Tony was transferred back to the tower and into his room now but was still unconscious. Despite your resistance to going back to the hospital earlier that week, the team convinced you that there was no reason you shouldn't be there. You were Tony's teammate. You were his friend.
"So was I" Bruce says. The team had been struggling with the press in recent days. Each of them had a personal encounter with paparazi that had got to them. Bucky had been talking about how one reporter had accused him of attempting to murder Tony
"He asked if I turned back into the Winter Soldier. I said no, but he insisted anyway" he looks down at his metal arm but Natasha takes the other into her own and squeezes it. Bucky looks to meet her eyes, but they were already in contact with another soul.
Bruce gets up to play a song to add atmosphere. He pulls out the Taylor Swift album you had bought Tony for Secret Santa to cheer you up. Despite the good intentions, unknowing to the song itself, he plays Forever Winter.
[I suggest you listen to it first for full effect. Italics are lyrics]
He says he doesn't believe anything much he hears these days
He says, "Why fall in love, just so you can watch it go away?" (Bucky and Bruce both look at Nat who'slooking at Pepper with her head in her hands)
He spends most of his nights wishing it was how it used to be
He spends most of his flights getting pulled down by gravity (Steve looks at his feet with his arms crossed, leaning against the window)I call just checkin' up on him
He's up, 3 AM pacin'
He says, "It's not just a phase I'm in"
My voice comes out beggin'All this time I didn't know
You were breakin' down
I'd fall to pieces on the floor
If you weren't around
Too young to know it gets better
I'll be summer sun for you forever
Forever winter if you goHe seems fine most of the time, forcing smiles and neverminds
His laugh is a symphony, when the lights go out, it's hard to breathe
I pull at every thread, tryna solve the puzzles in his head
Live my life scared to death he'll decide to leave instead (Steve notices you having flashbacks)I call just checkin' up on him
He's up, 5 AM wasted (you close your eyes shut and gulp on air, restraining the river from running)
Long gone, not even listening
My voice comes out screamin'All this time I didn't know
You were breakin' down
I'd fall to pieces on the floor
If you weren't around
Too young to know it gets better
I'll be summer sun for you forever
Forever winter if you goIf I was standin' there in your apartment
I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it
I'd say I love you even at your darkest (your heart begins to beat faster and your tears slowly but delicately fall from your face)
And please don't goI didn't know
You were breakin' down
I'd fall to pieces on the floor
If you weren't around (The whole team drops their stiff postures and their glass hearts shatter, some banging their fists into the wall while others collapse to the floor along with their sorrow)
Too young to know it gets better
I'll be summer sun for you forever
Forever winter if you goI'll be your summer sun forever
At 3 AM pacin' (You speed walk out of the door into the hallway)
All this time I didn't know
At 5 AM wasted
I'd be in pieces on the floor (hitting your back against the wall you slide down it and cry)
Forever winter if you goHe says he doesn't believe anything much he hears these days
I say,
"Believe in one thing, I won't go away" you whisper.
"Y/N?" A heavy but familiar voice speaks.
You look up to see a big handsome figure standing there.
"Thor?"He helps you up and asks you what happened. You realised after everything that's happened, no one's been in contact with Thor.
You filled him in on all the events and he comforts you
"Y/N I'd be more than happy to take you to Asgard if you like. You know to get your mind off things"
"It's okay, I want to stay here. I'm not leaving until he wakes up"
You tell him he can go to visit Tony in his room but you stay in the hallway. You need some space to clear your head.
Clint comes out later,
"Hey kiddo, do you wanna come back inside. Thor's telling some wierd ass guard stories you'll wanna hear" he laughs at his attempt at a joke"No thanks, I'll come later I just need a breather"
"Alright baby hawk, call me of you need anything alright?"
You smile, Tony used to call you 'baby bird', you used to find it annoying but now you wish more than anything you could hear him say it again.
"Alright"
He hugs you tight, "I love you sis"
"Love you too Cint"
Looking down at your pendant you were still wearing from Christmas, you read:
Whenever you're scared
Remember your family,
And we'll be there.And you knew you weren't alone in this fight.
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Avengers: The Hunted (Avengers × Reader)
FanficPast of loss and tension, Present loyalty in question, Future blinded by deception. Y/N finds herself lost in a heavy dawn over her oasis, but wistful romances and fate draws her grounded for an afterglow of belonging *[With Plot Twists]* ~ "Whene...