This is set in an AU where Steve Rogers fell from the train, not Bucky, and Bucky took up the shield in his place.
Metal fingers close tight around Clint’s throat, and he’s starting to see stars. No spangles though, but what the hell is a spangle anyway? He can’t feel the ground beneath his feet, but he’s pretty sure that’s because he’s been lifted into the air by a half-crazed man with a bionic arm.
They call him the Winter Soldier, but to Bucky Barnes, he’s just Steve Rogers. Clint knows the name well; he’s read the files on Project Rebirth and he’s toured the exhibit at the Smithsonian. He knows the guy’s face and has heard Bucky’s stories about the skinny kid from Brooklyn who’d fallen from a train during World War II, but right now, all Clint sees in those dull blue eyes is the Soviet-forged weapon.
His fingers scrabble at the Winter Soldier’s hand in a futile gesture to loosen his grip but the only grip relaxing is his tremulous one on consciousness. “Little help,” he manages to rasp before there’s a blur of red and blue and a metallic clang.
“Let him go!” Bucky bellows, but the guy’s hold isn’t slackening.
Clint has just enough time to think that this isn’t what he meant when he said he liked death metal before he relinquishes his grasp on consciousness and falls into oblivion.