S.H.I.E.L.D Is The Enemy

Where We Go

Makenna's P.O.V.

      When I wake up there are bags at the bottom of my bed. Steve is sitting by them waiting for me to wake up. I smile at the thought. I sit up and tap his shoulder. He turns around and sees me.
      "Hey. How are you doing? How do you feel?" I shrug and he comes over to the other side of the bed and sits down. 

      "I'm . . . tired. Sore. But, I think other wise okay. I mean I was just given some sort of drug that made me want to tear people apart. Speaking of tearing people apart, where is Stark?" I ask. 

      "It doesn't matter," he says looking at me," We're getting out of here." He looks at my eyes and his mouth drops open. 
       "Steve, what is it?" I ask, then it hits me. My eyes. I get up and go over to the mirror. I put one hand over my mouth as I see why Steve's mouth dropped. My eyes are a quarter of the way white. Why is this happening to me? Steve comes behind me and I turn around. 

      "It's going to be alright. Where we are going Stark won't be able to find us. You'll be safe, Okay?" I nod. "We should get going. Nat is waiting for us in the quinjet." He grabs two of my bags and I grab the other one. He turns and grabs my hand leading me out of my room. It takes everything in me to not blush. We get to the elevator and it opens. The only thing is . . . Lilly is in there. 
        "Hi." She says quietly. "I am so sorry." She says hugging me. I hug her back. "I just thought it was going to be a blood test and then it wasn't. I am so sorry." I drop my bag and Steve's hand and hug her back. 
       "You are my best friend, Lilly. Of course I forgive you." We hug for a minute before Steve clears her throat. "We should go." I let go of Lilly and grab my bag. 

       "I'll cover for you guys just get out of here." I wave at her before the doors close. 
       When we get to the roof I see the Quinjet. That, I was expecting to see, what I wasn't expecting to see was the rest of the Avengers except Tony and Rhodey Barry was there too. I look at Steve and he's just smiling. We get to the rest of them.
      "Wha-" 
      "We know you don't have control over yourself."Sam says," And knowing the things Stark does with power, we decided that it was time to give stark some time to think about what he's doing. And plus we don't want you to get hurt." I smile and look at them all. 
       "Thank you." 
       "Now come on," Clint says," It's a 3 hour flight and we should get going." We go into the Quinjet and I sit across from Wanda. Steve sits by me. I strap in as the bay comes up. I take a deep breathe. Here goes nothing. I close my eyes and try to fall asleep. 

NIGHTMARE~~~

     I wake up in a dark room, a single broken light, dangles above my head. I stand up. I can hear a song in the distance. I blink and then all of the sudden I am in the red room. I can hear the song more clearly now. The Itsy Bitsy Spider is playing loud and clear. But, it's not the happy version. I look in the corner and there is a little girl with pitch black hair sitting there. I touch her shoulder and she turns around. I fall on my butt when she turns around and I see that her eyes are rolled back inside her head. I back up against the wall. 

     Another little girl shows up with the same eyes. They start to whisper different things and I try to cover my ears and not listen but  it just becomes louder. More little girls show up and more things get whispered. 
     "They'll all die." 
     "All your fault."
     "You can't save them." 

      "No!" I yell," Shut up!" I stand up and push through all the little girls. I start to run until I run into something and fall back down. I look up and I see a wall and glass in front of me. I stand up and look through the glass, I see myself. Being made to do terrible things. I look beside me and see the woman who made me do them. "Why are you doing this to her? She's innocent." I say. I try to hit the glass to save the small girl who has no idea what's in store. "Stop! She's innocent!" I bang on the glass as the 13 year old version of me starts to lose control. I see the baby I'm about to kill. "Stop! No!" 
       "Do it." The lady says. 13 year old me looks at the lady before continuing. I bang on the glass some more. 
        "Don't do it!" I yell. I turn to face the woman beside me," Please you'll break her!" I yell. I start to bang at the glass again. The 13 year old me starts to sob. But she can't stop what she's doing. And then it happens, she kills the baby. I fall to the ground on my knees.

      I jolt awake and we are still in the Quinjet. Steve looks at me and smiles. i don't smile back instead I dig into my bag and grab the one thing I made sure Steve packed. My stuffed bunny. It may seem silly for a 20 year old to still have her childhood bunny, but it is the only thing that can calm me down. I put it in my lap. 
      "How long have we been in the air?" I ask. 
      "About 2 hours and 30 minutes. " He says. I nod and start to play around with my bunny. I squeeze it and feel something sharp inside of it. 
      "Ow." I say. What in the hay? 
      "What was that?" Steve asks. I shrug my shoulders. 
      "I don't know. Do you have a pocket knife on you?" Steve nods and hands it to me. I cut the back of the bunny open and look inside. To me I don't see anything. I take out some stuffing and there it is as plane as day. A micro chip and a splinter. I take the micro chip out of the bunny and hold it up. "That's why he wanted me to keep it." I say. 
        "What's on it?" Wanda asks. 
       "I have no idea." I say. "I mean he always told me to keep it close. But I didn't know why." I put the micro chip back in the bunny and stuff the bunny back in my bag before giving the pocket knife back to Steve." And I don't care. If it was left by my Father nothing good can come from it." They don't even know the whole story. They don't know who my biological Father is. And I will never tell them. 

      "Don't you want to know what it is?" Steve asks. 
      "Look the last tape that came from my Father was one telling me I'm adopted. If this video is anything like that one, I want nothing to do with it." Steve just looks at me. Add that to the list of things I haven't told him. "He didn't even have the guts to say it himself. So, I choose not to see what's on it." Honestly, I am going to look. But, I have to look at it before they have the chance. 
       "Okay," Steve says," But if you decide to look at it. We all do it. Together. As a team." As a team? Me as part of a team? I look at my shoes. 
       "Wanda," I say ," I know what you just did. And you may be able to look into my head. But I can look into yours too." She looks at me. 
       "Would you have told me any other way?" She asks. Steve looks between us. 

       "No, probably not." I can feel the plane starting to fly lower. 
      "We are landing." Nat says from the cockpit. I nod. 
       When the plane is finally touched down, the bay door opens and we all walk out. I have my three bags and Steve has his two. The safe house we flew to is a log cabin in the middle of the woods. It is over a small pond so dogs can't track us. I smile. It's so pretty. I step out of the plane further and drop my bags. Then I hit the ground on my knees. This place, I've never been anywhere like it. I hear footsteps behind me. 
     "Hey what's going on?" Steve asks. 
     "I have been all around the world." I say quietly," China, Italy, Canada. But, this place is somehow better than them all. I feel something I have never felt before ." He looks at me." I feel like I'm home. It's so strange, the feeling of belonging." I look back at the beautiful sight. How can there be so much beauty packed into such a small place? "Can I just stay here for awhile?" I ask. 

      "Yeah. I'll come out to get you later." I hear him walking away. And start to look over the beautiful sight. 
      These feelings. It's like they're all rushing at me at once. Here it's like I'm a different person. I can be anyone here. I can run through the woods and laugh and not be seen. To be free, that is what I want. 
      I stand up and take off my shoes. I leave them on the bank and wade into the water. This feeling, I can't describe it. It's like all of the broken and scattered pieces of my heart are slowly starting to piece together one at a time. And I'm happy. 
     I walk farther into the water. It's up to my knees now. I take a deep breathe diving into the water. I open my eyes, once under, and look around. It is so pretty. All of the fish and all of the plants. I swim around before I see someone jump into the water. I swim up to the surface as the person surfaces. I have the biggest smile on my face. It only gets bigger when I see that Steve was the one who jumped in. And he has no shirt on. 

    "What are you doing?" He asks.
    "I don't know." I say," I feel invincible and I am in love with this feeling. I never want it to stop." He smiles at me and swims closer. He grabs the small of my back and pulls me to him. We are close enough that our noses almost touch. My breathe stops in my throat. I have to remember how to breathe and then I look in his eyes. "Steve." I say quietly. He looks in my eyes. I smile slyly and sink under the water. He comes under and looks at me. I wave my hand at him and start to swim away. And even though I know this happiness is temporary, I can't help but hope that it lasts forever.