Chapter 4

They were walking through the doors of the large hospital. Tony had accompanied Bucky, Steve and the goddess to the facility, knowing his name would get them through the doors without causing a huge scene. The nurse kindly led them down the hallways and up an elevator to the big doors of Doctor Strange's office. Bucky felt a knot in his throat as they entered and he saw the man at the desk. It was definitely the man that father him. He felt a bit of anger at the man for leaving him, but he also had a huge what to just go rest his head on the man's chest. That's where he had gone for comfort many times in the past. He also knew that if anybody could heal his head, his father was the man.

Stephen looked up from his work, his eyes looking at the small crowd with a frown. He then saw Tony. Good, they had money for the bill. That wasn't. A problem. The group seemed a tad odd though. He sat back in his chair, letting his long fingers crossed each other.

"How may I help you, Mr. Stark?" He asked, raising a black eyebrow at the group.

"Hello Stephen, I have a friend here who has a lot of damage in his head and I wanted you to look into fixing it for me." He began, Stephen looked at Bucky. It was kind of strange, the man had his eyes and some expressions.

Stephen stood up, and began to approach the man. He had to get a look over, before he agreed to dive farther. As he circled the man, he did not notice the female in the group approaching him from behind. Her two hands encircled his head as a small light formed. This Strange did not need the accident the one prior had. Just a spell to recollect the man she had lost with her son.

Stephen stepped back, his eyes blinking frantically for a moment as he focused back on the group. A small gasp escaped his throat. He felt it constrict as he looked at the man again.

"James?" He quivered, his eyes not believing what they were seeing. His son, the one he thought he would never see again. Here he was in his office. With this sight another thing flooded his mind. He could see all the pain his son had experienced at the hands of the brutal enemy. He felt sick as images crossed of his child being abused and hurt. He saw the mental anguish and fright.

Before he could let another image come to his mind, he pulled his son close to his chest. Bucky let out a small yelp as the action took place. He was not expecting his father to hug him so tight or so close.

Bucky let his head nestle into the hug, he felt safer now than he had in many years. His parents and Steve back in his life was the best feeling ever.

"So can you fix him?" Tony questioned.

Stephen slowly pulled from the grasp and nodded. "Yes, I can remove the programming, in a completely different way than you probably had in mind."

Bucky smiled, "You can fix me?"

"Yeah, I can fix your mind. The mind I so selfishly let get ruined by the tyrants of the world. I will bring you back to hopefully a full kid."

Bucky couldn't help but laugh at his father. This was the Strange nobody had seen. At home with his family he had always been loving and kind. Bucky had enjoyed growing up with this great man. It was at this moment Stephen was pulled into another hug. He jumped and then wrapped his arms around his lady love. "Demeter, always an honor." He commented as he kissed her cheek.

"Same, Doctor Strange." She winked as she let a hand coil in his hair. "I missed you."

"I promise to fix our son." He whispered, as he rested his head on hers. He finally had his family back in his life. This calmed his angered heart.

"Fix him the best you can, but don't beat yourself up if he cannot be completely fixed." She warned. "There are cobwebs in there that I'm not sure even Athena could have knocked free." She added.

"I can sense those, but I will try. We may have to go to the Sanctorum. Is it ready for us?" He asked as he went to his desk, collecting a few items.

"I have already take care of everything. Even the Eye is waiting for you. It was easier than we anticipated." She winked.

He looked at his son for a moment, "Do you want to come with us? Your friend there can join us." He asked, pointing to Steve.

"What I'm not invited?" Tony pouted.

"Well you can get there yourself if you must. But this is going to be more of a family matter and I don't feel as though you are close enough to come into my home for this." Stephen responded. Steve cracked a laugh, he could see where Bucky got some of his humor.

"I would love to come with you Buck. I want to see this home you once told me so much about. Sounds almost to odd to believe." Steve told his friend. Bucky gave a nod.

"Sure thing, we would like to come home with you Father." Bucky answered. "But, Steve isn't just a friend. We got married by a priest back during the war. Just before our…"

Stephen held up a hand, "I know son, I know. You don't need to explain anything to me. He is a good man that took good care of my son. That's all that matters to me."

Steve and Bucky both smiled, they had not expected to be welcomed in so easily. Stephen walked to Demeter and took her hand in his. "Let's go home."

She nodded, "Indeed, it's been too long."

Steve looked at Bucky, "Your parents are such a perfect."

"There okay, for parents." He grinned as they followed them out of the hospital, making a few nurses pause to watch as they left. Their doctor suddenly seemed very different, and they were not sure how to react.

"I am taking the rest of the week off, only call for emergencies." He told them.

They gave him a small nod as he left trough the double doors and began to lead the way to his car. It was time to go and fix the damage done to his son.