The Maid of little honor. (Marvel Fanfic)

Chapter 22

I followed Wanda, shouting after her. She didn't pay any attention to me whatsoever. I ran up to her and grabbed her wrist gently to get her to stop. "Wait here y/n." She said, shaking me off. I ran towards Nat's room, frantically knocking to get her attention. Nat opened the door and I quickly explained what Wanda was going to do. We both ran after Wanda. We finally caught up to her in the main room. Where everyone was talking at once all trying to figure out what's wrong. Wanda was getting increasingly angry and her hands started glowing a deep red. I walked up behind her and placed a hand on her arm. She looked at me. Her eyes were glowing red. "It's ok," I said. "Everyone shut up!" I shouted. Everyone went silent, clearly surprised by me taking control. I surprised myself. They looked at me expectantly. "I don't know what to do, I didn't expect that to work," I said. "Wanda please explain what's going on," Steve said.  

"Y/n has the most awful cuts and bruises on her from Bucky. I'm just going to talk to him. That's all." Wanda said. "They weren't from Bucky! They were from Jackson!" I said, getting frustrated at the number of times I told them Bucky had done nothing wrong. Stark looked at me. "Jackson? You mean THE Jackson?" He said. I nodded my head feebly. "Who's Jackson?" Wanda asked. "Jackson is my ex-boyfriend. He was great at first, let me move in with him after the orphanage kicked me out. He looked after me. Then he started being horrible. restricting what I could and couldn't do and would punish me physically when I failed to satisfy him. I tried to break things off but he locked me in a random room in his house and abused me, physically and sexually." I said. Wanda looked at me. I couldn't meet her gaze.  I was ashamed but I didn't know why. "Jackson was the one who took me from the old compound, or rather his mini cult of men did. He then abused me and... and... and he raped me. When he was done he sold me at this stupid auction thing. That's where I met Bucky. Bucky took me in and looked after me. He never hurt me," I continued. "I believed you until the point where Bucky didn't hurt you," Tony said. I rolled my eyes which infuriated Stark. "Since when did you gain sass?" He said as he took a step closer to me. I backed away. "That's what I thought." He said. "Enough," Steve said. "Were getting nowhere. Bruce, you take y/n down to the lab and check for any infections, bring Wanda with you unless she wants to stay here with the others. Tony back away, go find something useful to do. I'm going to go talk to Bucky. You are all going to stay here. Don't do anything stupid."

I followed Bruce down to the lab. Wanda decided to stay with the others. I wasn't complaining. I didn't want her to see the damage Jackson caused and get annoyed again. Bruce took some blood and I waited. "I'm going to give you some antibiotics again. Take them for a month. When you run out we will re-evaluate ok?" I nodded my head in agreement as Bruce dismissed me. I headed back to the main room to hear the rest of the group, minus me and Bruce, discussing. "She is obviously protecting Bucky!" Thor said. "Why would she though?" Nat questioned. "I think he brainwashed her," Stark suggested. "The only way to find out for sure is if Wanda reads her mind," Steve said. "No way." Wanda protested, "I'm not reading y/n's mind over our desire to find out what happened. She told us her story. That's what we go with." "We need to know if Bucky is innocent or not," Steve pointed out. "He isn't innocent either way. He was part of Hydra, he bought y/n from some dodgy auction. There's nothing innocent about that. By finding out if he actually hurt y/n or not will only change how much we hate him," Sam said. "We already know he hurt her from that video. Wanda when you looked at y/n's cuts was there or was there not one on her chest where the video showed Bucky cutting her?" Wanda went quiet. She hung her head. "Yes," She said. "There's our proof!" Thor said. "Why would y/n lie to protect Bucky? That doesn't make sense?" Wanda argued with Thor. "It's Stockholm syndrome. It's the only explanation." Thor said. I walked in from behind the door I was hiding behind. 

I looked at them all. I could tell by Wanda's face that she knew I heard it all. "The video," I said, "Can I see it?" Thor looked confused. "Why would you want to see it." Wanda shot him a look that could kill. "Are you sure?" She said. I nodded my head. I had a feeling that it was the one Bucky and I faked but I could be wrong. Maybe that was a cover-up. Wanda pulled up the video and played it. It was very dramatic. I chuckled as I remembered how Bucky had made me laugh in one of the many takes it took. Wanda looked at me concerned. "I'm not crazy I promise. This video is staged. It took ages to film as Bucky kept making me laugh. Bucky needed to film a video to contact some people. He said it would grab their attention and cause them to come rushing to help. I'm assuming you are the guys that he wanted to contact. He never actually hurt me. The knife is some random plastic one painted and the blood coming out of the cut is something he added afterwards. The cut was already there, courtesy of Jackson. Ohhhh. It all makes sense now! The men, the ones in suits, must have been after Bucky or me or both I don't know but he needed your help to protect himself and knew you would only come if someone was in serious trouble. I don't think he knew that I knew you guys. He just thought I was some random girl. " Thor looked confused. "She's delusional," He said, "She just made up some elaborate story to protect Bucky." "I believe her," Wanda said, smiling at me. "Maybe I should ready Bucky's mind to make you feel better Thor." After a few minutes of discussion, the group came to the conclusion of reading Bucky's mind.

I followed the group down to a room with a large glass-walled cell that Bucky was in. He looked up. He looked miserable. He scanned over the group and our eyes met. He smiled gently at me. I smiled back. I turned to look at Wanda and saw Thor looking between me and bucky with disgust. I ignored him and looked at Wanda. "Bucky?" She said, "I'm going to read your mind ok. You will relive the memories that I see ok? Don't be alarmed." Buck sat at the back of the cell and nodded slightly. The doors opened and Wanda went in, the doors hissing shut behind her. I watching in anticipation as Wanda's hands and eyes glowed red. She placed a hand on Bucky's shoulder and stood for no more than thirty seconds. She turned to face the group. "Y/n's right," she said. I sighed a breath of relief as Wanda walked out of the cell. Of course, I was right. "So," Steve said, "What do we do with Bucky now?"       

A/N: Updates are going to be very slow for a while. I have a mass of exams and my studies come before this story.