A/N: Please, please, please accept my sincerest apologies. It's finals week and I got caught up in studying. Just four more days and then I can write to my hearts content. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I did some editing in it but not much, as I literally just finished it two minutes ago, so please excuse and grammatical errors.


Chapter 12

The jump felt long and drawn out, it was almost like moving so fast that everything was in slow motion. "We are opening the hatch, try and aim yourself in that direction." Iza barely heard May's voice in her ear because the wind was so loud. She made out the opening and tried her best to move her body in that direction. She landed with a loud crash on top of the plane, sliding backwards she caught hold of a rope that just happened to be flapping about. With her last effort she pulled herself up the rope and fell down through the open hatch which quickly closed behind her.

Simmons was immediately by her side addressing wounds that had occurred during her fight with Derek and miraculous plane jump.

"We need to get you to the medbay immediately, you were shot in the shoulder."

"I'm fine, I can't even feel it. Where are the others?" Iza tried to stand up but quickly fell down.

"I gave you a mild sedative to ease the pain."

"I don't have any pain, I just need to know how many people you saved."

"That's because I gave you the sedative." Iza grabbed Simmons arms looking deep into her eyes and practically yelled, "WHERE ARE THE OTHERS!"

"We only managed to rescue one person." Iza's eyes went wide.

"After all of this you only rescued one person?" She was livid.

"You told us to take Tony back to the plane and I was not willing to send in May," said Coulson. "You can join Tony in the medbay." Iza tried to walk by herself but was too exhausted and instead was half carried. As soon as she hit the bed she was asleep, forgetting about the amount of lives she couldn't save.

A blinding darkness encircled Iza as she stood amidst a sea of death. The stench of rotting bodies floated up from an abyss below. Suddenly a flash of lightning gave a clear view of a mountain of bones. The sound of thunder shocked Iza and sent her tumbling down the side. Her arms and legs were bruised and cut as she hit sharp pieces of bones. She landed in front of a skull, a human skull. She backed into the pile of bones as she noticed a figure taking shape in front of her. It was Derek, "Join, or die," his menacing voice spoke. She took another step backwards and then something grabbed her, a hand. It came straight out of the pile of bones, covered in blood. Another hand grabbed her and another and another, pulling her deeper into the pile, suffocating her.

Iza's eyes snapped open. She was panting, "Are you alright?" asked Tony who was kneeling by her side.

"Tony! You know, you should really get some rest," she said.

"I think you're the one who needs rest, you lost a lot of blood."

"So they filled you in."

"I'm still not sure who they is."

"S.H.I.E.L.D." Tony looked over at the heart rate monitor, it was beeping like crazy. Suddenly Simmons burst into the room.

"I got an alert," she spotted the heart rate monitor. "Your heart should not be beating that fast while you're just sitting here."

"It was just a bad dream, I'm fine."

"Sounds like more than just a dream, let me check your blood pressure." Iza pulled her arm away.

"I'm fine," her agitated voice spoke. Simmons sighed and left the room.

"You're not fine," spoke Tony reading her thoughts.

"No, I'm not. I was standing on a pile of bones and, Derek, he was there. I saw a human skull and he told me to 'Join or die.'" By this point Iza was shaking as her voice got quieter and quieter.

"It's okay, it was just a dream."

"No, no it wasn't. He was there, he was actually there. And that's what's going to happen to those people, I killed them. I slaughtered hundreds of people." Tears began to flow down her red cheeks. She never cried, ever. Iza tried her best to gather herself, but those people didn't deserve to die. It was all her fault, maybe if she hadn't joined the League in the first place, then none of this would have happened.

"How were you supposed to save them? It was three against hundreds of Strange, there was no way you were going to save all of them."

"But we could have at least saved more than one. We could have rescued at least thirty or forty."

"I just think you need to get some rest."

"What I need is to kill him, again. He is going to pay for what he did. And this time I will make sure he's gone." Iza ripped the IV out of her arm and started towards the door. Tony, without a second to lose grabbed the nearest sedative he could find and ran after her, quickly plunging it in her arm. Iza's eyes closed and she fell into a dreamless trance.