pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"U.N. Confererence. Vienna./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Natasha walked into the large conference room. Rows of dignitaries sitting, conversing in the celebration of success. She tucked her silk blouse into her pencil skirt as a tall man approached her./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Ms. Romanoff." He said with a heavy accent./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""T'challa." She nodded knowing him as the Wakandan prince./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""It seems that neither of us like the spotlight." He pointed out her nervously spinning a ring on her finger./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She was aware of the eyes on her. The sole representative at the Accords. Tony came but found himself wrapped up in business and bailed on the meeting. Many people in the room knew her past. Knew the awful, horrific things she did in the name of Russia. Their distrust in her was palpable. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Certainly, the spotlight casts a harsh light." She breathed./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Given your last appearance on Capitol Hill I would assume you'd not be here. It must feel uncomfortable." T'challa replied./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""You saw that, huh?" She thinned her lips. "A little uncomfortability isn't the worst thing I've endured."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"He nodded like he knew every detail of her past. "I understand. I too am uncomfortable."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She looked up a him, "You don't support this?"/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"He looked around, "The Accords, yes. The politics, no. Two people in a room can get far more done than 100. This is not necessary. It is political. That alone makes me uncomfortable."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Natasha understood. Politicians were her least favorite people. They were so easily swayed and manipulated. She had killed enough of the dirty ones, and as she suspected, a bunch of the good one because Russia was threatened. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"A voice echoed throughout the room and Natasha took her seat in the second row. How did she end up here, a representative neck deep in politics. It unnerved her to pretend to be so righteous. She didn't know how she felt about this playing nice, when she wholeheartedly wanted to tell them to kiss her ass like she did in D.C. Perhaps she was growing up. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"T'challa shouted for everyone to get down and the explosion was instant. She dove to protect the man next to her, a delegate from Scotland. Glass shattered and sprayed everywhere. Fire erupted in the room. Agent mode kicked in. She scrambled to her feet knocking debris off of herself. She tugged those who were alive out of the wreckage and pointed them towards the exits. Her head pounded and her senses were dulled from the blast but it didn't effect her ability to help others./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"The building was cleared in 10 minutes. Fire and rescue took over. She stood outside the building listening to a report do a live report naming a suspect and claming there was footage. A name she didn't expect. James Buchanan Barnes./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"The wind was knocked out of her as she reached for a her phone. She pulled it out and saw it was already ringing. The person she wanted to call was calling her./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Steve.."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Are you okay?" He asked quickly./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I'm fine.. I got lucky. Do you hear… They're saying it's James." Her voice wavered. A siren blared behind her. It echoed in his phone. Steve was here. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She stood up and looked around. "Steve… Whatever you're doing you need to stop."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Someone has to help." Steve replied simply./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Yeah, that person is not you. If you interfere…"/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""What, you'll arrest me?" He said quickly./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She huffed, "No… I won't.. But someone else will. That how this works now. You didn't sign you are retired. You'll only make this worse. Let the U.N. handle this." She breathed./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I'm making a different call." Steve said shortly and hung up. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She grimaced and looked at her phone. Tony was calling her. She didn't have time to deal with him but picked it up anyway. "Hey."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Tony sounded like he was in the middle of something. The background noise was deafening. "No one had eyes on you. Wasn't sure you got out."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She locked her emotions away and laughed, "Oh, Tony.. Would you have missed me?"/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Possibly. Sending you a location. Meet me. Rhodey is here too."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""On my way."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"-/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Berlin/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Natasha hurried up the stairs to the conference room of the consulate in Berlin. After the all out brawl between James, Steve, Sam, T'challa and Rhodey in the streets. They were forced out of public./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She cast her eyes on Steve who looked somewhat optimistic of about the situation. Tony however was furious. Her heeled boots alerted everyone to her arrival. Out of the stuffy skirts and blouses she had been wearing, her trusted leggings, thigh holster and leather jacket were comforting. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She was pissed at Steve, "For the record this is what making things worse looks like."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I did what I had to." Steve countered./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"James was 1,000 feet below ground in a glass case that Natasha was sure could withstand a nuclear meltdown. She stepped closer to him, "How is this any better. Do you see what they have him in?" She pointed to the screen./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""When do I get my shield back?" Steve asked Tony./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""You're not. You and Wilson are being prosecuted." Tony quipped. "Congrats, you're criminals now."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Steve looked at Natasha like he didn't understand. She raised her eyes, "Shield and wings belong to the government now."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"She headed off to T'challa, informing him that he would be sent back to Wakanda in the wake of the mess they made. Hours later she paced in the halls, having watched Steve and Tony have a huge blow out. She glued her eyes to the screen and watch each unsuccessful interrogation of James. No one was getting information out of him. Now a psychologist was coming in. Sam and Steve appeared next to her. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Okay super spy, tell me you can read lips." Sam commented quietly./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I can…" She breathed, watching James talk. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""What are they asking him?"/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""He just keeps saying, he's Bucky." She looked at Steve./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Steve pushed her towards the stairwell. "Tony's gonna know where gone."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I don't care." Steve replied. They descended down hundreds of stairs. Natasha picked up on voices as they crouched in the shadows of the room where James was being interrogated. The lights shut off and she stepped forward. Steve's hand gripped her wrist as they waited. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""I'm Bucky." James repeated again. Oh his voice. Nastasha heard him. How he sounded in her dreams. The way she remembered him. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""We only have to talk about one thing, James." The man removed a red booklet./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"He started speaking in Russian. "Natasha.. whats he saying."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"Natasha listened carefully./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Zhelaniye!" he shouted. Natasha whispered, "Longing."/span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Rzhavyy!" He commanded. James groaned. "Rusted." Natasha watched the absolute terror on James' face./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Semnadtsat!" He growled as James screamed, wrenching his hands from the restraints. "Seventeen." Her fingers pressed into Steve's chest. Pushing him back. They were already dangerously close to being discovered. /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Rassvet!" "Pech!" "Devyat!" He said in quick succession. Natasha furrowed her brows, "Daybreak, furnace, nine." James was screaming, his metal fist pounding into the glass./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Dobroserdechnyy! Vozvrashcheniye na rodinu!" The door burst open from the containment cell. James slammed his metal hand into the floor and panted./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Benign… Homecoming." Natasha stepped forward and watched the James she knew melt away. He was the soldier again. Those words were his triggers./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Soldat." The psychologist smiled./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;""Soldier…" she whispered to the men behind her./span/pre
pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;" /span/pre
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; color: #212121;"James lifted his head. From her spot she saw the blankness in his eyes. "/spanspan style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Gotov k vypolneniyu!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Her heart hammered, "Ready to comply."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Power surged through the lights and the bulbs exploded. In the chaos James took off. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Sam took off first, Steve grabbed her. "You need to go."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Like hell I will, Rodgers." She breathed and stared up the stairs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""No. Listen. You need to play both sides. I know you want to save him. Let me do that. You need to keep Stark close."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""I don't do the betrayal games anymore." She wrenched her arm free and sprinted up the stairs. She knew Steve was right but she didn't want to pay both sides. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Natasha!" Steve shouted as he caught up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""You'll be in the loop. You can play the field better than anyone else. Stark is a genius and even he can't figure you out. Please.." Steve grabbed her arms. "I can bring him in. I can get him back. Give me a chance, I need your help."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""What's in it for me?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Are you kidding? He remembered me. He's going to rememeber you. You get your happy ending." He said firmly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""With a wanted criminal." She retorted. Most of her believed her James was gone for good./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""He didn't do it. I know it. Trust me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She looked up at Steve for a while. "Fine."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Go find Stark!" He pushed her up the stairs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Finding Tony was easy. He was in the midst of a show down. James was taking on Sharon Carter. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Hope you brought a suit!" Natasha charged past Tony./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Yeah A nice Tom Ford 3 piece!" He huffed and moved to help Sharon who had been thrown to the ground. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Natasha lauched herself off a table and onto James' shoulders. She slammed her elbow into his head, trying like hell to break the hold those words had on him. He slammed her into a table and gripped her throat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She kicked her legs, trying to pry his hand off her throat. She gasped, "The least you can do is remember me!" James only squeezed harder. Natasha worried that enticing him with her words was probably the stupidest thing she could have done. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"T'challa dropped from the floor above them and knocked James off her. She rolled away and gasped. In a fury of movement, James and T'Challa were gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Tony whipped out his phone, "Barnes is gone." He shouted at someone on the other end./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Sharon was looking at her phone and spotted Natasha rubbing her throat. "You need to distract Stark.."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;""Why?" Natasha hissed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Sharon showed her a message, from Steve's number. –Need shield and wings. Get Nat to help.-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She nodded and turned away, "Tony…" She said numbly. Her best acting skills on display. She wobbled a little./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Tony approached her as she dropped. Pretending to faint. It was the distraction Sharon needed. Tony called a medic quickly. She was hurt once the medic arrived, her throat bruised painfully and her vocal chords swollen from the choking./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Hours later, Natasha was sitting in the conference room in the Berlin consulate. Her phone buzzed as she watched Tony juggle phone calls. She saw both sides. No wonder why Steve asked her to play the field. Tony was doing everything in his power to keep the Avengers together. She respected him for that. Steve was ripping everyone apart. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Steve texted her, -Thanks for the distraction-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She huffed and fired back, -Where's my update?-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"It was nearly a half hour later when she got her reply. –We need to get a Quinjet. Know where Stark's is?-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She groaned and made quick work of hacking Tony's email. She found several for a hanger at the airport./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"She texted back, -/spanspan style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"Flughafen Leipzig-Halle/spanspan style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"airport. Hanger 5. Where are you going? Why?-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Steve replied quickly, -He's back. It wasn't him. He was framed. The psychiatrist wants to know about Siberia. That's where the 5 other winter soldiers are.-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;"Natasha rubbed her face. Someone had figured out how to make more winter soldiers. One was enough. 5 was a catastrophe. /span/p