|| Part III
Summary: continuation of imagine
Word Count: 1210
Warnings: none

He had to be wiped again.
It took five men to get him into the chair, and three to get the rubber guard in his mouth. He sweared he’ll kill them all. If he will remember.
If he will…
If you’re not close to someone, you won’t miss them when they’re gone.

The war against Hydra has started again.
Steve’s heart was broken.
Bucky.
His Bucky was ALIVE.
The man he missed for all those years, the man he thought has died. The lost friend… He was ALIVE.
He was in a reach of his hand, but once again Steve has failed. He let them take Bucky away.
Captain was sitting in his room, at the desk with a little lamp on it.
He was drawing, as he used to do in a good times.
He drew a man. A man with dark hair and a wicked smile and pain behind his eyes. The picture caused a pain in Steve’s chest so intense, he wasted precious lead scribbling over it until the image was obliterated before he torn it up. He let out a short scream, letting tears to run down his cheeks.
Bucky. HIS FRIEND.
Steve slipped hands in his blonde hair, he lowered his head, closing the blue eyes of his.
He remembered the way Bucky looked at him when he called his name.
Steve saw, how confused man was. He seemed to not remember things.
It was Bucky, that was obvious, but he was STRANGE.
Of course he had changed, his hair were longer, he had a beard. And finally, he had a pain behind his eyes.. Ineffable pain.
It was Bucky, but at the same it wasn’t him. Steve couldn’t recognize his friend in those blue eyes. It was the foe.
A subtle knocking to his door roused him from thoughtfulness.
“Come in” he said simply, closing his sketchbook.
The door has opened and Sam walked in.
“I came to check if you need something” Wilson said slowly, with kind of a hesitation in his voice.
Steve gave a sad smile to his friend, shaking head slightly.
“All I need is to find HIM, but you know that” Captain rose from a chair and walked to the large window with a view at the Potomac River. He leaned his forearm against a cold glass, letting out a loud sigh.
Falcon for a moment was standing still, but then he slowly walked to Captain and put his palm on man’s shoulder.
“I know” he affirmed.
Steve lifted his chin and turned head to face Sam.
“I have a feeling I’ve lost him again” that short statement was the only thing Captain could say at the moment.
Falcon looked straight into his friend’s eyes.
“We’ll find him, but first of all you have to convince our management to this idea. Natasha is injured, I don’t think they’ll just let you bring Barnes here. It’s too dangerous. He’s a… lunatic.”
“SAM” Steve’s face has stiffened in a second. “Hydra has a control over him. It wasn’t him…”
Falcon took a step back, now both of his palms were placed at Steve’s shoulders.
“It’s hard for you and I respect it. But someone has to stay with clear mind. Let me be a voice of rationality” sad smile appeared on Sam’s face as he spoke. “You can’t just throw everything and go to look for him. Even you won’t manage it. He’s a ghost. And I think they changed his location. We have to prepare a plan. We need to have a support from above, so Fury has to accept your idea before you’ll take any actions” Sam cocked brow at Steve, looking for a confirmation if his friend understands his words.
Captain with a deep sigh gave a slight nod.
“Very good” Sam patted Steve’s back. “You shall rest” he added quickly, taking hands off blonde man’s shoulders. “Don’t worry. Now, when we know he’s alive, it’ll be easier to track him down” after the last sentence, Falcon quietly left the room, leaving Steve alone with his thoughts.

Bucky had a nightmare again. But this time it was something new.
It was as if God had adjusted the colours of the world in the night, like it was as easy as twisting one of those old plastic dials on a TV set. Everything was brighter than it should be, the trees were not just green but radiant virescent hues that burned themselves in Bucky’s sleepy retinas. The houses were as grey as if they’d been repainted by moonlight and now stood vibrant in the golden rays that fell unfettered though the clear sky. The road that should be grey was a sleek river of black with perfect paint lines and the street, lamps were blue. But they had never been blue, not ever. Everything was so right it was wrong – really wrong. The front yards that had been dishevelled with the decrepitude of late winter just yesterday were a riot of colourful blooms. Bucky turned back to look at his house, the curtain twitched. Someone was in there.
He hurried to the front door only to find it was locked.
Suddenly Bucky heard familiar voice, it came from behind.
Brunette slowly turned around.
In front of him his last target was standing, without hesitation. Captain America, Steve Rogers.
His skin was pale, his big eyes seemed to glow in a blue light of the street lamps. He was wearing a military uniform, its colour also wasn’t normal, a mix of black with radiant blue.
“Do you remember all the danger we came from?” man asked.
Bucky couldn’t say a word. Some kind of an invisible force overwhelmed his entire body.
“I’m longing for the days of no surrender, years ago” Captain continued. “To all the things I’ve lost on you, tell me, Bucky, are they lost on you? Just that you could cut me loose after everything I’ve lost on you?”
The Soldier trembled slightly, he wanted to take a step backward, but something was keeping him in a place.
“So smoke ‘em if you got ‘em ‘cos it’s going down” blonde man said, taking a pistol out of his pocket.
He aimed and shot in Bucky’s head.
Bucky woke up, trembling all over his body, covered in cold sweat.
He sat on his bed, his eyes weren’t accustomed to the darkness, so he blinked few times.
The target.
He knew that man. He used to know him… He was sure now.
Bucky rose up and went to the little, dingy bathroom located on the corridor.
Once he was there, he quickly splashed his face with a cold water, then he lifted chin and looked at his reflection in the mirror.
He only noticed a pair of sad, frightened blue eyes. He was pale, he desperately needed a shave.
He clenched hands in fists and with metal one he simply hit in the mirror.
Glass with a loud bang has crashed into hundreds of small pieces.
At the same time Bucky squalled targets name, slowly slumping to his knees.

After long argument with Fury, Steve finally received the assent to look for Bucky and to bring him to the S.H.I.E.L.D base.
Now the race against time has started.

Author: Beast




























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