In the deep

We're all broken

Talks about mental illness.

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    Like suspected the Avengers didn't find anything at the abandon base in the Ukraine but Tony did insist that you start training with Nat daily just in case you had anymore situations arise that required you to fight.

You protested repeatedly telling him you already had fight training, you lost the argument when Bucky told you that he agreed with Tony.

"B, I'm am engineer for Tony not an Avenger." You told him in the hallway outside your room. "There is no reason why my current training isn't good enough."

It had been a few weeks since you had fallen asleep on his chest on the couch and since then you both had hardly anytime to spend together. Tony kept you busy in the lab with working on new designs for his new suit he was developing. Steve and Bucky were always either training together or running down information leads on the Hydra team members that escaped.

But you both made a point to spend time together when you could, getting to know each other outside the Doctor patient relationship you had before. Some mornings he would bring you breakfast before everyone else in the compound was awake and you would play chess together. He still hadn't been able to beat you yet.

"There may be a time I'm not there to protect you and I need to know you can handle yourself." He protested placing both of his hands on your arms.

"You're not going to let this go are you?" You rolled your eyes to him.

"No doll. I'm not." He chuckled as you sighed loudly letting him enclose you into a hug.

"Alright I'll do it but I'm going to complain the entire time." You said to him pursing you lips at him before making your way towards the lab. "But I'm starting in the morning." You called over your shoulder.

   In the lab tony already had all of your protein samples pulled up, while the new suit was being manufactured Tony helped you with your research for your mother. Every time you both thought you were getting close there would be a road block. Especially since you had nothing to really test your experiments on.

"Maybe were looking at this the wrong way." You looked up to the holographic images of your mother brain. "Maybe instead of implanting proteins we figure out a way for the brain to produce them?"

It was a far fetched idea but you had been stuck on creating proteins out of nothing for weeks now.

"Just jump starting the neurons to make them itself." Tony brought his fingers up to is chin in thought as your phone vibrated in your lab coat pocket.

It was Dr. Lee, your mother's doctor.

"Hello." You said into the phone. He only called you personally when it was something bad.

"Hey y/n, How are you?" He asked you. You knew he was trying to break the ice.

"Rip off the bandaid Doc, how bad is it?"  Small talk was unnecessary when it came to science.

"She's refusing meds again. Keeps telling me it's because she needs to remember something. That she has something she has to do but needs to remember."

She had done this a few weeks prior to your graduation. She kept telling the Doctor is was life or death. That she just had to remember but there was nothing that important for her to remember.

"Do a involuntary." This was the worst order you had to give when it came to your mother. It meant they couldn't respect her wishes, it means they would force her to take the meds.