[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

At that moment, Kelly's heart stopped beating, and her whole mind was suspended on this question, and the movement of Howard opening his mouth almost became a slow motion.She held her breath and listened to him say——

"No," said Howard, with regret in his voice, "but I knew it when I saw him .

Kelly's heart suddenly fell down at the mouth of her throat, but she didn't put it back safely, but seemed to fall into nothingness, and her chest was completely empty.Yes, of course -- of course understandable.But... She couldn't forgive so simply.In principle, she knew that Howard was just a scientist and entrepreneur. Even if he really knew that the Winter Soldier was James Barnes, he would not have such great power to save the Winter Soldier.She believes that Howard must have tried his best, and she also believes that Howard will work hard to do what he thinks is right and better for this country.But emotionally, she just couldn't simply turn the page over.

Steve pursed his lips, turned his head and stared at the road in front of him, without saying a word.

"I'm sorry, Steve," Howard said hoarsely.

"It's not your fault." Steve suppressed his voice, but didn't turn his head around.Kylie silently raised her wand, pointing down a side path.Moments later, a white sedan crashed into their body, and the phantom of the original red van separated and drove in the other direction.It wasn't really time for a change of disguise—she just had to find something to distract herself.

There was an awkward silence in the car.After a while, Maria cleared her throat and asked, "How do you contact Peggy when you get to the safe house?"

Following her words, everyone in the car breathed a sigh of relief—even Kelly and Steve.Howard glanced at his wife gratefully, and quickly seized the opportunity: "By now, they should have found out that something happened to me. Peggy's phone may be monitored, but I know she has an independent number. We will discuss the matter later. Discuss, she is not in Washington now, maybe I have to go out."

"I'm with you," Steve said immediately, "Kelly, you stay and protect the others."

Kelly nodded silently.Steve glanced at her through the rearview mirror. "As for Bucky..."

"I'll keep him asleep," Kelly said. "

"Not that I'm picking fault," Tony said, "but it looks like a bunch of us with no combat power are going to be locked up with you and a brainwashed Soviet killer for the next few days, and it seems like you're the only one who can stop him Kill us completely, shouldn't you also explain in detail what your magic is all about?"

"Tony." Maria called him softly and reproachfully.Tony shrugged: "What's the matter? I think this request is quite legitimate, don't you know—"

"It's okay, I really should explain it in detail," Kelly said.

So the second half of the drive passed while she was distracted from time to time while explaining magic, and the others seemed to be unable to find any other topics.Fortunately, there were no accidents along the way. Only Howard got off the car halfway and used the 24-hour convenience store phone to call Peggy.Finally, at dawn, they stopped in a small town.Howard led several people into the room, and Steve carefully carried the Winter Soldier to the bedroom and put him on the bed.Then he and Howard left in a hurry.Kelly chased out the door and asked, "Where do we go if this place is attacked?"

"There are two other safe houses, Tony knows the location." Howard replied.Steve nodded to her goodbye, and the two drove away.When Kelly returned to the room, she saw that Jarvis was arranging the rooms for everyone—this safe room was only prepared for two or three people, and it was quite crowded for five people to live in at once.

"I'm in the same room as Bucky—the Winter Soldier," Kelly said, walking around the house, casting all sorts of spells.After everyone went back to the house, she finally entered the master bedroom where the Winter Soldier was.The Winter Soldier lay on one side of the double bed, and Kelly took off her coat and lay down on the other side, facing him sideways.

She never felt a tinge of fear or worry, even when she was up against a notoriously terrifying killer, but equally, she no longer felt safe—even though she was well aware that the Winter Soldier and Bucky were the same at their core. , but they are too different after all.Some of these differences may be restored with the help of her and Steve, but the healed wounds will eventually leave scars, and it is impossible for him to return to the young sergeant in Brooklyn.

"Am I wrong?" she asked in a very low voice, "Should I have come back earlier... would you blame me for that?"

The sleeping Winter Soldier naturally couldn't answer, Kelly sighed, closed her eyes, and fell asleep within a few seconds.

She had been sleepless for several days and nights before, and she was already very tired. This time she slept very deeply and had no dreams all night—dreams are the product of the shadow world, and nightmares are the actions of the devil in the shadow world. With Kelly's spirit Even if she didn't intend to expel her, ordinary nightmares would not dare to approach her at all.When she woke up, it was past noon, and the Winter Soldier was still asleep. Kelly checked the magic barrier next to the bed, and just stood up when she saw the door opened a small crack, and Tony poked his head in.

"Oh, you're already awake." He said as he pushed open the door, leaning against the doorframe, "Just to let you know that the restaurant has lunch, canned food and canned food. By the way, do you want to wake him up for dinner? State in advance that I refuse to eat at the same table with him."

Kelly thought about it: "No, let him fall asleep."

When she came to the dining room, she saw that Maria's dress was still a little wet, and there were blood stains on it that could not be washed off. It seemed that there was a rush last night, and no one could bring a change of clothes.Kelly dried the clothes with a magic spell. She wanted to say that she would go shopping by herself after the meal. Thinking about the Winter Soldier, she had to change her mind and gave Jarvis the size of her and Bucky's clothes.So, after lunch, Jarvis went out to shop, Maria went back to the room, and Kelly called Tony to the Winter Soldier's room, took out a Kingsman standard tablet and handed it to him.Tony poked it twice, and his eyes lit up.

"The network construction in this era is still too backward, and I am not familiar with how to operate it." Kelly said, "Can you make this device wirelessly connected to the Internet?"

Judging from Tony's reaction, he probably didn't hear her at all, and turned the little device upside down with fascination.Kelly shrugged and didn't say anything - anyway, important content needs her own password or fingerprint to pass, and this is all in 1991, leaking a little bit of future computer development trends to Tony in advance should not lead to technological development Even if Tony wants to build such a computer now, the integrated chip technology has not yet developed to this point.So she let Tony fiddle with it, and she pulled out another tablet and scratched on it.

They passed the day peacefully like this, until Kelly forcibly confiscated the tablet in Tony's hand at midnight and ordered him to go to sleep.Until Tony was kicked out of the room, he was still complaining angrily that he had already understood the principle and code of the tablet's operation, and he could connect it to the satellite network in two hours, and he could also connect to several large databases. authority.

"Talk about it tomorrow morning," Kelly said firmly, closing the door.

It was just five o'clock in the morning the next morning, and it was still pitch black outside, and Tony knocked open the door excitedly: "It's morning, it's morning! Aren't you-oh my god."

His voice suddenly froze.Kelly jumped up alertly, but saw him frozen at the door, his whole body intact, and there were no traces of enemies around.Kelly followed his gaze and realized—the Winter Soldier beside her opened his eyes.

"Good morning." She sat back relaxed, waved to Tony, and smiled at the Winter Soldier next to her, "You're awake."

The Winter Soldier stared at her coldly, but was restrained by a spell, unable to move.Tony stared, looking back and forth between the two of them: "'You're awake'? That's it? He's awake and you don't—don't need to do anything?"

Kelly just smiled at him reassuringly, beckoning, Tony stared at her for a long time, finally shrugged, slipped over to a chair at the foot of the bed, and looked at the two curiously.Kelly turned to the Winter Soldier, "Do you remember your name? Your name before you became the Winter Soldier?"

Her healing magic reflected that the Winter Soldier's body was always repairing itself while he was asleep - prolonged freezing and repeated brainwashing had caused certain damage to every organ in his body, and the unknown body he had injected Serum has been repairing the damage itself.When he wakes up at this time, it should be that self-repair has come to an end.Although Kelly didn't expect the memory damage caused by brainwashing to recover so quickly, she hoped that he could remember something.

The Winter Soldier remained silent and did not answer.Kelly continued: "Your name used to be James Buchanan Barnes and your friends called you Bucky. Your best friend was Steve Rogers. Do you remember?"

The Winter Soldier still didn't answer, seemingly determined to remain silent to the end.But there was a slight change in his eyes, as if there was more confusion and reminiscence.Kelly waited for a while to give him time to think about it, and when his attention returned to herself, she raised the half glass of water on the bedside table, raised the glass to her lips with one hand and took a sip, and gently In the air next to the bed, traces of light blue magic power flow suddenly appeared in the air. One layer of magic power clings to the Winter Soldier's body, firmly imprisoning his entire body from the neck down; another layer of magic power is suspended in the air. Around the bed board, the space other than the bed is completely separated.

"As you can see, there are two layers of magic barriers around you." While speaking, Kelly put the water glass on the bedside table. As she pulled her hand, the outer barrier quickly expanded, covering the bedside table Also included, "I'll take the innermost layer off so you can sit up and drink. I don't recommend challenging the barrier's strength, okay?"

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and drew out her wand and tapped it in. The restraints around the Winter Soldier disappeared. He jumped up and immediately punched Kelly hard with that iron arm.

Tony gasped and instinctively backed away, but Kelly didn't move.The iron wall hit the barrier, arousing a slight space shaking feeling, as if a layer of ripples spread along his blow, but the barrier was not broken, not even a sound came out, as if it was soft The ground package absorbed the power of his blow.The Winter Soldier punched five or six times in a row, each landing in exactly the same place, but neither Barrier nor Kelly moved an inch.After the sixth punch, he gasped and put down his fist, grabbed the water on the bedside table, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Who are you?" he asked in hoarse Russian. "What do you want?"

"Can you speak English?" Kelly asked, "I know you can, can't you speak English now?"

"Who are you? What do you want?" The same question was still in Russian.

Kelly frowned slightly.The performance of the Winter Soldier just now, whether he understood her words or not understood her words, could make sense.If he's deliberately playing a Russian killer who doesn't understand English, it means he's still in the role of the killer, trying to escape them and go back to that Siberian base.Kelly also switched to Russian: "Your name?"

"Chekov."

"No, your name is James Buchanan Barnes. Do you remember that name?"

"No."

"Steve Rogers?"

"nor."

With a wave of her magic wand, Kelly conjured up a lifelike phantom of teenage Steve Rogers, wearing baggy clothes and blond hair draped over his forehead. "Do you know him?"

The Winter Soldier glanced at him, "I don't know him."

He is lying.Kelly can basically conclude.He can recognize Captain America through a brief fight in the Captain America 2 movie, and it is absolutely impossible not to recognize the young Steve.It was clear to her that she, and Bucky, remembered the scrawny little Steve who never gave up.

If this was an enemy agent, she would have a hundred ways to pry his mouth open, but for the Winter Soldier, for Bucky from another world, she felt a dilemma during the interrogation for the first time. "...Okay." Finally Kelly sighed. "Me and Tony went down to make breakfast. Do you need anything?"

The author has something to say: The most common Russian name of the Winter Soldier among the same people is Yasha, but I remember reading somewhere that Yasha is actually used more as a female name.So I changed his name.