Split Personality

Chapter Seventeen

Tony's POV

James and I were sitting on the couch as Steve slept in the bed. We occasionally heard him whine from the back of the room. I got my phone out of my pocket and unlocked it. I got two messages from Natasha, "You two can either stay in the room or you can go into another room to sleep. T'Challa is willing to show you both to another room." I laughed a bit before reading the second one, "Nevermind, everyone recommends that you both stay in there, if he wakes up he will need someone or someones to calm him down. Sorry." I sighed and placed my phone down on the couch. James gave me a confused look, "Everything ok?" I slowly nodded.

I slouched down further into the couch, "Everything is ok but the problem is, no one knows what is going on or where we should be. They suggested we go to another room then did a full 180 and said we should stay. So it is whatever we want to do at this point." James groaned as he laid down, "Let's stay here, it would be better for us to stay just in case something happens." I turned around to look at Steve, he was slowly moving around, slowly breathing and muttering something to himself. My phone vibrated which startled James and I.

Picking it up I saw that Clint texted me. "You two need to get back down to the lab, we have a problem!" I dropped my phone into my lap, James tilted his head at me. "What is wrong?" I stood up and picked my phone back up from, now the floor, and placed it back in my pocket. "We have to go back to Shuri's lab." He stood up fast before looking behind me at Steve, "Well what are we going to do about him? We can't just leave him alone like this, Something might happen." I bit my bottom lip, before walking around the couch to face Steve. James joined me and leaned on the couch back.

"We are both needed." I crossed my arms, "Clint made it look important so we have to go. Maybe a few of T'Challa's guards will watch over him." He nodded and walked over to the end of the bed to check on Steve. "I feel bad for him..." he said. My phone vibrated again, pulling it out, I saw another text from Clint. "STARK! GET DOWN HERE!" I quickly and quietly ran over to James, "How about we get going before Clint rips out heads off." He sighed, before rubbing Steve's leg, "We will be back don't worry buddy." I started to walk to the door with James at my heel.

*Time Skip*

We both finally reached the doors of the lab before they opened showing Clint on the other side with Nat behind him. "OH GOD! NOW YOU BOTH SHOW UP!" He yelled. Nat hit him upside the head, "Don't be a jerk" She turned her attention to us, "We have a problem. Come on." She waved at us to follow her. Clint gave us a death look and James retaliated by sticking his tongue out at him causing me to laugh. Shuri and T'Challa had concerned looks on their faces when they looked at us. "Stark, Barnes, we have a slight problem..." We both stopped in our tracks before the air in our lungs got ripped out. "Ok so what happened." I asked. Shuri picked up her tablet and handed it to me.

James looked over my shoulder to see what is hopefully Steve's brain. "He is..." She turned around to face her brother before looking back at me, "He is too far gone. We compared it to Barnes' brain scan from when he was controlled." She swiped left to show James' brain scan. "He had some hold on his old self which helped us bring him back but for Steve." She swiped back to his, "He has no hold which is odd since he seems like his normal self. So there is no easy way to bring him back" James and I looked at one another before I handed the table back to her and ran off to Steve's room.

We heard everyone else run after us and yelling for us to come back. We finally reached his room to find the door open and the guards on the ground, unconscious. James ran into the room to look around, "He is not here." I clenched my fist trying my best not to punch the wall. James walked over to me, "If you need to punch something, punch me I can take it." I growled a bit before I hit his arm, "Where the hell did he go!?!?" I screamed. Sam, Nat and Clint helped the guards up and over to the infirmary. We don't know, you guys have to go find him, we will join you later!" Sam yelled down the hall. T'Challa placed his hand on my shoulder and nodded. We both ran out of the castle hoping to find him but he wasn't anyway in sight. James grabbed my arm, "Stark," I looked over to him. "What?" He pointed out in front of him with his free arm, "The quinjet is gone..." I felt anger build up in my chest.

I growled before running to where the quinjet used to be, "He took the quinjet! He actually took the quinjet! Hydra made him take the quinjet!" I ran my hands through my hair, trying my best not to scream again. I turned around to see that James didn't move from his original spot, "Ok, ok, ok, ok. OK! I can calm down. I am ok." James walked closer to me and grabbed my hand, "Tony, it is going to be ok, don't worry. We will find him ok." I felt tears sting the back of my eyes before he pulled me into a hug, "Everything will be ok. Ok?" I buried my head further into his chest before nodding.

We stood outside for about five minutes before the others came out. "Where is the quinjet?" Sam asked. We pulled away startled at the sudden voice. They all looked at us with confused faces, "So where is the quinjet." Sam asked again. I whipped a few tears from my face, "Umm," Quickly turning around, "It is umm..." I got startled when James placed my shoulder, "He took the quinjet. Steve took the quinjet to who knows where. Tony got a little frustrated over it." T'Challa moved into my line of sight, he was wearing his uniform which was a little concerning, "Well we will have to track him down if we want to make sure he is safe." I was about to chime in but he cut me off, "I have a way to find him. My sister and I placed a tracking device in his neck so it would be easier to find him if he runs away."

I rubbed the back of my neck after he said that, "But why? You had no idea if he would run away." James laughed, "Oh no, he did." Shuri pushed Nat and Clint aside and faced me, "James ran away three days after he was frozen and then after another month he disappeared once again. We had a little suspicion that Steve would do the same thing." She then handed me the tablet which had a map along with a glowing, blinking, red dot that slowly moved. I looked over to T'Challa, "We can lend you the jet if you would like to take it or you can have us join you." I nodded my head before looking back down, "Might as well join us, it is your jet." He nodded and walked over to the doors of the castle.

"Well we should get going I guess." Nat turned on her heels and followed T'Challa inside. Clint and Sam looked at one another before shrugging and following Nat. Rhodey looked at both of us, "You two coming or are you guys going to make out on the concrete?" James and I took a step away from each other before following everyone else. "This is probably going to kill one of us out of frustration, fear, or stress." I whispered to James, causing him to chuckle a bit. "Let's catch up to everyone else before we get left behind." He whispered back. We picked up the pace, almost running down the hollow, empty halls of the castle towards the hanger.