Luna - Avengers Fanfiction - Book 1

Chapter 2 - Questioning

\- Chapter 2 – Questioning -/

  The silence is nothing new to the girl. She lay there, hanging in the air as she has always been, or at least for too long to count. Eventually time becomes irrelevant when you are being put to sleep so often.

  She stayed awake knowing well that today would be uneventful. She still had to stay awake, just in case another person came in to feed her, she didn't feel particularly in the mood for food being jammed into her threw a tube.

  Although she could sense more excitement, more motion, outside the darkness. Almost as if there were more people than usual. She opened her eyes and blinks a few times, greeted by the same darkness that she has always been greeted by.

  Raising her head, she looks around the room but there is nothing new. It was silent as usual. But unlike normal where she would either be put to sleep or be left there for an hour or so before they would tell her it wasn't her time again. Maybe if it was one man in particular he would ask what's wrong. That didn't happen today though.

        ~-~-~

  Steve stood looking into the glass, now out of his suit and in a more comfortable outfit. Meanwhile, the rest of the agents were looking through files or through the computers.

  A familiar figure walks next to him looking into the box of darkness. Nick Fury. 

  "Captain." That is all that comes from the director as he watches the girl, who makes very little movements. 
  "Fury, have you found anything on her yet?" Steve asks looking slightly in the man's direction. He couldn't help but feel curious about the girl. She gave off an aura anyone could feel, but it seemed like only he could.
  "Not much, it seems they took most of the information with them when they ran off. All we know is she around twelve to thirteen years old, she doesn't have a name, and she has been in the dark for around nine years." The director explains, "However, it also said that she is constantly being put to sleep. I guess they wanted a more creative idea than freezing people."

  With that the girl's eyes opened suddenly, as she blinked and looked up, staring straight into the glass. Yet no reflection of the room they stood in was seen in her eyes. Her mouth stayed closed as if sown together as she looked, like a robot, into the glass.

  Fury looked down at the panel below him as the room got quiet. This was the first time she had opened her eye. While Fury studied the controls Steve looked back at the girl shocked. She had been in there for nine years... And in all that time she still seems to have light in her eyes where she lacks it everywhere else. She is waiting for something, she wanted to be let out, she wanted to see the world. And her eyes said it all. 
  Fury pushed down on the silver button as the room stayed quiet. The girl's head almost twitching to the side as if she heard something turn on.

  "Can you hear me?" Fury says into a microphone that is nailed to the table as the girl looks around at the sound before looking ahead again, this time her head at a slight tilt as she nods. 
  "Good, can you speak?" Again the girl nods.
  "Well, I am Director Fury. I need to ask you a few questions. If you don't cause trouble, we may just let you out. Are you ok with that." A spark gleams in the girls eyes as he talks about the chance of freedom. 
  "Good." He says to himself as he watches the girl quietly await his questions.

     ~-~-~

  The girl continued to look at the wall in front of her. The voice was not like any other she had heard before. It was much deeper, and everything sounded so serious. Of course the people who looked after her before were serious, but this new voice was much stronger. 
  The thought of being let out, it filled her with a joy and curiosity she had not felt in so long. Even then it was never as strong as the feeling was now. The hope that they tried to drain from her by keeping her in the dark was bubbling deep in her. She couldn't help but feel the need to answer every question truthfully. Besides, this man who is talking to her. He just promised something she would otherwise never see.

  Her thoughts broke lose, would all the colors look the same as she had remembered? Would Moon still visit her while she slept? What other kinds of things could she eat outside of the mush that she would sometimes get? Then a buzzing sound had silenced her thoughts as she blinked again, awaiting the mans questions.

  "What is your name?" The voice spoke slowly, but she was still confused by the word. Name? Did they mean what she is called? She looked down for a split second before answering her best guess at what that could mean,
  "Im called child." She answered, her voice cracked as her vocal cords awoke. She wasn't able to talk, so most of the questions she would have to nod or shake her head no in response. She ignored the horse cracks in her voice.

  The noises stopped but she waited. He had to ask another question, didn't he? They had not come threw any entrances. There was still only darkness.

  "How long have you been here?" She turned her head in confusion. What could that mean? This conversation? The dark room she was trapped in? The building itself? Asleep? 
  "I.. I dont understand." She hesitated for a moment. She couldn't guess again after the silence that had greeted her from the last time she had guessed.
  "How long have you been strung up in that room?" The voice answered and she looked down to think. She didn't need to but it was as if it was a habit. The room was dark no matter where she looked anyway. 

  "I-I don't know... I lost track." She spoke again, this time her voice came out as a mixture of sad, and confused. She had been in there most of her life she presumed. But the sleep they put her into, it passed time so quickly. Hadn't it? Wasn't that how Moon told her things worked?

  "Do you know why you are in that room?" The voice asked suddenly, shaking her from her thoughts. She looked straight, "They told me the world wasn't ready for me yet." The words came out of her mouth without her permission making her shut her lips tightly together and look down. It was almost immediate, yes they told her that, one of the last things they would tell her before she was put to sleep.

  The silence was longer than the first one she had gotten and the girl got worried. She couldn't help but feel like she had just ruined her only chance of going into the world. She could practically feel her heart thumping in her chest. She was almost worried they could hear it too. But after a while of waiting, that seemed to be forever, the buzz came back as the man asked his last question.

  "Have you heard of Project Lunar?"