
Chapter 5
"And you are, on a search for James Barnes, aren't you?"
"I don't see how that's relevant to what we're discussing."
"Well, your mishaps with the Avengers-"
"Our 'mishaps' helped unearth a Nazi organization-"
"-seem to be on a sporadic basis, and sources have said you're poking around for a wanted criminal!"
Wilson looks at the interviewer, eyes serious as stone.
"James Barnes is a POW. First and foremost. You can flip that any way the media does, and it still won't change. If it were a American soldier in Islamic radical territory, he would given medical help, not a goddamn witch hunt."
"Is this your VA teaching talking, Mr. Wilson?"
A long pause. "This is a person, talking. Ms. Everheart. Awful misleading name, by the way. I don't really see one."
Bucky looks at the TV.
He doesn't deserve this.