Secrets Unveiled
Petrograd [St Petersburg], November 7th, 1917
Clint was hurting Bucky - he knew it, and he wasn't proud of it, but it needed to be done. The Bolsheviks were already inside the Winter Palace, and time was running out before they officially took control and sent this country down the shit-hole. Part of Clint had known the Templars would send Bucky to stop him, but it hadn't made the shock any easier to deal with.
"Why are you doing this?" he cried, sending Bucky stumbling back into a chimney cluster. "How can you support this craziness? You used to be one of us, you know the Templars intend nothing good -"
"Shut up!" Bucky launched himself back into the fight, his danger hissing as it swung through the air millimetres from Clint's body. They'd always been evenly matched, but the few good hits Clint had landed earlier gave him the upper hand; the dagger was knocked away, and Clint kicked Bucky down onto his back, straddling his chest and pointing his last remaining hidden blade at his throat.
"Tell me so I know," he demanded. "Why did you leave America? Why did you abandon your brothers - me - for the enemy?" Bucky glared at him, and Clint grew frustrated. "You're an Assassin!"
"I'm a Templar."
"No!" Blinking back tears, he pressed the blade down a fraction harder. "You swore to stop them. You swore your allegiance to the Creed right next to me, and I have to know: was it a lie?"
Bucky swallowed. "No."
"Then what do they have over you?" Clint pleaded. Bucky looked away. "Tell me, Bucky! What could they possibly be holding over your head to make you betray -"
"You!"
The whole world froze, capturing Clint in its stillness and letting nothing but that one word resonate through his head. And maybe it was that, or maybe it was the sudden blurring of his vision, that allowed Bucky to change their roles, to push Clint off him and deliver three solid blows to take him out. As consciousness was taken from him, a quiet "I won't let you die because of me," was the last thing he heard.
AN: Prompt: "Assassain's Creed AU with Clint and Bucky because you don't have enough on your plate"