Get Out of Your Head

Clint's POV

It's been two days since Steve left on his mission and Alex hasn't come out of her room. I know for a fact it's not because she misses Steve. I mean she misses Steve but she isn't the type to lock herself in her room a guy. Natasha has taken her food a few times but she never answers the door, she waits till Natasha leaves. She has to be struggling with telling whats fake and whats real, I would know after having Loki in my head. We are all sitting in the kitchen eating lunch when I start to get a bad feeling.

"Nat should we go check on Alex?"

"Yeah." she says getting up. The two of us walk to the elevator and she turns to me. "I just have a bad feeling."

"Me too." I say as we get on. The doors open on her floor and the first thing I see is a mixture of broken glass and blood on the floor. "Shit."

We turn the corner and Alex is in the kitchen with blood streaming down her arms. She see's us and chucks a plate at us. Both of us duck down and when we come back up Alex is slumped on the floor. Upon closer inspection I see that her feet and arms are cut up from the glass.

"She doesn't know where she is, we need to snap her out of it so we can help her."

"Call Bruce and tell him what's going on, I'll see if I can get her to snap out of it."

"Be careful." she says before pulling out her phone.

I walk over to Alex and leave some space in-between us before getting down on her level. "Alex, I know you think you are in the Red Room but you're not, you're in Avengers Tower, you're safe. Look at me, you need to get out of your head, focus on me. Don't let them control you."

She has her head in her hands and she won't loot at me. Natasha comes and crouches down behind me, I turn to look at her.

"Bruce is waiting down in medical, he just needs us to get her down there. He doesn't want the other guy coming out."

"Working on it." I say.

"Alex, we want to help you. You have to snap out of it, we need to get you help." says Natasha.

It takes her a few minutes but she finally looks up at us. "What did I do?" she ask quielty.

"Don't worry about that, we need to get you to Bruce, you've lost a good amount of blood." I say.

She starts to get up but Natasha and I stop her. "Don't try to walk you have glass all in your feet."

"I'm such an idiot." she mutters.

"Hey, that wasn't you, trust me. That was not your fault." I say sternly.

"Clint we need to go." says Natasha.

"Alex I'm going to pick you up okay."

She just nods her head weakly and I pick her up. We go to the elevator and head down to medical where Bruce is waiting on us. He quickly gets her in a room and hooks her up to an IV which sends her into another flashback. He leaves the room to let the two of us snap her out of it. Once she does we get her sedated enough to still be conscious but not hurt anyone or herself. Bruce starts to take the glass out of her feet and Natasha and I work on cleaning her arms up. Natasha goes to call Steve and Bruce and I watch her.

"They really got in her head didn't they." he says.

"Yeah, it's weird. We have never seen her like this."

Natasha walks back in the room. "Steve is getting on the next flight back, he is in Germany so it may take a while."

Alex perks up at the sound of his name. "He's coming back?"

Natasha goes and sit on the bed next to Alex. "Yeah, he'll be back tomorrow."

Alex lays her head on Nat's shoulder. "I'm sorry."

"No apologizing." she says back. "We're going to fix this okay?"

'Yeah." she says weakly.

I know what it feels like having someone in your head, it's not fun and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone especially not my family. For right now having the team here will help but the person she really needs is Steve, I just hope he gets back soon.