Scene goes off the rails
https://hydratrashmeme.dreamwidth.org/2807.html?thread=6606327#cmt6606327
OKAY, so imagine the Asset is at a Hydra base in the 21st century. He's naked in his cell and currently chained to the wall in some heavy duty bondage. Suddenly, Steve breaks into his cell and says he's here to rescue him. Only he can't because of all the hardware. The Asset tells Steve to leave and save himself, but Steve, the stubborn bastard won't. When it's clear it's futile, the Asset convinces Steve to give him a tender goodbye fuck. They do and it's great and filled with all the soft touches and words of affirmation the Asset could have ever wanted (in stark contrast to the reinforced metal chains around his neck and limbs). Afterwards, the Asset begs Steve to fucking just go before Strike team catches him. But Steve looks at the Asset confused, because the Asset is Bucky and there is no Strike team anymore because this is all elaborate roleplay that he and Bucky planned out because this is the circumstance that Bucky used to fantasize years ago. But Bucky's so stuck in the headspace and won't come back up that Steve ends up tearing up their kink toys with his bare hands to convince him that he's setting the Asset free. Aaaaaand we can end on the note of Bucky sobbing that "that's not how it ended"
First lines:
Steve cleared room after room after hallway after hallway until he reached a row of heavily reinforced cells adjacent to the hastily abandoned laboratory level. The first three were empty, full of dust and flakes of paint that had come off of the cement blocks that made up the walls. In the fourth cell, the asset hung, naked and manacled upright to the wall.
Steve must have made some sound as he crossed the threshold because the Winter Soldier raised his head.
“Bucky?”
