Second Sphere

Burned

Once the footage stops Tony starts to lunge towards Bucky but Steve pulls him back and I step in between the two of them.

"No, Tony." Steve says.

Tony turns to Steve, I can hear the hurt in his voice, "Did you know?"

"I didn't know it was him."

"Don't bullshit me Rogers. Did you know?"

"Yes."

Tony rips his arm away from Steve. And he turns his attention to me. "You knew. And you didn't say a word. Where you there for this?"

"Tony please, Hydra made us-" I'm cut off as Tony's mask goes up and he blasts Steve across the room.

I'm still in between him and Bucky and he grabs me and throws me to side. Bucky and Tony are locked into a fight. Steve throws his shield, hitting tony and preventing him from shooting Bucky in the face with a beam. A lot of the fighting is done between Stark and Bucky but Steve and I both try and pull Tony away from him.

"Please, Tony!" I beg as we try and pull him off of Bucky. Machinery starts to crash down around us as various blasts cause damage.

"Get out of here!" Steve yells to Bucky.

I pick up Bucky after he pushes a button to open the roof door and I get him about halfway up, before Stark grabs my ankle and I drop Bucky onto a platform.

"Tony, this isn't the way. Hydra did this not Bucky, he had no choice. If you want to blame someone blame me!" I plead with him, struggling to get my ankle free.

"Oh I blame you too, don't worry about that." He shoots a blast and it hits me in the arm causing me to drop from the pain.

By the time I get up again Tony has Bucky in a headlock and Steve and I both crash into them, sending us all falling down.

"This isn't gonna change what happened." Steve says, trying to catch his breath.

"I don't care. He killed my mom." Tony says and charges toward Steve.

I try and get Bucky to his feet, "We need to go now. Before he does kill you. We can run, and hide."

Bucky grabs my hand, "No. I deserve this. You go, leave you don't need to watch this."

I shake my head and take his head in my hands forcing him to look at me, "I'm not leaving you."

Bucky nods and grabs Steve's shield and we all try and subdue Tony.

Bucky manages to pin him to the wall and rips out the arc reactor but the blast rips off his arm and hits me in the back of my wings which I had wrapped around me to protect myself. The blast was the first thing to truly damage my wings, and I drop to the floor crippled from flight. The pain was unlike anything, even worse than Hydras experimentation and torture. The smell of burnt feathers was like that of burning hair, acrid.

Time seems to stop. It stops all of us, even Tony looks at me horrified at what had happened. All I can do is attempt to muffle the screaming and sobbing from the pain and kneel on the floor.

Tony shoots Bucky in the back and he crumples in a heap next to me. I crawl my way over to him, and painfully extend my wings over us both. The movement is agonizing but it's all I can do to try and protect him. I can feel him breathing beneath my shaky hands and sigh in relief. I can still protect us. I can still save him, my soldier.