After the pain had subsided, Cassidy was able to find a car and drove to the spot that her watch indicated Nat was. She opened the grate to the tunnel and began walking down a long hallway, leaning on the wall for support. There was still a lingering pain in her head, and she wondered if they had done something to Bucky after she had left. She didn't want to leave him there, even after finding out about her father.

He'd helped her escape. That mean that somewhere inside him, was Bucky, and not the soldier she had encountered on the street, right? She heard voices coming from the end of the hallway where she saw a door. She gently pushed the door open and several heads turned toward her.

"Cassidy!" Steve was the first to reach her, inspecting the purple bruise that was forming on her jar from where Bucky had been hit. "Sweetheart are you okay? What happened? Did Rumlow do this to you? I'll kill him." Steve growled. Nobody touched his girl.

Cassidy shook her head. "No, it was what Pierce did to Bucky." Steve froze. "They took me to him Steve, but he was different than before. He seemed scared. It's him Steve. He said my words, before, in the street." She told him.

"How is that possible." Nat asked. Cassidy was about to answer before she was cut off.

"Cryo freeze. That's the only way." Cassidy stilled and her eyes went wide, looking up at Steve. He smiled at her and stepped to the side to reveal Nick sitting at a table with Hill.

"H-how. I saw you die." She managed to get out.

"Long story. Come sit, we'll talk." He told her. This day was too much. Her brain was overthinking everything and Nat could see her spiraling into an anxiety attack before Steve could. Cassidy's hands started shaking and her breaths became shallow. It was too much for one day. Meeting her other soulmate, who was presumed dead, finding out her dad worked for Hydra and helped torture said soulmate, who had also killed him. Her father killing her mother, and to top it all off her godfather had just come back from the dead.

She wasn't even aware of Steve's hands on her shoulders, or Nat's face in hers, whispering in soothing words, trying to calm her. She was only vaguely aware of Steve catching her when she passed out.

She woke up a few hours later, slowly opening her eyes to see she was in a hospital bed. Steve's head was next to her, his hand over her hand. He woke at her movement and stood, placing a kiss on her forehead. "Hey sweetheart. How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Tired. And confused. What happened?" She asked him, sitting up against the bed.

"Well, you came in and started talking about Bucky, then you saw Nick." Her eyes got wide and she tried to get up, Steve helping her.

"Take me to him." She said. He led her from the room, back to the room she first came in. Nick was sitting at the table with Hill, and she slowly walked up to him and threw her arms around his neck, sobbing into his shoulder. Nick comforted her as much as he could with his free arm, and she eventually calmed, sitting in the seat next to him

"How is this possible Nick? I watched you die."

He turned to her and told her everything. She of course knew about the Tetratoxin Banner had created, but she never thought they'd have to use it.

"What happened with Bucky" Steve asked her.

"He was in a really big chair. I don't know what it does, but I know it's something bad. Pierce told me that my father had been Hydra. He was working on the Winter Soldier project. He helped torture Bucky." Steve tensed up. "They forced my father to kill my mother because she wouldn't join. Then they forced Bucky to kill my father when he wanted to get out." She couldn't stop the tears from falling now, the weight of everything finally catching up with her. Steve's hand was on her back, rubbing circles, his other hand on her leg.

"How did you escape?" Nat asked.

"Bucky, He fought them so I could get away." She told them quietly.

"Pierce is behind all of this. I want him dead." Cassidy said lowly.

Nick held up a picture of him. "This man denied the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility. See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues.

"We have to stop the launch." Nat told them. Nick chuckled darkly.

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore."

Hill opened a box in front of them with three small cards in it.

"What's that?" Sam asked.

"Once the Helicarriers reach 3,000 feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weaponized." Hill told them.

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

Hill sighed. "One or two wont 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 the carriers is Hydra. We have to get past them, insert these server blades." Nick told them. "And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what's left."

"We're not salvaging anything." Steve yelled. "We're not just taking down the carriers Nick, we're taking down Shield."

"Shield had nothing to do with this." Nick argued.

"Nick, Shield isn't Shield anymore." Cassidy told him. "Look at what they've done to us, to you, to my parents. I know you want to believe you can save Shield Nick, but Hydra's done too much damage."

"Shield, Hydra, it all goes." Steve told him.

"He's right." Hill said, looking over to Nick. He looked to everyone and they were all in agreement. Sam threw up his hands and shook his head.

"I do what he does just slower."

Steve and Cassidy were standing outside on the bridge, overlooking the water, He had his hands around her waist and his head resting on her shoulder.

"Tell me about Bucky." He whispered.

"He said he knew you. Maybe not exactly who you were, but he said he recognized you. He's in there Steve, they just did something to him to make him forget who he is. He froze when I said my words for him, and when Pierce told me what he did to my father, the look on his face Steve. I've never seen someone look so distraught before. I didn't want to leave him there, but I wouldn't have been able to get out without his help."

His arms squeezed around her middle. "We'll get him back Cass, I promise." She nodded and turned to face him, bringing her hands on either side of his face.

"I love you." She whispered, before pulling him in for a kiss. She wasted no time in sliding her tongue across his bottom lip, smiling when he pulled her harder against him. "I love you too sweetheart." He whispered.

There was a clearing of a throat and Cassidy pulled back to see Sam standing there with a smirk on his face. "What do you want Wilson." Cassidy asked, rolling her eyes.

"Just wanted to prepare you. He's gonna be there, you know that right?" He told her. She nodded, knowing without a doubt that Bucky would be there, but that he probably wouldn't really be Bucky. He'd be the soldier.

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

Cassidy looked up to Steve, then back to Sam. "We have to Sam. He's our soulmate." She told him.

"What if we can't?"

"We have to." Steve said, looking down at Cassidy with worry in his eyes.