Part 2

Medical professionals were coming in and out of the unit catching his attention from time to time lifting his head up from his entwined hands while he was seated on one of the seats in the waiting room of the emergency ward.

Hours passed by, and finally Bucky's body was lifted up by the gravity's force only when he saw the woman's four wheeled bed being carried out of the emergency ward, surrounded by many highly focused medical professionals .

Luckily, one of the doctors recognized the brunet as Steve's friend and hurriedly approached him, letting the rest of the staff take the wounded to the OT.

"Sergeant Barnes?" The doctor spoke, visibly shaken.

" Doctor, how is she? What happened to her? I had tried asking the nurses but they wouldn't tell me anything... Why are you taking so long? And where are you taking her?" Bucky asked the lady doctor, ignoring the surprise he felt knowing that he was recognized by this woman with his name, but whose name he was unaware of as she was one of Steve's acquaintances, not really his.

"In front of a street's dustbin" He answered, adamantly getting serious in a matter of a split second.

"She has been raped" The doctor declared, clearly with her voice being broken in agony, "brutally… hours after she delivered her son . She had woken up an hour ago and I wanted to check her… but she won't let me... she was getting utterly agitated ... so we had to make her unconscious in order to examine her. Bucky, she is in extreme pain, she has lost plenty of blood and is still bleeding… She's traumatized and we are trying our best to save her. I have called a very dear friend of mine, Dr Neil Gonzalez. He is the best gynecologist in town and he will join me to handle this case. We are still examining her" The doctor finished explaining only because she could speak no more… as she had much more to say but the pain had blocked her vocal cords from making any sound after a point.

The doctor's words had hit Bucky in the chest like rocks making him flinch in disgust thinking of the monstrous being capable enough to sexually abuse a woman right after her giving birth.

" And what about the baby? How is he?" Bucky managed to ask, after struggling to break his trance.

" I don't know... I haven't seen him yet... that's not my department. Another detail I noticed is that this seems to be a case of an at home birth in a very weird way… nothing is done properly… in fact... I think… I believe…" the doctor replied, and wanted to tell the worried man her most terrifying doubt, but a colleague demanded her attention, making her leave the Winter soldier standing there really baffled and dumbstruck, not before double eyeing the brunettes traumatized expression shadowing his gorgeous face... as if she found the woman's suffering reflected in his light blue orbs very intimately... Even though Bucky didn't know the woman's name,he still was able to feel her pain.

Realizing that the doctor had left him, Bucky immediately ran to the information counter and crashed both his hands on the furniture, bringing his face closer to the administrator.

" Can you tell me where's the baby, madam?" Bucky asked nervously.

" Which baby sir?" The woman on the counter asked the brunette back.

"The one that was brought some hours ago… with a woman who was taken to the emergency ward… both of them came in the ambulance with me," Bucky explained, trying to make a point.

"Oh… I see... he is being monitored in the pediatric unit number 10, in the NICU, taking the first left from there"

"Thanks"

The Winter soldier almost teleported his body to said ward,

but his feet froze even before he reached the glass door as his eyes fell on the baby. The tiny creature was left all alone being monitored with all the patches and wires on him. Not to mention, the thick white tube that was inside of his diminutive mouth. At first, the baby seemed unconscious to him. But when he looked closely, aiming his eyesight on the baby's naked chest, which was gently being lifted up and down following the laws of the breathing process, he was thankfully proven wrong. Nonetheless, nothing could lessen the pain he felt watching this little child so vulnerable, surrounded by all the heavy medical equipment. That too without his mother.

A white robed man joined Bucky seconds after he had arrived, staying silent for a couple of companionable minutes until he decided to finally share some information about his recent case.

"He is a premature baby and his situation is very... very delicate…" the pediatrician stated, crossing his arms in front of his chest and looking at the blue-eyed man, whose attention he grabbed the second he made a sound.

"What do you mean?Will he survive?" Bucky asked, completely shocked.

"We are trying our best… you... are the father of…?"

"No… no... I just found them on the street...I mean he and his mother '' Bucky responded, a heavy seriousness clouding on his serene countenance, "please... Please tell me that he will live... he will survive... he's too small to die …too innocent"

"We are doing everything possible that's in our hands to save him. But he's very weak... very thin... as if he wasn't being fed well inside of her mother's bag...she wasn't eating well and that's why her son is so malnourished… but don't worry fella.. I'll be joined within 10 minutes with my seniors. I hope to give you some good news soon" He declared, giving the sinking man some hope to live on, before he left for the meeting.

At that moment, the former assassin's phone started buzzing. Perks of being in avenger. He was needed urgently, even though he did not want to go he left the hospital with a heavy heart only to attend his duties. Because God knows, and he knew very well that his head was elsewhere.

The image of the woman with the brightest amber eyes he had ever seen in his life was occupying his thoughts. Worried… chewing his own skin he was, until he got a message after a day that both the baby and his mother were out of danger. He sighed a heavy burden of worry out of his lungs seated all alone in the Tower's main conference room. Now only one thing was left to do ... Take some time out from his tight schedule in order to pay the lady a visit in the hospital.

Even though he was dog tired, after 3 days he decided to go to the place where he had lost a part of his soul to see if he could get it back.

"… Excuse me … the lady in this room ... where is she?" The metal armed man asked one of the nurses who was passing by in the hallway, finding the woman's bed empty. "Which lady?" The nurse asked,

"Oh... I'm sorry... three days ago… I brought a woman with a newborn baby to this hospital at night…"

"Okay, that woman?" She's been out of the emergency unit since the past 48 hours, sir.

"And… where is she now?"

"Wait a second sir, I'll check and let you know in a minute" The nurse stated, before leaving Bucky alone at the entrance of the emergency ward.

"Sergeant Barnes" A familiar voice steadied the brunette's wandering light blue orbs.

" Doctor" Bucky muttered in response, seeing the professional who had first informed him about the woman's condition walking over to him.

The doctor had now reached Bucky and stopped a foot away from the tall and handsome man, wearing a delicate smile on her countenance.

"She has been transferred to room 109" She declared,

" How is she?" Bucky asked , unable to contain his curiosity any longer.

"Want to meet her?"

Bucky took a couple of seconds to think before nodding shyly after lowering his orbs, provoking a wide grin to decorate the lady doctor's face.

"Come with me"

And he followed the gynecologist like an anxious, newly adopted puppy. Nonetheless, Bucky couldn't keep his God-given large mouth shut.

"So… did she speak anything about her situation or her family background? How did she end up there … on the street?" He asked, matching his steps to his companion.

"I'm afraid to say no... she didn't say a word. We have tried asking her multiple questions but she won't tell us anything... not even her name, age, where she lives... nothing" The doctor replied hopelessly and stopped, forcing Bucky to come to a halt as well. "You know Bucky, maybe... she truly doesn't know her identity or who she is , where she comes from. Because…She didn't even know how to sign a paper.Her eyes were so… lost" The doctor spoke and stopped only when she saw the man in front of her getting exceedingly puzzled.

"We have reached her room" She declared and opened the door 109, letting Bucky pass first.

Writers commentary. Hi guys. So I'm trying to bring the story to the point of slowly revealing the female protagonist's past while getting her and Bucky in the same frame . I really hope you are enjoying this story, trust me it will have a happy ending. Please let me know your views in the comments below. Even two words make my day.