Chapter 4 – Going Dormant
I woke up in my room and tapped on the wall I'd shared with Bucky.
"Bucky?" I called but had no response. My jaw was still sore though, Zola would pay for what he did.
"Miss Stark, you're awake" Zola greeted me and he entered my room with the asset behind him.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"Soldier, hold her down" Zola instructed the thing that looked like Bucky. The soldier came closer and I moved closer to the wall.
"Bucky please, don't do this" I begged as he reached the bed. He looked at me in confusion.
"Bucky?" he asked. Was he able to remember? I let the love I felt for him flow though our empathic connection.
"Bucky, I love you" I said, taking his hands in my own while he watched me curiously.
"Soldier?" Zola asked. When Bucky didn't turn around, Zola got louder. "Come with me soldier" Zola commanded and Bucky turned and followed his handler back out of my room.
I cried for what seemed like hours before Zola returned.
"We had to wipe him again" Zola informed me. "You seem to be able to trigger memories in him which means you two will be kept separated."
"Why are you doing this?" A stupid question to some people but I wanted to know, I needed to know.
"The Winter Soldier –Asset- as we call him, will be our strongest warrior for HYDRA." HYDRA, I'd heard that name before. That's who the Howling Commandos' were taking down when Bucky 'died'.
"Bucky would never work for HYDRA" I snapped and punched the old scientist.
"He's not Bucky anymore. He's a mindless soldier" Zola reminded me. I already knew my Bucky was gone, Bucky would never hit a woman. Zola began tearing up and I smiled, he was feeling my pain.
"Now you know how I feel" I said and Zola left the room as quickly as he could to evade me and my ability. I sat in silence for a few minutes before a guard came in.
"I'm just going to sedate you" he told me and I glared at him, focussing on my fear of needles and fear of the pain I'd been in the last time I was injected with something, the fear crippled the guard and he fell to the ground. I was getting the hang of my empathy power pretty well, I smiled at the thought.
"You aren't going to touch me" I told him and another guard entered the room.
"If we can't sedate you then you will join your boyfriend in cryofreeze" the second guard warned. I tried forcing the fear on the second guard but he didn't even flinch, maybe I wasn't as good as I thought. The second guard grabbed my arm and dragged me to a room where I saw the Winter Solder frozen.
"No" I breathed.
"You're dangerous and out-of-control" Zola told me then looked to the doctor. "Freeze her" he instructed and one of the guards strapped me in a chamber and then the ice covered everything and I blacked out.