The Hybrid Mix(Avengers Fan/Fic)

Chapter 19-Battle Scars

Sheba's POV
Today is the day, It's all that went through my head. After my late night talk with Clint, since I woke up I've been thinking about what he said and how I should show my scars to everyone. Even though they'll look at me with pity but I'll be able to get it over with.

  6:30 a.m I was eating a fruit salad with a cup of orange juice. It was a balanced meal and would keep me fueled for training with Clint and Natasha. Once done with breakfast, I changed into my black sports bra and pink/grey sports pants, pulled my hair back and put my jacket on.

  Walking into the elevator and waiting for the doors to open, I became more and more nervous each time a floor passed. My mind started to fill itself with 'what ifs', but when the doors open and I see Clint all those 'what ifs' leave my mind.

  "Hey Clint. Where's Nat?" He turns and frowns at me, probably by the jacket.

  "Nat is a bit behind but why are you wearing a jacket?" I just walk over to the bench and sit down, he does the same.

  "I'm going to wait until Nat get heres. I'll show her when she gets here."

  "Until who gets here?" I turn to the door and see Natasha who was walking towards us and all of a sudden all the 'what ifs' came back to me and I just didn't want to tell her anymore.

  "No one." I said immediately which made Clint frown at me.

  "Actually Nat, red wants to tell you something." He then looks at me. "Right Sheba?" I look at Nat, who's waiting for me and then back at Clint. I knew that if I said I'm not ready then I'll never be ready.

  Taking a deep breath, I took off my jacket leaving me once again in a sports bra. I could feel Natasha and Clint both looking at the scars and burns. It doesn't matter if bird brain had already seen the marks I knew he is still shock by the sight but Natasha was who I was worried about.

  Turing around Natasha was gone and it was just me and Clint. "Where's Nat?"

  "She went to go get the others." I closed my eyes nothing that at any minute the other avengers would come and see my marks but I was mostly worried about Tony and Steve. Tony cause I'm like his daughter and Steve cause he cares so deeply for me.

  "Hey it'll be ok." Clint ruined my arm to try and comfort me but it didn't work.It just made me even more nervous about everyone seeing my marks.

  I hear the door open followed by footsteps. My eyes were still closed but I knew they were all staring at my back, at my battle scars. There were some footsteps coming towards me but my eyes were still closed, my red hair fell beside my face, making it hard for the others to see my eyes closed.

  Someone put their hand on my should but I kept my head looking at the floor keeping my eyes closed shut. I didn't want to see any of their faces, not wanting to see the pity that they give me. Someone left the room and someone else followed that person,  tears silently fell down my checks.I can't take this, Not being able to stand how they all most be looking at me I teleported myself to the roof.

  Pulling my knees to my chest and having my head rest on my knees I started to cry silently. I believed that I could handle showing them but clearly not, clearly I'm not strong enough.

I will never be strong.

Tony's POV
Natasha had called us all to the training room. I personally didn't want to go but once she said it had something to do with Sheby, I had put everything down to see what the red head was talking about.

  In the elevator was Steve and Bruce, all that was left was Thor. The door opens and all three of us walk out and go into he training room. Inside was Natasha, Clint,and Sheby, but she was looking at the floor and her red hair was down blocking us from her face but what caught mine attention was her back.

  There was a huge and long scar that went form her left shoulder to her hip and on her spine was a long burn. All over her back there were other scars but none as big as the scar on her shoulder and the burn down her spine.

  Beside me I could hear Bruce talking to himself before leaving the room with Natasha following him. Me and Steve walked closer to Sheby but I was the one to touch her on the shoulder, hoping that she would look up at me with her grey eyes but she did't. All Sheby did was keep looking down at the floor and through her hair I could see that she had her eyes closed.

  A purple mist formed itself around Sheby and then she disappeared. We all looked around the training room to see if she landed somewhere inside but she wasn't inside the training room and I began to panic a bit.

  "JARVIS scan the whole tower see if you can find Sheba." It was silent for a bit an I was worried for Sheby since that mist never appeared before.

  "Sir," JARVIS's British voice cut through my thoughts. "Sheba seems to be on the roof." I let out a sigh of relief.

  "Come on guys lets go help Sheby out." Steve and Clint nodded and all three of us walked out to find Natasha talking with Bruce who seemed to calm down a bit. "Come you two, Sheby teleported out of the training room and onto the roof." They both nodded and we all entered the elevator.

Sheba's POV
They're coming, Somehow I knew that my friends were coming up the elevator to come and comfort me. Maybe it was one of the gems but that didn't matter at the time. What mattered was getting something to cover my back.

I thought about a jacket and a purple mist came and left leaving behind a jacket. Not questioning how I was able to do that, I put on the jacket and look out at the city once more. It was still early in the morning but there was already traffic and people yelling at one another.

  The sound of footsteps behind me made me know that they were here on the roof behind me. I didn't want to look at them so I just kept my gaze out on the city. On both sides of me two people sat down, I knew for a fact that it was Steve and Tony. Then the others sat beside them but I kept my gaze focused on the waking city.

  "You want to talk about?" Tony asked to the right of my but I shook my head. "Ok, but we'll always be here for you just remember that." I put my head on his shoulder and he just started to pet my hair.

  It hit me there, these people are my family and even though their not my blood family their my real family. They care for me so deep that even I didn't see how deep it really goes. Many times before, I've told myself that they are my family but up till now I truly believe it. Up till now, I truly see how each and everyone of them care for me and show it in different ways. I'm not alone or weak, these people made me stronger believing that I can when I believed that I couldn't.

  These people made me stronger than I ever imagined.