Phoenix

Hospital Visits Again?

Waking up after our weirdly honest chat and sleep, we headed off the train and to a small little apartment desperate for a shower we were almost racing one other to get their first. "I'm starving I'll order food while you shower," I tell her while pulling up a menu.

We quickly swapped over and I looked over my shoulder which shouldn't have been hurting like it is right now only to see and black lightning-like infection in my shoulder spreading out from the wound that was now all black. This isn't right and that bullet wasn't normal. "NATASHA!" I call and she barges through the door, almost kicking it off its hinges to see me in a pair of shorts. She looks over me to make sure I'm alive and stops when her eyes land on my shoulder. "What The Fuck." are the only words that fall from her mouth as her fingers come across to lightly graze above the strange infection under my skin.

"I told you it wasn't normal we need to call Stark. This looks like it's killing you from the inside." She speaks outwards mainly towards herself but filling me in on her thoughts. racing out the door she leaves room to argue she plugs her phone into the laptop before it starts ringing. I start to feel lightheaded and I have to clutch the side to stable myself before slumping my back down the counter until I reach the floor.

"No Stark it's not good his eyes are now bloodshot, he is faint and the lighting marks are spreading while we talk. Where the hell am I meant to take him." She practically shouts down the phone. "No, we can't go to some normal hospital, your kidding?! Definitely Not."

"Nat for god sake put the phone on speaker." I snap but I think it came more out like a mumble.

"He sounds like shit you need to take him to Wakanda it's the only place you won't be arrested," Stark says over the phone.

"I am fine just need some sleep and probably some ibuprofen at most. She is being dramatic Stark" I mumble before my head hits the floor.

I wake up and I see a bright white light above my head and I go to sit up before Natasha's face comes into view and she pushes my head back down. "Stay down. You not okay." She tells me and I groan smacking her hand away and sit up.

"What the... How is he up and  awake?" Another female voice with an African accent says as the doors to the lab open and Natasha just shrugs and sits down in the chair next to my bed, the woman in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt walks around me looking over at my half-naked body like I'm some lab experiment. "Thomas, Welcome to Wakanda."

"Yeah right cool is this my chart on the screen? I was shot with an  Alloy of Copper and Vibranium, making it a hybrid bullet. Due to the melting points of both Copper and Vibranium would have needed to be in a well-funded facility to produce the bond between the element... When Copper contacts my blood it turns my blood pernicious against its self causing the lighting black infection... Great" I ask no one in particular and start swiping through the screen, glancing up I just see Natasha's shocked face and I bite my lip to hide my smirk.

"You come to my lab, unconscious and dying. Then wake up and make yourself at home using my equipment to self diagnose yourself. I'm surprised you haven't started operating on yourself." The other woman says coming to stand next to Nat snapping me back to where I was.

"Thomas for fuck sake sit down and let Shuri look after you." Tasha snaps and I turn to look at them both.

"Sorry your right it's nice to meet you Shuri, Thomas Barnes but I assume you already knew that. I apologise for Tasha and her abruptness." I smile and Natasha rolls her eyes before walking out of the room leaving me alone with Shuri.

"Your father has told me a lot about you. I also noticed your scars, I have a habit of fixing broke white boys. I could help with the scars." Shuri tells me waving her hands around moving screens while talking and bringing up a structure of my body.