Her is the second chapter, again, I don't own the charaters, and please leave a comment :) Enjoy!
Chapter 2 : Thinking about you
Once again, Steve was sick as hell. It was the first time since his mother death, three months ago that he was sick...also the first time he was spending his time at the hospital without seeing Bucky once. He had ended up at the hospital, a fucking pneumonia had struck him and put him in this awful place. He was sketching in his room when he heard a knock on the door. Dr Banner was here, it had been a while since he had seen him, the guy was now working for a big company. He came inside the room gently saying hello with a comforting smile on his face and a look full of pity. Steve hated that look, he hated when people looked at him like he was a poor little kid defenseless and hurt. He his an adult perfectly capable of taking care of himself, otherwise, he would be dead now.
« Mr. Rogers, I heard that you were back here. I bet you missed the food ! »
He let out a chuckle, banner was the kind of doctor who was able to make his patients feel genuinely safe.
« Yeah, and the smell of disinfectant ! »
Steve smirked nicely, joking with Dr Banner was easy, he is the kind of people everybody likes. He left the hospital a few years ago when Tony Stark the CEO of Stark Industries, they work on different stuff like new drugs, or even prosthetic for fallen soldier but most of the stuff they do are only to development basis. Stark Industries is the number one in new technology.
« You seem to be pretty fine for someone who has a pneumonia, but I'm not here to ask for an update on your health state. I'm here to ask you to be a guinea pig for a new medicine. It is supposed to help people like you. People who have a bad health conditions. It could help you get better and say bye bye pneumonia! »
Steve had his eyes wide open, basically Banner is saying that he can give him a complete new health but it's experimental so dangerous. Steve asked for more information, they've talked about that for two hours. Bruce explained everything, he said it could make him stronger because of a small amount of steroids, and others stuff Steve doesn't know. He ended up agreeing for a meeting with Tony Stark, Dr. Banner and Dr. Cho, the three person in charge of this program. The appointment is up for the following Tuesday, here he'll learn what are the risk of this experimentation, the conditions and he will have, in the case he eventually agrees with doing it, to sign a contract of confidentiality and all the usual stuff. All his life he had to take medication for his different disease, and for the first time in a very long time he could start hoping that drugs wouldn't be necessary anymore. It was kind of dream becoming real.
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The night before the appointment Steve did not sleep, he couldn't stop thinking about what the doctors were going to tell him, or what could possibly happen to him if he developed side effects. Those are the thing Steve really apprehend, but deep inside he is 92% sure he will do it. Sam and Nat were aware about this appointment, Sam told him to be careful, that experimental stuff might be a real danger and make his health conditions even worse, while Natasha told him to jump on the occasion if the risk aren't too high. Natasha is a fighter and she wants him to do it. The chances about that are really high.
When the time of the appointment come both of them send him texts to wish him luck. He went to the Stark Tower, a big building in the middle of the city. It was the new symbol of the big apple. It shown the power of his owner. Power of money. Stark had made a few discoveries which revolutionized the entire world, and before becoming a saint who want to heal the world, he was a Death seller. He built weapons, very destructive ones, a few years ago he was the victim of an attack while he was trying to advertise his new weapon for the army, he saw what he had built killing people, he himself have been hurt. Ironically the weapon which almost killed him literally had Stark's name on it. He survived and he is now seeking for redemption.
Steve came inside the big building, the receptionist invited him to take the elevator saying that Jarvis would bring him to the right floor but when he entered the big metal box there was nobody. Then he heard that English accent, first he jumps before understanding that the voice was from a speaker. Jarvis introduce himself as an IA, the blond thought before this day that was just science fiction, that IA were only in the movies but he realized it wasn't true. He gets to the thirteenth floor were a man with a fancy suits, black hair and a very well-cut beard was waiting fir Steve apparently. This guy was the famous Tony Stark, this guys was impressive, only being in his presence made you feel little next to this guy. To his left was Dr. Banner with is brown, grayish hair, brown little eyes, purple shirt and white blouse. On Tony's right was an Asian woman, very attractive one. She was dressed with a weird blue and white dress which looked really fancy on her but would probably look bad on every other women.
Tony introduced himself and then his coworkers, then said how nice it was to meet Steve. Steve thought -knew- It was just to be polite, someone like Tony had no reason to be delighted for meeting someone like the young blond. Anyway, they all sat around a big table and then started to explain everything to Steve, answering to his questions and exposed everything he would have to do if he'd became their Guinea pig. At the end of this long presentation they give him the contract, Steve read it quite quickly, he knew Dr. Banner would not put anyone in danger so he was safe...as safe as it is to test experimental medication. So he signed the contract which said he'd had to write down most of the things he eats, drink and the drugs he took, that he couldn't speak about the medication, so he said he already had told to two of his friends, Tony rolled his eyes at those words asking Steve not to tell anyone else. The blond agreed and kept riding all the thing he had to do among them was bodybuilding. He had to do sport with a coach named Thor. Steve is not an athlete, he've never been a fan of sport, but if it was something he had to do...he would. And then there was a line saying he would have to meet with Dr. Banner or Dr. Cho every two weeks.
He agreed on everything, after signing the contract Tony left him to the hands of the doctors, he followed them in a room full of medical devices. They run tests on him before explaining what pill he had to take and when he had three small bottle of pills of different colors, red, white and blue. One to take before sleep, another on the morning and the last one for lunch. Medication starting the very same day.
Then he left the building and lead back home right away, answering as he could to Nat and Sam while trying not to break any conditions of the contract he has with stark industries. He took the first pill and get to bed just after. He didn't sleep much that night...too busy thinking of the guy who left him in New York streets while fighting bad guys on the other side of the world. He had some relationships since Bucky left...to be true he'd had one! With a guy named Grant Ward. The guy he net the night Bucky left. They kind of dated for three weeks before Steve couldn't take it. the guy was weird and bad. He had punched Steve because he had broken a glass. That night was the last Steve had spend with the guy before going away. It had been scary.