"желание"
"Captain" she breathes. Steve is staring at Peggy. His eyes are hot and his smile easy. "I'm invisible…" Bucky takes a gulp of the burning whiskey, and signals for more.
"ржавый"
Bucky climbs up the fire escape, his hands coated in orange powder. He taps on the window and peers in. Steve smiles.
"семнадцать"
It is Bucky's birthday. Steve told him he has a surprise for him after school. Bucky breaks up with Lillian so he can have the night free.
"рассвет"
A half an hour after walking away from Steve, Bucky tell the girls to buzz off. It is his last night in New York, and he wants to spend it with his best friend. He goes to all their usual haunts. He walks for hours. The sun starts to rise. He swears, and trudges to his muster point.
"печь"
Bucky cuts class and meets Sally Stapleton in the boiler room at school. They are going after each other like cats in heat. Suddenly a cool breeze hits his back. Steve is standing in the doorway, glaring at them. Bucky jumps away from Sally, and tries to pull his pants back up. Steve leaves quickly. Bucky scrabbles after him. Steve doesn't speak to him for a week.
"девять"
Bucky's father tells him "You and that Rodgers boy need to stop holding hands with each other. Neighbors are starting to talk. You'll be 10 in six months. Start acting like a man." Bucky tells Steve that they need to be manlier, or they can't be friends anymore. Steve picks a fight with a couple of 9th graders.
"добросердечный"
Bucky wakes up to the sound of his parents fighting. There is the sound of glass breaking. His mother yells "They are just children, it is harmless!" He brings home Agnes to meet his father the next day. His mother looks relieved.
"возвращение на родину"
Bucky is strapped to a gurney. Everything hurts. He has been in and out of consciousness for days. He doesn't understand a lot of German, but they seem to keep calling him "Weapon".
Suddenly Steve is there. He came to find him. He is going to bring him home.
"один"
Steve is in love with that woman. She might be the only woman Bucky has even seen Steve talk to. Bucky drinks and stays close to Steve. At least she isn't allowed in the Commandos.
"грузовой вагон"
Bucky is falling. It feels like hours. He watches Steve's face get smaller and smaller. Steve is screaming, but Bucky can't hear him.
The Winter Soldier looks at the woman in front of It. She stares back at It, her hand fisted in her red hair.
"Awaiting orders." It says.
"Right. Do you know how to work an MRI?" the woman asks.
"I do." It had posed as a doctor during a mission. It had been trained on all relevant equipment.
"Great, follow me." She walks briskly out of the room, leading them down a darkened hallway, into another brightly lit hospital suite.
"Help me get him on a cart."
It helps her move the target onto a metal gurney.
She leads them to an elevator, which takes them to a large lab in the basement.
It pushed the gurney towards the MRI machine. The woman sprints around turning on electrical generators, and lights.
Together they get the target placed in the machine. The woman tells It that they are looking for swelling in the brain. She babbles.
"I got him all checked out- but then he was being really weird. Like two bottles of Scotch weird. Bruce called me back about some test results, and I mentioned it to him. He did the "hm". You know the "hm" he does before everything sucks. He said to keep an eye on Clint, told me what to look for. But Clint swore he was fine. He brought you dinner and the next thing I know he is passed out on the floor. This is Bruce Banner's goddamn secret mad scientist facility! The least he could do is come run this goddamn scan." She lets out a breath as she steps away from the machine. "I am really sorry about powering you up, but I remembered you being good at medical things- you put my hip back into place pretty easily after you dislocated it- and Bruce won't answer his fucking phone-"
She slumps in a nearby wheelchair, watching as the Winter Soldier performed the scan.
It confirms her fears. The target is exhibiting some minor intracranial edema.
Her face grows very white.
"Can you fix it here? No one is supposed to know this place exists. Flying one of Starks Heli-ambulances is our worst case contingency."
The Winter Soldier glances around the lab. "Affirmative."
