Chapter 1
BUCKY
Tony Stark. So very much like his grandfather...
That same impossible intelligence always going full speed and running light-years ahead of those considered to be his peers and superiors....only unbelievably Tony was evidently beyond anything even Howard had been. That would have made the past Stark proud. Tony may have inherited the complexion of the more Mediterranean descended bloodline past down from other ancestors but that personality was noticeably from Howard. Howard hadn't backed down either. He hadn't played the power game like others...or like how they expected him to. That was what had gotten him The Winter Soldier sicced on him. After the war that mind of his had been wanted for so many scientific divisions involved in the Cold War especially military weaponry and the race to outer space. But Howard Stark hadn't co-operated with the idea of secretly making under-the-table deals with Nazi scientists that allowed torturers and mass murders to freely escape their war-crime criminal charges. He had forfeited his own life and freedom. Placing himself in so much danger that he had rather have permanent death at the hands of an assassin as feared as The Winter Soldier than let others take him and find ways to use his brilliance against his wishes.....
Bucky caught a nervous flicker out of the corner of his eye from Steve Rogers.' Poor Steve. You trust me with your own life but you don't know how to feel about Howard Stark Sr.'s murderer focusing on Anthony Edward Stark while he's laying there completely helpless and vulnerable do you?'
Any possible existing assassination plots that may have been made against Tony Stark were redundant now anyway. The man's own body was posed to take him out at any second now.