Coming In From The Cold

by TheLadyMarauder23

There is darkness in all of us. What we choose to do with it, determines the kind of person we want to be. I've had my fair share of darkness, and now I have to do whatever it takes to keep the darkness at bay, to keep the people I love safe.

Prologue

The winter solider experiment had failed. James Buchanan Barnes, or Bucky Barnes as people used to call him was now back at the avengers Tower with his best friend Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America.

But that is not where this story begins.

Before Hydra had taken Bucky, and experimented on him, essentially creating the winter solider, there were others. Before Bucky, and we'll after Bucky.

I was one of the ones after.

But my story is not... How do I say this delicately? It's not for the faint of heart, I admit even i still have nightmares, and I lived it myself.

You see, I was taken by Hydra for a very important reason.

To them, once Bucky was back on the good side, he was considered an enemy. But they didn't want to lose a precious solider that they had created. Not to mention, how Captain America had been a thorn in their side for decades.

So why not capture someone who was important to the both of them? To make them go crazy with guilt? To make them feel nothing but self hatred? To essentially make the both of them putty in the hands of Hydra?

That's where I come in.

I grew up with James. He and I were the best of friends. In fact it was I who gave him the nickname of Bucky in the first place.

Steve, he is a different story. A more complicated one to say the least.

I met Steve the same day, he and Bucky met. And just like that, the three of us were inseparable.

Then it all came crashing down...

My name is Evelyn Barnes and this is my story.