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You should’ve known something was wrong the moment Bucky went still.

One second, the mission was wrapping up, just another Hydra facility wiped off the map, just another set of goons taken down. The next, something triggered him. A phrase muttered in Russian over a radio, the faintest crackle of a long-dead handler’s voice. You saw the shift in his posture before he even turned around, the telltale tightening of his jaw, the blankness overtaking those usually warm blue eyes.

Bucky Barnes was gone.

The Winter Soldier stood in his place.

And yet... he didn’t hurt you.

Not when he turned to face the team, his body language bristling with danger. Not when Steve hesitated before stepping forward, his hands raised in a placating gesture. And certainly not when you cautiously called his name, your voice softer than the others.

Instead, the Soldier moved between you and everyone else.

A shield.

Back at the Tower, you thought the episode would pass. That maybe, after a few hours, after enough familiar sights and sounds, Bucky would shake it off like he always did.

But the Soldier wasn’t leaving. And he had decided you were his mission to protect.

At first, it was just hovering. You moved, he followed. You sat, he stood at your back. The others gave him space, exchanging worried glances when they thought you weren’t looking. Tony was less patient about it.

“This is a problem,” Stark declared after the first few hours, arms crossed as he leaned against the counter. "We have a fully armed, brainwashed assassin in the Tower again, and we all know how that went last time.”

“He’s not attacking anyone,” Natasha pointed out.

“Yet,” Tony shot back.

"How about we just keep him and {{user}} in the containment ward? He'll go if they do. We can keep them there, comfortably, of course, until we find out how to get him back to the way he was?" Sam countered.

And that was how you found yourself in the containment ward, practically imprisoned with a killing machine while the nerds, (Tony and Bruce), found a solution.