The Avenger's Daughters

Waiting......

When they reached stark tower, Artemis and Kee were rushed to the sick bay.  Thor and Steve gently laid the girls down and the two of them leg quietly on their beds next to each other. Kee was tossing and turning with fever. Artemis was asleep from exhaustion. Bruce inserted an IV drip in to both twins, to replenish their bodies. He then sedated both girls to make sure neither woke up during the next few hours. The rest of the avengers refused to leave the lab but stayed out of the way, gazes fixed on both girls. Bruce was working quickly on Kee, while Tony saw to Artemis.
" This is sick, Bruce, Nick broke her leg, wounded the other deeply, starved her and broke a few of her ribs. Not that mention the bruises and cuts all over," Tony mumbled in shock as he assessed Artemis, and manged to fix up everything rather quickly, leaving the girl alone when he was done.
" Tony give me a hand with Kee, she's getting worse!" Bruce yelled when Tony was finished.
The two of them gave her body the medication to get rid of the poison and sewed up the cuts along her back. They worked delicately on her neck and on the long cut on her arm. When they were finished, and Kee was hooked up to a bag of blood to replenish all she'd lost, the two finally sat down, weary and troubled.
" I'll get some blankets, I reckon we are all going to have a long night," Murmured Steve as he got up and stretched.
The others nodded in thanks when he returned a while later with pillows blankets, and hot coffee for all. And the night began, with the avengers staying by their adopted daughters, all of them were their parents now, not just Bruce. They all loved these girls like their own.

In the morning, everyone was asleep in their chairs near the beds, Bruce had an arm flung over Artemis's leg as he slept, since he'd been checking her leg wound when her fallen asleep.
" Daddy?" Croaked Artemis quietly.
Bruce and Steve both woke up, since they were closest to her.
" Yeah Arty, what is it you need darling," Bruce asked hurriedly, a smile on his face at the sight of her beaming  at him.
" I'm hungry," She murmured longingly.
Bruce chuckled quietly, along with Steve who ruffled Artemis's hair.
" That's our girl, back to normal already. I'll make you your favourite pancakes with chocolate chips," Steve decided, a smile on his face as he left the room quietly.
Artemis smiled slightly, but her once lively eyes were shadowed with grief and a knowledge of cruelty that she hadn't had previously.
" Yummy," she mumbled as she drifted back to sleep for another half an hour.
When she awoke again to the smell of fresh pancakes she sat up with a wince, holding the plate in shaky hands.
" They smell amazing," She sighed, thanking Steve profusely.
She took a big bite of pancake and chewed happily.
" Slow down there kid, you'll make yourself sick after being starved for that week," Bruce cautioned, but in truth he was glad that she was eating to gain back her previous body mass and grow strong.
" Good girl," Murmured Steve as she slowed down.
One by one, the avengers awoke to the delicious smell also and were given their own plates of pancakes by a very amused Steve. Once everyone was eating, Clint dared to ask they question on everyone's minds.
" Artemis, if you don't mind telling us, what happened there, in that prison?" He asked cautiously.
Artemis swallowed her last bite of pancake hard, a scarred look on her face as she remembers the terror she'd felt.
" The, the man, Fury, kept Kee and I in cells like dog crates, we were separated but if we were good they'd let us eat our one meal together. The bars of the cell were electrified, and so was the floor, so if you were bad, then zap. He liked to zap Kee especially," Artemis retold, with a glance at the still unconscious Kee, who lay still, now her fever had broke.
" Go on," Urged Steve encouragingly.
" I, I was so afraid, crying every moment they left us alone in our cages. They kept us in pure darkness so we didn't figure out an escape. Then every day we'd be forced to fight terrible monsters, or highly trained agents with our powers so they could test our strength. But if we didn't fight, we died, they weren't playing with us, they had weapons and meant to kill us. Every day we'd be shoved back in our cages, battered and beaten until Fury questioned us. If we answered then he'd feed us another meal. We never answered, he wasn't to be trusted. Both of us we're so hungry, with only stale bread to eat, and a tiny glass of water to drink twice a day. I was so hungry, without the usual amount of three meals plus snacks a day that got all dizzy before a fight and barely won. Kee was worried it would happen again so she gave me three quarters of her meal every day so I was stronger. She was bitten by a terrible dragon thing with heaps of heads and got poisoned so she was sick when you guys found us, she got bitten saving me because I got dizzy from hunger again. Even though she was so weak from giving me food, she was always stronger in battle, so she didn't care that she was going more hungry, she just stayed awake praying and hoping each night that you'd come until you did. She really got on Fury's nerves," Artemis retold, and finally finished, looking and scared again.
" I'm going to kill Fury!" Bruce snarled.
The rest of the avengers looked like they agreed until someone spoke up.
" No, it wasn't his fault, he was being mind controlled by someone other than Loki," whispered a hoarse voice.
Kee was staring at them, and had overheard the last part of the conversation through her haze of pain.
" Kee!" Everyone shouted happily, and rushed over to see if she was okay.
They tried to feed her pancakes but she couldn't keep them down and ended up just laying there listening to them blab about how safe she was now and asking her about why she thought Fury was being controlled.
" His eyes were tinted red," She murmured in reply, telling them that that was why she'd thought he was being controlled and told them about his jerky movements.
She then fell asleep again form exhaustion , and Bruce managed to put a special liquid in her drip to satisfy her body's food needs without her having to eat since she couldn't keep it down.