Chapter 8
Strong language
Washington D.C : Cassidy Lorraine's Apartment/ Hospital housing Nick Fury
Cass had just been notified that Fury had been shot and where to find him. She and Danny had just arrived at the hospital, as Cass had gone to check on Fury, Danny had gone to see what the hell had happened. Cass entered the operation viewing room; she noticed that Steve and Natasha were already there and Maria Hill had just come in. The four of them stood in silence until Natasha spoke up
"Tell me about the shooter" Natasha enquired clearly asking Steve
"Fast, strong-" Steve paused to look at the floor and exhale "got a metal arm"
"Ballistics" Nat asked
"3 slugs, no rifling, completely untraceable" Maria said
"Soviet made" Natasha muttered
"They your friends" Cass asked joining the conversation. Everyone turned to look at Cass all with different expressions. Danny entered the room and walked to stand between Steve and Cass as Fury flat-lined. Cass looked down at the floor and Danny covered her hand with his, Steve looked over to Cass then to her hand and back to her face, emotionless; but then he remembered she had lost friends and that she was trained to keep a straight face no matter what the situation. Nat left the room followed by Steve, Cass then followed the pair,
"Why was Fury in your apartment?" Natasha asked
"I don't know" Steve replied
"you're a terrible liar" Nat said as she walked away prompting Steve to turn to Cass "You ok?"
"Yeah I'll be fine, so you're going to S.H.I.E.L.D?"
"Yeah somebody wants me"
"Ok, be careful, yeah?"
"Same to you, where are you going now?"
"Me and Danny will help S.H.I.E.L.D with the investigation, oh and Steve, do you mind if I bring on a friend to help?"
"dependent on the friend,"
"Her names Louisa Clarke, shes a S.H.I.E.L.D doctor, shes had enough training with us, She was Team Tango's medic"
"Ok, how can she help?"
"Cap, you're needed now. No ifs or buts, now." Rumlow interrupted
"You better go. I'll text either you or Nat later" Cass stated and walked over to Danny who was talking to Maria Hill.
Later that week Cassidy Lorraine's apartment (Before the Camp Lehigh incident)
Steve and Nat made their way to Cass' apartment. Once they had found it, Steve knocked on the door, a few seconds later Cass appeared with dark blue jeans, a graphic tee and a unbuttoned blue plaid shirt on "Oh, hey guys what do you need?" Cass said as she backed away from the door, Nat entered first followed by Steve shortly after "So hows my favourite S.H.I.E.L.D fugitives doing?" Cass asked with a smirk
"Hilarious Cass, absolutely hilarious" Steve joked
"So on a more serious note, what do you guys actually want?" Nat pulled out a USB from her pocket and held it out toward Cass "Oh. Um, Im not doing that here"
"Why not?" Steve enquired
"It has tracking software on it so as soon as I plug it in it will know my location, so I'll put a device on it so I can see the screen and everything on the USB itself but go to the Apple store at the mall and do it there that way its easier to hide in plain sight" Cass stood up and grabbed a small device and attached it to the front of the drive and passed it back to Natasha, they both stood up and headed toward the door "Text me when you've done it" Cass said and Nat opened the door and left the apartment saying "I'll leave you two to it. I'll be in the car" as she left.
"Be careful, Steve" Cass said as they both stood in the doorway
"I will but promise me you will stay safe to, I don't know when I'll see you again"
"I don't have much to worry about mr. Fugitive-from-S.H.I.E.L.D" Cass said with a smile. Steve looked down to her pink lips then remembered how they felt when he kissed her before. Cass caught Steve staring at her lips, she leaned forward placing her lips gently on his giving him the opportunity to pull back, but he didn't instead he tilted his head slightly deepening the kiss and put his hands on her waist and Cass wrapped an arm around his neck the other in his dirty blond hair tugging it slightly. They stood there kissing until someone cleared their throat, Cass broke the kiss and whipped her head around to see Louisa stood there arms crossed over her chest smirking slightly at Steve's flustered face "what happened to being 'Single as fuck'?"
"We aren't in a relationship, Lou"
"Oh, ok but with the way you two were going at it I though you were" Louisa nodded toward Steve's hand which still was wrapped Cass' waist
"Steve, this lovely specimen here, is Louisa Clarke, the one I told you about the other day" Steve's phone vibrated in his pocket, he pulled it out and showed the screen to Cass, who started laughing, then reached up and pecked Steve on the lips before pushing him down the hall saying "Go, I don't want an angry Natasha after me, but Rogers-" Steve stopped and turned around to look at Cass "Stay safe and come back in one piece"
Sam Wilson's house : Washington D.C
In the past week, The Avengers met Cass for all of about 5 minutes. Nick Fury had died and S.H.I.E.L.D was revealed to be compromised. All of this didn't sit well with Steve who was now at Sam's house after the Camp Lehigh incident when a knock at the door brought him out of his thoughts. He looked at Sam then Natasha who was sat with them at the dining table "They're here"
"Who?" Asked Natasha
"Old friends from the forces they're good people both my superiors, one even out-ranks you, Cap"
Nether Steve or Natasha could have prepared themselves for who the saw coming into Sam's dining area.
"This better be good Wilson or I'll take the wings myself"A voice came
"well, between you two I think you have made the forces hate birds" Another voice replied
"Oh what, projects Falcon and Phoenix" Sam said as he came into view "Oh, and, I have guests"
The two voices came into view for the first time, revealing themselves to be Cass and Danny.
"Hey guys-s, h-how do you two know Sam?" Cass asked slightly confused as to why Steve and Nat would be here.
"I met him running. How'd you meet him?"
"Special Forces. I've worked with a couple of times but he's a pain in the ass, aren't you Wilson. Cass said going from confused and serious to joking and smirking at Sam
"Why do you call him Wilson?" Nat asked
"Army rules and since we both left its become a running joke between us, So what brings you two here apart from almost getting killed on an abandoned army base"
"How'd you know that?" Steve was confused Sam hadn't said anything about it had he? Of course not he didn't know did he?
"The Drive, and me and Danny had been watching it and the USB Fury gave you told me where you were headed, and you remember when Danny came in and said 'Sparta has been overclocked' it means S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromised that's why Fury called, I already has suspicions but didn't want to be killed or worse if I was right, decrypting files on The Drive helped with that"
Steve then noticed both she and Danny had a duffel bag slung over their shoulders "Whats The Drive?" Cass looked over to Danny who in turn nodded, then she took the bag off her shoulder and pulled out a black box with a fingerprint reader, and a putting the left thumb on the box "this is The Drive." The box clicked as she opened it pulling out a USB drive and held it up so Nat and Steve could see it,
"All this security for a USB stick?" Nat asked
Now it was Danny's turn to speak "The Drive houses the world's deepest and darkest secrets from all of the worlds governments and largest organisations including S.H.I.E.L.D. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, Cass?"
"Depends on your perspective and who your allied with. So whats the plan?"
"Cass you still got those files of the EXO-7's" Sam asked Cass
"Yeah I think so let me have a look" Cass said while booting up her laptop and plugging in The Drive. After a minute or two Cass pulled up some files but not before Sam had gone and got his own.
"Suppose you guy wanna know about Project Phoenix as well" Cass asked looking at the group
"Sure you're allowed to do that?" Sam asked. Out of everyone in the room only Sam, Cass and Danny knew what Project Phoenix was. Cass looked at Danny silently asked if it was ok to tell Steve and Nat about Project Phoenix. Danny sighed. "If you wanna tell 'em, tell 'em, 'cus' with the shit that's about to go down everyone is gonna have to be real fuckin' honest, so Cass its ultimately your choice but tell 'em if you wanna skip some of the details, do it"
Cass sighed mentally preparing herself for retelling this story. "Ok so, ah fuck-" Cass was scared of how they would view her after this "Ok, Project Phoenix was basically Project Rebirth 2.0 but different as there was more of us and it was an injection not all the shit you had to endure-" Cass looked at Steve, he smiled a small reassuring smile telling her it was ok to continue " But what you see here is all of Project Phoenix,-" She said gesturing to herself "the rest of the subjects were male and it killed them all it was really fucking gruesome. It made me enhanced, I have really enhanced senses, like I can hear heartbeats, I can feel bullets coming toward me, I can pinpoint sounds and voices, I did that in the café, I pinpointed Nat's voice as I hadn't heard yours before, my hearing range is longer than yours-" Cass pointed at Steve " I can hear through comms, so if you speak in a room with someone who has a comm connected to the same channel, I can hear it, I speak between 12-16 languages and can hack faster than Nat, which I'm proud of, and then I can, I don't know how to explain it, suppose I'll have to show you" Cass held up her hands with a light yellow-orange coloured mesh type stuff coming up over her arms and her face "I'm bullet resistant now, it can also stop falls, explosions, you name it it can probably stop it, oh and I can also like, fire it out" she said then let out a small burst but quickly brought it back. "Its weak doesn't do much, so I use it to protect myself; but if I do it right I can knock you across the room, but then I'll be weak, it uses my energy so being hyper tends to helps a lot,"
"Damn, Nat said you were enhanced but Fury didn't know how you got them or when" Steve was shocked beyond belief "Sam did you know this?" Sam nodded
"I've known since she got it. I was there wasn't I?" Sam replied then asked
"Yea you were there along with the rest of Tango" Danny replied
"So now you know all the shit about me, whats the game plan?"
Steve, Nat and Sam had gone to get Sam's gear while Danny and Cass had gone to get Cass' gear they were to rendezvous at S.H.I.E.L.D
A.N Im so, so sorry that this took so long to get out. this was going to be a super long chapter but ive split it in half (or more)
