I peered around the corner of the crumbling building I was leaning against; my rifle in hand and prepared to fire if I found anyone on the other side. There appeared to be no one, so I turned back to my team, giving them the signal to go ahead so I could stay behind and watch for stragglers.

We had just taken out a group of HYDRA officials, but we couldn't be sure if we had taken care of all of them. HYDRA cells were difficult to destroy. They often had more people hidden behind walls we couldn't see, and they would wait until we were almost sure we had gotten all of them to attack. I wasn't willing to lose anyone that we didn't need to today, so I made sure to keep an eye out and cover our back.

So far, there wasn't any sign of life coming from the pile of rubble where the HYDRA base used to stand.

I'm not sure how it happened. I'm not even sure what happened. I heard someone yell, "Grenade!" and I felt the ground shake below me before I felt the pieces of shrapnel lodge into my thigh, and I felt the sting of the debris that was upturned on my cheeks.

The force of the explosion knocked me backwards and I quickly turned onto my stomach and covered my head with my arms so it wasn't exposed. When the ground finally stopped shaking I lifted my head and turned back around to check the damage the grenade had caused.

I felt my jaw drop at the sight before me. Every one of my team members was laid in the dirt. Some were missing limbs.

I stumbled to my feet, abandoning my rifle as I ran to my team- my friends. I knew none of them were far enough away that they could have survived, but I had to make sure. I wouldn't leave a single survivor behind.

By the time I approached the last private, a pair of black boots came into my vision as someone approached me. Everyone on my team was accounted for in the bodies that laid scattered around me, so I knew it couldn't have been one of them. I felt a chill run down my spine as I hesitated to look up. When I finally could, I was staring into the barrel of a gun.

I jerked awake, jolting upright in my bed and struggling to calm my breathing. I could swear I was getting used to having nightmares about the mission that had gone horribly wrong while I was in special ops, but recently they had darker shadow following them and they were becoming much worse.

Swinging my legs over the side of my bed, I heard JARVIS speak. "Ms. Miller, your heart rate and body temperature are extremely elevated, should I alert Mr. Stark?" He asked.

I rolled my eyes as I stood from my mattress, heading to the kitchen for a glass of water. "Just a nightmare, JARVIS. We've been through this."

The AI didn't reply until I had made my way into the kitchen. "Is there anything else you would like my help with, ma'am?" I gulped down the glass I had filled with tap water while he was speaking before I replied.

"No thank you, JARVIS." I placed the glass back in the cabinet and checked the time. It was only 6:30AM and I didn't have to be at work until 8:45 today, so instead of going back to sleep I decided to throw on some sweats and a tank top. It was almost midsummer, so I didn't need to wear any layers, but I was still strikingly aware of the bright, red scar on my upper thigh. I didn't need anyone else to be aware of it today.

I finished by throwing my hair up in a bun, and let JARVIS know that I would be going on a run and to keep an eye on the house, as if he needed to be told. I swiped my earbuds off of the small table at the doorway and plugged them into my phone, a small, glass rectangle that somehow projected a screen into it's reflective surfaces, swiping the screen to ignore the messages that had popped up, and playing one of my most recent playlists.

The phone had been a gift from my half-brother, Tony Stark. Before JARVIS knew to ask about my condition when my heart rate and body temperature would spike, he alerted Tony almost nightly about it. He would end up calling while I was still awake, only to find out it was another nightmare.

He felt guilty that he couldn't help me move passed the dreams- not that I had ever let him help- and he sent me a new cell phone along with an MP3 player he had designed and a new laptop. He claimed it was to keep me entertained when I couldn't get back to sleep, but he knew the only way for me to work through the nightmares was by running or heading to the gym and working on my kickboxing.

Tony had made me promise to see a therapist when I had moved back to my home in D.C. after I returned from Sokovia. I had agreed, but recently I had been missing sessions. Fury always had one thing or another he wanted done, whether it was joining in on a smaller mission or filing paperwork, the director somehow always got to me when I was headed down the hall for the man's office.

He had even sent me on a mission with Steve and Natasha yesterday, which would not normally be something I was qualified for. I hung around Steve and Natasha normally and sometimes I even arranged and escorted them to their meetings, but I had never been assigned to a mission with them.

As I reached the end of the walk up to my house, I swiped the glass screen of my phone again to check my messages. When I did, I found that I also had several missed calls from Agent Hill and a few from Sharon Carter. Most of the text messages were from Steve.

2:39AM: Where are you? Bad news.

2:46AM: Hill says you aren't answering. Where are you?

2:50AM: Don't leave your house until you talk to Hill

I heard a gun click as a bullet slid into it's chamber behind me, but before I could move, I felt an arm around my neck, holding me into place. I felt the barrel of a gun on the side of my head and I bit down on my bottom lip holding in the scream that was threatening to come from me.

A/N This is a Bucky/OC fic that I've been working on for a while. I have the first story-this one- completed! I'll be uploading a chapter once a week. This is basically a prologue, to give you more background on the OC. This takes place during Captain America: TWS. The next installment will be based on the time between TWS and Civil War, so everyone can go watch Civil War before I start writing it and spoiling it for everyone! I hope you guys enjoy this! ANY feedback is appreciated, I'm editing as I go so let me know if I mess anything up!