.Clint, Natasha and I were walking to a little diner close to the tower when I heard banging. At first I thought it was nothing but being a SHIELD agent I over analyze everything. I stopped walking trying to figure out what that banging was.
"Do you guys hear that" I asked Clint and Natasha
"Yeah, it's probably nothing just a fan or something" Clint said inbetween sips of coffee.
"No no, a fan would have a regular pattern this doesn't" Said Natasha
"The alley" I said zeroing in on where the sound was coming from as we all head down the Alley
"The grate it shouldn't be there" I say
"Guys there's someone in there" Natasha said as she points a flashlight towards the grate.
I fought in one of the most gruesome war in all of history but never in all my life have I seen something so horrible. I practically rip the grate out of the ground and throw it behind me not caring where it lands. With the grate gone I could clearly
see a naked girl who looked like she could be anywhere from 15-18 but it was impossible to tell because she was so skinny all of her ribs were showing. She had bruises covering almost all of her body some were dark blue and purple, it was hard to
see the green and yellow ones because of all the dried blood on her. it was coming from her shoulder and multiple cuts on her thighs. she wasgagged and bound. It made me sick to my stomach to think of who would do thisto a child. Even
Red Skull didn't cross those lines.
"Hospital?" I asked knowing we had to move fast. I pulled the gag from her mouth. She was barely conscious. She started wheezing and suddenly I am that sick skinny kid from Brookyln again.
"No, the closest hospital is closed for renovations" Natasha Added
"Well we have 2 doctors at the tower let's just take her there" Clint said. His coffee abandoned on the alley floor.
"It's a plan" I said shrugging my light jacket off and wrapping it around her as we all headed back to the tower.
"Garage. It would be quite a sight to see Captain America and 2 assassins walking through the lobby of Stark tower with a bruised, bloody and unconscious naked girl." Natasha Said obviously having been the only who had thought through our half cooked
plan but she was right.
We arrived back at the tower in record time probably because I had been half running without realizing it.
As we entered the elevator JARVIS spoke "Sir and Dr. Banner have set up a bed in the lab and are awaiting your arrival." he finishes speakingjust as the doors open. As I looked around the lab everything was different. The tables that usually hold
various parts of the iron man armor now holdmedical tools. A hospital bed in the middle of the room with brucesetting up different monitors. I carefully placed the all to light girl on the bed in a seated position,holding her up
to allow bruce access to her still bound arms.
"Tony I need EKG, Pulse ox, bp everything start hooking her up" Bruce said while he prodded gently at her shoulders and arms; and then began cutting the rope off. he then turned to Tony and said something.
"Both of her shoulders are dislocated, we have to put them back in position, this isn't going to be pretty" Tony told me,while he took my position in front of her ready to pop her shoulders back in. I will never forget the sound her shoulders made
when bruce popped them back into place. after the shoulders Tony and bruce laid her out on her back. I couldn't watch anymore it was to much of a reminder of how much she looked like me before the serum.
About 3 months after The Battle of New York Bruce decided to become an actual doctor of medicine so that if he ever went back to india or if one of us got injured we wouldn't have to go to SHIELD for medical attention; because to be honest none of us
trusted SHIELD with our bodies, so this worked out perfectly and just for shits and giggles Tony took the classes with Bruce. He was surprisingly good at it, i guess i shouldn't be surprised he is a genius after all. Tony was actually converting one
of the floors of the tower into a med bay but it wasn't done yet so his lab would just have to do.
Both Bruce and Tony started rattling off information to each other moving to attach different wires, place an IV, put a clip on her finger, check her heart/ lungs, take blood, check her eyes. While this was happening Natasha who I hadn't noticed was gone
stepped off the elevators in her hands a hospital gown she got from who knows where, and placed on the foot of the bed.
"J. I need X-Ray, PET, CAT, MRI the works give me everything" Tony asked his AI
A minute later the screens on the lab benches lit up with the different ordered scans, both Tony and Bruce gasped.
"I hate it when imright, I was hopping she was a kidnapping or human trafficking victim but no. She's a victim of years of systematic child abuse. probably started before she was even a year old." Bruce explained turning to me so i could see the
x-rays
"see all these faint lines, those are all breaks some are just hairline fractures but some like this one on her leg was a compound legwas snapped with so much force the bone broke through her skin. This one happened maybe 3 years
ago and it didn't heal right at all usually these breaks usually require surgery to correct but i'm guessing whoever treated her just shoved the bone back in stitched it and slapped a cast on it." Tony said trying to hold back chucking the closest
thing he could get his hands on.
Silence fell on the lab. as Tony tried to distract himself with looking at her other scans and Bruce trying not to hulk out. But the Silence didn't last very long as the lab suddenly exploded. Almost all of the machines hooked up to the Jane (I'm just
going to use Jane for now until they find out her name) started blaring and alarms were going off, Tony and Bruce jumped back into action.
"She's going into respiratory arrest, Tony I need a tube kit. We need to intubate." Bruce almost shouted as Tony ran around getting the supplies he needed to save her life. I watched feeling completely helpless as Tony and Bruce tried to save her life.
Now to me watching a metal hook and then a pretty big plastic tube get shoved down someone's throat looked pretty barbaric but i trusted Tony and Bruce knew what they were doing. Almost as soon as they put the tube in and hooked it up to some oxygen
the alarms stopped blaring and I let out a breath I didn't know i was holding. I thought it was hard to cope when one of your friends is in the hospital but having it be someone you know nothing about its torture.
"Is she going to make it" I asked bruce hoping for the best
"I honestly don't know. From what we can tell she's suffering from severe dehydration and even worse malnutrition. She must have been bound in that position anywhere from 3 days to a week. All of her muscles are extremely weak especially her arms. She
has various wounds all over her body all at varying degrees of healing but some are infected, with the worst being the one on her shoulder. If i had to guess a weapon I would say knife. Her left arm is fractured in two places, but it's a pretty clean
break so just a cast. And along with all of that she has bruises covering about 70% of her body, 4 broken ribs, a moderate concussion and what looks like a upper respiratory infection that has turned into pneumonia." Bruce explained looking about
10 years older.
"She's stable for right now, if she makes it through the night she just might make it through this"