Chapter One: Remember Me

"This isn't the age of spies. This is not even the age of heroes. This is the age of miracles and there's nothing more horrifying than a miracle."

-Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

She was close. She was so close, dammit.

Katherine Pierce could actually feel her doppelganger, Elena Gilbert's heart as she digged the wooden stick deeper and deeper inside her heart. She enjoyed the way that Elena gasped and choked for air.

She smirked. Finally Elena Gilbert was getting everything that she deserved and for once she would win. Besides the world, would be a much better place without whiny, little Elena Gilbert, the girl wasn't even grateful for anything in her miserable life. Katherine would kill for her life, she hated to admit that but she would.

Elena had everything that Katherine had never had a family, friends, people that cared and would risk their lives for her, boys pining after her, a Klaus free life. It just wasn't fair.

"Bye, bye little girl!"

Katherine was just about to stab the wooden stick inside her heart, when Elena suddenly raised her hand and stuffed something in Katherine's mouth. Half confused Katherine barely felt when Elena pressed her jaw shut.

Katherine felt something awful inside her mouth, her brown eyes widening. She could feel everything becoming darker as she staggered to the floor.

Elena smirked as she looked at her fallen doppelganger. "Have a nice, human life Katherine."

The newly turned human, Katherine Pierce staggered as she walked down the nearly empty road trying to avoid shivering from the cold. Two months. She had spent two months as a measly human and she was ready to call it quits.

Seriously.

Screw being a survivor, if things didn't get better in the next ten minutes Katherine was going to stand in front of the next speeding car.

She had no money, no friends, and no chances of survival.

Every inch of her body hurt and she was trying very hard not to cry. For these long two months ever since Elena had shoved the cure down her throat she had been feeling utterly miserable. Katherine hated feeling weak and vulnerable and now as a human she couldn't even protect herself.

She had managed to avoid her old enemies, but she knew she wouldn't be avoiding them for long.

Katherine frowned as she turned around and saw a black car. How long had it been following her?

She hurried her steps, the panic spreading across her whole body. Katherine felt a sharp pain of a needle across her back and suddenly everything became dark.

"Director?" Maria Hill came into the control room on the helicarrier. "You wanted to see me?"

Fury nodded as he looked at the screen in front of him. "Loki is back in Asgard."

Maria nodded. "Along with the tesseract. Everyone else has gone their separate ways already."

Fury grunted. "Good."

Maria frowned. "You don't seem pleased, sir."

"This isn't the end, you do know that Agent Hill." Fury turned to her. "There are other creatures out there . . . other species. Other worlds. No, this is not the end. This is barely the beginning."

Flashback 1942

"Come on!" a skinny, pre-serum Steve Rogers raised his fists weakly as he tried to protect himself from the man that was almost two feet taller than him and about three inches wider. Steve had called him off after he had said some inappropriate comments towards a young lady.

And let's just say that he was getting his usual beating behind the ally, not that Steve went down without a fight.

"Come on!" he grunted, though there was already blood pouring from his nose.

Another punch across his face.

"Leave him alone!" Katherine Pierce easily pulled the man away from Steve as if he weighed nothing more than a tissue. "Get out of here." She said compelling him.

Much to Steve's surprise the man left. Steve, somewhat embarrassed stood up. It was the same young lady whose honor he had just been defending. "Thanks, ma'am but that wasn't necessary."

"I know it wasn't." Katherine gave him a teasing sort of smile as she handed him a handkerchief. "What's your name, soldier?"

"Steven Rogers, but everyone calls me Steve. And I'm not a soldier, not yet." He didn't feel the need to tell her that he had been rejected from joining the army twice.

"Good," Katherine's lips pulled into a smirk. "Too many young men like yourselves are out getting themselves killed. We need some fellows here."

"With all due respect, miss it would be an honor to serve my country."

Before Katherine could respond a tall, dark hair man sighed. "There you are, god Steve not another fight." He nodded. "Good afternoon, Miss-"

"Pierce. Katherine Pierce." Katherine said. "Your friend here was being a very kind gentleman."

He put Steve in a slight headlock. "That's Steve all right. James Buchanan, but everyone calls me Bucky."

"Well, Steve and Bucky thanks for making my first day in Brooklyn memorable."

Katherine woke up slowly, trying her hardest not to throw up. It took a minute for her vision to clear, she ran a dirty hand through her tangled curls as she looked around. She was in some sort of cell with a low ceiling and everything was dark. It was like being trapped in an endless black hole.

She looked around, hoping to see someone that she knew at least, but she only managed to see one other person. A man with a sort of metal arm with long, tangled brown hair. "Hey." Katherine desperately rattled her fists inside the cage. "Hey, look up!"

The man turned and even though Katherine hadn't seen him in almost seventy years and even though he looked so different there was something familiar in his face. It took Katherine a while to realize that she knew him. "Bucky."

-End of Chapter One-

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