As they flew to Vienna, Steve sits next to Rebecca on the plane, wanting to talk to her.

"I want you to stay out of this, Becca," he whispered to her, not wanting Sam and Sharon to hear.

"Why?" She whispered back.

"You know why…"

"Because it's Bucky?" She asked.

"Because it's your father. You shouldn't have to do this…" he pleaded to her. She turned and looked at him, right in the eye.

"Neither should you. He may be my father but he's your best friend. I am your partner. My place is by your side Steve, not on the sidelines." She said.

"I… don't want to see you get hurt," He admitted. "Not by his hands again…" he told her, feeling his eyes water.

"I will be fine…" She promised him. "He can not hurt me like that anymore." Their eyes met and he leaned in, to kiss her passionately, even with his audience. He didn't care at the moment. He needed this and she enjoyed his lips on hers. When they broke away, Steve pulled her closer to him, letting her rest on his chest. Steve looked across the way at Sam and he gave Steve a look of approval. Steve rolled his eyes.

They quickly made it to Vienna, before doing the recon of the blast site. When Sharon tipped them off, they quickly made their way to Bucharest to where Bucky most likely was.


Rebecca looked from her vantage point on a nearby building, being able to see the apartment windows as well as Sam. She figured Steve wanted her there because it was farthest away, but she was thankful for the kiss he gave her before leaving her, giving her the extra boost she was used to.

She couldn't see into the apartment but she could hear the interaction between Steve and Bucky. She could see the police start to close in on them as she and Sam gave Steve warnings. She heard the fighting before she saw the backpack, flying out of the window. She knew where Bucky was heading. She calculated what she would have to do before she quickly made the climb and jumped to land on the roof where the bag landed.

When she saw him jump from the building, she was ready for him. She ran to him, as he landed, and was on him in a second, grabbing his hand with her bare hand, trying to incapacitate him quickly. She had a second to hear a grunt of pain as her powers worked on him before they both felt the impact of a third person hitting them, knocking her away from Bucky.

She looked up to see Bucky and a man dressed completely in a black cat costume, start to fight. She knew she had to help him, this man was out for blood. She joined in with the fight, trying to attack him, sending kicks and punches his way, while Bucky did the same. He was strong… just as strong as the two of them.

'Shit, another super soldier,' she thought before grabbing one of the guns from her thigh holsters. She shot at him from point-blank range, watching in horror as they bounced right off. He slashed at her gun, slicing it in half before his other hand went to slash at her arm, slicing right through the kevlar of her suit, leaving four bloody cuts on her bicep.

She recoiled in pain, before seeing the helicopter, getting out of the way before the hail of bullets. Sam kicks the Helicopter tail, causing it to crash. She noticed that Steve was on the roof now. He sees that she is hurt, as Bucky and the man in black jumps off the roof.

"Stand down!" He yells at her before he follows them off the roof. She goes to the edge of the roof and watches were they are going. She looks around from her vantage point for a moment before seeing her means of escape.

She jumps, grabbing onto a pipe about halfway down, to slow her descent. She lets out a gasp of pain at the strain it causes her injured arm. She hits the ground running, running right into traffic, right at a passing motorcycle. The driver stops right in front of her, shocked by her actions. She smiled and quickly took his bike, to catch up with her comrades.

"I can't shake this guy," She hears Steve say over the coms as she weaves between the cars, to quickly catch up to them.

"Right behind you, But so is Rebecca…" Sam said, giving away her secret.

"I told you to stand down," Steve bites out. She hit her Coms.

"Sue me.." She said as she battled the cars to catch up.

She got there in time to see the man in black jump onto Bucky's motorcycle. Bucky threw him off, before Steve and then Rebecca nearly missed running over him. She hears Sam start to catch up, before she sees the explosion in front of her, sending her skittering to a stop as Bucky, Steve and the man in black were sent flying forward into the street before them, while she avoided falling debris with Sam.

Then they were surrounded and quickly arrested. They were taken to a detention center nearby where they were given clothes and their weapons and costumes were quickly taken from them. Bucky was shoved into a box and they were shoved into a prison van, on their way to Berlin.

They sat Sam in the back, the Wakandan king in the front and to her surprise, they sat her next to Steve, leaving the space between. She didn't wait long before she slipped one of the gloves she was given to wear off, when the guards were distracted, put it between them. Steve saw the gesture before he ignored it, looking out his window. She took it for what it was, anger for not listening to him. She put her glove back on and looked out her own window. The rest of the trip was made in near silence.


Steve refused to talk to Rebecca as they were shown to their 'office'. Steve and Tony talked. Tony was trying to get Steve to sign, but Steve refuses, before leaving the conference room. Tony had noticed the cold shoulder that Steve was giving Rebecca so he decided to approach her as well.

She was sitting alone, in the hall, away from most people. He sat next to her.

"Hey, kid. How have you been?"

"I am fine, Tony," she said.

"You and Cap have a falling out?" He asked. She looked away from him.

"Don't really want to talk about it," She told him.

"Fair enough. Cap still refuses to sign… I was hoping you would be a little more reasonable," He told her.

"And why is that?" She asked him.

"Because you're a smart woman. You gotta know this is the best outcome to a bad situation."

"I can not…" She told him.

"Why… because of him? Because he's refusing? Are you gonna blindly follow him?" He asked her. She looked at him angrily.

"No. I am not doing this because of him."

"Sure looks like it. I've always hated how close you've two have gotten. It seems like everytime I visit, you act more and more like him. Like you're not just taking on his powers, but his personality as well…"

"Is that what you take me for… a mindless drone?" She asked him.

"If the shoe fits…" He said before receiving an anger filled slap, sending his head reeling. Tony saw someone approached them, but he waved them off.

"You are such a self-centered ass sometimes. Can not even see past the fact that we are together, to remember where I was before The Avengers… When I really was that mindless drone you think I am. Where I was controlled and forced to do things I knew were wrong because if I did not obey, I was dead. I do not ever want to be controlled again. Ever. Not by you, not by him, not by the UN.

"I may love him, but I would never follow him unless I believed in what he was doing. I follow him because he is doing what I think is right. Because he was going to help my father. Because I wanted to see if we could find the man behind the monster that HYDRA made him." She vented out to Tony before she got up, leaving him.

She went back into the conference room, seeing Steve and Sam, before finding a seat. Steve refused to look at her. He was looking at the silent screens, the screens that had Bucky on them. She watched as Sharon joined them before she gave them access to the audio. Rebecca smiled at the woman, giving her a silent thank you.

They listened to the evaluation on Bucky before the power got knocked out. Sharon told them where Bucky was and Rebecca watched as Sam and Steve ran off. When she heard the alarm, she quickly followed Sharon, Natasha, and Tony.

They quickly found Bucky and one by one they fought against him, before getting their asses handed to them. Only her and T'Challa had to strength to keep up with him, fighting and following him through the compound. She tried to talk to him, reason with him, but he grabs her by the neck choking her. T'Challa kicks him in the face, getting him off her. She gasps in a breath, as she sees T'Challa and Bucky fight. Bucky knocks him off and runs off before T'Challa could see where he went, but Rebecca saw. She quickly followed him, as he made it to the roof.

She came out the open door just in time to see him getting into the helicopter. She also noticed the movement to the side, of Steve running to the helicopter as well, grabbing it before it took off. She runs to him, grabbing on to it as well, keeping it from taking off. Bucky crashed the helicopter and they both nearly avoid injury. Once the dust settles, he looked up, looked over to her.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Yes…" She said. He smiled before a metal arm came crashing out of the helicopter, wrapping around Steve's neck.

"Steve!" She screamed as she tried to pull Bucky off him. She felt the helicopter start to tip over, and she had a split decision to either hold on or let go. She lets go, watching as Steve and Bucky went over the edge, into the water. She looked down at it, in horror. She waited to see if there were any signs of life. It was the longest minute of her life before she saw Steve come up, with Bucky in his arms. She looked around before making the choice to join him. She dived into the water, to help Steve get Bucky to safety. By the time they fished him out of the water, Sam had found them, with a van he 'borrowed', before they made their getaway.


They found an old rundown garage and got Bucky inside without anyone seeing them. They got Bucky setup in a vice, not sure who was going to wake up. Steve walked around making sure the place was completely secure.

"Are you ever going to talk to me?" He heard Rebecca say. He turned to look at her. He could see bruising on her neck from her fight with the Winter Soldier.

"He hurt you again…" He said softly.

"Steve… I am ok. I am a lot tougher than I look," She told him, making him smile. "You done being mad?" She asked.

"Yes. Part of me wishes you had listened, but… I'm glad you're here," He said, leaning in and kissing her forehead.

"Hey, Cap!" they heard Sam say. They went over and saw that Bucky was waking up.

"Steve," Bucky said softly.

"Which Bucky am I talking to?" Steve asked.

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes." He said with a light chuckle.

"Can't read that in a museum," Steve said with a smile.

"Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?" Sam said.

"What did I do?" Bucky asked.

"Enough," Steve said.

Rebecca watched as Steve released Bucky. She listened in silence as Bucky told them about Siberia:

About where he was kept.

About the other Winter Soldiers.

About fighting them and seeing how powerful they were.

About how much damage they could do and what Zemo could do with them.

She watched as Steve and Sam walked off, whispering, planning, doing what they do best.

"I'm sorry," She heard Bucky say. She looked at him strangely.

"For what?"

"For what I did…My memories are a little jumbled, but I can remember you. For what I did now and for what they made me do to you when you were a kid…"

"I was not a kid, I was 16," she corrected.

"You were a kid…" He said, looking at her, with pain in his eyes at the memories. "I'm sorry," He repeated.

She was mad at his apology and she wasn't sure why. Maybe she was feeling like Sam, that it's hard to be 'just cool' after everything. She thought of making him re-live her pain, from her side, for a moment. To make him suffer like she had, but looking at him, seeing the pain on his face, all the memories of what he had done under HYDRA weighting down on him, she knew he had been through enough suffering. More than enough. It broke her heart, causing her anger to evaporate. She walked over to him, before removing a glove.

"Becca…" She heard Steve warn, before she put her fingers to Bucky's forehead, sending him one of her memories, the one she thought might bring him the most comfort as it always did her.

Bucky was looking up at a woman. Her strawberry blond hair framing her face as she looked down with kind eyes. She smiled as she sung a Russian lullaby to the scared six-year-old in her arms. He could feel the nightmare that plagued her slip away as she felt nothing but comfort in the arms of her mother.

"Izabella…" Bucky said, shock in his eyes, as the memory slipped away. He looked up at Rebecca then, really looking at her.

"Was that your memory?" He asked her. She nodded.

"You're Izabella's daughter…" He said softly before it really hit him. "My daughter…" He said, shocked. Then the memories of what he did to her had new meaning for him. "Oh god, I'm so sorry," He said, nearly in tears. She moved in, taking him into her arms. She sat on the floor, holding him as he cried.

"What did you do?" Steve asked. She ignored him, starting to sing the same Russian lullaby to Bucky. It didn't take long before it started to calm him down, comforting him. He looked up at her as his tears began to clear.

"She used to sing that to me… when the memories got too much," He told her, with a sad smile. She smiled back.

"I am glad it could calm you. I am sorry… I didn't mean to upset you that much…"

"It's fine… I deserve much worse," he explained.

"Rebecca, we could have done the family reunion thing later…" Steve chastised a little, offering his hand to help them both up off the floor.

"You knew?" Bucky asked.

"I've known for a while… I'm the one who had to tell her who her father was," He told Bucky.

"Glad it was someone who knew me as more than a monster," He told Steve.

"So… my mother's name was Izabella?" She asked Bucky, trying to change the atmosphere of the room.

"Yes… I guess she called herself something else," Bucky said.

"Emma… I guess that makes sense, she was trying to hide," she said with a smile. He chuckled.

"You have her smile," Bucky said, moving his hand to touch her cheek, when she backed off, not letting him touch her. "What did I do?" He asked backing off as well.

"You can't touch her Buck… not without warning her first," Steve explained. "HYDRA did some experiments with her, enhanced her with some powers…" Steve explained. Rebecca walked off, not wanting to hear. Bucky looked confused for a second, racking his brain for something.

"Absorption, I believe… sorry, I forgot," He explained.

"Yeah," Steve said. "Give me a second." He said, walking over to were Rebecca had retreated too.

"You ok?" he asked. She huffed.

"I will be ok," She said, lying. He allowed he lie.

"Sam's calling some friends, getting a group together. We need as much help as we can get against the other Winter Soldiers." He said before sighing. "If I asked you to stay out of it, I don't think you would listen."

"I am in this, until the end, Steve." She promised him. "For you… for him," She said. He looked at her and shook his head with a smile.

"You're just as stubborn as me…" He said, pulling her into his arms, kissing the top of her head. "I just want to keep you safe," He whispered to her.

"And I want the same for you," She whispered back. "Because I love you…" She told him.

"God, you deserve better than an old soldier like me, but I can't help but love you too," He told her.

"And can someone explain this to me?" They heard Bucky say to them. She was wrapped in Steve's arms. Steve backed off her a little, looking sheepish.

"Um, we are kind of together," Steve told Bucky. Bucky just looked at them, with stern eyes.

"I figured you could have done better for yourself," He said, addressing his daughter. Bucky broke a smile before Rebecca and he let out a laugh.


Author note: Almost done with this story. Looking to be about 22ish chapters once everything said and done. Hoping to posting more next week. Leave a comment to give me some encouragement to finish up!