Divided We Stand
Author's Note: New project! A crossover, too! I'm a huge Marvel fan (always have been) but I also really enjoyed season 1 of Sueprgirl even though it's a DC property. With all the Civil War promotion going on, I decided to explore what would happen if Supergirl was taking place within the MCU. Hope y'all enjoy!
Prologue
All the televisions at the new Avengers Facility were set to the same live coverage of the bombings at the United Nations. Maia Smith stood around with a group of auxiliary staff, gaping in awe at what was unfolding before their eyes. Her boss, Tony Stark, and several members of the Avengers were there due to their role in Sokovia. Maia chewed on her lower lip as she watched. She wanted more than anything to be able to turn away, to block out what she was seeing and hearing but she couldn't. She needed to know if Tony was okay, that he wasn't one of the casualties.
"Miss Smith!"
Maia turned at the sound of the stern yet familiar voice of Captain America, the leader of the Avengers. Her breath caught when she saw the haunted look in his eyes. "Ste… Cap-Captain?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper. She knew the colour had drained from her face and all she could think was 'nononononono!' over and over. She hadn't seen that look on him since Sokovia and before that had been DC.
"Can we talk?" Maia nodded silently, unable to speak. Steve placed a hand gently on the small of her back and directed her to the room serving as his office. Not only was he the head of the Avengers, but he was head of their training department. Along with their training facility, the building also housed a team of Stark Industry employees and, under the direction of Maria Hill, a SHIELD training facility. Once inside the office, Steve closed the door.
"Steve… is he… is my… Tony?" Maia stammered as she tried to formulate a coherent question.
"He's a little banged up, but otherwise says he's fine," answered the blond haired super soldier.
"He's alive," she breathed. She felt like the weight of the entire world had been lifted off her shoulders. She staggered back into Steve's desk. "Oh Steve..!" she murmured. Steve closed the distance between them and pulled Maia against him.
"You're shaking," he told her as he held her tight. Maia had walked into his life shortly after New York, while he was still splitting his time between SHIELD and the Avengers. It had seemed to him those few years ago that she had walked into Stark Tower and gotten a job without any of the normal processes. There had been things about Maia he'd learned over the time he'd spent with her, including how she came to be Tony Stark's personal assistant.
"I'm just so relieved," she replied as she circled her arms around his waist. "There's something else, though, isn't there?" She felt Steve's arms tighten around her and he buried his face in her dark hair. "Did one of the others…?" she started.
Steve shook his head before pulling away slightly so he could meet her gaze. "They… the authorities think it was… that the Winter Soldier was responsible for this."
Maia frowned, her brow furrowing in confusion. No one had seen the Winter Soldier since the day SHIELD fell. Not even Steve, who Maia knew was actively looking, had been able to find him. "What do you mean?"
"Maia, they're blaming Bucky."