Prologue

Jason swung his legs over the seat of his Harley which Fury had given him after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D, he wondered what his life would be like if he had never taken the serum or joined S.H.I.E.L.D his thoughts lingered as he made his way to his old apartment. It was like seeing a ghost, nothing had changed except the walls and flooring from the shootout which seemed to be so long ago. His life was complicated and rough he only had Peggy and his family which have survived all those years ago,

unfortunately, the love of his life had Alzheimer's. Making him feel like he was seeing her for the first time in seventy years over and over, it had plagued him making him wish he had died in that crash. He knew it was selfish of him to think that way but it hurt him to see her in pain and agony, he thought about what Zola had told him how he would die, and how Sitwell said Zola's algorithm predicts the future. It scared him to think if Zola was right

"Hydra created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, Hydra's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your life. A zero-sum."-Arnim Zola

Startled by his phone ringing Jason woke up from his daydream answering his phone it was Agent Hill who recently took a job at Stark Ind. "This is Captain Rogers," he said adjusting his voice making him sound serious.

"Captain this is Hill we wanted to know if you were going to go to Fury's Funeral tomorrow" she replied with a hint of stress in her voice, as it has been a week since he recovered from the hospital.

"I'll be there..." he responded pausing to think about his decision, sure it didn't make sense since Fury was alive but it would make the death look legit.

Hill hung up, she had nothing more to say, he quickly sent a message to Sam asking to meet him at the funeral, they had business to attend to, discussing the present whereabouts of The Winter Soldier. He went over to his room where there were pictures of him Peggy, Bucky, and the Howling commandos there were also pictures of his sisters both having fair olive-toned skin one having long black hair and the other had dark brown. He loved his sisters with all his being he wanted to call to see how they were doing, but he was too tired to call and he anyways would see them soon. Sitting on his bed he fell asleep drifting into a place unknown...

~flashback~

"Come in this is Captain Rogers, do you read me," Jason said trying to contact them.

"Captain Rogers what is your lo..." one of his Howling Commandos started to say before he was cut off by Peggy Carter "Steve is that you are you alright," she said worried for the man she loved

"Peggy Schmidt's dead" the Captain responded.

"What about the plane," she asked not knowing what was about to happen.

"That's a little bit tougher to explain" Jason replied looking at the planes monitor.

"Um give me your concordance I'll find you a safe landing site," Peggy said to Jason as he looked at the screen that showed to engines

"It's not gonna be a safe landing...but I can try to force it down," the Captain said to her.

The Colonel knew what was going to happen and signaled to the commando to leave the room

"Um I'll get Howard on the line he'll know what to do" she replied as her eyes began to water

"There's not enough time this thing is going to fast and its heading for New York...I gotta put her in the water" he said to her looking at his compass.

"Please don't do this we have time we can work it out" she responded to him starting to choke on her words.

"Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere if I wait any longer a lot of people are going to die...Peggy this is my choice...Peggy" he said wondering if she was still there.

"I'm here" she replied choking up.

"I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance," he told her looking at the water.

"...Alright, a week next Saturday at the stork club" Peggy told him crying in the process.

"You got it" Jason replied starring into the water and ice.

"Eight o'clock on the dot don't you dare be late, understood" Carter responded.

"You know I still don't know how to dance," Rogers told Peggy.

"I'll show you how just be there," Peggy said with tears in her eyes.

"We'll have the band play something slow...I'll hate to have to step on your shoes," Rogers said before the line went dead...

The nightmare ended and Jason immediately woke up huffing and puffing sweating all over not being able to sleep, he got up and headed for the bathroom getting a pair of clean clothes and a towel ready to take a shower, trying to shake off how he was feeling from the pain and anguish that was inside him...

The shower helped a little but he still felt the same, he went in the kitchen grabbing a box of Life and some milk pouring it into a bowl. He sat down to eat his cereal but was disrupted by someone knocking on his door, he quickly fixed his short black hair perfectly in time to get to the door. Looking through the peephole he saw a friend, he unlocked the entrance seeing Natasha standing there at the doorway to his apartment, her fiery strait hair must have been recently washed because he could smell it from the inside of the room. Her forest eyes stared at me with a worried look on her face "You look like crap" she said glaring at me trying to read my emotions and behavior not knowing what was up.

"Thanks for pointing out the obvious," I told her smirking trying to hide how I was feeling.

"Can I come in...theres something you should know" Nat replied looking inside my apartment, with an eyebrow raised to its full extent, her awareness was off the charts making sure everything's alright.

"Be my guest, I was just having dinner" I responded moving out of the way of the door wondering what was so important that she couldn't have told him tomorrow. She walked in still looking around seeing all the different details and knick-knacks I had around my living space, she walked in my to my living room seeing the record player I had "Looks like you still held something from the past" Romanoff said looking at me.

"Fury gave it to me after I woke up...it was a token of appreciation for joining S.H.I.E.L.D I think" I replied smiling at the thought that Fury may have had a soft spot in his thick skull somewhere. "Tell me what you wanted to show me," I said to her getting straight to the point, not wanting to waste any more time. She walked to the table dropping a file showing Jason as he ate his cereal

"We have a new enemy from Hydra...His name is Baron Von Strucker, he's a formidable foe, Jason even for you" Natasha told me with a slight hesitation knowing my background with Hydra.

"Why tell me, why not Fury or Stark," I said confused on why she chose me. Even tho he wanted to make Hydra pay for everything they did to me Bucky and the world.

"Well I know you and Hydra have a history so I thought you should know first" she replied pondering if she made the right choice in telling me about Strucker. Seeing the complete hate in his eyes for the sound of Strucker's name, she started to put the pieces together. "You knew him didn't you," Nat said glaring at me testing if her theory was true.

"Yeah I knew him, he fought against me in the war... he's the one who gave me these scars on my face" he responded to her pointing to the long scar over his right eye and the other one on his left cheek going down to his lip. He glanced over to his left, from the corner of his sight he could see the man they wanted, Strucker... He had monocle over his left eye and a golden medieval-looking metal arm. He was wearing a long black trench coat similar to the one Red scull wore, Natasha looked at where his eyes were but saw nothing. "Jason are you alright," Nat said worried for her partner.

His gaze quickly shifted back to her, wondering what he saw "I'm fine... I just thought I saw something, I guess it was just a hallucination" he responded trying to keep his cool, trying to look fine and trying to hide one of his greatest fears. But for the Spy standing next to him, she could only imagine what was wrong to her friend...

Chapter 1

"Jason what is up with you" Romanoff yelled at me frustrated at her partner, trying to make him show her what was up with him.
I didn't reply, I said nothing just sat there eating my dinner, avoiding her question he tried to change the subject he asked "Where did you find this" I said pointing at the file in front of me, desperately trying to stay calm. My awareness blew up from the act of a second knock on the door, Nat and I shared a look of curiousness,
"How many people visit your home" Natasha said angrily from me still not answering her question, raising her eyebrow she stared waiting for his response her fiery emerald eyes glared at me. I didn't take notice of her question again I only listened to the sound off a a bomb ticking on and off hearing it going faster Natasha had enough of this "Rogers answer me!" she tried to say before I grabbed her, diving through the nearest window trying to get as far as we can from the blast making sure in the process Natasha wasn't hurt. We fell, the moment felt so long and intense everything felt like it was in slow motion, my back burned up with pain as the fire singed it giving me blisters burning through my shirt. I held her tight in my arm making sure no harm would come to her. I used my other arm to hold her head so she wouldn't get whiplash, the blast launched us threw the air all the way to the other street. Turning around in time I managed to crash on a car which caused the alarm to go out of control, gravity pulled me down to the ground. I felt wrong everywhere pain and torment rushed through my body like lava, my ears bursted ringing, I couldn't hear a thing then my heart started throbbing out of control. I began to panic uncontrollably not being able to focus on anything I searched for Nat trying to get up to find her but failed. Between everything going on at once I began to drift off into a darkness only to find her at my side seeing her struggling, trying to get up. Reaching out to touch her his eyes started to close falling into the darkness...

Trying to get up I felt a slight touch looking to my side it was Jason, he was hurt badly she thought after everything he still saved her even after she yelled at him, she admired that part of him. She reached into her pants pocket and pulled out her phone and called Hill.
"This is Hill, what can I help you with" Hill said as if she was talking to a new costumer.
"Hill this is Agent Romanoff we have a bombing C.A is down he needs medical attention, he's losing blood fast" I told Hill sternly trying to hide my emotions.
"I'll be there in ten minutes, do your best to stop the bleeding I'm tracking your phone now" Hill replied moving quickly. How can I have let this happen she thought limping over to his body, it laid there still not moving she carefully cut his shirt off trying to find where he was bleeding