Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Book 8)

Chapter 14✔️

Emoji Chapter:➕Added Scenes/Chapter

Same Day: Hospital
Hallway ⌨️🎭🕊

After escaping SHIELD headquarters, Steve and Amy disguise themselves in civilian clothing, wearing hoodies to hide a bit their faces. They go back to the hospital to retrieve the flash-drive that Steve hid in the vending machine.

Steve and Amy casually walk down the hospital hallway, passing doctors and nurses, they go up to the vending machine and sees all the bubble gum packages and the hard-drive gone.

Steve and Amy share a confused look before looking back and sees AJ and AnnaBeth appearing behind them chewing some gum, wearing normal clothing, off the reflection of the vending machine window.

Steve and Amy turns around to face them, they wait a couple seconds for a doctor to walk by before Steve in anger, grabs both of the girls shoulders and pushes them both into a room, behind them.

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Hospital Room ⌨️🕊🎭

Steve pushes both AJ and Anna into an empty hospital room, Amy follows them and closes the door. Steve pushes the girls against the wall, AJ hisses in pain at the contact from her bruised ribs to the wall, still sore from being in two car accidents, the day before (From Chapters 8&9), she also has stitches on her right temple, a cast on her left hand/wrist, has painkillers for her bruised ribs.

Steve ignores AJ's hiss of pain, pushes his hood off his head and demands the two women in anger, "Where is it?" He's asking about the hard-drive, Amy silently watches them and out the window of the room to the hallway for any sudden interruptions.

AJ answers vaguely as she glares at Steve, "Safe."

Steve demands as they pushes Anna and AJ harder to the wall, "Do better." AJ's face twists in pain but tries to hide it.

Anna looks at Steve sternly, "Where did you get it?"

Steve demands back, "Why would I tell you?"

AJ holds her casted left hand/wrist to her chest, as she stares at Steve, figuring it out, "Fury gave it to you. Why?"

Steve ignores AJ's question and demands to Anna, "What's on it?" He looks at Anna cause she downloaded the files to that hard-drive.

Anna answers Steve truthfully, "I don't know."

Steve pushes Anna harder to the wall in anger, "Stop lying."

Anna narrows her eyes as she says in defence, "I only act like I know everything, Rogers."

Amy speaks up as she walks over to them standing on Steve's right, in front of AJ while Steve stands mostly in front of Anna, "I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"

AJ and Anna blinks surprised, Anna realizes and says, "Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you." She looks between Steve and Amy.

Steve grabs the two women tighter to the wall in anger, "I'm not gonna ask you again."

AJ breathing out in pain, takes a moment before she tells them, "I know who killed Fury." Steve, Amy and Anna look at her surprised, Steve relaxes and let's go of the two women, AJ shifts a bit off the wall as she explains, "Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe they exist. The ones who do call them the Winter Soldiers." Amy crosses her arms, glances out the window to the hallway before looking back at AJ, "They're credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years."

Amy states unfazed as she raises her eyebrow questioningly, "So they're a ghost story."

AJ sighs then explains, "Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot at my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff." AJ blinks as she remembers that night, "I pulled us out. But the Winter Soldiers was there. I was covering my engineer so they shot him straight through me." AJ pulls up her shirt a bit to show them the bullet wound scar on the left side near her stomach and hip, Steve, Amy and Anna look at her scar curiously, "Soviet slug." They look at her, "No rifling." She states with a hint of sadness, "Bye-bye bikinis."