Sry, it took so long but I've been re-writing the whole story line from the beginning. At this point onward, this story is going to be written by me and a friend of mine. His is both my beta and co-writer of this story now. I'm happy with this because he will be helping improve on how things will go from here onward. So if you guys have ideas you want to be seen, let me know and we will see what we can do. Also, let me know how you all like the relationship of Lexi and Luci.
Chapter 1- Full Circle
It's hard to image all the things people would go through just to save the lives of those they care for. The horror, the pain, and the heartache they feel must be excruciatingly terrifying. Though somehow, someway, they find the will to overcome the odds and do what is necessary. These people are by no means true heroes but the acts they do are what define them as such. No one's ever born a hero but the things they do for others and not themselves, is what makes them heroes. Look at Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, or even the Black Widow. They sure as hell weren't born heroes but the choices seen in recent years have changed all that, dispute their given weaknesses.
As many will know, every hero has their own weaknesses. Each is different to that hero, take Captain America for instance. His just so happens to be the well-being of that of his teammates. Then the heartache from the loss of his girlfriend's betrayal. Now, Widow is different in her own way because hers are more a handful of individuals then that of the whole team. These given few are the only ones she would ever lay down her life for; these few are her one and only weakness. Now, as for Hawkeye, his weakness differs just slightly from Widow's. The only difference being that he prioritizes the love of those he calls family while Widow is more about loyalty and honor much like that of a samurai.
As Clint's weakness makes its presence shown, Tasha and Tora are right there. Their hands on his shoulder as they watch the only person strong enough to keep them together, bleeding out in his arms. Lucifer's demand has Clint handing her over to him. Lucifer's eyes tear up, his hand on her side as her blood slips through his fingers. Lex' face grows increasingly pale, he makes a decision to get her to SHIELD. So he has Hulk move just slightly before disappearing through his shadow.
Lucifer disappears just as Via and Jas show up. "Where's Lex at? We saw her go down. Is she okay? What happened?" They both say. They look between Clint and Tasha until Tasha speaks. "Well, Clint might die soon." Via looks at Jas, as they share a look before looking at Clint. "She's that bad?" they say in unison. Tasha just nods, as Via and Jas just shake their heads. "Well, Clint, it was nice knowing ya," replies Via.
Clint lets out a sigh only because he knows they're right. He's gonna die, he just hopes he will get to find out if shes Ok before he does. So it's in that moment, that Tony and Steve just stare dumb found, mouths hanging open. Widow smirks as she replies, "Oh, close you're mouths boys." Steve and Tony just look at each other, turning to look at Clint and Tasha. "What just happened?" they both say simultaneously. Clint just sighs while Tasha is trying not to laugh. Clint just looks at them, replying.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Just know that he got her to a SHIELD doctor the quickest way possible," Clint says sounding depressed. "Oh, don't worry about him. He knows he's not gonna die just yet. Not until she's out of the woods anyway," comes Tasha's happiest reply. "Why is Clint going to die?" comes Steve's wondering question. "Oh because he let her get hurt. But guys, we need to grab Loki and go now" Tasha states, looking around.
Tony steps in front of Tasha, "No, I want some answers who was that? How did he get Lex to shield?" "Yea" cap says in agreement. "That was a SHIELD agent. Other than that, I cant tell you anymore cause its classified," Tasha says. Cap glares at her, "I'm sick of continually hearing that." Clint steps up to Cap, "Enough, if you want to find out more then take it up with Fury when we get back to base. Right now, we need to go cause I need to find out what's going on with Lex." Tony sighs. "Fine lets go and Clint I'm sorry she got hurt."
It doesn't take them long to grab a still dizzy Loki and get to back to SHIELD. Most of the team going with Thor to put Loki in a cell while Clint all but runs into the hospital ward. Here he finds out what room Lex is in, only to realize that the entire West ward is her's. 'Yup, Fury is preparing for the war that will come,' Clint thinks as he heads to Lex' room. It doesn't take him long to get there, all the while lost in thought. That is until he hears the voice speak. "She'll be alright, Clint. You know as well as I, if not better that SHIELD only gets the best of the best when it comes to these kinds of things. She's in great hands," whispers Via from behind him. Clint stays quiet, still in a bit of shock by her sudden appearance, gives Via a slight nod of agreement, knowing she's right.
Lex is in the best hands possible. Though, the moment another voice reaches his ear, tears start to form in his eyes. "They're taking her to the OR," Lucifer's voice breaks causing tears to flow down his cheeks. "YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB, BARTON," he screams at Clint. Clint, glares and gets in his face. "Yeah, but I'm not the one who took her in the first place," Clint yells back. "Why do continually bring that up? That was over 7 years ago and you know that wasn't even really me. Via and Jase just sigh before stepping in between them. Each taking one, pulling them apart.
"LUCIFER!" Jas screams, "Now, is not the time for your stupid shit." Her glare dares him to challenge her. Lucifer calms slightly, knowing she's right. That Lex needs him more, so he lets Jas lead him into the empty hospital room. Meanwhile Via takes Clint to the cafeteria, to cool down and get control of himself. While they sit there, she wonders if the stoic Clint Barton knows why hes having such a hard time controlling his emotions but Via knows the reason. Clint has just realized that he can't lose Lex, he just can't. He needs her by his side.
While Via sits there quietly, Clint is thinking back to the day when he first met her. when she was still just this sly girl outside her hometown mall. While he sits there lost in his memories, he fully realizes that she is not that silly little girl anymore. It brings just the tiniest sparkle to his eyes as he thinks about how much she has grown and how much she has impacted the lives of those around her.
While Clint is siting there reminiscing, the rest of the team arrives at Lex' room to find Lucifer and Jas just sitting there but no Clint or Lex. "What happened?" Tony asks Jas walking toward her and the still unknown figure sitting next to her. "Lex is still in surgery. We haven't heard anything yet," Jas tells him. Lucifer, not saying a word, looks on with a blank expression.
Hearing that there's no word yet, doesn't sit well with Tora. She is the first to leave the room. With Thor, following after. Tasha, taking Bruce with her, takes their leave from the room. Knowing full well that Lucifer needs his space. 'Lex better make it through this or there will be more than one life lost' she thinks, dragging Bruce behind her. Steve and Tony, being stupid and curious, stay behind. Each thinking that they can get this mysterious person to talk. Yeah, needless to say that doesn't go as planned.
For you see, these two idiots spend the next twenty minutes trying to get him to talk because well, they had questions for him. Jas just sits there, watching them as they try oh so hard. For you see, she just lets them continue cause As they continually try and fail it has her snickering from behind her hands. 'oh boys if only you knew that you have no chance of getting him to speak till he finds out if his sister is Ok'.
While the boys continue their failed attempt's Tora has made it to the roof trying find a quiet place to think and contemplate about what she could have done differently that would have stopped Lex from getting hurt. She is almost completely lost in her melancholy thoughts when she hears the roof door open and Thor call out to her in a quiet voice, "Miss Tora are you Ok? She sighs and then looks at him trying to hold her composure, "I'm as good as can be expected."
Thor walks a little closer trying to think of exactly what to say "i can understand that, me and my brother weren't always enemies there was a time I would have gladly died for him and even now with all hes done I still love him, so I can understand your worry". She sighs and tries to hold back her tears and tries not to show her watery eyes to Thor. "its not just worry Thor" she says glad that he can still keep her voice steady. "Then what is it dear Tora" he says as he gets a little closer almost within arms reach at this point. Tora loses a bit of her composer at this man who is slowly worming his way into her heart.
"Because that should be me in there and not her I should have been there to protect her I'm the eldest, it's my job." Thor takes the last step and wraps his arms around her cupping her face in his large hand tilting her head up to look at him. Using his thumb to to wipe away the tears that he sees starting to fall down her cheek. "Dear Tora, I know it is difficult but we were in the middle of battle. From what I saw, your sister is a fierce warrior. You couldn't do anything and do you really think your sister would want you to beat yourself up?"
Tora looks deep into his sky blue eyes nearly getting lost in their depth. "Why do you care so much?" Thor smiles a little leaning down and right before their lips meet he whispers, " cause I'm falling in love with you, my dear Tora." Even though, she is very surprised she can't help but get lost in the feeling of his lips on hers. Suddenly, all her worry starts to ease. She even starts to think that maybe, just maybe there is hope for her happiness.
A couple hours pass with everyone still in their perspective bubbles, worried and fearing the worst. Tasha is with Bruce, Clint stays in the cafeteria with Via avoiding his impending death by the hands of Lucifer. Back in Lex' room, the idiotic boys have finally stopped firing unanswered questions at the stoic and unresponsive executioner. Now, Tony is talking with Jas talking in hushed tones.
Cap though decided to take a seat next to the stoic figure, trying to figure him out. Although, the reality of it was for some strange reason he couldn't take his eyes off of this strange man. From his pure white hair with a streak of black, blue, red, and purple that looked to be about waist length but was tied up in a high ponytail still from the fight. Or maybe it was his weird and fascinating eyes. His right eye was pure white Cap tried to find a iris but no matter how hard he looked he couldn't see one. His left eye was the same way, only solid black.
All the while, cap was wondering why this man captivated his attention. Especially after everything that just happened with Becca. To a point, he was still worried about her and wanted to find out exactly what happened. Though even with all of that, he just couldn't bring himself to look away from this strange man sitting next to him. Cap was so focused that when the door opened and Lex was wheeled in, he jumped. The man next to him jumped as well.
As the doctor walked in behind Lex' bed, Lucifer ran up to him and immediately started asking him questions. The doctor though raised his hand and said, "She is Ok at the moment." "What do you mean at the moment?" Lucifer interrupts. "Their were some complications during the surgery," the doctor tries to continue. Tony then interrupts, "what do you mean complications?"
The doctor then sighs, "if you would let me get a word in, I would tell you." Everyone got very silent as they waited for the doctor to continue. The doctor then took a breath before continuing. "Because of how long miss Blade waited before coming in she lost allot of blood. Because of the depleted amount of blood being supplied to her brain she has slipped into a coma." Lucifer then raises his voice "Is she going to be ok?"
The doctor then sighs, stating, "I don't know unfortunately." "She could pull through but right now what she needs is rest and if I may offer some advice?" the doctor continues. "Talk to her. It can sometimes help bring patients back." Tony then speaks up, "So, there is hope then? Right doc?" The doctor smiles at Tony, "There is always hope, Mr. Stark." The doctor then walks out of the room while the reality of everything starts to sink in on the inhabitants of the room.
Jas then sighs, kisses Tony on the cheek before stating, "I'm gonna go find Clint and Via." Tony smiles, giving her a small hug before she walks out the door patting Lucifer on the back as she goes. Lucifer sighs heavily before walking over, grabbing a chair, putting it next to Lex' bed. "Someone should also try and find the tiger bitch and let her know" Lucifer says as he sits down.
Lucifer then hears someone else leaving the room as he reaches over and grabs her left hand holding it in both of his. As he's holding her hand, he feels something strange and looks down at her hand. As soon as his eyes focus on her hand, he sees the ring on her finger and chuckles slightly. "Oh Birdboy is so gonna die and sis if you can hear me, I hope you know your not free from blame either." Lucifer sighs heavily again, "Just please sis, come back" he falls silent as a tear rolls down his cheek.
A couple minutes pass in complete silence before Clint runs into he room, directly over to Lex' bed, grabbing her free hand. "Oh Lex, I'm so sorry. Jas told me everything. I knew I should have taken you to the hospital right after it happened. Why did I let you convince me you were ok?" Clint takes a deep breath before continuing, his breath catching a little. "I'm so sorry. Please come back to me. I love you so much, you are my everything." Cap brings Clint over a chair. Clint just sinks down into it, still holding her hand as the tears start to flow freely.
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