Blurred Bloodlines

Steve was still shaking with rage when he left his rooms. He had gone over the rest of the info that Natasha sent him.

There was more info about the mother, the woman named Syrena.

Apparently she was found by The Winter Soldier when she was 7 years old. He had been sent to kill her father and leave no witnesses.

He spared her and trained her for the next 13 years.

Pierce and Strucker let him keep his 'pet'. They even injected her with the serum to make her as strong as him.

They ended up becoming attached to each other. So it was no surprise she became pregnant.

There were even photos of Syrena at each month in her pregnancy, probably to keep an eye on the baby's development.

One photo even showed a metal hand touching her swollen belly.

Cap smiled softly.

Even with his memory suppressed, Bucky was still showing through in the smallest gestures.

But there was only one little tidbit of info on the little girl.

'Rebecca.'

That's what Bucky called her.

'Rebecca.'

Not what those bastards called her.

'Child of Death'.

He was startled out of his thinking when the door across from his opened and Wanda stepped out.

"Steve are you okay?"

He inwardly groaned.

While watching that video, he had completely forgotten about Wanda's empathic abilities.

He steeled himself.

Steve was through with lies and secrets.He had to tell them.

"Can you go get Sam and Scott. I have something to show all of you."

Wanda nodded her head and turned to leave.

She paused when Steve spoke again.

"Thank you Wanda."

"It is no problem, Captain."

She quickly left to find the others, visibly shaken by what she felt.

Wanda was both intrigued and terrified to find out what was causing the rage coursing through him.

'I wish Vision was here.'

/ ~ / ~ / ~ /

Sam knew it was bad the moment he laid eyes on Steve.

He crossed his arms.

"So you gonna tell us what's wrong or do you want us to guess?"

Steve shook his head.

"You remember how Nat dumped all of SHIELD and HYDRA's classified info onto the internet?"

"Yeah, aired their dirty laundry for all to see."

"Well, she found a incryption in Pierce's file."

"What did she find?"

"It details a secret project Zola was working on since Bucky became the Winter Soldier."

"What type of project?"

Scott interjected.

Wanda felt the anger flicker to life within him again until he took a deep breath and let it out in a slow exhale.

"Zola planned to use The Winter Soldier to father a new breed of Hydra super soldiers."

"Damn."

"Well, he can't, right? This Zola character is dead, right?"

Steve nodded.

"Yes, but Bucky has been in and out cryo for the past 50 to 60 years, Scott."

Wanda had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"Steven, what is it that you are not telling us?"

Steve walked over to the large computer screen in the room, holding up a USB device.

"This was sent with the info Nat sent me. It seems Zola finally got his wish. 17 years ago."

He plugged the device in and pressed play before stepping out of the way.

Sam, Wanda, Scott and T'Challa watched in shock and horror at the birth, and at Strucker taking the child.

T'Challa was silent the entire time, his hands clenched into fists.

The sobs of the mother made his eyes close in sorrow.

This Strucker was a monster. How could someone rip a infant from its mother's arms so soon after birth?

Scott was furious, but not only at Strucker. Hydra was starting to really grate on his nerves.

Sam shook with his rage.

'Those sons' of bitches'

That was an innocent baby not a weapon.

Wanda had a much different reaction.

"My god."

Steve watched her closely.

She was crying.

"Wanda?"

She didn't hear him at first. She only slumped down into the couch behind her, white as a sheet and shaking violently.

"Oh my god."

He tried to get her attention again, this time placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Wanda, you okay?"

She jumped.

"I always knew my brother and I weren't the only experiments Strucker was working on."

She wiped the tears from her cheeks.

"One day, they brought Pietro back. They dragged him back by his arms. He was bruised and bloodied and he was smiling. Smiling! I thought he had finally gone crazy. Until he started talking about the girl he just trained with. He said she was 'lunnyy svet' pure moonlight."

She smiled.

"He said he was in love, I told him he had a concussion."

Cap cracked a smile at her words.

She rolled up her sleeves to show the faded scars on her arms.

"I met her the next day and received these. She used her teeth like a wild animal. I mentioned Pietro and she stopped."

Steve questioned her.

"Did you get a good look at her?"

Wanda nodded.

"Yes. She was just as my brother described. Moonlight. She had silver hair like him and pale skin, like she had never seen the sun. Her eyes though...."

"What about her eyes?"

"She was blind."

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