WI

After a mission to dismantle one of the Red Room’s remaining facilities, Bucky Barnes leaves with more than intel and damage reports—he leaves with Y/N, a sixteen-year-old survivor who has never known life outside of being trained as a weapon. Quiet, guarded, and shaped by survival rather than childhood, she struggles to understand a world that doesn’t operate on orders or extraction. What begins as temporary protection slowly turns into something neither of them expected, as Bucky finds himself teaching her how to live instead of survive—and discovering that sometimes family isn’t something you find or adopt, but something you build, one difficult day at a time.