The Grey - Steve Rogers + Bucky Barnes X OC Love Story

Chapter 24

Victoria was wating in the lab with Bruce and Tony, running tests on her and taking some blood. It had been a month since her capture, reluctantly she agreed to let them check her blood, see if she had acquired more from Steve's blood.

"So, bunny. What's going on with you and Steve? You've been more distant lately." Tony asked as Bruce started to run her blood, taking off and leaving the two alone.

"Nothing?" Victoria said with a raised eyebrow. "We're just friends, I'm married remember?" She said with a half laugh.

"I wasn't worried you were together again, I was worried you are fighting. You've barley spoken to him since we got released from the hospital. Everyone has noticed." Tony mentioned.

"Oh. I.. I guess I just haven't been super talkative." Victoria said with a half shrug.

"Yet you've been talking to the cyborg more than usual." Tony said, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Still married." Victoria said, rolling her eyes at Tony.

"Again, I wasn't assuming that. Did Steve do something? Come on, tell me." Tony insisted.

Bruce barging back into their section of the lab, luckily, ended their conversation. "It looks like you did in fact get more of the serum. It's remarkable!" Bruce beamed.

"What does that mean?" Victoria asked.

"I don't know about strength, but your ability to heal is drastically improved." Bruce mentioned. "Obviously I can't see strength from samples. I can only see how much your labs have changed."

"So you're going to have to fight one of the ancient artifacts to see if you're stronger." Tony teased, Victoria rolled her eyes.

"Fine. I'll fight Bucky again." She said.

"You wouldn't rather fight Rogers?" Bruce asked. Tony let out a quiet laugh. "I told you everyone noticed." Tony said.

"Fine. I'll fight Steve." Victoria said with a huff, crossing her arms across her chest.

"Good. You don't have any tasks to do today, so be in the gym in an hour." Tony said with a proud smile, patting Victoria on the knee before darting off towards his office before she has the chance to be mad at him.

Victoria headed for the gym right then, she didn't have anything else to do. She took her time though, when she got there she changed into her workout clothes and sat herself in one of the chairs. Steve and Bucky were sparring together but the entire team was in the gym aside from Tony and Bruce.

"So, Tori. What did Bruce have to say?" Clint asked when he noticed she had sat down. Victoria simply shrugged, she still wasn't comfortable talking about the serum.

"Didn't you head down there for labs? What do we know?" Sam chimed in.

"Guys, don't hassle her." Nat interrupted. She came and sat next to Victoria, smiling at her. "How are you doing?" She asked quietly.

"I'm fine. Why?" Victoria asked.

"Because you're not sleeping." Nat pointed out. "I know you went back home two weeks ago, but the whole time you were here, you barely slept."

Victoria let out a quiet sigh, leaning back in her seat. "I can't get the sounds from that day out of my head." She admitted. She hadn't told anyone what was bothering her since she told Steve in the hospital.

"The sounds?" Nat asked, she noticed Steve and Bucky stopped sparring to listen in. But Victoria didn't notice, she was a million miles away, probably reliving what she was about to describe.