Is It Love? (Captain America)

Ch 3: Will You Help Us?

Zaliya POV

"Is she awake?" a male voice asks to the side of me. 

"She should be awake soon," a female voice answers from the other side of me. 

"Call Fury, he'll want to be here when she wakes," says the first voice. At that name, my eyes shoot open and I sit up with a start. The man next to me yelps and backs away in surprise and the woman reaches behind her in fear. As I try to get up I see that they have secured my arms and legs to the bed with chains. 

I look at the man who's trembling beside me, "There's no need to be afraid sir, I won't hurt you, but could you please unchain me?" I calmly ask him. 

He appears to calm down at those words and shakes his head, "I'm sorry Ms. Pinewood but Director Fury forbade it." 

I narrow my eyes at him, "Does Director Fury happen to have an eyepatch?" I ask in a snarl. He blinks my tone and nods his head, his hands starting to quiver again. This man needs to grow some balls, otherwise, he's going to wet his pants. I turn to the woman instead, she's glaring at me with her gun in her hand, "I haven't had food for quite some time, I would love a bagel if you have any." 

She laughs at that, "You're chained to a bed yet you want a bagel? I've heard a lot about you, but a sense of humor was not one of them." 

I chuckle and smile at her, "Well that means you guys don't know quite everything about me yet." 

She tilts her head at me, "I guess we don't. I'm Agent Maria Hill, but call me Maria." She stretches out a hand. I flick my wrist and snap the metal chain, letting it fall to the floor with a snap. I reach my hand out and warmly shake her hand. 

"Pleasure to meet you, Maria, call me Zaliya," I say with a smile. 

She looks at my freed wrist in surprise and opens her mouth but is interrupted by a group of people barging through the door. "Who let Ms. Pinewood out of her restraints?" a man, I'm assuming Director Fury, demands. 

I raise my freed hand, "I did," I reply with a small smirk on my face. "They're quite uncomfortable and absolutely unnecessary." With that, I snap the rest of the restraints of my feet and wrist. Ignoring the shocked stares I stretch out my feet and hands and walk over to the Director and the two gentlemen and a woman behind him. 

Fury barely blinks an eye at me, "Welcome to Shield Ms. Pinewood," he greets, "I'm Director Fury." 

I extend my hand, "Pleasure meeting you again Director." 

He laughs, "I'm sorry about that, we desperatly needed your help." 

I grin and motion toward the three people behind him, "Care to introduce us?" 

The red haired woman, dressed in a full black bodysuit steps forward, "Agent Natasha Romanoff," she greets with a firm handshake and a small smile. 

"Pleasure Natasha," I smile back at her. Her personality and attitude remind me of myself when I was younger. 

The shorter brown haired man steps forward, interrupting my thoughts, "I'm Dr. Bruce Banner." 

"I've heard of you Doctor, it's a honor to meet you. Your books on gamma radiation are very intriging," I say as I give his a hand a quick shake. 

"I wouldn't pin you as the person to read my books Ms. Pinewood," Bruce says surprised. 

I laugh, "Like I told Agent Hill, there are a lot of things you don't know about me." 

"I'm sure there are, and hopefully we can learn some of those things." 

I smile at him and turn my attention to the last man. When I first look at his face my breath leaves me. His golden skin sparkles at me and his body is built and toned, but his eyes are what capture my interest. They sparkle with kindness and purity, traits that not many people have these days. He steps forward and extends his hand, "Pleasure to meet you Ms. Pinewood, Captain Steve Rogers at your service." 

I blink at his politness slightly thrown off, "Quite the polite gentleman are we?" I chuckle as I shake his hand, "But please, call me Zaliya." 

"Then you must call me Steve," he replies with a small smile. We stare at each other for a couple seconds before we're startled by Fury clapping his hands. 

"Sorry to make the introductions short but we need to debrief you on the current situation," Fury says to me. I look away from Steve and nod my head giving my go ahead. "Follow me Ms. Zaliya." 

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"So you want my help to find the location of the tesseract and to fight the army you believe the bad guy, whose name you won't tell me, is building?" I ask, running my fingers through my curly hair, slightly stressed after all the information they just unleashed on me. 

"That's correct, now will you help us save the world?" Fury asks.

"Would I still be sitting here if my answer was no?" 

The question of the chapter: Where do you think Zaliya's first place of action will be? 

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