Family will Save You

Chapter 16

Percy Stark

The first thing I was aware of was pain. Complete and utter pain through my whole body. If I had a dollar for every time I woke up only aware of pain I would have a stupid amount of money.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw I was still strapped to the table from earlier. No one else was in the room but I could hear the loud sound of a heart monitor.

"Friday, can you please tell someone I'm awake?"

"Right away sir."

I just sat there for a few minutes. My mind was blank, I didn't want to think of anything I had done. I didn't want to think of any of the people I had hurt.

Soon enough Dad and Steve came into my room. "How ya feeling bud?"

"Oh just great. Just like I strolled through Hell and stopped for a couple hundred knuckle sandwiches on the way home." My voice was quiet but filled with pain.

"Well at least we know none of that damaged your beautiful personality." Dad said with a smirk. "On a more serious not we have some news."

I had no idea what he was about to say, but I didn't want to have to wait. "What is it?"

"We think, now remember it may not work, but we think we know a way to get hydra out of your brain."

We were all silent for a solid minute and a half. I was frozen on shock.

"How?" I finally asked.

"Charles Xavier." Steve told me, "He is a tellapath and we believe he can help get rid of everything HYDRA did to you. And he has agreed to try."

I twisted my hands nervously. They were still restrained, but I was okay with that. I felt safer in them. I felt like I was lass of a danger to those I care about.

Of course I knew if I lost control, destroyer would rip the restraints off in seconds. But it was still comforting.

"When will I go?" While I wasn't eager to leave my family, especially since I just got back, I wanted HYDRA out of my brain as soon as possible.

"Once you get healed." Dad told me. I nodded faintly and leaned my head back. "Let me take your restraints off"

I shook my head slightly. "I'm to dangerous."

He sighed. "No your not. We know what to do if you loose control, but I doubt you will. Not now at least."

I finalized agreed and allowed him to take the cuffs off my hands and feet. I rubbed my left wrist slightly as I sat up. I was still in a lot of pain, but there wasn't much I could do about that.

"Can I have some water?" Dad stood up and grabbed me a glass.

I removed the water from the glass and pressed it against my wounds. The pain faded and some of the cuts went away. Dad and Steve stared in aw, and I just smirked.

The three of us went down to the living room with the rest of the team. I stayed close to Dad and Steve, I was nervous about how the others would react around me.

I sat on a couch next to Dad and Steve sat in a chair near by. I didn't say much in the conversations, only talking when someone spoke directly toward me.

Steve had been quite for a while when he turned to me. No one was talking and I had no idea what he was about to say.

"What was he like. How did he act around you?" I didn't have to think very hard to know he was talking about Winter. What I didn't know is why he cares.

"He was protective. He would try and keep me out of danger, but he said I attracted it like a magnet." Steve smiled at that for some reason.

"Did he talk to you a lot?"

"When he had stuff to say." I laughed slightly. "We were partners but he was also my guard. He was the only one who could stop me when I lost control, and I got attacked once. He was there to make sure no one got hurt.

"Sometimes we would just sit there in silence for hours. But it was never awkward. It's like we would know exactly what the other was thinking and speaking was special. When we were on missions it would sometimes be dangerous to talk so we learned to communicate without words." I paused for a moment. "So yeah he would talk but not unless it was really important."

I wasn't really paying attention to anyone around me, I was lost in thought thinking about the man I saw as a brother.

"Percy," Dad snapped me out of my daze.

"Sorry what?"

"Steve asked what he called you. Since you didn't know your name."

"Oh. Well when he was just talking to me he called me kid. If there were other agents around he would call me destroyer, but he called me kid. Even when we learned my name, I was still kid."

We were silent for a minute. "Why do you want to know so much about him?"

"Because," Steve said, "I knew him. A long time ago, before I was Captain America, we were just two kids from Brooklyn. He was my family when I had no one else. I want to know if it's still him, or if my brother is gone."

I was shocked. Not that Winter was alive in the 40's. I knew that hydra could put us in cyro freez for decades and we wouldn't age a day. What surprised me is that he knew Steve. What are the odds that the two men kidnapped by HYDRA and turned into super soldiers would both know Steve Rogers personally.

"Don't worry. If he was there for you when no one else was, if he was a light in your dark world, then at least part of him is still alive." And with that I got up and left. I went to my room, I wanted to be alone. I wanted to be away from the questions and worried glances. They may be my family, and they may still love me, but we all know I'm different now. Now there is only one person who knows all about me. And I barley know anything about him.

Hey y'all!!! I just wanted to let you know that I'm starting school on Wednesday so my updates will be less frequent. I will update whenever I can but it won't be as often as it has been recently.

Now a question.
Would you be interested in a Loki x reader story? Might do an oc instead of reader

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