The Spy

Chapter 16- Old Memories

~Peter's POV~

I paced around the waiting room, muttering random words. 

"Peter! She'll be ok! Shuri is an excellent doctor!" T'challa said trying to release some of my anxiety. 

"No! You don't understand! I saw a part of her rib cage! She has open wounds ALL OVER HER BODY!"

"Peter! Just... calm-" Bucky tried to say.

"NO! DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! SHE COULD DIE ANY SEC-"

We all heard the surgery door open and turned our attention to Shuri. She walked in with no emotion. 

"So? How is she?" Rocket asked.

"She... is in immense pain. I don't know what they were trying to do, but it was not ethical... I had to give her four shots just to numb the pain. Her abdomen is completely raw. All you can see on her left arm is open and exposed tissue. Her other arm is... in worse shape... you can see part of her bone. There are only two spots on her right leg that are raw and exposed, but her left ankle and foot are... demolished. Again, I have no idea what they were doing, but part of her neck is exposed as well. As for her face... you'll just have to see when you come in. She will be ok, but she is resting. She is healing very fast!"

"Were they trying to eat her? Or?" Sam asked confused.

"No. They found more..." I said leaving the room. I walked into her room and found a wall of pictures with me, Rocket, and even Tony. I fell on my knees and began to sob. 

"How could I let this happen?!" I asked myself.

"Hey..." I turned around to see Rocket at the door. "I thought I'd find you in here..." He sat down next to me and saw a picture of him and her. He took it off the wall and looked at the details of it. 

"This was the day we were working on the time machine... also the day we left! You know... when we were trying to convince Thor to help us, she mentioned you. She said... 'Can you please help me get the love of my life back?!' Man she had spunk!"

I laughed a little wiping my tears. I missed her so much. And I was scared! She was the love of MY life! I couldn't lose her! I picked a picture of us back from when we were in school together. 

"I remember the day she told me she had powers. I was... amazed but... mad. I didn't want her to get hurt! But... look where we are now." I said with even more tears falling down.

"If there is one thing about Y/n that everyone knows, it's that she is strong! She's going to be ok!" Rocket convinced me. 

"You're right. I guess I just... fe-"

"Peter! Are you bleeding?!"

"What?" I looked at my hand and stomach and saw blood on me. "No. That's Y/n's."

"Oh my god... what more did they want from her?!"

"She's an Inhuman. Everything about her is... different. She has a power that others don't understand. She's crazy isn't she?"

"Yeah! We should get her something! You know, for when she wakes up!"

"That's a good idea! I know exactly what we should get!"

We walked into town finding all of her favorites. I even got the Chinese food we had when we first met. And the mint chocolate ice cream. I even took a jar of sand from the pier we went to for our first official date. Rocket got her favorite flowers, a stuffed raccoon, and some balloons. We got back after about 2 hours, and she was still asleep. 

"Any news?" I asked the others in the room.

"No nothing. Shuri says she should wake up any minute though."

"Perfect!" I said sitting down with all the presents. 

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Forty minutes had passed. I set the food in a food warmer, and the ice cream in the freezer. Everyone was silent. We all wanted her to wake up desperately. Shuri was still in the room making sure her vitals were normal. 

Another thirty minutes went by before she finally woke up. Shuri walked out and announced the good news to everyone. 

We all raced to the door, but when we finally got through, we all walked very slowly towards her. 

~Y/n's POV~

"Hey, guys..." I said extremely quietly. I had stitches going across my face, going down from my chest to my belly button, all around both of my arms, both of my palms, small ones on my left leg, and some on my ankle and foot. 

"Y/n..." Rocket ran over to me trying to give me a hug from the height he was at. "Don't ever do that to me again!"

"Never again."

Peter and the others walked over next and gave me a hug all at once. Everyone was crying... 

"Shuri?" I asked her.

"Yes? Does anything hurt? Are you ok?"

"Yes! I'm fine! I just want to say... Thank you. For everything! You've done so much and I don't know what I would do without you!"

"Of course!"

"Actually, we should probably go now. I have a kingdom to take care of after all!" T'challa said.

"Of course! Thank you both again!"

"So Y/n. Do you... remember the pain?" Sam asked me.

"Do I remember the pain?! Of course, I do! I remember all of it!"

"We are so sorry! We're sorry for not listening to you earlier! We should have trusted you right away!" Sam said apologetically.

"Guys! It's alright! I know how hard it is to not trust doctors! I used to be like that!"

"And we're sorry for not coming sooner!" Peter apologized.

"Guys! Believe me! It's ok. You didn't know better!"

"But we wouldn't be in this situation if we had just listened to you!" Bucky said.

"True. But it's in the past. We shouldn't be stuck on that. Focus on the future. You guys should really get some rest! Shuri told me you guys haven't slept at all."

Sam, Bucky, Strange and Peter left to go sleep for the rest of the night.

"Rocket, why aren't you leaving? Aren't you tired?"

"Not until you tell me what happened. 'Focus on the future'? What happened? And I want the truth!"

"Nothing happened," I said putting my head on the pillow.

"Clearly something happened. Was it before, after, or during the experiments?"

"I told you! Nothing happened. Now please go. I would like to be alone."

Rocket's ears perked down as he walked away. He took one more look at my scared and damaged face before he closed the door behind him. 

Once he was gone, I began to cry about what Luca and Thanos said. I didn't want to kill anyone. But I didn't know how to let go of my past... it felt like I was stuck in a pit. I didn't know what to do or where to go. I didn't even know what my options were. Oh, wait! I had options! I just didn't like any of those! It was either forget about my past but continue to get hunted by my parents, choose a new identity, or become a murderer...

"Lincoln... I really wish you were still here..."