Chapter 10: Aftermath.
Chelbell2016:
Okay bit of a sad chapter.
*THE AVENGERS*
I am laying down on a hospital bed. A S.H.I.E.L.D hospital bed. I have bandages covering the burns that now cover most of my body including my wings. It would be months before I would fly again.
I hear a knock on the door and I turn to see my father at the door. I nod and he enters.
"How you holding up?" He asks me as he sits down in the chair next to my bed.
I do not answer I just turn my head back towards the window. He sighs as he gets up and walks around the other side.
"Talk to me Charlene," he practically begs. "What's wrong?"
I feel the the tears fall down my face. "It will take at least four months for my burns to heal. Seven at the least for my wings. I am not Angel without those wings."
He tries to find a safe place to pull me in for a hug without hurting me. He does not need to as I throw myself into his arms and he holds me. I feel the dam break as I can no longer control the tears.
"We'll figure out a way to stop that woman," he vows.
"How?" I ask. "She knew everything about me. She knew that my one and only weakness is fire. She used that to take the one thing that makes me who I am away from me. If my wings get infected... they will have to be removed. Then it will take even more months for them to grow back."
He sighs as I finally calm down. "For now we are heading to a safe house. Now when we get there you are going to have a lot of questions. But I cannot say anything till we get there."
I nod. "When do we leave?"
He smiles. "The others want to say goodbye if your feeling up to it. Then we are going."
I nod and he gets up to open the door. All the avengers walk in. When she sees the bandages Pepper gasps.
"I am so sorry Charlene," she says to me.
I force a smile on my face. "I'll be okay in a few months."
Bruce asks the question I think everyone wanted to know the answer to. "Why did you not tell us your weakness for fire?"
I sigh. "Guys we battle bad guys. We are around fire all the time. Usually I can stay away from it. But that woman turned what should have been one of the best days of my life into the worst."
Cap steps forward. "We'll find out who she is. When we do... we'll take her down."
I begin to think back to that face. "You know. I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before. I think she was following me. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike."
Clint places a hand on my shoulder. "Well she picked to worst moment. Because now she has six angry avengers to deal with."
Said Avengers all nod. Not long after it is time for all of them to leave. The doctor comes in and suggests that my dad leaves why they change my bandages.
When they take off the bandages and I see the burned scar tissue I feel my will break. I will never be the same again.
*THE AVENGERS*
My dad pushes the wheelchair as I am rolled up to the plane. For a few days I am not to over exert myself so Tony had made me a wheelchair.
My dad helps me into the seat next to the pilots and I strap myself in.
My dad sits down and says a few things before the plane takes off. I feel as if watching the sky from this point of view is like rubbing it into my face that I cannot fly.
I hear my dad on the phone to someone and I wonder who it is. But I stay silent. After a few minutes he returns to the seat with some food.
"Here you go," he says passing me a few slices of pizza. "You need to keep your strength up."
I nod and begin to go through the pizza. I cannot help but wonder how long it will take for my wounds to heal. What if this woman finds us again and more innocent people get hurt because of me.
"How long will we be in the air?" I ask my voice scratchy as I have not used it in a while.
"A few more hours," he says to me. "We should be there by nightfall."
I nod as I glance around at everything in the plane. I spot a bed not too far away. I guess that I could do with some more sleep but I did not want to close my eyes right now.
"Can you get me a glass of water?" I ask my dad as my throat is sore.
He nods and gets back up to fill a glass of water for me.
I drink it down the hatch and cough a little. My dad rubs my back until I stop coughing.
"Take it easy," he says once I am not coughing. "Don't rush it."
I nod but then go back to being silent. I still feel as if my life will never be the same. There was also something very familiar about that woman. I don't know why but I swear I know her from somewhere.
"Dad," I say and he looks at me. "Did you recognize the woman?"
He sighs. "She did look slightly familiar. Why do you ask?"
I sigh but answer. "I swear I know her from somewhere. I don't know whether it was before my memory was wiped or what but I know her from somewhere."
A few hours later and my father parks the plane. I watch as he rolls the wheelchair up to me and helps me into it. As we head outside I look up to see that the safe house does not look any different to a normal house.
He pushes me up the ramp and then he opens the door.
He rolls me in and the first thing I see is...
*THE AVENGERS*
Chelbell2016:
Cliffhanger. Who's house did he take her too. Please review and I will try to update in the next hour or so.