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Captain America: Civil War | Shattering Relations | 2 Months Ago

"Miss?" A small hesitant voice appeared in the swirl of darkness, "Miss, wake up!"

A woman was lying on her back in the middle of an alleyway and behind a dumpster. Her clothing was matted with dust, mud, and blood from top to bottom. It was a young child that was trying to wake her up who was probably around eleven to twelve years old. He kept shaking the woman's shoulder. He had a skateboard lying next to him accompanied by a helmet – he had been at the play park with his friends. It was in the middle of his journey home that he discovered the woman poking out from behind the garbage bin.

"Miss, you have to wake up, please!" The little boy tried again with another few hard shoves into her shoulder. He sounded a little panicked, probably not entirely sure on what he should be doing. Part of him was saying run home and tell his mother but he didn't want to leave the woman alone in the state that she was. Her clothes looked liked something out of a horror movie – her entire clothing was covered in muck and a lot of unpleasant stuff. Her jacket probably looked worse for wear and luckily for the woman, the kid didn't see her metal hand since it was covered by a black glove.

After another few seconds, she finally started showing signs of waking up. Her eyes began fluttering and slight movement quickly appeared around her limbs. A low groan left the woman's lips as her senses started coming back to life. Ignoring the child, she tried to get up from where she was currently lying on a pile of garbage bags. Her brain was still a little incoherent to what was really happening so it wasn't exactly an easy task. She could barely lift her upper body from the ground.

"No, you shouldn't get up, you're hurt."

"I'm fine." Her voice slurred a little but her words felt uncharacteristically snappy. Her entire form felt drowsy for some reason. She tried to stand up as the boy inched away from her, but she stumbled back onto the ground and on her back again. Her body felt heavy and hard to move – she didn't know why. Her head was still gunked up but she had enough sense to know that a child should be nowhere near her right now. She was unpredictable, dangerous. She couldn't completely understand why, it was just a strong feeling in her gut, "You should go, kid."

"But you're-"

"Go!" She commanded, feeling her voice getting stronger as the darkness slowly went away.

The woman didn't mean to scare the kid but probably had done given the power behind her voice. The boy had only tried to help but he shouldn't be around her all the same. She brought her human hand up to her face to cover it as the morning light bounced off her face.

She vaguely heard a pair of small feet running away from her.

As reality and her strength started setting in, she finally glanced up from the ground to gather where she was. The last thing she remembered was going to sleep with someone next to her. She felt safe and warm, but she couldn't remember right now who that person was.

Groaning, she suddenly felt a numbed pain in her side. Lifting the cotton tank top, she noticed five deep needle marks running up her body. From observing the scatter pattern, she could determine that they were likely fired towards her from a distance from a type of tranquilizer gun. The needle marks looked big enough that they could be used on large animals.

Trying to regain her central balance, she started using the building wall behind to help bring her up to a standing position. That's why she must be feeling drowsy, someone must have shot her with something, a drug of sorts. But, why? She didn't know, all she knew is that it couldn't be good.

Gripping onto the nearby bin, she looked down to assess if her body had any more damage done to it. She was shocked to find that she wasn't necessarily injured – mostly just covered in blood that from what she could tell, wasn't her own. The smell of garbage cans and rubbish had a potent smell to it – no doubt making her smell the same given by how much time she had probably been lying in it.

She gazed down at her hand, both the human and metal one covered in a glove. They were covered in crusted blood that looked maybe a day old, possibly a little more. How long had she been lying in this dingy alleyway, to begin with? None of this made any sense, and neither did her location. How did she end up here? Where was here?

Her thought process was suddenly overrun by a numbing pain clouding her mind as screaming voices echoed in her ears.

"We need to stop her!"

"ELIMINATE HER!"

"She's too much of a liability and she knows too much!"

She cursed as the voices dimmed in the background but the aftermath was still pounding in her ears. She had to shake her head to get it back into shape. All the voices had been male and from the tone, they sounded very 'high ranking' if that was a proper term. Overall, she didn't recognize any them off hand. She lowered her head into her hands while trying to remember most of all, who she was.

Winter … Avery Rogers … Darkness …

The three names circled around in her head and never gave a straight answer. It wasn't as though she had forgotten everything but for something reason, it was like there were two sets of memories in her head and she didn't understand why. It felt as though she had been wiped clean, but she had come back fighting but wasn't finished. The memories she could recall right now were from Winter and Avery Rogers. The other one she was unclear on. Darkness. Every time she tried to think of it, everything just turns blank. It was like a solid wall was preventing her from seeing the other side where the memories were.

Why would she refer to herself as Darkness?

And there was a man; the one she kept seeing in the last memory of having slept next to someone. James. That was his name, she was sure of it, but she couldn't discern right now what the rest of his name was. That's all she could remember right now for some reason. Why wasn't she still there if that's the last thing she remembered? Why was she even in an alleyway to begin with? There were so many questions running around in her head that she didn't know what answers she should seek out first.

Before she could even think of anything else, out of nowhere, something appeared before her again but in the form of a vision. Her eyes clouded in pictures accompanied by a storm of sounds.

She stood in a bedroom, gazing out of a window with her head tilted to the side. Her eyes narrowed, surveying the world outside. She didn't blink and her face remained neutral, blank and unemotional. She wore a pair of black pants, a dark green tank top and a black jacket that looked a little big on her. It wasn't hers, but for some reason, she didn't know that. She just grabbed whatever was lying around and threw it on as if she were stuck in a trance.

Outside showed no ounce of sunlight on the horizon and it was still clearly the middle of the night.

She didn't know why she was just standing there, but she was.

In the bed behind her, some movement caught her attention. She didn't turn around to the noise but just observed from where she stood to look out of the window. Her arms were crossed over her chest as she tilted her head a little more, hearing the body motions become more prominent.

It was Bucky.

The man shifted on the bed as he started waking up from his slumber and immediately he felt the loss of heat from his side. Blurrily opening his eyes, he came to note how alone he was with no Ava sleeping beside him. Something she had been doing when they both fell asleep. After regaining his senses, he was relieved to see that she was still there, just standing by the window. Although, he didn't perceive why she may be out of bed.

"Av, what are you doing up?" He asked tiredly, rubbing his fingers in the corners of his eyes, yawning. The fact that she was fully dressed in the middle of the night didn't really occur to him. It was only an hour or two after they had gone to bed, it's why he was so tired, to begin with. As he started climbing out of bed, he stumbled into a pair of jeans and the long-sleeved shirt that was lying beside the bed.

Bucky started getting confused when he received no answer from her. She just stood there while not giving any indication she had even heard his voice. He started feeling worried for her as he began approaching from behind.

"Hey-" He went to place his hand on her hip but before he could even lay a finger on her, a metal hand stopped him in his spot. He didn't even get a chance to react to her next move. The next thing he knew; his arm was being twisted behind him back and his body was thrown across the room. His head snapped back into the wall as he collided with it, a large gash covering his temple. The impact threw him into a dizzy spell.

It took a moment for him to realize what was happening because everything was feeling blurred. "Ava?"

The last thing Bucky remembered was seeing her emotionless face staring at him before something hit him around the back of his head. Her last words replayed in his head for many months to come…

"That's not my name."

Coming out of the vision; she was breathing heavily and bent on her knees. She felt sick. Coupled with the feeling of horror, she didn't feel good at all. She had just witnessed one of the many terrible memories from everything that had happened to her in her life.

"What have I done?"

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