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After taking back the exo-suit Sam used during his time in the army, they go after Sitwell. Jackie stays home literally wringing her fingers from nervousness and fear. The poor woman paces throughout the living room. Arthur plays with Benny. He looks up to his mom with a smile.

"Mama."

That forced her to stop. She looks over to her son.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

He holds up Benny "Pway."

The woman smiles "Okay my little king."

Jackie lowers herself onto the floor and the two played.

Sitwell answers his phone.

"Yes, sir?"

It wasn't Pierce on the other end of the line. It's Sam.

"Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious."

"Who is this?"

"The good-looking guy in the sunglasses, your 10 o'clock." Sitwell searches from his 2 o'clock. "Your other 10 o'clock." He makes eye contact with Sam. "There you go."

Sam holds his drink up to show recognition.

"What do you want?"

"You're gonna go around the corner to your right. There's a gray car two spaces down. You and I are gonna take a ride."

"And why would I do that?"

"Because that tie looks really expensive, and I'd hate to mess it up."

Sitwell looks down at his tie to find a small red dot. He looks around to find the sniper but doesn't. The traitor does what he's told. They reached their destination. Steve shoves the man onto the roof of the building and begins the interrogation with Nat right behind him. He walks towards Sitwell as Sitwell walks backwards until he reaches the ledge of the building.

"Tell me about Zola's algorithm."

"Never heard of it."

"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?"

"I was throwing up. I get seasick." The back of his legs hit the ledge. He gasps as he almost falls over. Steve grabs his shirt with both hands. "Does this little display mean to insinuate you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers."

"You're right." He lets go. Steve even fixes up the suit. "It's not. It's hers." The sassy mf steps off to the side. Nat Spartan kicks the traitor off the roof. Sitwell screams.

"Oh, wait. What about that girl from Accounting, Laura…"

"Lillian. Lip piercing, right?"

"Yeah, she's cute" Nat smiles.

"Yeah. I'm not ready for that."

"Then how about you date Jackie so I can stop trying to get you dates?"

Before he got to respond, Sam arrives with Sitwell still screaming. He drops him back onto the roof then lands like a…well, like a falcon. Steve and Nat walk over until Sitwell finally caves.

"Zola's algorithm is a program for choosing Insight's targets."

"What targets?" Steve demands.

"You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Under Secretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa City, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, Jacqueline Birch, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA. Now, or in the future."

Hearing Jackie's name brought an unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach. Like hell he's gonna let anything happen to her.

"In the future? How could it know?"

Sitwell laughs. Sam walks a little closer.

"How could it not?" Nat's getting worried. Sitwell stands up. "The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it." They stare at him. He explains further. "Your bank records. Medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores! Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future."

"And what then?"

Realization washes over Sitwell.

"Oh my god. Pierce is gonna kill me."

"What then?" Steve presses on.

Sam grabs the back of Sitwell's suit then lets go forcing the man to answer Steve's question.

"Then the Insight helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time."

Jack. Arthur. I can't let that happen.

All four got into a car and drove with Sam at the wheel. Steve's in the passenger seat. Nat and Sitwell occupy the backseats.

"HYDRA doesn't like leaks."

"Then why don't you try sticking a cork in it?" Sam sasses.

"Insight's launching in 16 hours. We're cutting it a little bit close here."

"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the helicarriers directly."

"What? Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

A thud is heard on the roof of the car. An arm smashes through the window. It grabs Sitwell and tosses him out of the car. The man ends up being killed by a truck on the other side of the highway. Of course, shit goes down.

As this happens, someone barges into Sam's house wearing a hoodie with the hood up. Jackie grabs Arthur into her arms and stands up. She puts up a barrier in case they decided to shoot at her. The woman backs away into the kitchen.

"It's all right. I'm not here to hurt you."

"Oh sure. Like I would trust someone that forced their way into a house like last time. Get back before I do something I might regret."

The person takes off the hood. "I'm Maria Hill. I work with Fury."

"Sure you do."

"If you don't believe me then read my mind."

Reluctantly, she does. Jackie reads the woman's mind and finds out the truth about what happened to Fury. She lowers the barrier. Hill smiles.

"Okay. Grab your bags. We gotta go."

Jackie grabs her hiking backpack and walks out the door first. Arthur looks behind them and starts to cry when he sees they left Benny on the floor. Hill brings it along. She hands it to him with a smile.

"We don't need you crying cause you're scared. Right?"

He giggles and smiles at her.

Steve manages to get the mask off the Winter Soldier. The minute the Winter Soldier turned around to show his face, time stood still for Steve. He couldn't believe who he's seeing.

"Bucky?" he whispers.

"Who the hell is Bucky?"

He aims a gun at Steve. Before he got a shot off, Sam swoops in and kicks him down. He was about to do it again when Nat shoots a grenade from the launcher at him. Of course, Steve ducked in time. It hits a truck causing it to explode. The Winter Soldier is nowhere in sight.

Sirens echo throughout the streets. Armored cars and trucks and officers flood the area where they are. Rumlow appears with a gun aimed at Steve.

"Drop the shield, Cap! Get on your knees!" Steve drops his shield. "Get on your knees!"

The other officers are shouting too at both Sam and Nat.

"Get down, get down! Get on your knees!" Rumlow kicks the back of Steve's knees forcing him to get down. "Down!"

"Don't move." Another officer states.

Rumlow handcuffs Steve. Steve's not resisting because he can't get over the fact that Bucky is alive after all this time. He watched him fall off the train. One member of S.T.R.I.K.E. places the barrel of his gun to the back of Steve's head. Rumlow looks up to find a new chopper.

"Put the gun down." He doesn't. "Not here. Not here!"

The agent finally does. All three are arrested and placed into the back of an armored transfer car.

"It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me."

"How is that even possible? It was, like, 70 years ago."

"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall." Realization washes over him. "They must have found him and…"

"None of that's your fault, Steve" Nat states.

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky."

Nat rests her head against the truck wall. She feels the side effect of blood loss. Her wound still bleeding out. Sam notices.

"We need to get a doctor here. We don't put pressure on that wound, she's gonna bleed out here in the truck" Sam tells the guard.

The one he talks to, takes out a Taser wand. They aim it at him then proceeds to using it on the other guard. After a swift kick to the head, the second guard is down. All are surprised by what just happened.

The person groans as they take off the helmet. "That thing was squeezing my brain."

It's Hill ladies and gents.

"Who's this guy?" she asks.

After a quick introduction, they all escaped. Hill got them to transfer into an unmarked van and drove to wherever they had to go. They arrived. She opens the side door and Steve jumps out then helps Nat out. Hill opens the grate door and they follow her.

They walk a while until two people run at them.

"GSW. She's lost at least a pint" Hill states.

"Maybe two" Sam adds.

"Let me take her" the doctor says.

"Steve!"

"Jackie!"

Jackie runs to him. She hugs him tightly. He hugs back. Steve wraps his arm around her shoulders as they walk fast to get Nat treated.

"She'll want to see him first."

"I can stop the flow a little" Jackie offers.

Nat groans. "Do it."

Jackie does. It's slow at first but Nat begins to feel the blood not leaking. Hill takes them to Fury; who's currently in a hospital bed with little Arthur curled by his side.

He lifts his head "About damn time."

The doctor went to work. He puts pressure on the wound after Jackie releases the psychic hold.

"Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, and one hell of a headache."

"Don't forget your collapsed lung" the doctor adds.

"Let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good."

"They cut you open. Your heart stopped."

"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it."

"Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?" Steve demands.

"Any attempt on the Director's life had to look successful" Hill explains.

"Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust. And I wasn't expecting to run into you Birch" he looks over to Jackie.

Steve looks between them. "You two know each other?"

"Through a mutual friend," Jackie explains. "You know, you could've asked Logan for help or at least mine to weed out the traitors."

Fury slowly shakes his head "Couldn't do that. I called him up after Romanoff gave me your file and he gave me the run down on what happened."

"Well, that was sweet of him."

"He told me to remind you that you need to give them a call once this whole thing is over. Don't know why the claw wielding bastard thinks I'm some damn personal messenger."

"Sure thing."

"Now," Fury runs his fingers through Arthur's hair. "The little bastard is sleeping right on my perforated liver. Mind getting him off?"

Jackie walks over. She gently picks up Arthur and holds him in her arms. Hill picks up Benny then puts him in his hand. Arthur snuggles closer to it. Jackie stands next to Steve. He wraps his arm around her waist, pulling her in closer. Everyone took some time for themselves.

Steve and Jackie talked. Sam taking care of Arthur for a bit.

"You promised to come back" she jokes.

He smiles a little "Yeah, sorry about that."

"I'm just glad you guys are all right."

"I can say the same to you."

He goes silent. Jackie notices.

"Steve, something's wrong. What is it?"

"Nothing's wrong."

"Bullshit. I know something's wrong."

"What? You read my mind?"

It came out sharper than he intended. She nods.

"Okay, I deserved that."

Steve sighs. "I'm sorry."

"It's fine."

"No, it's not." His shoulders shagged, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I wasn't sure how you would handle it" Jackie glances away.

"Jack, tell me the truth."

She looks back. "I am!"

"You're not. When you lie, you can never look at me in the eye."

"Well, when something's wrong your eyebrows scrunch together and you pout a little."

They stare at each other with stubbornness. Both talk at the same time.

"Fine. I'll tell you. You go first. No, you go." Jackie puts up both hands. Steve lets her go first.

"Here's the real reason. A little while we started getting closer, I called up Logan and told him about you. He said to be careful and not tell you about my powers because you worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. and me being me, I asked why."

"Fury" Steve answers.

She nods. "Yeah. Normally, he turns a blind eye when it comes to people like me but if he knew what we were doing, he would've sent someone and force me to leave. But since he said he knew for a while, maybe he planned on getting me to help or something. Now, tell me what's wrong."

So he tells her everything that's happened before they got there. She hugs him when he finished. He engulfs her with his arms. It's been a long time since they hugged like this. Steve gently lifts her face. His eyes boring into hers. Blue against black. The colors shouldn't mix but they do. It's the bright blue ocean and a starless night meeting at the horizon. They leaned in and kissed.

Behind them stood Sam and Nat holding Arthur in her right arm. He smiled. She frowned.

"Looks like I win the bet" he states smugly.

Nat pulls out 15 bucks and hands it to him. Arthur fussed. She sets him down. He runs over to the kissing couple.

"Mama. Dada."

They stopped. The couple look to find Arthur running at them but also find Nat and Sam standing not too far behind. Steve, having missed Arthur's first steps, smiles at the little toddler. He squats down with arms wide open.

"Hey bud. You're walking!"

"Dada!" Arthur squeals.

The little king collapses into Steve's arms. He just holds the child close. Jackie, however, watched the other two.

"How long have you guys been standing there?"

"All the way until the kissing started" Nat answers truthfully.

"And I won 15 bucks."

Jackie read his mind a little. She frowns.

"That's just plain rude."

Sam shrugs. "It's not my fault the two of you were dancing around each other."

Once Fury got dressed and out of the bed, they got together to come up with a plan; Jackie joined in of course since she's one of Insight's targets.

Fury holds an old picture of Pierce. "This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility." He tosses the photo onto the table. "See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues."

"We have to stop the launch" Nat states.

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore." Fury opens up a case to reveal three chips.

"What's that?" Sam asks.

"Once the helicarriers reach 3,000 feet," Hill shows them the model of what's gonna happen, "They'll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weaponized."

"We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own."

"One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational, a whole lot of people are gonna die."

"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades. And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what's left…"

"We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down S.H.I.E.L.D." Steve states.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this."

"You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed."

"Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed."

"How many paid the price before you did?"

"Look, I didn't know about Barnes."

"Even if you had, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too? S.H.I.E.L.D., HDYRA, it all goes."

"He's right."

Fury turns to Hill. She nods. He looks to Nat. The former KGB has the same face as Hill. Fury looks to Sam.

"Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower."

The former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. looks at Jackie.

"It's the only solution Nick. You know you can't let this happen again."

He turns to Steve. "Well…" the man sighs and leans back into the chair, "It looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain."

Steve heads out and stands on the bridge of the old dam. Jackie stands next to him. None of them talk. He reminisces old memories. She may have catch the whole thing but he allowed it.

"We looked for you, after. My folks wanted to give you a ride to the cemetery."

"I know, I'm sorry. I just kind of wanted to be alone."

They walked up the stairs to Steve's apartment.

"How was it?" Bucky asks.

"It was okay. She's next to Dad."

"I was gonna ask…"

"I know what you're gonna say, Buck. I just…"

They reached his apartment. Steve looks for his key.

"We can put the couch cushions on the floor like when we were kids. It'll be fun. All you got to do is shine my shoes, maybe take out the trash." Bucky nudges a brick away and picks up the key to Steve's apartment. He hands it to him. "Come on."

Steve takes it. "Thank you, Buck, but I can get by on my own."

"The thing is, you don't have to." Bucky grips his shoulder. "I'm with you to the end of the line, pal."

Steve sighs and smiles.

Jackie wipes a tear away. She stands a little closer to Steve letting him know that she's here for him. Sam arrives.

"He's gonna be there, you know."

"I know."

"Look, whoever he used to be and the guy he is now, I don't think he's the kind you save. He's the kind you stop."

"I don't know if I can do that."

"Then save him. If you can't you can do it then save him. From what you told me, he could still be in there. I've dealt with this kind of thing before much that I hate to admit."

"Well, he might not give you a choice. He doesn't know you."

"He will. Gear up. It's time." Steve walks away.

"You gonna wear that?"

"No. If you're gonna fight a war, you got to wear a uniform."