1959.

Elise stopped typing and raised her head, staring outside the window as the sunset filled the whole city with a beautiful light. Her study was huge and the walls were covered with bookshelves full of books in different languages. English, Italian, Russian...memories from her days during the war. She sighed as memories came to her mind. It was something she had tried to avoid since That happened. Elise had erased that part of her past.

"Miss Baker?" The servant knocked at the door and entered the room. "Mrs. Carter is here"

"Let her in" She replied taking the sheet from the typewriter and leaving it inside one of the brown folders that were on her desk. Peggy came inside the study and closed the door behind her, sitting on the sofa near the window.

"Elise, you look nice"

"You too, Peg. It seems France is great for you" Peggy smiled shyly and shrugged. Elise stood up and walked, sitting near her friend. "Are you...you know?"

"It's hard..." She replied in a whisper, her eyes becoming teary as she remembered everything. Peggy sighed and hugged her mate and friend.

"I know, Elise. I know"

Both had suffered and trying to recover together. She had lost Bucky and Peggy had lost Steve a few months later as he decided to sink Red Skull's plane to save the whole world. Captain America till the end, Bucky would have said. Elise still had his letters and she usually took them to read even when she knew all those lovely words by heart. Peggy cleaned her eyes and try to get her head together.

"They would like us to continue with our lives, you know it"

Elise sighed again and nodded, staring at the buildings outside. Cars could be heard and far away there was an emergency alarm. Peggy and her had been two of the founders of SHIELD, when the war ended. They didn't have enough time to cry as they were busy trying to keep themselves in a men's world. Elise had refused to get married, at least for now. There was a fresh wound in her heart, even though when she knew -And Peggy had told her that- Bucky was dead and he wouldn't come back. It was too early for her to fall in love again.

"Did you want something, my dear?" Elise said crossing her fingers.

"I just came to see how are you"

"Margaret" She said with a warning tone in her voice.

"You must come back"

"Peggy..."Elise stood up pressing her fingers against her forehead, feeling a sharping pain.

"I know you are still dealing with your pain, Elise, but Bucky is dead and Steve as well. We won't be useful if we stay with our arms crossed and doing nothing" Peggy had moved and was standing in front of her friend, staring at her intensely. "Howard asked me about you, too. We want you to come back. We need you. SHIELD needs you"

"I'll think about it. I promise" Elise added when Peggy tried to speak.

"Thank you"

Peggy hugged her friend and exited the room, leaving Elise speechless. The woman swallowed, trying to get rid of the lump in her throat. She knew Peggy was right. Bucky was dead and nothing could bring him back to her. She walked and sat down, looking at her desk and the papers on it. One of them was written in Russian and was handwritten. Elise took it and read the first words on it, frowning.

Зимний солдат.

The Winter Soldier.

Present time.

Alice heart jumped when she saw Bucky Barnes in front of her, looking intensely at her own eyes. That was the man her grandmother had fallen in love with. And, if the information she had was right, the skilled assassin trained by Hydra that had committed several crimes through the past decades. Bucky moved his eyes to the notebook Steve still had in his hands. Then, they moved to her face again.

"I didn't do it"

He was talking about the attack in Vienna. Alice and Steve exchanged glances trying to guess if he was telling the truth or not. Alice could imagine Steve's inner conflict. Bucky had been his best friend before and during the war. But, were they talking to the Winter Soldier or James Barnes.

"Elise" Alice turned her head and looked at her confusely. Bucky's face was imploring. "I didn't do it"

She didn't answer as her mind was processing the information. Bucky believed she was her grandmother. Of course the resemblance was incredible, as everybody told her, but...

"Bucky" Steve said, trying to catch his friend's attention. A strong noise was heard outside and he looked through the window, speaking to Bucky again. "Listen, they think you did it. We came here to help you"

"Really?" He answered sadly.

"You are my friend, Buck. Till the end of the line"

"I don't remember it"

"Then why did you save me?" Bucky shrugged and Steve seemed becoming more and more nervous as they footsteps were heard nearer and nearer. "It is not necessary to end in a fight" The Winter Soldier took of his left glove, showing his metal hand and shaking his head.

"It always ends like this"

Suddenly, Bucky took his mattress to cover his body and jumped to cover Alice with it and his own body. The woman screamed and bullets flew over the room, colliding on the walls. Several men came breaking the windows and Alice saw Steve hitting them with his shield. Bucky push her behind him and stopped the bullets with his metal arm. Then, he pushed her behind the kitchen's island, fighting by Steve's side. Alice raised her head and saw Bucky sitting on Steve's body and whispering something. Her eyes opened as Bucky moved his metal arm, as he was going to punch Steve. Instead of that, he hit the wooden floor to take a backpack, throwing it through the window.

"Alice!" Steve screamed and she ran to help him. "No! Go to get Bucky! Go! I'll be fine"

She obeyed and ran away, jumping to the next building. Alice thanked the personal training she had followed when she ran away and also the one that Tony insisted her to do. Alice thought that Tony was right once although he would never know it. She ran to follow Bucky steps and saw a man wearing a black suit fighting with him. Bucky hit the man and saw her, shaking his head.

"Go away, Elise!" The man in black turned his head to look at her and Bucky used that opportunity to escape, running away. The man growled and followed him. Alice saw Steve prepared to jump and she followed Bucky and the man.

"Sam, can you see them?" She shouted and Falcon answered quickly.

"Turn to your right"

"I need help to go down"

"Understood"

Falcon flew to the building when Alice jumped and moved to the pavement. The woman ran and heard Steve saying something she didn't understand. Her heart had sped up and her mind brought back some memories of her grandmother Elise, sitting near her desk, with a ballpoint pen between her long and beautiful fingers. There was an old portrait near the typewriter and Alice had asked Elise about it too many times. She had smiled and answered that was a man she loved long time ago.

See what I do for you, Elise.

Alice took the motorbike she had come in and drove, following Bucky's steps. Steve was saying that was near the two men and Bucky was riding a motorbike as well.

"Alice, try to get him"

"Who's that man?" She shouted driving between the cars.

"I think we have to guess"

Alice saw the tunnel falling and she knew it was because of the men. She murmured a curse word and drove, using another way. When she arrived, she knew everything would be terrible after that. Steve and Bucky had her hands in the air, looking at Rhodes, who was congratulating Steve for being under arrest. The man with the black suit resulted to be T'Challa, the king of Wakanda. Sam was also there. Alice left the motorbike and walked, catching everybody's attention. Rhodes looked at her.

"Miss Baker...I...I didn't know"

"Yeah, I suppose. Tony will be happy" She answered ironically feeling Bucky's eyes on her.

"She's not a part of this" Steve replied angrily. "It is all my fault. It's my responsibility"

"No, Captain" Alice said, shaking her head and showing her wrist to be handcuffed. "I came here too"

"I'm sorry, Alice" Rhodes answered sadly as he saw her being brought near the rest of the men, inside the cars.

Bucky stared at Elise as he was imprisoned without resisting. Maybe that was better. Him being in prison, controlled so he wouldn't harm anybody else. He sat as the agent push him and saw the woman entering one of the trucks. She turned her head as she could feel his own staring and smiled, trying to comfort Bucky. He smiled back for the first time in years and some memories came back to his mind.

Kisses being left on his lips. A tent. A woman laughing. His heart jumping as she smiled.

Yes, it was the same smile but, how was that possible?

Bucky sighed. His notebooks, full of his memories had been taken from him. That was everything he had. His shattered memories. It was curious, he thought. Even when his mind was being washed, something always came to his mind.

Elise Baker.