Chapter 17

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I was thrown on to the ground of my cell and my body just flopped as it rolled

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I was thrown on to the ground of my cell and my body just flopped as it rolled. Having the serum meant that that beatings were worse as my body almost immediately started healing. I laid there not able to move from the pain I was in. I heard someone step in and stop inches from me. "Either you will break or I will tear it out of you what they did," the man said. I knew who it was and I refused to allow him to see anything other than anger from me. "Fuck you!" I choked out before receiving yet another kick to my ribs. I curled up automatically, my body's response in trying to protect itself. I passed out as they left from all the pain getting swallowed up in the darkness. They had been trying to turn me back into a winter soldier, but because of what Shuri had done to make it so they couldn't control me again it wasn't working. She warned me that if they captured me and tried to use the machine, the pain would be worse than before. Back in Wakanda they were searching every lead they would get, but had yet to be able to find my location. It turned out Sharon was working with Rumlow. She had wanted to get rid of me because I had been with Steve and she wanted to be. She figured with me gone it would be easier to get what she wanted. No one got the chance to lock her up as Ma had shot her when she confessed and killed her. Fury was able to keep Ma out of jail and out of trouble due to the circumstances with the warning that he may not be able to again. Everyone was a mess, but no one worse than Chibbs. At one point they had to call Jamie to come down because he wouldn't speak to anyone and had locked himself in my house refusing to let anyone in. When Jamie got there he went straight to the house and easily picked the lock. As he made his way into the house he found it destroyed. Chibbs had been careful of things he noticed right off were important, but everything else was shredded. When he walked into my room where he knew he would find Chibbs, he found him with an empty bottle of whiskey and tears just streaming down his face. "Well looks like I missed the party huh," Jamie said more than asked as he pulled a chair up next to Chibbs. He carefully took the empty bottle and set it down on the ground before looking up to Chibbs. He was staring blankly and Jamie knew that stare. It was the same one I wore the whole way to where Zemo was. It was the same one I had on for months while they were on the run. "She wouldn't want you doin this to yourself man," Jamie said when Chibbs still refused to respond. Chibbs sat up and turned his back on Jamie, trying not to take his guilt and anger out on someone who didn't deserve it. "Except she ain't is she," Chibs said and you could feel his pain in his words. Chibbs thought for a moment before turning to Jamie knowing he was the only one who could answer this question. 


"I need ya ta tell me what we will find when we find her?" Jamie started shaking his head not wanting to have to think about it yet, "You're the only one who can and I need to know so I can get me and ma boys movin when the time comes, which means I can't be stuck in shock when I..." Chibbs stared intently at Jamie hoping he would understand. Jamie began to picture it, knowing the most likely scenario based on what information they had learned. "Rumlow was her handler before, she will more than likely not be able to move well. She will be covered in blood and bruises, maybe even some cuts. She's had the super soldier serum so the beatings will be bad," Jamie started and Chibbs could see this physically hurt him to talk about. When he went to stop him, Jamie shook his head, "You're right, more than likely it will be me, you, and Steve with Sam and Barton covering. We can't afford all of you stuck unable to act," Chibbs nodded and braced for more, "Shuri did something though when she helped Y/N and because of it the machine they use won't work, but it won't make it any less painful." Chibbs swallowed down the cries he wanted to scream out in his anger. "Why?" Chibbs asked, but not about the machine not working. Jamie knew though, what he was asking. "We were unstoppable together was the winter soldiers. They want what they created, so they can try to create what they envision to be the perfect world," he said point blank but in his eyes was regret and guilt. When Jamie and Chibbs walked through the lab doors everyone sat stunned. T'Challa gave the freshly cleaned up Chibbs a knowing look and small nod. No one said anything and continued working, grateful to see him up and moving. Ramonda would make him and T'Challa eat as they worked tirelessly for nights, until one late night Chibbs' phone rang. He and T'Challa had fallen asleep back to back as they watched the screen running facial scans trying to find me so he was startled when Chibbs yelled out. "Alrigh, lemme get everyone," he said and shook T'Challa. They quickly rounded everyone up including Ramonda before putting Juice on speaker phone. "Alrigh Laddie out with it," Chibbs said so Juice could tell them what they had found. He began explaining how he had noticed more activity at an abandoned warehouse there in Charming. He said he didn't  think anything of it at first but something told him to look closer. He started to ramble and Chibbs had to get him back on track. "Right anyway I started watching the footage and to anyone else this just looks like another MC moving in to the area, but if you look close they're too coordinated. No MC I know moves the way they do and then I noticed them bringing in large pieces of machinary," he said in a rush fired up on caffeine and adrenaline. "What are you saying?" Gemma asked taking the kid back a bit. "Look I don't know if this is it, but every red flag in my head is going off," he said confidently without a tremor in his voice. None of them had heard him speak with that much conviction before. 


Quickly everyone was contacted and a plan put together. As Jamie thought it would be like he said with Jamie, Steve, Chibbs, and Jax heading the assault on ground and inside. Sam and Barton would provide them cover and assistance getting in and out. The others would try to draw out as many as they could outside. Everything had been going according to plan but they were prepared for anything as they weren't one hundred percent sure of what they would be dealing with. They heard my screams as the scientists began trying to use the machine again when they came face to face with Rumlow. Everyone could see the anger that rolled off of Jamie when he saw Rumlow. "Impressive, quicker than I thought you might have done it, but you did. Well done," he said as he slow clapped while smirking, "Not quick enough though." Jamie charged at him and everyone else quickly took down the other men there with Rumlow. Jamie had him up in the air by the throat as everyone watched. "Where is she?" he growled but Rumlow refused to answer. After hitting him a few times with no different response they heard me scream again. Jamie quickly handed off Rumlow to Happy before going with Steve, Chibbs, and Jax down a hallway where my screams came from. They searched every room and could hear the thuds as Happy beat Rumlow some more. Finally they reached the room I was in and without hesitating Jamie shot every man in the room that wasn't them. When he looked at the chair in the room, he saw me strapped to the chair. My eyes were barely open as my head rolled side to side. Jax was in shock, but true to his word Chibbs got him moving and they worked to get me out. I started to regain consciousness as they lifted me feeling the pain in my body magnify. I got my eyes open and heard both of them whispering it was ok and I was safe now. As they helped me out my vision began to improve just as we were about to pass Happy. There I saw Rumlow and before we got far I made the boys stop and turn me to Happy. I stared coldly down at Rumlow and for the first time I wanted to take someone's life. I could try to lie and say it was for the greater good, that he was too big a threat alive, but even the dumbest person would know it was a lie. That meant I could go another way with it. "He's mine," and the seriousness in my eye told them I wasn't going to let it go. Happy nodded and they quickly moved to take me, but knowing I was about to be gone too long for recovery I knew I wouldn't get another chance. I spotted a gun on Jax's hip and snatched it pulling free as I spun back towards Rumlow. I shot him in the head three times before he fell to the ground. No one said a word as they quickly rushed to me as I collapsed to the ground, passing out again from pain. Once we cleared the building they destroyed it, they placed bombs within for a controlled explosion.  It leveled the building and destroyed all evidence of Hydra along with it. They rushed me Wakanda as Shuri and Bruce worked on me on the plane. 


Once there they rushed me past everyone and mom nearly collapsed when she saw my condition. Had it not been for Jax she would have hit the ground. It was hours later when Shuri and Bruce came back to update them on my condition. Once they knew  I was ok, but in a coma was when Chibbs finally broke. Ma ran to him as he fell to the ground and hugged him, surprised he had made it this long without falling apart yet. Once he was calm they let him back to see me. It broke his heart seeing me hooked up to everything, but Shuri continued to assure him I would be ok. "She just needs some time," she said setting comforting hand on his shoulder. He pulled up a chair to the side of my bed and took my hand in his, kissing the back of it before setting it to his forehead as he closed his eyes with his head down. He didn't leave my side  for 3 days and on the morning of the fourth day was when I began to open my eyes. Chibbs was startled when he felt me starting to move and saw me trying to pull the tube from my throat out. "Jamie! Bruce!" Chibbs as he did his best to stop me and try to calm me down. Jamie jumped up and quickly grabbed my wrists, the only one strong enough to hold me down. Chibbs moved closer to my ear and stroked my hair gently to calm me. "Hang on Lass, its ok, just calm down we'll get it out," he told me as he saw the tears coming from my eyes now. Bruce got the tube out and grabbed a face mask for oxygen putting it on my face and cranking oxygen up. Chibbs kept whispering to me as my breathing started to slow down. Shuri came in with the others and began checking me over with Bruce making sure my struggling hadn't hurt anything as Chibbs kept whispering to me. Once I was calm and everyone satisfied with my progress everyone left Chibbs and I alone. 

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