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A Bucky Barnes Winter Soldier Fic - The Constant	By : TheConstant1944 Category: Marvel Verse Comics > Captain America Views: 2391 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Seventy-Four
Project Insight - Inception Day

How did it all go so wrong?
How did he fail his mission? It was the words. They were to blame. Not the words that make him destroy - Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Freight Car – nor the ones that take away his willpower, make him sleep when he needs to escape - Red, White, and Blue, time for you to sleep now Soldier.
It had been the other words. 'I'm with you until the end of the line.' They are what stopped him.
He repeats those words softly to himself as he huddles down, cold and wet. He doesn't know where he is, he doesn't know who he is, and he doesn't know why his head is hurting so badly. He just knows that by repeating those words over and over there is comfort, comfort for him alone.
*
Felix is waiting for him when the Winter Soldier emerged from the accommodation part of the vault. Two guards in civvies are nearby, everyone is gearing up for later today. Felix feels nervous: this is it, the big day. By the end of the night they will know if it has all been worth it – if Alexander Pierce and Hydra have brought order to a new world. Their world.
He looks at the Soldier and almost recoils. The look in his eyes is one of insanity, anger, coldness. There is blood smeared down his cheek. He ignores Felix and instead tells the two guards to follow him as he walks back down the corridor. Felix knows what has just happened; knows the Soldier was sent to kill his Constant. And now he knows the mission has been completed – he can see it in the Soldier's eyes. He can feel the unhinged madness there.
He feels a pang of conscience. He knows about the lies the programmers told the Soldier but there was one thing they told him that was true: she had met up with Steve Rogers, she was in league with SHIELD – somehow though he just cannot believe it. He had seen the film of the two of them at the Smithsonian, had told Alex they should ask her about it, give her a chance...but, no, Alex was adamant. She was to die and at the hands of her Soldier. But Felix knows how much she had cared about the Winter Soldier: it had to have been something to do with him.
Perhaps she had the idea of a rescue?
His thoughts are interrupted when the Soldier returns on his own.
“Ready?” Felix asks. The Soldier nods and pushes past him. Felix takes a deep breath and follows him out into the early morning sunshine.
*
Bits and pieces keep coming back to him, and he rubs his eyes.
He is sat in a derelict building. He doesn't know where it is. His back is against a wall, he is freezing cold and yet he also has a temperature. His clothes are soaked, his right arm broken, and his head – his head is splitting apart. He is seated on cold concrete and he doesn't know how long he has been there but it is dark. If he looks up he can see the stars in the black sky; black because wherever he is does not have any street lighting.
He needs help but he has no-one to ask. He knows he should be heading or have headed to a Hydra safe house but that is the last thing he wants to do and he is fighting the instinct to go there. He can hear noises outside; there is a bank of trees, bushes and the noise sounds like someone moving about and he whimpers, pushes the heel of his hands into his eyes and rubs again. Then he is speaking to himself, repeating his programming, but he does not move.
Then a thought out of nowhere.
“I shouldn't have left him. I made a promise.”
He had made a promise to Sarah Rogers to look after Steve. Had dragged him to the river bank but had then left him alone and in sopping wet clothes. “He'll catch pneumonia,” he murmurs and the thought makes him feels nauseous. And then he is in a bedroom somewhere, looking down at a young boy coughing. He sits on the edge of the bed and takes the boys hand, it is limp, damp, hot.
“I'm here Stevie...I'm here.” And he begins to cry because although he knows he is there for Steve, he doesn't know who Steve is.
Delirium has hold of the Winter Soldier and he will be its slave for the next two days. He is delusional, unbalanced, confused. But worse - he is utterly alone and vulnerable.
*
Felix and Rumlow have their orders. Rumlow is to be posted within the Triskelion with Pierce and the Safety Council. Felix and the remainder of his team are to join a team of STRIKE personnel who will command the Helicarriers.
First they will drop the Winter Soldier off. His main mission is to prevent Rogers from getting anywhere near the core of the Helicarriers, because they know he and his friends will try and they are having trouble locating any of them.
Things go according to plan...at first. The council are met at the airport, collected and brought to headquarters and Pierce makes his play. Felix doesn't know when and how things start to go wrong. Later, everyone seems to blame everyone else but by then it is too late. The Helicarriers have fired upon one another instead of following Zola's algorithm to wipe out the key people who would make life difficult for Hydra. The ships are falling from the sky, in most places the Hydra STRIKE teams have been overpowered.
And Alexander Pierce is dead.
Felix is busy trying to save his own life and that of his team when in the back of his mind he is thinking about the Winter Soldier. Can anything be salvaged from this? Should anything be salvaged? If so, they will need all the help they can get.
Felix, Daniel and Jason have made it to a safe house but they haven't been able to contact anyone. They sit and wait and watch the news, listen to the radio for updates on what is happening, but no one has mentioned their Winter Soldier, no one knows what has happened to him. The internet has gone into meltdown. Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, has released all of Hydra's files she had found onto the web, and they have gone viral. At present not a lot is known as they are heavily encrypted but there is always someone out there who can get to the bottom of things and it won't be long before the truth begins to trickle out and then becomes a flood.
That evening they finally reach someone at base operation and are told the Washington base and vault are being evacuated. They are to sit tight and await orders.
“When things have quietened down out there we're to track the Soldier, find him, and bring him back into the fold,” Felix tells the others. He has been told that SHIELD found Steve Rogers wounded, unconscious but alive - but there was no trace of the Winter Soldier at the scene.
Felix knows deep down the Soldier did not - could not - fulfil his mission. There is every chance now he has gone rogue. They won't just be tracking him, they will be hunting him. And they are going to need help.
*
It is two in the morning and Sam has fallen asleep in the chair at Steve's bedside. Marvin Gaye sings quietly in the background and Natasha rescues the book on Sam's lap before it can fall and wake him. He looks exhausted, which is how she feels. She walks to the other side of Steve's bed and looks at him. He is still unconscious but they are not worried; he will wake in his own time. He has had three bullets taken out of him. His eyes are blackened, especially the right; the cheekbone is broken. There are scratches and cuts covering his body; broken ribs and various bones either fractured or broken, it is not a good point to be at and when he wakes he will find he is in a lot of pain. She wonders how he will be emotionally.
There is a police presence outside his room and in the hallways to protect him from what remains of Hydra – from anyone looking for vengeance. The next few weeks are going to be busy tracking down the remnants, preventing them from re-grouping, but especially finding the Winter Soldier. No one knows where he is.
Footage from CCTV on the Helecarrier was being fed to Fury in their makeshift headquarters and it captured part of the fight between Rogers and the Soldier. It showed Rogers throwing away his shield, but they could not tell though what was being said because of the damage as the carrier went down. The area they were fighting in was being pressured by high winds but the fight had become one sided when Steve threw down his only weapon.
It was easy to see that the Soldier had so nearly won. He had Steve down and was punching him using his metal arm...but then he seemed to stop, left arm raised for the final blow. What was it Steve had said to him? What was it that stopped him? The Soldier's reaction to it had been a sad thing to see; it is as if suddenly he had learnt something horrific. His eyes had widened, his mouth opened in shock. Did he finally remember who Steve was? Had Steve got through to him? Then before anything else could happen the Helicarrier tore itself apart and Steve dropped down into the water, the Soldier was left hanging to a girder, watching Steve's body fall and then – then the Soldier had let go and they could not see either of them any more.
Did he mean to rescue him or finish his mission? They will not know until Steve wakes but Nat already has her suspicions. The film clearly showed that when Steve fell he was unconscious; there was no way that once he hit the water he would have been able to save himself.
Natasha moves Steve's hair away from his eyes, leans over, and gently kisses his forehead. Then she pulls up a chair and getting comfortable she closes her eyes to sleep.
Neither her or Sam are going to be leaving Steve's bedside for a while; not until they are sure he is safe. They will make sure he is not alone. That he is not vulnerable.
*
In the abandoned building the rats investigate the human sat up against the wall. They can feel the heat rolling off the body and every so often he twitches and his lips move as if talking. Normally they would take a chance, take a bite out of vulnerable areas of skin, but there is something about this man that smells wrong. His blood does not smell...right and so they back off and go foraging elsewhere.
“You know me!” the blond man is shouting. The Winter Soldier knows now his name is Rogers – Steve Rogers. He was told he is a SHIELD operative but – he also knows there is more to it than that. He feels something inside for this man and he is doing all he can to disregard that feeling because if he lets it, it will destroy him.
The Winter Soldier lashes out at him.“No, I don't!” he screams, as if trying to dismiss the words themselves, to get them away from him. He doesn't want to hear them
Tiredness is catching up with both of them. Fighting this man is difficult, they are evenly matched. Rogers is wounded from the bullets and he has broken the Soldier's right arm trying to get him to drop the computer chip. To make matters worse when the beam had fallen on the Soldier, it broke his ribs. He finds it difficult to breath. It feels as if they have been fighting for so long now.
“Bucky, you've known me your whole life...” Steve Rogers is not going to give up, is not going to lose Bucky again. The Winter Soldier lashes out at him, hurts him but Steve does not fight back, instead he keeps talking: “Your name is James Buchanan Barnes.”
The Soldier hits out at him again, sobbing now: “Shut up!” He hits Steve so hard that Steve is pushed backwards, falling to the ground. He has to silence him, he has to stop him from saying any more, his mind is breaking apart. His programming is telling him to destroy this man, his feelings telling him to stop. He feels like his very soul is being torn in half by the conflict in his mind.
And Steve knows he is getting to him, he knows deep down given enough time he can get Bucky back. He struggles to stand back up and takes off his mask, throws down his shield. The Soldier looks at him in disbelief.
“I'm not going to fight you,” and Steve makes no effort to protect himself as he is grabbed and thrown to the ground. “You're my friend.” He struggles to rise.
“You're my mission!” screams the Soldier as he runs forward, tackles Steve and brings him to the ground once again. This time he straddles him, punching Steve again and again in the face breaking his cheekbone, splitting his skin. “You're my mission!” but he is sobbing as he screams the words. Then before he can hit Steve again Steve tries to smile.
“Then finish it.” But the Soldier hesitates, fist in the air and Steve utters those words - words the Soldier recognised from deep within - “Because I'm with you till the end of the line."
The look of utter horror on the Soldier's face is difficult for Steve to see, difficult but he knows he has got through. The Soldier begins to lower his arm because he is not going to strike the injured man again, not now. Steve knows this and smiles again, his whole face a mass of pain, blood, and bruising.
The Soldier stares at Steve as images flash through his mind; images he cannot stop but before he can react to the words part of the top of the carrier falls taking out the bottom floor and the glass gives way and Steve falls. His eyes are closed.
The Winter Soldier is left hanging from a girder. He watches as Steve's body falls towards the water and without any conscious thought, the Soldier lets go.
As he relives it his body jumps, sweat pouring down his face, the serum working to try and repair the damage done not just to the physical body but to his mind as well.
*
Steve doesn't awaken until the next day. He can hear music. Looking to his right he sees Sam Wilson. It makes him smile but he wished he hadn't because it hurts all over.
“On your left,” he says, his voice husky.
Sam looks up. Grins. Then goes back to reading his book whilst Steve closes his eyes and goes back to sleep.
A few hours later he wakes again to find both Sam and Natasha there. Natasha helps him take a sip of water which makes him feel exhausted. His first words are about the Soldier.
“Do we have him?” Steve asks and Nat shakes her head.
“We have no idea where he is, or even if he is alive Steve.” She wants to be honest with him.
“How did I get here?” He sees Nat look at Sam. “I need to know.”
Sam nods. “We think...only think, mind you...that he pulled you out of the water. Left you on the bank.” He admits. “It was pandemonium around the Triskelion and still is. One of the carriers went into the building, brought it down.”
They are all quiet for a moment.
“He's alive,” Steve say quietly. “I know he is.” Because he cannot bear to think he has lost him twice. Surely fate would not do that to him a second time; it had given him a chance to rescue Bucky and no one would take that away from him this time. No one.
“There was some talk...”
“Sam!”
“He has a right to know.” Sam turns back to Steve. “He was seen. From the description we think it was him, hard to miss that damn metal arm and star. He stole a car, smashed the window in, took off but...in all the confusion a stolen car was the least of the police's worries.”
“So we have a lead?”
And now Sam looks at Natasha. “The car was found abandoned, it had run out of gas but...there was blood over the seat, a lot of blood. But no one was found. Sorry, Steve.”
“But its a place to start,” Steve says and Nat nods but he can see she isn't very hopeful. He tries to smile at her and groans instead.
“God that hurts,” he grumbles.
“I'm not surprised!” Sam grumbles back.“Goddamn maniac very nearly crushed you! Some friend you have there huh?”
And Steve opens his mouth to argue until he sees Sam smiling. “I got to him Sam. I know I did, I saw it in his eyes. He knew me.”
And Sam snorts. “Well, don't think I'm going to change my mind that easily. Don't think I'm going to go easy on him when we find him!”
Steve looks at Nat. “Will you help?” he asks.
She is quiet but he can see she is thinking, she can see how much it means to him. She blows air through her bangs.
“Steve...” And she stops. Her eyes search his and then that characteristic smile of hers. “What else am I going to do?” And she gives a small shrug. “But you'll owe me...” she adds and as he grins. “Big time...”
*
Felix has met with a group from the Vault Base who hand over a small metal unit similar to a mobile phone and then go their separate ways. Back at the safe house Felix checks the unit over. There were only ever two of them made. He presses a switch on the side and a screen lights up. It takes a few seconds but then a map of America is visible. At the bottom of the screen is a small keyboard and he taps into it. The screen clears and for a moment he wonders if anything will show up but then it changes to a more detailed map showing an area just outside of Washington and on it is a small red target blinking.
He looks at Daniel and Jason.
“We have him,” he says.
*
The Winter Soldier has not moved for two days. His body has twitched, his boots scuffed the floor when he fell to fitting but he himself has not moved - voluntarily. For a while his breathing was rasping as if he couldn't get enough air but now it is silent. Anyone looking at him would believe he is dead. Dried blood has streaked his face and clothes which have dried out but then dampened again with the sweat coming off his body and then finally dried again. The leather is streaked white in places. Even though it has only been two days it looks like he has dropped a stone in weight. His hair is greasy, limp. His face is heavily stubbled.
His head is slumped on his chest, eyes closed, skin and lips grey. The heat still rolls off him as the serum attempts to correct everything that is wrong. His right arm is folded across his lap which is unfortunate because whilst the serum mends the broken bone it is in the wrong position and will cause pain and discomfort for the rest of his life - in the wet it will ache to the point where he cannot sleep. His metal hand rests upwards on the floor. Blood has trickled from both ears, in his hair and down onto the shoulders of his leather jacket. Within four feet you can smell its iron smell, mixed with the smell of damp and body odour. The scratches and cuts are healing slowly, the bruising still shows but has turned yellow and grey.
As his one-time team circle the building they cannot hear anything from inside. The unit is still showing its signal – clear and strong. It is not from the tracker in his arm which shows no information at all and is not working. This is the one from within his body which he does not know about. The unit can show the tracking from both the Winter Soldier's and the Constant's devices but with the latter dead they are only interested in the former and have it set to that.
Felix peers in through an open window space. All that is left of the building is four walls and a lot of plant growth that has covered the brickwork. No glass in the windows and no roof overhead. Felix is worried about what they are going to find; he can tell straight away that the Winter Soldier has not fortified his position in any way and they would have expected him to have done that.
He pulls back. Both Jason and Daniel look to him and he shakes his head and frowns. They have one other person with them, Jack Rollins from Rumlow's personal STRIKE team; he was the only other person they could get in contact with. When they told him they were going after the Soldier he had agreed to help them.
They left a car quarter a mile up the road hidden behind a stand of trees. All of them are armed. Felix still does not speak. The Soldier looked dead, propped against the wall. He signals for Jason and Daniel to go around and come into the room from the other side; he and Rollins will enter the room from this side. All the men will have their guns trained on the Soldier. They do as he says.
All four of them now surround the man sitting against the wall.
It is as though they are looking at a puppet whose strings have been cut. Felix moves forward, holsters his gun and crouches down next to the Soldier. There is no movement but he can feel the heat. He puts his fingers on the Soldier's neck but cannot find a pulse. Rollins comes up on the other side and lifts the Soldier's right hand and does the same.
“Faint, but it's there.”
“Jesus, look at him.” Felix turns to Jason.“Go back to the car and drive it up here. Fetch some of the bottled water in the trunk … and don't forget the med kit.”
“What's the plan?” Rollins asks.
“Camp's blown so really we only have the vault we can use. We're supposed to wipe him and then get him back to the mountain base and into cryo, but now looking at him...I think if we attempted a wipe it would kill him.”
“So?”
“So...I'll arrange for a flight, get him out of here. Get him back to base and let them worry about him.” Felix leans over and lightly taps the Soldier's face. “Hey, can you hear me?” he says, focused now on seeing if they can get any reaction at all from him.
“Perhaps if we move him?” Rollins suggests, but Felix shakes his head. “Let's wait for Jason, see if we can get some water into him. We just need to get him to wake up.”
“I'll go wait for the car,” Rollins nods to Felix and Daniel but the men are too focused on the Soldier to take notice as he heads outside.
It doesn't take Jason long to bring the car back and Rollins reappears in the room with the water and the kit. He crouches back down next to the Soldier and Felix and notices the Soldier's eyes are flickering. He hands the bottle to Felix who uncaps it and moves so he can put his hand on the Soldier's back, to try and encourage him to drink.
“Where's Jason?” Daniel asks.
“Said there's a slight problem with the car, nothing serious. He's just checking something out,” Rollins says casually.
Daniel's focus returns to the Soldier. He has his gun trained on him - just in case.
Felix has his head up and trickles water between the Soldier's lips. At first there is no reaction and the water drips down his chin but then suddenly his body jumps and his right hand comes up and tries to grasp the bottle from Felix.
“Hey it's okay, take it slowly. It's Felix. Just need you to drink...” He keeps his voice non-threatening and sees the Soldier's eyes try to open but the light is too strong.
Felix doesn't let go of the bottle, holds it to the Soldier's mouth and tips the water in slowly telling him not to drink too fast. The Soldier's hand rests on Felix's. He begins coughing and Felix takes the water away.
“You had us worried there for a moment.” He is trying to get a handle on how the Soldier is. Does he know who he is? Is he still programmed enough to obey them? When the Soldier woke, Felix felt the difference in the man's muscles and realised there is no strength in them.
“I'll just go and check on Daniel and see what's happening with the car,” Rollins says, walking out of the room. He is gone about five minutes and during that time the Soldier has become a little more focused, drunk more water, and is beginning to pay attention to the two men.
“Do you remember your mission?” Felix asks. The Soldier looks up, sees Daniel and the gun sighted on him. Wariness creeps into his eyes. Felix turns and uses his hand to indicate Daniel is to lower his gun he then turns back to the Soldier. “Focus on me, do you remember your mission?” he repeats and sees the Soldier's thoughts turn inward. Trying to remember. His lips move soundlessly.
He tries to move but where he has been sat in one position for so long his limbs are numb.
“Don't worry about moving yet. We'll get you out of here, get you back to base.”
But those words seem to create panic in the the Soldier's eyes and Felix guesses that the programming is breaking down. Daniel lifts the gun back up as the Soldier tries to stand but falls back again. He is trying to push Felix away, trying to steady himself against the wall to help himself move and all the time there is a keening noise coming from him. It is obvious that he has no energy.
“In the med case. Pass me the hypo,” Felix says, pushing at the Soldier to make him stay where he is. He is not worried; he can feel there is no strength in the Soldier's body, he can see fear in his eyes, he can barely talk yet alone fight or run.
“No...no...no...no...no...” The keening noise turns into a single repeated word and Daniel fetches the hypo. It will put the Soldier out for a good couple of hours and the Soldier can see what is going to happen. “No, no don't take me back...please don't take me back,” his voice is low, quiet, there is no force in it but there is pleading. He is still trying to get up but he cannot get any purchase and his boot slides along the ground. Felix has him held sitting against the wall.
The Soldier tries to grab Felix's jacket, looking into Felix's eyes. His own are full of pain and panic.
“Don't take me back. Please don't take me back...” he repeats the same words over and over again. The pleading sound in the Soldier's voice has stopped Daniel in his tracks. He is holding the hypo out to Felix, Felix is looking at him reaching out for the item but then Daniel's face seems to look surprised and he drops his arm. The hypo drops from his hand and then his whole body falls to the floor and Felix sees Rollins in what was the doorway of the room gun in hand. It has a silencer fitted.
Felix lets go of the Soldier so he can turn and bring up his own gun but he is too late and a bullet takes him in the chest. He staggers, still trying to stand up, and Rollins shoots him again. “What the...” He starts and manages to stand but Rollins has moved forward and pushes him backwards, shooting again as he does. Felix topples to the floor and lies there unmoving, his blood slowly beginning to pool out onto the floor. Rollins sees the tracking unit is lying on the floor and grounds it under the boot of his heel. He doesn't want anyone to be able to ever use it again.
The Soldier is trying to move, looking from Rollins to Felix, as though he cannot understand what is happening and Rollins can see he is in a lot of pain. He tucks his gun in his trousers at the back and holds out both his hands.
“It's okay, it's okay...” He tries to relay to the Soldier that he is no threat.
Jesus, he thinks. What the fuck do I do now? His plans had not progressed past this point. When Felix had contacted him earlier he could not believe that he was being asked to help them in recapturing the Soldier. They must know about me, he had thought and half-expected it to have been a trap: but no, Felix and his team genuinely thought Rollins was Hydra-loyal.
In fact, no one has realised he is not. No one realised he was the one who had helped Maria Hill with Steve Roger's escape, or provided the codes to the Helicarriers. Christ at this rate I ought to play the fucking Lotto!
And Maria Hill? Everyone has their secrets and his secret is his feelings for that bloody woman. He would do anything for her. Its a shame he thinks, that he doesn't know where she is at this point, that he cannot hand the Soldier over to her.
“Don't take me back.” The Soldier's voice interrupts his thoughts. The Soldier has finally managed to stand but is in danger of falling back down, and Rollins steps forward and catches him.
“God, even now you're bloody heavy,” he groans as he takes the man's weight. He feels the Soldier adjust his position to try and take his own weight but he cannot quite manage it and Rollins pulls the Soldier's left arm across the back of his own neck and shoulders. He turns them both to walk out of the room.
“Don't...” the Soldier starts to say.
“I'm not taking you back...God only knows where I'm taking you but I promise it won't be back to Hydra. Now just concentrate on helping me get you to the car.”
As they make their way back the Soldier recognises the bodies of Daniel and outside Jason and then Rollins leans him up against the SUV whilst he opens the back passenger door. He is beginning to focus more and shakes his head and turns.
“Front,” he says, leaning now against the warm metal work. His head hurts so much it is pulsing and he can hear his heartbeat thrumming in his ears.
Rollins sighs and closes the back door and instead helps the Soldier move around the car and then into the front passenger seat. He then gets in the driver's seat. He can see that the simple walk has all but exhausted the Soldier.
“Why are you helping me?” the Soldier's voice makes hardly any noise, he tries to turn his head to look at Rollins and squints at him as the sunlight is still too bright for his eyes. Without thinking Rollins pulls down the sun blind.
He doesn't say anything at first but then reaches over and puts the seat belt on the Soldier and then puts his own on and starts the car. He sits there with the engine idling.
“I'm not really Hydra. Never was I don't think,” he says eventually, and looking at the Soldier he tries to smile. “I don't know what I am.” And he really doesn't.
For the last seven years he has worked with Rumlow and as time has gone on he has become more and more disillusioned with Hydra. The organisation is not what he thought it was. He had been a mercenary when Rumlow had recruited him and he thought in those days he knew what he wanted. Now though? Now he doesn't know anything any more.
Doubts had been creeping into his mind for a long time. Once, on a mission which seems years ago now, the Winter Soldier had saved his life. He thought he had already repaid that debt and it annoys him that he still believed it was still outstanding. Yet here he is risking his own life. And he knows why. He has a sneaking admiration for Steve Rogers. Rumlow had him hold his gun to Steve's head only a few days ago - but Rumlow never guessed Rollins would never have shot him and he is so grateful it never came to that. This is the apology for that, this has got to be the payback this time. He doesn't owe either of them anything now.
“Listen to me,” he turns to look at the Soldier. “I'm not your buddy, I'm not your friend. I'll help you get somewhere safe but then I'm out of here, understand?”
The Winter Soldier looks at the man beside him. “I get it, you're not my buddy.” And he turns back, closing his eyes and resting his head against the car seat. His head is still pounding and he feels sick. “But I don't believe it when you say you're not my friend.”
Rollins sighs. But before he can drive away the Soldier looks at him again and puts his hand on the steering wheel as if to delay him a moment longer. He truly looks like he has been through hell.
“One more favour,” the Soldier says.
“What the fuck? What?!”
“I don't suppose you have any more water and a bottle of painkillers, do you?”
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A Bucky Barnes Winter Soldier Fic - The Constant