Part two of Civil War
HPOV
Abounded Warehouse,
Unknown Location
After Bucky revealed that he wasn't the only Winter Soldier, but there was 5 more of them that could take out a city in less than a week, Bucky asked me if I could do what I did to try and cancel out the Winter Soldier programming again on him. Steve wasn't sure about doing it because he was afraid it might trigger the Soldier and that I would get injured, Pietro was against it for that reason also but I wanted to help in some way rather than sitting on the side-lines.
"I'll only do it for a few memories, I'm not that practised in doing mind magic and I don't want to run myself dry." I explained to Bucky.
"Some memories are better than none, some have been coming back to me in bits and pieces but not in the magnitude that I got when you hit me with whatever it was you did." Bucky said, leaning against the wall in the small room.
"It was magic, I am a witch. I was born with magic. I want to help you with your memories because you didn't deserve what Hydra did to you. I can't choose the memories that the spell picks up, it'll just lift whatever it wants from your mind, so I can't hide any of the stuff that the Soldier did." I explained to him.
"Is there anyway…that you could…repress it?" Bucky asked, biting his lip.
"I don't know, I would need to research into it but, most of my books are at the facility so I can't look. I'll do the spell, and if any memories are ones you don't want to come forth, try to block it from your mind. Think of it like, a filing system, the memories that you want are in open drawers and the ones you don't want are in locked drawers, and if I stubble upon an open drawer you lock it in your mind." I further explained to him, and he nodded his head.
"Do you need us in the room?" Sam asked walking into the room.
"Yeah, just in case it goes bad." I told him and turned to Bucky, "Please sit down and once everyone is here, we'll begin." I told him and took a deep breath.
Outside Warehouse,
Berlin, Germany
After I fixed most of Bucky's mind with blocking out the Winter Soldier, Steve said that it was time to go. Pietro was going to go with Steve, Sam and Bucky. I was going to get myself back to the compound to see what was going to happen with the accords and because I didn't want to get into a fight with Tony, because I may not agree with him, but he is still family. Steve was going to meet up with Wanda and Clint at the airport with someone that Sam knows that is going to help Steve's side.
"Are you sure you don't want to come with us to meet with Sharon? She could give you a lift." Steve said to me leaning against the car he was going to drive to the airport.
"No, I can get myself over without having to talk to any authorities. Hopefully I can still get into the compound." I shook my head pursing my lips.
"Well, just be as far away as you can before all this goes down." Steve said and brought me into a hug.
"Just get to Serbia before Zemos does." I said, returning the hug.
I heard Pietro clear his throat behind me, "Excuse me, Captain. Can I say goodbye to my girlfriend now." After Pietro said this, Steve let go of me.
"Now, that I seen coming." I heard Sam say from inside the car.
"Can you not stay until we get to the airport? See Wanda and Barton?" Pietro asked me, pulling me close and looking down to me whilst I looked up to him.
"I explained to you P, I can't be seen at all and the less people that know I was there the better. Don't get hurt too bad without me." I said to him.
"They won't see me coming." He said and put his head closer to mine and gave me a heartfelt kiss. I heard Sam wolf whistling from the car. I pulled out of the kiss, and said to Pietro, "Go get them speedster." And pushed him over to the car to get in.
"Don't worry, I will witch." And he slid himself into the car beside Bucky. Steve clambered into the driver's seat and they waved as they drove off down the road. I waved back and made my way into the building we were staying in, grabbed my things and made an illegal portkey from a piece of paper lying around. I set the time to go off in five minutes, I scourgified the place, grabbed my things together and put my hand on the portkey and landed, not so gracefully in my room.
Avengers Facility,
New York
I got myself off the floor to my room, fixed my hair and was greeted with red flashing lights. "Please place your hands up in the air and stand still. Site your name and reason of being here." I heard Friday say through the room and I did what she asked me.
"I am Hermione Banner. This is my room; I don't want to fight Tony. I am doing nothing wrong. Put me through to him." I said in a loud clear voice. The red lights stopped flashing.
"Apologies Miss Banner. Sir is not taking any calls at this present time." Friday replied to me and I put my arms down.
"Well then, tell him that I'm here. I need to speak to him ASAP." I told her. I gathered my things from the floor and started to put them away.
As I walked into the wardrobe in the room, the TV flickered on and I heard, "What's this I hear about a security breach?" I heard Tony say through the TV.
"It's just me." I said and walked over to the TV, to see Tony's face on the screen in what looks like the inside of his suit.
"Why are you at the facility? I thought you would stay with your lover boy." Tony said to me.
"I didn't want to fight you T; you're part of my family. Well, actually you're the only part that's been consistent with me. I thought I might have been able to stop you from going after Steve, but I know how stubborn you are. Don't hurt them too much." I told him.
"Look, Herms. Ross wants them caught within 36 hours and I've already wasted 24 of them. I don't want to fight them either, but there's nothing I can do right now. Once I'm done here, I'm gonna have to work my ass off for you and have a talk with you. I'm sorry to say this kiddo, but until I have this sorted, you can't leave the facility. Friday has you on lockdown, until I get there. Hopefully this can be fixed without any serious injuries to either side of the conflict." Tony explained through the TV.
"I'll see you when you get back then. Don't hurt Pietro and Wanda too much." And after I said that the TV turned off and I went back to putting my things away, worried about my friends and family, fighting one another.
Avengers Facility,
New York
Tony was back that night. He looked pretty banged up from the fight, his arm was in a sling. I walked down the stairs and made my way over to him. "Tony, where are the others?" I asked him when I got closer.
"They were taken by Ross, to The Raft I think. Where are Barnes and Rodgers heading?" Tony asked me.
"Did everyone go to The Raft?" I asked him.
"No, just Cap's side. Rhodey… Rhodey took a hit. Natasha and Vision are with him. I was bringing the kid back to his aunt. I came here to speak to you." Tony listed everyone, I gasped at the news of Rhodey.
"You brought a kid into this fight? How old is he? My god Tony, he could have been seriously hurt!" I gave off to the man, a face of disbelief.
"Look, the kid is fine, he is lightly bruised that will be gone probably in the morning. But, let's focus on Barnes and Rodgers, okay? Where did they go?" Tony asked me, done with my shit.
"Serbia, I believe." I told him.
"Why would they go there? What's out there for them?" Tony asked me.
"Look, let's sit down as I tell you." I told him and brought him into the lounge area and sat him down on one of the sofas and I sat down next to him and angled my body to his.
"What is it, Hermione." He asked me, discerningly.
"Okay, the bomb going off at UN? That wasn't Bucky. It was a man named Zemo, who either looks like Bucky with a hood up or wore prosthetics did. Zemo also is the one that got into the interrogation in Berlin and used Bucky's trigger words against him to make him go full soldier on us. When he was doing the interrogation he kept asking Bucky about Serbia. In an old Hydra facility, there are 5 more Winter Soldiers that are in cryo freeze and they can wipe out a country in a night, they are completely ruthless and won't let anyone get in their way. Bucky and Steve are on their way to Serbia to stop this before they can be unfrozen and wreak havoc on us. I know it sounds implausible, but when we stopped before they went on to the airport and I came here, I went through Bucky's mind to help in stopping the Winter Soldier and I've seen a bit of they are capable of doing and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy." I explained to him in full, he looked down upon the glass table sitting in front of us.
"Okay, I'll have Friday look into where the Hydra base is located and anything on this Zemo guy. Now, I'm gonna have to go out to The Raft. I'm going to see about what they are going to want with you because being a minor doesn't cover you anymore because you are over the age of 18. Because you weren't part of the fight, you might not be hit with a harder sentence as the rest of the group are. But you were arrested in Romania, so that will put a damper on you getting away scot-free." Tony explained to me.
"It probably doesn't help that my dad is the Hulk whom Ross hates with all of his life." I said sarcastically.
"Speaking of your dad, has he sent anything to you?" Tony asked and pushed himself up from the sofa.
"Nope. Has he contacted you?" I asked him, flicking my hair behind me and folding my arms.
"Nope. I'll talk to you later." He said and away he went.
I decided to get up myself and go check my e-mails, I'd taught Draco how to use muggle technology to help us communicate and to help spare an owls travel from one side of the world to the other. I got out from under my bed and turned it on.
I quickly went onto my emails and signed myself in, I had emails from Draco, ones from fashion companies telling me about their sales, some from reporters and I looked through them and deleted any pointless ones.
I noticed I had received an anonymous email, curious as to what it was even though it was probably one of those scams, I opened it up.
Dear Mia,
I am sorry that I am not with you at this time. After stopping Ultron, I realised that I needed to get away from the environment I had put myself, and furthermore you, into. By the time you are reading this, you probably know that I was ready to leave with Natasha away from New York and the Avengers. It was a spur in the moment type of deal. We had talked about leaving before, but I wasn't sure if you would want to leave everyone behind. I am happy that you have found yourself someone that you can trust and confide in. I put something in Friday that informs me of your life, and I wish I could tell you myself how proud I am of you and the lady you have become. It means I have done something right in my life.
I am not going to be telling my whereabouts, as I don't want to be found yet and you won't be able to pick up a location from this email. I'll come to you when I am ready.
I love you.
I was in tears. My dad had finally given me something to tell me he was alive. I saved the email away to somewhere that Tony wouldn't think in looking and I also printed it out and put it away in a box.
Avengers Facility,
New York
I was there when Tony came back with Steve's shield and a broken suit. I helped him with finding out that his parent's death wasn't an accident and that Bucky was forced by Hydra to do it. I was there when Rhodey got to the facility from the hospital. I comforted Vision with the loss of dating Wanda. I noticed that Natasha wasn't around the way she used to be before this happened. I was there when Tony got the parcel from Steve telling him that he was sorry.
Fortunately, Ross wasn't allowed to do anything to me. The UN found that I had done no wrong so I was cleared of anything that had happened. I helped Tony with his hatred towards Bucky for killing his mother. He asked me if I knew about Bucky killing his parents, because I was with Steve in Washington at the time that he found out, and I told him that when that happened, I was with Peggy for a majority of the time, I was there to help after that must have happened and that I hadn't seen it when I was helping him with blocking out the Winter Solider.
Tony described to me what happened when he got there in Serbia, that the other soldiers were all shot dead in their cryo chambers and that Zemo's whole reason was to put Steve and Tony against each other because he lost his family in Sokovia, and that was when he showed the three of them the tape of Bucky killing Tony's parents. After watching the tape, Tony, Steve and Bucky got into a major fight. They didn't get Zemo but his body was found at the site. Steve and Bucky got away with whoever killed Zemo and Tony flew back to the facility.
A few days after Tony got back, he received word that the Avengers that were residing on The Raft had escaped and for Tony's help in recapturing them, but Tony just watched the light blinking as he put Ross on hold.
A week happened and it felt that everything had calmed down for everyone in the facility. I was watching something on the TV, not really paying attention to it as I thought of Pietro. I got a knock on my door and I called for them to come in and Natasha came in and closed the door, I sat up at this.
She made a gesture that only Wanda and I knew, which was using a finger to point to your ear and drag it out from it and turn that finger in a circle which was code to not speak in the room and not to be bluntly obvious as to what you were doing. I nodded my head over to the closet in my room, and closed the door. I told Tony that I didn't want Friday in the closet because it made me uncomfortable.
"Where have you been Nat?" I whispered to her and crossed my arms.
"I can't tell you, but pack a bag and try to turn Friday off or something. I can't turn her off the same way Jarvis was." Natasha whispered.
"What should I pack?" I asked her and lifted a bag from a shelf in the closet and put an undetectable extension charm on it. Natasha started lifting things from shelves and hangers and handed them to me. I also lifted my books and put them and any potions I had, with an unbreakable charm on them and anything that I knew I could leave behind.
"Once I leave here I want you to write a note for Tony and then meet me at the car garage. Be there in twenty." Natasha told me and walked out of the closet and I walked out after her and lifted a piece of paper and wrote down;
Dear Uncle Tony,
I am not leaving you, I am simply going onto a new adventure in my life that I need to do by myself. I wish I could tell you all about it, but I'm going to take a leaf out of Dad's book and go off grid. After everything that has happened, I just want to take a me trip to wrap my head around everything that has happened in the past two years.
I love you and will miss you.
Herms.
I lifted the email I printed that my dad had sent me and put it in my bag, grabbed my things, leaving the note for Tony on my desk. "Friday, can you leave the tape for my room on loop for the next hour of me watching TV so that Tony doesn't know anything until I have left?" I called out in my room.
"If you really want Miss Banner." Friday said.
"Also make sure he gets my note." I told her and walked out of my room. I walked down to the car garage and saw Natasha leaning against a car that I knew Tony didn't own. She got into the driver seat as soon as she saw me and I got in next to her. She drove out of the facility and away from New York.
"Where are we going Nat?" I asked her.
"To go see your lover boy." She told me.
"And where is he?" I asked her.
"How do you feel about Wakanda?"
That's the end of Hermione Banner. Anything I write about this character, will be non-cannon and anything I might want to go more in depth into. Thank you for the follows, favourites and reviews.
Emma X
