Like You ✦ {Bucky Barnes}

Chapter Eighteen: Old Friend

A/N: Hey guys! So the winner of the contest is , for guessing the closest answer! Congratulations on winning!

Time for the big reveal, like I promised you all. So I will be turning 15 years old on May 19th this year!

Anyway, enjoy chapter eighteen. Sorry if it's a little short, but I promise that the next chapter will be long. See you guys later!

- Harper E. Pierce

Dani woke up in lab's bed, feeling drained as all could be. No one was in the room when she woke up, but FRIDAY alerted the Avengers of her status, so they were quick to arrive. Bucky ran up and hugged her tightly, being careful of hurting her. Dani tried to hug him back, but she yelped and quickly pulled her hands away as she went to put her left arm around him. He yanked his hands away.

"Are you okay?!" He asked her frantically.

"Yes, I'm fine,"

"No, you're not." Bruce said from the back. Tony turned to look at the scientist. "I examined her, there's a bullet still inside of her."

"Okay, so how do we get it out?"

"Someone with really steady hands has to do it,"

"I'll do it myself. I'll just use my metal manipulation,"

"That's not the best idea. One wrong move, and you could die. And it'll be very painful to do it. We can't put you on anesthesia, you're drained. The reason why you didn't die right there, was because that bullet didn't pierce the organ, it skimmed it."

"I can do it," Loki volunteered.

"No way in hell am I letting you touch me," Dani scowled at him. The god rolled his eyes.

"Agreed." Tony added.

"Okay, who else can do it?"

"Me." Vision said. "I've known Miss Stark for years, and if my calculations correct, the bullet should have skimmed the side of that organ."

"Whatever, just don't make me have to murder you," Tony threatened him, leaving the room with the rest of the team.

"Please, take your shirt off, I don't the wound to be blocked by you keeping your shirt just lifted." Vision asked her, very directly. He wasn't awkward, thank god, until when she took her shirt off, and he saw something else. "Miss Stark, what are those on your neck?" He motioned to the dark purple, very circular shaped bruises on her neck and chest, that were clearly not from getting hurt. Shit, busted.

"They're just from our mission. I have the same bruises on my legs." She lied. Vision looked at her suspiciously, but carried on with his job.

He could see the bullet and so he grabbed the bullet remover. "Be warned that this will hurt." He said, before beginning to fish out the bullet. Dani felt an immediate pain, she clenched her teeth and rolled her fists in balls. Vision finally got a hold of the bullet and gently began pulling at it, although it didn't feel like it to Dani, until it was finally out. He bandaged the wound up, and then let her go on her way.

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About a week later, her bullet wound was completely healed, she was training every day again, making reports about the mission and what happened on it. She was just doing work on the couch on her floor, when FRIDAY spoke.

"Danielle, a visitor is here to see you." The A.I told her.

"Identity?" She asked, not bothering to look up from her laptop.

"Unknown, Miss Stark."

"Strange. Send her up,"

"I must tell Mr. Stark of this as well, Miss Stark. You need to be protected."