◦○DAYBREAK○◦ Bucky Barnes

thirty four

[THIRD PERSON POV]

"Ms. Penton you don't have to be in here yet, you do know he isn't supposed to gain consciousness for quite a long while. I can send someone to come and get you when-"

Shuri's words seemed to disintegrate in the surrounding air around them, all of Davina's focus was on the limp body she loved so much spread out across a medical table a few mere steps away. The arm she had accepted and grown to love was missing from his body. Instead, a darker metal was formed in its place, slivers of gold noticeable on certain parts.

Her eyes were glazed over as they inspected every square inch of his body, taking in the sight of him out of the cryo freeze, where he had been asleep for the past year.

She watched his chest slowly rise and fall, it was the key to her comfort, knowing he was safe, just asleep from the affects of the cryo freeze. 

Davina hadn't been there when he was taken out, she had wanted to, practically begged like a mad-woman, but T'Challa had refused. He had told her that she wouldn't want to see him like that, and instead took her to the lab and hour later, once the major side affects had worn off.

Davina didn't care what he looked like, she needed to see him, she needed to hold him, she needed to be in his arms, she needed more than anything else in the world to hold him and never let go.

"Ms. Penton? Are you listening?" Shuri's urgent voice ripped away her lost imagination and forced her focus back to the scientist.

"Sorry Shuri, i'm just a little distracted." Davina whispered shakily, brushing her fingers tips gently across his pink cheek, the stubble from his beard slightly tickling her fingers.

She had come to see him in the cryo freeze a number of times through out the year, of course it was just the endless event of staring at his lifeless-looking body in a chamber. This felt the same, his skin was freezing cold to the touch, almost burning her finger tips as they dragged lightly across his cheekbones.

Shuri smiled warmly at the broken girl next to her. She had witnessed Davina saunter into the lab in the dead of night, at least twice a week and plop herself down next to the cryo freeze chamber with a book. She would read aloud to him, as if he could hear.

The Wakandan princess had never informed the other girl that he couldn't hear, he couldn't sense anything. It seemed that those small moments she spent reading to him brought her so much happiness, Shuri didn't want to take that away from her, she couldn't take that away from her.

"He won't awake for another few hours Davina.. Why don't you go get some food and I shall personally come and get you as soon as he starts to stir." Shuri pressed gently.

The girl looked broken, Shuri had tried to mend her mind the best she could, but it wasn't as easy as mending a broken arm. The brain was a delicate thing, not one being the same as another. It was something that troubled Shuri, though she had tried her best to reassure the girl's mind.

Davina instantly shook her head in response to Shuri's suggestion, wisps of dark hair escaping the messy bun on her head and tumbling down her exhausted-looking face. "I need to stay here, j-just in case-"

"Davina, he isn't going to wake up soon. Go sleep, go eat, go do something. He wouldn't want you wasting your day standing here staring at him, trust me." Shuri placed a hand on Davina's back and gently ushered her towards the door.

"But Shuri-"

"Davina.."

Davina finally whipped around to face the girl properly, a concerned look in her eye. "Promise me you'll come get me, a-as soon as anything happens? Even the slightest thing..."