woke up. Natasha had been popping in and out of the Hospital room, making sure that he didn't feel alone. If it had been anyone else, she wouldn't have cared, but Steve was different. He was a real friend and one of the rare people that she actually trusted. She recognized the signs that Bucky would be waking up soon, and left the room. She knew Steve would want some alone time with his old friend. So, she wasn't in the room when Steve heard James Buchannan Barnes' voice for the first time in seventy years:
"Hey, Punk. You miss me?"
