"So, I was watching through some of the details of that interview, and while we were not able to find a lot of new information, it doesn't seem like he knows a lot," Jyn remarked, fiddling with her hands.

"If he did know anything he certainly played it very close to his chest, Designation (Former): Captain America I mean." Dacia sighed.

"It's possible that he didn't want to let anyone in on what he found. Certainly not someone that he didn't feel as if he could trust." Cassian dryly remarked.

"He was only helping the guy try to find his murderous best friend. So what reason is there for the guy not to share everything he knew for definite?" Jyn snorted.

"No, but if you think about it this way. Designation: Falcon only helped the guy trash part of the Potomac River, he didn't help him in New York or go on any S.H.I.E.L.D missions together. It wouldn't lead to a lot of trust built up between the two. But Cassian did you see any indication that the guy may have known more than he was letting on?" Dacia asked the man frowning.

"No, it does confirm a sneaking suspicion we had that the guy had gotten himself involved in something a lot bigger than he suspected at first. If Designation: Falcon recognised this, he possibly wasn't able to back out. I'm not even sure if he knew what he was getting himself in for, Jyn you are the only one of us with a background in psychology what do you think?" Cassian deflected.

"No, watching the video while you guys were in there. I didn't see any of the standard telltale signs that the man might be trying to hide something. It's like you said Cassian it's likely that the man didn't have the whole picture. Why should he, after all, be told everything that his friend knew?" Jyn frowned.

"So, it looks as if the guy knew that he was going in for the long haul so to speak. If he spotted something going on that was wrong, he might have felt as if he was too far gone to raise questions or sound the alarm." Dacia tried to sum up.

"Exactly, I don't imagine that he was ready to step back. What I'm struggling with understanding though is that the guy persisted in following the guy. Surely, you would have to know at some point that you weren't being told everything." Cassian interjected.

"Never the less he persisted right?" Jyn whispered.

"You have mangled the phrase but yes. It might have been a kind of sense of pride that kept the man from stubbornly accepting that he had stepped into something that he couldn't quite believe or understand." Dacia allowed, nodding her acquiescence.

"Thank you. Jyn were you able to get any further work down while we were in there?" Cassian randomly thanked the woman before pressing Jyn for more reports on what she had done while the others were engaged in the interview of Designation: Falcon.

"Yeah, I was able to reach out to some of the people in MI6 to see if they had anything we could follow on where Designation: Black Widow might be hiding. Unfortunately, though the intelligence apparatus was gutted when Blofeld and C managed to get their claws in. A lot of the previous intelligence agency had to be gutted to check for moles, double, sometimes even triple agents. So I would be slow to trust anything just yet, I was only able to find this out by digging around. We don't want to point out that it's possible to get so close to their base of operations. Might spook them!" Jyn ended with a laugh.

"But they are aware that we have made contact with them now, yeah?"

"Yes, I have a bit of connection with them, mainly with a young guy who goes by the moniker Q, I'm not sure why they seem so fond of calling each other by letters rather names, but to each their own I assume!" Jyn laughed.

"Okay, but we need to get back to the most important part, have they found any trace of Designation: Black Widow, you know we have to find her right?" Cassian reminded Jyn.

"Thank you, Cassian, always proving to be the most straightforward guy. He was able to tip me off that they knew where she was certainly some months ago. But he was able to tell me that they, of course, have some feelers out on where the woman could be. So, for right now? It's been a bit of a bust being able to talk to the people. I'm hopeful that we may be able to find something more if we continue to work with them?" Jyn retorted smartly at the man.

"Do they want anything from us though?" Dacia asked quietly, not sure that she would like the answer she was about to get.

"That's one of the benefits of being small players in this hideous game, at least in this Universe, nobody knows who we are. Not yet, anyway. For now though? I'm playing it cool and making sure that they get no idea of what we can do. At least not until Ms Potts or Ms Hill can get back to us on some of what they want us to extract from this. Until we know, all balls are up in the air so to speak." Jyn reflected.

"That's good; we need to keep hidden until it's time for us to come out into the open once again. Did you write any emails to Potts or Hill while we were in there?" Dacia nodded, her strategic mind working in overtime as she thought through some of the things that she was likely to have to do.

"Yes, I've forwarded a copy of the email to you guys, it should be on your tablets about now." Jyn flicked the screen of her tablet.

Leaning back and looking over at the two others as they reached for their tablets, intent on getting answers, for questions that had long since plagued them. Jyn bit her lip as she thought through some of the things that she felt nervous about her friends reading. Recognising that she shouldn't feel nervous about even a little bit nervous, it wasn't her diary that they were reading.

Dacia glanced up briefly at Jyn before switching all of her attention back to the tablet screen in front of.

TO: Ms Hill and Ms Potts and Vision, The

FROM: Jyn Erso

CC: Lewis. D, Andor. C

Hello, my name is Jyn Erso, and I am one of Lewis' associates. We have performed the interviews of Designation: Ant-Man, Designation: Hawkeye, Designation: Scarlet Witch and now Designation: Falcon. As you can see I have included the transcripts and video files in the attachments to this email. For your consideration I would like to draw your attention to the lack of guilt felt by Designation: Scarlet Witch, she still likes to labour under the mistaken belief that Dr Stark is completely evil.

It's my experience that people are rarely completely evil or good. As I'm sure many will share this belief with you, everybody has a streak of evil in them, just as everybody also has a small amount of good. Even if the good is buried deep inside under a whole mess of shit.

I've been going through some of the files that were leaked by Designation: Black Widow and they indicated that Designation: Hawkeye may have a family. Could I inquire if this is true and if the said family has been moved to protect them? I cannot believe that children inherit the sins of their parents, in this case, father, and I could not rest easy if the man's family were hurt in the crossfire of this whole mess.

I have been able to read some of the emails and memos that indicate the behind-the-scenes affairs of the State Department. It seems as if Secretary Ross may have gotten to his current position by blackmail. The Previous Secretary of State was Dr Elizabeth McCord; she has been hounded out of the State Department by General Ross and his flunkies. Some of her previous decisions while still in the job hint that how the Sokovian Accords might have been presented to the Avengers would have been drastically different, relatively peaceful. Ross, by contrast, was one for shock and awe tactics, perhaps not having become accustomed to his new position.

I have also been able to make contact with some of those at MI6, for the time being, the agency or ministry is undergoing a significant amount of changes, especially after Blofeld and Spectre. Have you noticed that the logo for Spectre and everyone's favourite squid-based terrorist organisation is remarkably similar? Can we confirm whether there is a link there beyond the typical 'The Enemy Of Enemy Is My Friend'? Do we need to keep an eye out for their attacks on us? I feel I do not have to remind you that thus far we have been able to skate by unnoticed and I would like it to remain that way.

Certainly, it should come as no surprise to you, that we may be able to get more of our objectives attained that if we have to worry about people being ready for us. I hate to press the question, but no one will find out about us until we are ready right? Dacia has informed of some of our early demands for working with you, and while thus far it is working out, I would hate for us to have to wash our hands of our association with you.

Allow me to get back to the MI6 thing, but it seems as if the agency has a good idea on the whereabouts of Designation: Black Widow. Or at least they have seen the type of place that the woman seems to enjoy haunting. If I can even use the adjective haunting because we seem to have been able to narrow down the woman's general location. Even if that general location at the moment is disturbingly large. I hope that we will be able to find the woman shortly.

I am writing to you primarily because we are about to head into the interrogations interviews with Designation: Winter Soldier and Designation (Former): Captain America and would like to know if you want any particular questions asked and (hopefully) answered? Let us know if we have missed anything, as always!

Signed

Jyn Erso

"That's a good email, and hopefully it gets our point across," Dacia told the woman when she had read the email in full.

"Yeah, it's good, can we expect to get any answers from this email. You know that they have been slow to respond in the past." Cassian warned.

Jyn nodded, having expected this type of resistance from the pair. Thinking about what she wanted to say next, not wanting to speak out of turn, she opened her mouth;

"At this point, they should answer, in any case, I attached the videos and transcripts from our previous interviews. So while I do not anticipate a response right away, I do hope that we will get one. But that wasn't all I notice while you guys were busy." Jyn replied crossing in fingers in imitation of one of this bizarre Universe's good symbols.

As far as Jyn was concerned the whole thing was slightly bizarre, she was firm of the opinion that a person could make their luck. Glancing at her friends, she felt comfortable in being able to guess that they felt similarly. Jyn could acknowledge that a small amount of luck had maybe been involved in her successes escaping some of the traps that the Empire had set for her. She had concluded that her father had possibly missed so much that her father had missed her so much that Tarkin would taunt her father with the knowledge that his daughter had been captured. It stood to reason that Tarkin might want to complete his set of the Erso family, after all, he had had the matriarch of the family executed and the patriarch firmly under his thumb. Why he wouldn't want to exterminate the daughter (at the very least for being a thorn in his side for so long) or at a minimum to ensure that he had something to keep that idiot Galen in line?

Trying to make sense of the man's motivations could only serve to keep her awake at nights, while her mind churned through some of the possible motivations that Tarkin had once held. It didn't matter to her that the guy was now dead, or that they were no longer in the same Universe (maybe it was Galaxy, Jyn could get confused at times) but Jyn would confess that she felt as if she wanted to understand what happened. Had her life thus far served any purpose? Or was she simply running because some guys felt as if they were bored and wanted nothing more than to stir up hardship, trouble and strife? Jyn wasn't completely sure what thought had terrified her more, kept her up at night when she tried to parse some meaning to the motivations of unmet met.

"Okay, so are have we got any questions to ask Designation: Winter Soldier before we head in?" Cassian calmly asked.

"Well they haven't replied yet to the email, but I still feel as if we should be careful with the possibility of shaking the man up a bit too much. We already know that we will need to tread carefully, we can't be sure what the man knows. Or even what state his mind will be in, so I would like to be the one interviewing him." Jyn told the two, not requesting that she was allowed.

"Yeah I thought would be better if you interviewed the man Jyn, who do you want to provide the security and loom in the background of the room?" Dacia thoughtfully replied.

"For now, I think it's best if Dacia comes in with me. Cassian's general bulk and body language might freak the man too much. If you watch us closely over the VT monitors, but I imagine that if the guy begins to freak out too much then at least between Dacia and myself, we should be within the hope of being able to contain the guy." Jyn apologised to Cassian with a bit of a shrug.

"That's fine, just keep an eye on his body language, we don't want to run into trouble before we are ready to handle anything." Cassian shrugged off the woman's apology.

"Okay, while we are over here can you make sure that everything goes according to plan?" Dacia told the man before asking "Jyn do you have anything that you need Cassian to do while we are otherwise engaged?"

"Yeah, can you keep an eye on the worms that I have out, I'm hoping that at some point something might bite? Or at the very least I want to know as quickly as possible if the MI6 ones can tell us anything." Jyn told the man, incredibly matter of factly.

"Yeah, I will keep an eye on that while I keep an eye on the VT equipment of course. If I keep doing it soon, I won't have any eyes to spare!" Cassian laughed as he waved the two women off with a smile.

WHOOSH

Dacia made her way from the room, awkwardly rubbing her arms, momentarily waiting for Jyn to catch up with her. Jyn took in a deep breath and cast an inquisitive glance over at the woman. Allowing her steps to slow down so the two of them could walk side by side, Jyn wanted to make her way through the silver coloured corridors at an even pace.

"I am not even sure how much good we will be able to obtain any usable intel from the guy." Jyn sighed to her friend.

"Right, but of course as always it is worth asking questions. At the very least we will be able to find out how much the guy's mind is present." Dacia tried to speak chirpily.

"Always willing to try anything huh? Typical Jedi!" Jyn laughed shortly.

"That's me, Jedi scum!" Dacia laughed before her tone hardening "That doesn't bother you that I always feel the need to learn as much as I can? I mean you know why I learn as much as I can?"

"No, it's got us out of sticky situations in the past. It can get slightly irritating; when you freeze up we are about to do anything, especially when a thought a thought suddenly occurs to you! But no I don't mind it, I know what you can get like when you are faced with a new problem that hadn't occurred to you yet!" Jyn waved the woman off, laughing.

The two women abruptly silenced themselves when they reached the door to the prison cells. Stopping in their path, they both turned to face one another and nodded aware of what they would both have to do. As one they both pulled up their hoods, not sure if there was any reason beyond nostalgia that was forcing them both to keep their hoods up. Whether or not they choose to keep their hoods down, they were both aware that it was too much of a habit for them to keep said hoods up.

Swiping their hand over the large button that would allow them into the cells beyond, the two nodded at one another and made their way into the room. Jyn made her way to the central computer and busied herself pressing the buttons, while Dacia got herself into position. Peering across the room at her Jedi friend, Jyn found herself wondering not for the first time how exactly she had gotten herself into this mess. In any case, it wouldn't be the last time she pondered the question and the motive behind the decisions that led to her being in this mess.

Waiting patiently for the nod telling her that it was time for her to begin swinging into action. When she received her nod, Jyn refocused her attention on the keyboard in front of her and typed in the few commands to make sure that the doors should remain tightly locked. There was no point in them having to deal with any other distractions when they were removing Designation: Winter Soldier from his cell.

Allowing the sound of the click to echo around the room, Jyn briefly glanced in the other cells, wondering in any of them were about to react. Feeling a small amount of disappointment when it simply looked as if Designation: Designation: Ant-Man rolled onto his side away from the door. Watching the reaction of Designation: Scarlet Witch was interesting, checking the feed from her cell it looked as if she was attempting to snarl and call upon the powers which had been ripped away from her. Casting her eyes over the woman's vital signs, Jyn sucked in her bottom lip with disappointment and resignation flooding through her when she realised that it looked as if the woman was attempting to call on her powers again. She would have to remember to tell Cassian that his security measures were working.

Dacia meanwhile was focused on the task that she was intent on carrying out. Sidestepping to the tablet affixed to the wall beside the entrance to Designation: Winter Soldier's cell. When she heard the click of the doors that led to the other doors, she pressed the feature on the screen in front of her that she knew would allow her into the room ahead. It was time for her to collect Designation: Winter Soldier and bring him out to his interview. There were some questions that the man may be able to answer.

When she had made her way into the cell, Dacia tentatively smiles at the guy who looks back at her with curiosity and resignation mingling clear in his gaze. Knowing the drill clearly by now, through watching the other prisoners and knowing what he was likely to go through the same motions he quietly turned for Dacia to lock his wrist to Dacia's left wrist.

Taking the man from the cell, Dacia placed a hand on his remaining elbow and guided the man towards leaving the cell block. Ignoring the rest of the prisoners beginning to shout, or more rather it was Designation (Former): Captain America who choose to make his disapproval of the situation known. Glancing over at Jyn, Dacia realised that if she needed to know anything, no doubt Jyn would give her the cliff notes later. He was probably shouting some nonsense along the lines of how they could treat them like this and that they were innocent. Suppressing a snort, she had to wonder if the man had any comprehension of what innocence meant. The fact that he didn't realise that tearing up an airport wasn't usually a hallmark of innocence.

Hearing Jyn follows behind them, Dacia carefully led the man to the interrogation interview room. She was under no illusions that the guy hadn't suddenly become safer and less of a threat simply because he was missing his metal arm. It would be the height of stupidity to assume that the Super Soldier Serum than ran through the man wouldn't also work on the rest of his body.

When she had put the man in his seat, she carefully cuffed his remaining wrist to the metal pole affixed to the table and stepped back. It was time to allow Jyn to do her business. Dacia was under no illusions that Jyn would be able to get some answers from the man.

Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear!

Jyn quietly made her way into the interrogation interview room and shared a look with Dacia before taking her seat opposite Designation: Winter Soldier. Taking the chance to peer at the man and carefully choosing her next words, before she opened her mouth to speak.

"Hello, Sergeant Barnes, my name is Jyn Erso. I am here to interview about your part in the clusterfuck that was the Avengers Civil War? Do you understand this?" Jyn gently asked not wanting to put the man on his defensive.

"Yes, I understand that, but I don't understand why I am here. I wasn't an Avenger; I shouldn't be here." Designation: Winter Soldier replied looking confused about where he was.

"We understand that we know that you didn't mean to get involved, after all as you said you weren't an Avenger. We just need some help in clearing up your motivations in joining with that mess. Do you mind if we begin now?" Jyn began, fidgeting slightly underneath the man's steady gaze.

Dacia gazed at the man; she was able to see a little of the man's alter ego shining through. She could sometimes see Cassian adopting the same patterns of behaviour, at least when he chose to tap into his assassin side as a leftover of the time he had spent in the Resistance.

"Okay, well that's fair enough. For not though I am not interested in your time spent as a HYDRA assassin. When it comes to the chance to prosecute you for that, you could no doubt be tied up in courts while people argue about which jurisdiction would be the correct one to try you in. We want to try to understand what pushed you to get involved if you would mind explaining your actions the best you can." Jyn tried to remain calm.

"I was happy staying far away from this whole thing. I was in Romania to remain as far away from the Avengers. I didn't and still don't recognise Stevie, at least not completely. I knew he was looking for me, but I wasn't ready to be found. I still needed to clear my head, to gain control of some of the demons that I had accumulated after a long time being used as HYDRAs slave." Designation: Winter Soldier spoke.

"Okay, that explains why you were found in Romania, but that doesn't explain why you were there, to begin with? Had you been living under the radar there since DC?"

"After DC I was able to travel the world, hunting down my previous handlers. I was going to work towards burning down HYDRA worldwide, but I was better looking for me, the Winter Soldier's handlers. If I was able to liberate some prisoners and make life difficult for those scum. I had to take it."

"Alright, and do you feel as if you were successful in getting rid of many of you uh former handlers?"

"Not entirely. I couldn't get my hands on one guy who had set me on the friend of a friend. Vasily Karpov. He was the one that arranged for me to kill Howard Stark and Maria Stark. He was paranoid, but there was some disappointment. The guy that made the order for that assassination, Obadiah Stane, I learned that he had been killed by Stark just a few years ago."

"Alright, well you know now that was one reason. But what we want to know is why you decided to throw your lot in with Rogers? Was it a long friendship that motivated you?"

"I don't; I can't remember Steve. My memories of my life before the War are shaky; I can't remember the guy. Some days are better than others, but I never felt comfortable enough to trust those memories. To trust whether or not those memories are real. I was only interested in retaining some distance from the people who would try and force in one way or another. I don't want to be forced to be someone who I am not, just to make things easy for someone else. I want to feel like my person again, does that make any sense?"

"It makes more sense that you imagine. While we might not have your exact experiences, we do have some experience with brainwashing and manipulation. Do you anything of the people who you fought with, alongside whatever you want to say in the Civil War?"

"All I know is that they had fought alongside Stevie, that he could call on them to fight with him at any time. Is that wrong?"

"Not quite, but you see those people who you fought alongside were more designed to be pawns on the part of Rogers. To him, it didn't matter that they should get into any more trouble as long as he got you out of trouble, hell he didn't care who he had to send up the river as long as you were okay, everything was going to work out in his head. But the woman that you were fighting alongside? Something tells me that you would have objected to fighting alongside her if you knew."

"I thought I could recognise her, I thought her bearing was similar to some of the things I have seen, but who is she?"

"Do you want to know? I only warn you because if you only knew, then I suspect that you wouldn't know what to do with it!" Jyn's shrugged, warning the man.

"Tell me, who is she? I deserve to know who was fighting alongside me! Who was so ready to lay down their life for me!" Designation: Winter Soldier narrowly stopped himself from begging.

"Why Soldier don't you know who it was? That was Scarlet Witch; she is or was HYDRA, I'm a little confused I confessed, can you ever leave HYDRA behind? Are any of the ones taken in and twisted beyond recognition by the various Squid factions every truly innocent? That's what you can bet your sweet ass Designation (Former): Captain America will say."

Jyn peered at the man in front of her, with questions dancing in her eyes. Behind the two of them, Dacia quietly surveyed the man, wondering what route he was going to take with his answers next. She could see the man hurriedly going the various scenarios in his head and discarding each as being inconsequential, he clearly couldn't see what the two were shooting for, so maybe it would be better for him to play along.

"None of the people in HYRDA were innocent, not even the janitors and handymen. All were willing to die for their cause, all were willing to kill for their cause, and you say that Stevie was willing to forgive and forget THAT woman? Why would he do that? Did she bat her eyes at him? Or did she spread her legs for him? I don't know who this Stevie is, but the guy from Brooklyn? The one that I grew up with? He would have understood that it was a bad idea to put her on the team." Designation: Winter Soldier protested.

Dacia cocked her head to the side and considered the man in the seat. She could sense no outward signs of dishonesty from the guy. Dacia acknowledged that it was likely to be one of the first things that HYDRA taught their asset (whether or not he already knew) how to lie convincingly. Dacia wondered whether or not it was likely that most intelligence agencies taught their operatives how to lie, goodness knows she had watched enough tapes of Designation: Black Widow to see that it would be difficult to catch the woman in a lie. Dacia however with the help of Cassian was able to detect some of the more obvious tells, the woman wouldn't be able to lie all the time.

"At the moment? We think that she batted her eyes at the man and spun him a story about how she and her brother could now acknowledge that they were wrong. We do wonder if it was possible that the guy took advantage of the situation by getting them on the team, thereby softening the way for when you came in from the cold. Don't mistake me for a minute Sergeant but we suspect that since DC at least the Captain has been playing the long game. It was brilliant luck on his part that a genocidal robot had been created; how else could be expected to kick Dr Stark off the team?"

"Look he has changed since I knew him when he was on a one-man mission to take down all of the bullies on the backstreets of Brooklyn. The guy that I knew back then? He wouldn't have had the patience to wait while things started to take shape ahead of him. He would have simply charged in and changed things around to suit him. Why are you saying this? It can't be true."

"And yet it is, Designation (Former): Captain America knew from DC what had happened to Dr Starks' parents. He knew that they had been assassinated, but instead of allowing the man to get closure, he didn't tell Dr Stark what had happened the guy he so professed to be friends with, the guy's son wasn't allowed to grieve properly. In fact, did you know that he was still taking Dr Stark's money, lodgings and time while not telling the guy what he either knew or suspected? The sad part is that a guy who had never met the two of them was able to use that against the guy, he was able to manipulate a situation and turn Dr Stark's rage into a positive force for his own benefit. I mean that wasn't that different from all that the Avengers used Dr Stark for, they simply took benefit of the guy's knowledge, generosity and expertise while at the same time not thanking him."

"This isn't a team is it?" Designation Winter Soldier sadly asked.

"No, you could say that it's a chemical compound waiting to explode." Jyn finished looking at the man sadly.

Jyn stared at the man for a while, looking at him until he felt uncomfortable enough to look away before sighing and getting to her feet. Crossing the table to Designation: Winter Soldier's side and taking the cuff from the pole in the centre of the table and attaching it to her wrist. Glancing over at a worried looking Dacia, she shrugged and made her way from the room guiding the quiet man as did so.

Trying to shake the worry from her mind about what happened to make Dacia lag behind them, it had to be something big. Either way, Jyn felt like she had to know more about what was troubling Dacia, it couldn't be anything good. Moving through the corridors with the man waling slightly ahead of her, Jyn's mind whirling through some of the thoughts running through her head.

Guiding the man back into the cell block, Jyn crossed the silver room and momentarily stood the man in front of the glass that separated his cell from the large cell block. Sidestepping the man, she began to tap at the monitor, listening carefully for the clicking sound that indicated that Dacia had reached the central computer. Smiling briefly when she realised that it didn't seem as if the man knew that she was there. Waiting until the rest of the doors were securely locked, she tapped a few of the features, tapping her foot up down, her eyes darting the large glass door.

When the door opened for her, she gently pushed the man into through the door and followed him in. Working the cuff off the man's wrist, Jyn smiled briefly at the man before settling the man on the bed. Making her way from the cell, she stopped briefly at the screen beside the door.

Nodding over at Dacia, Jyn followed the woman from the cell block, casting her a nervous look at the woman. She found herself wondering if everything was about to change or become insurmountably difficult. Catching up with a worried Dacia outside the cell, she reached out to stop the woman.

"Things just became that much more difficult for us, c'mon I need to talk to Cassian before everything goes pear-shaped." Dacia hissed before hurrying off to the central computer nodule.

WHOOSH

James' head hung, he found a patch on the floor between his feet to be supremely interesting to him. Or maybe that small patch of floor wasn't as interesting as he thought it was, maybe he was subliminally trying to distract himself as much as possible. His mind was running through some of the things he had learned, and he was questioning himself and how well he knew his friend. He was beginning to suspect that he didn't know the guy at all. It was like he had said that interviewer lady, his captor, whoever she was, he didn't recognise the person that had shown up in Romania.

Standing up from his bed, still slightly unbalanced from the loss of one of his arms, he glared into the cell containing the Witch. He wondered to himself why Stevie and his friends had been so quick to trust the HYDRA bint. Trying to go through his memories looking for some clue, anything to even hint at the fact that he might have come into contact with the woman. He was under no false pretences that his memories of his time with HYDRA were perfect because they were distorted and muddled up and oh so very cold. There were still some things from that time that he hadn't told Stevie yet.

Things that he didn't think the guy could ever hope to understand. Some things that he knew would be difficult to explain, especially to a guy like Stevie who still saw things in black and white. Or at least James thought that they guy saw things in black and white because some of the things that he had been told in that interview implied that the guy was very comfortable operating in a morally grey area. Why had he decided that it was a perfect idea to work alongside a woman with definite and concrete ties to HYDRA?

"Punk, I'm going to give you one chance to tell me why YOU WERE FIGHTING WITH A WOMAN FROM HYDRA? AND DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF THIS BULLSHIT THAT SHE IS INNOCENT, OR A CHILD, SHE IS A COLD BLOODED KILLER. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US WAS THAT SHE LEPT AT THE CHANCE TO FIGHT FOR HYDRA, SHE REVELLED IN KILLING FOR THOSE ANIMALS. YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHY YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A BRILLIANT IDEA TO HAVE ME NEAR ONE OF THOSE LUNATICS WITH A HARD ON FOR MURDER?!" James screamed.

James might not have noticed, but the weird one, the guy that didn't seem to fit in with any of this, jumped in his cell.

"Don't be like that Bucky, everything I did, I did for you, for us. She is an innocent child!" Steve protested, not being used to having his friend angry with him.

"INNOCENT, YOU CAN SPARE ME YOUR BULLSHIT, EVERYONE IN HYDRA IS READY TO DIE, EVERYONE IS READY TO KILL FOR THAT MESSED UP SHIT THEY BELIEVE IN. SHE IS NO SHRINKING VIOLET BELIEVE ME!" James roared at the man, his voice cracking in his rage.

"Never should have met my hero." Wanda was heard to mutter from his cell.

"YOUR HERO SWEETCHEEKS?! ALL YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN ME FOR WAS AS BEING THE FIST OF HYDRA, DON'T EVEN LOOK AT ME!" James exclaimed, his voice going up in pitch as he sprayed his spittle everywhere.

"Yes my hero, Pietro's too, Strucker used to talk about me marrying you, after all, who better to keep you under HYDRA's thumb than the great Scarlet Witch?" Wanda muttered.

"Excuse me?" James' voice quietly asked, his voice haven gone completely quiet as he began to wonder who the hell these people were.

"Well, you know I can manipulate minds, right? Who else to keep you a tight leash that an operative adept at mental manipulation." Wanda shrugged before turning away from the door of her cell.

James shot both the cell containing Wanda and Stevie's cell a look of disbelief before he lay down on the bed, his mind racing with all that he had been told.