Father's Enemy {A Captain America's Daughter fanfic}

Chapter Fourteen

The picture above is roughly what she looks like but younger. I couldn't find the perfect pic but I wanted to give you guys a visual! Enjoy the next chapter :) -LMI

Albert slowly walked towards Catalina's cell. She was sleeping. She looked so peaceful. He smiled, she wouldn't be peaceful for long.

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"Sit down, Johann," said a now sixteen year old Abigail.

"But I want to help you."

"You can help me by sitting down and relaxing," she said almost motherly. "You work almost ten hours every day and then come home and study! It's not healthy."

"Nobody ever said living was easy," he told her.

"True but rocket science can wait," she set a plate of food in front of him. He and his sister couldn't afford much. Their parents were both dead and he was struggling to take care of her and study for school. He was only nineteen after all.

"How was your day, Abigail?"

"It was fine except I caught a scary looking man digging through our trash."

"What?!" He exclaimed worriedly.

"Don't worry he is gone," as soon as she said this there was a knocking at the door. "I'll get it."

Johann nodded and continued eat. He pulled out a book and began to read being careful not to spill anything on it's pages. A few minutes passed and her heard Abigail scream. He jumped from his seat and ran toward the front door. There was a large man standing there. One had his arms wrapped around Abigail with his hand clasped over her mouth.

"Loslassen ihr jetzt!" (Unhand her now!) he screamed at him.

"sah dieses hübsche Mädchen früher. beschlossen, wieder zu kommen und Spaß haben heute Abend," (saw this pretty girl earlier. decided to come back and have some fun tonight.) he smiled cruelly and her eyes widened. Johann grabbed the nearest hard object and swung at the man. He missed and swung again. The man picked up a bookend that was on the table and lugged it at Johann. It smashed into his skull and he fell. Blood oozed from his open wound.

"Johann!" She screamed. He began to loose consciousness and all he could hear was her screams.

Johann shot up. He was sitting in his library. He rubbed his face with his hand wishing the nightmare away. If only he had been stronger! He could still hear her screams! Johann looked up and realized he wasn't just imaginings screams; he was actually hearing them! He shot from his chair knocking a book off is lap in his haste. He ran out of the room and stopped. The screams were emanating from the cell area. He raced into the hall and ran towards Caty's cell.

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Caty screamed again. She was pinned to the floor. Albert was trying to remove her shirt. She fought hard and kicked him in the groin. He yelped and hit her on her injured side. This wasn't the Albert she had fought previously. His hair and eyes were now jet black and she could see black in all his veins. What had he done to himself!?

He spread her legs. She fought but he stuck his knee down on her stomach making it so she couldn't close her legs. She had never been so scared. She was about to give up when all of a sudden Albert went flying off of her. She looked up in amazement to see Schmidt standing over her. His eyes blazed but when he got a good look at Albert his anger turned to shock. Albert stood and started at him.

"Albert , was hast du dir angetan?!" (Albert, what have you done to yourself?!) He shouted.

"Ich stark geworden!" (I have become strong.) his veins began to pulse a darker black. He now looked like a monster. The next thing that flicked through Johann Schmidt's eyes was recognition. This was what he had done to himself almost seventy years ago. Had he really been like this? This delusional? He didn't get a chance to answer himself before Albert lunged at him. Johann stepped back to avoid him but to his shock Albert swung round and punched him full on in the jaw. Albert looked triumphantly at him. He growled. Not a human growl but an animal growl.

Catalina looked on in shock. She watched as Schmidt fell to the ground. To her horror Albert lunged at Schmidt with his teeth bared. He tore into Johann's neck and growled like an animal. Johann yelled and tried to push him off. His mask tore were Albert was biting and his red skin was now visible. Albert but deeper drawing a dark red blood.

Caty couldn't stand by and watch this she threw herself at Albert and knocked him off Schmidt. Albert turned on her and bit her injured shoulder.

Johann was so surprised that she would save him that it took him a moment to react. When he came to himself he got up and grabbed Albert by the neck. Blood dropped from his teeth. He kicked at Johann's chest in an effort to free himself from the choke hold. He connected solidly with his sternum and kicked hard. Johann fell back and hit his head hard on the wall.

Albert turned to Caty. "Albert, stop!"

"I am not Albert! I am Black Death!" With those words he turned and ran out of the hallway to the exit and to freedom.

Caty stood stunned. Tears formed in her eyes. She was ashamed if herself for crying but then again you could hardly blame her she had been through a lot in the last week. She wiped her tears away and contemplated what she would so next. Schmidt was unconscious so she could take this chance and follow Albert to freedom. She looked at him. He was bleeding profusely; she couldn't just leave him. Ah! Me and my heroics! She thought to herself. She sighed and went to the medical bay to find some bandages and medicine.