Hotaru roamed the farm house, moving about trying to clean and re clean. Clint sighed as he's currently stretched on the couch.

"Hotaru please stop trying so much to clean."

She stops. "I'm sorry daddy." She moves to a chair and sits down. "It's been hours and nothing."

Clint moved to sit up. "Alright." He moves to the TV and turns it on, changing the channel to news broadcast, the news talking Captain America and what was happening now. "Looks like SHIELD is finished for good." He ran a hand through his hair.

Hotaru looks at him. "But what about Steve?" She asks, and Clint turns to her. "You really want to see him, don't you?"

"The threat is clearly over now. But there's no word on anybody."

Clint ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "Ok." He caves. "Ok."

XxXxXxXx

In Washington, inside a hospital room. Sam was bent over, pulling out a bag of chips from a vending machine, he straightens up to see Clint and Hotaru approaching.

"How is he?" Clint asked. "Steve?"

"He's got bruises, a few nasty ones. But he'll heal."

"How'd he escape the river?" Hotaru asked. "Did you pull him out?"

Sam shook his head. "I don't know how he got out of the water. He was alone on the shoreline by the time we found him."

"Do you think it was Barns?" Clint asked.

"That would be my guess. He and Steve were the only ones on that Carrier."

"Can we see him?" Hotaru asked.

"Yeah, of course. This way." Sam leads them down the hall.

"Where's Trista and Michelle?" Clint asked. "Have they seen him yet?"

"Trista has not left the good Captain's side." Sam answered. "But no one's heard from Michelle in hours."

"That's weird." Hotaru frowns. "She's been helping Steve none stop and." She cut herself off when they entered Steve's room.

Steve was awake and sitting up in his hospital bed, Trista was sitting next to him and holding his hand tightly.

"Clint, Hotaru." Steve smiled a little.

"She desperately wanted to see you Cap." Clint smiled. "Good to see you're ok. You alright?" He pushed his daughter farther into the room so he could follow.

"Everything hurts, but I'm ok."

"Did you get through to the Sargent?" Hotaru asked. "Is your best friend back?"

Steve shrugs with a shake of his head. "I'm holding onto hope that I did get through to him."

"How did you get through to him?" Trista asked, she was not gonna tell what happened at the river, that'd rase more questions mostly from Steve.

Steve shrugs, slowly shaking his head. "I kept saying he knows me and I reminded him of his full name, and I repeated the same sentence that he told me after my mom died."

"Sometimes something very simple can be the most powerful." Trista said gently as she squeezed his hand.

"I didn't know what else to say." Steve sighs. "Didn't know how else to break him free."

Trista leaned to him, kissing the side of his head. "You did what you could, Steve."

XxXxXxXxXx

In the country of Bucharest Romania. Michelle closed the door of a small apartment. "When I said redemption, this is not what I was expecting." She said as she leaned her back against the door.

"It's better this way." Bucky said as he's leaned against a wall.