Summary: Bucky is recaptured by Hydra where their scientists conduct more experiments on him. There he meets an unlikely ally, an innocent looking young woman who is hiding a much darker side. Meanwhile Steve has tracked his best friend and discovered his location and is preparing to mount a rescue mission with the help of some of his fellow Avengers. Can they save Bucky before it's too late? And who is this mystery woman? Co – Written with Dixon – Vixen 13. Bucky/OC, Steve/Sharon, Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper. Rated M for graphic violence, language and eventual sexual scenes.

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Soldiers And Spies

Chapter 7

The following day as the team were having breakfast, Steve wandered in with one of Tony's tablets. He was slowly getting used to all the new technology, but sometimes still had trouble with it. "Tony, Hill sent us over the file on the HYDRA base in Belgium, how do I put it up on the big screen again?" He asked looking at the tablet slightly confused.

"Here." Tony said as he held out his hand. Steve gave it to him and with a tap and a swipe it appeared up on one of the many large screens Tony had installed around the place.

"Ok, so this is all the intel we have on the base in Belgium" Steve said as he addressed the team. "It's well guarded, with soldiers posted here... here and here on the perimeter." He continued on as he pointed to spots on a satellite image. "I think our best plan of attack would be if Clint and Natasha come in from this side" he said pointing to the east. "Bucky and Eva, you guys come in from the west." He added. "Sharon and I will come in from the north. The south side is blocked by hills and mountains so Tony, you can do your thing and come in from the sky," Steve smiled as Tony nodded in approval. He was glad that the two of them were on good terms again.

"Does everyone understand?" Sharon asked and the whole team nodded in agreement.

"Excellent. Everyone gear up, wheels up in two hours." Steve told them all as they finished up their breakfast and left to prepare for their next mission.

Bucky suited up and glanced at Eva who was placing her Colt Python in a holster. He thought back to last night, they hadn't slept together but they nearly had. Bucky had stopped at the last minute. He didn't want to push her so had instead he had just touched her and explored her body a little and she had done the same to him. He could still remember so vividly the feel of her hands on his chest.

"Are you ok?" Eva asked quietly as she looked at the man who was slowly easing his way into her guarded heart and soul. She had been with men before but no one like Bucky. They had never really meant anything to her, they were just a job or a release. With James it was different. He treated her like a person. He considered her feelings and always made sure she was comfortable with him.

"I'm fine, just hope this mission goes okay." Bucky said grimly and Eva nodded before kissing his cheek tenderly.

"You don't regret last night?" She asked quietly and Bucky turned to her with a look of confusion on his usually stoic face.

"Why would I regret being with you, Eva?"

"I don't know, you just seem a little distant." She replied quietly.

"I'm just thinking about the mission and HYDRA, you know... I want to get all of this over and done with. I want to have a normal life." He admitted.

"Me too." She smiled. "So you and me... were ok?"

"We are more than ok." He grinned as he returned her gesture and placed a sweet kiss on her cheek.

Steve was suiting up as Sharon walked in and began to get her weapons ready.

"You know, you don't have to do this." Steve told her.

"I want to" she insisted. "We have all been affected by HYDRA in one way or another, all of us who work for SHIELD. We were under the rule of HYDRA the whole time and never even knew it. I want to help take them down."

"If you're sure. It's just... I worry about you." Steve admitted a little shyly.

"You worry about me?" She questioned.

"Yeah, I mean, I know that you can take care of yourself, but I just can't help but worry that something might happen to you out in the field"

"You're a sweet man Steve Rodgers." she told him as she placed a warm hand on his cheek and gave him a sweet smile. Her skin felt so soft and he couldn't help but lean into her touch a little. He still hadn't worked up the courage to ask her out on a date yet, but he really liked her. After the way things happened with Peggy, he knew that he shouldn't wait too long. So he promised himself right then, that once they had completed this mission, he would ask her out.

Natasha and Clint were cleaning and checking their weapons ready for the mission when Nat decided to break the comfortable silence they were sharing. "So about last night..." She trailed off.

Clint looked at her questioningly, a little worried about what she was going to say. He thought that maybe he had over stepped the line when he had walked into her bathroom. But his actions came from a good place within his heart and all he wanted to do was help. "Look I know I shouldn't have come in like that, but honestly Nat I was really worried about you. I needed to make sure you were ok." he told her, trying to defend his actions. "And I swear to you... I didn't even look when... you know" he said, referring to when he helped her out of her wet clothes and into some dry ones.

"I know Clint. It's ok. I'm not mad about it. I'm... relieved I guess." She told him with a small smile and he looked at her a little confused. "I've been bottling things up for so many years now, about the Red Room and what my life was like before. I think I just needed to get it all out. I was a mess last night, and I wanted to say thank you for helping me through it."

"You don't have to thank me Tasha. I would do anything for you. You know that."

"I know." She whispered as he approached him. "But really..." She trailed off as she kissed his lips softly and sweetly. "Thank you Clint."

"Anytime." He whispered back his eyes still closed as he revelled in the kiss, a little shocked by her display of affection. She placed a gentle hand on his chest and gave him a smile before turning to leave. He took a few moments to gather his thoughts before following her out and heading off to prepare the quinjet.

They all boarded the quinjet and made sure they had everything as Tony had placed the location on the GPS map for Clint as he began flying to Belgium to land near where the base was. Bucky sat beside Eva as he made sure that he had all of his weapons secured in the various holsters on his uniform that Tony had designed.

The base was in the forest with mountains and hills on one side. They were all cautious of traps that HYDRA may have placed around in order to keep away unwanted visitors and each team made their way to the positions they had been given.

"One...two...three!" Steve said over the comms and they all burst into the base, taking the soldiers by surprise.

Bucky broke one man's neck while Eva had used her telepathy to cause a man to shoot himself in the head. She then shot her Colt Python at another soldier that had entered the room upon hearing the gunfire. They cleared the area and made sure that there weren't any more HYDRA soldiers where they were on the west side, and began to search through the rooms.

"Clear, here Steve." Bucky said quietly as he dragged the men into a closet while Eva had been looking on the computer that had been left on.

"There's emails here to a lot of Government officials, I'll copy them for Hill and see if she can find out who this Golovanov guy is." Eva said grimly as she plugged in a USB drive and copied the files over and they were instantly uploaded for Maria to go through.

As Eva finished up, they heard a shout in German and looked up to see three soldiers were making their way down the hallway, looking for one of their colleagues.

"We gotta hide." Bucky said quietly and they quickly hid in a cramped wardrobe, their bodies pushed close together. Eva kept quiet as she used her telepathy to read the men's minds and was disgusted by their thoughts. They were making deals with human traffickers who smuggled in sex slaves.

As they stayed hidden, Eva continued to use her telepathy to gather as much information as she could about the trafficking that the soldiers were discussing. She would speak to the others about it later and most likely pass the information on to the appropriate authorities. When the men cleared out of the room and headed back down the hall Bucky and Eva emerged from the wardrobe and silently followed the men. Bucky grabbed one form behind, snapping his neck while Eva used her powers to make the second soldier shoot the third in the head, then she shot the man she had controlled twice in the chest.

"What's going on Buck, I thought you were clear?" Steve spoke through comms as he heard gunshots.

"We were, three more guys just appeared, and we took care of them. We are doing a final sweep now, then we will meet you at the rendezvous."

"Copy that."

Clint and Natasha came in from the east, and on Caps count to three Clint kicked in the door. Immediately they were confronted by four HYDRA soldiers. Natasha threw a couple of widow's bites at the men, taking down two of them. While Clint fired off a couple of arrows taking the other two out as well. The proceeded to make their way through the east side of the building, taking out any HYDRA members as they went.

They came to a room, what appeared to be an office. Natasha began searching through a computer while Clint checked a filing cabinet. "Cabinets empty." Clint said as he shut the last drawer.

"Computers been wiped too, someone must have heard us coming."

"Stay sharp." Clint told her. "They can't have gone too far."

The two spies continued through the base when they came to a laboratory. As they entered they saw a man burning a bunch of documents. Paperwork about their experiments no doubt. "Stop!" Natasha yelled quickly. But the man tossed the last of the paper on the flames before yelling. "HEIL HYDRA!" Before swallowing the cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth.

"Son of a bitch." Natasha sighed. Who knows what important information had just gone up in flames?

"Clear here Cap." Clint spoke through his comms. "Proceeding to the rendezvous."

Tony landed on the roof just as Cap called three and he blasted the door to the roof top fire escape open and jumped down into the building. He had set parts of the building on fire with his pulsor blast and he doused them out while taking out a few HYDRA soldiers. When his area was clear he saw the rest of the team rendezvous at his location.

Natasha, Sharon and Eva began looking through the boxes and he walked over to help. Clint, Steve and Bucky kept guard taking out the last few members of HYDRA that appeared. Tony found a USB stick in a smashed laptop and pulled it out. Clearly HYDRA wasn't as smart as they thought they were, they took the time to try and cover their track by smashing the laptop but didn't bother to remove the USB. 'Amateurs.' He thought to himself. He could see what was on it when they got back to the tower.

"Well we tried to talk to one of the soldiers but he shot himself in the head, we think he was working on something top secret. Something that HYDRA didn't want us to know." Steve said grimly as he addressed the whole team.

"Well, Nat and I cleared the lab but all of the scientists killed themselves rather than be dragged to prison and interrogated." Clint said darkly as he tossed an important looking file to Natasha. Some of the writing was in German or French, some even in Russian which Bucky, Eva and Natasha translated together.

"Eva and I found out that HYDRA's been helping a sex trafficking ring. There's a new shipment of girls due to arrive tomorrow night. A truck full of underage girls from Russia, Poland, Serbia, Mexico and Ukraine." Bucky said darkly as Eva found a DVD.

"Damn it." Eva cursed as she turned on the DVD and they all saw it was the Red Room Academy where young girls were being prepped for a procedure.

"What the hell?" Clint asked disgusted as they saw some girls being injected with a sedative before being taken into the operating room where two female surgeons were.

Eva and Natasha exchanged grim glances.

"What are they doing to them?" Steve asked, a worried expression on his face and Natasha sighed sadly.

"Sterilising them. It's like a rite of passage for girls in the Red Room. It's so that we don't have to worry about having a family or being assaulted and having children as a result." Natasha said bitterly. "It makes the job easier apparently."

"This is what that bitch Madame B said they did to you Nat?" Clint asked, and she nodded in reply.

"Did they do this to you too Eva?" Natasha asked gently.

"No, they never did. I don't know why. I guess it had something to do with the fact that they were planning on using me for the Psyche Project." She replied. "I don't know why they didn't just do to me what they did to you, and make me think I was sterilized. I guess they wanted to make me think I was special. That I was different from all the other girls, gain my trust."

"I think we have all we need here." Steve said finally. "I'll call in the other SHIELD agents to ship out all these files and take anyone still left alive... which won't be very many by the sounds of things. Let's move out. I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be." He said a little angrily. He hated HYDRA and everything they stood for. All the things they had done, it made him sick.

The team made their way back to the quinjet, as SHIELD agents began the clean-up. Everyone was pretty tired from the fight and couldn't wait to get back to their tower. "Get us out of here." Natasha smiled at Clint as she sat in the co-pilots seat next to him.

"With pleasure." he replied. He took the controls and began to get the quinjet off the ground and back to the Stark Tower. When they arrived Pepper and Nick Fury were waiting for them.

"Hill and I passed on the information you discovered about the human trafficking ring to the FBI Anti - Trafficking Unit, they've found a lot of information on this scumbag." Fury informed them as they saw an image of a man in his mid to late thirties.

"This is Yuri Golovanov, head of an international sex trafficking ring that also runs child pornography, snuff films and black market baby adoptions. The FBI have been hunting him for seven years but haven't been able to catch the guy due to his lawyers and the fact that the witnesses end up dead or being threatened." Fury said grimly and paused.

"He is also linked to drug deals and arms dealing with HYDRA, one of our agents Benjamin Harvard was close to bringing him down when he got killed." Fury said quietly.

"So he's linked to HYDRA?" Steve asked repulsed.

"Yes."

"God, who isn't in bed with HYDRA these days? It seems like any petty criminal is either working for them or with them." Natasha said angrily.

"It appears HYDRA has quite the reach when it comes to the scumbags of this world." Fury added.

"All the more reason to get rid of them once and for all. Which base is next on our hit list?" He asked Tony who had been reviewing a new bunch of data that Hill had sent him.

"Next up is their base in Elsterberg, Germany." Tony began. "It's a relatively small base, but still heavily guarded. From what Hill has sent me it looks as though this is more of a weapons base than a base for their scientific experiments like the last one."

"Well, that's good news, I guess." Eva spoke up. "I think I have had enough of HYDRA's experiments for a whole lifetime."

"I second that." Nat added.

"We are all pretty battered and bruised. I suggest we take at least a couple of days to heal. There's no point in trying to take on HYDRA if we aren't at our best." Steve told the team.

"I'm with the Captain. A couple days won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things." Fury agreed. Everyone nodded and Fury left the meeting and everyone went their separate ways to rest up until the next mission.

Tony left to spend time with Pepper and catch up with Rhodey, and Clint had gone off with Natasha somewhere. Bucky and Eva had left the room too, and it was just Steve and Sharon. Steve decided to take the opportunity to ask her out as she went to leave. "Hey Sharon… you got a minute?" He asked a little nervously.

"Sure Steve what's up?"

"I was wondering if umm… if you'd like to grab something to eat with me tonight? I mean if you don't have any other plans."

"I'd like that." she smiled.

"Really? Great." he laughed a little at his own awkwardness. "I'm gonna go get cleaned up. Meet you back here in a couple of hours?"

"Sounds perfect." Sharon replied as she left to get cleaned up too.

Bucky decided to search for Eva after he had his shower. He found Eva sitting in the yoga training room and she was levitating some small hand weights in the air with her telekinesis powers and he quietly sat down next to her. He watched as a faint purple glow surrounded her body for a second, and she started to float into the air and then he realised that he was starting to float as well.

'You're not scared, James?' Eva asked mentally and he shook his head as he held her hand with his metal one.

'I think you're amazing, Eva.' He replied mentally and Eva smiled softly at him as she began to gently move herself upside down while he was upright still. She was beautiful.

"You have come such a long way Eva, it's been amazing to watch how you have accepted what has happened to you and you have grown from it. The way you have adapted to everything and harnessed your new powers. You are just incredible." He told her.

She slowly lowered the two of them back down to the floor and she looked at him quietly. "Thank you James. It means a lot to me that you accept me the way that I am. I struggled for a while, when you were gone. I felt like a monster with all the things that they had done to me, and without you there to help me through it I felt lost. And then we found each other again, and even though I was so far gone that there was no coming back, you got through to me. And you made me see that everything was going to be ok. And for the first time in my life, I actually believe that." Eva said as she poured her heart out to him.

Bucky squeezed her hand lightly within his metal one. "I love you Eva." He whispered quietly.

"I love you too." She smiled.

Bucky pulled her into a hug held her tightly and she held him back just as close, loving the sensation of his body on hers, she let him go and she stood up. He stood up with her and noticed that he was a few inches taller than her as he stood close to her and she leaned into him. Bucky was happy that Eva loved him for who he was and wasn't afraid of him at all. He loved her so much. He leaned down and kissed her softly, cupping her face with his hand feeling the warmth from her skin against his fingers, while running his metal hand through her long blonde hair and he growled lightly when she kissed him back passionately.

"You really love me?" Bucky questioned and Eva nodded as she cupped his stubbly cheek with her right hand.

"Yes James, I do love you. I Think I loved since the day we first met over four months ago. There was just something about you." Eva said softly and Bucky pulled her into his strong arms then and kissed her passionately once more. God help him, he just wanted to take her to bed and make love to her all night long. He knew Eva wasn't a virgin, she'd been clear about that with her time in the Red Room. It was part of their training in sexual seduction, Bucky had felt like killing something when he had been told about it by Eva. But he knew that getting mad about it would only make her feel worse about it so he did his best to keep it inside. It would fuel his hatred for HYDRA and he would take them out when the time came.

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