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.

Soldiers And Spies

Chapter 13

Eva had woken up late and saw it was already nine AM and decided to cook breakfast before hitting the gym so she could keep up with her training and controlling her powers. She made some black bread with blueberries inside the dough as she sang a song in Russian softly for a while, when she sensed Bucky enter the room. He wrapped his arms around her waist, placing a soft kiss to the back of her neck, causing her to shudder at his touch on her warm skin as she turned around to face him.

"Morning, lover." Eva greeted playfully, causing Bucky to smile as he rested his forehead against hers for a minute before kissing her, pouring all the emotion he had into the kiss. Eva moaned as she wrapped her arms around him tightly.

"Morning, pchelka." Bucky greeted huskily as he placed kisses to the front of her throat with a growl as he took in her appearance. She was wearing a dark purple tank top and grey yoga pants and he thought she looked perfect.

"Someone's keen." Eva whispered teasingly as she slid her hands under his t - shirt then, causing him to growl once more.

"Keep it in your pants guys." Tony groaned as he entered the room and covered his eyes with his hands dramatically.

"Sorry Tony." Eva laughed as she removed her hands from beneath Bucky's shirt.

"What smells good?" He asked intrigued.

"I'm baking some blueberry filled black bread." Eva said with a smile.

"Is there anything your girlfriend can't do?" He asked Bucky with a clap on the back. "She's a keeper, isn't she Pep." He said to his partner as she entered the room and he wrapped an arm around her waist.

"She sure is." Bucky agreed. "And I'm yet to find anything she can't do." He laughed.

"Sure you're not a robot?" Tony joked as he eyed her wearily.

"Well my legs are metal." Eva chuckled, enjoying her teammate's sense of humour.

"Those two love birds not up yet?" Tony asked, wondering where Natasha and Clint were, they were usually the first ones out of bed in the morning out of the whole team. "I don't blame them, they were probably up all night long." He laughed.

"Tony!" Pepper scolded as she smacked him lightly on the chest. "Leave them alone... they're in love. It's sweet." She gushed happily.

"Maybe they could be in a love a little quieter." He chuckled.

"Sorry about that." Clint laughed as he entered the room. He thought he would be embarrassed, but frankly he didn't really care. He and Natasha were happy, and he didn't care if the whole world knew it.

"Clint... my man!" Tony cheered holding his hand up for a high five.

Not to leave him hanging, Clint slapped his hand with a loud clap and laughed at his friend. He was like a frat boy sometimes.

"So I take it your date went well..." Tony probed.

"Tony Stark!" Pepper scolded once more. "That is none of our business. Leave him alone!" she laughed a little embarrassed by her boyfriend's lack of respect for others private lives.

"It went very well..." Clint said calmly as he walked into the kitchen and before anyone knew what was happening, Clint had punched Bucky right in the face as just Steve and Natasha entered.

"What the hell, Clint?!" Eva screamed angrily as she created a purple shield to protect Bucky from Clint, as he gathered himself and touched his nose gently and found it wasn't broken.

"That was for shooting Natasha." Clint said coolly as he regarded his teammate who looked away in shame and regret. Bucky looked around to see everyone staring at the exchange and he quickly walked out of the kitchen, grabbed his jacket and left.

"Bucky wait!" Steve called out quickly but Bucky was gone.

Eva hurried after Bucky, but not before slapping Clint hard across the face on her way past. She rushed out of the building after Bucky who was clearly ashamed of his past with HYDRA.

Bucky found himself sitting down at a bench in a park, observing the area silently with his grey eyes, and he looked at his metal hand then in complete loathing. 'This will always remind me of who I am, the Winter Soldier...a slave, assassin and a merciless killer.' Bucky thought bitterly as he saw Eva walking towards him.

"James?" She asked softly, but Bucky said nothing. So she sat down next to him and took both his hands in hers. "Don't push me away, Jamie. Please, I'm not letting you walk away from this...from all of us." Eva implored firmly.

Bucky laughed bitterly.

"Clint doesn't trust me, Eva. Hell who can blame him? I shot the woman he loved twice." Bucky said angrily. "I wouldn't be surprised if the whole team hated me now."

"That wasn't you though James... not really. You had no memory and you had no idea what you were doing. You just did whatever they manipulated you into doing. It's not your fault and I know you would never intentionally hurt Natasha, and I think Clint knows that too. He was probably just angry about the past, finding out for the first time and lashed out, you would do the same for me if the roles were reversed, and I would for you too." She told him softly.

"I know. I deserved that punch in the face... and so much more." He said as he hung his head.

"No you don't Bucky. Clint was upset, but he was still out of line. He shouldn't have hit you and I bet he doesn't feel any better about what happened to Natasha having done it. We should go back and talk to him about it."

"I wouldn't know what to say. I mean Natasha and I have gotten past it, but I don't know how to make Clint understand that I never wanted to hurt her, I never wanted to hurt anyone."

"You're a good man James, he knows that deep down, and I'm sure. Now that he has got it out of his system, he will have calmed down. We need to settle this, we can't let it hang over the team. We need to trust each other and have each other's backs for what's about to come."

"You're right Eva. Let's go back. I think I have some explaining to do." He said as he held her hand in his metal one and they walked back to the tower together.

"You didn't need to do that." Natasha scolded Clint.

"I know babe, I'm sorry. I don't even know where that came from, I just got so mad about the fact that he shot you, and when I saw him I just snapped. I feel really bad about it though. I know it wasn't his fault and he wasn't himself."

"It's sweet that you care that he hurt me, but it's in the past. He and I settled it, I told you that."

"I know, I let my anger get the better of me."

"You have to apologise to him."

"I will babe, I promise." He said as he pulled her into a hug and kissed her forehead in front of the rest of the team who were still standing there shocked about everything that happened. Steve knew that Bucky had shot her, but he never expected Clint to react the way he did. It took everything he had not to jump in to defend Bucky and punch Clint right back.

"Wow! So... that just happened." Tony said, still trying to process everything.

"Tony..." Natasha warned. He knew better than to piss off the red headed Russian so he kept his mouth shut.

Everyone went back to having some breakfast and ten minutes later Bucky and Eva returned. Immediately Clint got up out of his chair and headed towards Bucky. Eva quickly got in between the two men and held her hands out towards Clint as they started to glow purple. "Back off Clint." She warned.

"It's ok." He said as he held his hands up in surrender. "I want to apologise. That was a total dick move and I'm really sorry Bucky. I just got so pissed that you... well not you, The Winter Soldier version of you had hurt Natasha and I lashed out. I'm so sorry man." He said as he held out his hand for Bucky to shake.

Gladly Bucky grabbed it with his metal hand and gave it a firm shake. "I'm sorry too. There are so many things that I regret. So many bad things I did as The Winter Soldier and I wish I could take them all back, but I can't. I never wanted to hurt anyone. I'm sorry for what I did to Natasha".

"We good?" Clint asked quietly.

"Yeah man. We're good." Bucky smiled.

"Keep a hold of this girl." He said as he nodded to Eva. "She's got a mean slap when she's on the defensive." He laughed.

"You slapped him?" Bucky asked, and Eva nodded quietly.

"I'm sorry I slapped you Clint." Eva apologised.

"Don't worry about it. I deserved it. I was an ass for hitting Bucky."

"Now that all is forgiven, how about we finish breakfast huh?" Natasha said as she snaked an arm around Clint's waist and smiled sweetly at the other couple.

They nodded and finished having the black bread, as well as some waffles that Sharon had made. They had a very long day ahead of them and they all needed to make sure they had plenty of fuel.

"Alright, so we're heading to Washington tonight. Fury and Maria found a HYDRA sleeper agent by the name of Victor Hesse who lives in Washington DC. We can't go yet though, Home Secretary Thaddeus Ross is coming over in an hour to talk with us." Steve said warningly.

"What does he want to talk with us for?" Bucky asked suspiciously, for some reason he felt like he had met this man before but he couldn't remember and he cursed HYDRA for wiping his memories. Something about him seemed so familiar but he couldn't quite place it.

"I'm not sure but we know how he is towards enhanced people, I heard from Fury that Ross wants to detain anyone who has special abilities." Steve admitted.

"Sir, Thaddeus Ross is here with Everett Ross of Homeland Security." Jarvis informed Tony, and Tony told him to allow them access to the elevator. Moments later the two men wandered into the living area looking all high and mighty.

"We have a few questions for your friends, Captain America." Thaddeus Ross stated calmly.

Eva took the opportunity to delve into his mind and his thoughts were unpleasant to say the least. He didn't like any of them and he thought she and Bucky should be killed for what they were, Natasha too. He knew all about their enhancements.

"Go right ahead, we have nothing to hide." Natasha spoke up bravely.

"Oh we know Miss Romanoff. We know all about you and the rest of this team, thanks to all the information you uploaded to the internet in order to expose HYDRA. In doing so you exposed everyone any anyone ever affiliated with SHEILD and its members."

"What do you want from us?" Bucky asked wearily.

"We want you to turn yourselves in. Submit to tests so we can understand your enhancements, and figure out a way to reverse them." Ross said bluntly.

"You want to reverse what was done to us?" Natasha questioned, a little concerned.

"You can't fix what isn't broken." Bucky growled. "There's nothing wrong with us." He continued as he put a protective arm in front of Eva. "We're not going anywhere with you, and we certainly aren't being tested and experimented on. We have had enough of that to last a lifetime."

"Mr Barnes, you don't have a choice. If you do not submit yourself, you will be branded an enemy of the United States. You will be hunted and you will be killed."

"Wait just a minute!" Steve said angrily. "You can't do this. This team is helping to save this country. In the last month we have taken down four of the five HYDRA bases, and we are preparing to take out the final one now. We are not your enemy."

"Rogers, don't think that you aren't in the same boat as the rest of them. You are a laboratory experiment. You are enhanced, and you can't be left to run rampant." Ross growled.

By this time the team was getting very angry and agitated. After all they had done for their country, America wanted to lock them in a cage, and experiment on them like lab rats. They were just as bad as HYDRA.

"I'm gonna have to stop you right there Ross." Came the voice of Nick Fury as he stepped off the elevator. "You cannot detain my team, this is a matter of national security."

"On behalf of the United States Military, I have the right to detain enemies to our country!" Ross demanded.

"Well, on behalf of the President of The United States of America, I have here in my hand, full presidential pardons here for every member of this team. The President has acknowledged all the good these people have done. They have risked their lives to save everyone in this country. Including you and everyone you know and love. These people are NOT the enemy. HYDRA is. Now if you would kindly get off your damn high horse and get the hell out so we can get on with our jobs and save this country. Hell save the world even." Fury told him angrily.

"I'll be speaking to the President!" Ross shouted as he stormed off to the elevator and left.

"You do that!" Fury called after him.

"We really have pardons?... All of us?" Eva asked stunned.

"Yes Miss Nikolayev, all of you. And for you... there is also this." He said as he handed her a piece of paper.

She looked it over and a huge smile spread across her face and tears welled up in her eyes.

"What is it Eva?" Bucky asked concerned.

"Citizenship papers. America is now officially my home." She smiled, and the rest of the team smiled with her.

"You're officially an American Citizen Eva, and when this is all over...I suggest that we take you on a tour of America. Maybe Barnes will even take you on a fancy romantic cruise and you two can re-enact the car scene from Titanic." He said teasingly, referring to Pepper's favourite film.

"Tony Stark!" Pepper scolded while Steve and Bucky looked confused, and Eva's cheeks turned bright red at his suggestion.

"I did not need that image in my head, Tony." Sharon said horrified as she stared at him in shock.

"Titanic? As in the huge ship that sank?" Steve asked confused.

"They made a film out of a ship disaster?!" Bucky asked horrified and everyone nodded. But Steve and Bucky still look confused about the whole 'car scene' comment.

"The main couple had a steamy sex scene in a car." Natasha said helpfully.

"Oh." Steve said surprised and looked horrified then.

"Pep loves it, she likes Leonardo DiCaprio." Tony said cheerfully to his friends.

"Christ." Clint groaned horrified.

"I couldn't think of anything worse." Natasha agreed.

"Oh c'mon Romanoff, every chick, and guy for that matter has a favourite movie. And more often than not they are a guilty pleasure kind of movie that no one wants to admit to."

"Ok then Tony... what's yours?" Clint challenged, thinking Tony wouldn't admit to anything.

"Dirty Dancing." He said a little too quickly and the team burst out into laughter, all except Steve and Bucky of course who hadn't seen it. "What? I'm not ashamed, it's a good movie." Tony defended.

"Awful... just awful." Clint laughed.

"Alright Barton... spill! What's your guilty pleasure movie?" Tony asked amused.

"Hmmmm." He said as he thought for a moment. "Would have to be Armageddon." he admitted. "It's got plenty of action, heroes save the world and the ending makes you cry… my kind of movie." He smiled.

"Not bad. Not bad at all." Tony agreed.

"Sharon… your turn." Tony told her.

"Pretty Woman." Sharon replied almost immediately. "Always loved it, always will." She said with a smile. And still, neither Steve nor Bucky had any clue what the others were referring to, but continued to listen to the others favourite movies.

"Sam… yours?"

"Top Gun." Sam smiled. "Nothing like a movie about fighter pilots."

"Good movie." Clint agreed.

"Eva?" Tony said as he turned to the young Russian. "I assume you have seen some movies since you got out of the Red Room?"

"A few here and there." she replied. "But my favourite so far would have to be My Sister's Keeper." She told them.

"I haven't seen that one." Tony admitted. "What's it about?"

"A young girl who is dying of cancer, the family had another child to try and help save her life. It's very sad, but heart-warming at the same time. It would make anyone cry." She said softly.

"Romanoff you're up." Tony told her.

"I don't really have a favourite." she told them.

"Liar!" Clint said calling her out. "You forget I can read your face babe... c'mon fess up!" He laughed.

"Alright, alright... it's PS I Love You." She admitted to everyone.

"What is it with you girls and sappy chick flicks." Tony laughed. "And usually someone dies! PS I Love You? Really? Does Gerard Butler's piss poor Irish accent not bother you? He should have just stuck with his Scottish accent."

"Every girl loves a good chick flick Tony, and contrary to popular belief I do have a heart." she laughed. "I can look past the accent. It's a sweet movie. It's sad and always makes me cry at the same part every damn time. But I love it. And c'mon... Gerard Butler and Jeffrey Dean Morgan... need I say more ladies?" She asked as she looked at her female team mates and they all nodded in agreement.

"No one can resist Jeffrey's charm." Pepper agreed.

"Cap... Barnes, we are going to have to get you guys up to speed on the movie front. I suggest a couple nights a week, we have a team movie night. A chance to spend time together, not fighting HYDRA, relax and have some laughs, or cry as the case may be." Tony suggested to everyone.

"I think that's a great idea Tony." Pepper told him.

"I have them occasionally." He laughed.

"Sounds great." Steve said, and everyone agreed.

Yelena Belkov smirked as she read up on the file of her long-time rival, Eva Nikolayev from their days in the Red Room. HYDRA wanted her capture her again. Eva was too valuable to be killed along with the Winter Soldier. They wanted the both of them back.

She walked over to the black armoured truck where three men were waiting. They had found their intended targets and soon, America would be on its knees along with Israel and Russia. Then HYDRA would build a better and new world.

She had to thank their spy within soon.

Eva had decided to head out to get some groceries before they headed to Washington. Since she had started cooking for the Avengers, the whole team decided it could be a permanent thing if she wanted to. They all loved her cooking. She parked up outside the store and headed inside. When she got everything she needed Eva headed to the self-service till and paid for the shopping. She then headed back to the car and began driving back to the Avengers Tower, when she got the strange feeling someone was watching her. She was just about to enter the Tower, when something smashed into her causing her car to spin out of control and clip a black truck and begin to roll.

"Shit!" Eva cursed as the car finally came to a stop. She looked at herself to see that she had cuts from the crash and her face felt bruised. Quickly she dialled Bucky's number and he answered almost immediately. "Hey babe what's up?" He asked cheerfully.

"I am a block away from home and someone just rolled my car. Please come quick!" She said desperately and all she heard on the other end was. "Shit!" And then he hung up. Slowly Eva began to crawl out from the wreckage, in what she hoped was the opposite direction of whoever did this to her.

"Shit!" Bucky cursed as he hit the call end button and tossed his phone aside, sprinting for the elevator.

"Bucky what's up?" Steve asked as Tony, Natasha and Clint gathered at the elevator with him.

"Eva's been attacked." he said as he rushed into the elevator pressing the floor for the armoury and then he hit the ground floor button. "She's just down the road."

"I'll get my suit and meet you guys there." Tony told them.

They all rushed to the armoury and grabbed their weapons, not bothering to put on their uniforms, they didn't have time for that. Piling back in to the elevator they team waited impatiently to reach the bottom of the tower. When they did they all sprinted out of the building and took off down the road where Clint told them he could see Eva taking cover behind a rolled vehicle.

As they approached they saw a woman along with a small army of men firing upon Eva who had her shield up, protecting the car and herself from their bullets. She saw her friends coming and she created a shield for them too so they could make it to her without getting shot.

"Eva are you alright?" Bucky asked as he surveyed her wounds.

"I'm fine Bucky. Really."

"What happened?" Natasha asked concerned.

"I'll explain later, it's Yelena." She told them grimly.

"Ugh that psychotic bitch." Natasha groaned. "Time to take her out."

"You don't need to tell me twice, this bitch is going down." Eva said darkly as she looked up and saw the woman striding towards them, she was wearing all black and carrying a Colt M4A1 with a M203 grenade launcher. "Fuck!" Eva cursed as she dove back down for cover, throwing a shield over them blocking Yelena's attack but she ended up being sent flying in the air and quickly got back up.

Eva pulled out her gun and took out some of the armed men. She didn't want to hurt bystanders with her powers who were fleeing the streets as Yelena fired again at her. She dove under an abandoned car and decided to lure Yelena away from the team and the civilians, Yelena was after her and she wouldn't let the woman hurt her family and lover.

"You can run but you can't hide, Evangeline!" Yelena taunted as she fired at her again, just as Eva ducked down an alley. Yelena frowned as she entered the alleyway and searched for any sight of Eva, when her goggles were shot at and she ducked for cover then before yanking them off and tossing them to the ground. She fired back at Eva who was behind an abandoned picked up truck, as Eva fired back at her with her two Colt Pythons before running out of ammo.

Eva ducked behind the pick-up and planted a small explosive charge before quickly fleeing out of sight and around the corner as Yelena approached. A loud explosion told Eva that her plan had worked and she sprinted back around the corner and jumped on Yelena then, wrapping her arms around the woman's neck tightly. Yelena grabbed her and threw her against the car, she picked up her gun and prepared to fire as Eva blasted her gun with her powers, causing it to misfire and explode in Yelena's face as Eva got away. Yelena looked at her slightly malfunctioned vibranium boned hands before clicking them back into place, and removing a shard of gun from her cheek.

"Stay out of the way! Get out of the way!" Eva shouted quickly as she ran in the open streets instead of where the civilians were. A few people panicked and began to hide in nearby buildings as she ran down to the corner where the team was. When she was almost there she got shot in the right shoulder. She clutched it in pain as she got behind a car, she tried to read Yelena's thoughts as she looked around carefully, but she couldn't seem to tune in to her. Her heart pounding heavily in her chest.

Then she saw Yelena landing on a car in front of her and Eva felt her blood run cold when Bucky dived in front of her and kicked her backwards. He kicked her again as he glanced over at Eva who was bleeding heavily from her gunshot wound. Seeing his partner injured only made him even madder, and he threw punch after punch at Yelena, his metal fist connecting especially hard with her face with a sickening clang. That's when he looked at her carefully and saw that behind the wound on her face wasn't bone but Vibranium. Her eyes sparked blue then and a huge jolt of electricity sent Bucky flying through a nearby window.

Clint and Natasha both attacked Yelena on top of the car, Natasha with a combat knife and Clint using his bow like it was a sword. Together they fought in smooth unison, each feeding off the other's moves. While Natasha had her distracted Clint pulled and arrow from his quiver and stabbed it as hard as he could into her leg until he felt it hit the bone, which seemed harder than average and he wondered if the majority of her skeleton was made up of vibranium, much like Eva's legs. As she screamed out in pain and turned back to Clint he snapped the arrow off in her leg and she let out another yelp before she blasted him with an electrical pulse sending him hurtling to the ground.

Natasha seized the opportunity and stabbed Yelena with her knife, plunging it into her shoulder as deep as she could before her opponent punched her hard across the face sending her rolling of the hood of the car, colliding roughly with the concrete.

Tony came flying in firing his pulsors at Yelena a couple of times before she released a huge electromagnetic pulse from her body rendering Tony's suit useless and he came crashing to the ground.

"You bitch!" Eva yelled. "Those are my friends!" She screamed as her whole body was engulfed in a purple aura and a ginormous ball of energy surged from her body straight for Yelena sending her flying through the air and crashing through the brick wall of a nearby building. Eva followed her and dragging her out of the rubble with a strength she didn't even realise she possessed she threw her back out onto the street.

There she was attacked by Bucky once more with a flying punch to her face with his metal arm. It connected with such force that you could hear the clang of metal on metal. He lay into her once more, punching her as hard as he could until she grabbed him by the throat and began choking him.

"Bucky!" Eva screamed alarmed. "LET HIM GO!" She roared as she released another blast of purple energy straight at Yelena. It blasted her away from Bucky and Eva could feel her whole body glow with energy, she was breathing heavily as she glared at Yelena angrily.
The sky darkened and she focused her energy again, summoning all of her mental strength she sent a purple hex bolt straight at Yelena and it threw her back onto a black SUV.

"YOU TRAITOROUS BITCH!" Yelena screamed enraged and was about to blast her again with her electrical energy, when Bucky and Sam intervened then along with Sharon and Steve.

Sam flew in and kicked her to the ground, while Steve covered Natasha, Clint and Tony who were moving to safety. Bucky glared at Yelena as she pulled out a gun, pointing it at them, only to be blasted with another hex bolt from Eva who was leaning against the car heavily. It sent Yelena flying and she crumpled to the ground.

The sound of sirens blazed in the distance as Eva walked over to where Bucky was, he pulled her into him tightly and they saw soldiers pour out of vehicles aiming guns at them.

"Arrest them!" Thaddeus Ross ordered harshly.

"Steve, what do we do?" Bucky asked worried.

Eva looked back over to where Yelena had landed to find she was gone, she looked around but there was no sign of here. As she saw the soldiers converge on her friends, her family Eva lashed out, she let a huge blast of energy out from her hands, throwing all the soldiers back and knocking them out, including Ross. She started to slump to the ground and Bucky quickly caught her.

"We have to get out of here." Steve told everyone.

"Get back home and get to the quinjet. I'll take us to a safe house, we don't know who we can trust." Clint said grimly.

All hell is breaking loose.