Till the End of Time-

Chapter 16: Aftermath

"Stop!" I yell to Steve and Thor.

They pause looking over. Steve's face falling at the sight.

"Very good. Now Captain if you don't mind drop the shield and hammer", Zemo says next to my ear.

They hesitate for a moment before doing so.

Normally I could probably get out of this situation, but I feel so weak and powerless at the moment that fighting my way out isn't even an option right now.

"Let her go she has nothing to do with this, since I'm guessing this is about Sokovia", Steve says trying to bargain with him.

"No, this is not about that. This is about how you all took my family from me on that day. But none of you cared about the destruction that you caused. So now I'm taking you apart. I'm going to plant a seed of destruction in the heart of the avengers and watch you all crumble around it", he says with a cold smile.

"I'm going to tell you a little secret about your friend...", he begins but fails to finish because my powers come back full force and I send him flying back with a stream of gold light.

Steve picks up his shield and sends it flying at Zemo knocking him out while Thor handles the last two remaining men.

Steve runs to me and hugs me tightly. I bury my face in his arms for a moment before looking up at him. His face is sweaty with streaks of dirt across it and he gives me a warm smile as he looks down at me.

He is about to stroke my face when he remembers we aren't alone and let's me go. I step away and clear my throat, "Um, thank you for helping me Cap".

"Glad to see you're good", he says before turning around and going over to Shuri and Bucky.

"Is he okay? Were you able to fix him?", Steve asks Shuri.

"I finished right before they walked through those doors. You can thank me later", she smirks at him before grabbing her tablet and starts tapping away on it.

"When will he wake up?", Steve says returning the smile before he looks down at his friend.

"Anytime he wants, he's just sleeping right now", she tells him not looking up from what she's doing, "And here is some good news! The barrier around the Citadel is back up! That means that my brother and your friends should be finishing up the men that are left", she happily says putting her tablet down.

We here a small crash and look over to see Thor sweeping something away with his foot trying to look innocent.

"Ah! Are you breaking things in my lab? Who raised you?", Shuri says to him marching up and looking to see how bad the damage is.

Steve and I snicker together at the interaction.

"Uh we should probably go", Thor says walking over to us and quickly leading the way out.

"I'll be back to check on Bucky when he wakes up", Steve calls to her.

...

Once we reach outside the battle is completely over.

Over the next couple of hours Zemo and some of his men were handed over to the Secretary of State to be imprisoned. He didn't win in the end after all, however the secret he had about one of us still lingered in my head. Whatever it was, it was powerful enough to tear us apart, or at least that's what he said.