Promises

Chapter 10

"Explain" Steve demands. Bruce shifts his weight from one leg to another.

"We can't really explain. Not without more research," Bruce is looking down at his tablet then he looks up at you meeting your wide eyes. "What we know is that your blood has many similarities with Steve and Bucky's blood, but your bloodwork also shows an increase in your inhuman DNA." You sigh looking away.

"Beth told me that it was a mistake that she became pregnant with me, but that HYDRA though it would be good to try a new kind of experiment, on fetuses. They thought it could be better having a scientist doing things on foetuses, then on adult persons. Beth's idea was to do it on her own baby," you start explaining what she had told you when you were alone with her. "With the hope that I would die in her womb, Hydras hope was that I would be the first super warrior born as a child so they could easily make me as they wanted me from the beginning, without brainwashing. Less work, more efficient killing machine." Steve's hand gives your hand a squish. It gives you the energy to continue talking. "But I came out seems like a normal child. Beth told me that she continued experimenting on me until my father started becoming suspicious of her activities with me. Then about a year after my fire powers came to light." Tony snickers at the pun. Everyone else shakes their head. "My father took contact with Fury when Beth wanted to send me away to an institution. What she really wanted was to send me to HYDRA. But dad and Fury put a stop to her plans, without really knowing what they were doing." You take a deep breath. "Beth left and nobody noticed that she was HYDRA. I want away for school and then I became an Avenger. She has been keeping tabs on me and she was waiting for me. She injected me with something that activated the super soldier serum in my body." Bruce and Dr Cho share a look.

"This explains so much," Tony says typing away on his tablet. "We need to go to the lab." They leave you alone with Steve.

"I am so sorry," Steve says looking eyes with you. He is still holding your hand. You move closer to him. His breath can be felt on your skin. There is a knock on the door. You move back. Bucky walks in, smiling when he sees Y/N awake.

"I heard you were awake," Bucky walks over to the bed and gives her a kiss on the forehead.

"Punk, go and take a shower. You smell. I will stay here with Y/N." Steve looks at you and you nod at him.

"Go, I will be fine," you say. Bucky makes himself comfortable on the chair beside your bed. Steve kisses your cheek and leaves the room. You look at Bucky and he looks at you. The room is silent.

"Do you want to talk about it, cry about it or do something to take your mind of it?" Bucky asks and you smile at him.

"I want to take my mind off it," you answer honestly. All that had happened the last day was not something you wanted to think about right now.

"Just what I thought," Bucky nods fishing up his mobile sending a quick text. After a while the door opens and in comes Wanda, Nat, Sam, Pepper and Clint. They are carrying pizza boxes and water bottles. You laugh at the sight.

"Hungry?" Bucky smiles at you.

"Starving," you answer.

You eat together laughing, talking about anything other then what had happened. That is how Steve finds you an hour later.

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Steve stood in the doorway looking at his family, because that was what they were. His family and Y/N was the women he loved. Right now he needed to push his feelings aside and be there for her. Help her through all of this.

"Steve," Sam cheers as he Steve standing in the door.

"Hey!" Steve says to the group.

"Come in, Steve," Y/N says with a big smile on her lips, but Steve can see the sadness in her eyes. "There is pizza for you too." She holds up a slice of pizza to her mouth and takes a big bite. He walks into the room and sits down on the empty chair. His eyes are on her, trying to assess how she really was doing. She gives him an eye roll and looks with a smirk on Bucky.