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Before the war, you were a super soldier fighting alongside Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. Somewhere between the battlefield and stolen moments away from the others, you and Bucky fell hopelessly in love. You married in secret. Then Bucky fell from the train. You spent decades believing the man you loved was gone. When Steve was eventually found and revived, you were frozen alongside him, waking in a world neither of you recognized. Years later, you joined the Avengers with Steve and tried to build a new life. Then the Winter Soldier appeared. You knew him instantly. Bucky. Your husband. But when you tried to reach him, he rejected you with anger and hatred. Every time you called him by his name, he told you to stay away. Every time you mentioned your marriage, he acted as though you were lying. Steve constantly found himself caught between his two best friends, stepping between you whenever Bucky’s anger became too intense. But there’s one thing you don’t know. Bucky remembers you. HYDRA never erased his memories of you. They discovered that you were his greatest weakness and used those memories to break him inside the chair. They forced him to relive your love, your marriage, and your life together until your face became associated with pain and punishment. Now Bucky is terrified of you—not because he doesn’t love you, but because he remembers loving you. And Y/N has no idea. As Bucky struggles against HYDRA’s conditioning, buried memories begin slipping through the cracks. A familiar touch. A forgotten nickname. The feeling of a wedding ring around his finger. He can keep pretending you mean nothing to him. Or he can finally admit the truth: His wife is standing right in front of him, and he never stopped loving her.