Cassidy was shaking as the doctors worked on Nick. How could have this happened? Nat burst into the room the were watching from and put her hand on the glass.

"Is he gonna make it?" She asked.

"I don't know." Steve told her.

"Tell me about the shooter."

Steve sighed. "He's fast. Strong. Had a metal arm." Cassidy felt Nat tense up beside her. They both know who that shooter was. Hill walked in and up to the window on her left.

"Ballistics?" Nat asked.

"Three slugs, no rifling. Completely untraceable" Hill told her.

"Soviet made."

The nurses and doctors started running around as Nick crashed, pulling out a crash cart, doing everything they could to bring him back. They shocked him twice but they couldn't get a pulse back. Cassidy shook her head as the breathing tube was unhooked from him. She started backing up whispering 'no' over and over again.

She was shaking so hard she thought she'd be sick. Looking down at her hands, she realized she was still covered in blood. Nick's blood.

"Cass?" Steve called out to her. She glanced up at him and back down to her hands, spun on her heel and ran.

Once she reached the bathroom, she started washing her hands, trying to get all the blood off. It was dried, so that made it harder for her to get her hands clean. The sink was red now and she was scrubbing so hard it was painful. She couldn't even see anymore she was crying so much.

The bathroom door opened and she heard two pairs of footsteps enter. Hands were on here elbows, stilling her arms. "Shhh, it's okay, you can stop scrubbing, the blood is gone sweetheart." Steve's soft whisper fell on her shoulder.

He turned the water off and turned Cassidy to face him, taking the paper towels Nat had gotten out for her. He dried her hands then dabbed at her face softly. Once her vision came back into focus, she saw Steve softly smiling at her.

She rested her head against his chest, "I've known that man my whole life." She whispered.

Steve wrapped his arms around her and placed a kiss on the top of her head. "I know. Do you want to see him?" He asked. She nodded slowly and let Steve take her to the room where they were keeping him.

Cassidy walked up to him and placed a hand on his head, leaning down to place a kiss on his forehead. "I'm so sorry. I love you Uncle Nick." She whispered. She turned away, walking back over to Steve while Nat said goodbye.

A few minutes passed before Hill came in and told them they needed to take him. Cassidy turned her face into Steve's chest as he was rolled out of the room and tried to let Steve's hands on her back calm her.

Nat stormed out of the room, Steve and Cassidy following. He called out to her when they were in the hallway, and she spun around to look at him.

"Why was Fury in your apartment?" She asked. Cassidy shifted and Nat made a glance at her before looking back at Steve.

"I don't know." Steve lied. And Cassidy knew that Nat didn't believe him. She heard Rumlow's voice behind them, telling them that Steve was needed back at Shield.

"You're a terrible liar." Nat told him, turning to leave.

"Nat!" Cassidy yelled after, taking off to follow. "Nat come on, wait!" She yelled, grabbing the red heads arm when they rounded the corner. Nat yanked her arm out of Cassidy's grasp and glared at her.

"Why was he in Steve's apartment Cass. Don't lie to me Kotenok." She told her.

"He told us Shield had been compromised, and not to trust anyone. Someone had already tried to kill him before he got to us. Then someone shot him through the window." She told Nat.

"Look Nat, I'm telling you this because you are one of the three people I trusted most in this world. Nick wouldn't lie about this. He gave Steve a flash drive before the paramedics came."

Nat looked around before looking back to Cassidy. "Then he wouldn't have taken it with him when he left with Rumlow."

They walked back down the hallway they came from and Nat glanced around for a second. She walked over to the vending machine and put in some change, turning around and smirking at Cassidy.

"What?" She asked. Nat pulled her into a small waiting room, pulling the flash drive out of her pocket and showing it to her.

"What do we do now?" Cassidy asked her.

Nat smirked at her. "Now we wait for Steve to come looking for this."

Cassidy's phone went off while they were waiting, it was an alert that Shield was on a manhunt for Steve. He was wanted for information about Nick's death.

"Did you get this?" Cassidy asked Nat, showing her the phone. Nat nodded, holding up hers to show.

"Pierce is behind this, I know it." Cassidy told her. She knew there was a reason she never liked him. Nat looked back out the window she was sitting at, waiting for Steve to come back. Sure enough he did, and Nat stepped out to get his attention. Steve pushed her back into the room, slamming her against the wall.

"Steve!" Cassidy called out from the other side of the room. He turned to look at her, letting go of Nat in the process.

"Where is it?" Steve demanded.

"Safe."

"Do better."

Cassidy stepped in between them and looked up at Steve. "I told her Nick gave it to you, don't be mad at me, we can trust her." She told him, ignoring the glare he was giving her.

"What's on it?" He asked.

"I don't know, I never looked at it, just copied it and gave it to Fury, I swear." Nat told him.

"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you? Did you?" He asked, looking from Nat to Cassidy.

Nat shook her head. "No, I didn't know."

"It makes sense though." Cassidy added. "The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so did you."

"I know who killed Fury." Nat said.

"Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists. The ones that do call him the Winter Soldier." Cassidy took in a sharp breath, causing Steve to look at her.

"You've heard of him?" He asked.

Cassidy nodded her head. "He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years." She told him.

"So, he's a ghost story?"

Nat sighed. "Five years ago, we were escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot out our tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff."

"We should have died." Cassidy added. "Nat pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there."

"Cass was hurt from the fall, and I was covering the engineer so he shot him, straight through me." Nat said pulling her shirt up to show Steve the scar. "Bye Bye bikinis."

"Going after him is a dead end. I know, we've tried." She said, throwing a nod to Cassidy. She held up the flash drive, holding it out to Steve. "Like you said, he's a ghost story."

Steve took the drive from her, turning it over in his hands. "Well, let's find out what the ghost wants."