Resilient

Chapter 38

As Evelyn laid unconscious on the bed her mind was flooded with memories that didn't belong to her. She was a little girl and was running around a freshly mowed yard with a dog. Another flash and she was a teenager barely conscious as she was carried into the base. Another flash she was being injected with a serum and vomited all over herself. Another flash she was looking into a mirror checking her black eye and turning to see the brand Evelyn had on her own body with a cut through it. Evelyn recognized the face - it was the assistant who was holding her down.

"Wait in here until she wakes back up. Then come and get me immediately - I will be with the other bride," the Doctor said and Evelyn heard the door shut.

The woman's hand was on her wrist monitoring her pulse and Evelyn took the chance and spoke her voice barely above a whisper from the exertion. "Hello...Kara.."

Kara, the assistant, gasped and released her wrist. "How.."

"Please Kara, please help me," Evelyn said, groaning as her mind threatened to shred apart.

"I can't. You will learn. We are nothing without Hydra. You were blessed to go through the experiment and come out stronger," Kara said, shaking her head and looking at the ground.

Evelyn pushed into Kara's mind and brought up her memories. The memories of what Kara went through breaking through the walls in her mind. Her parents being killed in front of her and a man grinning as she turned to run. Being injected with the serum and nearly dying while going through fighting training and having her arm broken. Then being branded when a Soldier chose her to only have a slash through it when he was killed after a mission after she was unable to calm him down and he went on a rampage.

Kara was crying, "Stop - please." She took a deep breath and started to release the restraints on her feet; her hands shaking. "I loved him. He was chosen like me for the program - he didn't volunteer. They blamed me for the mission failing but I knew the Doctor had injected him again against orders when there was a rumor we were planning on running. I can't believe I let them make me forget him."

As she was moving to the arm restraints the alarms started going off. Kara started to rush when the door opened and a soldier was in the doorframe, "What are you doing?!" Kara ignored him and fumbled with the lock. "I said what are you doing?!" he screamed as he turned her around and saw she was trying to release Evelyn. "You fucking idiot - they'll kill you for this." Kara grabbed his gun and tried to wrestle it from him.

As they wrestled Evelyn struggled against her binds and heard the gun go off once and saw Kara's body go lax against the male and slump to the ground. Evelyn screamed and the power of it made the man back step. He quickly regained his footing and approached the bed, gun raised and pointed at her. "Orders are to kill you rather than let you go back with the freaks."

Evelyn steeled herself and met the man's eyes. He grinned and she saw the man who had taken Kara from her family and spit at him. He laughed as he wiped his face, "they didn't say it had to be quick."

He dropped the gun to the ground and took out a knife and rubbed the steel against her cheek and his eyes turned predatory. "It's too bad I won't be able to find out what all the fuss about you was. Pierce, Martin, and the Winter Soldier? What do you have in those pants?" He trailed the blade down her body to her belt and Evelyn squirmed.

The room filled with a red smoke and the door busted from its hinges, "I would suggest you get your hands off of her."

Evelyn couldn't help the sob of relief she made when she saw Wanda gliding into the room flanked by Natasha with her guns aimed at the man. He didn't even turn to the women as his hand went to grab his gun - his hand grabbing at the air where he had propped it. "You dropped this," Kara said and shot him a moment later. Wiping the smug grin off his face as he crumbled to the floor.

Natasha ran to the table and removed the remaining restraints. "Help... Her." Evelyn said as Natasha helped her sit up.

Wanda knelt down by Kara and started to look her over. Evelyn sat next to her holding her hand as Wanda worked and Natasha stood guard by the door. "We found her - I have turned on my locator."

Kara's breathing was shallow as Wanda looked at Evelyn with sad eyes and shook her head. "Can...I...see...him..." Kara asked

"Wanda, I need you to help me," Evelyn said, reaching her hand over to Wanda and then touching Kara's temple. Without hesitation Wanda grabbed her hand and lent her power. Evelyn pushed through Kara's memories to find the perfect one. She pulled a memory of love and hope and pushed it to the front of Kara's mind. She was sitting on the floor of a hotel room looking over a map and a handsome man appeared over her and handed her a cup of coffee. Evelyn looked down to Kara who was smiling and a tear left her eye. As the man leaned down to kiss her; Evelyn felt her hand go lax and Kara was gone.