Chapter 3

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Steve sat there in the tower trying to figure out what to do. He had seen first hand, and from the countless videos on youtube, facebook, and several other media sites along with security cameras what Rose was capable of doing. But he also knew the capabilities of SHIELD, he knew they were trying to find her and knew he had less time to find her before they do. He also knew they had access to all satellites, considering Tony was able to hack into them for fun, he knew SHIELD could as well. He also knew that Tony was always playing a game of Chess with SHIELD, where Tony would break into the system get whatever information he wanted and then SHIELD had to quick scramble to cover the holes and stop Tony from leaking important information. This was different. Steve knew Rose was in trouble, he had seen the arrow go into her leg and if she wasn't bleeding out in the middle of nowhere then she already checked into a hospital to have the arrow removed, which means SHIELD could find her even easier.

Steve decided to get Tony to help him, considering the Billionaire was already against SHIELD, who had recently shut down his building from power in retaliation to him hacking the mainframe and sending them all on a cruise to Antartica where he felt they belonged after he was awake from his incident with Rose. "AH! The Man out of Time! What can I do for you today?" Tony inquired without lifting his head from the gadget that Steve really had no idea what it was but it was sparking like crazy, almost like a sparkler. He didn't bother asking the billionaire how he knew he was there, because he knew JARVIS probably already told him.

"I was wondering if you wanted to help me... with something SHIELD isn't going to like." Steve said, standing tall as the billionaire spun in his chair to look at him.

"Anything to annoy the Babysitter is a pleasure to me. Whatcha want to do? Send them to Asgard? The Moon? Middle of Space?" Tony asked.

"No. I need help finding Rose. I think if we asked her to come with us she would come. I believe we scared her, causing her to show off what she could do."

Tony shook his head, "She tried to kill me... and you want to try to be nice?"

"I don't think she would have if we would have approached her like normal people and not all suited up."

"And why do you think that? Have you seen the Mutants lately? They're practically fighting a war everyday against each other and are hostile towards us."

"I don't think she is one of them."

"Why?"

Steve hesitated before saying, "Classified."

Tony narrowed his eyes, "Nothing ever stays Classified from me, Iceman."

"I think she needs help and if we get to her before SHIELD does then I think the outcome will be better. Besides who knows who else is after her now that her power is out. You honestly don't think SHIELD is the only one after her." Tony had turned back to continue tinkering with his contraption when Steve huffed, "I'll make sure Pepper let's you out of the Tower with us next time we go to a bar."

Tony spun around and looked at him before saying, "Throw in your bag of Jelly Beans Jane gave you for Thanksgiving and we have a deal."

"You could get all the Jelly Beans in the world if you wanted and you have to have mine?"

"You have to watch that figure of yours, Cap." Tony smirked and Steve glared at him before the two shook on it. "JARVIS I want all Satellite footage from the past week. I want them over the all of the North Eastern States."

JARVIS replied with a simple, "Yes, Sir."

"So how did you meet?" Tony asked Steve.

"Coffee Shop."

"Fury isn't going to be happy."

"I have to help her."

"I have the Satellite Footage." JARVIS' monotone voice came over the speakers around them.

"Good put them up on the screen." Tony and Steve moved to the large screen, that Steve assumed started with Holographic Projection System of some sort. Steve watched carefully then the clouds rolled in and nothing could be seen for sometime, before the storm cleared and a small dot was speeding across the sky. "JARVIS follow the dot." JARVIS did as commanded and they found a small section of forest. "Coordinates?"

"Great Island, 41.084242, -73.737468." JARVIS replied.

"There, found where she is." Tony said. "Now what?"

"Delete it. Make sure SHIELD can't find her-"

"How do you suggest I do that?"

"I'm sure you of all people could figure that out." Steve said and Tony grinned big.

"I can cause a black out on the SHIELD's ship."

That'll work." Steve moved to the door.

"Where are you going?"

"After Rose."

Rose woke up early the next morning and looked at her leg, it seemed to have healed but was very sore and painful. She frowned as she gently poked the tender flesh and hissed under her breath pain shot through her leg. She pulled the arrow from her bag and decided to have a closer look. She didn't see anything missing from the arrow, so she was sure it had come out cleanly, there shouldn't have been splinters because the arrow was smooth when she had run her fingers along it quickly. But something wasn't right, and her leg was hurting extremely bad. She dug out her water bottle and the small bottle of aleve, the only Muggle medicine she actually willingly takes, and took two of the small blue pills. Then she dug out some bread, thankful that she had packed everything from her apartment except things that would have to be refrigerated or frozen, and had some bread for breakfast.

She then studied her leg, trying to figure out what was wrong and why she it was extremely painful. She gently touched it, and even tried to remember why it might hurt but nothing other than the arrow came to mind. She knew it would be sore but this painful was not what she was expecting. She decided that maybe it needed to be stretched out, she used her broom to help herself to her feet, she held out her arms like a toddler does when first learning to walk. Pain shot up her leg the second her weight was put on it and she collapsed back to the ground. She huffed angrily at herself and tried again and again and again. Every time was the same result, pain would shoot up her leg and her leg would give out from under her. She decided to try one more time, this time expecting the pain so she used the broom as kind of made it a few steps with hardly any weight going onto her leg, she gently put her foot on the ground, making sure not to put weight on it, and then let the broom fall to the ground. She then gently added weight, she almost screamed when the pain shot up her leg and she fell to the ground, and heard a crack in her wrist. She clutched her left wrist close to her and she slowly scooted herself back to her things. She sat down on her quilt and looked at her wrist.

Rose mumbled, "I should have gone to be a Healer instead of an Auror..." as she looked at her painful wrist and then at her leg. She heard a twig snap behind her and her had her wand in hand, and everything packed with a flick of her wand. She had her bag on her back, broom in her left wrist even if it was painful. She couldn't stand on both feet, but she supported herself on her on leg and leaning heavily on her broom wand in her right hand. She was ready to escape if needed, but knew if she had to run she would be in trouble. The blue eyes found a pair of blue eyes attached to a blonde haired man in khakis and a blue t-shirt.

"You okay?" He asked moving closer, but she didn't let her guard down kept her wand pointed at him.

"How did you find me?" She asked, ready to send a stunner at him and run. It was Steve, but something wasn't right and she looked like an injured wild animal ready to attack at any second.

"I had a friend help me." He reached out his hand, it was open similar to the way he had offered his hand the first time they had met when he rescued her from the men that one night.

She seemed to hesitate before she physically relaxed, "Why did you come find me?"

"I wanted to make sure you were alright." He moved closer, and she allowed herself to move so she could sit down on the ground, he sat down in front of her.

"How did you get here?" She asked, gently moving her leg so it was straight and to the side.

"Borrowed a car, then hiked out here." Steve shrugged. Rose narrowed her eyes but believed the story, as she really didn't know much of the Muggle world. "Can I see?" He asked motioning to her swollen wrist.

She held it out and he moved closer and gently touched it, causing her to yelp and retract her wrist, "That hurt." She huffed like a little kid.

"I'm sorry. How about I bring you to someone who would be able to help you with your wrist and leg?" He asked.

She nodded and he helped her up, once on her feet he supported most of her weight so she put her broom into her bag, he didn't ask questions so she was thankful for that. She tucked her wand into her pocket and he helped her through the forest for sometime. She stumbled often and he eventually picked her up, much to her protests. It felt like all day before they approached a black Ford Focus. He set her down in the passenger seat and then walked around the car and sat down in the driver seat. He started the car and they were off.