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Six: Without Words

"Bucky." He tosses and turns again the blankets spread around him.  "Bucky." It's a woman's voice. Sweet like sugar and deadly just like Hydra.

The dream switched over and he's smiling. His subconscious is letting him breathe steadily now in bed.

"Bucky!" The voice he misplaced as deadly is latching onto him. Instead it's helping him walk through the dark, somewhere lighter.

He wakes with a start, but this time instead of panting and eyes searching for any threats in the dark the room is aglow and his eyes moves to the source. A jar much like the ones he use to fill with honey in the past, is now filled with a blue light.

And Bucky has no idea if it's alive or not as it seems to be moving, but for once he is comforted by it.

"Buck?" Steve knocks on his door and he stops staring at the blue light. "FRIDAY said you woke up again." He says worriedly he waits three seconds for Bucky's response before barging in, spotting his best friend reaching over for the jar. "Hey Buck, you okay?"

"There was a memory." Bucky mumbles. "And you saved a lot of people." He holds the jar spinning it around. "The 107th."

"You remember?" Steve says hopefully.

"Where did this come from?" Bucky looks up to his best friend.

"Y/N she gave it to me. Says it helps with nightmare. Kind of like a-." He scratches his head searching for the right word. "A dream catcher. Why? Did it help? She put it in about an hour ago, before she had to go on her mission."

"What is it?" Steve shrugs and FRIDAY answers.

"It's an unknown element in the periodic element. Ms. Y/L/N extracted it from her body. She was born with it, but has no answers as to why."

"Thanks FRIDAY."

"No problem sir." The A.I responds.

"This y/n, is she the one going to help me?" Steve nods calmly not wanting to get the ex assassin angry. "Are you sure she can handle it."

"I wouldn't have asked for her help if I didn't trust her Buck."

"I know, it's just I don't want to hurt anymore people." Bucky shrugs.

"You won't." The voice startles them both and they realize it's coming from the A.I's speaker. "Hello James." It's voice from his dreams. It's her. "Steve why don't you go back to bad. He's safe with me, I promise."

"Thanks Y/N."

"No problem captain." Theirs yelling in the background and she sighs before something drops to the ground next to her.

"Where are you?" Bucky finally speaks up.

"I'm infiltrating a Hydra base." She answers. "Currently I've got Leo Fitz hacking into their system taking their files."

"You're in the middle of a mission why are you calling me?"

"I'm bored." Someone is running towards her and she easily knocks them down. "Did you like my present?" She asks.

"I did." Bucky smiles at the jar. "Can you explain it to me?"

"Not tonight Bucky." She's sweet talking him back to bed and he knows it. "We'll get to that in the morning."

"I can't sleep."

"I'm going to sing to you Bucky." She starts to hum and it's as if the explosions behind her zone out and he listens in on her voice, head resting on his pillow.

"Step outside the sea. They don't know you like I do. They don't know you like I do." His breathing is slow and steady and she smiles at that brightening the light in the jar just a bit.

"Not all of life is cruel. Not all of life is so untrue. Not all of life is so untrue."

"I can hear the morning birds. Light upon the branches. And each in turn, sing of all God's praises. Without words. Without words."

"Don't turn it all inside. I don't like to see you cry. I don't like to see you cry."

"Whispered kisses in your ears. Touch so soft and warm. Confessions all of love for you. (Yes) Without words"

Stare into the flame. Until you see beyond the light. All the while, truth was mine. It's with myself, I fight. Sin you've carried like a corpse across your back these days. Let it fall away. Let it fall away. Let it fall away.

"I can hear the morning birds. So light up on the branches. And each in turn. They sing of all God's praises. Yes, without words. Without words."

"Without words."