FIC 5 GOVERNMENT OWNS STEVE
Ok so this one needs a bit more work than the others. Mostly because I got into it and started to hate it and realized that the reason I hated it was because I had started it as Stucky and realized it actually really wanted to be Stony. Oops. So I am having to go back and re work it, but I like it thus far.
It was actually inspired by two wonderful fics:
Basically I loved the idea of heartsdesires456's story, but in my head it went a lot darker than her lovely, entertaining story. Then I read Zelos's fic and went 'oh yep this is definitely what Ross would want to do to Steve', and well.... this happened.
Like I said, this one is converting to Stony and is set in some nebulous who knows when time where Bucky is at the tower but like every one is happy.
The corrected part is ~1500 words. I don't want to put what the other word count was cause its gonna veer off that storyline.
Excerpt:
“Steve,” Coulson began, with the air of a man about to do something he wished desperately he could avoid. “Do you remember all of the paperwork you signed before Project Rebirth?”
Steve blinked, clearly caught off-guard by the question. “Of course.” He answered. “There was a lot of it. Waivers for all the health risks and dangers of the procedure, nondisclosures for everything, contracts for service, and…” Steve trailed off as the blood began draining from his face. “No.” He whispers.
Bucky closes his eyes and begins to pray for the first time in a long time.
“What?” Tony asks, levity gone.
“Steve also signed this.” Coulson said, pulling a stack of photocopied pages from his file and tossing them onto the table next to Tony. The genius grabbed the stack and started scanning the pages, brown eyes racing over the lines. His feet hit the floor with a thump as he abruptly straightened. Standing, Tony began to pace back and forth, muttering to himself.
Tired of waiting, Clint snapped, “What the hell is it?”
Stopping dead in his tracks, Tony turned horrified eyes on Steve as he replied, “It’s a waiver of rights. It means… well in simplest terms it means that Steve is property of the US Army.”
“Proper….Are you saying he is a fucking slave?!”
“More like an indentured servant.” Coulson was the one who answered. “There are a series of … conditions that must be met before the waiver is void. Which is where our problem now lies. Someone got ahold of this and some other documentation during the fall of SHIELD. They are arguing that the conditions have not been met and demanding that we turn Steve over into their custody so that Clause 5.2 can be completed.”
Bucky closed his eyes as his stomach dropped. He snapped them open again when he felt Steve start to crumple next to him. Papers went flying as Tony vaulted the couch to catch him. Steve collapsed into Tony, clinging and shaking as his breath took on a harsh panicked note.