Staying asleep is always the hardest, mostly because of the nightmares and faded memories.

There wasn't any point in sleeping anyways, I had to be up in 20 minutes. Climbing out of my bed, the sun shone in behind the blinds on my large window. I stood up stretching my limbs. "Knock, Knock!" I heard a voice call at my door, I groaned and walked across my somewhat large studio apartment. I pulled the door open and saw Stark standing there with a coffee in his hand. "You said 8, not 7:40."

"I was in the neighborhood a little earlier than I expected. Coffee?" I walked away from the door as I heard him shuffle in behind me and shut the door. I walked over to my wardrobe and pulled out some clothes for the day. "Ahem" Tony said as I was taking my shirt off, "Turn around then, big baby. You act like you've never seen a woman naked."

I pulled on my undergarments and sighed pulling out a pair of jeans from my dirty laundry, I slid them on and slid my shirt over my head. I grabbed my bag and started to head past Tony, "You gonna brush your hair or leave it a bush all day?"

I rolled my eyes at his smartass comment before bending over and fluffing my hair with my hands. "Okay DAD. Let's go." Replying as I walked out the front door and down the stairs, Tony came down quickly behind me. When I got to the ground floor, I saw Tony's car parked right in front. I opened the door and climbed in the passenger seat before Tony could even unlock the doors, "Stop doing that, Ana." He muttered then started the car. "So why are you kidnapping me from my apartment so early?" Asking as he pulled off from the curb, making a right he replied, "There is someone I want you to meet." Tony got quiet and concentrated on the road, "Nothing else? Not a name?" I raised my eyebrows slightly interested.

"I'll let him introduce himself when we get there." I tried to get more information out of him about this person but he stayed quiet. After about five minutes of silence, I pulled out my wireless earbuds and stuck them in my ears. I let the music distract me as I watched the sights go by.

For what felt like forever but really was only twenty minutes, Tony pulled up to his 'research' lab which really was a two story office building. I stayed here when Tony first had me in the Avengers' possession. Tony parked the car and I hopped out looking around for a unrecognized vehicle in the parking lot, "They didn't drive a car, Ana." He started walking towards the front door, he stopped and called to me, "Come, slow as molasses." Rolling my eyes again, "Yes, master." Tony headed inside expecting me to follow, I walked in slowly looking around at the glass walls. It looked the same as it did when I got here over a year ago.

I saw Bruce and Widow in the kitchen sitting at the table with Hawkeye, I waved their way and followed Tony up his winding staircase to his large office. I stopped at the top of the stairs when I saw a man and a girl slightly younger than him with their backs to me, looking out the window at the beautiful view. Tony walked towards them, "King T'Challa, Shuri." The man turned towards Tony, "Hello, Stark." He had a thick african accent much like mine, it sounded very familiar.

"This is, ahem, Nkosazana. Ana, for short. This is the one I was telling you about, our special friend. Ana; come over here." Tony spoke before waving me over, I snorted, "Special? More like weapon." I sarcastically replied as I walked slowly over to them before studying the two people before Tony and I.

He stood about six foot; short brown curls with brown eyes and a jawline that was framed perfectly with his facial hair with a small beard growing on his chin. He was wearing a dashiki with an embroidered collar, and cuffs as well. He smiled a little before Tony continued, "Anyways, here is the sample that I wanted you to look at. We can have a seat and chat while Shuri looks at it."

Sample of what? He handed Shuri small vial that looked like it was filled with blood.

She took the vial and walked towards his lab equipment on the other side of the room. Tony walked over to his round-about of couches and sat down as did T'Challa, he glanced at me with a look saying, 'Sit down or I'll make you sit down'. I sighed and walked over before sitting down on the furthest couch from them. I crossed my legs as T'Challa spoke, "Your accent, it is african?" Nodding, I studied his face and his more detailed features. His forehead wrinkles and the slight bags under his eyes. "Where are you originated from?"

"A small country that you might not know, it's called Wakanda and also another country called Janabia." I curtly replied looking down at my phone, T'Challa laughed loudly and Tony shook his head in annoyance of my attitude. "Ana, he is the King of Wakanda." I felt my face heat up slightly in embarrassment. The most important thing I remember from Wakanda was the King was the Black Panther. Of course Stark knows him. I thought to myself rolling my eyes internally. "You are from Wakanada? What is your family's name?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "I don't really remember. They were just Mother and Father to me." I never knew my parents first names. "We tried all we could with our technology to bring back some memories she may have but it wasn't a success. There are years of memories missing from her brain." Stark added, I chuckled to myself; that day wasn't fun. The day they wanted to try and 'bring back some memories', I was hooked up to about a million machines or so it felt like and Stark was talking to me while I was in a hypersleep chamber but not hyper-sleeping. 'Not a success' was an understatement, I ended up getting mad and breaking the machine. T'Challa nodded and continued, "Tell me about what you do in the Avengers?"

"I'm not apart of the Avengers, I never have been. They use me as a weapon when they can't beat someone." Tony glared at me before cutting in, "We do not use you as a weapon. We ask you for your help and SHIELD has to approve you being in the Avengers which you know they'll never do." I chuckled, "You don't ask, remember last time? 'Oh Ana, we need you to help us. If not, you'll be sent to prison. And oh, RIGHT. No one can be a killer in the Avengers even though you have the fucking Hulk on your team who can literally crush skulls." I replied with a snap in my voice, he always made me angry with this conversation, he likes to remind me that I'm not in the Avengers even though I do a lot of work for them. But he always threatens my freedom whenever I refuse to help.

"I've been locked inside my apartment everyday during the day for the last year, I'm only allowed to go outside at night, why? Because of my eyes, my skin. People might recognize me and we don't want the American population knowing you have a killer on your team." I snapped standing up, glaring at him I started walking out of room. "Hold on." Shuri said making me stop in my tracks, I looked at her as she started to talk, "This sample is fused with Vibranium. I'm not sure how yet but the blood is closely bonded with the Vibranium. I tried to separate the sample apart but the blood started to dissipate."

"Hold on, so wait, she has Vibranium in her blood?" Tony asked, slightly confused, I looked at the ground as I listened to them talk.

"I'm not sure yet, we need to get her back to Wakanda so I can analyze her further" She looked

to T'Challa, he looked shocked as did Tony. "Show her, Ana." Tony said quietly, Shuri and T'Challa looked back go me. "Show me what?"

I pulled the end of my sleeve and pulled it up to my elbow to reveal the purple lines flowing from my arm and further up past my elbow. She grabbed my arm inspecting it, she touched the lines and exclaimed, "Amazing!"

"What does this mean?" T'Challa asked looking to Shuri, Shuri glanced at him and studied my arm again. "I am not 100% sure, brother. We need to take her to Wakanda."