Chapter 7
Hazel tried to move but she couldn't. She groaned as she felt pain all around her body, especially her head. She wanted to move her hands to cradle her head but she found herself retrained to the seat. She tried to pull against the restraints but it did no good.
A voice spoke, trying to soothe her. "Haze, it's okay. You're going to be fine." He spoke softly and she clenched her teeth together as the pain increased.
She glared at him and he was confused. Wasn't she back to usual?
"Says the man who slaughters innocent people." She spat out and his eyebrows rose, his chest clenching a little. He turned off the transmitter so that the rest didn't need to hear.
Clint stared at his sister. She spoke up before he could. "Loki opened my eyes. He showed me everything the way it is." Clint groaned to himself.
Loki had brainwashed her.
He wasn't good at this stuff. However Natasha was, it was just as well he had her buzzer in his pocket. He lightly pressed on it and in under a minute she was knocking on the door. They stepped outside the room so she couldn't hear.
"She's been brainwashed Tasha. I don't know how to fix her." He said on the verge of tears. She patted his back and told him to get some rest. He plodded away and Natasha entered the room.
Natasha sighed as she saw her best friend in so much pain and anger. She sat on the seat that Clint had been occupying.
Hazel's jaw tightened. "Could my brother not kill me? He had to send in you to do it for him then. I'm sure neither of you have a problem with killing after all you killed hundred of innocent people." She spat out, almost repeating what she said to Clint.
Natasha's eyebrows rose but it seemed to have no effect on her.
Natasha placed a small photo, which had blood stains all over it on Hazel's lap. Hazel stared down at the photo.
"That's Phil Coulson. You were brainwashed by Loki while you were fighting to keep him alive. You guys were always partnered together for missions." Hazel stated at the photo and had a flashback to her and Coulson walking up to a big building in a suit.
She let out a gasp as more memories flooded her mind. Ones of them all doing experiments, saving each other and promises they all made each other.
Natasha smiled as Hazel's eyes turned from the bright blue colour back to her normal sea green colour. She stopped struggling and slumped back in the chair, remotely staring into the distance.
"Natasha, how many people did I-" Natasha cut her off.
"No. Don't do that to yourself." Hazel looked away.
Natasha was confused, that hadn't happen before. She lightly placed her hand on Hazel's arm. Hazel turned to look at her and her eyes filled with tears.
"Tasha I'm so sorry for saying those things! I don't know why I said them all!" Natasha hugged the nineteen year old as she cried into her shoulder.
Natasha stared at her for a minute. She was acting weird. Loki had made something change in her.
She calmed the girl down. "You're not you. What did Loki do to you?" She asked and Hazel closed her eyes.
"2007, September. They all let me join their group so that I would die from the cold. Then they found me and burned the whole place down, the man who trusted me was stuck but I didn't help him. I left him to die all because I valued my life more than his."
Natasha hugged the broken girl. "I spent the next two years learning to fight and swim and what not. I knew about my DNA but I didn't know much else."
Natasha hugged her tighter. "Shh, it's our secret." She whispered comforting the girl. She unlocked the restraints. Hazel felt bad for not telling her the whole truth.
There was a loud knock at the door and Natasha left the room so that Steve could come in. Steve walked in and hurried straight over to her.
She immediately jumped up and wrapped her arms around him. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she looked up at him.
He smiled and spoke.
"Don't go giving us all a fright like that again now. Your brother was terrified."
She froze and raised her eyebrows. "You know about my brother?" He nodded.
"We all do, he went slightly crazy when you got taken and then he told us why."
She nodded surprised. Steve lifted his hand and traced a cut along the side of her cheek. Their eyes met and Hazel felt her heart skip a beat.
They leaned in until their lips were connecting. Their lips moved in sequence until they finally pulled away smiling.
"Do you think your brother will mind?" Steve asked softly.
Hazel looked down. "Let's just keep this a secret between you and me for now. I don't want him going all crazy." Steve nodded.
He grinned teasingly at her. "Well in that case Agent George, would you care to be my secret girlfriend?"
A grin spread on her face. She laughed and hugged him again. "That would be amazing."
They moved apart and she sat on the edge of the bed.
There was a knock on the door and they looked up to see Clint standing there. Steve gave Hazel one last look before he swapped places with Clint.
Clint avoided her gaze as he sat down on the chair. Hazel sighed and lightly touched her arm.
"Clint, I am so sorry for what I said earlier." He nodded and pulled his sister in for a hug.
"Natasha told me that you still had him in your head." She nodded.
He was gone for now.
"Where is Loki?" She asked and he tensed up slightly. She placed a hand on his arm and he stared at her.
"Next door."
"I want to speak to him."
"No."
"Clint, I was an agent before you knew I was me. I think I can handle myself this time round."
He hesitantly agreed. Just before she walked in to the room Clint told her what has happening.
"We've got the security cameras on so we can hear and see what Loki does just incase. If you feel panicked get out." Hazel nodded and took a deep breath. She knocked on the door and Steve swapped places with her. Loki grinned as she sat down.
