White Knight

Waiting

Natasha Pov.

"Tony it's been hours. Where is he?" I called pacing in the common room, all of us sat waiting to hear on the come. Steve sat at the table his finger tapping nervously. Wanda sat next to Peter, hugging her knees worried. Tony still encased in his suit, his mask not covering his face, worry covered it. He looked at me and shook his head. "I can't tell you. He will call us, he has to."

With that, a hologram of Shuri appeared. "WHERE IS HE?!" she shouted. "HE IS DYING." Tony's face fell. "How do you know that?" Tony responds his voice almost cracking in anger and worry. "I'm not stupid stark he has a heart rate monitor in his ring. Go find him NOW! I and my brother are on our way" the hologram vanished and I fell to my knees, Tony snapped his mask down and flew out the room. Bucky picked me from my feet, and helped me to the lab, Steve help Wanda.

"Steve, get Bruce to set up the lab urgently. Get Nat and Wanda out of there, This doesn't look good." Tony was loud over the coms.

"Girls I think you should wait out the way." Bucky moved to push us into another room.

"If he is going to die I'm going to be by his fucking side I'm not going anywhere." I spat at Bucky as he stepped closer, tears now falling from my face.

"I won't let him die. He is like our own brother." An African accent appeared in the doorway. "To save his life I need to be able to work." Her voice serious and hurt her eyes bloodshot. T'challa stood behind her not being able to speak, he came to me placing a hug around me, I collapsed into him. He held me tighter. "We can wait outside, we won't be far." His voice vibrated through me. We walked out of the room, seconds after the door closed behind us Steve was by the door and a large crash came from inside. I tried to look through the glass in the window, all I saw was Tony holding his limp body with a sword plunged into his chest. I collapsed to the floor. Pushing my back against the wall, hugging my knees, my heart tightened and I could almost feel it breaking inside me.

It's been hours, I haven't been able to move, T'challa has sat beside me for a while but started to leave to see the others. No one has left the lab there hasn't been a single sound. "Nat?" Wanda's voice calls from the corridor. "Natasha?" she calls again slowly making her way down the corridor. "Natasha Romanoff." she stops In front of me my eyes never leaving the door. "Fuck sake Natasha look at me." I pull my eyes away look at her for a
Second and my eyes go straight back to the door. She bends down to my level and lifts my face with her finger. "It's been 12 hours. You haven't eaten, you haven't slept and you haven't moved. You know he wouldn't want you like this now get your ass off the floor and down to the kitchen before I pick you up and carry you." Her voice starts sweet and caring but the last bit was threatening she even flashed her red eyes at me. "I can't leave, he saved me. I should have been there to save him." my dry voice cracks out as I look at her. "He will come out of that room, we both know he is as stubborn as Tony, as heroic and brave as Steve, he has the badass fighting skills you do, has the same brains as Bruce apparently, he can lift Thor's hammer, shoot like Clint. In my eyes and all of the others, he is somehow all of you and all of us. Plus Steve told him to walk it off if he died. He has come back to you before why wouldn't he now?" She pulls at my hands to get me from my feet and helps me to the kitchen, she had made breakfast? I looked at the clock midnight "its midday?" I took the plate of food from her and she handed me a cup of coffee. "Like I said you have been sat there for 12 hours. I'm sure someone will be out soon to give us some updates but you need to eat and shower. I would say sleep but I know you won't." She rolled her eyes as she said it and sat down next to me. *Mr Stark has called a team meeting to the Lab* Friday boomed through the compound and me as Wanda take off sprinting down the hallway. Knocking over a tired-looking Tony we land on top of him. "Shit sorry tony" Wanda helps him to his feet. "Girls I know you worried, I have just done a 12-hour surgery, with Shuri after flying across New York to carry Lancelot. I want to expect you to fly at me like the enemy" he rubs his eyes and clicks out his back, as all the others walk around the corner together. Shuri and Bruce come out of the lab shutting the door behind them.

"How is he?" I say looking at Shuri. She looks like she is going to fall asleep on the spot, Bruce yawns. "He is stable right now. We don't know if he will ever wake up. And if he does we don't know what he will be like the sword hit a lot of nerves, and a lot of important organs. We have done the best we can here. We need to get him stable enough and hopefully, then we can transfer him to Wakanda, and I hopefully will be able to minimise any injury and help him recover." Shuri says and I and Wanda fall into one another. "Can we see him?" her voice calls from the bundle of us both. "I think we all should get some rest right now. I will stay with him for a while to keep an eye on him but if someone could please bring me some coffee." Tony says to the group. Peter flys down the corridor to get Tony some coffee.

"I think we should talk about what I saw when I got there..." Tony leans on the wall as we all move so that everyone can hear him. "When I arrived... He had a sword in his chest, the black knight was on top of him with a sword stuck through his heart. As I pulled the Black Knight off him, I had Friday read his vitals. He wasn't breathing. His heart had stopped. I got him here as quickly as possible. Shuri had been monitoring his heart rate while on her way... He had been dead for half an hour, it is unlikely for someone to come back after that. His heart rate is currently low and is struggling. So Bruce Shuri and I will all be in there keeping an eye on him. But there is still a strong chance he might not recover from this fully and could potentially be on life support unless he heals himself enough to get him to Wakanda." Tony's eyes close as he leans his head against the wall trying to hide the tears forming in his eyes, Steve walks over to him and pulls him into a hug. I hold on to Wanda tighter as we both go weak knowing he might not live. "Is there anything we can do now other than wait?" Bucky speaks over the silence. "Yeah Buck me and you are going to go and pick up our Black knight and clear the warehouse. While the other get food, sleep and shower." Steve replies to James as he moved from Steve he hugs me and Wanda before they both leave to meet Maria by the jet. Peter comes in with a huge mug of coffee for Tony and gives him a small hug with a smile. Just before he walks back into the lab.

"SHURI" is screamed through the compound by Tony 10 minutes after we have all left to our thought hopefully to gets showered and some sleep. All of our heads shoot up as Shuri sprints past the kitchen I and Wanda follow with Bruce.

"He's flatlining"