Coming (смешанная)

The Winter Soldier drags Steve out of the Potomac.
Originally Chapter 12 of "This is how it starts", can be read as a stand-alone fic as it is a one-shot AU of the original fic that I decided to publish independently.
(“I thought he was going to finish the mission,” Natasha says, much much later, “He’d never-, I don’t-,” she pauses, then, “he’d never failed .”
“Not even once?” Sam leans forward, knees brushing, hands clasped.
Natasha thinks of the end of a pistol, pressed under her chin, metal finger at the trigger, words of Russian tongue, chapped lips, cold floors, new names and new faces, then she thinks of blond hair, large hands, a shield, cold water, and falling.
“Twice,” she says.)