Just ME

Don't do this to me Nick.

"is he gonna make it?" Nat ask. We hurry to the hospital after receive the call that Fury had been shot. "I don't know." Steve reply and both of them looking how the surgery is going.

"Tell me about the shooter." I then approach the glass between Nat and Maria. Eventhough I'm not that close with him, he still a father figure to Nat. Seeing her sad broke my heart. "he's fast. Strong. Had a metal arm." my face sudden change. 'it can't be him.' I muttered under my breath.

"Ballistics?" Nat ask. Still focus on the surgery. "Three slugs, no rifling. Completely untraceable." Maria replied. "Soviet made." I reply and Maria nod.

"He's in v-tach."
"Nurse, help me with the drape."
"BP's dropping."
"Defibrillator!"

The doctor and nurses try to help as much as they can cause Fury's heart rate dropping.

"I want you to charge him at 100."
"Don't do this to me Nick." Nat say try to hold her tears. I pull her into a side hug. I rub her shoulder for comfort.

"Stand back."
"Three, two, one. Clear!"
"Pulse?"
"No pulse."

The doctor try for the second time but still no pulse.

"Get me the epinephrine!" The third time still no response. "Don't do this to me Nick. Don't do this to me." I hold her tighter as she's about to break. Steve then left the room. "What time?" the doctor ask. "1.03 doctor." the female nurse reply. I immediately wrapped my arms around Nat. She just froze there. Didn't know how to act what she just heard.

I stand beside Nat who just stare at Fury blankly. Steve stand behind us. "I need to take him." Maria state as she enters the room. "Natasha." Steve approaching us. Nat just put her hand on Fury's head and left the room. I look at both Steve and Maria. Steve the follow her. "Take care Hill. I'm sorry." I hug her and make my way to both of them.

I then stop when Nat ask him. "Why was Fury in your apartment?" He just sigh in reply. "I don't know." My face dropped. 'is this man seriously just reply don't know?' I walk towards Natasha and facing him.

"Cap, they need you back in SHIELD." Rumlow interrupts our mid conversation. "Yeah, give me a second." before Steve continues, Rumlow cut him off. "They want you now." Steve turns back and reply okay.

"You are a terrible liar." I smirk at him. Nat then leave us both. "I have to go with her. She needs me." Before I make my way, I turn at him. "You just jeopardise this whole situation cap." I said and leave him.

I found her sitting on the bench at the nearby park. I take a sit and we just silent. Admiring the whatever in front of us. "You know him didn't you? The shooter." Nat breaks the silence. "I made a guess." I reply bluntly. "Steve is hiding something. I need to get the drive." we both look at each other with a huge grin. "shall we play a game?"

Some time later...

Steve go back to the hospital with sweater and hood that covered his face. He walk back to the place he hid the drive, vending machine. Soon, he realised that the row the hid the drive was empty. Suddenly two women chewing some gums in the background with a huge smirk. Steve then pull both of them to the room behind.

"Where is it?"
"Safe." we both reply in union.
"Do better."
"Where did you get it?" Nat argue.
"Why would I tell you?"
"Fury gave it to you. Why?" I point his chest.
"What's on it?" he reply in question.
"I don't know."
"Stop lying!" Steve tighten his grip on Nat.
"I swear to god if you hurt her, I kill you Rogers. She only act like she knows everything old man." I stare at him deadly.

He looks behind and turn his gaze at us again. "I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates didn't you?" Nat's face soften and reply. "Well it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you." He then pin her body to the wall. "I'm not gonna ask you again."

"I know who killed Fury." Steve then loose his grip on us. "Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists. The ones that do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited for over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years." Nat continues. "So he's a ghost story." Steve said in disappointment.

"Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but The Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me." she then lift her shirt up and a long scar shown across her abdomen.

"A soviet slug, no rifling. Bye bye bikinis." I reply in a sarcastic way. I let out a heavy sigh. Knowing who are we dealing with. "Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried. Like you said Steve, he's a ghost story." Nat then shows the drive. "Well, let's find out what the ghost wants."

Three of us then head to the nearest mall to find a computer store. "First rule of going on the run is...." Nat said while we walking. ".....Don't run. Walk." I cut her off. "oh by the way we really look UNNOTICEABLEEE." Three of us then throw a fit at my sarcasm. "If I run in these shoes they're going to fall off." Steve reply with an annoyed look.

"The drive has a level six homing program. So as soon as we boot up, SHIELD will know exactly where we are." I stated to both of them. "How much time do we have?" Steve ask still in his soldier mode. "About nine minutes from....now." I then plugged in the drive.

"Fury was right about that ship. Somebody's try to hide something. The drive is protected by some sort of AI. Erghh wish could use Jarvis cause it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands." I whine. "Can you override it kid?" Steve ask. "The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me....slightly." Nat just scoff and smack my arm.

On the other side, The STRIKE team arrive at the mall to capture the three avengers who currently on the run right now. "I'm gonna try running a tracer." Nat then takes over my place. "This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from." Then the screen shows the location scanning.

"Can I help you guys with anything?" suddenly a man with long blond hair ask us sweetly. "oh no I'm just helping my sister and her fiancee here with some honeymoon destinations." I give Nat a side hug. "oh how sweet of you and congratulations! Where are you suggesting sweetheart?" The man continues asking. "New Jersey sounds fun right brother?" I nudge Steve's arm and he nodded. "Yeah that's great!" The man then furrow his eyebrows. He look straight to Steve. "I have the same exact glasses." I then chuckle. "Wow you guys are practically twins." Nat tease both of them. "yeah, I wish...specimen."  The man reply showing Steve's body type. I try to hold my laugh. "umm if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron." He then show his tag and left us after Steve thank him.

"You said nine minutes kid. Come on." Steve said while looking at his watch. "Relax grandpa....and we got it. You know it?" I then show him the coordinates. "I used to. Let's go." I then split up with with both of them to not make it clear three of us stick together.

Steve's POV
"Standard tac team. Two behind, two across and two coming straight at us. If they make us, I'll engage, you hit the South escalator to the Metro." I said while checking the surroundings. We split up with y/n to meet at the Metro.

"Shut up and put your arm around me. Laugh at something I said." As the reflexes kick in, I put my arm around Nat pretend to laugh. As we passed those two agents, I sigh in relief. As we go by the escalator, suddenly Nat turn around and state. "kiss me." I make a weird look at her. "What?"

"Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable." she explain. "yeah they do." I said still not understand the Situation. Nat then grab my face and give me a short kiss. "you still uncomfortable?" she ask with an akward tone. "That's not exactly the word I would use."