Datura - Bucky Barnes

Trepidation

Trepidation ~ a feeling of fear or anxiety that something bad is about to happen

A/N : Heyyy. So if the text is in italics it's part of her dream, because Thea's unconscious. Also, just to clear something up from the last chapter, HYDRA had dumped a fake body into the lake when they kidnapped Thea back in 1938. They missed that scar on her neck and Steve was suspicious, but he was too busy mourning to think anything of it. Anyways, on with the story!

Thea Rogers POV

I was in an empty room. I don't know where, but it was circular and white. The room was lit up, but there was no source of light.

Okay this shit is fucking creepy.

I look around the room several times. No doors. No windows. No vents. Nothing.

Suddenly, I hear a young woman scream behind me. I turn on my heel and see a door.

That wasn't there before.

Hesitantly, I open it and see a young girl, maybe 19, tied up. Her dirty blonde hair was covering her face. I heard whimpering and sobs come from her. I walk up to her and reach for her, but my fingers hit glass.

She looks up at me, crying with her blue eyes. That's when I recognized her. It was me. Nineteen year old me, to be exact. I look back and see the door had disappeared. Now I was trapped inside a large rectangular room with younger me, with a glass separating both of us.

On her side, multiple men came in through a door. Dr Zola, Schmidt, and a couple of HYDRA soldiers.

"Nice to see you're awake, Miss Rogers," Dr Zola says.

"Where am I?" younger me asks, tears streaming down her face.

"You are at HYDRA. A German intelligence. We believe we can make the world better. Humanity does not deserve freedom. It must be subjugated under one rule. HYDRA's rule," Dr Zola informs younger me.

"You're insane," younger me cries.

Facts, younger me. Facts.

"Silence!" a HYDRA guard slaps younger me.

I feel my cheek become warm and red with pain, as if I was slapped.

"What do you want from me?" younger me spits out a mouthful of blood, the red liquid dripping down her bottom lip.

I feel blood in my mouth, which I spit out too.

"We want what your father has stolen from us," Schmidt walks over to a table, "This is the blueprints of a very important and powerful weapon. This weapon has already been formed and needs a key, which your father has hidden."

My eyes widen at the blueprints. I couldn't see them from here, but they were the blueprints of the weapon.

I need to know those blueprints.

Younger me whimpers, "I never knew my father. He died before I was born!"

Dr Zola sighs, "If you are unwilling to cooperate, we will force the answer out of you. Starten sie den prozess!"

(Start the process!)

"No! Please!" younger me screams.

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Tony Stark POV

"Banner," I pop a blueberry in my mouth, "How's Thea?"

"How can you be eating right now?" Steve looks at me with slight disgust.

I shrug and Banner touches Thea's cheek, "Um guys? This wasn't there before."

We walk over to Thea and there was a fresh red mark on her cheek, like she had been slapped.

"Where did that come from?" Steve asks.

"I don't know. Maybe something from her dreams?" Banner replies.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Steve starts to press.

A green vein pops out of Banner's forehead, "I mean I don't know!"

"Okay. Let's not get all big and ugly and green," I pat Banner's back. I get out the antidote for Thea's powers, "Maybe her fancy new powers are causing them? You know? Maybe her body is absorbing the pain from her dream. She wanted to reverse the power and I figured out how."

I place the clear liquid into a syringe and insert the needle into Thea's neck.

God I hope this works.

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Thea Rogers POV

"Starten sie den prozess!" Dr Zola instructs someone.

Younger me starts to yell as two HYDRA guards grab me. They push me down onto my knees in front of a tub of water. One person grabs a fistful of younger me's hair and shove my head in the water.

I feel myself suffocate and struggle to breath, as if I was the one being suffocated. I kept reminding myself over and over again that it was younger me who was being tortured, the dream version of me. Not the real me.

"Where is the key?" Schmidt asks younger me again.

She gasps for breath, "I-I don't know what you're talking about! I don't have anything!"

Schmidt sighs and someone else shoved her head under water.

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Bucky Barnes POV

I should have been able to save her.

I don't know how but I should have.

I sat outside the hospital room with my head in my hands when I hear rapid beeping come from Thea's room as she started convulsing. Her oxygen levels kept rapidly decreasing, like she was drowning.

Banner immediately runs to her and adds more oxygen into the oxygen mask.

Banner does a quick check up on her once again, "I don't know what's happening but based off her injuries in the car accident, she's dying. Her condition is just worse and whatever's happening to her and causing these new injuries are just speeding it up."

Steve gets up and walks out. A few seconds later we hear something break and a string of cuss words being yelled out.

We all sit in silence as Steve reenters with bloody knuckles for a moment when I get an idea, "What about the super soldier serum? Could that save her?"

Steve walks over to Thea, "Are you crazy? No. The last thing she wanted was to become a weapon."

Bruce and Tony look at each other before Bruce speaks up, "Steve, it may be the only way to save her."

Steve storms out of the room with Nat closely following.

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Natasha Romanoff POV

I followed Steve out, calling his name as we left the hospital grounds, "Steve. Steve! You better stop ignoring me."

He sighs, "I just need a second to think and some fresh air."

"Look. I know it's hard. And I suck at all this heart to heart crap so I'm going to be straightforward. Don't be dumb. You know I what to do. Think about what Thea would want. Kay?" I tell him.

He nods, "I know."

Suddenly, we both get emergent texts, telling us to come back up.

Please be okay Thea. Please.