Elemental Mastery (Steve Rogers Love Story)

Working Overtime

Half asleep in my chair I hear the curtain move aside, there stands Hill, with Steve, Nat, and Sam. Steve has his arm around Nat's waist, a twinge of jealousy runs through me and I look down.

The doctor starts to work on Nats shoulder, Steve still standing next to her, me still sitting next to Fury, I sneak small glances at Steve, he has barely looked over at me. I see Sam look at me and give me a small nod.

"Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, and one hell of a headache" Fury lists his ailments

"Don't forget your collapsed lung" The Doctor says applying pressure still on Nats wound

"They cut you open, your heart stopped" Nat says weakly, confusion dripping from her words.

"Tetrodotoxin B" Fury says, explaining how Banner tried to use it to calm himself but the serum ultimately failed.

I look at my lap, not wanting to focus on the story I already know. I don't want to think right now. My brain is already running at a mile a minute. Confusion overtakes my mind, causing me to question things. Specifically why Steve hasn't come over to me, why he's so distant to me.

For the first time we get Fury out of bed, we all sit at a conference table inside of the cold large room. I sit next to Hill, as Fury goes over the mission, stopping the launch of the newest SHIELD project, helicarriers that have advanced weapons targeting systems on them. But SHIELD has fallen to HYDRA, who has always been a dark stain inside of SHIELD apparently. The targeting system is now ment to take out anyone HYDRA sees as a threat.

I try to hide my panic from the group. Siting as still as possible while fury talks about wanting to salvage what we can of SHIELD. I try to control my led bouncing up and down under that table to no avail.

"We're not salvaging anything, we're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down SHIELD" Steve says, his angry tone broke me away from my thoughts, but it did nothing to quell my anxiety, I look at my bracelet, it's glowing blue, my father wants to communicate with me, I try to ignore it

"SHIELD had nothing to do with this" Fury says matter of fact, looking at the now ex-agents in the room

"You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. SHIELD has been compromised, you said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed'' Steve replys now angrily looking at me "I don't know if I can trust anyone, even some specific people in this room"

"She has nothing to do with this," Hill says, as Steve continues to stare daggers into me, i have to look away, my hands have started to shake too much, I hide them under the table "I took her away at the hospital, she wanted you to be with her, she's innocent, I couldn't allow them to get ahold of her"

I don't speak, I quickly look up to him once more. The hate in his eyes softens, pitty is now the emotion on his face. I look at the table again.

I can't handle this I think, trying to not run out of the room.

"Steve I did notice all of this, why do you think we are in this cave" Fury says looking around the room "Kaylee has always been one of my top priorities in all of this. I made her a promise shortly after she joined SHIELD. Iv kept her as safe as I could, that's why I was glad for your friendship, then romance. I allowed you to continue to work together and turned a blind eye to it because I knew you would protect her."

"How many people paid the price before you did realize what was going on?" Steve looks at me again. I finally can't stand it, I get up and leave the room, I feel like I can't breathe, the world feels like it's caving in around me. I need air now.