It took him 70 hours to get from the Smithsonian to Steve and his old apartment in Brooklyn. It was still in the worse part of town. His memory slowly came back in little snippets.
"Why do you always have to get into trouble Steve?" Bucky smirked at the stick of a boy that had just had the pulp beaten out of him by one of the local gangs.
"They were beating up a little kid," he said as he picked himself up and brushed his shirt off.
"So you just decided that you were going to step in," he said grabbing his friend by the shoulder.
"I had him on the ropes," Steve grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, come on punk."
"Jerk."
He slowly made his way around New York until the sun went down. Soon after that he found and alley and curled up to sleep for as long as he could.
They had waked him up, given him his orders and sent him on his way. He had to destroy Captain America before he got too close to HYDRA. IT had been going rather well until his mask had been knocked off, "Bucky!" The man shouted; stunned by something that the Winter Soldier couldn't quite comprehend.
"Who the hell is Bucky?" he asked in complete confusion.
The crestfallen look upon the other man's face worried him to the point where he made himself remember. Steve, the man looking at him, his name was Steve.
Later, after he had tried and failed to kill the man, he spoke to the scientist. "That man on the bridge, I knew him."
That was his mistake, just as he had regained a bit of his past it was taken away from him.
Days later he woke up and once again he was purely the Winter Soldier.
There was nothing left of Bucky.
Until that man fell.
He woke up drenched in sweat as he remembered that man falling and how he couldn't let him die, he just couldn't. As he wondered the streets in the early morning hours his mind wondered too. He needed to find that man, he needed answers. So he searched him out. What he found was that Steve Rogers was off the grid; with his Russian friend and some black army dude with the jet pack wing thing… he wasn't quite sure what that was.
What he did know for sure was that Steve Rogers was looking for him and he would be read when we wanted to be found. He just had to figure out when that would be