A/N: I hope you guys don't mind but I took Saturday off considering I'd managed to update everyday since I started this fanfiction, and I'm super sick right now. I don't know what happened, but I've found myself in the midst of dying a slow and painful death thanks to a cold. It's my two week holidays now so you should still be getting a chapter a day.

There are parts of the movie strategically placed in this chapter so EXPECT SPOILERS

Big thanks to Guest, IKhandoZatman, DreamerDarkness, Guest, Kat, tangleofivy for the comments, I hope y'all have a wonderful day!

CHAPTER FOUR

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

― William Jennings Bryan

Summer was still sat in the room, it had been almost four days now - not that she could tell, she hadn't seen the sun or the moon in so long she was worried she might forget which is which soon. Even though most of her time was spent in a laboratory normally, she would continuously try and go outside as much as she could. Every human needed fresh air at the very least once a month.

Her mind was whirring with numerous possible ways to escapes, though none were going to be easy - once Wendy had left her and the guard had returned, they forced the cuffs on her once again. Though she'd seen Wendy once in those three days, he didn't take the cuffs off again, so her wrists had remained entrapped, causing her to have very little ideas on how to escape.

The door slid open and she held an anticipating breath as she waited for whoever to enter the room, when she saw it was the Winter Soldier she instantly relaxed, leaning back into her seat in a much more comfortable position. In his hand was a tray which held what was similar to the other four trays which had been delivered the past three days: mash, gravy, beef and milk.

He slammed down the tray, moving the vacant chair opposite Summer away from the table before collapsing into it. He looked rugged and obviously tired, he still wore the mask but she could tell that underneath it was a frown. "Well don't you look rather dashing today Wendy, save any damsels in distress?" In reply all she got was a raised eyebrow, he was obviously confused by what she meant and she laughed bitterly, "no, your job is just mindless killing." She snapped at him, obviously bitter.

He decided to ignore it, she'd acted the exact same way on his last visit. He'd learnt to just ignore it, and he'd also learnt to keep trying - maybe he'd eventually break through this wall she'd been putting up.

"Eat." He demanded shortly, pushing the tray closer to her.

"No."

"Why?" He asked.

She smiled, "well what's the point?" She questioned back, though quickly answered the question for herself. "I eat, I live, then I don't answer the questions and I die. I don't eat, I die. No matter which way you look at it I'm going to end up dying so what's the point in eating?"

"So then I can spend more time with your sparkling personality?" Wendy shrugged.

Summer snorted loudly, "I also don't see the point in your whole friendship act." She smirked, using her finger to point between herself and him, "Pierce thinks if you get close to me that I'm going to tell you the desired information, but he's wrong."

His head fell to the side, his eyes analysing her once again - something which he loved to do. Her hair was a lot more greasy and tangled, she'd put it in a messy bun on her head in hope to hide it but Wendy could see how much she wanted a shower. She was a scientist, cleanliness is one of the main attributes of her life and now she's been left to rot away, if it wasn't for her pride she'd have probably asked for (at least) a bucket of water and maybe a sponge. She looked more pale than usual, and she was an unhealthy sort of skinny, so much so that Wendy felt the need to shove a load of fattening foods down her throat just so she'd look healthy again. She looked like a puppy, and even for someone as cold as the Winter Soldier he felt kind of guilty for the way she was being punished, all for information.

"You're wrong," he replied quietly, "there's something about you, something…"

He didn't know how to finish the question, he wasn't exactly great when it came to emotions; he was good at killing because that's all he knew after being woken for the cryogenic sleep, that's all he's done that he remembers doing.

Summer sat up in her seat with curiosity, "Let me ask you a question, why do you work for Pierce, why do you trust him?"

Summer was genuinely interested, he kept coming out with all these gentle quips, things that would make her heart boom with unvanquished joy and this led her to kind of question him. Question how such an innocent puppy like him could also be one of the worlds top assassin's - it all pointed back to Pierce and she wondered why their alliance was even existent. Perhaps her need for this information was down to the fact she hasn't been fed data in such a while, her bubbly character was pretty much down to how much information she'd learnt that day. And so, instead of putting her curiosity down to her honest need to discover more about the enigma in front of her which she had definitely grown attached too, she put it down to simple hunger.

"When I woke up, he was the first one I saw. Sure, we're not best friends or anything, but he was the man who helped me through working out who I am and what my purpose is." For the first time she finally saw a piece of frailty in the butch man, and it broke her heart.

Still she pushed though, putting caution to the wind. "Do you remember anything at all before waking up and seeing Pierce?"

Her voice seemed to fade as images began to flash in his mind, the first one was a pudgy man with glasses, 'Sergeant Barnes,' he said with a small smile on his face, head falling to the left slightly. The second one was a train rushing down a wintry track, just about to hit a tunnel and then all of a sudden he found himself holding onto a railing of some sort, looking up at a man in red, white and blue - no, he was a friend. This man was a different person to the first one, he heard the man yell out 'Bucky, no!' but it was too late and his body was falling at a frightening pace down what looked like a humongous drop.

Then he seemed to awaken again, not back to reality, he was still going through the flashbacks. He was being carried by at least three men, he turned his head and saw that his arm was dismembered and leaving a trail of blood in the pristine, white snow. "The procedure has already started." Someone said, then there was flashes of scientists surrounding him, doing stuff with his arm.

It blackened again before he felt himself move, the new metal bionic arm was glistening in the light as he moved it around, three scientists were watching him - taking notes with pleased smiles on their face. One of the scientists came closer to him and fear shot through Wendy's body, the metal arm shot out and grabbed a hold of the scientists neck. "You are to be the new face of HYDRA." That darn voice said again before his head whipped around, and he saw that face once again - who was that man?

Wendy had no control of his body, he was beginning to panic, he had no clue what was happening to him. "Put him on ice." The man's voice said again, and suddenly he was looking at his reflection in a window that frost was beginning to quickly grow on. He put his arm up to try and push the door open so he could escape, but he was soon frozen.

"Herr(sir)," a soldier called from the doorway which managed to break Wendy from his episode, he jumped out of the seat and sent the chair flying against the wall.

Silence filled the room, both Summer and the soldier were shocked by the Winter Soldier's erratic behaviour. He was breathing heavily and both his fists were clenched, and by the whiteness of his fist, Summer could tell he was causing himself pain. "Wendy," she whispered gently, wishing she could stand up and go over to him, help him calm down.

He turned to the soldier instead, "was ist das?(what is it?)," he snapped, trying to keep his mind fixed on the mission instead of what he saw - it was just his mind playing tricks, that's all it could be… still, he had numerous questions which he felt the need to ask Pierce.

"es ist Zeit(it's time)," the soldier replied vaguely. The Winter Soldier knew what he meant though, and luckily for him it meant he would be able to see Pierce and ask those questions of his. "ein anderer Soldat das Mädchen zu ihrem neuen Zimmer nehmen(another soldier will take the girl to her new room)." The soldier said with a stone-cold expression, his stature was strict as well. Summer hated how moody everyone in this place seemed to be.

Wendy nodded his head and turned back to the auburn-haired scientist, "you should eat." He said quietly before leaving. In his place, two soldiers appeared. They took the cuffs off her hands and dragged her from the room, she finally got to see outside the iron room but still there was no windows and as far as she could tell there was no clocks.

"Hey do you two know the time?" She asked sweetly, fluttering her eyelashes at one of them. He pulled up his wrist and looked down at the watch, she took this time to push up her left elbow and she managed to knock the man out. The other soldier quickly grabbed both of Summer's arms and put them behind her back so she wouldn't be able to hit them, thinking quick on her feet instinct took over and her leg pulled upward and she kicked the soldier in their crotch.

"Idiot," the person snapped, "I'm a woman."

Summer turned around and smirked, "even better," with that she raised her newly freed fist and slammed it down hard on to her boob. The soldier let out a squeal of pain, "I know right, people always underestimate the pain women get from being punched in the boob." With those words she punched the girl in the head and knocked her out. Once she knew the girl was completely knocked out, Summer reached down and took the gun from the girls belt.

She raised the gun up in two hands and made sure her finger was prepared on the trigger, she only came across one other soldier and shot the person in each leg so they wouldn't be able to follow her. She knew this would mean that the guards would start looking for her soon, she had about three minutes before she'd be caught.

She made her way down each hallway, looking through each corner first before walking down the hallway. She found herself passing a glass window, looking in she froze in a mixture of shock and lust as she saw Wendy sat on a seat topless. His face was finally unmasked but thanks to his long brown locks covering most of his face she still didn't get a good look at his chiselled features.

He was handed a mouthpiece to chew on which he slipped into his mouth while leaning back in the seat, suddenly a large machine which she had only just seen was moved and placed around his head. An electrical charge thundered through the machine and charged straight into his head.

She covered her mouth to stop the yelp that almost called from her mouth, she couldn't believe what she were seeing. They were wiping his memory, Pierce and his puppets had no right to do that to a man. Summer could feel the anger and rage fill her as she witnessed Wendy twisting and turning in pain; all she wanted to do was strangle Alexander Pierce and force him to go through the pain he's caused to other people.

Suddenly, she was pushed down to the ground by a body. "Guess who's back, bitch?" The woman from before hissed, after handcuffing Summer's arms together behind her back, she turned Summer's body around and brought a swift punch down onto Summer's boob. The auburn-haired dame let out a cry, wriggling around in the female soldiers arms.

She was pulled up from the ground and forced down the hallway. It took a ten minute walk that was filled with kicking and pushing until Summer was thrown into a different room than before. This room was plain white with a bed fixed on to the wall, there was even a shower which she would take full advantage of later. There was also a bathroom, which made her happy now that she didn't have to ask a guard to take her to the bathroom (which had ended up being connected to the steel room through another magically appearing doorway).

Currently, her mind was whirring with thoughts about Wendy and what he was going through. If his memories were gone, then that means he's a completely different person to this Winter Soldier character - who is this man?