THE FADING FALLEN ● Bucky Barnes X OC ● 18+ ● ENGLISH [COMPLETE]

Chapter 7

"The receipt for your gear."

"Bird costume? Come on..." Sam was not exactly pleased with the designation of his sophisticated Falcon suit.

"I didn't write it", Sharon replied curtly before pressing a button on the communications unit on the table.

Now everyone in the room could not only see, but hear what was happening in the interrogation room. The evaluator's voice sounded through the speakers.

"I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions. Do you know where you are, James?"

Bucky didn't answer him at first. His gaze was lowered. He looked resigned.

"I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James."

Emilia could see exactly the tension in his face as he began to speak in a firm voice.

"My name is Bucky."

She felt a chill run down her spine.

Not from fear, but rather from the sight of a broken man locked up like a dog behind thick security glass somewhere in the huge building.

She had a very different image in her mind's eye after all the stories and tales of Steve. Brave, full of life, up for any fun.

And this man, who was now chained in a box like a little heap of misery, was supposed to be responsible for what was happened in Vienna?

She couldn't believe it. Not even after all she knew about the Winter Soldier.

Maybe he was somewhere behind the blue eyes and the hard shell, but one thing strengthened Emilia in her assumption: when she met him for the first time, she could see his memories with her own eyes.

Those little scraps of images were enough for her to know, even then, that James Buchanan Barnes was not entirely gone.

The longer she pondered it, Steve and the others were already beginning to speculate about what the attack was really for.

Emilia couldn't take her eyes off Bucky, but caught every word Steve, Sam and Sharon were saying.

Just as they realized what it might be, all the lights went out. The power was gone and the screens went black as well.

Steve and Sam headed straight for the interview room, which was in the east wing. To deal with the chaos and get the cameras working again, Emilia stayed in the control center and helped the other agents somehow get the system back up and running.

It took several minutes, but at some point they were back online. The screens flashed. A surveillance camera in the lobby was recording everything.

There was no sign of Sam or Steve. But she saw Tony, Natasha and T-Challa fighting - against Bucky.

When Emilia looked a little closer, she had to swallow.

'No... that's not Sgt. Barnes. That's... the Winter Soldier!'

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Steve and Sam had managed to get Bucky away from the task force building.

After the fight, which had moved to the roof and ended in a pool of water, they were able to hide the unconscious Bucky in an old warehouse.

'At least there was surely nothing too valuable to destroy there', Emilia thought to herself only at the sight of the immense damage.

Besides ruined buildings, bridges, cars and even whole cities within the last few years, the Federal Police helicopter and the renovation work on and in the Joint Terrorism Task Force building were just collateral damage.