True Form (Avengers x Reader)

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Yelena's pov:

After half an hour, y/n finally fell asleep in my lap. Not that I was complaining, on the contrary, I was happy that she trusted me enough to accept my presence during her panic attack.

I relaxed against the headboard of the bed and watched her sleeping soundlessly. I continued with the gesture of stroking her hair, until there was a knock on the door.

"Come in" I said and was surprised when I saw at the whole team standing in the doorway. They looked a bit surprised themselves when their eyes fell on y/n in my arms, but didn't say anything about it.

"How is she?" Wanda asked concerned and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Fine now" I answered, not wanting to tell them something she could be uncomfortable with.

"We watched the footage" Steve sheepishly added and I sighed quietly.

"She's just a bit upset, overwhelmed from everything" I said, quickly checking that y/n was still fast asleep and nodding to the others in confirmation.

"Yeah no shit. She doesn't even really know what's going on. She was just kidnapped, held in a cell with a collar around her neck and forced to tell some random people about her traumatic past. No offense, but I would be upset too" Peter suddenly blurted out.

We all stared at him kind of shocked at his outburst, which didn't match his personality. But we all understood him. Even though he was always happy and smiling, if someone would mistreat a friend or family member, he would not hesitate to defend them. Neither would any of the rest of us hesitate to do so.

"The kid's right. Fury pushed her too far, we won't let that happen again" Stark agreed and our eyes darted to him.

"Didn't know you were able of such empathy, Stark" Nat teased, but there was a hint of surprise in her voice.

"I have my moments" he shrugged. "But I promise, it won't turn into a habit"

We rolled our eyes playfully at the cheeky billionaire. Even he got attached to the girl's skittishly, but funny nature, maybe he imagined Peter in such situation, but it hit us all to see her so broken and drained.

Y/n stirred, but I quickly hushed her and began to stroke her hair again, trying to keep her asleep. I believed she wouldn't be pleased if she'd wake up with the whole Avengers team staring at her. She adjusted her position in my lap and subconsciously snuggled deeper into me, causing a few 'aww's.

"It's okay, you're save" I soothed quietly, missing the glances that were exchanged between the others.

"Let's go, it's getting creepy that we all stare at her while she's asleep" Sam suddenly said and we all looked at each other slightly embarrassed.

"Uh yeah, that's true" Clint agreed, scratching the back of his neck.

I stayed with y/n. I knew she would need someone when she'd wake up and I promised her not to leave. I'll never leave you, милая.

——— Y/n's pov:

I awoke and was instantly filled with a warm feeling and the soothing presence of Yelena. I looked around confused, but quickly realized that I must've fallen asleep in her lap.

"Hi" she smiled at me, when our eyes met.

I blushed wildly and immediately crawled out of her lap. There was a slight bit of disappointment sparkling in her eyes, but it faded away as fast as it had come.

"How are you feeling?" She asked calmly, observing me closely.

"Fine" I answered. Apart from that interrogation thing, I was extremely embarrassed. I just had a fucking panic attack and Yelena saw everything and I fell asleep in her lap.

As if she just read my mind, she said: "it's okay, you know. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Every one of the Avengers has had a panic attack before, if not more than one"

"I mean, half of the team has a past with HYDRA or other dumb, cruel organizations" she added and chuckled.

I cracked a weak smile, but it did made me feel better to know that panic attacks weren't uncommon here.

"And if you're blaming yourself for being 'weak', stop it" she continued sternly and made some air quotes at the word 'weak'. "For someone who just got kidnapped and has not really an idea why, you're fucking strong, always maintaining your funny or sassy attitude. It was just a matter of time when you would get overwhelmed"

How the hell could these people read others so easily?

I smiled weakly. Even though my past was a walk in the park against her's, she still made me feel better with these words. I knew I shouldn't think that I was weak, but it's hard when you were told so for the past I-don't-know-how-long-years.

"Thanks" I said sheepishly. "I'll get a shower"

After cleaning myself up from the dried tears, I switched into comfortable clothes and tied my hair into a ponytail to look presentable again.

When we arrived in the common room, I just hoped the team didn't knew anything of what happened after the interrogation. Luckily, they seemed to act normal.

They just hang around the common area, playing Mario kart or being on their phones. I decided to bake some cookies with Wanda and Kate and secretly gave Pietro and Peter raw cookie dough when the others didn't look.

One time Bucky caught me, handing some to Peter, but I just gave him some as well and he remained silent, happily eating the raw cookie dough and joining Steve and Sam at Mario kart.

Just half an hour later, the whole team had secretly eaten the raw cookie dough's in exchange for not saying anything to the others.

The fun ended though, when Steve and Nat found out about it and gave us all a lecture about how bad it is to eat it raw and whatever, I didn't really listen and neither did the rest of us.

A few hours later, we all went to our rooms to be fit for tomorrow, since the Avengers decided to train me. They wanted to see what I can do, but I wasn't overly thrilled to get beaten up by these super soldiers.