Steve could hear the murmuring voices behind him, but he could only pick out an occasional phrase like 'too dangerous' or 'not ready'. He tried to ignore it, to not let it bother him. He wanted to believe that his actions were justified. Steve had once fought his best friend on an aircraft up in the sky, he hadn't wanted to but he had done it in order to stop Project Insight. If the others were right, and Bucky really was trying to get the staff so that he could use it or give it to someone who would manipulate it, Steve would stand against his friend once again. But Steve didn't want to believe that. Bucky had pulled him out of the water and saved him, he wouldn't have done that if his mind was still corrupted. There had to be another reason he was at the HYDRA compound. Steve owed him a chance if nothing else, after all it was his fault that Bucky had fallen and been taken by Zola. It was his fault he had been brainwashed and turned into a HYDRA pawn.

Steve was drawn out of his deep thoughts by a touch on his shoulder. He turned around to see Natasha standing there, an unreadable expression on her face.

"Autopilot is a pretty handy thing, huh?" She said nonchalantly as she slipped into the copilot's seat next to him.

Steve glanced over at her, not quite sure what she was getting at.

"It's probably pretty cool to you-" She continued by Steve quickly interrupted.

"The plane I crashed in had autopilot." He told her shortly.

"Oh...right...that's unfortunate..." Natasha said awkwardly.

Steve just shook his head and turned away from her.

"Listen Steve, I'm sorry I didn't tell you alright." Natasha blurted suddenly.

Steve glanced back over to see Natasha wearing an apologetic yet adamant expression.

"But you promised me that you wouldn't do anything stupid, and I just knew that if you knew about Barnes that you would do exactly that. And I was right."

Steve shook his head once. "You don't know what I would have done had you just told me right away."

Natasha sighed, "I know that you like to believe you can do anything, with or without super soldier serum-"

"That's not true." Steve responded firmly.

"Yes it is Steve, you're always willing to throw yourself in the line of fire but you never think about yourself." Natasha cried in a whispered voice.

"Risking our lives is in our job descriptions, but you also have to try to stay alive." She continued.

"It's not safe for you where we're going and you can't try to follow us into the fight. You have to stay in the quinjet." Natasha told him.

Steve began to protest immediately "I'm not-"

"I will chain you down if I have to Rogers." She threatened, though it seemed more than just an idle threat.

She quickly stood up then strode away.

Steve ran a hand across his face tiredly. Natasha was right, it wouldn't be safe for him to leave the jet, but he wouldn't be able to get to Bucky if he was in the jet.

Just then a notification popped up on the screen on the dashboard. 'Landing in process' it said. Steve felt a small jolt as the quinjet landed on the ground. They had arrived.


A/N: I know the chapters are short but I'm going to try to upload more often. Chapter length all depends on what's going on and when a good stopping point presents itself so please bear with me, there will be some longer chapters in the future hopefully.