No one Knows the beginning...

chapter 12

Tony's P.O.V

When Nat walked out of the room none of us knew what to say or do.

How did I not know? I scolded myself. But it wasn't that I was pissed, I didn't know it was her brother, it was the fact that I barely knew anything about her life. Nat was one of my closet, dearest friends that I would go to the end of the earth for and I knew nothing about her.

"did any of you know that she even had a brother?" Steve broke through my thoughts.

"I did," Everyone looked at Clint in surprise, "that day she had breakdown, she told me afterwards that she was reminded of the day she was told her brother was dead."

No one answered and just looked at the floor.

"Why didn't she tell us?" Steve asked and I couldn't help but role my eyes and feel defensive for Nat.

"That's not the question we should be asking" I say and everyone looks at me "we should be asking why no one ever bothered to ask, we're all so caught up in our own lives that we've never even asked about Nat's life before the avengers." The last part I said accusingly while pouring myself a glass of water.

The silence that followed my declaration was thick with guilt.

"Well," Wanda broke the silence "there's only one thing we can really do that will pay Nat back for our negligence and selfishness. We have to get her brother back."

I couldn't stop the proud smile that reached my lips at her contribution as it was what I was hoping for.

"how are we going to do that?" Clint asked.

"There's only one thing we can do, do the same treatment we did for Bucky but more intensely." Steve said.

"no"

We all whirled around to see Nat standing in the doorway.

"Before we do anything to him we need to wake him up and just see what we're dealing with," she said, moving slowly into the room.

I nodded and walked out and down to the med bay knowing they were all following me.

"Bucky? Didn't you say you had trigger words that would switch on their ability to control you?" I asked the soldier.

"yeah, why?" he responded

"would Peter have them too then?" Steve asked exactly what I was thinking.

"Yeah, we have the same trigger words" Bucky stuttered, like he was afraid to admit it.

"you know them right?" I inquired as we reached the lobby of the med bay.

"you don't just forget something like that, but I can't say them and neither can you" he stated.

"what, why?" Steve asked.

"because it will make us go insane again"

We all startled at the new voice and turned to see the second vengeful assassin standing in the doorway. Although he wasn't vengeful anymore. He looked exhausted and like he's been crying for weeks, he also had a slight limp and rashes on the body parts where the restraints obviously were.

He must have noticed all our shocked expressions and I hadn't even realized but I had my hand on my watch ready to call my suit and I noticed that everyone else was in a stance proving they were ready for battle.

he looked so hurt to see us all like this and the tears welled in his eyes but he ran back into the room.

We all mentally hit ourselves across the face that we had been so careless.

We all walked shamefully into the room but stopped dead when we saw the window shattered and thick spider webs everywhere along with the debris leftover from the restraints.

"how did he break the window without us hearing?" Clint asked and I wanted to shoot him with my repulsors.

"That is not the question we should be asking!" I practically screamed at him. "we should be wondering where the hell he went"

"This is not good," Bucky added unhelpfully.

"Well no shit Sherlock, we just lost a kid" I exasperated at the assassin.

He rolled his eyes and sighed "no this really isn't good, you didn't just lose a kid, you lost hydra's deadliest assassin while he's unstable and confused."

Shit, when he puts it like that it sounds a hell of a lot worse.

"Well we have to find him" Nat cried, breaking the silence.

"no, we should have half of us go find him while the rest stay here in case he comes back but...not how we just saw him if you know what I mean." I said and everyone nodded and began to suit up. "Bucky, Nat and Wanda you're coming with me to find him and the rest of you stay here in case he comes back."

Once we were all ready we nodded once at each other and set off at a run out of the building.

We looked for him for hours but there was no sign of him anywhere.

"Bucky, do you have any idea where he could be?" Wanda asked tentatively. But he just shook his head sadly. I took off into the sky again and that's when I saw him.

hi everyone, here's the second chapter for today, I will most likely post one more today :D

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-Tiger