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After a wild night, where thankfully I could actually remember it we slept for a few hours. Well Gramps slept, I stayed awake the entire time. I figured dream walking would involve sleeping it wouldn't matter if I postponed it till a little later. I stayed up most of the night trying to find the right words to put into a letter to Steve and Bucky in case I never saw them again. I wrote them each a letter telling them how sorry I was and that I loved them. I also wrote out what I wanted for my funeral just in case.

I got ready and woke up Gramps.

We went down for breakfast and I handed Gramps the letters and instructions. He wasn't very happy I made funeral arrangements but didn't say anything.

We walked down the alley and stopped in front of the shop.

"You know its not too late to back out." He said.

"I know but this is our only chance at getting answers. It'll work out." I said, not sure if I was trying to reassure him or myself.

"I really hope your right." He says before we walk into the shop.

We knocked on the door and waited. Amara opened the door and gave us a small smile.

"Good morning." She said as we walked in.

"Morning" I said while Gramps just nodded and gave her a tense smile.

Amaya came out from the back room and gave me a nod. "Everything is ready, follow me." She led us upstairs to the apartment above the shop. Then she went up to the stairs to Katya's room. When we went in the room I noticed there was another bed on the opposite wall of Katya's.

"Take off your coat and scarf. Get comfortable." She said before the sound of a kettle sounded through the apartment. "I'll be back."

I took of my coat and scarf and sat down on the bed. I was dead tired. There wasn't a single thing I wouldn't give to just be back in London, sleeping in Bucky and Steve's arms.

Amaya walked in with a cup of tea in a large mug. She put it down on the desk. She walked over to Katya and ran a hand through her hair. Katya flinched for a bit but continued to stare off into space. Amaya pulled a hair out of her fingers and put it in the mug.

"If there's anything you want to say, you should say it now." She said.

I turned to looks at Gramps. "Thanks, for everything." I said giving him a small smile. He just nodded. I was about to say I was ready when I felt hug me from the side. It totally caught me by surprise but I still managed to return the hug. After about half a minute he let me go.

"Okay, I'm ready." I said to Amaya.

She handed me the mug that was filled to the brim with a brown liquid that had an earthy scent. "Drink all of it, every single drop and relax. You'll know when its working."

"I took a deep breath and chugged the entire thing down. It tasted disgusting. It had a bit of some powdered substance that made the bitter flavor get stuck in my throat. I started gagging half way through it. When I was finally done, I started feeling a bit light headed so I laid down and waited for something to happen.

"How do you feel?" I heard Gramps ask. The sound of his voice was off and a bit distorted.

"Your voice is weird." I said. My eyelids started to feel really heavy and I couldn't help but close my eyes.

As soon as I did I felt surprisingly awake and opened my eyes. I was still on the bed in Katya's room but there was no one else there. I stood up and walked around. I looked out the window but there was nothing out there, just trees. I think the tea was starting to take effect. Everything was completely silent until I heard screams.

I walked over to the door and opened it. I was expecting to be in the hallway outside Katya's room but instead I was in a forest. There was another scream. I started running to where I heard the screams. I got to a large campfire that was surrounded by wagons. There were people lying around on the ground on puddles of blood. Next to the campfire were two girls. One was about ten or eleven years old while the other one was in her late teens maybe even early twenties. They were crying over the body of a woman who I'm guessing was their mother.

"Katya." I called out to the older girl. She looked over to me and just shook her head.

I walked closer to them trying to talk to Katya but when I did she started glowing. The light got brighter and everything faded. We weren't in the forest anymore, we were in a city. There was rubble everywhere I looked. I saw Katya running away from me.

"Katya, stop, I want to help you." I called out after her. I ran after her. But she disappeared. I looked up and saw skyscrapers all around me. I saw the empire state building and I realized where I was. This is New York City.

There was this loud roar coming from somewhere behind me. I turned around me and I really hoped what I was seeing was just a hallucination. There was a tall building with the name Stark on it. Right above it was a giant wormhole with some sort of giant worm or snake coming out of it.

"I want to go home, I want to go home." I heard someone say over and over again.

It was Katya, she was sitting behind a turned over car hugging her knees to her chest. I walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey it's okay. This isn't real, this is just a dream." I said.

"No its not, this is the future. The end of the world." She said shaking.

"Katya, this isn't real. We're both inside your dreams and memories. We're both in your sister's apartment in Dublin in 1944." I explained.

"Amaya?" She said.

"Yes, they're waiting for us, Amaya, Amara and my Grandpa. But first we need to get out of here. This isn't real." I said.

"It is real. It's the future. There's a hole in the sky and then they came." She said.

"Who came?" But before she could answer the sound of something exploding and guns firing sounded.

"Katya we have to move, come on." I said trying to get her to stand. She finally stood up and started running. I was right behind her. I saw something fly over us. There were more of those things and they started shooting at us. We were running and one of the blasts hit a car near us. I managed to cover Katya before one of the cars exploded. There were pieces of metal flying everywhere. One of the pieces managed to hit my arm.

"Crap" I said looking at the cut. It wasn't deep but that wasn't what worried me. It felt very real.

Back in London

Steve and Bucky were in the middle of breakfast when out of nowhere Bucky felt a pain in his arm.

"Ahhh." He yelped breaking the silence. He lifted his arm and pulled up the sleeve of his arm.

"Bucky what's…" Steve started before he also cried out in pain. "Ahhh!" He cried out. Steve started lifting his shirt to see what was hurting him. Right on his left side on his ribs, His soul mark with Nora's name was burning. He looked over to Bucky and saw that it was also Nora's soul mark on his right bicep that was hurting him as well.

"Something's wrong." Bucky said.

"We need to find her." Steve said.

They both got up and ran out of the apartment to look for their soul mate.

Dublin

Howard was sitting next to Nora's bed when he saw a red stain on the sleeve of her shirt. He lifted the sleeve and saw a cut on her arm.

"What the hell?" he said.

"What's wrong?" Amara asked. When she saw what Howard was looking at she gasped. "Mama!" she screamed out.

Amaya ran up the stairs and into the room. "What is it?" She asked a bit out of breath. She saw the cut on Nora's arm and said, "I was afraid this might happen." It was already starting to heal but it seemingly come from nowhere.

"What do you mean?" Howard asked.

"Katya and Nora are currently in her subconscious mind. Even with Nora knowing that whatever she is seeing isn't real, Katya doesn't know that. To her that's reality. If anyone were to get hurt or even die in there their injuries would manifest on their bodies." Amaya explained.

"Why didn't you say anything earlier?" He asked.

"I wasn't sure. Dream walking hasn't been done in decades. I just found my grandmother's journal and even then I wasn't certain. Like I said before each experience is different." Amaya defended.

"I wonder what's going on in there?" Amara said trying to break the silent staring contest between her mother and Howard.

"Whatever it is, I have a feeling it's not exactly happy and peaceful." Howard answered.

Back in Katya's Subconscious

I tried to check on the cut to see if it was healing but I didn't see any changes. Then I heard another scream. I turned around to see some weird alien thing start to walk towards Katya.

I ran towards her and pulled her out of the way before it blasted her. "Katya, I need you to listen to me. All of this is in your head. It's not real; you're in control here. If you want it all to stop you can. You just have to make it stop. Think of somewhere nice and happy. Preferably away from here."

"I can't do this. I can't, I can't." She says while putting her hands in her hair and pulling it.

I put my hands over hers to stop her from hurting herself. "Yes you can you're not alone but first you have to calm down. Okay take a deep breath." She did. "Now hold it in for a bit. And let it out. A few more times, and there we go. You can do this. Close you eyes. I want you to imagine the best time of your life. The last time you were happy and safe." There was another roar.

"I can't do this." She said shaking.

"Yes you can. You've done it before, with the stone remember. It took you to places some were scary like this but there were also a lot of good ones." I said.

"Like what. All I see every time I close my eyes is my entire family being slaughtered." She says crying.

"I got to go see my godson and goddaughter even though it'll be years before they'll be born. I got to meet someone who I haven't met yet that will one day become one of my best friends. I got to meet the loves of my life even though I was never supposed to meet them. I know it's hard. I know there are times where you're terrified and are frozen in fear but you can't let the bad overshadow the good. And you're luckier than I am right now." I tell her.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because right now you're in control. This is your subconscious. The stone isn't the one calling the shots you are. If you could be anywhere or any moment in your life where would it be?" I asked her.

"When I was about thirteen and Amaya was still a baby we joined a caravan of merchants. We were going to Verona to a small town in Romania to visit my grandparent. One night we didn't have enough money for a hotel so Papa said we were going to sleep under the stars close to the beach." At that moment the explosions and the roars stopped. The city started to fade away along with the sun. "We were so far away from the city you could see all the stars. There were so many I couldn't count them all. Everything was so much better back then." She said tearing up.

"Katya, open your eyes." I told her. She did and saw everything she had just described to me.

She gave me a sad smile and took a few deep breaths. "What happened? How are you here?"

"My name's Nora. I'm from the future. I got sent back to 1943 by the stone." I said and she sighed.

"When it left me all those years ago I thought that was the end of it but then the dreams started. I saw a young girl who was very alone. I saw her grow up and I saw one of my descendants give her the stone, never would have guessed I would meet that girl. I'm sorry for everything you've had to go through." She said apologetically.

"Don't be, what breaks us makes us." I said giving her a small smile, "There's something I want to ask you. Before I drank the tea and started dream walking you were catatonic. You would go through these episodes where you were trapped in your head and then you would draw things that happened to me and other things. How did you do it?"

"When I first became its host I was sent to the past. I met a man that kept appearing in my dreams. He was the previous host of the stone. He explained to me that the stone chooses it's host and the ability it is granted based on how compatible they would be and how well they could adapt."

"Adapt?" I asked.

"Time traveling isn't easy. Especially when Family's involved as you already know."

"It's really not."

"You have the force fields, I had premonitions. At first they started off as dreams and then they started happening when I was awake. They were manageable but when I went back in time to warn myself, I disrupted my own timeline. The one thing I should've never done. I don't regret trying to save them, I regret the pain my decision caused my sister. I created a paradox that the stone was forced to correct. When it did that I almost ripped a whole and destroyed the universe. I fought it I grabbed onto it and I saw everything. Knowing too much about future and the chain of that leads to it, is a disaster waiting to happen. He kept trying to warn me but in the end nothing he could say would've prepared me for that." She said

"He also told me that it picks it's host because they can either prepare the next one or because they have a role to play in history. I doubt I was significant enough to play a role in history but you on the other hand, I've seen your life, past present and future and I know that this is only the beginning of your story." She said.

"You said something about the man with a golden hand." I said still confused what she meant with that.

"Yes, him. You need to …" Before she could finish something interrupted her.

"That's enough Katya." Said the same voice that had appeared in my dream before. It still looked the same as my Nana did except for the glowing green eyes.

"No please, please not again." She said crying inconsolably.

"You've fulfilled your purpose, I need to have a little chat with my host. I'll deal with you later." Katya started glowing and she disappeared. Then everything faded and we were back in the study of the ranch, same as before.

"Where did you send her?" I asked it.

"Relax, she's safe. I sent her to relive all her happy memories with her childhood love. She deserves a last moment of happiness before I deal with her." It says emotionless.

"What do you mean deal with her?" I said concerned for her safety.

"I let her live because she still had a role to play. That role is done. She knows too much. No one mortal is supposed to have that much knowledge."

"She's suffered enough. We all have." I said getting angry.

"You're angry. You blame me for your guilt." It says.

"Oh you think! You just appear out of the fucking blue and toy with people's lives and emotions. You left Katya catatonic and driven mad by the things you put her through. Is this all some sick twisted game to you. See how much you can torture us until we go insane!" I said angrily.

"You act as if you're the victim. Guess what you're not. Life is not fair. Your blaming me for things you know are out of your control because you don't want to accept the fact that no matter how much you want to at the end of the day you couldn't save your mother just like won't be able to save Steve or Bucky." It said.

"This has nothing to do with them." I argued.

"This has everything to do with them. It's the reason you chose to leave things as they were in 1992. You chose them over your own mother. You were the first host to ever pass that test." It said.

"Test?" I asked through my teeth.

"I don't send you where you want to be, I send you where you need to be. I chose you for a reason. You have a role to play. I need to prepare you for what's to come. You're the first person I've ever met that hasn't actively used their knowledge in their favor. I wanted to see if your resolve would hold even in more tempting circumstances. It did, you stood your ground. You don't feel guilty for letting your mother die, you feel guilty because you knew you mother had to die to prevent disruptions to your timeline but you won't accept that the same thing has to happen to your soul mates."

"Why? Bucky doesn't have to fall from the train for Steve to stop Schmidt. Steve doesn't have to go down with that plane if we could destroy it on the ground. There is always another way, one where they don't die." I argue.

"It doesn't matter what I tell you. You wouldn't understand, not yet anyway. Bigger Picture. Time is running out. I still have to deal with Katya."

"What are you going to do with her?" I ask her.

"Erasing her existence is not an option, it would disrupt your time line. I could just send her to another time where she could no longer interfere."

"You've put her through enough. She deserves to live her life in peace, no more visions from of the future, no more time jumps, no more episodes. I get that you don't want her to interfere but I won't let you hurt her anymore." I say determined to keep my promise.

"Then what do you suggest, kill her." It says.

"No, you have unimaginable power right. Find away to make her forget everything you don't want her to know, seal it away and then let her live her life. She's done her part, let her go."

"It does take care of disrupting timeline problem. Don't have to waste time or energy sending her away and we are already in her subconscious. We'll do it your way."

Everything started getting fuzzy and bright.

"Don't forget what we talked about." It said and then it disappeared.

The room faded and I woke up gasping for air back in Katya's room.

"Whoa, Nora!" I heard Gramps.

I started coughing. "What happened?" I asked. My voice was cracking like I hadn't used it in a while.

"Here drink." Amara said handing me a glass of water. I chugged it down in a few gulps.

"What happened?" I asked.

"You kept your promise." I heard Amaya say from the door. Behind her stood Katya.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah, better than I've been in a long time." She answers giving me a smile.

"I'm happy to hear. Do you remember anything?" I asked wanting to make sure the stone did what it said it would.

"Nothing from the past ten years but I think I'm better off not knowing." She said with a smile.

"Probably" I answer. "So what did I miss?" I ask Gramps.

"A week of me sitting at your bedside." He says. I look at him and realize he looks exhausted. He's wearing the same clothes I last saw him with. There were dark circles under his eyes and he has more stubble on his face.

"Wait, I was out a week?"

"Yup, Katya woke up two days ago completely coherent and with no memories from the past ten years. You on the other hand have been comatose for the past week. We were actually about to call it and have you moved to the hospital." He explained.

"I was out for a week." I said moving to get out of bed. As soon as I tried to though I fell. Luckily Gramps and Amara caught me.

"I think you should take it slow." Gramps said.

"You should probably eat too" Amaya said. "I'll go make you something and bring it to you. Stay here and rest for a bit."

After a few hours and a good home cooked meal, I was good as new. Gramps and I were ready to go back to our hotel and then get back to London tomorrow.

Before we left Katya gathered all the drawings she had made over the years and boxed them up for me. She said she was done with that part of her life and she was ready to move forward.

"They'll be of more use to you than to me." She said.

"Thank you." I said with a smile.

"No thank you, you gave me a second chance at life again. I'm finally free." She said giving me a hug.

"I'm happy for you. Live it to the fullest you have a lot of catching up to do." I said.

I looked over to Amara. "Take care of that bracelet, there's an eighteen year old girl in 2011 who you're going to scare, waiting for it."

She just laughs and nods.

Amaya just looks at me and nods. She's not a hugger and I'm okay with that.

Gramps got us a cab and we were off.

"So you going to tell me what happened?" He asks.

"If you knew that something was going to happen to someone you loved and that no matter how much you tried they would still get hurt would you still try and stop it?" I asked.

"In a heartbeat." He answered.

"Then that's all you need to know." I said "Uh gramps one thing I do need to ask, did you call Peggy during that week I was in a coma."

"Uh no, I was too busy making sure you continued breathing why?"

"Because there's a very angry English woman standing at the hotel entrance looking right at us." I said as the cab pulled over.

"Oh boy." He said.

"Get ready for the lecture of a lifetime." I muttered.

"Just follow my lead kid." He said getting out of the cab.

"Howard Stark, what the bloody hell is wrong with you that you can't pick up a phone and ring anyone to let them know you're still breathing." Peggy chastised him.

"I was a bit busy Pegs, Matter of life and death." He said.

"Stop making up excuses. You are so irresponsible." She said.

"Pegs he's telling the truth." I defended.

"And you, Do you have any idea how worried Steve and Bucky were? They're soul marks started burning and they were certain something bad was happening to you. Imagine how they felt when I told them I could get you or Howard on the phone. Not only that but you have a briefing tomorrow morning and you leave the day after." She ranted.

"Pegs, I was in a freaking coma. I didn't know and I'm sorry I didn't call you. It wasn't planned it just happened. It wasn't Gramps fault, he was just looking after me." I said trying to get her to calm down.

"You were in a coma?!" She exclaimed.

"I have a lot to catch you up on." I said.

"You can tell me on the flight back to London. I already checked you out and hired a pilot. We're leaving now. Come along." She said walking to a cab.

"So much for that relaxing bath and nap." I said to Gramps.

"Get ready for a one hour long lecture about responsibility kid. She always starts after takeoff so she knows there's no escaping."

We both groaned until we heard Peggy telling us to quit dragging out feet. It was going to be a long flight.