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.

AN: I'm sorry for the delay in updating Divided We Fall, my laptop got ruined after water spilt on it but I have a new one luckily now, and I can update regularly.

Divided We Fall, and Soldiers And Spies will be updated on Saturdays.

Soldiers And Spies

Chapter 25

"I am unsure Mr Barnes. She said she was running an errand." Jarvis said concerned. "But she accessed this security footage before she lef.t" he continued to say as he played back the footage of the woman dropping off the parcel for Eva and Natasha.

"Do we know who she is?" Bucky asked.

"Katrina Vanko." Jarvis told him as he put all the information up on the nearby screen.

"There's a last known address here... I bet she's gone looking for her." Bucky told Jarvis as he grabbed the keys to his motorcycle and headed down to the garage. Whatever this woman had dropped off, it obviously had Eva rattled and that worried him. He'd hoped that by now she wouldn't feel the need to keep anything from him. He knew he had to go after her, he had to make sure she was safe.

Eva pulled up not far from the address Jarvis had shown her. She went the rest of the way on foot, so that she could slip in undetected if need be. It was a strange place for a residential address. It looked more like an old factory, not somewhere one would usually live. Using her training she carefully scouted the area, making sure there were no surveillance cameras nearby. When she was sure she wasn't being watched Eva found a partially open window near a fire escape ladder and made her way up, climbing quietly through and into the old building.

She found Katrina waiting for her and felt her blood boil. There was a TV screen with a DVD playing live footage of Eva on the bench next to her.

She glared at the woman. "What do you want, Katrina?" Eva asked wearily as she regarded the dark haired young woman who smiled at her coldly.

"It's simple Evangeline, I want you to give me Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff along with James Rhodes. They murdered my father, and I will make them pay." Katrina explained calmly.

"Your father was a mad man who hurt and killed innocent people, just so he could get revenge." Eva said calmly as she glanced at the woman while carefully surveying the layout of the building.

"Does your boyfriend know about what your father and Natalia's father did to him when he was woken up from cryosleep?" Katrina taunted as he held up a file and Eva's face darkened.

"He doesn't know yet, as I've only found out today that my father and uncle were the one who created his metal arm." Eva said darkly and Katrina smirked at her.

"Oh look, the Winter Soldier arrives." Katrina said sarcastically as she saw Bucky arrive through the same window that Eva had and he took his place beside her.

"What do you want Katrina?" Bucky asked coldly.

"To tell you the truth, my family were ruined by the Stark and Nikolayev families so I think it's time to avenge my father and grandfather whose lives were ruined!" Katrina declared and glared at them both before pressing a switch.

The TV screen changed and they both saw footage of Bucky lying on the table in what appeared to be a HYDRA facility with two doctors working on his arm.

"Where am I?" Bucky asked confused, his voice tinged with pain.

The two doctors exchanged a remorseful look with each other, Eva immediately recognised the dark haired man with the slightly longer hair as her father, Yuri Nikolayev. The other man had to be Mikhail Nikolayev, Natasha's father.

"Sergeant Barnes, you fell off a train in the Alps. You lost your left arm in the fall." Yuri explained gently while Mikhail put on the cybernetic metal arm. "You have been… asleep for some time now."

Bucky look horrified.

"What year is it?" He asked hoarsely.

"1998." Mikhail informed him and Bucky saw they both wore wedding rings and Star of David necklaces.

"You're married?"

"Yes, my brother and I were married but we lost our wives at the hands of HYDRA. We have two daughters and the last I heard they were together and training to be ballet dancers. They are the reason we are here." Mikhail said fondly as he showed him a photo of a little toddler, Natasha.

Bucky smiled. "She's beautiful, what about you?" Bucky asked quietly and Yuri smiled before showing him the photo of an eleven year old Eva smiling in the photo.

"She's really beautiful, what happened to get you both kidnapped by HYDRA?" Bucky asked quietly.

"They wanted us for scientific purposes, when we refused, they killed our wives and threatened my Eva's life. If the rumours are true, our little girls have been taken from the orphanage where they were safe to become pawns of the Red Room program." Yuri said bitterly and looked at him.

"What do they want with me?" Bucky asked.

"I am sorry, HYDRA plans to use you as their top assassin." Mikhail said sadly and Bucky said nothing.

"Did we beat Hitler at least?" He asked finally and the two brothers smirked before nodding.

"Hitler committed suicide along with his whore, some of his top men were hanged at the trials while some went on the run. I'm hoping Josef Mengele died in agony like the bastard he is." Yuri said viciously.

"The mad doctor?" Bucky asked quietly.

"The Angel of Death, that animal murdered hundreds of people. My beloved Marina went through hell because of him. May he rot in hell for the crimes he committed, I only pray to god that my daughter and niece never see evil like him." Yuri said savagely and suffered a coughing fit as Mikhail sat him down when a dark haired entered.

Eva tensed.

"Lukin." She spat disgusted as the footage ended there.

"Wait... you know Lukin?" Bucky asked Eva.

"He was affiliated with the Red Room." Eva replied. "How do you know him?"

"He was my handler for a while." Bucky growled.

"Makes sense." Eva said. "After all HYDRA was always working with the Red Room, we know that now."

"Eva... did you... did you know your father and uncle were responsible for this?" He asked, holding up his metal arm, looking slightly confused and angry.

"James, I swear I had no idea. My father and Uncle were supposedly dead. I had no idea that they had worked on you, not until Katrina showed me the footage." she swore. Bucky believed her, he knew that she would never lie to him. The pair turned their attention back to Katrina.

"What do you want from us?" Bucky ground out through gritted teeth. "If you are trying to tear us apart, drive a wedge between us I can tell you now it's not going to work! Eva and I will always be together no matter what. So what if her family helped create The Winter Soldier. They were forced into it, just like I was. I know they had no choice, and they had to protect Eva and Natasha, otherwise they never would have gone through with it!"

"It's cute that you think that's all I'm trying to do. No... I have much bigger plans in store for you two!" Katrina laughed maniacally before setting off some sort of smoke grenade as she disappeared through the mist, leaving Bucky and Eva to wonder what they hell they had just gotten themselves into.

"C'mon let's get out of here." Bucky said quietly as he took Eva's hand, he noticed that she didn't look like herself, dark rings were under her eyes and she looked like she was losing weight. Worry burned through him, Eva hadn't said a word as they walked through the building toward the exit when he suddenly smelt petrol.

"Get down!" He shouted quickly and pushed Eva underneath him as a fire ripped through the building, blowing up half of the warehouse and causing the ground to shake. When it was clear, Bucky saw that Eva had put them under her energy shield to stop them from getting hurt as they stood up and made their way to the door Eva found another letter taped to the handle.

'Dear Evangeline.

Does your fiancée know that one of the HYDRA trained soldiers, Josef, who sexually assaulted you were just fifteen years old?'

Eva swallowed back bile and was about to burn it, when Bucky saw what she was holding and read it himself, she watched worriedly as his face darkened with rage and hatred.

For the first time since falling in love with James...Eva felt frightened, but not of him but for him.

"Come on." He said finally and took her hand as they left to go to the tower and inform the others of what was going on.

Since Katrina's appearance, the rest of the team noticed that there was a very thick tension between the couple. Natasha finally decided to stage an intervention along with Steve and the others when they saw Bucky and Eva shouting at each other after a team training session.

The shouting match had gotten ugly, with Bucky yelling that he didn't keep secrets and Eva finally bursting into tears and sobbing that she was sorry and fled the room. Bucky left shortly after to take his frustrations out on a punching bag.

In the living room, the girls had come to look over wedding magazines and venues. Natasha, Pepper, Sharon and Maria and with Sam's new girlfriend, Tessa from the dance, were all crowded around the table when Eva entered with the flowers that Natasha liked and began showing the arrangement to her.

"Alright Eva, what's going on between you and Bucky?" Natasha asked gently but with a serious kind of tone. Eva didn't speak for a moment and she sniffled a little before speaking.

"I don't know, ever since Bucky saw that footage of my father and your father giving him the metal arm and finding out I knew Lukin and that Josef...raped me, he's been distant. He won't hold me, touch me or kiss me, and when I try to touch him, he pushes me away." Eva said brokenly and tears streamed down her face before she wiped her eyes.

Natasha, Sharon, Pepper and Tessa exchanged sad and shocked expressions as they listened to Eva.

"Do you still love him?" Tessa asked gently and Eva nodded, tears swimming down her face lightly and it occurred to all of them how tired Eva looked.

"I love him so much, I tried to talk to him but he ignored me and then said I kept secrets. I didn't tell James, because I was terrified he would go looking for Josef and end up getting hurt." Eva sobbed and sniffled.

She then took two tablets and drank them down with a large glass of whiskey. "I've lost him, I've lost James." she sobbed, and the women exchanged worried looks.

Bucky wiped the sweat off his forehead as he yanked off the boxing gloves and drank from his bottle of water as he thought of Eva and how distant he was from her.

He felt awful for shouting at her, he knew she was having nightmares and that he hadn't touched her since Katrina had showed them the video of Eva being raped by Josef, the elite member of HYDRA's death squad.

That bastard had raped Eva, even though she had only been a fifteen year old young girl, that man had raped her and scarred her emotionally for life.

Bucky and Eva hadn't slept together since the 1940s dance, it was now four weeks and he was worried about her, her nightmares had been taking their toll on her and she was losing weight. He always heard her crying at night and all he wanted was to comfort her, but his guilt was holding him back. He bit his lip in frustration, just as the door opened and he saw Clint and Steve approach.

"Barnes, we need to talk to you." Clint said firmly but not unkindly.

"I don't wanna talk." Bucky replied somewhat angrily as he continued to strike at the punching bag again.

"Well then, you're gonna listen" Steve told him firmly. "We know that something is going on with you and Eva. We know that things haven't been the same ever since you're run in with Katrina. We want to help you Buck. But we can't do that if you won't let us."

"The only thing that will help is to kill the son of a bitch who..." He trailed off, realising what he was about to divulge.

"Who what Buck? Who are you talking about?" Steve pressed. Bucky breathed a deep sigh as he hit the bag once more, as hard as he could as he let out a growl.

"C'mon man, talk to us." Clint pleaded. "We hate seeing you guys like this."

"He raped her!" Bucky growled angrily as he slumped down to sit on the floor with his head in his hands looking rather defeated.

"Eva?" Steve questioned. "Somebody raped Eva!?"

"In the Red Room, she was only fifteen." Bucky told his friends, the anger and pain clear in his voice.

"And you only just found out about this?" Clint asked. "Sounds like you know the guy?"

"Katrina very kindly showed me video footage, care of Lukin... that bastard. Seems they are working together on whatever they have planned."

"Lukin... you've told me about him, he was your handler right? Did he do this to Eva?" Steve asked, a hint of anger in his tone.

"No... It's worse than that." Bucky sighed, a tear rolling down his cheek.

"Who was it buddy?" Clint asked gently.

"His name is Josef... and I trained him for HYDRA." Bucky sobbed. "I trained that sick bastard... and he raped a young girl... a girl who would grow into the woman that I now love!" He said helplessly.

"Shit." Clint sighed. "Bucky you know that this isn't your fault right?"

"I trained him... I cleared him for field operations. I might as well have set him on her myself!"

"C'mon Buck... you know that's not true. Winter Soldier or not, you are a good man. If you knew anything about it you never would have let him do anything like that. I know you, I know the kind of man you are." Steve tried to reassure him.

"I don't know what to do guys. I can't touch her... I can barely look at her without all this guilt and anger burning inside of me."

"You guys need to talk it over. Clear the air. I know that you're mad that she didn't tell you about what happened to her, but honestly it's probably really hard for her to talk about. I know that the Red Room days were the worst days of Natasha's life, and I'm still finding out about more things that went on there. I'm sure that in time she would have told you, Katrina just forced her hand. I don't think she would intentionally keep things from you." Clint told Bucky.

"Clint's right." Steve agreed. "Eva was so young when she was recruited, she probably needs to process things in her mind before she can get them out in the open you know."

"She can trust me... she knows that." Bucky said quietly.

"And she does trust you Buck. More than anyone. Just talk to her, keeping this bottled up isn't gonna help. And not telling her about Josef might only make things worse." Steve told him.

"Yeah, you're right." He replied, wiping the tears from his face. It wasn't often he showed his vulnerable side. But Steve and Clint were his two closest friends, and Eva was the love of his life. It was hard not to wear his heart on his sleeve when it came to her. "I'm gonna go find Eva." He said as he got up from the floor. "I might shower first." He said as he realized how sweaty he was.

"Good call bud." Clint said as he gave him a clap on the back.

"Were always here for you Bucky." Steve said as he gave his friend a quick hug.

"Thanks guys." Bucky smiled as he turned to leave the room.

After showering and having something to eat, Eva was trying to get some rest although she was absolutely terrified of going to sleep because of her nightmares. She closed her eyes and curled up under the bedsheets, burying her face into the pillows, she was holding tightly onto Bucky's red henley shirt and it still smelt of him.

"Please come back to me, James." She whispered sadly and tried her best to get some much needed sleep.

Eva walked around cautiously as she realised that she was in her childhood home in the city of Saint Petersburg and almost relaxed at the familiar surroundings, until she heard a voice that made her blood run cold.

"Hello zhena." A male voice said calmly with a Russian accent, Eva quickly turned around and screamed when she realised it was Josef and he was looking at her with that menacing stare.

"Stay away from me!" Eva said firmly and backed away from him. As she ran upstairs away from him, he laughed and chased after her. Eva kept on running down the hallway and began calling out for Bucky and the others.

"No one is going to save you, Evangeline! You're all alone and no one will miss you or mourn your death, you little Jewish bitch!" Josef said snidely and Eva kept on running faster. She finally jumped out of the back window of the house and raced into an abandoned Costco, no one was around and she found a radio, she shakily tried to speak through it.

"Murderer! Killer! Shame on the family!" A voice screamed enraged and Eva dropped it quickly and she ran and hid in the camping department, her heart pounding in her chest. Then she saw someone up ahead. Was that James?

"James?" Eva whispered quietly but hopefully when she recognised his clothes, she quickly raced over to him as she saw to her horror, it was Josef in Bucky's uniform.

"Sorry Evangeline, your Winter Soldier isn't going to save you this time! You belong with me!" Josef said smugly as he pulled out a knife and Eva screamed.

She was pushed through a tunnel and found the body of dead blonde haired women who looked like her. When she realised who it was she screamed at the sight of her friend Malia and tried to escape from the tunnel when Josef grabbed her and pulled her out before backhanding her. He threw her in a marsh, and began to bury her alive.

"Goodbye Evangeline."

Bucky heard the terrified cries and sobbing in the middle of the night and ran for their room. He saw Natasha on the way, she must have heard the screams too, but when they reached the room they found it empty.

"Jarvis, where did Eva go?" Bucky asked quickly,

"Miss Nikolayev is in the living room, she is drinking whisky and appears deeply distressed. I fear this may have gotten worse when a package arrived for her. Her vitals are erratic. I fear she may try to hurt herself due to her distress." Jarvis said concerned.

Bucky felt his blood run cold and saw Natasha look frightened, they ran upstairs to the living room to find Eva sitting on the sofa, looking at a box that was wrapped up in a pink ribbon.

"Eva?" Bucky asked quietly and Eva didn't respond, now he was near her, he saw how the nightmares and his distance from her had taken their toll on her. She looked thin and frail, like she hadn't eaten or slept properly in weeks.

She opened the parcel and the blood drained from her face, Bucky quickly took it from her and saw it was a letter addressed to Eva and it was threatening.

'Dear 'Evangeline,

I'm watching you, I know your routine and I know that you hate horror films, so behave yourself and be a good girl otherwise I WILL FIND YOU AND PUNISH YOU, ZHENA!'

Your husband, the Ghost.'

Eva tried not to show it, she really did try but if Josef was watching her, then he knew her routine like in the letter and he knew she was dating Bucky.

"Eva it's going to be alright, we won't let him hurt you." Natasha said comfortingly and Eva said nothing in reply, she couldn't as tears began swimming down her face silently. She had been scared that Josef would find her, and he had. Josef had found her and was now stalking her in New York.

"You go back to bed, I'll stay with Eva." Bucky said quietly to Natasha and she nodded before hugging Eva and Eva hugged her back as Bucky sat down next to her silently, although he didn't touch her at all.

"None of us are going to let him hurt you, Eva." Bucky said finally and Eva said nothing for a while and she swallowed.

"You sure about that? Once Josef wants something, he gets it no matter how many people he hurts in the process." Eva said grimly and she wiped her eyes before turning to face him. "I know you hate me."

"Oh my love... I could never hate you." Bucky whispered as he wiped the tears from her face. "Never." He repeated.

"But you barely talk to me, and you never touch me anymore." Eva sobbed.

"I'm so sorry sweetheart. I've been pushing you away, because the guilt was just too much to bear. It burned me up inside every time I would look at you and touch you. But I know now that I should never have put that distance between us. It only made things worse." Bucky told her. "Look at you, I can see in your eyes that you are terrified. I'm so sorry I haven't been there for you my love. I was so wrapped up in my guilt and anger that I didn't stop to think about how all of this was affecting you."

"Guilt?" Eva questioned, looking confused. "What could you possibly have to feel guilty about? I'm the one that kept things from you, I'm the one who didn't tell you about what happened with Josef."

"I have something I need to tell you." Bucky sighed. "It's the reason why I have been avoiding you. I'm not mad at you for not telling me about Josef anymore, I understand now why you kept it to yourself. You needed time to process it before you could share it with me, but know that when you are ready to talk about it, I am here for you my love." He said with pain and guilt written on his face.

"What is it James?" She asked, taking in his expression.

"I know Josef..." Bucky admitted.

"You know him?"

"Yes. And please darling, believe me when I say that I had no idea what he did to you. No idea at all. Had I have known... Well let's say he would not be around anymore." Bucky told her.

"How do you know him? Is it because he was HYDRA? Why has it got you feeling this way James?"

"I trained him Eva... I trained Josef, for HYDRA." he sighed deeply as tears began to slip from his eyes. "I am so sorry. If it wasn't for me, none of this would have ever happened to you." He cried. "Please forgive me."

"Oh James... it's not your fault. Not at all. Josef is a monster. And I know that everything you did for HYDRA, you did under their control. You were not yourself." Eva tried to reassure him.

"I took that monster and I trained him to be an elite killing machine. I will never forgive myself for that. Not for what he did to you."

"You never forced him to do it. He did it of his own free will, because that is the kind of bastard he is. You are a good man James. I know that you have done things that you are not proud of. We all have. But that wasn't you... not really. I know that the man I love would never let anyone hurt me." Eva whispered.

"I promise you baby, no one will hurt you again. Especially Josef. I will kill that son of a bitch before he gets anywhere near you. I promise you that." Bucky cried as he pulled Eva into a tight hug, the both of them crying silently into one another.

After a few minutes when they had both calmed down again Bucky pulled back to look at her. "My love you look exhausted." He said as he brushed a piece of hair from her face.

"I can't sleep. These nightmares... they are haunting me." She cried.

"I'm sorry darling. Come to bed with me. I will hold you tight and keep you safe. I promise you everything will be ok." Bucky said as he led her back to their bedroom. They had not shared their bed since this whole mess began. They lay down together and got comfortable, Bucky wrapped his strong arms around her so that she would feel safe. "I missed you so much." He sighed as the smell of her skin flooded his senses.

"I missed you too James."

"Get some sleep my love. I'll be right here, you're safe with me. I promise... I'm not going anywhere."

AN: Enjoy and review :)