Bucky sat in the living room of the avengers headquarters trying to relax after going through his memories. He leaned against the armchair hard and rubbed his forehead, hoping he would remember more but nothing came of it.

Steve walked up behind him and sat at an adjacent couch as he said, "No wonder you were so afraid of me when I showed up in your apartment unannounced. What was going through your mind when you saw me?"

"I was worried you were going to kill me," he answered, "even if it wasn't with your own two hands, maybe you lead a swat team to my location. I thought you'd be mad at me for everything I did, especially to you and your friends. I'm surprised you're not."

"I can't be," Steve replied, "I know you'd the same for me." Bucky smiled at him. "I'm sorry," Steve said, "that they used my likeness against you. I had no idea. If I had known I would have been a little less forward when talking to you in your apartment."

Bucky said, "Don't blame yourself, Steve. You had nothing to do with it."

He said, "From where I am, it feels like it was all my fault. If only I could have pulled you back into that train. I'm glad Pierce is dead now." His phone went off. He checked the text. She's gone. Steve inhaled sharply after reading it.

Bucky glanced over to him and asked, "Something wrong?"

"Do you remember a Peggy Carter back when we were in Europe together?" Steve asked, half smiling at him, trying desperately to stay positive.

"It does sound familiar," he said, "but nothing comes to mind."

He explained, "The woman in the red dress at the bar who ignored you and only talked to me. She lived all through the 20th century without me, and passed away just now. That was the message."

Bucky looked at him sympathetically, "Steve, I'm sorry she's gone. If it's any consolation, she lived well over 90 years."

"Yeah well," he said sadly, "it doesn't feel like that when you missed over 60 of them when they could have been with her."

While Steve was out attending the funeral a few days later, Bucky stood at the massive window of the living space and looked out over the countless acres beyond the complex.

As Natasha walked up behind him, he said, "You walk too quietly to be an ordinary person turned into a superhero, you know that?" He turned to face her.

Half surprised, she replied, "Who said I was ever an ordinary person? How did you hear me coming, or did you see my reflection the glass as I tried to sneak up behind you?" She smiled at him.

"Niether," he said, "I heard leather chaffing."

She glanced down at her leather pants and jacket and nodded. "I noticed you and Rogers giving each other nervous glances when Tony mentioned his parents dying the other day. Do you know something about that?"

"His parents dying or the nervous glances?" he asked.

She narrowed her eyes at him and said, "I think they go hand in hand."

"What do you know about their deaths?" Bucky asked, trying to hide his nervousness.

"They died in a car accident in 1991 not long before Christmas," she answered, "at least, that's what the official reports say."

He gave her a side eye and asked, "What do the unofficial reports say?"

"Hydra ordered the hit on Howard Stark for some reason," she replied, "The exact reason is currently unknown. Even in their own deeply encrypted file system, it seems Hydra and the Soviets kept many secrets that we may never uncover. That's the only thing I ever found about that incident."

Bucky said, "You're right. His death wasn't an accident. I was there to make sure of that."

After an awkward pause, hoping he'd spill more, Natasha was disappointed when he said nothing else. She asked, "That's all you're going to tell me?"

"That's honestly all there is to know," he said seriously, not wanting to get into it.

She asked, "Does Tony know?"

He answered, "I've never told him, and Steve told me he hasn't mentioned anything to him either. Why does it feel like I've seen you before?" He examined her face closely. Nothing was triggering a memory, but he still couldn't shake the feeling that they knew each other.

"Because you shot me in the stomach in 2009," she said, "And then shot me again in the shoulder in 2014 at the same time you almost killed Rogers and Wilson."

His eyes widened. "That was you?" he asked, horrified. He glanced at her nervously, wondering if she harbored any sort of grudge against him.

Her face didn't change as she said, "No hard feelings. I understand you weren't in your right mind at the time."

Suspicious, he asked, "Are you being sincere or are you taunting me?"

"I'm sincere," she replied, "sorry if it doesn't sound like it. I was raised only to seduce and kill others so my social skills are quite lacking."

"Hey," Steve said as he walked in behind them, "Tony got a positive hit on a Vasily Karpov." Bucky glanced over to see Steve a bit tearstained, but didn't say anything, only gave him a sympathetic smile.

In Tony's computer room, everyone stood in front of his hologram around him to get the explanation.

Tony explained, "He's alive alright, and according to the facial recognition scanners I have, he's in Cleveland, Ohio of all places." He brought up an image of Vasily Karpov leaving his normal looking suburban house.

"That's him," Bucky said.

"It looks like the man in your memories for sure," Tony said.

"Well now we know where he is," Sam said, "what are we going to do, knock on his front door and start demaning answers?"

Steve asked, "Why not? It worked with the Red Skull in 1945, it'll work for this guy now."

Bucky gave him a nervous side glance and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"When he was planning something big," he explained, "I charged right into his fortress head first, alone, and got taken hostage as a distraction and then everyone that was available, Peggy, the Howling Commandos, they charged in right after the Red Skull explained his evil plan to me." He smiled at Bucky innocently.

Bucky looked at him, horrified, and said, "That was a horrible plan, Steve. What if he had just killed you instead of just taking you hostage? This is why you need to be supervised at all times."

"And what if I'm not?" he joked.

"You'll jump on what you think is a live grenade," Bucky answered seriously.

Sam said, "That doesn't sound too horrible. He did that recently."

"I did it back in boot camp before I got the serum," Steve explained sheepishly, "and before I got the shield. I thought I was saving people's lives, okay?"

Tony said, "As facinating as your scabbles are and the amount that they're amusing me right now, we do actually need to come up with a plan on what we're going to do with this guy now that we've officially found him." He pointed back to the screen.

Natasha said, "He's only one man, in a regular suburban house. I think if we just storm it, we could take him easily no matter how heavily armed he might be. He'll be outnumbered 8 to 1 even without using any sort of power advantages we have." She patted Wanda on the back.

"He's only somewhat skilled with a gun," Bucky said, "there's a reason he had me do his dirty work for so long."

Steve said, "Suit up."