{Three months later}
"Bucky, we don't know if she's in there." Steve tried. Bucky had dragged Steve and Natasha to a Hydra base to find B.J. It had been months since she first went missing and it seemed like she fell off the face of the Earth. Winter Soldier went inside with Natasha and Steve to spy on the place. If she wasn't there, then the least they could do was gather information. It seemed like the base was empty and unused in several hours. "Dammit!" Bucky cursed as when he saw no one and nothing. Natasha held his shoulder with a gentle hand. Bucky made a hole in a wall to vent his anger. "Language." tutted a voice behind them. Steve got his shield ready and Bucky whipped around to see Red Skull. "There are children here." the madman added as a young boy threw a limp body at them. The whole left arm was wrapped in a bloody bandage. Bucky slowly went to it and picked the limp being in his arms. "Kurt, take her back." The boy smiled demonically and Bucky moved away with B.J in his arms. The boy, Kurt, started stalking forward and held a gun in his hands. "What did you do to her?" Natasha demanded when she saw how badly B.J was beaten. "Oh, I just made sure she submitted. You should have heard her scream when I gave her that mark." Kurt said cocking the hammer back. Bucky made sure he was the one who protected B.J and Steve understood that fact. The gun went off and Steve threw his shield. The bullet missed, but it did scare B.J enough to wake up. A weak whimper left her lips and Bucky saw the fear in her eyes. "I'm getting her out of here." he told Natasha. Steve and Natasha came out behind him a little later. "Where are they?" Bucky asked. B.J had passed back out and looked in pain. "Kurt shot Steve in the leg and they got away." Natasha said. Steve looked at his leg and ignored the burning pain in his thigh and limped over to him.
"How is she?" Steve asked. Bucky sighed and laid her down on the medical table in the Avenger Jet. "I don't know. I don't want to know what they did to her arm." Bucky said. Natasha left them to talk while she got the jet warmed up. They were in the far northern area of the Scandinavian Peninsula and they saw on the radar a large storm. "Steve, what if I never remembered her and never asked Fury about her? Would anyone find her or even care besides Fury?" Bucky said. Steve sat Bucky down and got him to calm down. "Fury would be there with her. He would find her, you know that." Steve said. It didn't help and the Winter Soldier was haunted to what Kurt said.
"You should've heard her scream when I gave her that mark."
Bucky and Steve knew how demonic Kurt was and knew Skull tainted the boy's mind into something twisted. "B.J is strong. Don't worry." Phil said as agents pulled her into the medical room. Bucky didn't know what to do or say. "Uh, sir? You may want to see this." Simmons said tapping Phil's shoulder. Phil went in and couldn't believe what he saw engraved on B.J's arm. It ran from her shoulder to the direct center of the lower arm and wrapped around her shoulder. "Oh God." said an agent. The jagged star was scabbing and one area was starting an infection. B.J had so many injuries, they had to run a morphine drip to ease the pain she was in. They kept her arm wrapped up, not knowing what to say to Bucky about the scaring wound. They weren't able to stitch it and they knew they had to clean it daily and have it wrapped up. Bucky was able to see her and sat down beside her. "Coulson, what did they do to her?" he asked. Phil sighed and took a seat next to him. "They did a number on her." Phil said watching her heart monitor work. "What about her arm?" Bucky asked. Phil wasn't sure of the outcome if he told him what happened. Steve came in with a few coffees and was a welcomed interruption. "How is she?" he asked. Phil said how B.J was doing and left out her arm. B.J felt sore everywhere. The morphine was pushing her deeper into sleep. Feeling something metal and cold, she tapped. "•_ •_ •• ••_••" she faintly tapped. Bucky sighed deeply with the relief running threw him. "In a S.H.I.E.L.D base." Phil answered. B.J slowly woke up as the morphine was taken away. "_ _•_ •_ •_• _" she tapped. "What about your arm?" Bucky asked. B.J snapped her eyes opened and she moved her right arm to cover her arm. All three men know a panic attack and PTSD when they saw it. "Hey, Jessie, you're okay. You're safe, do you hear me?" Phil said pulling her arms straight. B.J whimpered and looked around. Bucky thought and opened the curtains in the recovery room to show a wide open city and sky. B.J saw it and calmed down. "How'd you know that would work?" Steve asked. Bucky sat back down and smiled warmly at B.J. "When I have an attack, I look out a window or open one. It helps me know I'm not caged." he said looking out the window. B.J looked at her arm and moved the bandage slightly. Seeing what she thought was a nightmare, she covered it and tried to calm down. It didn't go unnoticed. "You okay, kid?" Bucky asked. B.J reached to hide her arm again. She looked to Phil to tell them. "We should talk outside. Bj should get some sleep." Phil said taking the soldiers outside. B.J sighed and thought. The nightmares she survived from danced in her memories. Tears threatened her, but she held them back. The memory of Kurt cutting her and beating her played like an HD video. Hearing his laugh made her start crying. Bucky didn't know how to react when he was told what was carved into her arm and how deep the wound was. Steve was the same way and got him to sit down before he either fainted or he threw something. Bucky went back into the room and sat down next to her and held her hand. "You okay?" he asked with a worried look. B.J shook her head and curled up on the bed. She had taken the IV and other things off of her so she could move more. "I'm sorry." she heard her father say. B.J looked at him and wiped her eyes.
"You're fine, dad. It isn't your fault." she said with a small smile. Bucky grew a smile himself and sighed. "I'm safe. How many times have you pulled my ass out of the fire? Twice. Fury told me what you did when I was a baby." she said with a growing smile. Bucky laughed a little and ruffled her hair.