Our New Life

Chapter 30

"Wake up everyone" she screamed entering the room with a big box in her hand, Damon coming behind her with a larger box in his hand. It's been two days she was working to convince fury to let her do finding bucky mission with the team and finally she was there with her old work on the winter soldier.

Placing the box on the table she looked at everyone around it, steve nat tony and bruce. Everyone seemed uninterested except for steve.

y/n sighed, "look I know you guys are not interested but this is not just me finding my friend. Consider this a mission... we need to find the winter soldier so hydra won't use him as a weapon as they did in the past." she looked at tony was looking into the box.

"This won't be an official mission as the authorities don't know about this except for fury but I need everyone to show some enthusiasm and interest as they do in normal missions"

"So you would be our captain for this?" Nat asked smirking at steve, who just kept looking down at the file infront of him.

y/n suppressed a smile and nodded, "well I've been working on him for a long so yes, I am going to lead this mission."

In all of that, she didn't notice tony pulling out a picture she didn't was in that box, a picture she extracted for CCTV footage years ago, a picture of his dead parents with a man in a mask standing near them.

Tony clenched his jaw and looked over her, she can see the sadness in his eyes. It wasn't like she wanted to hide it from him but this wasn't how she wanted him to know.

"And when were you going to tell me about this? Or did you plan to hide it?" he gritted his teeth causing everyone to look at him.

"If I wanted to hide it I wouldn't bring it here" she didn't lie though.

"That's why this is not an official mission? So they won't arrest him, murderer of my parents" he was trying to control his tears.

"He was brainwashed tony" she cried to which he just scoffed. He was about to walk outside this room not wanting to be a part of the mission but Damon stopped him running infront of him.

"Walk towards the window and jump off the building" he suddenly compelled him, looking into his eyes. Tony started towards the window. Everyone stood up in panic seeing this.

"Damon what the fuck are you doing, stop it." y/n yelled.

Bruce tried to walk over to tony to stop him, "he is under my compulsion, you can't stop him" Damon stopped him with a smirk.

Tony stood upon the large window ready to jump but before he could, Damon pulled him back. Tony looked at him with startled eyes and got out of his grip.

"That's what compulsion is, brainwashing is much worse," Damon said before standing aside of tony way so he can get out of the room if he wants.

Tony looked at y/n still with the yes blaming her. "He is my friend" she whispered.

"So was my dad" he whispered back before walking out.

y/n sighed and looked at everyone before excusing herself and walking behind tony.

~

"Tony stop please" and thankfully he listened.

He turned towards her, "I always thought I knew you but I couldn't remember" he sighed sitting on the couch.

"And when we found you are a vampire, this made sense," he said pulling out a picture. A picture of you and Stark smiling.

y/n took the picture, "I remember this time. Your mother took it when I first came to your house." she smiled.

"You compelled me to forget you" it wasn't a question but she nodded.

"I was planning to compel your parents too but when they died I knew that was it. She sighed. "It was difficult for me to leave you there grieving but I didn't have a choice. My life was a mess and I couldn't risk telling this to anyone."

"So you also forget people when you make them forget you?" again an accusing tone, made her smile sadly.

"You think I didn't want to avenge them? I spent years to find him, the winter soldier. But hydra was too powerful and I didn't have anything back then."

"But now... I have resources" she whispered.

"But your reason changed" he declared.

"I've just found this a few weeks ago tony and you have no idea how painful this is for me to know that my mentally tortured best friend killed someone like a brother to me" "I am not telling you to forget everything and act normal. I know this is painful to rescue someone who killed your parents but please remember that he is brainwashed, you also know it feels like being tortured and this is much worse than physical."

He remained silent at her words and looked down.

She put her hand on his shoulder, "but it's okay if you don't want to help, I won't force you. I already feel terrible for leaving you alone at the funeral." she gave him a sad smile and tried to get up.

But he stopped her.

"you are right, this is difficult. But finding him is crucial before they use him again. So when do we start" he said looking at her.

"And please don't start to cry, I like you as the badass vamp who knocked the wind outta me" his words made her laugh and she blinked to make the tears in her eyes go away.

"Well, I would go today to find him if I could but some people are trying to get me on a break" she huffed in annoyance.

"Then maybe you should take a break" tony shrugged making her frown.

"No!"

~

Steve stood up from his chair and marched out outside but before he could walk further Damon stopped him, causing him to turn.

"I need to talk to you," Damon said but steve only nodded for him to continue.

Seeing his behavior Damon frowned at him, "you do know we are not together right?" he blurted out.

"Umm yeah, she told me" Steve replied. "Is that what you wanted to"

"no, there is something else" Damon cut him off.

"Look Steve I know you are upset with her. And everyone could see that" "And that is okay, it's no one else's business to talk" Damon said instant, seeing steve was about to interrupt him.

"I am not here to talk about your personal matter I just want you to stop her for some time. She needs rest steve."

They sat on the chairs in the corner of the lobby.

"We have a switch, a humanity switch which we can turn off if feelings get overwhelming if you think we can take the pain anymore. And if a vampire turns their humanity off they become monsters, truly."

"All these decades I've spent with her, she values her humanity even though she thinks she is a monster. She never talked or even think about turning it off steve and that day, for the first time ever she told me that she was tired. I don't know how much serious she was but it's not something you talk about as a joke."

Steve sighed and looked at him, "why are you telling me this?" not the reaction Damon expecting but still he replied.

"Because you love her, I know you do. She is on the edge, one more thing and she'll become the monster she thinks she is. Help her steve." he whispered.

Steve looked at him as Damon got up and started to walk away from him.