Her ears fill with a loud buzzing sound as she falls back from the explosion, her vision begins to blur as she looks over seeing Bucky run full speed in her direction as he lifts her head onto her lap trying to keep her awake before she completely blacks out.
Emily begins to groan as she turns her head side to side struggling to open her eyes which feel glued shut, as her eyes begin to finally flutter open she notices how white the walls are as she squints recognizing the equipment of Bruce's lab. She turns and sees Bucky sitting next to her holding her hand tightly as he sleeps. She smiles to herself as she looks up and sees Nat leaning on Bruce's shoulder both asleep on the other side of the room as she chuckles slightly, wincing at the pain. She smiles some more and puts her attention back on Bucky as she begins to softly play with the tips of his hair, waking him up slowly.
"Emily!" Bucky starts which wakes up Natasha quickly as she comes running over.
"Emily! Thank God, you're awake!" Nat says as she sits on the other side of her holding her other hand gently.
"I'm going to get Tony and the rest of the team," Bruce states with a smile as he walks out to gather the others.
"How long was I asleep for?"
"Almost two weeks, Em…" Nat starts in a soothing tone as Emily's eyes widen.
"Two weeks?!"
"Finally, you're awake!" Tony starts as he walks in with a blank expression.
Emily, still rearing in from the shock looks to him, "yeah, I guess so."
"Why did you do that, and how did you know what you had to do? Also what did you do exactly?" Tony asks as he drags a chair over leaning on one arm staring at her intently trying to figure out what happened.
Emily starts to go into detail explaining from what happened at the compound all the way until she collided with the stones together and mentioning her blackout and seeing Bucky was the last thing she can remember.
"But how did you know you had to collide the stones together?"
"I didn't,"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"I know that some stones when you hit them or rub against another stone it can scrape or even break them apart, since trying to diffuse the bomb wasn't working and shooting at it just made it stronger, hitting them together was my next guess…"
"You went off on a guess? That was very risky… you could have died!" Steve butts in emphasizing on that word as he looks at her intently.
"Yes, I could have, but I didn't, and from the looks of it everybody is okay too?" Emily asks as she looks around between everybody who is standing only a couple of them with bandages and scars.
"Yes, honestly, that is what I don't understand, you should have died. That explosion was big but it was like the explosion contained itself into something… Don't get me wrong I'm grateful you are alive but something was off about that part." Tony states as he gets up and paces back and forth in front of her.
"Is the stone still there?"
"No, we checked everywhere but there wasn't any stone." Nat starts.
"The box was there but not the stone." Bruce cuts in and finishes.
"So I destroyed it?"
"I think so," Tony pipes in.
"Yay!"
"Okay, we are going to let you rest, come on guys…" Bruce states as he kicks people out of his lab only Bucky staying behind.
"Are you okay?" Emily asks as Bucky sits back down next to her.
"I just wanted to talk to you."
"Okay, what's up?"
"My nightmare… It was about Hydra, you know what happened to me with them right?"
"I heard a bit about it, yes…" She says with an apologetic look as she grabs for his hand.
"All of my nightmares are about them, what they did to me, what I was forced to do for them."
"I'm so sorry-"
"And when I saw you, unconscious, losing so much blood, because of them, a rage like I haven't had in so long just took hold of me… I don't know what I would have done if something happened to you because of them…" Bucky finishes as he lays his head into her hand trying not to show too much emotion as he keeps a hard face on looking back up to her.
"Bucky, I'm okay, and now that you have me, we're going to kick some Hydra ass together, for everything they have done." Emily starts as she pulls his hand closer to her face resting it on her cheek as she leans her head on it. "Now come on, I would love to take a shower and lay in my own bed…" Emily starts as she tries to get up but a strike of pain runs through her back as she groans and Bucky quickly catches her from falling back down.
"Like I said, you lost a lot of blood, let me help you okay?" He says as he helps her up off the bed and back up to her room to get her settled into her bed.
The next day rolls around as Emily starts to wake up at around nine in the morning, being very careful as she walks down to the kitchen trying not to get dizzy. "Good morning everyone," Emily starts as she slowly walks in, seeing Wanda making a plate of breakfast ready and sets one down at the table for Emily.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Wanda asks as she sits down next to Emily with her own plate of food.
"Good, it hurts a little, but otherwise I'm okay."
"Emily, also forgot to mention yesterday, when you start to feel better you can join us on missions, only for when you feel up to it." Tony says sternly as he gets up from the table taking his plate to the sink.
Emily's eyes perk up immediately as a smile starts to form on her face, "wait, really?!"
"Yes, you did very well out there last time, plus you were injured so I guess it is about time I cut you some slack, you deserve it."
"Don't forget she did try to sacrifice herself for us…" Natasha says as she shoots Emily a look as sharp as daggers as Emily half smiles.
"Yeah, that too."
"Oh my gosh! Yes! I'm so happy!" Emily exclaims as she pounds a fist in the air and Bucky comes up behind her and grabs her fist with a smile.
"Why are you so happy?"
"Once I start to feel better I can go on missions with you!"
"That's great Em!" Bucky says with a smile as he goes to grab a plate of food from the kitchen and walks back to the table to sit next to Emily.
"Yees!" She limps/runs her way over to Bucky and hugs him as he hugs her back softly trying not to hurt her. Everyone looks between each other and them smiling, smirking, a few even chuckling at the two as they make googly eyes at them. Soon Emily clears her throat and goes to sit back down, " so, um, this is a great breakfast Wanda!" Emily starts as she starts to pile food into her mouth and everyone else just chuckles.
