Chapter 47

Steve couldn't really comprehend what just happened. They were brought to Berlin with a police escort and Bucky was downstairs in a maxium security cell and waiting for his evaluation. He and Natasha were brought to a glass office with the friendly advice to not leave it. He had to hand over his shield and Nat had to give them her weapons.

He was pacing around the glass cube while Natasha was observing their environment. What would happen now to Bucky? Was Nat in the trouble because she was with them when they got caught? He had really no idea what he was supposed to do. All he knew was that HYDRA couldn't get their hands on Bucky. At least the list was hidden and not with them.

"Steve." Natasha looked at him and nodded at the chair next to her. "Come sit down."

He did and she laced their fingers together under the table. "We can't break him out." She whispered to him.

He had been thinking about that but that would probably make things worse for Bucky. "I know."

Sharon walked into the room before he could ask Nat if she had a plan because he couldn't come up with one. "Here are your receipts for your gear."

He smiled at her briefly. Natasha told him about Sharon's attempts to keep the CIA off their backs. "Thank you."

She nodded and Nat asked her if there were any news regarding Bucky. "His evaluation is in an hour. The specialist has to come from London."

"And what happens then?"

Sharon grimaced slightly. "He's gonna stay at the Raft until they put him on trial."

He felt his anger rising. "He didn't do it!"

Natasha placed her hand on his shoulder. "Steve, it's okay. The President might pardon him if it gets to a trial. Remember our goal? We have to keep working to get there."

Right, bringing down HYDRA. With HYDRA gone, Bucky would hopefully get free. Sharon seemed confused and Nat just shook her head.

Agents moved through the area and suddenly Tony was in front of their class cube. Ross didn't look very keen that he was here.

Tony walked by past the agents and stepped into their glass cube. Ross was right behind him. "What are you doing here, Stark?"

Tony sat down on the conference table. "I was in South France looking for a vineyard when I got the news that Rogers showed up and he and Romanoff were brought to Berlin." He smiled at Ross. "You ever been to the Branglina vineyard? I'm thinking about buying it since they are now over." Tony looked around the room. "What does one have to do to get a coffee around here?"

Ross rolled his eyes and left but not before ordering Sharon to follow him. Tony waved them goodbye and then pressed something on his watch. "Okay if there are ears listening, they can't anymore. Tell Uncle Tony what happened."

"We got caught, they're gonna throw Bucky into the Raft if HYDRA doesn't get him before that." Steve sighed. "We're fucked."

Tony's eyes widened. "Jesus, aren't you a joy to be around with right now. I talked to President Ellis, he's willing to let Bucky get transfered to Rykers so he can stay in contact with his lawyers. It doesn't look good if the President treats a brainwashed WWII hero as a war criminal. I threatened to release the true idenitiy of the Winter Soldier."

Nat gave him a proud grin. "Looks like you took a page out of my book."

Tony scoffed. "I can be menacing on my own. Thank you very much!" Tony's face darkened. "I had a call from Malick. He says that now that Bucky is captured he hopes that he can get the help he needs to heal."

Malick was probably waiting for the right moment to grab Bucky. Steve didn't think that he would let Bucky sit for the next months in a prison cell when he could use the Winter Soldier to bring down his enemies.

"What about the list?" Tony asked.

"It's safe. It's still at the quinjet in Vienna."

Tony nodded and said that he would send Rhodey to retrieve it. A few minutes later Tony told them that the CIA could now be listening again. How many HYDRA members would be within the CIA? Was Ross HYDRA? He didn't think that Sharon was HYDRA, she couldn't be. She was Peggy's relative.

Sharon walked in and leaned agains the glass wall. "I was told to watch over you. Dr. Sunil Bakshi is now here to talk to your friend. Ross got a call from Ellis that Barnes' next stop would be Rykers and not the Raft." She chucked. "Ross is pretty pissed about that."

There was a screen at the top of the corner of the room they were in and he could see how a man sat down at a desk in front of Bucky. Steve saw out of the corner of his eye that Sharon moved towards the conference table and they suddenly could hear the audio.

Dr. Bakshi introduced himself and asked Bucky if he wanted to be called James or Bucky. He asked him a few standard questions and was about to stark question him about DC when the power suddenly went out.

"This can't be a coincidence." Natasha said and he had to agree. Something was going on. Natasha turned to Tony. "You got a suit here?"

"You mean besides the dashing Tom Ford one I'm wearing? No."

Sharon told them where Bucky was kept and he and Nat ran off to get there. Whatever HYDRA had planned it would happen now. Bucky's containment cell was open but he and the doctor were nowhere to be seen. Nat was the first one in the room and he heard her scream and watched Bucky threw her against the cell.

Fuck! Bucky would never hurt Natasha, he had to be triggered.

He couldn't check on Nat because Bucky attacked him and he did his best to dodge his attacks. He walked back the entire hallway while blocking Bucky's hits but then Buck managed to kick him down an elevator shaft. Thankfully he only fell a few meters down.

"Steve!" Nat's head appeared seconds later. "Are you okay?"

He shrugged his leather jacket off . "Yes. Are you?"

She nodded. "I'm going after Bucky."

"Be careful." He yelled after her and then started to climb his way up. The power came back on and he passed by agents who were unconscious on the ground. He heard crashes and ran towards what looked like a giant break room. Tony was looking lost in a chair and Sharon was knocked out on a broken table. He scanned the room and saw that Bucky was strangling Nat who was laying on a table with his metal arm. She had her feet on Bucky's shoulders trying to push him off but he didn't move an inch. Steve felt his blood boiling and only saw red.

"You could at least recognize me." Natasha choked out.

Steve ran to them and tackled Bucky to the ground. "Stay the hell away from her!" He knew Bucky wasn't himself but he would never let anyone hurt his Natasha. He pressed Bucky with his weight to the ground and punched him in the face. Rage was running through his veins, no one would hurt Natasha and get away with it!

"Steve! Stop!" Nat begged and tried to pull him of Bucky. "Stop it! You're killing him!"

Her voice broke him out of his anger trance and he looked down at Bucky whose whole face was covered in blood. Oh god what had he done? He could see in Bucky's eyes that he was trying to fight off the Winter Soldier.

"Bucky?" He whispered. "Bucky, I'm sorry."

"Soldat!" Bakshi yelled from upstairs. "It's time to go!"

The Winter Solider won the fight in Bucky's mind and he threw Steve off of him. Bucky ran upstairs to Bakshi who was without a doubt HYDRA and Nat ran after them but Bakshi suddenly fired a shot and she jumped out of the way. Steve ran to her side and checked her for wounds. Her left arm got gazed and her throat had Bucky's fingerprints on it. He felt sick to his stomach.

"Go." She groaned. "I'm fine. Don't let them escape!"

He kissed her temple and saw when he sprinted up the stairs that Tony was checking Nat's arm. The metal door was locked but Steve threw himself with all his strength against it and it fell to the ground. A helicopter was just taking off and he raced towards it and jumped off but he missed it by a few inches. He could only watch how the helicopter with Bucky on board disappeared.

He wanted to vomit. Who knew what HYDRA would make Bucky do. No one was safe. The Winter Soldier was extremely dangerous.

Natasha was out of her leather jacket when he came back and Tony was pressing a bandage on her wound. She gave Stark a small smile but Steve could see that she was shaking. She saw him and smiled sadly when she noticed that he was alone. He ran down the stairs to get to her and crashed his lips on hers. She made a surprised sound but kissed him back. He was careful to not touch her neck or left arm.

"Um, I'm gonna... stand somewhere else." He heard Tony awkwardly say.

He couldn't stop kissing her. He needed her so much. He didn't care that they were in a CIA building and were watched. He licked over the seam of her lips and she opened them and he sucked on her tongue. He wanted to be alone with her. Back in their apartment in Brooklyn, wrapped around her and when he would wake up eveything would be okay. Bucky would be waiting for them in the kitchen and had already made breakfast and they would eat it together and Bucky would tell Nat an embarrassing story about Steve and she would laugh and kiss the pout of his face.

"Steve" She pulled back and stroked her thumb over his cheek. He closed his eyes at her tenderness. "We have to find him."

He nodded. "I love you."

"I love you." She whispered back.