Out Of Time

eighty-four

The world around Y/N blurred. Whether it was due to the blood that was still spilling out of her shoulder or the fact that the love of her life had never died, she'd never know. She collapsed onto her knees, unaware of all that was still going on around her. She cried into her hands as Sam kicked down Bucky and the STRIKE team, all HYDRA, came pulled up. The STRIKE team quickly took the four into custody, putting them in a van. Not caring about Y/N's injury or the fact that her world had just turned upside down.

Y/N was placed into the van, next to Sam. Steve was across from Sam and Natasha was across from Y/N. They had each been handcuffed. Y/N had stopped crying and now was just dazed.

"It was him," Steve stated, looking down. "He looked right at me me like he didn't even know me."

"How's that even possible?" Sam asked. "It was like 70 years ago."

"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43, Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They musth have found him and-"

"None of that's your fault, Steve," Nat said.

"Even when Y/N and I had nothing, we had Bucky."

They all looked at Y/N, who hadn't said a word. All she did was clench her eyes shut and put her head back. Sam looked closely, realizing that she was bleeding from her shoulder.

"We need to get a doctor here," Sam demanded, looking at the guards. "We don't put pressure on that wound she's gonna bleed out here in the truck."

Suddenly, the closest guard to Sam, pulled out an electric rod, neutralized the other guard, and knocked him out. The attacking guard took of the helmet to reveal Maria Hill.

"Ah. That thing was squeezing my brain," Hill said. Sam and her looked at each other in confusion, until she looked at Steve. "Who's this guy?"

Maria Hill had come with an escape plan. She cut open the floor of the van and they carefully rolled out, Steve holding onto Y/N. She had a car waiting for them. It took them into the woods and to some secret facility. As they exited the van, both Sam and Steve helped Y/N out. She wobbled as she walked, almost falling.

"It's okay, Y/N/N," Steve said, picking her up. "I got you."

"H-he's... alive..." she stuttered, weakly. "Bucky's alive..."

They followed Hill into the secret facility. They were walking down a dimly lit corridor as a man came running up.

"GSW. She's lost at least a pint," Maria told the man.

"Maybe two," Sam added.

"Let me take her," the man said.

"She'll want to see him first," Maria said.

Maria led them to a curtained area. She pulled back the plastic curtains to reveal a hospital bed. On the hospital bed was a very much alive Nick Fury.

"About damn time," he commented.

Maria got everything set up next to Fury, so that the doctor could work on Y/N as she listened to him.

"Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum," Fury listed off what was injured on him. "Shattered collarbone, perforated live, one hell of a headache."

"Don't forget your collapsed lung," the doctor added.

"Let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good."

"They cut you open," Natasha said. "Your heart stopped."

"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it."

"Why all the secrecy?" Steve asked. "Why not just tell us?"