Snape lives, exiled from his old life and thrown into the midst of chaos to fight another war. This war is more subtle, having it existed long before the ones he had survived. There are much larger things at play in which most are shrouded in secrecy. A wrong move and one would discover that there are far worse places than death or Azkaban [no pairings yet, AU, OC, rated T]

Natasha Romanoff hasn't been telling any of her friends (mostly Clint) about what really happened about the whole Winter Soldier thing. That and the fact she had been back into the spy/assassin business after the fall of SHEILD. Then, Fury had to disappear and all Maria Hill could do was to scramble an off the books team to investigate. Oh, and Bucky's back-don't tell Steve that.