winter rose

All the shackles are broken, and all the memories are flooded in front of us.

When I looked up again, the lights of the exhibition were bright and dazzling.The human voice is boiling hot.

He was wearing the military uniform he had just enlisted in, with his hat on one side.The lighthearted look on his face had not been altered by the many ordeals that followed.

She was sitting on a small table in the conscription office in her military uniform, her knee-length skirt and red Mary Janes.

"I didn't expect the exit door to be a scene."

She yawned, as if she was really sleepy.

"Besides, I can't remember exactly what happened that year. What about you... Bucky?"

He just looks at her.

"Perry."

He might finally understand what she wanted.

Today, many, many years later.

"Perry, I never disliked you, and I never—"

"I hate myself."

She waved her hand to signal him to shut up.

Then she picked up a conscription form from the desk, and looked at him with the same eyes as when she first met him.

"Are you going to join the army? Ah, no, it looks like you're already a... sergeant, right?"

Laughter is as clear as eyes.

"My name is Perry Carter, the registrar at the drafting office here."

"...James Barnes. As you said, Sergeant."

He spoke softly and looked at her with helplessness in his eyes.

He remembered, of course he remembered.

When they first met that year, their tone of voice was completely different from now.

Not so playful, not so gentle.

According to Perry, it was really not a good first meeting.

Missy Registrar who wants to send Steve the conscription form, and Sergeant Barnes who is busy dating two girls.

According to Perry, his tone of voice was so bad that he wanted to push her to the ground and beat her up.

"Miss Carter?"

He put away his out-of-control expression and put on a smile that he remembered many years ago.

He tucked his hands into his trouser belt, and the collar of his military shirt was open where two buttons were.

Such a James Barnes was unfamiliar even to himself.

"It's cruel to leave a beautiful young lady alone at the registration desk on such a beautiful evening."

"Staying alone... is cruel, isn't it?"

Unexpected answer.

"...Perry, Mr. Stark wasn't the only sight at the show."

"Because Mr. Stark is dead, isn't it?"

"..."

silence.

She suddenly bent her mouth.

"Don't keep your partner waiting, Sergeant Barnes."

With the flickering of the lights, she stepped back into the darkness step by step.

He hastily said a word.

"Maybe we will meet again on the front line!"

【"Maybe we will meet again on the front line."

"Frontline? I thought you were just a... registrar. Miss Carter."]

That's what Perry said.

"Front... I'm just a registrar, soldier."

The smile on her lips froze for a moment.

"A registrar in uniform," he asked back.

["A registrar in uniform?" Perry smiled. "Actually, you should call me Dr. Carter."]

What is the next development?

【"Then we'd better not meet at the front, Dr. Carter."】

She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Actually, you should call me Dr. Carter."

He showed a very sweet smile.

"A fairy who saves the dying and heals the wounded?"

"what?"

She was obviously taken aback.

He took every word.

"I said, from this point of view, what Perry means is a fairy."

["Perry?" he repeated, spelling out letter by letter. "p-e-r-i, fairy?"]

"...As expected of the little prince of Brooklyn who can date two beautiful girls at the same time."

She used a half-joking tone to cover up the embarrassment that she didn't know what to say.

"Look behind you, Sergeant Barnes."

Following the direction of her finger, he saw the billboard at the conscription office floating like a curtain.

"Suffering is my bargaining chip, soldier."

She jumped off the small table at the conscription office, propping up the table when it fell to the ground.

"But now, the chips are clear."

She raised the curtain.

"Goodbye... no, there will be no goodbye. No doctors and soldiers, no front lines, so there will be no medical examinations."

She kissed the corner of his lips, and no matter what he wanted to say, it became silent.

"I gotta say, it's never seen again."

After she pushed him hard into the curtain, the momentary sense of weightlessness that swept over him made him reach out subconsciously.

The scene of falling from the train was repeated before my eyes.

Snow covered all traces.

[Perry, as long as it exists, there will be a mark. 】

But the one who didn't grab his hand this time was Perry.

Bucky wakes up in the LWL basement.

There was dried blood under his body, and there was a trail winding to the door, showing the direction Perry left.

He was about to rush out to look for her almost immediately, but an old man with a white beard appeared at the door impartially.

"Mr. Barnes."

Sosimo wore a polite smile with a sense of distance.

"The landlady asked me to take you to the door. You only need to walk eastward for less than 100 meters to get out of the LWL. Then you will see your friend Mr. Rogers—"

"Where's Perry?"

He just asked the question.

"The landlady is very tired, Mr. Barnes." Sosimo stepped up to him and blocked the way.

"She looks a little sleepy and anemic and needs a trip to the hospital, but you know, this is wizarding land, and Lancastrians have always been—"

He directly pushed Sosimo away and walked out.

"You can't find her."

Susimo's voice sounded behind him.

"She gave up."

He stopped suddenly.

After Bucky walked out of LWL, he found Steve who came to look for him, as Suoximo said.

He looked anxious, and a little wary at first.

It wasn't until Bucky took the initiative to show his status that Steve breathed a sigh of relief.

"What about... Perry?"

Steve is somewhat defensive when he mentions that name.

"She just came to take me to unlock the code."

He explained.

"Now the code is lifted, so... it's over."

Yes, it's over.

All the suffering, all the regrets.

all.

She fell down on the bed, the blood on her wrist couldn't stop flowing, and soon soaked a large piece of bed sheet.

The gauze was looped around the wrist, and the blood was soaked layer by layer.

She suddenly remembered what was used to open the wound this time.

Lancaster's dagger fell to the floor with a clang, the name in the rosette on the hilt running across the center.

The wounds from the Lancaster's dagger would not heal, and if the dagger was spiritual as a magical object, Perry seriously suspected he was taking revenge.

She lay on the bed, looked at the roses and dark lines on the branches on the bed curtain, and smiled.

The gauze on the wrist has been soaked and may not be able to stop the bleeding.But she neither soaked herself in the water as if she was about to commit suicide, nor did she take an anticoagulant injection.

Whether it can stop the bleeding, she thinks it's good to entrust this matter to fate.

Jasper said before that the reason why they can tolerate each other until today is entirely because they were once people whose destiny was controlled by others.

So they all have the same idea, that is, to master the power to control their own lives - of course, Jasper later evolved into a lover of controlling the fate of others, for this reason, he even went to work for Hydra.

But today, Perry seems to be in a ridiculous situation, that is, what he worked so hard for is also given up by himself.And put on a look of resignation to fate in the Tower of London.

She wondered if Jasper would be mad at herself.

But he's not the one to care about.

The people Perry really cared about have been away from her for a long, long time.

"Lili, raise your hand and the bleeding will stop faster."

Standing at the door was a man with conspicuous red hair and fair skin.

he said to Perry.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

"...how did you get in here?"

Perry subconsciously grasped the handle of the knife and sat up.She got up too quickly, and the huge blood loss made her tremble when she spoke.

"That's it—" he shrugged. "—Jasper's token, I'll come in if I have that."

"Jasper doesn't have any token of passage in Lancaster!" Perry raised his voice. "Did he take his head off for you—"

The unfinished words were interrupted by Ian's laughter. He leaned against the door with a smile on his lips.

"Lili, why don't you ask me why I'm still alive. Tsk, but that's right, you won't let the Winter Soldier kill people, we all know this very well, right?"

Perry could no longer hold the dagger in her hand, and her voice shook as violently as her wrist.

"Ian Black! I won't kill you for Jasper's sake..."

"But I'm here to save you."

He walked up to Perry in a few steps, and the blood-stained woman immediately tensed up vigilantly.

"Relax, Lili. If you let me go, I won't really hurt you. After all, we are all looking out for Jasper's sake."

Ian showed a simple smile, gently stroked Perry's wrist, and removed the dagger in her hand with a gentle force.

"Ian... I never wanted to kill you."

Perry took a deep breath, stifling the tremors of blood loss in his breath.

"But your biggest mistake is that you shouldn't lie to me as a friend. You shouldn't lie to me and say you are my friend. "

"There's no Hydra agent who tells the truth, my little Lili." He sighed.

"If we talk about the research on those stones, from the Rubik's Cube during World War II to the Mind Stone a few days ago, Hydra is definitely ahead of S.H.I.E.L.D. The neurologist..."

Speaking of which, he glanced at her.

"Lili, Jasper has paved all the back roads for you. Sometimes I really suspect that the little bit of conscience he has left is on you."

The author has something to say:

I’m going to report to the school soon, I’m so busy these days, I really don’t have any manuscripts saved, I’m a god who can still maintain the daily update

Change this kind of thing every day, do it and cherish it.During military training, I really don’t know how long it will take to update.

ps, pulling Li Shi’s tooth, I couldn’t help but cry, after the anesthesia wears off, it hurts so much.