The Forgotten One - Winter Soldier X Reader (8)

Bucky’s POV

    Bucky watched as Nexus slowly walked over to the red headed woman he had seen with Steve on the bridge and wrapped her arms around her. As he looked at the two of them together he started to see the resemblance between them and silently felt a slight tinge of happiness for her. He turned and looked at Steve who was smiling as he said, “Welcome home Bucky.” Bucky was about to smile when he heard Steve’s friend gasp and his attention immediately turned to a now unconscious Nexus lying on the floor. “Nexus!” He yelled as he knelt down beside her and lifted her head up into his arms. Smoothing her hair out of her face he kept his eyes focused on her unconscious face. “What happened Nat?” Steve asks as he reaches a hand out to her to steady her. “We were hugging and then I felt her inside my head reading my every thought. Then she passed out.” Steve turns toward his friend who is still holding tightly to Nexus’s body. “Come on Bucky, I’ve got a room we can lay her in.”

    Bucky nods as he wraps his arms around her body and lifting her up bridal style follows closely behind Steve. Once she was lying in a bed Bucky hears Steve say, “Did you know?” Bucky sighs and says as he pulls a blanket over her body. “I think I did… It’s a little hazy but I think she told me once.” He then sits down on the side of the bed as Steve says, “How much do you remember?” Bucky rubs his forehead as he says, “A few things, it might have taken me longer to remember if she had given me the file Hydra had on me.” Steve folds his arms over his chest as he says, “So Hydra had a telepath in its ranks, there’s no telling what she could learn for them without someone ever knowing.” Bucky glances over at her as he says, “That’s why we were paired together for many of my missions. She was the brains and I was the brawn, but then-” He squints his eyes as he tries to remember why they didn’t work together anymore.

    “Bucky?” Steve says as he reaches over and places a hand on his friends shoulder. “For the life of me I can’t remember why we haven’t talked since.” Bucky rubbed his forehead as he glanced back down at her. Why couldn’t he remember? Did she mess with his memories to make him forget something or worse, had Hydra remove the memories he now wanted to remember most? “Hey Bucky, let’s let her rest and you can ask her anything you want when she wakes up.” Bucky nods as he turns to see Nat walking into the room a couple of cups of water in her hands. She hands one to him as she says, “No hard feelings about the bridge, you bringing my sister back to me is enough of a payment for what you did.” He nods as he stands and taking the glass follows Steve out into the living room where he and Steve started reminiscing about the past.

Natasha’s POV

    Nat stares at her sisters sleeping form as she remembers the last time she saw her. It had been years since she had seen you and even as the memory filled her mind she fought with the tears that threatened to fill her eyes.

    ~~Flashback~~

    “Sestrenka! Mama wants you!” Nat cries out up the stairs of her family’s home at her younger sister. A little girl with (H/C) hair runs down the stairs as she says, “Okay Nat,” A giant smile covers her face as she enters the kitchen to find their mother standing by the stove making Pelmeni*. A giant smile covers _____’s face as she looks up at her mother and says, “Can I help?” The beautiful red headed woman looks at her daughter and kneeling down lifts her up onto the counter so she could help as she says, “Of course, that’s why I asked Natalia too call you.” Nat looks at her mother and sister a smile covering her face. “Mama I’m going to go find Otets,” The woman smiles as she says, “Okay sweetie.” As Nat reached the top of the stairs she heard a knock on the door and as she started to walk back down the stairs she saw a man with short blonde hair and a German accent start talking with her mother.

    “What are you doing here?” Nat’s mother says as she stands defiantly in front of the man. “I’ve come for ______.” “I already told you, you cannot have her!” ‘Why does this man want _____?’ Nat thinks to herself as she moves a little further down the stairs for a better view. “This isn’t up for discussion. I want her and she belongs to me.” Nat’s face blanches as she starts to see the fear in her mother’s face. “Wolfgang you cannot have her, she is my child and I will not give her up to you so easily.” “You do not have a choice either you give her to me or I will take her by force. Besides she is my child after all.” Nat’s mouth dropped as she heard her sister skipping into the foyer to see what was taking her mother so long. “Mama I’m done!” The mysterious German mans eyes lit up when he saw ______. “______, go upstairs.” ______ stared at her mom in confusion for a moment before Nat ran down the stairs and grabbed her little sisters’ arm and dragged her upstairs.

    “Nat, who was that man?” she asked when they were locked in there room. “I don’t know but he isn’t a very good man or mama wouldn’t have made us come upstairs.” “I don’t like him, he seems like he’s hiding something and he talks funny.” Nat smiled but then in a instant she heard her mother scream and she instantly reached over and pulled _____ to her body as the two of them hid in the closet. “Nat what’s going on?” _____ asked as tears started to pour from her eyes, “I don’t know, stay here and I’ll look. Don’t open the door for anyone, not even me okay?” The little girl nods as she sits down and covers her ears. Nat turns and upon running to the door hears her father’s footsteps as he runs downstairs to see why his wife had screamed. As Nat opened the door she came face to face with a masked man his face completely covered. The only thing visible was the shinning of his metal arm as it reached out and grabbed her. “NO!” Nat screams as she thrashes around in her captors arms.

    Then the last thing she ever expected happen “Put my sister down!” ____’s scared and tear-filled voice came screaming out at the man that was holding her. “______ RUN!” Nat screamed as she tried to get free of the man. Then as if something changed his mind he threw Nat back into the room and grabbed _______. “NO LET HER GO!!! GIVE HER BACK TO ME!!!!” Nat screamed as she watched the masked man lift her little sister up into his arms and pulling his mask off say in Russian, “I promise not to hurt you little one, but you must promise not to scream anymore.” ______ Stared into the mysterious mans blue eyes then she reached up and touching his face which her eyes filled with tears. “Nat run, he won’t hurt me but-!” The little girl screamed as she turned from the man to her sister to see him holding a gun up to Nat. Nat instantly felt her body being picked up and thrown over someone’s shoulder as he pulled her out of the line of fire and jumped out of the window.

    Nat glanced back at her home to see it now engulfed in flames. Tears filled her eyes as she clang to the mysterious man holding her. When they were far enough away the man pulled away and setting her down on the ground said, “Natalia I am a friend of your mother’s I will protect you and teach you to protect yourself. My name is Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov.”

    ~~~End Flashback~~~

    From that day on she had always thought that _______ had been killed but seeing her today proved that she had been fine and taken care of. As she remembers the masked man she realizes that it had in fact been the winter soldier that took her sister. She knew that Strucker had killed her parents a loose lipped Hydra agent had let that slip but she hadn’t remembered that even back then The Winter Soldier would never hurt _____. She let out a sigh as she walked over and laid down on the bed beside her. Nat wondered if _____ remembered that fateful night but giving who she was raised by it was doubtful at least until she had felt _____ read her mind. Now _____ knew everything she knew, including that Strucker was her real father and the winter soldier had been there the night her parents had died. Nat reached over and gently moving a piece of hair from her sisters face says, “_______, don’t hold our parents death against him. He was just following orders.” Nat didn’t know why she was even saying this but when she saw how concerned he was about you she knew that you in fact would be equally concerned if it had been him who collapsed. Nat Gently took your hands in hers as she let the happy memories of a time when you were young and with your mother and father fill her mind.