Jim has an arm wrapped protectively around me, holding gauze tight against my wound. I stagger through the snow as we run.
My head hurts...
How much blood have I lost?
"Just a little longer." He says to me as we round the corner, now facing the factory entrance. Steve, Bucky, and Dum Dum burst through the iron doors, gunshots sounding off behind them. Steve shouts at us to run the other direction while Dum Dum and Bucky return fire.
"COVER YOUR EARS!" Steve shouts.
A deafening explosion rips through the air, throwing the other Commandos and I to the ground. Snow falls from the trees above us in heavy clusters. Muted voices say things that I can't make out through the ringing in my ears. Someone lifts me to my feet, my arm over their shoulders. We run through unfamiliar woods until we come to a clearing where Stark is waiting with the jet. He ushers us on board and hurriedly closes the entrance behind us. I stumble to a seat and buckle myself in. The jet shakes as we take off, rattling everyone inside. My sleeve has been turned dark red. The initial adrenaline has faded and I finally feel the pain. Steve kneels in front of me, Bucky standing anxiously behind him.
"Y/N, can you hear me?" He asks. I nod, the ringing dying out. "What happened?"
The soldier
I raise my gun
I fire
He fires
He falls
He bleeds
"I killed him." I breathe.
"What?"
I find my brother's eyes, desperately reaching for some sort of answer to a question that I'm too afraid to ask myself.
"Cap, I need to clean her up." Jim's voice says apologetically over Steve's shoulder. He stands up and moves out of the way, but his eyes don't leave mine. I stare at the floor, biting down on my lip as Jim rolls up my sleeve and pours rubbing alcohol into the gash on my bicep. It drips down my arm, cold on my skin as it mixes with dried blood, leaving clear trails in its wake. He wraps gauze around the wound and steps back.
"Thanks." I say, trying to produce a convincing smile. He nods.
My brother kneels in front of me again, his hand on my shoulder.
"Look, Y/N..."
"Get up Steve, I'm not five." I say with an empty laugh, standing from my seat.
"I'm not trying to-"
"I know." I take a breath. "I know. But I really don't need to be babied right now."
"...alright." He says hesitantly, standing up and taking a step back.
I roll my sleeve down and look up, finally noticing the awkward silence. My cheeks get hot as I register everyone's eyes on me.
"I'm going to go bother Stark." I say jokingly in an attempt to hide my self-consciousness. They look away and I make my way to the cockpit.
"Room for one more?" I ask hopefully, poking my head into the small cabin.
"Please." Stark says with a grin, motioning to the copilot's seat.
I climb over and sit with my legs crisscross, leaning against the plane so that I'm facing him.
"So how'd it go, sweetheart?"
...ew.
Maybe this wasn't the best idea.
"I got shot." I say blankly.
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Fanfiction"A gift." One guard says to someone else in the room as he leaves. I groan in pain and scrunch myself into a ball, squeezing my eyes shut. Seconds later I hear shuffling and then someone is beside me. "Y/N?" Asks a voice. No- Bucky's voice. My whol...
