EVELYN FLINCHED as Tony suddenly turned to fight Bucky. Steve stopped him, saying, "Tony. Tony."
Tony's voice was heavy and angry and filled with no remorse for what was to come. "Did you know?"
"I didn't know it was him," Steve lied. Evelyn could hear the lie. How could Steve not tell her when he found out?
Evelyn turned slowly, her eyes flickering to Bucky. His gaze was at the ground—too ashamed to even look at the woman he loved. He had killed her brother. He had hurt her in more ways than one. He never had the heart to tell her before, and now, he wished he had.
"Don't bullshit me, Rogers! Did you know?" Tony yelled in his face.
"Yes."
Tony nodding, his chin moving up as he seemed to twitch in anger. He turned to face Evelyn, prepared to yell at her as well until he saw the absolute broken look in her eyes. She looked lost. Absolutely lost. "Did you know?" he asked her quietly.
Evelyn shook her head—words not quite managing to come out at the moment.
Suddenly, Tony's helmet flipped over his head as he punched an unprepared Steve to the ground. Bucky immediately aimed his gun and fired at Tony, which Tony managed to deflect and disarm him quickly. Evelyn's eyes widened at them, turning her head to see Zemo walking away. This is what he wanted. This is what he wanted. She would not give him the satisfaction.
Tony grabbed Bucky's arm to dodge a punch, wrapping his armored hand around Bucky's neck. He flew across the chamber with Bucky and slammed him on the ground, stomping his foot on his chest and aiming his blaster at him.
Evelyn yelled out, "Tony! Stop it!" just as Steve threw his shield to have Tony miss his mark. She ran forward just as Steve shoved his shield into him to throw Tony back. Tony landed in a crouched position and managed to punch Steve back to the ground. He then shot out shackles that latched around Steve's ankles to keep him down. Evelyn made it to Tony just as Bucky sent a punch up Tony's jaw. "James!" Tony sent his hand back, punching Evelyn in the stomach to send her flying across the room with her own set of shackles around her wrists.
She watched as Tony flew with Bucky again, holding him at his neck to a wall while firing up his blasters again. This time, Bucky used his metal arm to pull Tony's hand away from his face and broke the sensor. Evelyn watched as Steve threw his shield at her, so she held her hands up as the shackles released her wrists. Tony prepared to send a rocket at Bucky, but Bucky managed to direct it elsewhere. This made the fireball land on the towering structures. Evelyn grabbed Steve's shield and broke his ankles free as she handed him his shield back. They ran away from the falling towers toward Tony and Bucky.
The towers managed to separate Tony and Bucky, Bucky landing right next to Evelyn. His pained eyes met hers as she said, "You have to get out of here before he kills you. I'll find you." Bucky nodded as she sent him a small smile to show she still loved him. She could not let his Winter Soldier days affect them... he was not that man anymore. It hurt. She needed time to really let the fact sink in that her husband killed her brother... but she could not let it ruin them—not when she just got him back.
"Get out of here!" Steve told him the same. "Go with him, Evelyn! I don't want you getting hurt."
Bucky began to run, and Tony tried to shoot at him but missed. Steve landed in a crouched position between them just as Bucky opened the overhead door with a push of a button. He began to climb the structures above.
"It wasn't him, Tony. Hydra had control of his mind!" Steve shouted as Tony hovered slightly in the air. Evelyn stayed on the side, tears leaving her eyes at how fucked this situation had become. She could not fight Tony. She would not fight Bucky or Steve. It was the worse situation she had ever been involved with.
"Move!" Tony shouted.
"It wasn't him!" Steve yelled as he grabbed Tony's leg mid-air when he tried to fly past him. He broke the ankle armor that allowed Tony to fly with his shield, throwing Tony to the side. Evelyn took this opportunity to jump up, climbing the platforms with ease. She had begun to catch up with Bucky when Tony flew up to meet them.
"Tony, please," Evelyn said. "Please, don't hurt him."
Tony ignored her as Bucky jumped to make it to the platform above them. Tony punched him back to Evelyn's platform. She stood in front of Bucky as Tony raised his arm to blast.
"Move, Evelyn," Tony demanded.
"I-I can't let you hurt him," she said. "Think. I know you're upset. I am, too. It killed me to have to watch that. He was my brother."
"Yeah?" Tony asked rhetorically. "That was my mother." He fired up the blaster to hit her when Steve jumped up and managed to block the shot with his shield. It reflected and hit Tony, causing him to fall down below.
"He's not going to stop," Steve told them as he helped Evelyn stand before helping Bucky. "Go." Bucky took off with Evelyn following. They had almost made it to the top. Bucky leaned down, grabbing Evelyn's waist to hoist her up. They prepared to climb the last platform when a rocket flew past Evelyn's head to land on the piece holding the door open. It exploded, and Evelyn fell back down a platform with Bucky following. Their escape route was lost.
Tony flew back up to them, so Bucky took a metal pipe of debris and tried to hit Tony twice. Evelyn was knocked aside by Bucky when Tony went to push her off. Tony quickly wrapped Bucky's neck with his arms from behind as he whispered, "Do you even remember them?"
Bucky's voice was pained as he snarled back, "I remember all of them." He remembered every single person he had to murder. How could someone simply walk away from that okay? Evelyn saw both perspectives here. She knew Tony had every right to be upset. She was upset. But Bucky was not that man anymore. Killing him would not bring Howard and Maria back. Evelyn took a shaky breath as she jumped down to follow Bucky and Tony when Bucky pushed them off the platform and back down. Steve had intercepted, sending the three flying down. Evelyn landed next to Bucky with wide eyes.
She noticed Tony and Steve staring at each other from down below where she could see snow drifting inside. Evelyn helped Bucky stand, hands shaking as she touched him. Bucky looked at her with pain still lingering in his eyes. "Stay out of it," he told her. "I don't want him hurting you."
"Buck—"
"Please," Bucky strained.
"Don't kill Tony," she said quickly.
Bucky shook his head. "I'm not killing anyone," he told her.
"This isn't gonna change what happened," Steve told Tony while panting.
"I don't care. He killed my mom," Tony said with so much emotion as he flew to tackle Steve.
Evelyn watched as Bucky grabbed Steve's shield, jumping off of the platform to land on top of Tony, where the Iron Man had Captain America pinned under him. Bucky then threw the shield to Steve as the pair began to fight Tony simultaneously. Steve managed to throw the shield back to Bucky, and it reminded Evelyn so much of the time before the train. Steve and Bucky worked flawlessly together, and she hated that Tony was on the receiving end of it. She gripped at her hair in anger at not knowing what to do or where to go from there.
Tony managed to zap Steve away as Tony focused on hurting Bucky. Bucky was hit a few times before he managed to find a rhythm and block Tony's punches. When Tony fired up his repulsor to blast him, Bucky managed to have the ray of energy move over the ceiling before he punched Tony into the wall.
Evelyn's eyes widened as Bucky had one hand on Tony's mask and his metal hand on Tony's arc reactor. She knew he did not need it to live anymore, but without it, the suit would not work. Bucky yelled as he gripped the reactor, ready to pull it out, but then the reactor blasted Bucky away—the metal arm going with it. Tony blasted Bucky, knocking him unconscious as Steve ran at him with his shield.
Evelyn gasped, not wasting a second to jump below as she landed next to Bucky. Steve was beating Tony with hand-to-hand combat as she pushed a strand of Bucky's hair aside. She stood now, anger in her eyes as she watched Tony suddenly blast Steve's shield aside. He sent Steve flying as Evelyn picked up the shield. Tony rose his arm again as Steve—bloody and bruised—gasped out, "He's my friend."
"So was I—" Evelyn used the shield to knock Tony aside. She threw it once, having it hit his helmet and fly back to her arm. Tony sent blasts her way, but she used the shield to reflect them otherways. She twisted midair and sent the shield at him again. Tony managed to grab it, sending it back to her. She landed on the ground, coughing from the impact. Standing again, she rose her arms as her hands clenched into fists. "Evelyn, stay out of this."
Evelyn rushed forward, punching Tony as hard as she could. Tony did not waste a second to fight back, and she felt blood falling from her lip and head as his fist made contact with her. She managed to crush his other blaster as he picked her up by her neck and threw her into the nearest wall. "Stay down. Final warning."
Steve stood next, looking weak as he told Tony, "We can do this all day."
Tony readied another set of guns to fire just as Bucky grabbed his leg. Tony spun to kick him in the face. Evelyn crawled over to Bucky as Steve lifted Tony in the air and threw him down onto the ground hard. He began to punch him repeatedly before grabbing his shield to do the work. Once he hit him twice, Steve shoved off Tony's helmet, preparing to strike him again. Tony blocked his face, not realizing Steve was going for the arc reactor. Steve and Tony were breathing heavily as they stared at each other. Steve rolled off of Tony with the shield still sticking out of the reactor. As Steve stood shakily, he pulled the shield out as Tony rolled over—the glass and metal of the reactor crumbling to the ground.
Evelyn watched Steve hobble over to them, reaching out to grab Bucky's flesh arm to help him stand. Bucky's arm was wrapped around Steve's shoulder as Evelyn stood shakily. Tony finally yelled out, "That shield doesn't belong to you." Steve turned to look at Evelyn who stood still. "You don't deserve it. My father made that shield!"
Steve stopped again, keeping a firm grip on Bucky as he let the shield fall from his fingers onto the ground. Evelyn watched Bucky turn to look at her.
"Go. I'll find you," she said to them.
Neither wasted a second in getting out of there—both with heavy hearts as they felt they had left a part of them behind.