Living With Captain America/ [2]( COMPLETED)

Chapter 22

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Ella flinched as she opened her eyes, the edges of her vision still blurry. Her hand went to her head trying to find the source of the pounding she felt. She hurt... no correction, she ached. Her back was the worst area and Ella knew without having to check there would be more than a couple of bruises there. Remembering the events in the park her hand immediately left her head and flew down to her stomach. Ella rubbed her bump soothingly checking for anything that felt abnormal. To her relief she found nothing.

She slowly stood up from the small hard cot she was lying on and looked around the room, if you could call it that, the words prison cell seemed more fitting. It was a small square room with stark stone walls and not a window in sight. There was a rusty sink in the corner with to Ella's surprise did actually work. Opposite the cot was a heavy metal door. Ella had seen enough movies and been with the avengers long enough to know it was probably heavily guarded with several locks. Not a possible escape route in sight. Natasha would tell her to go for the first person who opened the door and not to stop until he was out cold and if circumstances were different Ella would probably have contemplated the idea but she made a mental note to herself that the safety of the baby had to be first. She would do whatever she had to do in order to keep her son safe from these people.

"Well baby, time to start praying your daddy saves us soon." Ella muttered as she rested her forehead against the cold metal of the door. There was only one question she cared about right now: What did Hydra want with her?

Ella had a terrible feeling she didn't want to know.

She had a worst feeling she was about to find out.

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"Steve, have you seen Ella? I have to tell her something but I can't find her anywhere." Pepper asked as she walked into the gym and addressed the super solider who was currently pounding at the punch bag.

"She's not on our floor?" Steve asked as he grabbed a towel from the bench nearest to him.

"No, I checked with Jarvis and he said she wasn't in the building and she hasn't been back since she left this afternoon for her walk. That was 5 hours ago, Steve." Pepper explained causing Steve to stop.

"Jarvis can you run a facial scan for Ella using the cameras from the park?" Steve asked as him and Pepper walked out of the gym towards the lifts.

"Of course Captain Rogers." The AI replied.

"I knew I shouldn't have let her go out by herself." Steve muttered as he slammed his hand against the wall of the elevator in anger.

"Steve, calm down. It's probably nothing, you know Ella. She probably saw something and got sidetracked." Pepper reassured him.

Steve gave her a look, "Ella's missing and Hydra is back in America? That's hardly a coincidence."

They walked into the living room where all the other avengers were tucking into pizza. Thor was shovelling it in like a drowning man gasping for air. Tony and Clint were throwing bits of pepper at each other as Bruce watched on in amusement. Natasha was staring at Clint with a conflicted expression on her face.

Everyone stopped and looked at Steve as he entered sensing something was wrong from his tone of voice. Gone was Steve Rogers, instead their fearless leader Captain America stood before them.

"Did you just say Mini-Stark is missing?" Clint asked as he dropped his pizza back into the plate in front of him.

Steve nodded, "For the last five hours. It has to be Hydra."

"Steve, don't you think you are being a little paranoid? I mean maybe she went shopping after her walk or met a friend or something." Bruce asked gently and Pepper shot in a grateful look.