*Back at the Avengers*
"Don't worry Buck I'm sure she will be here any minute," Steve re assures.
Tony walks past them in the hallway.
"Hey Tony can you ask F.R.I.D.A.Y if (y/n) came back from her run?" Steve asks.
"Sure. Hey F.R.I.D.A.Y can you ask (y/n) to come to the main hallway?"
"Sorry sir but Miss (L/N) is not in the building," she replies.
*Distant gunshots*
Bucky and Steve look at each other. They both knew the distinct sound of a gunshot and didn't need to say that something was wrong. They both run out into the night trying to figure out where the sound came from.
At that moment Corax flies up to them.
"Qwark," he turns and flies back in the direction he came from with Steve and Bucky following close.
*Back to your fight*
"You're coming with us," one of the men say.
"I don't think so," you reply.
You get up off your knees and headbutt the man in front of you. The second man punches your stomach and kicks your ribs. You in turn punch his stomach and grab his arm and trip him with your foot.
The third man had picked up your knife, you go to punch him but he grabs your arm, slicing it open. You let out a scream and grab your arm. You were growing tired, fighting 3 men and Natasha yesterday had taken it out of you. You felt drained, you cant muster the energy to stand and fight. Tears fall from your eyes as the men tie your hands behind your back.
One of the men whispers, "Oh shit," and runs into the woods.
Just then you look up to see Corax with Bucky and Steve in toe. They make short work of disarming the men and rendering them unconscious. Bucky kneels down and breaks the ties on your hands.
"Thankyou," you whisper.
You look down at your arm there was blood everywhere.
You look up at Bucky, tears rolling down your face.
"Bucky.... I'm...starting to get...dizzy" you say through tears.
"Just hold on until we get you back," he pleads with you.
"I'm going to have to get her to a medic," Bucky shouts to Steve, "she's losing a lot of blood."
He picks you up off the ground, your body limp from exhaustion.
You rest your head on his chest, your vision begins blur then darkness consumes you.
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Beep. Beep. Beep. You wake to the sound of your heartbeat. Your vision is poor and your entire body feels cold apart from your right hand. You gently move your head to the right so see your fingers are laced with Bucky's.
"Hey your awake," he says gently.
"Where am I?"
"Your in the medical bay. You lost a lot of blood and you blacked out".
You look over at your bandaged left arm, "they got me good huh," you try lightening the mood.
"I thought they were going to take you," he admitted.
"You can't get rid of me that easily," you reply.
He gives a small smile.
"Why did you have a knife on you?" he asks.
"I took it while you weren't looking earlier, I wanted to practice juggling it, to impress you."
He gives a soft laugh.
"Well you handled yourself pretty well out there, taking on both of them," Natasha says entering the room.
"How you holding up?" she asks.
"I've had better days" you reply.
"I know you've just woke up but we need to know what Hydra wanted? Where you just in the wrong place at the wrong time?" Natasha questions.
You shake your head.
"They wanted me. They said I got away once and that I wasn't going to get away again," you pause thinking, "you said there was 2 of them? 3 attacked me, one ran before Bucky and Steve got to me," you say shakily.
"OK well the rest of us are working on tracking their next move i will inform the team about finding the one that got away, you get some rest," she places her hand on Bucky's shoulder and gives him smile before leaving the room.
"Hey Bucky do you think I can get out of here? I hate hospital rooms."
"Have you got the energy to walk?" Bucky asks.
Making your way out of the medical bay and up towards your room Bucky opens your bedroom door.
"I will leave you to get some rest. Will you be okay?" Bucky asks as he goes to leave your room.
You shake your head.
"Will you stay with me? Id feel better if you were in the room with me."
"Sure doll."
He climbs up onto the bed, his back straight with the headboard. Placing one hand on your head he strokes your hair. You feel safe with him near you.
"Sorry for ruining our dinner date," you say as you drift off to sleep.
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You wake up at 7am, you look outside to see grey sky and dark clouds. It was a miserable morning. You turn to see that Bucky was gone. Your sad that he had left without you noticing. You look around for Corax who can't be seen.
"Looks like I'm on my own today," you sigh to yourself. You shuffle to the end of the bed and assess the damage that was done to your arm. You squeeze it gently through the bandages.
"Ouch, yep still sore. How am I even going to shower?"
You get out of bed and step to the bathroom and head to the shower. Taking your clothes off one handed was easy, showering one handed whilst trying not to get your bandages wet was trickier, but you managed. Putting clothes on was also an arduous task but you got there in the end. You wore black jeans, dark blue t-shirt and black hoodie. You dressed like the weather, unintentionally.
You walk out your room to see where everyone had gotten to. Heading downstairs you see that everyone was in the meeting room with various stark technology items across the table.
"Hey what's going on?" you walk in and ask.
Bucky walks over to you, "sorry I left you this morning but we got information on Hydras where-a bouts."
"Left you this morning?" Tony's ears pricked up, "I didn't think you were that kind of girl (y/n)," he smirks.
"Hey its not what you think, I asked him to stay because I was scared they would come back for me," you admit.
Steve walks over to you, "don't worry (y/n) that won't happen again, and as soon as we get a location we are heading out to take them down."
"How did you manage to track them so fast?" you ask.
They all stare around the room at each other for a moment before Bruce answers, "when you told us that one of the Hydra team had escaped we knew we had to act fast. So I figured that with the years you have spent with Corax that he would be incredibly intelligent animal......."
You look at Bruce with a death stare not wanting to hear what he was going to say next. Tony notices and helps Bruce out.
"It turns out," Tony begins, "that he is highly intelligent, all we had to do was show him the flashing tracker and he was out the window."
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!"
"Shortly after you blacked out and look there's no use in getting angry, we needed to know where he was headed. We couldn't send any agents as that was too obvious."
"AND YOU DECIDED TO SEND MY BEST FRIEND AFTER THEM! AFTER ONE OF THEM TRIED TO SHOOT HIM!"
Your anger was growing, at this moment you hated them all, you look at Bucky.
"Did you know about this?" Tears filling your eyes.
"They had already gave him the tracker when I -"
You cut him off mid sentence by storming out of the room and slamming the door so hard it cracked the wall it was joined to.
You put your hood over your head and walked outside, you round the corner and slide down the exterior wall and sat in the rain with legs up to your chest. You didn't care that your bandages where becoming soaked. You just wanted your best friend back.
"CORAX!" you start to shout telepathically. You did it over and over again until your nose started to bleed from the pressure, however hard you tried you got no response.
Bucky came out looking for you, he spots you sitting on the damp ground and walks over to you. He holds out his hand, you take it and stand. Wiping your blood from your nose on your sleeve.
Bucky could tell what you had been trying to do.
"It was Tony and Bruce's idea," he says.
You nod your head in acceptance.
"Don't worry, I've known Corax for 12 years, he would do anything for me so I know he wasn't forced to track Hydra. I just hate the thought of him being out there on his own."
Bucky sees the sadness in your eyes as the rain drops hit your face. He pulls you in for comforting hug.
Bucky's cell vibrates, he takes a look at the message, "Steve says they have something."
You both head back to the room where Bruce Tony, Nat and Steve are listening to a man. The connection is crackling and broken but you can make out pieces of conversation.
"What happened out there?" mystery man.
"We ambushed her but Captain America and the Winter soldier were there," Hydra agent replied.
"We need her to finish our plan," he growls.
"Okay so we are tracing where this is coming from........Gotcha," Tony says proudly.
"Your feathered friend pulled through for us. It seems that our Hydra friends are in a warehouse about 53 miles from here."
"So what's our move Steve?" Natasha asks.
"We need to take down those Agents, we don't know how many there are so it's going to need all of us. We know they are after (y/n) so we can't leave her here on her own," he looks at Bucky, "she's going to have to come with us."
"Isn't there another option?" he pleads with Steve, "it's like we will be personally delivering her to them, like you said we don't know how many there will be and if-."
You cut Bucky off mid sentence, "i'm going with you, like Steve said I can't stay here on my own and i need to see for myself that Corax is okay."
He looks at you for a moment but knows it's no use arguing over it, you had made your mind up.
"Then we need to move now" Steve orders.