Chapter 1
Peter wakes up in a place that’s warm, it feels like someplace familiar and yet like no place he’d ever been at all. He’s on his back and can only see an orange sky, like a never-ending sunset and it's so beautiful; until he remembers what happened, and suddenly the tears won’t stop. He sits up so fast it gets him a little dizzy. “Mr. Stark..? Mr. Stark!….Anybody?” The teen’s voice tapered off into uncontrollable sobs.
Someone is crying. Someone young and scared, and suddenly Bucky is back in Brooklyn in his military greens, the night before he shipped out, with a broken up blond in his arms. He shakes off the memory as he scrambles quickly to his feet and trudges through the amber sand that seems to be endless in this wasteland that he had woken up in.