Chapter 2
Winter was coming fast, Steve thought as he watched the snow come down. It was hard to believe December was already here. Steve was worried, things at S.H.I.E.L.D were not going to well. hydra was keeping the teams on the move and covering their movements. Whoever was in charge of hydra now knew what they were doing. Fury thought that Steve show have all the answers, but Steve didn't where hydra was now, during the war it was easy to find them because there was always that one truck or moving party that forgot to cover their movements and would lead the Allies to the base. But hydra didn't have factories now and so tracking movements was harder, mostly because the movements were underground. The few people that Fury had in hydra were not much help as they were low officers and got almost no information.
Another worry Steve had was that the Winter Soldier still had not been seen, Steve had not seen him sense the whole thing in Washington and that that was almost two years ago. Steve was starting to lose hope, had hydra killed Bucky and Steve didn't know? Did Bucky brake his programing and then kill himself, heaven only knows what he was forced to do?
There was a knock on the door, Steve looked up from the report he was reading to see Fury walking into Steve's small office at S.H.I.E.D. "Have you had any luck?" Fury asked frowning.
"Sure lots of it, just not the good kind." Steve said throwing down the report. "Nothing, hydra is doing everything under ground and our people are ether getting killed during the operations or they know nothing."
Fury looked around the room with sad eyes, "I take it you have heard the news about Coulson's team."
Steve looked confused, "No, what happened."
"Hydra found them, they were moving S.S.R. files that Agent Peggy Carter had hid there. Well they got the last of the files and went to do another sweep through when they were attacked. Thankfully everyone made it out and is okay, but they are being followed and can't land. They will need to refuel soon and I can't get only one near them."
Steve rubbed his neck with his left hand, "Can Stark send up anything that would distracted hydra long enough to get Coulson's team back here, or to a safe house?"
Fury gave a half smile, "Stark is working on something, and I am sure that he will figure it out and activate that plan without telling him."
Steve smiled, "That is how he workers."
Fury nodded, "I also wanted to ask you if you had seen or heard anything about Barnes?"
Steve frowned and looked down at the desk.
"That is what I thought, darn, I was hoping. It has been a year and still no word or anything."
"I am starting to think the worst, we have no idea what he went through in hydra, and we may never see him again. He was always good at hiding. I keep hoping he is just trying to figure things out and will show up when he is ready, but I also know hydra and know that they most likely had a kill switch in that medal arm. I don't know if they would activate it or not, or try to find him and start over with him."
Fury leaned up against the wall, "Well, we may never know. I hope he is alive but you are right this is hydra we are talking about, and the Winter Soldier was passed between hydra and the Russians. We could really just a turn of luck right now, maybe we will get lucky."
Agent Hill walked in, "Sir, Stark and lunch a small plan. He thinks hydra might follow it and Coulson's team can make it back here on the amount of fuel they have."
Fury nodded, "Well, we were right Stark went ahead." Steve smiled and turned back to the report on his desk.