The Winter Killer

Prologue

          Hi, my name is Jane Besseta Barnes, but you can call me Bessy. I am the daughter of James Buchannan Barnes and one of the other Winter Soldiers. I know that may be confusing, so let me explain by giving you one of my father's mission reports.

                     Mission Report: December 20, 1991 1900 hours

          I was put into a room with a female soldier as a reward for killing Howard Stark. In about half an hour we let our instincts kick in and engaged in sexual intercourse. Afterwards I was taken out of the room.

                                                      End of report.

          I know what you are thinking. It is weird that I know the date I was conceived, but it was the only way to find out who my dad was.

          His "reward" was nothing but another Hydra experiment. They wanted another version of their super soldier that would be able to kill a winter soldier if one should ever try and break free from them. That super soldier is me. I was called the Winter Killer. I was not the only attempt to make a Winter Killer. The other Winter Soldiers were also paired up, but I was the only successful attempt. The others did not have the control over their strength like I did. When they started to train them they lost control and would not stop until they were killed because both parents had the super soldier serum. There was another like me who only had one Winter Soldier parent. One of the guards had a child with one of the soldiers. Since he was older he was given a dose of the serum first. He was killed because he lost control as well. Since I was the only child left they decided to try only giving me half a dose first and then the rest of it later. Since it did not all kick in at the same time it worked without me losing control, but it didn't effect my physical look only my strength and healing.

          They kept very few files on me though and the majority of the ones they kept were paper. They could not let people know that they had a plan should they fail. If you were in charge of an organization planning on taking over the world would you want people to know you contemplated your failure? I know I wouldn't. All I would want people to know about is my success.

          On my fifth birthday they started my training. They told my mother that she was going to teach her daughter how to protect herself. This was just another experiment though. They wanted to know what she would do if she knew she had a daughter. When she saw me and started training me her humanity kicked in. She tried to break out of the lab in Siberia so she could keep me safe. They killed her right in front of me, and told me that it was for the best because she was trying to take me somewhere dangerous. She had become weak and they could not afford a weak link in their new world order. A few days later they brought in my father. This time they did not tell us who the other was. He started training me and everything went according to their plan.

          When I was seventeen they took me to a different lab and started to send me on missions. After every mission they would put me in cryofreeze. They did not feel the need to take away my memories until the battle in New York. Most of my missions were to observe the Winter Soldiers. Since I was doing well they decided to let me observe the Avengers. While observing I was almost crushed by a part of a building, but one of the Avengers saved me. It was then that I realized that everything Hydra had taught me was wrong. They weren't going to save the world. They were going to destroy what it was. I made the mistake of questioning whether or not the Avengers were really our enemy or not. It was then that they decided to attempt to wipe my memory. Knowing what they were about to do after seeing it multiple times I managed to kill everyone in the lab I was in and escape, but not before burning my files and altering the files of the Winter Soldiers so that no one would know about me. I would rather not have the entirety of Hydra and the world trying to hunt me down should those files ever get out.

           After I left I wasn't sure what to do with myself. I tried finding a job but no one would hire me since I seemed to not exist. I tried everything I could think of from saying my parents died in a fire when I was young to saying that I lost my identification papers. Since nothing worked I decided to try and find someone who could make me false papers. No one was able to since the only name I had to go by was Winter. So I decided to try and make my way back to New York.

          For years I worked on a plan to steal one of Hydra's planes so I could leave Russia. It wasn't until I found out that they were sending one of the Winter Soldiers to D.C. that I finally got my chance. I hid on the plane and we took off. Since I was already there I decided to observe him until he was done with his mission. I watched everything he and Captain Rogers did. I was hoping for the Captain to finally destroy Hydra so that man could get out of there. It wasn't until a few months after Natasha Romanoff released the Hydra files that I found out exactly who he was. My father.