Nov 2, 2014
He's found in the water by strangers and interrogated for reasons he doesn't know. They tell him his name is the Winter Soldier and he tried to steal their intel, but he doesn't remember any of this. All he knows for sure is that he is a weapon, not a person. But the man with blond hair and blue eyes is trying to tell him that that's not true, either.
In the absence of information, you take what other people give you. It’s not trust; it’s necessity. When you have nothing, you can’t afford to wonder if they might not be telling you the whole truth.
(An AU where Steve Rogers isn’t a man out of time, SHIELD is locked in a war with Hydra, and Bucky Barnes was laid to rest in a cemetery. Or so everyone thought.)