Steve

It had been a couple hours since he and Stark had held Percy down for his physical and the Avengers had all periodically checked in on the sleeping teen. The scars covering the young man's body were serious, not from normal childhood accidents, they couldn't have even come from the unfortunately normal range of possible childhood abuses. Something unspeakable had happened to the kid.

Torture. Steve was certain of it.

Suddenly Steve heard soft cries. The team were all casting concerned glances down the hall, where Percy seemed to be having a nightmare of some sort. But they all shot to their feet when a piercing scream of sheer pain came down the hall. Steve sprinted ahead of the others to rip open the bedroom door. Percy was thrashing around his bed violently clawing at the sheets, sobbing the name Annabeth over and over again. He reached the bed first.

"Percy." He called, he grabbed the kid's shoulder. He kept thrashing, spitting out words in another language he didn't recognize mixed with the cries for someone named Annabeth.

"Percy," He tried again. The other Avengers has filed in at that point, and were watching Steve try to wake up the distressed teen.

"Percy, wake up!" Steve shouted a little louder, 'you're ok, it's just..." Just then Percy shot up, grabbing Steve's arm tightly, twisting it skillfully into a painful hold behind Steve's back.

"Hey, hey. Kid. You're ok, you're safe." He continued to reassure as he waited for the kid to come back to reality. Percy's erratic sobs slowed as he looked around the roomful of Avengers. The hands gripping his arm tightly recoiled, as though he'd been burned. Steve straightened up, and stepped away slowly; both hands out in front of him to prove he wasn't a threat.

When Percy's breathing evened out, he wordlessly rolled off the bed. As he stood up, Percy adjusted his twisted up shirt, which had ridden up, revealing the terrible scarring, before heading to the bathroom. Steve exchanged another glance with his team. They all seemed to be thinking the same thing.

'What the hell happened to this kid?'