I woke up with a groan and slowly opened my eyes. I could see I was still on the table but now I was human and covered in a blanket.
"Ashlee?" I heard Jessi speak. I looked towards the voice and saw she was near the door and Sam was next to her.
I smiled and sat up. "Sup sis?"
She squealed and ran over. She wrapped me in a bear hug. I hugged her back and looked over to Sam. He still was on edge but I could see a faint smile. I made sure as we pulled apart that the blanket was still around me.
"Sam, can you tell the others she is awake and back. She needs clothes also." She looked over to her boyfriend and he looked from her to me and back to her. "I'll be fine here." She waved a hand at him and went to look back at me. "How do you feel?"
I looked down at my legs and shrugged. "Like normal but I still don't understand what Torren did." I had my eyebrows scrunched.
"What did it feel like?" Jessi sat down on a chair next to the table.
"I could still hear and see but I had no control and half the time I was just there like I was frozen in place but my body was doing other things." I looked back at her.
She was nodding and biting her bottom lip which I know she was thinking hard about. I laughed at her a little. She smiled at me and we both looked at the door that everyone was coming through. Gez.
Bucky was the first to get to us. "You doing ok doll?"
I nodded.
"Are you sure you are in control?" Tony asked, still having part of his suit.
"Yes Tony, I don't feel like I did a little bit ago." I shook my head at him. "Where is he?" I looked over the room. Torren wasn't here.
"We gave him to the SHIELD agency. We don't need him here to start shit again." Tony answered.
"They can keep an eye on him 24/7." Clint spoke.
Natasha walked up and handed me a shirt.
"Thanks" I smiled and slid the shirt over my head. It seemed to be a big shirt again so I let the blanket fall as I pulled it down lower and put my arms through the holes.
"Are you hungry Ash?" Thor asked as he walked a little closer.
"Yes, I am starving. I don't remember the last time I ate." I nodded and put my legs over the table's edge and as I jumped off the table something inside twisted and I fell to my knees. With a little gasp.
"Ashlee you okay?" Jessi was at my side in an instant. "What happened?" She helped me stand up and I leaned on her a little.
"I dont know." I was staring at the floor as she helped me sit where she was a minute ago.
"Was it a feeling or are you in pain?" Jessi sounded like a mother talking to a child.
"Something twisted in me. I don't know what it was but it's gone now." I said looking at her.
She looked confused but I was too so I just started to stand and she was near me making sure I was okay. The others moved around to make room for me and her. And we made it to the elevator.
"Do you want to go lay down or eat?" She asked as Sam and Bucky came in and the doors closed. The others must be waiting for it after.
"I think I'll eat. If it comes back, I'll go lay down.'' I said leaning against the wall.
Bucky pressed a button to a floor I didn't know. And the elevator started to move up.
We got to the floor. Jessi was still near me as we went to the kitchen table. I sat down and Jessi sat across from me.
"What do you want to eat, doll?" Bucky asked as he walked to the fridge.
"What is there?" I asked as I turned a little towards him.
"I can make something or there are some frozen meals or leftovers." He spoke as he opened the fridge and freezer.
"Doesn't matter." I laughed and looked back at Jessi.
The others joined us and Natasha went to the cupboard and pulled out a mug. She started to make coffee. Thor pulled Loki to the table and sat down next to Jessi leaving an open seat for Sam who was also staring into the fridge. Loki grumbled something under his breath. Thor must have heard him since he elbowed Loki in the ribs. Tony sat at the head of the table on one end and Steve sat at the other. Bucky must have talked to Natasha and Sam since he and Natasha were making food now.
As everyone sat and food was being prepared there were a few little conversations around the table Jessi was talking to Sam who came to sit next to her. And Thor was joking around with Clint and Tony. I sat staring at my hands in front of me on the table. After a few minutes I looked at Jessi and got her attention.
"Hey, do you know where my tin is?" I asked her.
"Bucky, I think found it." She looked up at Bucky, "Bucky, where is Ashlee's cigarette tin?"
He wiped his hands before reaching into his pocket and walking over to me "here you go doll." He smiled and handed it to me.
I smiled up at him "thanks." I grabbed the tin and he walked back to cook. I looked at Jessi. "Is there somewhere up here where I can go to smoke?"
Jessi looked over to Tony who must have been listening.
"Yeah, I'll bring you to the door." Tony stood and waited for me by the door out of the kitchen. I followed him down the hall a little ways and he stopped at a door to the right. "The door shouldnt lock after it closes behind you. So when you are done come back down." He said opening the door.
I nodded and walked out. It was a little bit brighter out here then inside. I walked a little bit away from the door and got a cigarette out and lit it. As I smoked my brain went to the night where Loki talked to me alone. I don't know why it popped into my head but it came back. I stood there trying to understand what he said. As I stood there thinking the twisting came back. Shit. I knelt down and took a deep breath. Fuck this hurts. I stayed like that for a little bit and finished my cigarette. I stood up slowly as it went away and walked back to the door. Tony was right. The door opened up again. I walked back down the hall to the kitchen slowly. I stopped just outside the door when I heard Jessi swore.
