The women in the tall heels screamed, and tried to run away. Bucky killed her effortlessly, snapping her neck like a tall blade of grass.
The man she was with tried to scramble away, and almost made it the door, before Bucky impaled his shoulder with a well aim knife.
"Please soldier, let me go please, please, please, I will give you anything you want, mone- " the begging has seemingly fallen on deaf ears, because the winter soldier killed him, mercilessly.
But the begging for mercy has not fallen on deaf ears.
It repeated over and over in bucky's head, ringing like an echo. All the cries and scream over the decades surrounding him, wrapping him up, he can't breath, he can't talk, he can't move. He is trapped in sorrow, grief, and survivorcs guilt.
He fell down on the ground, letting the hatred rain down on him, wishing he could die.
Suddenly, there is an arm wrapped around him, and not strangling him.
It's quietly patting his back, and telling him it would be okay.
Another hand was gently massaging his hair, seemingly trying to get rid of him a headache.
Bucky don't know what this situation is, so he let it happen.
"Don't worry, everything is all right, you are safe, you're at home." The voice said over and over again.
" I didn't mean to kill you, it wasn't my fault." Bucky cried, tears streaming down their face.
" I know, it's not your fault." The voice reassured.
" I was brainwashed by hydra, it wasn't me."
" I know, you're innocent, you are okay."
" Who are you? where am I?"
"Bucky, I'm your boyfriend, we are at home together. " Zemo kissed bucky's cheek, wiping away some tears.
"My boyfriend?"
" Yes, I'm helmut zemo, you lost your memory, Hydra brain wiped you too many times during the torture. Now, when you have your nightmares, you wake up without a memory of the past two years. But it's all right, you will get them back in the morning, it's 6:00 a.m. in the morning right now."
" How do I know you aren't lying? It's oddly convenient for me to lose my memory." Bucky sat up, but shivered when the warm hug was. he just realized he was naked.
"Do you have any water?"
Zemo already had it ready, and handed him a cup.
"We have been together for two months, and this is the fifth time you woken up with a nightmare without your memory. "
Bucky slowly drank the water, and felt much better.
"We have a bit of a routine now. I give you some water because your throat would hurt, and you could have a bit of cough syrup if you want. You would get your memory back in the morning, our therapist don't know why it, but this should be a side effect of nearly a century of hydra torturing."
" Here's the proof that I'm not lying, when you are about 9 years old, you had a cat named Mara, she was a tabby; your childhood fear was pirates; And you have a small mole on your the lower back. You told me all these so I could prove to you You trusted me."
" I suppose there's no other way of you finding out, you must be telling the truth then. " Bucky admitted.
"If you are feeling better, perhaps we should be going back to sleep."
They lied back down, and tried to go back to sleep.
But Bucky can't, the uneasy feeling has started to started overwhelm him again.
"I know it's 3:00 a.m., but can you hold me again?" He wispered.
Zemo complied, and held bucky in his arms, and gently kissed his neck.
"I can't sleep, the moment I close my eyes, my nightmare comes back."
Bucky was slightly shivering, and zemo gently reassured him every thing is okay.
"So we are romantically and sexually involved? "
"Yes Bucky, that's why we're naked in bed together sharing a blanket." Zemo kissed him.
" Do we go on dates and eat lunch together everyday?"
" Lunch, breakfast, and dinner."
" And you're not going to leave me even though I have nightmares."
" Of course not, I would never leave you, since you never gave up on me. And I have nightmares too, And you take care of me when I have them. Luckily They never coincided, but let's try not to jinx it." Zemo smiled.
" Do you also lose your memory when you get nightmares?"
" No, I retain my memories."
" And you said I have been tortured by Hydra? What is hydra?"
Zemo paused: " hey Bucky, what year is it? How old are you? ."
" It's 1942, I'm 25." Bucky was confused.
" You enlisted in the army right?"
"Yeah, I enlisted years ago, on my 19th birthday."
Zemo calculated, and poundered what to say.
"You fought very bravely, in world war II. "
Bucky didn't raise any questions, so he did calculate it right. Zemo was trying to remember when WWII started, it was 1939, and Americans joined the war effort like two years later right?
Should he tell Bucky how he was the Winter soldier for 70 years? Should he tell him it's already the 21st century?
he decided against it. He decided to lie and pretend it's still in the 1940s, before Bucky was tortured for nearly a century.
Let the bucky have a few peaceful hour without all the horrible things that happened to him.
"You fought very briefly and bravely in the war, and unfortunately, you were taken prisoner. The Nazis, they did some memory experiment on you, they are trying to see if they could bring wash the entire world into believing Nazi ideals.
They thought they could just erase all your memory, and replace it with some memories of a Nazi soldier, and then They could gain a loyal soldier."
" That's wicked, have we defeated the Nazi yet? How am I here?"
"Yeah, Nazis are gone now, it's been a year since you been freed. We captured Adolf Hitler on Bunker Hill and he shot himself. "
" Oh that's great, so the war is over? "
" It's pretty much done, there is still some small conflicts, but there's no way the world would speak German now. You don't need to worry about any of it now, you have been honorably discharged, You got your memory back, but sometimes you still suffer from side effects, and you got some medals." Zemo lied.
" Wait, so how did I meet you? You have an accent, is that Russian?"
" Oh no, I'm a sokovian, I was captured by Germany also, and we were in the same camp."
"Camp?"
Zemo is struggling to keep track of his world war II knowledge. And he don't know what Bucky still remembers.
" Yeah, prisoner of war camp."
" And where are we now?"
" Manhattan, you're in my house, well our house now."
" All right, it's a bit confusing. So the war ended already, that's great, so disappointed I had to miss that. "
"but we had a wild party and got really drunk, you will remember it in the morning."
" Why am I honorably discharged?"
" You lost an arm, did you not notice you had a metal arm? " Zemo slowly invented.
" No I haven't, wow what is this, it's much better than the prosthetic arm Joshua had."
"Um, It's a kind of metal, You fought very bravely so they gave you a really good arm."
" That's good to know, huh, hey it's been a year, does it mean I missed my 26th birthday? "
Zemo's heart wrenched, The man he loved has lost 70 years.
"No you didn't miss it, we had a celebration, an ice cream cake."
Bucky wanted to ask more questions, but he realized something.
"Do we have to wake up early tomorrow?"
Zemo hesitated, but truthfully said: " No, we can sleep in. Why?"
Bucky didn't answer, but instead kissed him. It was a lustful kiss, full of want and eagerness.
Bucky threw one leg on top of him and his hands started gently tracing across zemo's body.
His kisses moved from zemo's lips to his cheeks to his eyes and ears.
Zemo was surprised, but he kissed back was equal passion.
"Is this part of the wake up without my memory routine, zemo?"
His hands moved on it's own, also he have no memories of it, but his hands know perfectly well how to please the younger man.
Zemo felt waves and waves of pleasure washing over himself.
"It wasn't, we usually go back to sleep, but It should be."
He pinched bucky's super soldier nipples, and grinned as bucky gasped.
"You know we just fucked before bed, like 6 hours ago." Zemo quipped, knowing this would get bucky going more.
" I don't remember it, you are about to get railed by a guy who haven't fucked in two years." Bucky whispered in zemo's ear, and proved himself right.
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Bucky woke up at almost noon, intangled in each other's limbs.
Zemo was still asleep, without the super soldiers stamina, their endeavor would wear anybody out.
Bucky close his eyes to review what has happened early morning.
He smiled.
He has always dreamed of having someone to love, waking up with the person of his dreams, and eating breakfast together.
Remembering how nice zemo was to him last night, he started considering his abilities of making one of the baron's fancy complicated breakfast.
Zemo looked so cute and pretty asleep like this. His long lashes settled and lips soft and kissable.
Bucky kissed it.
After zemo woke and they had a bit more fooling around (They didn't have sex though, there's no way zemo can survive that.)
"So you are not mad at me? For lying to you this morning?" Zemo voiced his concern.
"Of course not, you gave me the happiest hour of my life, I woke up, all my dreams are true, and my nightmares aren't."