Tsunami (Avengers Fanfic)

Chapter 13

As Steve and Bella is walking to his apartment Kate, Steve's neighbor, talking on the phone as she goes to do her laundry. "That's so sweet. That is so nice. Hey. I gotta go, though. Okay, bye." She ends the call before turning to Steve and Bella. "My aunt, she's kind of an insomniac." Steve and Bella smiles at her. "Yeah."

"Hey, if you want...if you want, you're welcome to use my machine. Might be cheaper than the one in the basement." Steve says.

"Oh, yeah? What's it cost?" Kate asks.

"A cup of coffee?" Bella suggests for them, trying to do what Natasha has been doing and setting him up with someone.

"Thank you, but um...I already have a load in downstairs, and, uh...you really don't want my scrubs in your machine. I'm just finished orientation in the infectious diseases ward, so." Kate says.

"Ah, well, I'll keep my distance." Steve says.

"Well hopefully not too far." Kate says and Steve nods and turns to go into his apartment. "Oh, and I think you left your stereo on." Kate says turning back to them.

"Oh. Right, thank you." Steve says.

"Yeah." Steve and Bella watch her go down the stairs before sharing a glance and turn in suspicion to his door. Steve hears music as he cautiously enters his apartment though the window with Bella, he grabs his shield for protection and Bella gathers some water from the air. They turn the corner of a bookshelf and find Fury sitting on Steve's couch in the dark.

"I don't remember giving you a key." Steve says.

"You really think I'd need one? My wife kicked me out." Fury says.

"Didn't know you were married." Bella says.

"A lot of things you don't about me." Fury says.

"I know, Nick. That's the problem." Steve says and as Steve turns on the light he notices Fury's injuries for the first time, but Fury indicates for him to be silent, he turns off the light and writes something on his phone and shows it to Steve and Bella. 'Ears everywhere' the phone reads.

"I'm sorry to have to do this, but I had no place else to crash." He writes another text and shows it to Steve and Bella 'SHIELD compromised'

"Who else knows about your wife?" Fury shows them another text 'You two and me.'

"Just...my friends." Fury says.

"Is that what we are?" Bella asks.

"That's up to you two." Suddenly Fury is shot three times from through the wall and collapses, Steve looks out the window for the shooter then he quickly drags Fury to the next room, before he leaves Fury hands him the flash drive "Don't...trust anyone." Fury passes out. Steve hears someone breaking into his apartment and hears his neighbor calling out to him.

"Captain Rogers?" Bella and Steve hear Kate call out. They see her walking in with her gun pointed at the ground. "Captain, I'm Agent 13 of SHIELD Special Service." She states.

"Kate?" Steve and Bella asks at the same time.

"I'm assigned to protect you." Agent 13 says to them.

"On whose order?" Steve asks. Agent 13 notices Fury lying injured on the ground.

"His." She goes to Fury then contacts SHIELD through her radio. "Foxtrot is down, he's unresponsive. I need EMTs." She says into the radio.

"Do you have a twenty on the shooter?" Steve notices the shooter though the window and pulls Bella up.

"Tell him we're in pursuit." Steve smashes through his window and runs after the assassin with Bella. They chase him through an office building smashing through the walls, when they finally catch up with him on the roof Steve throws his shield at the assassin, but he catches it with one swift move, then throws it back to Steve and then jumps down the building and disappears.

Steve and Bella goes to the hospital and they watch doctors operating on Fury. Natasha eventually meets them there. "Is he gonna make it?" She asks worriedly.

"I don't know." Steve says.

"Tell me about the shooter." Natasha says.

"He's fast and strong. Had a metal arm." Bella says. Just then Agent Hill also joins them.

"Ballistics?" Natasha asks her.

"Three slugs, no rifling. Completely untraceable." Hill responds to Natasha's question.

"Soviet-made." Natasha states.

"Yeah." Suddenly they watch in shock as Fury's state deteriorates.

"He's in V-tach." A male nurse states.

"Crash cart coming in." A female nurse says.

"Nurse, help me with the drape." The Doctor demands to one of the nurses.

"BP is dropping." The male nurse states.

"Defibrillator!" The doctor exclaims. Steve, Bella, Natasha and Hill watch in shock as Fury is flatlining. "I want you to charge him at one hundred." The doctor says to the nurse that has the defibrillator.

"Don't do this to me, Nick." Natasha says putting her hand on the glass.

"Stand back! Three, two, one. Clear!" The doctor shouts. Fury is given a shock with the defibrillator, and he jerks up. "Pulse?"

"No pulse." A nurse says.

"No pulse." The one with the defibrillator says.

"Okay. 200, please. Stand back! Three, two, one. Clear!" The doctor says. Fury is given another shock abd he jerks. "Give me epinephrine! Pulse?"

"Negative." The male nurse says.

"Don't do this to me, Nick. Don't do this to me." Natasha says. The four watch the doctors as they continue to revive Fury, but Fury is still showing as flatlining, Steve turns away as they finally call his time of death.

"What's the time?" The doctor asks.

"1:03, Doctor." The female nurse says.

"Time of death, 1:03 a.m." the doctor states. Steve looks down at the flash drive Fury had given him. Natasha, Bella, and Steve are in a room where Fury's dead body has been laid out, Natasha is looking at Fury's body with tears running down her face, Hill joins them.

"I need to take him." Steve goes over to Natasha.

"Natasha." Steve says. She doesn't respond, instead she tenderly touches Fury's head then turns and walks out, Steve and Bella follow her. "Natasha!"

"Why was Fury in your apartment?" Natasha asks Steve.

"We don't know." Steve says. They are interrupted by Rumlow.

"Cap, Tsunami, they want you back at SHIELD." Rumlow tells them.

"Yeah, give us a second." Bella says.

"They want you now." Rumlow insists.

"Okay." Steve says and turns to Natasha.

"You're a terrible liar." She turns and walks off after she tells than that.