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the soldier leads matt down a fire escape and onto the street.
they walk fast, because the handlers might be happy with soldier bringing matt to them, but they won't be happy with him for being late. matt's mask is long gone. he tossed it into an alley the moment they hit the sidewalk. he's gasping for breath beside the soldier, barely keeping up, but he doesn't say a word of complaint. the soldier has to slow down when matt takes his hand, and he nearly ends up dragging the boy off his feet.
it's a cover - the rest of the world will see a man leading his son home, and they won't think to look for a metal arm beneath the soldier's jacket. this cover hasn't been ordered - he had one he was supposed to use if he was stopped on his way back, but it didn't account for matt - but he's judged the punishment for straying from his orders to be worth keeping matt close to him. matt didn't seem to mind the charade, because he squeezes the soldier's hand and smiles up at him. he takes a while to catch his breath, but when it comes to him, he speaks quietly, mindful of the people they pass. "Where are we going?"
"Back to my handlers." the soldier glances down at him. something rises up in his throat, catching in it, and he surprises himself when he continues. "My mission is over. I have to report back."
he hasn't spoken without prompting in years, or maybe even never before. but his boy must sense how his heart starts to race at the thought - not good, not good, this goes against orders - because his boy tugs on his hand and asks, "Where are you from?"
the name jumps to the soldier's lips without hesitation - he knows this, this is good, this is safe territory. "Moscow."
"Are you sure?" and the soldier pauses midstride to look down at his boy because yes, he's sure of this, or at least he thought he was, because matt has him questioning himself. and then there his boy is again, chattering on and breaking him out of his thoughts before he even begins to lose himself.
"You kind of sound like you might be from around here."
the soldier doesn't have anything to say to that. he knows he isn't from around here. but he recognizes the streets, recognizes a man they pass - the one who folds up his newspaper, stands from the bench, and starts to trail after them. one of his handlers' people.
matt tilts his head at the soldier's side, and tugs on his hand. bucky doesn't move his head, only hums, quietly, to let his boy know he noticed.
"He has a gun," matt says and he's nearly too quiet for the soldier to hear. "What do we do?"
"Nothing." and the soldier hushes matt's worried complaint.
the soldier's grip on matt's hand tightens when he leads them down into the alley. his handlers' man stops in the opening behind them, blocking it off, reaching for the phone the soldier knows is in his pocket. the soldier knows what's waiting for them when they get to the end, knows what his boy must hear when he tilts his head.
so the soldier stops. he stops in the middle of the alley and crouches down to matt's level. it's a struggle to bring the words forward, but it has to be done, because he knows what the consequences will be if doesn't. "Do what they say," he tells matt, and matt's looking up at him with his big brown eyes, and he nods, so he must know what the consequences will be, too. their handlers must not have been different, in that at least.
the soldier nods back and stands, just as the man at the opening of the alley takes a step toward them. the soldier takes matt's hand and tugs him along, lets the man on their heels drive them toward the end of the alley. the van that will take them to the safehouse pulls up, and hydra's men don't wait for it to come to a complete halt before they open the doors. they raise their rifles, advancing as one towards the soldier and his boy, and matt tenses at the soldier's side, but he doesn't make a move, doesn't even make a sound. good, good, that's good, learning quick will keep him alive, but hydra's men don't know matt. the soldier will have to watch over him carefully. all he can hope for is that they let him speak to his handlers before they kill matt. but matt can't wait, not with half a dozen rifles already aimed at him, so the soldier pulls him closer, close enough to shield with his own body if he has to, and bows his head and waits to be ordered into the van.

(and now skipping ahead a bit, to after matt names bucky, because writing from beginning to end is beyond me.)

matt spends the rest of the night whispering to bucky. bucky listens quietly, eating up the words, and matt gives them freely, telling him how he'd been left in the dust and how hard he'd tried to be good enough. there's a guard passing the cell - this place wasn't built for abilities like matt's. matt can hear the footsteps past the metal door separating them, and matt can hear him complaining to the other guard patrolling with him.
so have the bosses decided what we're supposed to do, yet? we can't keep them there forever - this is a safehouse not a holding facility. fuck, we barely have the equipment to contain winter if his programming throws a fit, let alone if he goes into a rage and tries to kill us all because someone looked at his kid funny.
the guards keep walking, and the sound fades with them. matt lets it go, there's no reason to listen if they haven't decided what to do with him yet. instead, he pulls bucky's arm over him like a blanket, and even though bucky knows the boy is cold by how he trembles, he doesn't complain. the blankets they have are thin and lifeless, no better than the clothes on their backs. the only thing bucky can do for his boy is act as a barrier between him and the cold, concrete wall trying to sap the warmth from his bones. matt starts whispering again, on and on about his lessons, how stick taught him to use what senses he has left, and bucky files it all away in the back of his mind. he already has an idea of where to go with matt's training - reworking matt's form to begin with. the girls already had the grace of ballerinas when they were given over to him, and a boxer's stance won't work with all that bucky has in mind, especially not the knife fighting.
he's shocked out of his musing by matt suddenly going quiet. bucky listened, but his boy's breath was coming too fast for him to be asleep. bucky shifted, giving his boy a nudge, matt took the hint to let bucky know he was still alive.
"I-I was thinking," he says, and his voice is somehow even quieter. bucky doesn't even catch half of what he says and matt has to repeat it. "I was thinking about Stick. Is he going to come back?"
bucky shakes his head, and matt goes quiet. stick was gone, and he'd never planned to come back - bucky knew his type. trainers didn't stick around forever, especially not for failures, which he has to assume his boy was, but he doesn't tell matt that. no, that was before, and it's not matt's fault his trainer couldn't teach him. bucky will look after matt, teach him right, fix what stick had broken.
he spends the rest of the night awake, going over his plans for matt's future, while his boy falls asleep safe and sound in his arms.

Ahhh, I'm loving these so much! Any chance they'll get uploaded to AO3 perhaps? (That ways they can sorta go in order? xD)

Matt being able to tell Bucky's accent isn't Russian, clever! I didn't think of that. I bet it's not something HYDRA trained out of him in normal speak and it certainly helps him blend in.
And Bucky of course already coming up with a training regime. Already going into full fledged protective mode.

Keep up the good work, THESE ARE AWESOME <3

I think I will, but I'll have to rewrite this first, put in capitalization and stop being such a lazy. This is definitely going into another thread because the disorganization is driving me mad. I'll post again in a few days with everything fixed up and nicely ordered, plus actually moving on with the story. And thank you for the comment! Knowing that someone likes this weird thing really helps keep me going

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