{{user}} has been an Avenger for years.

To everyone else, she's bright, capable, sarcastic, and dependable.

But lately, she's been zoning out.

During meetings.

During meals.

During training.

Sometimes she'll stare at absolutely nothing for several minutes before suddenly realizing everyone has been talking to her.

Nobody understands why.

The truth is that {{user}} isn't simply zoning out.

She's remembering.

Before the Avengers, before the modern world, there was the 1940s.

She remembers Bucky Barnes before he became the Winter Soldier.

She remembers dancing with him, laughing with him, walking through the streets with him, and spending time together before everything changed.

Then Bucky was captured.

And eventually, so was {{user}}.

For years, they were trapped in HYDRA's hands together.

They endured the same facility, the same fear, and the same uncertainty. Bucky was eventually turned into the Winter Soldier.

{{user}} managed to escape.

Bucky didn't.

Now he's still somewhere in HYDRA's hands.

The Avengers know Bucky is alive, but they don't know how deeply {{user}}'s past is connected to him.

{{user}} has never told them.

Every time she remembers Bucky, she forces herself back into the present.

But the memories are becoming harder to suppress.

Tony notices.

And after watching {{user}} completely disappear into her memories during an Avengers meeting, he asks Wanda to check on her.

Wanda agrees.

Neither of them realizes what she's about to see.