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All off the team was shaken since the night that Bucky had dreamed about a kid, after all it was not common to see the winter soldier with such raw emotions. So, when Tony announced a meeting everybody gathered eagerly in the common area, waiting patiently for the responsible of this disaster to arrive. All off them looked tense, most of the team had been radio silence since Bucky had a nightmare about a kid. They believe that he had seen a kid and even that he had cared for some assassin kid, HYDRA was not known for having kid soldiers but they did not look down to it, they had trained little girls for the black widow program after all, having Natasha as an example. But was Barnes that sane? Who guaranteed that the kid was not just a bad mission and the kid was dead or maybe some other evil organization trained kids with special abilities, hadn’t he said the last time he saw him was just before Steve? After all it had been three weeks searching for ghosts, maybe this kid was just delusions of a tortured man. When they had told them information it was we are getting forward in the investigation, forward to what exactly? A stroke? that they believed.
The tower was also freaked out, not in a million years the rouges would have thought that Tony would help Barnes, not even the ones who knew Tony closely would ever think he was helping the assassin of his parents. He even accepted the help of Natasha who had betrayed him and dragged his reputation through the mud with SHIELD and Clint who was against the accords since the beginning and seemed resentful to the Millionaire. When all this started they had sent Steve to know if any of this was actually real and to know if they could help in any way, it had been futile seeing Steve had been kicked out after two weeks and he had gather no information or confirmation that all this circus could mean anything. Murmurs were heard in the common room, doubting everything said or heard through the month, until it was cut by the elevator doors opening.
Clint, Natasha and Tony were the first to exit the elevator followed closely by the soldier who carried a stare they hadn’t had since he had left HYDRA. Sam even thought about calling the king of Wakanda if anything turned sightly violent. Sensing that this would be a long meeting Bruce got up and started serving cups of coffee, only when they were all seated they began talking. All of them seemed very serious no jokes were thrown and no glares were made either, that alerted the team, they were not talking hypotheticals anymore and they were treating it as a serious matter. This was actually real.
“We are searching for a very special kid that is working with HYDRA” Bucky started “ We think he is working there against his will, but we have to be cautious,he is very dangerous, and we aren’t entirely sure where he stands” Clint interrupted. Barnes and Tony glared furiously at him, he had read the files for gods sake “he is right” Natasha told them “we hope he is not working willingly, but the archives we found are not updated, the ones we have are old, the most recent ones are from last year. We need to be prepared for the worst case scenario” they huffed but didn’t add anything else “We are searching for the lighting asset” Clint stated. All looked confused, none off them had heard of that code name, except Pietro and Wanda. They know him, Bucky noticed.
“How do we find him?” Steve asked “We must check all the information that Natasha and you retrieved from the bases you raided, check in your memory if there is something you may have missed” Tony said while projecting the various bases they had information on “we can cross all of the ones we looked at, if something had been out of place I would have noticed” Natasha rolled her eyes “right, are you sure you are not gate keeping any information? Because the last time you did it things didn’t end well” Tony scoffed “For the love of god Tony, could you let it go? We are talking about a kid not your bruised ego” cap argued “it’s not about ego Rogers is about keeping my fucking team save and saving a kid” Tony barked “Stop, we are planing something serious, they wouldn’t keep information this delicate” Bruce reasoned with Tony “well one can only relay on experience can’t he?” He grumbled.
The subject was dropped and the bases were crossed with red marks. Some were circled in yellow, that were the ones that they planed on raiding but couldn’t finish their plans because of the accords. Some were marked in blue for he lack of information they had and the thought that they were only storages rooms. Hours were passed discussing the pros and cons of certain bases and the probability of the yellow ones of being where the kid was held “there is no way it is any of this, they must be underground or at least covered in snow like the one in Siberia” all looked at him and crossed all the exterior ones “what if we check every base individually and see if Sargent Barnes remembers something” Pietro suggested. All nodded and showed all the bases to the soldier.
“Are you sure it is not this one?” Scott asked for the million time “I’ve told you it must be underground, this one has a lot of natural light” all the team groaned, many hours had passed and they had not progressed even a little bit, Tony felt like it was the first night that Barnes had told him of the kid “we only have the storage rooms left, there’s literally no more bases” Clint argued “maybe there is something underneath them, you are no experts of HYDRA” Bucky argued “Cheers for not being the expert” Tony answered rolling his eyes. “Are you really sure?” Scott repeated “Yes lang I’m sure, if I had some sunlight it was definitely because I went on a mission not because I stayed with Harry” Bucky was definitely getting tired and useless questions only took time. All groaned but continued nevertheless.
After many pots of coffee the heroes started to drink other things to keep themselves awake, so now the table was covered in used coffee mugs and many cans of energetic drinks that laid around the floor. It all ended being useless because after some hours some were too tired resulting in the avengers taking turns for sleeping when they thought they were not being useful, some going to their rooms and others simply doing it in the couch. The only ones that stayed awake thought all of this were Bucky, Tony and Steve. They pointed out that Steve was not that useful and that he could go to sleep, the captain stayed up, looking after his team without bothering with how much they argued.
Many were in fact storage rooms with nothing special other than weapons Tony decided they would be destroyed when they saved the kid, others were underground bases with many workers and too much infrastructure making them a potential threat. They passed images and diagrams of how the bases looked but none of them awoke anything in Bucky. As bases passed Steve grew worried that the base they were searching was one that wasn’t in the files he had robbed. When they hit base number 36 every one was awake once more and looking really suspicious of the veracity of it all. Three bases were left and all the team looked tense, Bruce felt that he could cut the tension with a butter knife and admire how it stitched together in that same moment. “Is that one” Bucky almost jumped out of the couch.
The base was a little wooden structure in the middle of nowhere, no larger than three feet times four feet. Many looked skeptical about this particular base but shut up after looking at the blueprints. The base was a large underground metal labyrinth with only one exit and with many paths led to nowhere, no wonder Harry couldn’t escape when he was a little kid Bucky thought. “This looked like the drawings Harry had in his room, I thought that it was a pass-time but looking at them now it all makes sense” Clint looked at him with interest, this is how he must sound to Natasha when he talked about his kids, dreamy about them and proud.
The base was mapped as an inverted cone, the closer one to the surface being the widest, with many rooms and facilities for the people working there, they could move with any problems. In deeper parts many training grounds were seen and a common area they assumed was the dinner room. The lower ones were tiny but big enough to keep people comfortably located. The next floor had big laboratories where Bucky assumed they gathered all of Harry’s results, blood and substances they were eager to inject his kid. The deepest one had a single room, they couldn’t think of anything they could save there except for a person.
“We need to figure out where the kid is” Steve said “why? Wanda can track magic, we could go there and find him in seconds” Pietro exclaimed, tiered off this case in general “no, she is not going to do that” Clint stated “We don’t have enough time for any trick she could perform and if the information we retrieved is correct he would kill her in seconds” Pietro pouted but didn’t ask any thing else “Don’t be like that Pietro, this needs to be calculated precisely” she scolded her brother “and I don’t think using my magic in this is even worth it, he could be dead after all” she shrugged. Bucky stood up ready to murder her right there, until Sam dared to open his mouth “so how are we going to attack him? you know to get him here” Clint shoot daggers at the soldier hoping Bucky wouldn’t kill him “don’t look at me that way, you said it Clint, if he can kill Wanda in a matter of seconds what hope do we have?” Everyone held their breath “first off all, none off you is going to go near my kid and if you look at him badly you will hope I was never let free” well at least he is now defending him, Tony thought while rubbing his temples “okey so not attacking, noted, but what we do if he attacks first?” Scott asked, he was with the winter soldier, if it was his daughter he wouldn’t want his coworkers plotting in ways to kill his girl but he also didn’t want to die “You run, and if he corners you talk about yourself he may spare you” Bucky looked at everyone “but none of you is going for Harry, I am”
Bruce exhaled slowly, he felt like a buffer since the team had fought and he hadn’t been there, but most of the time he felt useless in the team. Tony would run when ever he saw him and avoided him every time he thought they could go to the lab together, fearing some accident like with Ultron. He didn’t felt save with Wanda there, he didn’t know if she could control hulk and hurting his teammates was something he couldn’t afford, the problem was that most of his teammates always hung out with her. He would have left to India or to another place but Thaddeus Ross had gained a lot of political power and without the protection of the avengers he could go to jail for any minor thing that he thought punishable by law. Looking at his team he saw that this kid united them more than they had been for the last year. Maybe this kid was the path to finally feeling home once more, so if he had to play buffer one more time he would. “Are you sure he is in our side? Do you think we can really help him?” He questioned “he is in my side, I know he can do so much good” Bruce nodded and sighed “well then, we should cross the lab floor and the training grounds”
Little time passed just looking at the labyrinth, how had HYDRA even construct this hole ass base underground anyway? “We should avoid setting explosives in the entrance, I don’t see any other exits, unless someone wants to do another hole and carry the winter soldier and the lightning asset out of the base” Tony commented. No one offered themselves, if Bucky was acting this protective when the kid wasn’t even with them they couldn’t imagine how he would react then, all approved the idea of not blocking the exit. In the meantime they crossed the rooms that were near the exit, listening to Bucky storytelling how the kid had tried escaping way before he arrived and how much time they took from the handlers office to the exit.
Now they were stuck once more, Bucky couldn’t remember the path he took even if he did it for half a decade. Discussions started briefly after not having any more information on where the kid could be. A bouncy ball was heard hammering the walls after some time, everyone was ready to throw hands when the sound stopped as Scott caught it once more “So the base is a circle isn’t it?” Scott inquired, Bucky nodded once “more like a cone, but whatever you want to think” Tony mocked him, Scott not bothered by the sharp comment continued “the entrance is not on the center of the base, so just assuming by the stories it should be the farthest from the exit and it probably surrounded by guards if the kid ever thought of escaping for them to catch him” Scott thought out loud, looking at how the ideas stopped flowing they continued looking at the screen “it can’t be in the lowest floor, look at the distance between the farthest point of the ‘circle’ and the lowest part, it is shorter; If the kid wanted to escape all he would have to do is run up the stairs and the exit is almost ahead of him. It must be in the upper floors if not at the first one, Sargent Barnes said it was cold so it must be near the snow for the ventilation not to be as warm, also you would want the guards looking after Harry and for any enemy attacks, if something happened they would be the first ones to defend, and honestly the first floor looks like a maze it could be plausible he just got lost the first times and that’s why he never reached the exit” looking at the farthest rooms of the circle it made sense, many turns could be dead ends and many just led you to other rooms, also most paths of the base leaded to those rooms so the possibilities that those two could be the room of the kid were high.
“So now we just need to plan how to get him out” Tony rubbed his hands in his jeans ready for the challenge “you are not planning anything Tony” Steve argued. Before he could protest the captain continued talking “Do you remember how it ended last time?” Tony huffed “I must remind you that the last time you decided to go after those people so the one having cero brains for this things is you” he attacked “Must I remind you that I was the one who planned various attacks to HYDRA in the second war and got out victorious!” He claimed “oh sorry, fossil, for forgetting how good you were 100 years ago! Maybe it’s past your time don’t you think? Maybe give an opportunity to the minds of this age, we have an actual idea of what is happening” Bruce sighed, looking at them bickering once more, Clint and Sam rolled their eyes used to hear them bickering. Natasha pinched the bridge of her nose trying to catch any patience. Scott and Pietro also used to this started throwing the ball once more while Wanda looked at the fight with interest “Enough” Bucky slammed his hands in the coffee table “I don’t give a single shit who fucked over which mission ten years ago, if you don’t decide who is going to plan this thing I will” he made a pause looking at each member “and if you are not capable of getting along for this I will go alone. You shouldn’t be a team, you care more about your egos than saving lives, if you don’t change your attitude you shouldn’t split” the room was governed by silence once more, the two captains looked at the soldier with a trace of shame. “You should go to sleep Bucky, so they can argue in peace” Wanda told him “we should all sleep a little, maybe that will clear everyone’s mind” Bruce recommended “we are so near to finding Harry, I won’t go to sleep now” Bucky protested “and you won’t be of any help if you collapse from exhaustion” he grumbled a little bit but went to sleep in the couch, many stood there not knowing what to do, they scrambled away to do other things or sleep before a new round started. Bruce sighed he really hoped that a break will help to clear everyone’s minds.
The team started working like they had been doing before the accords once Bucky awoke, now that they realized that he would go to get the kid with them or alone if it was necessary, so they made a truce for the sake of the mission, working together to protect the man who was recently freed. After Tony slept for a few hours he started doing calculations to where the structure could collapse it hit with a powerful blast, how much time they would take to arrive to the base. What if the kid was hurt? They would need a secure place for the kid to recover and the possibility of transporting him to the United States later on. He also needed a good excuse for using the Quinjet with any suspicion, after all they were breaking the accords once more. Steve also slept a little and realized that he was being an ass to Tony, he was the one helping his best friend retrieve his kid, and he was arguing with him in every step, what was wrong with him? his head started hurting, he rested his head in the cold wall waiting for it to pass. They needed to do a better work. Others cleaned their weapons and packed everything needed for a long mission knowing the soldier wouldn’t wait any second longer once they were ready to attack. So when they returned to the common area working like an oiled machine, but would this peace last long enough to save this kid? Steve sure hoped it, the kid seemed to get Bucky out of the shell where he had been for the last years and hell it was just a kid.
The perimeter was a tricky thing, many parts resulted in a full collapse according to Tony’s math and FRIDAY’S confirmation. Bucky suggested hitting that structures anyway when they were gone, that place shouldn’t have even existed, the avengers looked pleased with the idea of that outcome. Pietro with the help of Natasha mapped the shortest paths to Harry’s room and the fastest way out while others discussed the details. Distractions were highly recommended and the team had many ridiculous ideas of how to do it, even laughed at some suggestions. They sere going to blow up various places far from Harry’s room “Wouldn’t this make the agents protect Harry more?” Pietro asked “well in normal hostage situations they would probably protect him more but this case is different” Clint answered “they are counting on the fact that Harry can defend himself and his loyalty to HYDRA, so it will be expected from him to stay in his room and attack everyone that comes near him” Bucky shared
“How are we attacking, I’m hoping not everyone enters that place” Sam asked unsure of how his question would be received after the last one “We must keep the most destructive ones out of the base, so Tony, Sam, Wanda and I are stayed in the surface causing as much havoc in the open as possible” Steve commanded, the ones mentioned nodded “so everyone else is entering” Scott resumed “well, not exactly, Bruce for example can’t enter and neither can Clint, we are hopping that Harry is in our side but if he starts mind controlling we need to keep them out of sight, we can’t risk another incident with the hulk or with any brainwashing incident with Clint in general” the team looked at them expecting them to react, both shrugged they were definitely not eager for any more mind control knowing the damage they could cause if someone controlled them again “Barton you will be in the cockpit, he is the best pilot apart from me and I’m definitely entering” Bucky Ordered, Clint nodded “Bruce will also stay in the cabin as a medical assistant if something happens I want him to repair whatever is wrong” Bruce nodded slightly “Natasha and Pietro are entering the base to gather any extra information HYDRA is hiding, this time I actually want that nazi place destroyed” Steve commanded “so I’m entering for Harry alone” Bucky relaxed, he hoped Harry wouldn’t attack him, but even if he did he was ready “what about me?” Scott complained “you are staying here” Bucky shrugged “what! But I helped to plan all this thing, you can’t just exclude me like this!” He whined “yes I can” Bucky said “but you are not even the captain, Steve is, why can’t I go?” He complained “Scott, this mission is truly dangerous and you don’t have that much experience” Steve tried explaining “so what! I stay here and bite my nails hopping everything goes well?” Tony sighed “Lang I need you to stay in case there is any medical emergency that Bruce can’t handle, also I need you to hide this little adventure from Fury, no one knows apart from the people that are here and for Harry’s safety I need it to stay that way” Tony said softly. Scott agreed reluctantly.
Getting the Quinjet into the air was a tricky task, they couldn’t alert any government of their doings and they were not telling anyone of their little adventure, so any friends Tony had or any officials Sam had gained favor off were off the hook. So getting it to take off had been purely by Tony’s theatrics, explanations and avoidances that the team knew had been practiced moments ago, that didn’t take the fact that it had been vastly exaggerated making everyone cringe at the performance. Finally after three long days of planing and arguing the team was ready.
There was a still silence, waiting for someone to end the peace just as it started. Pietro fidgeted in his sit, playing with his hands and not looking at anyone in particular. Bucky looked at him and at Wanda, how could they decide to go into HYDRA? If he had a choice he would have died, Natasha would also prefer death over the red room, his kid would prefer it every time, so why had this two decided that HYDRA was the best option? Had they really left it? They had shared the same thoughts at one point, what changed? He looked at Pietro once more, it looked like he had sat in a porcupine, how could he work with them if he couldn’t stay still?
“So how is he?” Pietro asked, Bucky raised a brow unimpressed “why the sudden interest kid” Sam asked “well you know if something happens and he attacks, we should know who not to hit, right?” His hands kept fidgeting. The team looked over at Bucky waiting for any answers. Bucky sighed “he has long black hair, it should be tied down like I tie mine, if not it should be a really messy hair; he has the greenest eyes you will ever see and he has a lightning scar in the middle of his forehead” Bucky described him “why weren’t we handed a image of how he looks” Pietro questioned “well, because we have scraps of how people describe him and search posters of an approximate of how he looks, and well you are not exactly posing for the cameras if you are doing something illegal” Tony answered “we will be there in three hours approximately” he cut the conversation.
After that the Quinjet was silent. Bucky felt all his tense muscles relax, he looked at the windows, it was all white, with that color in mind he drifted to sleep. He was walking a common path he had passed a hundred times, they left footprints where they passed confident that the wind would cover them later on. The trees sang or at least that’s what Harry said each time they walked through the forest “can we stop for half an hour?” Someone said, when he looked over his shoulder he saw Harry, he was about 9 years old, he had a little hole in the left side of his mouth where one off his teeth had recently fallen.”I’m fucking freezing” He was whining once again like he did every time they walked to the base, he ignored him and kept walking. He then heard a loud puff, when he turned once more he looked at the kid who sat in the snow. Winter looked at him unimpressed but stopped nevertheless. He put his hands near his mouth and blew a little bit of steam before conjuring a fire seconds later. He remember listening the wind blowing, he frowned looking at the grey sky if they didn’t move they would be trapped in a storm, he looked at Harry knowing he wouldn’t move him unit he was ready. “You know is kinda ironic how you hate winter, it’s your code name after all” Harry commented rubbing his hands in his arms. “I don’t hate winter, I just hate the cold” he explained for the hundredth time, the kid laughed “we should do something about it don’t you think?” He scooped some snow in his hand and threw it into winters face, he didn’t react “come on winter, let me have this normal experience for once” he begged, he sighed once more looking at the sky “fine, what will happens when I win” Harry smiled wickedly “if you win we can go to the base, if I win we should stay until they find us” he didn’t like the sound of it, they would hurt Harry for sure and he couldn’t allow that “come on, if you win I’ll give you something else” the soldier analyzed his kid “and what would be this extra?” Harry looked at him “isn’t that the wonder of life, receiving a reward without knowing what it is?” Winter didn’t comment on that statement, HYDRA agents had really wicked thoughts of what a prize was.
The fight started, Harry threw many snowballs to winter without any strategy in mind so some hit and some didn’t. The soldier in the other hand knew that all the kid wanted was a friendly fight but he couldn’t afford to loose so he dodged and aimed at the same time. Harry gave up after fifteen minutes, he was laughing on the snow looking more like a nine year old that he had been in any of his memories. Returning to the base had been horrid, he felt himself soaked and each step felt infinite. He looked over at Harry, he was playing with his magic while thinking something himself, the soldier only hopped that whatever the kid was plotting it wouldn’t get them in trouble or made winter to touch any more snow with his hands, he hated snow. After some debating Harry stopped winter and took his jacket, winter looked at him with something close to irritation, he didn’t open him mouth even if that meant not having the jacket. Harry passed his hands through the jacket two times, he stuck out his tongue, something he did when he was doing something new. Harry returned it to winter and looked excited for him to put it on. When he did he let a soft sight out, the jacket was once more dry and it was really warm, the kid smiled looking at his reaction “it’s something I practiced with my clothes, Don’t ask how many I burned, I don’t hate the cold that much so I thought to give you a present” the kid kept rambling about the complexity of the spell and how his magic felt while doing it. The soldier listened, his kid had done it fore him after all.
He woke up startled as the Quinjet started shaking “What the hell is happening” he shouted holding himself in one of the metal tubes the cabin had “there is a fucking invisible wall, you asshole didn’t think of mentioning this?” Clint barked “Iron man, Falcon, jump now before we are too close to the ground, and don’t forget to turn on the coms” both nodded and jumped out of the plane attacking just as they were getting out. Smoke came out immediately after attacking, the base was out of power. The landing had also been messy, not stopped by it Captain America and the scarlet witch got out. “Stay here” Bucky commanded as he was getting out of the Quinjet “where else would we go” he answered while connection all the coms to the Quinjet “Cap, what is the situation” Natasha demanded “the entrance is free you should move now I don’t know how much time it will stay like this” Steve said “not much, I can see lots of HYDRA agents heading to the exit” Tony said
Bucky entered the base followed closely by Quicksilver and the Black Widow. They signaled to each other and went their separate ways. The base was silent the only thing heard was the steps he took each time. Memories assaulted him once he was fully in, he saw Harry walking through every corridor he could and him trailing after the green eyed kid. He heard the sound of agents running towards him, he landed various punches knocking out some of them or incapacitating them. He continued to move through the long base. After the third group of agents he stopped hearing their screams and the bones snapping under his hands. Scientists didn’t dare to approach him firing their guns once the looked at him come near. Fortunately he always carried his guns, he felt how the gun fired each time, he stopped recognizing where the sounds came from, he had only one goal in mind, get Harry.
He continued walking, destroying every man and women who presented themselves in front of him. He felt his muscles tensing as he approached to the kids cell. What if the kid blamed him for leaving him? what if he didn’t recognize him? what if he attacked him? When he arrived he stood at the door looking at it almost admiring it, he would protect him from now on, he promised himself. He opened the door slowly not wanting to scare him, once he looked at the room he froze. His kid, so small was strapped to the chair where he had suffered for decades. He looked so fragile there, with his head hanging with no more force to keep it straight, his black long hair fell just above his face making impossible to look at the kid’s face. Blood, his blood covered every wall in that small room, he saw various torture devices and some blood of his kid in there he was horrified. “Harry come on, I need you to get up I’m taking you out” he got hold of his face in hopes the kid reacted “winter?” He whispered before fainting “come on Harry, don’t do this to me” he shook him a little, seeing the kid would not wake he cut the straps and carried him to the exit “Bruce I need you to have everything prepared for him, and someone tell Scott I need a complete medical team” Bucky commanded “Bucky what happened?” Steve asked “he is not responsive, he is so cold… I don’t think he…” he couldn’t finish any sentence all of his thoughts dead after just saying a few words. He couldn’t die, could he? He saved him, how could he die when Bucky was trying to do the same.
He ran to the exit hopefully no one tried to stop him, he saw the movements of quicksilver taking the people that were still standing to clear the path for Bucky. He felt how Harry’s blood soaked the fabric in his arms and how it dripped slowly getting to the cold floors of the base. He gritted his teeth, Harry’s blood was not worth of being scattered in the metal floors, it was supposed to do incredible things not drip in a random base in the middle of nowhere. When he got to the surface he smelled the gunpowder and smoke all around the base. That’s how war felt, that’s how he had felt in the 1940, desperate for peace and for a secure place to stay at, hopping all his coworkers would get to see one more sunrise. But the grief? That was new, he hadn’t cared deeply for any soldier, but he cared for this kid and he was feeling how his life slipped from his hands.
Things started to get bizarre as he approached the Quinjet. Many trees that were smaller started to grow like crazy, flowers that were growing that was pretty much impossible because they were really out of season. Little sticks started becoming really big logs. Snow started to fall from the sky with no control. Many weapons started to appear out of nowhere. The forest itself was driving itself mad. He felt as someone tackled him, Steve was there on top of him and he was on top of Harry, the kid couldn’t touch the ground, he couldn’t touched the snow he was already so cold. Then a gunshot was heard just where his head had been instants ago. “We need to go” Steve commanded thought the devices “this forest is going crazy, every one in the Quinjet in five”
All the team entered to the Quinjet all baffled at the rapid change of the forest, that started becoming of different colors and returning to the original colors in just an instant, getting many different flowers every minute and decaying at the next second. “Let’s fucking go” Tony commanded. Clint turned the machine on and started to fly rapidly off that area
“Barnes get him here” Bruce commanded, Bucky left the kid in the stretcher with softness hopping he hadn’t done more damage. The sheets started to get soaked on blood “fucking hell, this is so much blood” Bruce cursed “Clint call Scott, tell him we need at least two bags of blood O negative, I don’t have enough time to test him, also tell him I need at least two surgeons to stitch his back and a OR immediately” he putted some metal sticks near his heart and strapped him to different machines. A rapid and an uncoordinated beeping sound started to alert every one “Barton please tell me you are going faster” Stark exclaimed “I’m going as fast as we can, this is not a fucking car Stark” a constant beeping sound was made, Bruce putted some patches near his heart and started performing CPR “Nat help me with the oxygen” the woman rushed near Harry and started ventilating him “Clear” Bruce shouted, they both got his hands of, the beeping didn’t ease. They tried two more times until he had a pulse.
Bucky stood there looking at the blood in his hands incapable of moving, just watching his kid. All noises were drowned by the beat of his own heart. Could he really just die there? The answer was yes as he heard the flat line. Many screams were done but none of them registered all he could hear was the beep of his kid.
“Is there nothing else you can do Bruce?” Tony asked desperately “There is nothing I can do with the things we have here” Bruce answered, a constant and slow beep sounded “we must keep him stable until we get to the tower and hope for the best” Nat and him turned him and with gaze they tried to cover the open wounds in hopes that the bleeding would stop. “Scott already alerted the doctors, they are waiting for us at the top of the tower”
The rest of the flight passed in tense silence, every one alert of the notices that the monitor made. In some point Bucky got near his kid and took his hand, he just watched him, how his chest rose and fell, looking for any signs he was in pain or was cold. When they got to the tower the medical team waited for them. Bruce got down with his kid telling them everything he knew about the patient and how his signs had changed during the way there. Bucky tried to follow them, but he was stopped by Tony “we don’t belong in that area Barnes” he said quietly “there’s nothing we can do now, go take a shower we will wait for him in the common area”
Bucky open the water stream and got in without waiting for it to be warm even if he had not touched cold water in almost five years, he scrubbed violently his hands and arms trying to make the blood from his kid away, the blood stayed impossible for him to remove, he spent there at least 45 minutes until Steve went to retrieve him “hey, hey you are clean, come on you need to eat something, we will wait for him down okay?” He couldn’t talk so he just nodded. Everyone stayed in the common area, food was out in front of them but no one had the strength to push it in. When the second hour hit Wanda got up telling she couldn’t wait any longer there and went to her room. The rest stayed there, Scott also joined them hoping to get something out of them but it was all useless.
At 5 am the doctors approached the heroes, they looked tired. They sat with them to inform them in the best way possible “Mister potter is stable, he could handle surgery” Bucky took one long breath, the main surgeon told them “but his heart stopped four times, counting the one where all of you were present.” the doctor informed them “we do t know the implications on his brain when he wakes up, we are going to give him antibiotics for the injuries we treated and we will have someone checking on him constantly” he took a long pause “we don’t think he will make it, you need to prepare for the worst case scenario” the doctor said. All of the doctors left with a polite nods. The team was left stunned, was Harry really going to survive?