HAUNTED ✯ mcu ✔

C O N T R O L .

"Your first name is James?"

Sharon walked in behind them, saying something to Sam that clearly pissed him off but Coby didn't focus on it, that wasn't his biggest priority right now. But then something else caught his eye, Sharon had turned on the small screen for them, Coby just changed his gaze to it, getting a better look at the whole thing.

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

There was no reply.

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

"My name is Bucky." Coby swallowed once he spoke, Adam's apple bobbing painfully in his throat before he trailed a hand up to press his middle finger and thumb against his temples, trying to ease the pain coursing through his head. Though he just dropped his hand a second later with a huff once he realised it didn't provide any real relief before he looked over to Steve.

"Don't fuckin' trust him." Coby mumbled out and Steve gave him a confused look, "The doctor, I don't like 'im.. he's gonna say somethin' and it's gonna trigger Bucky." Steve just looked at him for a couple of seconds before giving him a gentle pat on the shoulder, not uttering a word out as he went back to watching Bucky. Coby let out a small sigh before doing the same. Though Steve didn't stay looking at the screen, he turned away so he could grab a photo of what was suspected to be Barnes.

"Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?" He spoke after a moment.

Sharon shrugged slightly, "Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" Steve slowly nodded at her for a moment before speaking up once more.

"Right. It's a good way to flush a guy out of hiding.. Set off a bomb, get your picture taken. Get seven billion people looking for the Winter Soldier." Steve continued and Coby finally looked away from the small screen to look over at him, suddenly realising where this whole thing was going- that's when his heart plummeted into his stomach.

"You're saying someone framed him to find him?" Sharon whispered.

"Steve, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing." Sam joined in but Steve just shook his head.

"We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads-"

"Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him, it guarantees that we would." Sharon spoke and it went silent but not for Coby, all the boy could hear was his own heartrate once the cogs in his head began moving towards one huge conclusion. His eyes widened for a moment before he spun on his heel, mumbling something out about 'needing a piss' while he left the office. Coby didn't even think as he passed the bathroom, heading straight for the stairs that headed down to where he knew Bucky was- he'd snooped in on one of the officers talking about it.

Sub-level five. East wing.

"It's the fuckin' doctor.." Coby muttered to himself as he ran down the stairs- he was getting Bucky out one way or another, even if that meant he rather spent the rest of his life in prison or that he ended up with a bullet in his head. Coby didn't even know why he found himself wanting- no scratch that- needing to sacrifice everything he'd built in his life just for this man he spent a year with. A man that he didn't even fully know yet he was ready to die for him.

Coby got around halfway down the stairs before the power was cut off, leaving the stairway in full darkness. Coby let out a small curse under his breath, using the torch on his phone before he continued running down the stairs, quickening his pace. But Coby wasn't fast enough, he could never be fast enough to save the people he loved from harms way. Coby tucked his phone back away, barging through the door before immediately pausing. Bucky was just stood in the middle of the office outside of where he was being kept, back to Coby, bodies of Soldiers surrounding him.