Clover1983

Hey everybody!

In this thread I would like to share my Fanfic based on The Avengers. My story is rated between G and PG.
I also like to receive some feedback.


Summary

Julia Berger is getting unwillingly trained as a spy for HYDRA and Bucky meets the girl he is dreaming about.

Clover1983

Winter’s War


She opened her eyes. A bright LED-light burned into her eyes. She rubbed her hands, covered with black leather gloves, over her face, before she sat up. In the background she heard doors opening and closing, people talking, screaming and begging. She rubbed her neck, trying to remember how she got here, in this room of 10 by 10 feet. At the other side of the room she sees a small closet, a desk and a chair. Above the desk is a mirror, with a note. She stepped out of the bed and walked to the desk, removing the note and read:

“Your name is Julia Berger. You have the power to absorb life from people by your hands….”

She looks at her left hand and removed her glove. She investigated her hand some more. Then her door opened and a soldier, with a laser-shotgun, entered her room while he spoke in Russian. Julia became scared not knowing what he said and by her fear she froze. The soldier grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the room. He placed her in line with other people. The line with people started to walk and she had no choice to walk with them.

During the walk she looked at her bare hand. She remembers what she read on the note: you have the power to absorb life. Suddenly the line stopped and Julia bumped into the man in front of her. He turned around and looked angry in her eyes. She felt intimidated. “I...I’m sorry,” she stuttered.
An announcement has been called by somebody with a German accent, but nobody can see him. “Soldiers, welcome at this facility of HYDRA. Here, you will be trained as the best soldiers of the universe.” Julia looked around trying to find out where this voice comes from. “Please follow our instructions or else you will be punished.” As Julia looked around, she saw a man of mid 60’s, dressed in a grey suit with a black tie, walking down the stairs followed by a young looking man, mid 40’s. “This is your leader, Alexander Pierce.”
“Good morning, everyone,” Alexander Pierce continued. Everybody mumbled good morning. The men walked along the line with people looking at them, one by one. “As you have heard, you will be trained to be the best soldiers. The trainings are hard.” He stands in front of Julia. “We will show no mercy.” She swallowed her fear down her throat. They continued walking, “Each of you will be placed in a group and each group has their own mission.” He turned around and walked back along the line, while the other man stood still. “If you do not listen, a hard punishment will be made.” Once again he stood in front of Julia. “Do not fail and do not disappoint us.” Julia nodded as she swallowed once again her fear away. “I wish you all the best of luck. Guards, you may form the groups.” He looked into Julia’s eyes. “Except for you. Follow me.”

Alexander Pierce, Julia, the young man and two guards were walking through a hallway. They stopped at a door with two guards. Pierce entered a code into the door and opened it. He, Julia and the man entered the room followed by the guards who were securing. The two guards who were walking them stayed outside to guard the door.
Julia looked around the room as they entered. She could see the room has giant windows, black leather furniture and it’s very light.
“As you can see, young lady,” Alexander said as he walked to the big window behind his desk. “All of the men and women here are very trained. Except for you. Do you probably have any idea why?” he asked as he looked outside, into the darkness of the world.
“No sir,” Julia replied with a trembled voice.
“Think again.”
Julia became nervous as the young man stood next to her, looking forward with his hands on his hips. She looked at her left hand. Then she looked at the bare naked arms of the man. Absorb life from people, as she remembered. Carefully she moved her left hand to the bare naked arm of the man. Suddenly she grabbed it. The man started to scream as she holds his arm. She could feel the energy flowing from his body into her body. After 5 seconds she released him. She was in shock as she looked at her hand.
“You piece of trash!” the man yelled as he slapped her in the face causing her to fall. The two guards aimed their gun at Julia. She held up her hands. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I didn’t know what’s going to happen!”
The man growl as he wanted to punch her. “Rumlow, calm down!” said Pierce. The man tried to remain calm. Alexander Pierce threw a leather glove towards Julia. “Perhaps you need this.” She caught and looked at it. She then looked at Pierce. “Put it on and have a seat,” he said as he took place in his chair. Julia was in doubt. Pierce gestured her to take a seat in the couch. Carefully she stood up and sat down in the couch while she put on the glove. Rumlow stood behind her, arms crossed over his chest.
“Any idea now?” Pierce said.
After a moment of thinking, Julia replied: “Maybe of what just happened?”
Pierce bend over, fold and placed his hands on his desk. “You see, you are a lot different than the other soldiers we have trained here. The soldiers here are very strong and very willingly to co-operate. But you….” Julia became even more nervous and scared. “You are here now for a month and don’t progress in your fighting skills. Have you ever had a fight in your life?” Julia thought for a moment, then shook her head. “But you do have mutant powers. Do you ever use them?” Once again she shook her head. Alexander Pierce gave her a smile. “Well…maybe it will be the moment to use them. But first…” He then snapped his fingers. The guards started to move towards and grabbed Julia by the arms.
“Hey!” Julia said out scared. “What’s going to happen? What are you going to do with me?”
Alexander Pierce kept silenced. She started to beg as she has been dragged out of the room. “Let me go! Please!”
The guards said nothing as they kept dragging her through the hallway, followed by Rumlow. They went down a basement where men in lab coats stood around a machine. The guards threw her into the seat of the machine. After that the lab coated men restrained her arms with leather belts. “Please, what is going to happen?” Julia begged.
Rumlow walked over to her, bend over and looked deeply in her eyes. “This is your punishment,” he said followed by a mean laugh.
Tears welled up in Julia’s eyes. “Please, forgive me,” she begged in a whisper.
He continued laughing as he made space for the lab coat men. A helmet with wires has been placed on her head. “This just sting a little bit,” Rumlow teased as he pushed a button. A scream of Julia filled the room as electricity flow through her mind and body.

Clover1983

He was screaming the lungs out of his body as he quickly sat up in his bed. Heavily breathing, sweat dripping over his face and body. He looked around to see where he is. It is dark. Next to the bed is a night table with a lamp. He turned it on. Once again he looked around once the room is filled with light. Nothing to see. He stepped out of bed, opened quietly the bedroom door and walked to the bathroom. He opened the water tap and splashed some water over his face. He dried his face with a towel and heads for the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator and took a can of Heineken beer. While he walked to the living room, he opened the can and started to drink. He looked out of the window. He saw how the city lights enlighten the streets. He took another zip from the beer. He released a sigh and took a seat on his couch. Next to his couch is a small table with a journal and a pen. He took the journal and started to write in it as he kept drinking his beer. A moment later, a knock on his apartment door. He looked up, “Who’s there?”
“It’s me, Steve.”
He stood up and walked to the door. He looked through peephole of the door. He saw his blond haired best friend, Steve Rogers. He opened the door and let him in.
“Are you okay, Bucky?” Steve asked.
Bucky Barnes released a sigh and shook his head as he closed the door. “It’s that nightmare again,” he admitted as he walked back to his couch. Steve followed him and saw the can of beer on the small table.
“So, you’re drinking your problems away?” he asked concerned.
“Yups, what else can I do about it?”
“Well you can talk about it.”
Bucky shook his head, “Not every day, Steve. Someday you will be sick and tired of me.” He took another sip from his beer. Then he gave the journal at Steve. Steve opened the journal and started to read. While he reads, Bucky drank the can empty while he walked to the kitchen.
“Have you ever met her?” Steve asked.
“Never!” Bucky answered from the kitchen. He came back to the living room, eating a slice of salami pizza. “Never saw her in Siberia, as far as I know.”
Steve kept reading as he asked: “Do you want to find out?”
Bucky shook his head with his mouth full of pizza.
Steve closed the journal and walking to his friend. “Listen, if you want to talk, come to me. I’m not getting tired of you.” He placed a hand on Bucky’s shoulder, “Or else I didn’t let you in my team.” Bucky smiled and mumbled a thanks. Then they embraced each other. “Go back to sleep,” Steve said in his best friends ear, “Who knows what kind of day it’s going to be tomorrow.” Steve released his friend and went back to his own apartment.
Bucky released a sigh and laid down on his couch.

Julia opened her eyes. She finds herself laying on the ground in her room. The bright LED-light lightened her room. She turned around, lying on her stomach. A severe pain is in her body. She tried to stand up, but her body is in too much pain to function. She turned around and laid back on her back. She stared at the ceiling and tried to remember what happened. Flashes of memory went through her mind:

Note
Soldiers
Her mutant powers
Alexander Pierce
Rumlow

She laid her hands over her ears and closed her eyes to stop the flashes. After a while she looked up and noticed again the note on her mirror. She rolled over on her stomached and crawled to the desk. By grabbing the desk she tried to stand up. She felt the pain but remained standing. She took the note and read.

“Your name is Julia Berger. You have the power to absorb life from people by your hands, but if you hold them too long life will leave their body and die while you live.”

“But what’s too long?” she wondered in a whisper. She continued reading.

“You are here to be trained to be a Winter Soldier. Hold on….”

“Oh my god,” Julia whispered in shock. “Who wrote this?”

Then the door opened. Quickly she putted the note in the pocket of her jeans. She turned around to see who it was but before she knew, two pair of hands grabbed her arms and dragged her through the hallway. “No, not again!” she begged.

Once again she is in the office of Alexander Pierce. He sat in his chair behind his desk, with Rumlow behind him. “I hope you are recovered from your punishment.” Julia kept silenced as she is being pushed into a chair by the guards. Pierce had a file in his hand. “This is your mission,” he said as he handed over the file to Julia. She took it and glared at it. “In there you will find all the information you need.” She opened the file and saw a picture of a young man in an uniform of a sergeant. Plus a plane ticket to New York and a set of keys. “Find this man and bring him here.” Julia looked at him. “Do not ask questions and do not fail. Now go,” Pierce demanded. Julia carefully stood up and walked unsteady out of the office.

Meanwhile in New York, the Avengers took place in a meeting room in the Avengers facility. Natasha Romanoff and Steve Roger, better known as the Black Widow and Captain America, sat next to each other.
“Where’s Bucky?” the Black Widow asked Captain America.
Steve wanted to answer her question but before he could give it, Bucky Barnes entered the meeting room. His skin is pale, dark circles underneath his eyes and slightly unstable at his feet. “What happened to him?” she asked.
“Nightmares,” Steve answered.
Bucky took a seat as Nick Fury started to talk. “Avengers, HYDRA is forming a new group of soldiers. Perhaps stronger then the Winter Soldiers we all know.”
Bucky released a sigh and whispered to himself, “Not again.”
Nick Fury continued, “We have to stop them before the country or even the world will be taken over by HYDRA.” He looked at Bucky. “As for you, sergeant Barnes, you won’t fight this time. Because they also want you back.” Bucky looked confused. “They want to re-program you for their next war.” Bucky looked a bit shocked. “For your own safety we send you back to Wakanda,” Nick continued. “King T’Challa knows the situation and will welcome you in his village. Your plane leaves tonight.”
Bucky nodded. Nick Fury walked off, out of the meeting room. Bucky and the team stood up. All of his teammates said goodbye to him by hugging him, one by one. Captain America was the last person for his goodbye. “You know what I have told you?”
“Don’t worry, man. I’ll be fine,” Bucky said secured. They smiled to each other and hugged.

After hours of travelling, Julia arrived in her temporary, furnished apartment. She dropped all her bags and dropped herself in the couch. For moments she just stared at an empty wall, thinking about what happened the past 36 hours. But her mind kept blank. Pain in her body started to well up. She stood up and walked to one of her bags, to take out some painkillers. Two pills rolled out of the small, plastic jar into her hand. She threw them into her mouth, followed by a half bottle of Coca Cola Zero.
Then Julia turned on her laptop, looking for information about her mission. Suddenly her cellphone started to vibrate. She almost jumped up from fear because she didn’t expected a message. She took the phone and read the message she just received. She sighed, slapped her hand on the desk, got up and left.

Si_Crazy

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Clover1983

sorry didn't know this! I'll place a new part tomorrow

Clover1983

In the meantime, Steve brought Bucky to the J.F. Kennedy airport. He parked the car at a kiss-and-ride parking lot. They stepped out of the car. Steve went to the trunk, opened it and took out two big bags. Bucky took it over from his friend.
“Let me know when you have arrived in Wakanda.”
“I will,” Bucky said and walked off to the customs. Steve stepped back into his car and drove off.
As Bucky walked in the airport, he could see a lot of security. He find it very odd and unusual. He walked by one of the security guards as he wants to go to the check-in-desk. As he is five steps removed from the guard, the guard mumbled in his walkie-talkie. Bucky glanced around his shoulder and saw him talking in the walkie talkie. He stood in line to check in. While he was waiting, he looked around at all the people and the guards.

At the gate, he was waiting to go on board of the plane to Africa. Then his ears caught on a language he preferred to ignore. He looked up to see where it comes from. He saw a young woman with a little boy in her arms, probably two years old.
“Samolet, (airplane)” the woman said in Russian to her child as she pointed out to the airplane. The boy said nothing and just stared outside, sleeping with his eyes opened. The woman pointed out a car that drove by: “Avtomobil. (car)”
Bucky felt getting nervous and grabbed out his earphone and smartphone out of his jacket. He plugged the earphone into his ears. Suddenly his phone failed and went off. He sighed annoyed and rushed to the bathrooms. In the bathroom he looked at himself in the mirrors. He placed his hands on the washing stand and looked deeply into his eyes. “Stay away, you beast! Just stay away!” he growled at his own image. Suddenly he heard people screaming.

Steve drove his way back home. On the other side of the rode, 3 police cars and 2 police vans passed by. He looked up into the rearview mirror and saw they are heading for the airport. He looked back on the road. He didn’t trust it. Then he gave his steering wheel a hard pull to the left. His car started to spin and end up on the other side of the road. With high speed he head off to the airport.

Julia looked around, while people ran around crazy, screaming and hiding. The guards are aiming their guns on several people, looking for somebody. One of the guards saw Julia as she stood still, like a scared deer into the lights of a car. He said something in Russian in his walkie-talkie and jogged to her. Julia ran off followed by guards, screaming in the language she is afraid of. She ran off in the direction of the custom portals. As she passed one of the portals it beeped and showed red lights, but she kept on running. The guards followed her footsteps.

Two guards busted into the bathrooms, aiming their guns into nothing. They looked around, looking for Bucky. He was hiding in one of the toilets. Sitting on the toilet with his shoes onto the toilet bowl, ready to attack if the door is going to be opened. Instead the guards left the bathroom. Slowly he opened the toilet door. He saw it’s safe and went out of the bathrooms. Sliding along the walls he saw the madness going on in the hallway.

As he arrived at the airport, Captain America jumped out of his car and ran into the hallway with his shield on his arm. Suddenly Crossbones stood in his way. The Captain could stopped in time with running and held his shield in front of him.
“Hey there, you punk! Happy to see me?” Crossbones snarled.
“I’m more happy for not seeing you,” Captain replied calmly.
Crossbones screamed as he attacked Captain America. He wanted to kick Captain America, but The Cap quickly held his shield up so he kicked in there instead. Crossbones bounced back and tried to punch him. Cap grabbed his wrist and twisted it. A sharp small sword pointed out of the hand and scratched Cap’s thigh. He looked at his thigh as a little bit blood came out of it. “Is that it?” Cap wondered as he pushed away Crossbones with his shield. The enemy flew through the air and landed on the ground, on his back. He flipped himself back on his feet. From his back he grabbed a canon-like-shotgun. “Eat this!” he yelled as he fired. Captain America hid behind his shield as the shot hit it. From the behind of Captain America, The Falcon appeared and shoot his bullets on Crossbones. It all hit his bullet proof armor. “Hey, that tickles, budgie!” Then The Black Widow jumped out of nowhere onto Crossbones’ neck. She smashed with her fists on his head, until he grabbed her elbows and threw her off his neck. She landed on her back. Captain America ran, made a jump and kicked Crossbones in the face. Crossbones just laughed, “You really think you are karate kid?” He grabbed Captain America by the throat and lifted him up from the ground. “Now what, boy?” Captain clenched his teeth as he tried to break free from his grip. Crossbones laughed. “You can’t escape me!” The Falcon flew by and fired his bullets into Crossbones’ bullet proof back. Crossbones looked up and saw The Falcon flying by. He threw Captain America towards The Falcon and they hit each other. Both were falling from the sky but did not hit the ground, instead they were flowing above it. They looked to their left and saw The Scarlet Witch, using her powers to protect them from falling. Slowly she made sure they hit the ground. “Thank you,” Captain America said as he nodded to her.
“You have to go to the gate. People are getting hostage there by HYDRA,” Wanda told Captain America. “We will take care here.”
Captain nodded and ran off to the gate.

People were still screaming and running around in panic. Julia looked scared in the holes of their gun. Caused by fear she started to hyperventilate. The guards said nothing. She walked backwards but the guards stayed close to her. They placed their finger on the trigger. Julia shook her head and started to beg: “No, no don’t shoot.” They kept holding the trigger. Tears welled up in her eyes. “Just go away!” Then they pulled the trigger. Julia fell to the ground, closing her eyes tight and her arms around her head. She was waiting for the pain. After a moment she still didn’t feel the pain and decided to open her eyes. A young man was standing in front of her. He was wearing a black long-sleeved sweater and held up a hand of steel. In that arm were two arrows. He grabbed the arrows and threw them on the ground. His blue eyes stared angrily at the guards. One of them wanted to say something in his walkie talkie but before he had the change, Bucky Barnes punched him with his metal fist. The other guard grabbed his gun while his colleague fell knocked out to the ground. Bucky kicked the gun of his hands and punched him in the chest. The guard bend over and gasped for air. With his knee Bucky knocked out the second guard. He looked at the two unconscious guards and turned around to see how Julia was doing. She was still sitting on the ground, staring into nothing and breathing heavy. Bucky crouched in front of her. “Are you okay?” She kept staring into the distance. He waved before her eyes, but no reaction. “Hey?” Bucky said worried. “Hey, wake up.” He shook her a little bit by the shoulders. “It’s okay now. You’re safe.”
After a while , Captain America came by. He looked around and saw all the people were gone except for Bucky, Julia and the two unconscious guards. He crouched next to his friend. “What happened?” the Captain asked.
Bucky sighed and shook his head. “I was getting triggered and had to calm down in the bathrooms. Then I heard the people screaming and saw that guards were pointing their guns at her.”
“Do you know why?” Captain asked as he looked at Bucky.
Bucky shook his head as he looked at The Captain. Then they heard the young female whisper; “HYDRA.” The men looked at her. Julia blinked her eyes, waking up from her trance. “They are from HYDRA,” Julia whispered with a trembling voice. “Looking for me.”
“Why looking for you?” Bucky asked wondering. Julia looked at him as tears welled up in her eyes and shook her head.
“I don’t want to be a soldier,” she admitted as a tear walked over her cheek. “I’m trying to fail at everything so they can let me go. But instead….they keep me.” She looked at the two men. “And their punishment….” She stopped as pain welled up in her body. She held her arms over her stomach and moaned.
“Hey, are you okay?” Captain America asked worried. “Something we can do for you?”
“It’s okay. It’s my punishment,” Julia gasped for air. “It will pass…this pain.” Julia curled up and moaned more as the pain welled up more.
Bucky and Captain America looked to each other. “This is no good,” Captain America said softly to Bucky.
“I know,” Bucky replied softly. “I know what she’s dealing with.”

“Steve!” Bucky and Captain America looked over their shoulders. Scarlet Witch, Falcon and The Black Widow ran towards them. “Crossbones escaped,” Black Widow said. She was shocked to see Julia in pain. “Who is she?” she asked worried.
“Don’t know. But she was from HYDRA,” Steve answered, looking up at his colleagues.
Bucky saw Julia getting relaxed but remained lying on the ground with her eyes closed. He checked her pulse in the neck. “She passed out, Steve.”
“We have to take her to the hospital,” Captain America said looking at her.
“No,” Bucky said suddenly. The friends looked at each other. “HYDRA can hack every computer. That’s how they know I am here. They can hack computers in every hospital, police station, airports…everywhere! We have to take care that she’s safe. I can’t go to Wakanda now because HYDRA will know.”
Captain America thought for a minute. He looked at Black Widow. “Call Bruce Banner and tell him we have a medical emergency.” Black Widow nodded, grabbed a small cellphone out the pocket of her suit and made the call.

Rumlow walked into Pierce’s office. Alexander Pierce stared out of the window, looking over the city. “Could you caught them?” he asked.
“No, but it was close,” Rumlow answered. “Very close.” Pierce looked at him. “If those Avengers…”
“Just admit you failed,” Pierce interrupted. Rumlow sighed and bowed his head down. “Don’t worry. We will get them. No matter how.” Pierce looked and smiled at Rumlow which made him smile, as he had thoughts about Pierce’s idea.

girl under the floor

Thanks for sharing
I promise I will read later when I have more time

Clover1983

In the hospital wing of the Avengers tower, Bruce Banner placed a stethoscope on the chest of Julia. She is still unconscious and lays on a large table.
Captain America looked worried. “Is she going to be okay?”
“Well she has an irregular breathing and also an irregular heartbeat. I’m going to give her some fluids and painkillers through an IV,” Banner answered. “And some oxygen.” He looked at Captain America. “Whatever happened to her….it’s no good.”
Then the Captain noticed a piece of paper sticking out of her jeans. He took it out, fold it open and started to read. He looked up and saw Bucky looking worried, behind a large window. Captain walked out of the medical room while reading. Bucky walked up to him.
“Steve, we need to talk.” Captain America looked up. Bucky sighed, searching for the words he wanted to say. “I know her.” The Captain looked confused. “Okay this sounds weird but she is that girl…from my dreams,” Bucky admitted.
The Captain gave him the note. “She has a name, Julia Berger,” he said as Bucky reads the note. “This girl…is not an ordinary girl. Who knows what HYDRA wants from her.”
“Wow,” is what Bucky all could say as he is done reading.
Captain America patted him on the shoulder, “Come, let’s have a coffee. She is in good hands now with Bruce.” Together they walked away.

***

Bruce Banner placed an oxygen mask around Julia’s mouth. He turned open the tank to give her the amount of oxygen she needs. He walked up to a drawer, opened it, took out a pair of rubber gloves and puts them on. He went to the corner of the room to grab a holder. Out of a refrigerator, he took out a sack of fluids and hang it on the holder. He dragged it to Julia’s body. He removed the leather glove from her right hand and injected the IV into her hand. He checked if the fluids were getting into the needle and into her veins. Once that works, he walked again to a drawer taking out an needle. He rolled up the sleeve of her shirt, to take out a sample of blood. With the sample of blood he walked to a microscope on his desk. He dropped a few drops of blood on the object plate of the microscope. He looked through the eyepiece.
Slowly she woke up. Lights were shining in her eyes. She pinched to focus her sight. Carefully she sat up, noticing the IV in her bare hand and the oxygen mask around her mouth. Panic boiled into her body. Julia removed the mask. Then she tried to remove the IV. Suddenly she heard a small cough and looked up into the direction where it came from. She saw a man, wearing a dark green blouse, looking into a microscope. She remained quiet as she roughly removed the IV out of her hand. She clinched her teeth as she did it, to avoid screaming in pain. Some blood ran out of her hand. She slid from the table and sneaked behind the man. Suddenly she placed her hand around his mouth and hold him firmly. She felt the energy rushing from his body into hers. Bruce’s scream cannot be heard, caused by the hand of Julia. After twenty seconds she released him, causing Bruce passing out on the ground. Julia looked at him in shock, not knowing how strong her powers could be. She was breathing heavy, but noticed the pain in her body was gone. She looked around to see where she is. It all looked unfamiliar for her and that made her scared. Scared that HYDRA took her to another place. She tried to remember her last memory. All she could remember was pain. Also a blurry memory of two men, one blond haired and one dark haired, came into her mind. Then she heard the man moaning. She turned around and looked at him, as he is on his hands and knees. He growled angrily. Slowly his skin turned green and started to grow. Julia looked at him in fear as he grew bigger and bigger. He turned into a big, green monster, started to growl and smashing the desk. He looked at the little Julia as she looked at him in fear. He roared the lungs out of his body, causing Julia to run for her life.

***

Bucky stared into his coffee. Captain America looked over the shoulder of Black Widow as she is searching information about Julia on the computer. “No information about her. No police reports, just nothing,” Black Widow said.
“Looks like she is no threat for us,” Captain America replied.
“She can be a threat for HYDRA,” Bucky said while he stared in his coffee. He looked up at them as the two were looking at him. “If she doesn’t do what HYDRA demands, they will kill her. Believe me, I have seen and heard it all. It’s no fun hearing somebody screaming followed by a deadly silence.”
Then they heard a roar, from a distance. They all looked up. “A scream like this one?” Captain America asked Bucky. The second roar they hear is bigger and louder.
“It’s Hulk!” Black Widow said.
“The girl!” Bucky said shocked.
The three ran to the hospital wing. Once they have arrived there, they see The Hulk smashing and growling around.
Bucky looked at the table where Julia laid, but it’s empty. “Where is she?” Bucky asked worried. Also Captain America is looking around, searching for her.
While the men searched for Julia, The Black Widow tried to make contact with The Hulk. “Hey big guy.” The Hulk looked at her. “Calm down before somebody gets hurt,” she said calm. The Hulk stared at her. Slowly he calmed down. “Good job, big guy.” Slowly he started to shrink, his green skin faded into human flesh.
Then Captain America noticed Julia behind a thrown over desk, she was hiding behind. Slowly Captain America and Bucky approached her as she was looking wonderingly at The Black Widow and The Hulk who turned into Bruce Banner.
Bruce Banner stood wobbly on his feet. He sank through his legs and fell on his knees.
“What the hell am I looking at?” Julia asked herself. “What did HYDRA do to my head?”
“This is not HYDRA,” Captain America told her. “We are The Avengers. We are assembled together to protect people from HYDRA.”
She looked at Captain America and Bucky. Then she looked over to The Black Widow and Bruce Banner. She shook her head. “You did something with my head while I was gone, huh?”
“No we didn’t,” Captain America said, secure. “You can trust us. Bucky was also a victim of HYDRA, just like you.”
Julia looked at Bucky. Bucky nodded. “I…I really don’t know what to believe.” Captain America placed a hand on her shoulder. Julia snapped, “No don’t touch me!” Immediately he removed his hand. “Just don’t or else bad things will happen.” She went with her hands through her hair. “I need to go! I have to fulfill my mission or else HYDRA will punish me again,” Julia said as she stood up and walked away out of the room.
The Avengers looked at her while she left.
“She is clearly scared and traumatized,” Black Widow said.
“All caused by HYDRA,” Bucky added.
“She needs help…and fast!” Bruce concluded. “Her fear cause her a lot of stress and her heart can’t take it any longer.”
Then Bucky reminded something. “Could you find Adamantium in her blood?”
Bruce stood up and walked to the thrown desk with the microscope, “As far as I could see there was no Adamantium in her blood.” Bucky released a relieved sigh. “But she hardly has any kind of vitamin and white blood cells in her blood. A flu could kill her,” he added as he was looking through the trash.
Everybody was in shock.
“Could this been caused by HYDRA?” Black Widow asked.
“I don’t know,” Bucky answered. “But I hope for her it won’t happen.”
Then Bruce found the injection needle with Julia’s blood, still intact. He sighed relieved. “I am going to investigate her blood once more for the Adamantium.”

***

Julia entered her apartment. She closed the front door and leaned against it.
“It’s been a hard day, huh?” She was shocked to hear a male voice from her living room. Slowly she walked closer to the living room. Suddenly she got punched in the face and fell to the floor. Wiping her nose with her bare hand, leaving a trail of blood. “This is just part one of your punishment!”
Julia was afraid to look up. “Well, I did my best,” she said.
She got grabbed by the throat and been lifted up. She gasped for air when she looked scared into the eyes of Rumlow. “That is the most pathetic excuse, ever! You could take him down with your stupid powers and bringing him to HYDRA. But no!” He threw Julia into the couch. She coughed as she was breathing. “I distracted those Avengers while you could take him down.”
“The whole airport was filled with security. I could do nothing! I had to safe my own butt.” she defended.
Rumlow pointed a finger at her, “At least you could try!”
“How? You weren’t even there!” she yelled.
He smiled, “HYDRA is like Santa Claus. We know everything.” Julia looked angry at him. He pointed his finger again at her. “Now bring Barnes within 36 hours or else I will bring him and you will be punished!”
He turned around and rushed out of the apartment, leaving Julia on the couch.

***

In his bed, he stared at the ceiling. Every moment of the past 15 hours came into his mind. Then he stood up and went to the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator and took out a can of beer. For a moment he stared at it. Seconds later he threw it back and closed the door.

***

Steve Rogers sat behind his laptop, looking for more information about Julia. He looked at the note he found in her pocket. He sips from his mug with warm milk, as someone knocks on his front door. He stood up and walked to his front door. He saw his friend Bucky when he opened it.
“Hi…sorry for waking you up so late,” Bucky apologized.
“No problem, come in,” Steve said as he gestured Bucky inside.
He stepped into his apartment. In the living room he walked to a wall covered with personal pictures of Steve. He looked at them, one by one. A picture of Steve as a baby with his mother, a picture of Peggy Carter, a picture of skinny Steve in his army outfit and much more. But the picture Bucky admired the most is the one of him with Steve when they were 12 years old.
Steve woke him up from his trance, “Want some warm milk with honey?”
Shivers went through his spines of disgust but didn’t rejected. “Sure.” Bucky turned around and took a seat in the couch.
A moment later Steve came back with a mug of warm milk. “Warm milk is the best medicine if you can’t sleep,” he said and gave the mug to his friend. Bucky drank it all in once. “Well, apparently not only your left arm is made of steel.” He sat down next to his friend.
“But it still is disgusting,” Bucky admitted, after he swallowed down the warm drink.
Steve chuckled and took a sip. “But I guess you’re not here for the drink?” he then asked serious.
Bucky sighed. “You know, Nick Fury won’t like it but I want to fight HYDRA.” He looked at Steve. "I want her out of there, so she can be free and have a normal life. With the help of us.”
Steve stood up and took a seat behind his laptop. “I’m still trying to find information about Julia, but still there is nothing.”
Bucky thought for a while. Then he asked: “How’s the security in your laptop?”
“With the best of the best. Why?”
Bucky stood up and walked over to Steve. “May I?”
Steve grabbed another chair and placed it next to his. Bucky sat down in the chair and took over the laptop. “Now let’s hope they haven’t erased this from my mind,” he said as he started to type. Steve watched how he went into the dark side of the internet. After a moment a website asked for a password. Bucky typed in the secret password. The page started to load. “Cross your fingers, Steve.” They both looked at the screen with tension. Then it gave them access to secret website of HYDRA.
“Bingo!”
Steve was amazed. “Wow! What is this?”
“Here they have registered every soldier of HYDRA. You can also find reports about their missions,” Bucky explained. “Now let’s see if she is in the list.” He typed in Julia’s name. After a few seconds, a picture of her with additional information came on screen. The men read all the info.
“She has been brainwashed twice,” Steve noticed from the information. “Maybe that’s the punishment she mentioned? And maybe that’s why she has this note with her.”
Bucky agreed with him, “That’s a possibility.” Then he read further. He blinked his eyes. “What the…”
Steve looked at him, “What?”
“I am her new mission.” Bucky typed in his name and information about himself showed up in the screen. “Status: wanted. But why?” He went back to Julia’s profile to search for information, but couldn’t find any. Then he went to his own profile to search for information. Again no success. He sighed.
Steve laid a hand on his shoulder, “Hey, you and she are going to be fine. We will protect both of you.”
Bucky thanked him with a smile, feeling happy with a friend like Steve.

***

Hours later, Julia still laid on her sofa, staring at the ceiling. Her mind was blank and numb. Her eyes, focused on the ceiling. On her cheek was a trial of blood from her nose. She couldn’t move her body because she was in a state of trance.
Minutes later she woke up from her trance. She blinked her eyes a few times and started to look around. She sat up. Again she looked around. She touched her nose with her bare hand and looked at her fingers. Blood is what she saw. Slowly she stood up and went to the bathroom.
She opened the tap of the shower and got undressed. She stepped under the shower and felt the warm water, streaming along her body. She washed her face with her hands. Suddenly flashbacks hit her head.

Security guards on the airport
The man with the steel hand
The blond man
The man who turned into the green monster
Rumlow

Julia got scared and sat on the floor of the shower, breathing heavy. Not knowing what to do against these flashbacks. The flashbacks repeated again in her head, till it hurts. She grabbed her own head and screamed the lungs out of her body, hoping the flashbacks will stop.

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The next morning, Nick Fury looked over the shoulder of his assistance, Maria Hill. She was typing out a report about HYDRA. Behind them was a large table, where the Avengers had their meeting a day ago. In one of the chairs sat The Black Widow.
“So HYDRA can hack every public computer, you say?” Nick Fury asked while he was still looking at the computer screen of his assistance.
“Yes, sir.”
“And this young lady is their soldier?”
“I can’t say she is a real soldier,” a male voice said. Nick and Black Widow looked up and saw Captain America and Bucky Barnes walking up to them. “We presume she is a victim of HYDRA,” Captain America told.
Nick walked to the men and shook their hands, “Captain. Sergeant. Glad you are alright. Any more information about this lady?”
“Not much but we know a name, her status and her mission.”
“Good. Have a seat and tell us what you know,” Nick said, as he folded his arms in front of his chest.
Captain America and Bucky Barnes walked to the empty chairs and took a seat; the Captain next to the Black Widow and Bucky Barnes across them. “By a note we have discovered her name, Julia Berger. From this note we also know she is a mutant who can absorb energy from people.” Nick Fury raised his eyebrows as he listened interesting. “Bucky could hack a website which belongs to HYDRA. She has a profile with her missions.” He looked at his friend. “Her mission is to bring Bucky back to HYDRA. The reason is unknown.”
“When we arrived at the airport, soldiers of HYDRA were already there. Dressed as the airport security,” Bucky added. “HYDRA has hacked the airport computers.” He looked at Maria Hill as she was still typing the report. “There is a possibility HYDRA has also hacked all the computers in this room.” Maria stopped typing and looked shocked at Bucky. Then she looked at Nick as he was looking at her.
Then he stood up and called everyone in the room, “I want all of you scan your computers! Now!” All the people heard his demand and started to scan, including Maria Hill. Nick looked over her shoulder as the virus scanner did it’s work. Minutes went by. The three Avengers waited patiently. Impatiently, Nick Fury stared outside the window, close to Maria Hill. A bleep came out of the computer.
“Sir.” He looked at her. “Computer is clean. No signs of being hacked.”
“Good,” he said.

***

Meanwhile, Julia was working on her laptop. Next to her is a small notebook with notes she has learned, during her computer trainings. She is on the main-website of SHIELD. She opened another computer program and typed in some codes from her notebook. She selected the text and placed it inside another field of the SHIELD-website. She pressed the ‘enter’-key and the page started to load. Anxious she looked at the loading page. After minutes it was done. She grabbed her cell phone and called a number. “Hacking SHIELD’s website is completed.”
“Good,” an old man’s voice said through the phone. “Now bring Barnes here. Or else…” and the person hung up.
She sighed as she put her cellphone in the pocket of jeans. With her hands she rubbed over her face, placing her elbows on the table. For a moment she sat with her hands over her face. Thinking about how to complete her mission. Then she stood up and left her apartment.

***

She walked through the streets, close by her apartment. In the distance she saw a pub with a terrace outside. She stood in front of it and looked at the entrance. “Hey!” she heard a female voice. Julia didn’t reacted. “Hey, you,” she heard and looked up. She saw a young lightly brunette walking up to her. “Hey, how are you?” Julia was amazed, not knowing how to react. “We just talked about you. Come…have a seat at our table,” the unknown lady said and gestured her to follow her. Julia decided to follow, still thinking who she could be. “Oh by the way, I’m Wanda.” They arrived at a table, with a man sitting. “This is Sam.”
“Hey, what’s up?” he said and reached out his hand. Julia doubt for a second. Then she shook his hand. “Have a seat,” he gestured to an empty chair, across him. A waitress came and placed two cappuccino’s on the table. “Would you like to drink something?” Sam offered.
“Oh no, thank you. I just had breakfast,” Julia said nervous. The waitress left their table.
“So tell me….how are you feeling?” Wanda asked curious.
She felt very uncomfortable as she answered her question, “I guess I’m doing ok.”
“What’s your name?” Sam asked, as he lift up his cup of cappuccino.
“Uhm…my name is uhm…Julia?” Her mind was blurry caused by the flashbacks.
Sam took a sip of his warm drink. He made a face of disgust. “Yuck! No sugar!” He looked around at the empty terrace. About five tables further, he saw a jar with sugar cubes. “Why can’t they place on every table a jar with sugar cubes?” he wondered annoyed.
Wanda giggled. “Shall I?” She moved up her left hand and made a ‘come’ gesture with her fingers, in the direction of the jar. Julia looked at the table with the jar and saw how the jar been lift up by itself. It flew three feet above the ground, towards their own table. She looked back at Wanda, as she is looking concentrated to the jar and moving her fingers with the gesture. The jar reached their table and landed. Then two sugar cubes came out of the jar and fell into his cappuccino.
“Now that’s what I call service,” Sam said happy, as he stir with a teaspoon in his drink.
Julia blinked her eyes a few times and shook her head. She rubbed with her hands, covered with her black leather gloves, over her eyes.
“Are you okay?” Wanda asked curious.
She looked at her. “Oh yeah, I’m just…uhm…I didn’t know you also have super powers.”
Sam and Wanda became curious. “Also?” Sam asked.
She sighed. “I can absorb life energy with my bare hands.”
“Oh wow,” Wanda reacted as Sam nodded his head. “Interesting,” he said.
Julia became more uncomfortable. “Uhm…yeah….it’s no fun, to be honest.”
“I understand,” Wanda comforted her. “Sometimes my powers are so strong, that I can’t handle them.”
Julia looked at Sam. “What about you?” she asked curious.
He took a sip of his drink and said: “I can fly with a special suit and that’s all.”
“So no super powers? Just a suit?” Sam nodded. “Okay, sounds…interesting.”
Then a cellphone went off. Sam went with his hands in the pocket of his jeans, took out his phone and answered it. “Hello?” he said as he stood up and walked away.
Julia became more nervous. She looked at Wanda as she wanted to say something but saw her looking at her thoughtfully. Julia became scared, not knowing what Wanda is thinking.
After a moment Wanda said: “I am looking inside your head. You are scared.” Julia swallowed because she knows she spoke the truth. “You don’t want to listen to them but you have to.” Panic went through her veins.
Sam looked at them from a distance as he was still listening on the phone. A black SUV drove by very slow. A window of the car opened and he saw how a gun pointed at the two girls. “Girls look out!” he screamed as the gun went off. Julia held her head and closed her eyes, in fear.
Wanda held up her right hand and the bullet stopped close to Julia’s neck. “But they put a lot of pressure on you to bring him to them.” Then she placed her hand down and the bullet fell on the ground. Julia removed her hands from her head and looked at the bullet on the ground.
The SUV speeded up and drove off.
Sam ran to them. “Who were they?”
“HYDRA,” Wanda answered. “Looking for her. Again.”
Suddenly Julia stood up and ran away. “Hey!” Sam yelled at her. But it didn’t let her stop. She was running down the street as fast as she can. Then from the sky, Wanda came down. Julia stopped, slipped, fell on her back and hit the ground with her head. For a moment, she laid on the ground. Sam ran to them and stood above Julia. She looked scared at him, not knowing what happens next.
“Look, you can’t keep on running,” Sam said. “I give you two choices, a good one and a bad one. You can surrender to them or surrender to us. It’s up to you.”
“Listen, no matter what I choose it won’t end well,” Julia explained, as she sat up. “If I surrender to them, they will keep experimenting on me. If I surrender to you, they will come and get me while they hurt you and your friends.”
“Girl, have you seen what she can do?” Sam snapped as he pointed to Wanda. “And that’s not all. We also have a Hulk.”
“The big green monster?” Julia asked scared.
“That’s right. Just think about it.”
Julia stood up, rushed her hands through her hair and turned away. For a moment she was thinking, as she looked at her hands.
“Well?” Sam asked.
Julia looked up, turned around and said: “I have the feeling this is isn’t the safest option for all of us….” She looked at Sam and Wanda. “But I guess it’s the best to go with you.”
Sam laid a hand on her shoulder. “Best choice ever in your life,” he said with a smile.

***

From a distance there was a silver colored BMW. Behind wheel was Rumlow, looking out of the window at Julia, Wanda and Sam. He saw Julia walking away with the two Avengers.
“Mission proceed. She leads us to the Avengers,” he said in his hands-free bluetooth device.
“Copy that,” another male said in his ear.
Rumlow smiled as he started the engine and drove away.

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In the HYDRA facility there was a large room with computers and a large group of people. Alexander Pierce looked over a shoulder of a blond female. They both stared at the computer screen. On that screen was the SHIELD website. Then the screen went into black. Pierce held his breath. Three seconds later the screen showed the SHIELD site again. A message appeared, “completed.”
“Sir, the hack has succeed,” the blond female said.
He let out a sigh of relieve. “Good. Now collect all the information we need,” he demanded and walked away.

***

The two Avengers and Julia entered the facility. They walked through the main hall, as Julia looked around. She felt nervous, scared and wished she was been killed by Rumlow, when he had the change. “Miss Berger,” she heard a male saying. She looked into the direction where the voice came from. A man, dressed in black and an eyepatch over his left eye, walked into her direction. Followed by Natasha, Steve and Bucky. She became scared of his powerful attitude. He stood still, two feet away from her. “For our safety, my female colleague will body search you. Do you agree?”
She nodded. Fury turned around and nodded at Natasha. He walked away and Natasha took in his place. Julia’s body started to tremble as Natasha looked in her eyes.
“I…I have never experienced this before,” Julia admitted.
Natasha smiled at her. “Don’t worry, it won’t hurt. Raise up your arms, sideways.”
Julia did what she has been asked. Natasha laid her hands on her shoulders. Suddenly Julia winced in fear. Fury grabbed his gun from his belt, but has been stopped by Steve before he pulled it out. Julia walked two steps backwards. She was breathing heavy again. Bucky could see the fear in her eyes and felt sorry for her.
“Okay,” Natasha said to Julia. “Calm down first.” Julia closed her eyes as she tried to calm down. “We will do this again and I will tell you what I am doing. Slowly. Is that okay?” Natasha explained. She opened her eyes, let out a deep breath and nodded. “Raise up your arms, sideways.” Julia did. “I am going to touch you by the shoulders and I go down to your ribs.” Gently Natasha touched her shoulders. Julia slightly winced but remained standing. Natasha moved slowly with her hands from her shoulder to her ribs. “Now I am going to touch your left arm and then your right arm.” Julia took a deep breath as Natasha did what she said. “Now I’m going down, check your left leg and then your right leg.” Natasha crouched and searched her legs. She stood up. “Okay. Are your pockets empty?” Julia shook her head. “Can you remove the items from your pockets?” Julia went with her hands into her pockets. She held out a set of keys out of her left pocket and a cell phone from her right pocket. “Okay. You may give them to me.” Julia laid her items in the hand of Natasha. “Now take off your gloves.” Julia’s body froze. She stared in panic at her. “Please. Take off your gloves,” Natasha repeated. Her hands trembled as she slowly removed her gloves. Natasha looked at her bare hands. “Okay, put them on. We are done.” She gave back her items, turned around and walked back to the three men. “She is unarmed,” she said to Fury.
“Good. Let’s bring her to Dr. Banner for the psychological examination. Follow us, miss Berger,” Fury said, as he turned around. He started walking deeper into the facility, followed by Natasha, Steve and Bucky. She walked behind them, followed by Wanda and Sam. As they are walking, Bucky looked over his shoulder to Julia. Their eyes connected and he gave her a smile, which made her lips curl up a little bit.

In the medical wing of the Avengers facility was Bruce Banner looking in the computer at the information they have collected about Julia. He looked up as Julia, Steve and Fury entered. Julia looked around and saw almost everything was back on place. She felt guilty for what she had caused. Fury and Banner shook each other hands. “Dr. Banner, here is miss Berger.”
Banner looked at her and reached out for her hand. After a moment of doubt, she shook it with her gloved hand. “Listen, I’m really sorry for what happened earlier,” she apologized.
“Well, that’s okay,” Bruce said. “I accept your apology. Have a seat.” He gestured her to a small table with two chairs. “We will start your examination.” Fury and Steve, turned and left the room. Julia took a seat. Bruce walked to his desk and grabbed a paper notebook and a pencil. He sat across her, opened the notebook and started to write. “Okay, I am going to ask you some simple questions. You can answer them with yes or no.” He looked at her. “Understood?” Julia nodded. “Good. First question. Do you often feel tense or anxious?”
“Yes, sir,” Julia said immediately.
“Do you have any anxious or panicky feeling without knowing where this feeling comes from?”
“Mostly I do know where they come from.”
“Dare to explain?”
Julia started to think. She became silenced and wringed into her fingers.
“You don’t have to explain the whole situation, if it’s too hard for you.”
She shook her head. “No, I don’t want to talk about it.”
“That’s okay,” he said and smiled at her to ease the tension.
She bowed her head. “Sorry,” she mumbled.
“Don’t be. It’s okay to tell your boundaries. Shall we proceed?”
She looked up, took a deep breath and nodded.

At the other side of the window Sam, Steve and Bucky were looking at the interview.
“She looks very tensed,” Steve mentioned.
“Very,” Sam agreed.
Bucky just could look at the interview and remembered his own interview with Zemo.

“Do you have the idea that your fear arise from a traumatic experience in the past?” Bruce asked as he is writing in his notebook.
“Yes.”
“Do you have a traumatic experience suffer from flashbacks and nightmares?”
Julia took a deep breath and answered with a trembled voice; “Yes.”
“Do you have trouble remembering the details of the traumatic experience?”
She closed her eyes. Her whole body started to tremble of fear. Julia covered her face with her gloved hands. “Please stop,” she begged.
Bruce laid down his pencil. “Okay, let’s calm down. I want you to look at something inside this room.” She removed her hands from her face and looked at a computer on his desk. “Now breath in through your nose, held in for 3 seconds and then breath out through your mouth.” Julia followed his advice as she stared at the computer. Suddenly she saw the screen getting black. She closed her eyes and swallowed down her fear. When she opened her eyes, the screen was still black. A second later it turned on again. Another shock of fear went through her body. “Concentrate on your breathing,” Bruce said. Julia didn’t respond, she just stared into nothing. He leaned over to her and waved with his left hand in front of her eyes. No response.
Steve, Sam and Bucky entered the room when they had seen everything behind the large window. “What happened?” Steve asked the doctor.
Bruce stood up and walked to his desk. “I believe she is in a trance caused by panic.” He opened a drawer and took out a small flashlight. He went back to her and started to shine into her eyes. “Her pupils are reacting.”
Bucky stood next to Bruce and crouched to be on eye-to-eye level with Julia. He took her shoulders in his hands and shook her a little bit. “Hey, wake up,” he said with a gentle voice. “Everything is okay.”
Sam tracked down the trail from her eyes to where she stared at. He found out she was staring at the computer on Bruce’s desk. He walked to it and began to use it.
After a moment, Julia woke up from her trance. She blinked her eyes and looked into blue-green eyes of Bucky. “Hey, are you okay?” he asked concerned.
She took a deep breath. “Kind of….I think,” she answered.
“Hey, the computer is frozen,” Sam said. Everybody looked at him.
She looked over his shoulders and saw Sam standing at the computer. “Oh ****,” she whispered. She laid her face in her hands.
“I can do everything I want, but it’s not responding.” He dove underneath the desk. “Where’s the plug?”
“I don’t have a plug,” Bruce replied.
“What?! What kind of computer is this?”
“Hey, it’s a SHIELD computer. The best secured computers of the world,” Bruce snarled back.
Sam got back on his feet. “Then tell me why it froze!”
“HYDRA.” They all looked at Julia. She became uncomfortable as everyone looked at her. “Sorry,” she whispered and bowed her head. “They made me to hack the computers here. For secret information.” They kept looking at her. She threw her hands in the air, stood up and walked to the other side of the room. She stood in a corner. A few tears rolled down her cheeks. Then she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. “I’m no good,” she sobbed. “I’m just a mess, a problem maker…”
“No. You’re not,” she heard Bucky saying. She looked at him. “This is not your fault. Ok?”
She sighed. “Yes it is, because when I won’t do what he demands…” She shook her head and looked away. “Those screams when soldiers got their punishment. The pain…”
“I know. I can still feel the pain in my body when I think of that machine.”
Her body started to tremble as her mind shows the images of the machine, she could hear the screams in her head. She covered her ears and sank through her knees. She started to breath heavily.
“Hey, calm down. This is not HYDRA. You’re safe here,” Bucky tried to calm her down as he crouched next to her. But it didn’t help. She still covered her ears and went into a state of panic. All that what Bucky could do for her is holding her, telling everything will be fine and that she is safe.

Sam, Steve and Bruce looked at them and felt sorry for Julia.
“Any news from the interview?” Steve asked Bruce, as they kept looking.
He sighed. “Clearly post-traumatic stress disorder and a severe anxiety disorder.”
“No doubt about it,” Sam added.
Suddenly Nick Fury busted into the room. He walked towards Julia and Bucky, grabbed his gun, stopped and pointed it at them. Bucky looked at him and kept holding Julia to protect her. “Move, sergeant!” he growled. Bucky just looked at the angry Fury.
Steve stepped in between them. “What’s going on?”
“HYDRA hacked our computers, thanks to her!”
“It’s not her fault,” Bucky defended Julia.
“Then why did she hacked us?”
“She had no choice!”
Steve lifted up his hands. “Guys, calm down. Nick, put down your gun.” He kept his gun pointed at them. “Like Bucky said, she had no choice, Nick. She’s a victim now and needs to be cured. With our help and protection.” Slowly Nick calmed down but kept his gun pointed. “She is in fear and pain and we need to fix her. Just like we did with Bucky. And it will take a lot of time.”
Finally Nick completely calmed down and placed his gun back in the holster. He crouched in front of Julia as Bucky released her. He laid a hand on her back. With fear in her eyes, she looked at one-eye-man. He smiled.

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Nick and Sam were walking outside the facility with Julia. While fighting against her tears and a lot of pauses, she told what happened to her in HYDRA. They stopped at the lake, behind the facility.
She sighed as she looked at the flow of the water. “My life isn’t safe anymore.” She swallowed as a tear escaped her eye. “I can’t remember where I lived, what I did and what my personality was. All I have is a name, useless powers and a war in my mind.”
“But we can help you,” Sam said.
She huffed and smiled, but the smile quickly disappeared. “Please, spare your energy. I can’t be cured.”
“Tell us, why did you left HYDRA?” Nick asked.
She shook her head as she kept looking over the water. “I haven’t. They send me out for a mission. But then I screw it, they found me and punished me. They say that HYDRA is like Santa Claus. They know everything and where you are. Who knows they are here as well.”
The two men looked at each other.
“She’s right,” Sam mumbled.
Then Nick walked back to the facility, leaving Sam and Julia behind. Sam looked at him as he left. He looked back at Julia.
“Can you tell me more about your mission?”
After a short silence she said: “All I can say is that HYDRA needs one of your friends and I have to bring him.” She looked at him. “But I am scared for getting back.”
“Because of their punishments?” Sam fired. Julia almost choked in her own breath. Her eyes grew bigger. He had the feeling she was falling into a trance. He laid a hand on her shoulder and shook a little bit. “Hey. Stay here. Look around.” She looked around. “What do you see?”
“Trees. The water,” she answered with a trembling voice.
“What do you hear?”
She was listening for a moment. “The wind. Birds in the sky.”
He smiled, knowing this practice works from distracting a panic attack. “What do you smell?”
She took a few sniffs. She looked at Sam. “I smell….” She sniffed some more. “Old spice aftershave?”
Sam laughed. “You have a good nose!” His remark made her smile and looked away from him, being shy. “Feeling better now?”
“I guess I’m okay,” she answered, still looking away. “Thanks,” she whispered.
It became late in the afternoon and it was getting colder. She shivered caused by the cold and Sam noticed it. “Let’s go inside.” She nodded and followed him back to the facility.

When they entered the facility, Nick walked up to them with Steve behind him. “I am going to upgrade the security inside SHIELD. Normally I invite you to stay here for the night. Unfortunately we don’t have enough space for you. But you may stay in Captains safe house,” Nick offered and gestured to Steve. Steve gave her a smile. She gave a smile back. “Also, I would like to invite you to our dinner. We have a Sokovian paprika stew with pork on the menu. With salad and mashed potatoes on the side. Made by Wanda,” Steve offered.
Sam was getting excited, “Oohh, that’s good!!”
Julia started to get nervous.
Steve noticed it. “You don’t have to,” Steve said to calm her down.
Her eyes moved from man to man, searching for an answer. “Uhm, I...uuh…I can have some…bites.”

In a separate room in the facility, there was a large dinner table surrounded with chairs. Each Avenger took a seat. Nick took a seat at the head of the table. After a moment, Wanda came in with a large saucepan with the stew, followed by Natasha with the salad and mashed potatoes. Wanda placed the meal in the center of the table.
“Okay guys, take what you want. There is more in the kitchen,” Wanda said as Bucky and Sam attacked the pan, taking out a few pieces of pork. Natasha gave Nick the potatoes and to Steve the salad. After he has scooped up the salad, he gave the bowl to Julia. She took out three scoops and gave it to Wanda who took place next to her.
Julia took a deep breath as she looked at the vegetables. She held the fork with a shaky hand. She jabbed into a piece of lettuce and took a small bite of it. Then she slide off the vegetable by moving the fork over her plate.
“Hey, would you like to have some stew?” Wanda asked.
“Oh no, thank you. I’m a…vegetarian.”
“Oh that’s good. Would you like to have some potatoes?”
“I…uuhh…I only take the salad. I’m not very hungry. Sorry,” Julia said nervous.
Wanda smiled and gave the bowl to Natasha who sat at her other side.
During dinner everybody was chatting to each other and enjoying the food. Steve observed Julia as she was still jabbing in her salad but hardly took a bite. He glared over to Bruce who sat across from them. He noticed the same as Steve does.

***

Later that evening, Steve opened the door of his apartment. He entered followed by Julia and Bucky. She looked around as they walked inside. Steve placed his keys on the dinner table. Bucky again stared at the wall with pictures. Next to him stands Julia and she also stared at the pictures.
Steve went into his kitchen to make some coffee. Then he went into his bedroom and came out with a matrass. He laid it a feet away from the couch, together with a pillow and a blanket. Another blanket and pillow went on the couch. “Bucky and I will sleep here. You may sleep in my bed,” Steve offered. “Would you like to have some coffee?”
“I don’t like coffee,” she said ashamed.
“No problem, I can give you some warm milk with honey.”
Bucky’s body started to shiver of disgust as he heard the drink.
Julia smiled friendly at him. “A glass of water will be fine.”

Later they sat around the dinner table; Bucky and Steve had their coffee, Julia just a glass of water. In their middle was the note Steve found in Julia’s pocket. She stared at it.
“Can you tell us why you have this?” Steve asked as he pointed at the piece of paper.
She closed her eyes. “It’s a kind of reminder of who I am and what I am.” She opened her eyes and stared at the note. “Their punishment…” She winced a little bit at the word. “…is that they remove almost every memory from your mind.” Steve looked at Bucky. His friend nodded as a confirmation. “It’s a very painful treatment. Electricity rush through your body, like they are cutting you with knives inside of you.” Steve listened in disgust. Bucky looked away as she kept talking. “And then…suddenly…you know nothing. Who you are, where you are. Nothing.” She looked up at Steve. “That’s why I have this note.”
“You have written this before…”
“Before my first punishment,” she interrupted Steve. “I heard rumors about it, so…” She looked at Bucky, as he is still looking away. “So I can have my own identity before they give you one.”
Steve took the note in his hand. “You also wrote about absorbing life with your hands.”
She looked at her gloved hands, releasing a sigh. “I was seventeen when I discovered it. By an accident.” She looked back at Steve. His face was serious as he listened “He didn’t survived it. Since that accident I tried to hide it, trying not to use it. Until HYDRA kidnapped me.” She could feel the eyes of Bucky looking at her. She looked back at her hands and felt ashamed. “Since then I have used it twice.” A silence appeared. Then she stood up. “I’m going to sleep. Good night,” she said as she walked to the bedroom.
Steve looked at his friend. “You believe her?”
He looked at him and answered: “Of course. She doesn’t lie. That punishment is hard. I can feel her pain when she talks about it.” He took a sip from his coffee. “It’s just hard to hear that someone else had gone through the same as me. But she is now in good hands with us.”
Steve could just nod. “Does she looks like the girl of your nightmares?”
“Exactly like her,” Bucky said after he finished his coffee. “Who knows she is telepathic and can do things with your mind.”
His friend shook his head. “I don’t think so. I do believe she is having severe flashbacks caused by her PTSD.”
Bucky bowed his head and released a sigh. “Poor girl.”


***

It was hours later and Julia was still not sleeping. She sat, legs crossed, in the middle of Steve’s bed. Once again she was in a state of a trance while flashbacks went through her mind. This time she was breathing calm. After a while she blinked and woke up from the trance. In the distance she heard a door of a car closing. Out of curiosity, she climbed off the bed, walked to the window and took a sneak. She saw Rumlow in the street, looking around. Also a few black vans came in the street. Then she saw Rumlow looking up. Out of fear she sat on the ground, underneath the window. In panic she started to think what to do. Quickly she went up to the living room, where the men were asleep. She noticed a sizzling sound, but didn’t paid much attention to it. “Guys,” she whispered. She started to shake Bucky’s body. “Guys, wake up. HYDRA is here.” The men kept sleeping. She started to feel drowsy. She was fighting against falling asleep. Once again she noticed the sizzling sound. Before she could figure out what it was, her view became blurry. HYDRA-agents with gasmasks busted into the apartment. Julia tried to stand up but felt onto the floor. She saw how the black and blurry figures were standing above her and looked at her. Then the world went black.





***

He opened his eyes. His eyes burned, caused by the bright LED-lights and white ceiling. He looked to his left and saw a red-haired, sitting in a chair and reading a magazine. “Hey.” His voice was hoarse.
The woman looked at him. “Steve!” She placed the magazine on the bedside table. “Glad you are awake.”
Steve looked around. “Where am I?”
“In the hospital.”
He looked confused at her. “Why?”
She sighed. “We couldn’t reach you, so we went to your safe house and found you on the couch.”
He sat up, being more confused. “We were just sleeping.”
“You just woke up from a coma. You have been ‘sleeping’ for five days straight, Steve.” He looked shocked at her. “There was a severe amount of sleeping gas in your home. What was the last thing you can remember?” she fired at him.
Steve sighed, looked at the end of the bed. “Nothing special. Bucky and I were talking with Julia about who she is. Then we went to sleep.” He looked back at her. “Where are they?” he asked worried.
Natasha shrugged her shoulders. “We don’t know. They weren’t there when we got in.”
He released a big sigh. He was thinking.
“What are you thinking about?” Natasha asked.
Without a doubt he had the answer. “HYDRA.”
Natasha took a deep breath. “Sam could find out where the hack came from. It’s from the Swiss Alps.”
Steve moved out of his bed. “Then let’s go there!”

***

Four days earlier, Alexander Pierce and Brock Rumlow were walking through the hallways of the HYDRA facility. The hallway was filled with Julia’s screaming. They entered the room as a scientist finished brainwashing her mind. She breathed heavily, clearly in pain. She laid on a large metal table and had been tied by her wrists and ankles with leather belts. Around her head is a headband with wires, connected to the computer of the scientist.
“Doctor, report,” Pierce said as he looked at her.
“At this moment I am stimulating the aggressive part of the brain. It goes as planned.”
“Good. Keep on going till it’s fullest.”
“Yes, sir.”
“NO!” she said suddenly to the scientist. “Enough! Let me go!” She looked angry at Pierce and Rumlow.
Pierce looked at her and smiled at her. “I can see the aggression in your eyes, compared with a few weeks ago.” He looked at the scientist. “Well done, doctor.” The scientist smiled and nodded pleased at him. “And wipe her memories when you’re done,” he said as they walked out of the room.
“We should have done this earlier,” Rumlow said, as they walked to the hallways again.
“Perhaps.”
Rumlow could just look at Pierce after he answered. They entered another room. This room is highly secured with armed soldiers. Also in this room was a large metal table. Bucky laid on it, unconscious.
“Report.”
“Winter soldier is completely wiped. We are ready to wake him up.”
“Wake him up,” Pierce ordered.
One of the scientists called out ten Russian words. After the last word, his eyes suddenly opened. Pierce looked into his eyes. “Sergeant?”
He looked at him with his blue-grey and blank eyes. “Ready to comply,” he mumbled, without any emotion.

Clover1983

I haven't updated the story here because it was getting kind of pg-13 or something like that. The story is finished and now I'm writing a prequel. If you want to read it go here:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13207318/1/Winters-War

or here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17...pters/41961881

girl under the floor

Thanks for updating us Clover

Si_Crazy

thanks for the update, and for sharing the link of your fic