Happy Tuesday, my lovely readers! I am so glad that the rush of Christmas is over and done with, work is actually quiet for once, which is really nice!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Marvel characters that may be used or any Marvel storylines or arcs.

Claimer: I only own the character Elizabeth Jones (Lowri Jones and any other names she uses) and her story past, present and future.

Recap

"And all these years, I thought you were the only soldier not scared of me." Lowri laughed, she took another sip of her drink. "Okay, so all the soldiers I met were ir could have been scared of me at one point. God, we were fighting a bloody war, I could have been nicer."

Steve chuckled and looked at her.

"I wasn't scared of yo after we spent some time together and after we kissed, I felt like the luckiest man on the planet. I couldn't keep the smile off my face and when I got back to the room I shared with Bucky, I was grinning like an idiot and he teased me until we both fell asleep." Steve said, "And then you saw me and that private... I felt so stupid."

"Good." Lowri said firmly, her smile dropped from her face. "That really did hurt,"

"I'm sorry." Steve said quietly, he grasped her hand and squeezed gently.

"It's alright, Steve. It only hurt because I fell in love with you so quickly and so easily, and I was the happiest woman alive at that moment in time." Lowri said, she looked up at him and watched the numerous expressions run through his eyes. "Of course, I was more upset and angry with myself than you."

"Why?" Steve asked slowly.

"Because I was stupid for letting myself fall for you so quickly. I never do that." Lowri said. "But I know you weren't at fault either. What were you going to do when this beautiful young woman throws herself at you to thank you fir saving so many lives? She saw you as a new hunk of meat, a hero on the outside. She saw the muscle. But she didn't know you as I do." Lowri shuffled back against the pillows, careful not to move her feet much. "I saw you as a man overcoming so much, I knew you as an honest man, a remarkable, honest, charming and caring man. And you didn't even know it."

"I'm just a kid from Brooklyn." Steve said quietly after a long moment.

Lowri nudged his arm with hers, making him look at er.

"Who just so happens went on a joy trip to Austria to save his best friend and ended up saving more than four hundred men in the process and much more."

Steve rolled his eyes at her and then looked down at his beer.

"Who'd have thought that we'd be in this position, seventy years later?" Steve asked with a small smile.

Lowri nodded her head and took a sip of her beer. She certainly didn't.

In less than two hours later, Lowri woke up with a small jump and she was surprised to find out that her head was resting on Steve's shoulder and her arm was draped over his chest, she was cwtched into his side and his arm was around her shoulders protectively, he was on his back. Steve was in a deep sleep but what surprised Lowri most of all was that her journal was on his lap. He must have read it when she was asleep.

Lowri let herself relax in his arms, relieved to feel no sudden impulse to leave him. She was almost healed. Apart from small moments when she forgets that she's healed, she feels fine and she can be around him.

She slowly untangled herself from him and took herself to the bathroom. She showered, dressed in a pair of dark jean and a t-shirt, then she felt slightly chilly so she pulled on a hoody and left the bathroom. Steve was still passed out on top of her bed and he looked so peaceful that she left him there.

The large space where the party was held mere hours ago was still a wreck, glass was everywhere, tables were overturned and the bar was destroyed. Lowri took the stairs down to one of the cinema rooms and she turned the large screen on and began watching the news, in hopes of catching a glimpse of the killer robot. Of course, last night had not been a dream.

There was a small mention of the party Tony had thrown because the noise could be heard from some parts of town but there was nothing about this Ultron.

Maybe it had been a horrible, horrible dream but Lowri couldn't kid herself. The bandages she had stripped from her feet this morning in the shower wasn't a dream, they were real. The thick bandaging around her torso wasn't a dream. The pain in her side was real.

An hour later, the Tower showed signs of life.

"Where did you and Rogers disappear off to?" Nat asked as she threw herself into a chair beside Lowri with a travel mug full of strong coffee.

Lowri tilted her head and looked at Nat and then sniffed at the air.

"As I recall, everyone left the room, leaving Steve and I together." Lowri pointed out. "We went down to my room. Well, he carried me down." She saw the look Nat threw her way and rolled her eyes. "I stepped in glass last night when I tried to calm Thor down and stop him from killing Tony. Steve picked the glass out, cleaned the cuts and bandaged my feet up, then we drunk beers and talked about how I scared him."

"Cute." Nat said before sipping her coffee. "You scared him?"

"Apparently, I was rather intimidating back in the day." Lowri admitted.

"I can totally see you being like that." Nat said with a smirk, "A total dragon."

"I miss being a total dragon." Lowri said. "Back when I had a rank and a purpose."

"Is there anything in the news about Ultron?" Nat asked.

"Nothing." Lowri sighed, "If this thing is really an AI built by Tony and Bruce, then it's gonna be super smart already so it probably knows not to act in public."

"I agree. It'll work behind the scenes." Nat agreed.

"Maybe someone will have picked up a trace of this Ultron as he escaped on the internet. I'm sure that some people do that sort of thing for fun."

Lowri let out a sigh and Nat looked over with a smile on her face.

"What do you want, Ri?" Nat asked with a laugh.

"Your coffee is making me want some tea." Lowri said with a laugh.

"Go make some then, grandma." Nat said with a sly smile.

"Well, someone is in a bad mood." Lowri said, she pushed herself to her feet and moved towards the door. "Do you want me to get Bruce for you? I'm sure he can calm you down."

Lowri was already past Nat at this point, so Nat tossed a pillow at Lowri and she easily dodged it.

Once in the large kitchen, she made herself a cup of tea. Then her phone rang and it was Tony, calling her up to the meeting room.

Lowri walked up with her steaming cup of tea and entered the room just as Tony finished off his sentence.

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us." Tony said.

Lowri quickly looked around the room, everyone was already gathered. Nat was sat at a computer and so was Bruce, probably trying to find a trace of Ultron to track it down. But everyone, bar Bruce, was gathered around Nat's computer but they were all looking at a tablet.

"Who did a Banksy?" Lowri asked as she stepped closer, she placed her cup of tea on a placemat on the desk where Nat sat, shared a smile with Nat before taking the tablet that Tony offered her.

"Ultron." Tony replied shortly.

"This is a smokescreen. Why send us a message when you've just given a speech?" Nat asked as she typed on the computer.

Lowri looked down at the tablet and for the first time in her life, she set eyes upon the man who did so much to her in such little time. Her heart missed a beat and she had to remind herself to keep breathing. Baron von Strucker, dead in a jail cell with a metal man in the side of the photo and the word 'PEACE' written just behind Strucker in blood.

She couldn't take her eyes from the tablet screen, her eyes were locked onto Strucker. She couldn't help it.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve said, he took a step closer to the group and he looked around. His words shook her from her trance and Lowri quickly placed the tablet on the desk, away from her.

"Yeah. I bet he… yeah, everything we had on Strucker's been erased." Nat said with a sigh and she looked up from the computer.

Steve looked at Lowri with wonder, and Lowri narrowed her eyes at him in confusion,

"Not everything." Steve said slowly, keeping his eyes on Lowri.

"What are you talking about, Cap?" Clint asked. It dawned on Lowri.

"Do you guys remember my hobby of printing everything out, even though we had the electrical copies?" Lowri asked slowly.

"Yeah. Costed me a bomb and a half." Tony replied quickly.

"You practically burn money, stop whining." Lowri said, "I kinda kept up the hobby after I healed… so check the storage room down the hall."

"You're a 19th century genius." Tony said before he kissed her forehead and left the room with Bruce and Thor.

Steve raised his eyebrows at her but he said nothing because Nat was still in the room, typing away at her computer.

All of the boxes that Lowri had neatly and carefully filled and stacked on Strucker were now in the meeting room with them and most of the paper was strewn across the floor, tossed there in impatience.

There was plenty of information in the boxes, known associates, hobbies and pretty much everything that they had on Strucker.

"Baron Strucker had a lot of friends." Steve said as he rifled through one of the boxes.

"Well, these people are all horrible." Bruce said with a sigh.

"Wait." Tony said, he reached his hand out and stopped Bruce from tossing the file he held into the useless pile. "I know that guy." Tony reached for the file and peered at it. Lowri stepped around the table and peered at it, the guy in the folder was Ulysses Klaus. "From back in the day. He operates off the African Coast. Black market arms." Tony glanced up and spied Steve's stern look. "There are conventions." Tony said quickly in his defence, this time it was Lowri giving him one of her stern looks. "You meet people. I didn't sell him anything."

"This?" Thor asked, gesturing to one of the profile photos of Klaus. It was showing him getting into a car, showing off the back of his neck where he had plenty of tattoos.

"Ah. It's a tattoo. I don't think he had it when I met him." Tony said.

"Those are tattoos." Thor said, pointing to the black markings on Klaus' skin. "This is a brand."

Bruce narrowed his eyes at the brand and then returned to his computer, within seconds he pulled up the exact replica of the brand and its meaning.

"Oh yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning 'thief'. In a much less friendly way." Bruce explained as he turned back to the group.

"What dialect?" Steve asked.

"Wakanada." Bruce said firmly. He squinted at the word on the screen as Lowri perked up. Familiar. "Wa-Wak-Wakanda."

Tony and Steve looked up at each other and Lowri stared at Bruce. No way.

"If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods…" Tony trailed off.

"I thought your father said he got the last of it." Steve pointed out.

"Howard is a little out of date by now. There's modern diggers that can go deeper than any diggers back then." Lowri said, "It's completely possible."

Both men looked up at her quickly.

"Did you just call Dad out-dated?" Tony asked with a little bit of humour.

"I did." Lowri admitted.

"He'd hate you right now." Tony said with a smile.

"I don't follow." Bruce said, he got up from the computer and stepped back over to the paper strewn table. "What comes out of Wakanda?"

"The strongest metal on earth." Tony replied as he and Steve stepped away from each other to show Steve's shield, propped up against the wall.

"Where is this guy now?" Steve asked, looking directly at Tony.

It took a bit more rifling in the boxes but they eventually managed to pin point the location of Klaus, which was back on the African coast in a salvage yard.

The group suited up, all except Lowri, and they headed onto the jet.

Nat and Clint headed up the cockpit since the autopilot was taken out of the jet and Lowri sat on the table in the centre of with her shirt pulled up to the top of her waist as Bruce took out her stitches.

"Is this the first time you've ever had stitches?" Bruce asked as he carefully pulled out the stitches.

"Yeah." Lowri said, she clenched her hand into a fist as he pulled out another stitch. "Never again. Next time, just let me bleed out. I'll heal eventually."

"You weren't healing as quickly as you should." Bruce said, "You have to be careful. You're not indestructible anymore."

"I never was indestructible." Lowri said quietly. She caught sight of Steve watching her carefully. "I took loads of hits over the years, I bleed, I break bones, I just recover quicker than anyone else."

Bruce looked up at her.

"Well, you heal slower now." Bruce said firmly.

Once all the stitches were out, Lowri jumped off the table and took herself into the left wing where she hid behind a screen and suited up. Her side was a little sore and the boots she wore added support to her feet.

Lowri came around the screen and headed out to the rest of the group as she strapped her handguns into their holsters and tightened her sleeve.

Clint parked up the jet about a mile away from the huge, deserted salvage yard and they left Bruce on board with instructions not to go into Code Green unless said so.

The rest of the group trooped across the desert until they reached the ship they were looking for, the Churchill.

"He was a horrible guy." Lowri remarked as they neared the ship. "Bit of an alcoholic. Bit grumpy. Liked telling women where their places were, but he got there in the end."

"Who? You've met this Klaus guy too?" Clint asked.

"No." Lowri said, she gestured to the ship. "Churchill."

Tony muttered something about old people and Steve shot him a look before they grew silent and entered the ship stealthily.

They split up as soon as they got inside. Clint and Nat headed for the higher vantage points while Thor, Tony, Steve and Lowri stayed on the ground floor, waiting and watching.

Tony and Thor were on one side, just in sight of the bridge leading over to where Klaus, one of his men, the Maximoff twins and a tall robot, which was very similar to Tony's Iron Man Suit, this must be Ultron.

Steve and Lowri were one the other side, pressed against the wall and peering around the corner at the scene playing out in front of them.

Klaus was flanked by one of his men as he opened two sliding doors to reveal barrels and barrels of toxic waste, which made no sense at all, but then Klaus hit a button and the barrels of toxic waste were lowered into the floor and dozens of tubes of raw Vibranium came down from the ceiling.

"Holy shit." Lowri cussed under her breath. Steve looked back at her sharply and she merely widened her eyes. Now was not the time to worry about her language.

Klaus picked up a tube of raw Vibranium and passed it over to Ultron and Ultron looked at it closely.

"Upon this rock, I will build my church." Ultron said before tossing the tube over to Pietro Maximoff.

He looked pale and his eyes were sunken, his sister looked pretty much the same.

"You know, it came at a great personal coat." Klaus said slowly, he brought his hand up to the back of his neck and rubbed at the brand. "It's worth billions."

Ultron chuckled, it sounded strange but completely humanlike at the same time. He closed his eyes and leant back slightly, as if thinking.

"Now, so are you. It's all under your dummy holdings. Finance is so weird." Ultron said as Klaus' man checked on a phone at their banks.

Lowri leant back and looked up at Steve.

"It's so humanlike. It's unsettling." Lowri said in a quiet voice. Steve nodded his head to agree with her.

"But, as I always say, keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which." Ultron continued.

Klaus looked up at his man with a sceptical look and they shared another look before looking up at Ultron.

"Stark." Klaus said slowly.

"What?" Ultron asked.

"Tony Stark used to say that, to me. You're one of his." Klaus said quickly.

There was a sudden change in the air around Ultron and Lowri sensed it from where she was stood. Ultron became hostile and defensive quickly, he displayed these humane emotions so easily.

"What? I'm not…" Ultron grabbed Klaus' arm angrily and held on tightly. Klaus' man immediately drew out his firearm but Wanda Maximoff was quicker, she moved her hands with a red glow about them and the man's hand was knocked to the side.

"I'm not… you think I'm one of Stark's puppets? His hollow men? I mean look at me. Do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing!" Ultron steadily grew angrier and angrier, he raised his arm as he spoke and drew his arm down sharply on Klaus' arm, he cleanly sliced Klaus' forearm off and he dropped it to the floor.

Klaus stumbled backwards in shock, gripping at his injured arm.

"I'm sorry. I'm… Oh! I'm sure that's gonna be okay. I'm sorry. It's just that I don't understand. Don't compare me with Stark!" Ultron kicked out at Klaus and hit him square in the chest, Klaus went flying backwards and down a set of stairs with his man following him quickly. "It's a thing with me. Stark is… he's a sickness."

Ultron was showing scary signs of multi personalities and it was scary.

Tony and Thor moved out first, shortly followed by Steve and Lowri.

"Ah, Junior." Tony said teasingly as he landed at the head of the small group, just halfway across the narrow metal bridge. "You're gonna break your old man's heart."

Ultron and the Maximoff twins turned to face them, Ultron looked intimidatingly tall from this close up and the twins looked wild.

Lowri looked at the Maximoff twins first, half wondering if they had willingly sided with Ultron or if they were being forced to be there, but judging by how their stance changed from half-relaxed to completely defensive, they were here by choice. Damn kids.

"If I have to." Ultron said simply, taking a small step towards the group.

"Nobody has to break anything." Thor said seriously.

"Clearly, you've never made an omelette before." Ultron replied quickly. He's humorous too?

"He beat me by one second." Tony said, turning his head to look at Lowri and Thor.

"Ah, yes. He's funny, Mr Stark. This is what, comfortable?" Pietro asked as he turned his head to the side and looked at the large bombs stock piled below them. "Like old times?"

"This was never my life." Tony insisted, he looked down at the bombs too.

"You two can still walk away from this." Steve said, looking at both of the Maximoffs.

"Oh, we will." Wanda replied smoothly.

"I know you've suffered." Steve said gently.

Ultron scoffed and gestured wildly.

"Captain America. God's righteous man." Ultron scoffed, Steve looked sharply at Ultron. "Pretending you could live without a war." Lowri saw in the corner of her eye how Steve stiffened when Ultron spoke those words. "I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but-"

"Then why are you trying to start a war against us?" Lowri asked, she took a step forward and clenched both her hands into fists.

"Hydra's secret weapon." Ultron said slowly, almost a sneer. "Turned against them. How ironic for you to care so much for a man you want to kill."

"Hydra has no hold on me anymore." Lowri hissed.

"Hydra always had control." Ultron said smoothly. "You just didn't know it."

"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor said firmly, he stepped up beside Lowri.

"I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'." Ultron said, gesturing with his hands.

"Uh huh. What's the Vibranium for?" Tony asked, nodding his head towards the Vibranium tubes.

"I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to use this time to explain my evil plan." Ultron said and swiftly, he threw his hand up and used a magnetic force to pull Tony towards him and at the same time, three suits flew out and dove down at Thor, Steve and Lowri.

The suit that went for Lowri was moving fast, a little too fast for her to heat up her hands and grab hold, instead, as she was heating up her hands, the suit punched her with its metal fist in the shoulder and Lowri went flying backwards.

Lowri dove at the suit just as her hands heated up and she grabbed its legs and then blocked hits from the suit. Her forearms were going to be dotted with bruises the next day.

The suit made a swing for her head and Lowri released her hold on the suit as she ducked. As the suit drew back its arm for another hit, Lowri moved quickly, she brought the fire to her hands and brought her flaming hand to the suit's neck and melted the metal, the suit fell at her feet with the head rolling off the bridge.

Lowri heard Thor grunt loudly and she spun to look and ducked just in time as the hammer was thrown over her head and hit a suit square in the chest and then Lowri caught sight of Steve pressed against the railing of the bridge, held at the neck by a suit, Steve looked as though he was close to falling off the bridge.

Lowri spun to him and threw her hands up. A stream of fire came out of her hands and blasted the head off the suit.

Steve leant forwards with a hand to his neck as the suit collapsed at his feet, Steve looked up at her but another suit appeared and went for Thor.

Thor easily threw the suit down but he was shoved into the wall hard by Pietro Maximoff and Steve dived for Wanda Maximoff and Steve was blasted backwards.

Men lined the walkways above and began raining bullets down on the floor simultaneously. Lowri shot off into the air above them fighting with another suit who seemed to enjoy fist fights.

Finally, the suit fell from the sky with the neck melted and Lowri floated alone, trying to gather her breath. She could see the drama unfolding below and she could also see Klaus' men aiming their weapons on her.

Lowri dived down immediately, avoiding most of the gunfire. She dove on the remaining suit.

"Thor, status?" Steve asked over comms.

"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care. I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty." Thor said and then he seemed to disappear.

Lowri melted through the neck of the suit and the head fell off the bridge, Lowri tossed the body with it and looked around herself, she was alone on the bridge.

Then she heard distinct yells, to aim all firearms at her. Panic took over and before Lowri could even think about moving out of the way, the first shot was fired.

Bullets hit the floor beside her and bounced off into different directions and then the pain exploded from her shoulder as a bullet went straight through.

"Ah!" Lowri yelped, she spun and hit the railing with her uninjured arm and stumbled against it. More bullets rained down on her and another bullet hit her in the thigh. Lowri yelled out again and she lost her grip on the railing, she fell to her knees and as she fell, another bullet went straight through her stomach, causing her to double over in pain, Lowri clutched at the railing with a white hand while her other hand went to her stomach.

All of this had taken less than thirty seconds and Lowri was bleeding out on the bridge quickly.

"Lowri!" Steve yelled, Lowri looked up at him to see him running down one of the walkways on her level and he neared quickly. Lowri took her hand from her stomach and reached for him with her bloody hand and his name bubbled on the tip of her tongue but it never escaped. It was too late.

A bullet buried itself in her forehead.

Lowri's body jolted backwards and a small trickle of blood began trailing down from the gunshot wound in her forehead and down her face, her hand from the railing and Lowri landed on her back with a loud thud, her mouth was slack and her eyes were lifeless.

Blood poured from her stomach and her shoulder and her head while the blood spurted out of her thigh with each heartbeat, steadily getting less and less.

Steve pushed himself harder to get to her and before he could skid to his knees beside her, a gust of wind rushed past him before he felt contact. Hands shoved him hard and he went flying backwards and into a staircase.

He hit his head hard and tried to right himself to look at Lowri.

All Steve wanted to do was hold Lowri in is arms, to hold her body and try to keep the warmth inside her body but the next thing he knew, a pain was soaring through his head and his mind seemed to leave the body and all he could see was a red mist.

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