Alive but not Awake
The Winter Soldier Ghost
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Fanfic | Alive but not Awake | The Winter Soldier Ghost
Bucky and Steve strolled through the hospital, the one which Fury was brought to. They had just outran Shield for the last couple of hours. While they were on the elevator at Shield more than 20 men were set up to try and take them both down, ending in the 20 men being gravely injured while the super soldiers had to make a very large drop out of the elevator and through the glass roof of the main Shield entry hall. There were a couple of bruises on their body's but nothing that couldn't go away in a couple of hours, thanks to the serum.
Bucky had a strong feeling that Alexander Pierce was the one behind the whole thing, or at least the leader to it all. When they ran to the parking lot, they had just enough time to fit through the gap before the big bulkhead doors closed on them as they were on their personal motorcycles they had left there earlier on that day. And, on top of all that one of the newest 'smaller' gliders were up and running that Fury showed them beforehand, it took shots at them while they dodged. Both Steve and Bucky had some fun in ripping it apart as they threw their personal shields towards the engine of the craft and it only took a couple of hits before it went down. Now, they had to dodge their precious motorcycles for now and hit the streets towards the hospital they were in now. They needed to get the one thing they needed to protect from Shield, if whoever had gotten inside the company was so desperate to order a kill on both of them, then it must be something huge.
Steve and Bucky passed the Doctors and Nurses through the hallways, both wearing grey jogging bottoms and two hoodies that covered their faces. They couldn't take the chance that they would be recognised, they were nearly a hundred percent sure that Shield would be monitoring all the cameras throughout the city to find them at any cost. Even though there was only so much they could do, but they needed as much time as they could get to figure what they were going to do next.
Both halted in their steps when they came up to the exact vending machine they had placed the memory stick into. Both their eyes widen when they saw that all the gum was gone from the space that was hiding the drive, but the drive was also gone. Fear of where it might be crept into their skin as they tried to figure out what to do next.
Steve looked up from his spot when he heard a small pop come from behind him, there in the reflection of the vending machine glass was the particular red-head that had been beside Fury's body only hours before. His eyes narrowed at her mouth, she seemed to be chewing the same gum that was hiding the memory drive in the machine.
Both boys turned around to Natasha who wore a triumph grin on her lips as she continued to blow bubbles with her new chewing gum. "You." Bucky muttered, before grabbing one of her arms and pulling her into the room opposite the vending machine, with Steve right behind him. Bucky held her against the door, his face rigid, wondering whether or not they could actually trust her. Honestly, she was just as bad a Fury when it came to secrets, there was so much about Natasha they don't know either so it was hard to figure out whether she's good or bad. The fact that she was a part of the Avengers did count for something though, if she was on the back stabbing side then it wasn't likely that she would try to save the world from the Chitauri. "Where is it?" He demanded, not letting her go. Steve stood beside him as they both took down their hoodie's from their heads.
Natasha's grin disappeared looking near emotionless, "Safe." She replied, not getting into where it actually was.
Steve came closer to her, hoping to intimidate, "Do better!"
Natasha turned to him, her face between stony and stormy, "Where did you get it?" She countered back. She had an inner feeling that Fury had given it to them, that would be why he was at their apartment at that time of the night and even better, why he went to them. She was a little disappointed that he never came to her though, since she was considered one of the best and qualified agents in Shield.
"Why would we tell you?" He countered, not letting anything on although he was almost sure that she would get it anyway.
Natasha narrowed her eyes between the two bigger boys, finding proof that her assumption was indeed correct, "Fury gave it to you!" She realised, "Why?"
Bucky took over, "What's on it!" He assumed she must have some idea since she was the one to steal the information in the first place. He was getting the impression that this information was on the memory drive that was taken from the boat mission. Or at least it took the information that was stored the boat, and taken by Natasha while he and Steve were trying to bring down the pirates – completely unaware of what she was doing until they found her by the computer dock.
Natasha frowned, "I don't know." She answered honestly, she never looked at the file. Her sole mission was to grab whatever information was on the computer dock and upload it on the drive for Fury to have a look at. It wasn't her job to look into those things.
Both Steve and Bucky were getting fed up of liars, "Stop lying." Bucky gritted him teeth, he hated liars.
"I only act like I know everything, Barnes." She protested, not even trying to put up a fight and push them away from her, there must have been a strong reason why they were given the drive rather than her.
Steve looked around the corner to make sure no one was either listening or watching their little conversation, "I bet you knew Fury was the one who hired the pirates." Steve guessed, she seemed to be the agent who knew most of what happened to Fury other than that other woman; Agent Hill.
Natasha's mouth opened like a gaping fish, she didn't think about that before she went on the mission, "Well," She began, finally finding her voice and recalling the event of her mission briefing, "It makes sense," She nodded, looking between the two super soldiers who looked like they could care less for anything but the truth right now, "The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in." It seemed like a good plan in her mind, except the part where it was kind of a set up to begin with, which made her feel a little stupid for not noticing in the first place. "So do-" She was cut off by Bucky shaking her against the wall again, holding her upper arms tighter.
"We're not going to ask again." Bucky was running out of patience, and he was an overall very patient guy like Steve but sooner or later either of them would snap if they were taken too far.
There was silence for a moment before Natasha spoke up again, looking between them and her voice was more than serious, "I know who killed Fury." She announced to them, making their demeanors falter slightly at the news. Bucky's mind flashed back to the dark-haired woman on the roof, clutching his shield with ease in her strong metal arm and holding the object like it was nothing on her. His grip lessened on Natasha's arms and took a small step back, making her breath a little better. When he looked into Natasha's eyes, there seemed to be something there that's caught her in the past – like she was reliving part of it.
"Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe, she exists but the ones who do call her 'The Winter Soldier'." Natasha started, her past flying past her eyes on the dark-haired woman pointing a gun in her direction with a vicious tint in her eye. "She's credited with over two-dozen assignations in the last 50 years."
Steve raised an eyebrow, "So, she's a ghost story?" He was the only one who hadn't seen this woman up close, Bucky had described the woman as best as he could when they were on their way to see Fury in the operating room. The part when she grabbed Bucky's shield with her metal arm caught him in disbelief, but he knew Bucky wasn't exaggerating by how the seriousness in his eyes when he spoke to him.
Natasha looked at just him this time, "Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot at my tires in Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff but I pulled us out." She paused, still looking at him to show him that she was telling him the truth and by this time Bucky had moved back from her a little more, "But, The Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so she shot at him through me." Natasha pulled up her top and showed both Bucky and Steve a bullet wound that was to the side of her stomach. "Soviet slug, no rifling." She made a sarcastic smile and said, "Bye-Bye, bikini's."
Steve kept his eyes one her but couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at her last comment, "Yeah, because you must look terrible in them now." He couldn't help but notice she did look slightly beautiful.
Bucky saw him staring at her for a moment and snorted in his mind. 'Of course', he thought sarcastically, 'he had to think the deadly girls are pretty'. He shook his head turning back to the red-head, "How do we find this girl? Did you ever look?"
Natasha broke her gaze from Steve and looked at him, while shaking her head, "No, every lead turned to a dead end, and I never found anything." She grabbed something from her pocket at held it up for the boys to see, "Like you said, Steve. A ghost story." In her hand was the memory stick that was hidden behind the gum in the vending machine.
Bucky grabbed the stick from her hands, "Then let's find out what this ghost wants." He stated, he did enjoy a good mystery once in a while but he hoped it led to nothing personal that could break him and Steve down. But deep down, he knew that wouldn't happen.
Note: I was able to get this done tonight. YEY.
Bucky and Steve strolled through the hospital, the one which Fury was brought to. They had just outran Shield for the last couple of hours. While they were on the elevator at Shield more than 20 men were set up to try and take them both down, ending in the 20 men being gravely injured while the super soldiers had to make a very large drop out of the elevator and through the glass roof of the main Shield entry hall. There were a couple of bruises on their body's but nothing that couldn't go away in a couple of hours, thanks to the serum.
Bucky had a strong feeling that Alexander Pierce was the one behind the whole thing, or at least the leader to it all. When they ran to the parking lot, they had just enough time to fit through the gap before the big bulkhead doors closed on them as they were on their personal motorcycles they had left there earlier on that day. And, on top of all that one of the newest 'smaller' gliders were up and running that Fury showed them beforehand, it took shots at them while they dodged. Both Steve and Bucky had some fun in ripping it apart as they threw their personal shields towards the engine of the craft and it only took a couple of hits before it went down. Now, they had to dodge their precious motorcycles for now and hit the streets towards the hospital they were in now. They needed to get the one thing they needed to protect from Shield, if whoever had gotten inside the company was so desperate to order a kill on both of them, then it must be something huge.
Steve and Bucky passed the Doctors and Nurses through the hallways, both wearing grey jogging bottoms and two hoodies that covered their faces. They couldn't take the chance that they would be recognised, they were nearly a hundred percent sure that Shield would be monitoring all the cameras throughout the city to find them at any cost. Even though there was only so much they could do, but they needed as much time as they could get to figure what they were going to do next.
Both halted in their steps when they came up to the exact vending machine they had placed the memory stick into. Both their eyes widen when they saw that all the gum was gone from the space that was hiding the drive, but the drive was also gone. Fear of where it might be crept into their skin as they tried to figure out what to do next.
Steve looked up from his spot when he heard a small pop come from behind him, there in the reflection of the vending machine glass was the particular red-head that had been beside Fury's body only hours before. His eyes narrowed at her mouth, she seemed to be chewing the same gum that was hiding the memory drive in the machine.
Both boys turned around to Natasha who wore a triumph grin on her lips as she continued to blow bubbles with her new chewing gum. "You." Bucky muttered, before grabbing one of her arms and pulling her into the room opposite the vending machine, with Steve right behind him. Bucky held her against the door, his face rigid, wondering whether or not they could actually trust her. Honestly, she was just as bad a Fury when it came to secrets, there was so much about Natasha they don't know either so it was hard to figure out whether she's good or bad. The fact that she was a part of the Avengers did count for something though, if she was on the back stabbing side then it wasn't likely that she would try to save the world from the Chitauri. "Where is it?" He demanded, not letting her go. Steve stood beside him as they both took down their hoodie's from their heads.
Natasha's grin disappeared looking near emotionless, "Safe." She replied, not getting into where it actually was.
Steve came closer to her, hoping to intimidate, "Do better!"
Natasha turned to him, her face between stony and stormy, "Where did you get it?" She countered back. She had an inner feeling that Fury had given it to them, that would be why he was at their apartment at that time of the night and even better, why he went to them. She was a little disappointed that he never came to her though, since she was considered one of the best and qualified agents in Shield.
"Why would we tell you?" He countered, not letting anything on although he was almost sure that she would get it anyway.
Natasha narrowed her eyes between the two bigger boys, finding proof that her assumption was indeed correct, "Fury gave it to you!" She realised, "Why?"
Bucky took over, "What's on it!" He assumed she must have some idea since she was the one to steal the information in the first place. He was getting the impression that this information was on the memory drive that was taken from the boat mission. Or at least it took the information that was stored the boat, and taken by Natasha while he and Steve were trying to bring down the pirates – completely unaware of what she was doing until they found her by the computer dock.
Natasha frowned, "I don't know." She answered honestly, she never looked at the file. Her sole mission was to grab whatever information was on the computer dock and upload it on the drive for Fury to have a look at. It wasn't her job to look into those things.
Both Steve and Bucky were getting fed up of liars, "Stop lying." Bucky gritted him teeth, he hated liars.
"I only act like I know everything, Barnes." She protested, not even trying to put up a fight and push them away from her, there must have been a strong reason why they were given the drive rather than her.
Steve looked around the corner to make sure no one was either listening or watching their little conversation, "I bet you knew Fury was the one who hired the pirates." Steve guessed, she seemed to be the agent who knew most of what happened to Fury other than that other woman; Agent Hill.
Natasha's mouth opened like a gaping fish, she didn't think about that before she went on the mission, "Well," She began, finally finding her voice and recalling the event of her mission briefing, "It makes sense," She nodded, looking between the two super soldiers who looked like they could care less for anything but the truth right now, "The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in." It seemed like a good plan in her mind, except the part where it was kind of a set up to begin with, which made her feel a little stupid for not noticing in the first place. "So do-" She was cut off by Bucky shaking her against the wall again, holding her upper arms tighter.
"We're not going to ask again." Bucky was running out of patience, and he was an overall very patient guy like Steve but sooner or later either of them would snap if they were taken too far.
There was silence for a moment before Natasha spoke up again, looking between them and her voice was more than serious, "I know who killed Fury." She announced to them, making their demeanors falter slightly at the news. Bucky's mind flashed back to the dark-haired woman on the roof, clutching his shield with ease in her strong metal arm and holding the object like it was nothing on her. His grip lessened on Natasha's arms and took a small step back, making her breath a little better. When he looked into Natasha's eyes, there seemed to be something there that's caught her in the past – like she was reliving part of it.
"Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe, she exists but the ones who do call her 'The Winter Soldier'." Natasha started, her past flying past her eyes on the dark-haired woman pointing a gun in her direction with a vicious tint in her eye. "She's credited with over two-dozen assignations in the last 50 years."
Steve raised an eyebrow, "So, she's a ghost story?" He was the only one who hadn't seen this woman up close, Bucky had described the woman as best as he could when they were on their way to see Fury in the operating room. The part when she grabbed Bucky's shield with her metal arm caught him in disbelief, but he knew Bucky wasn't exaggerating by how the seriousness in his eyes when he spoke to him.
Natasha looked at just him this time, "Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot at my tires in Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff but I pulled us out." She paused, still looking at him to show him that she was telling him the truth and by this time Bucky had moved back from her a little more, "But, The Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so she shot at him through me." Natasha pulled up her top and showed both Bucky and Steve a bullet wound that was to the side of her stomach. "Soviet slug, no rifling." She made a sarcastic smile and said, "Bye-Bye, bikini's."
Steve kept his eyes one her but couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at her last comment, "Yeah, because you must look terrible in them now." He couldn't help but notice she did look slightly beautiful.
Bucky saw him staring at her for a moment and snorted in his mind. 'Of course', he thought sarcastically, 'he had to think the deadly girls are pretty'. He shook his head turning back to the red-head, "How do we find this girl? Did you ever look?"
Natasha broke her gaze from Steve and looked at him, while shaking her head, "No, every lead turned to a dead end, and I never found anything." She grabbed something from her pocket at held it up for the boys to see, "Like you said, Steve. A ghost story." In her hand was the memory stick that was hidden behind the gum in the vending machine.
Bucky grabbed the stick from her hands, "Then let's find out what this ghost wants." He stated, he did enjoy a good mystery once in a while but he hoped it led to nothing personal that could break him and Steve down. But deep down, he knew that wouldn't happen.
Note: I was able to get this done tonight. YEY.
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