"Sam calm down, I'm okay. I wasn't prepared for that reaction but I'm glad Vision was," Amnesia says watching as Sam paces at the end of her bed glancing at her from time to time. She's been awake for about ten minutes, in which she told him what happened and he decided he didn't like her answer too much.
"It was reckless," Sam responds protectively, scolding her like she was a child.
"It was Vision, I knew he wouldn't hurt me on purpose. I just saw what he dreams about."
"What does he dream about?" Sam asks pausing in curiosity.
"Weird ass aliens. Now would you calm down?"
"Okay what happened?" Tony Stark yells as he walks into the room not knowing she was awake but hoping she would be, even if he woke her.
"Sorry bub you missed story time," Amnesia states glaring at him.
"You blew up my kitchen I deserve and answer," Tony contradicts and Amnesia rolls her eyes.
"I was making cookies and they were explosively brilliant," she says sarcastically earning a glare from Tony. "I got bored and I touched the mind stone because I was curious, there was a power exchange I wasn't expecting that ended in an explosion, Vision protected us," she summarizes.
"Yeah, he can't make a force field you sure that was him?"
"He had extra power, everyone can do a lot more than they think if they have the energy," Amnesia says. "To give you an idea of how much energy he had, I passed out because I didn't have any.
"Okay, well, no leaving the compound for your date I don't think it'd be smart," Tony says to Sam.
"What date?" Amnesia asks quickly decidedly jealous although she's not quite sure what the feeling is.
"Oh you didn't ask her yet?" Tony says and Sam gives him a warning glare but that doesn't stop Tony. "I heard that Sam was going to take you out on a date," Tony says smugly.
"I think you're lying," she replies not batting an eye. Sam wouldn't take her on a date unless e wanted something, at least that's what she convinced herself.
"Of course you do," Tony says before walking off unaware they were just about to follow.
"She says she touched Vision's mind stone, as she called it and there was an energy exchange and boom. That wonderful little force field you can make but you don't have the energy usually," Tony summarizes for everyone sitting around a table in a different part of the compound.
"Has there been any other incidents?" Tony asks. "Because we might want to move her somewhere more remote where she can't kill fifty people."
"We can't have this conversation without Sam present Tony, he's part of the team," Steve says with a sigh.
"But she is not, I'm not saying we abandon or lock her up, I'm saying we should move her to some island away from everyone," Tony says. "Sam can even go with her."
"And I'm less trustworthy than him?" Steve asks looking at Natasha in disbelief.
"Tony calm down," Rhodes says keeping a level head, prepared to not think as rash as his friend does.
"She's cost a lot in equipment damage, that's not to mention that all the explosions can't just be missed by the public. May I remind you, this is supposed to be a secret base. This isn't X-Men, we can't just rebuild in the same location every time we get blown up."
"We promised to help her and we will," Steve says meeting Tony's angry eyes.
"Who thinks it'd be safer if she was away?" Tony asks raising his hand. Nat raises her hand and Steve looks at her waiting for her to explain herself and trying not to look like a betrayed puppy.
"It would be safer until she gained control of her abilities. Protocol would have had us take her in and put her in lock down anyway and we didn't."
"Because having her sedated and strapped to a hospital bed so people could run tests on her and see if she was quote unquote safe, would not have been good for her," Sam thunders making his presence known.
"Oh look here's loverboy now, come to defend his girlfriend. Speaking of where is she?" Tony says. Rhodes sees a flash of silvery white and assumes she's behind him Sam.
"Tony," Rhodes warns, not for Tony's sake, but for the girl's. He knows her least of all the team but he doesn't want to see something bad happen to her, not after all she's been through. He's been rooting for her you could say. Sam steps aside giving Tony a glare but is taken aback to see she's already gone.
"Where'd she go?" Tony yells.
"She was right behind me," Sam yells in return and Wanda pushes past them unnoticed though she isn't very secretive about it. She hones in on Amnesia's mind though she isn't able to read it and follows her back to her room. Natasha decided to follow a few seconds later but stays quietly behind Wanda, allowing her to talk Amnesia down but close enough to listen without being noticed.
"We're not going to send you away you know," Wanda says watching Amnesia shove a few items into a back pack.
"I know, but I'm beginning to think some day I might have to run. I don't particularly trust Steve that's true, but you all find it odd that I can trust Tony. It's more complicated than that. A dishonest man will be dishonest, that makes Tony predictable. An honest man tells the truth that makes Steve powerful and if the truths are malevolent, extremely unpredictable. I know a lot about Hydra, a lot of terrifying information. He wants that information, and he wants to use it. As for Natasha, you can trust her to look out for herself but never anyone else. She falls back on herself; Sam...I like Sam, he likes me too but I can't be what he needs. Vision will do whatever he sees is best for the entire world, that's what he's programmed to do. Rhodes will side with Tony and you, you're new to the group. Almost as new as me, I think that's why you like me and because of that, unless you're on their side, they're not going to listen to a word you say.
"If something happens...I'll have to go on the run, and trust me when I say this," Amnesia says looking over Wanda's shoulder and meeting Natasha's eyes as she delivers her final statement. "You won't find me again."
"Guys, Heath Ledger is brilliant," Amnesia murmurs watching the psychopathic clown named Joker "interrogate" a wannabe Batman in the Dark Knight Rises.
"We should get you started on comics," Tony says and Amnesia nods. Things have calmed down between everyone, it has been two weeks and the replacement kitchen has been built along with newer, better replacements of what was also destroyed. Tony apologized for what he said and everything was a bit more normal than before although Amnesia had taken to calling Tony out for not sleeping. Between forget-me-not, as he'd decided to call Amnesia, and Pepper, he had no sanctuary from people nagging him about sleep. They were friends in the loosest of terms.
Tony had also taken step to reach out to Amnesia in an unspoken apology. After all, he was the only one that could safely hep her manage her affinity for energy without blowing all the lights in the compound. She in return helped him with projects, outsmarting him almost all the time. They spent a decent amount of time together and Sam was starting to get jealous though he'd never admit that. Amnesia was beginning to realize that although she still spent a good hunk of her day with him, she missed Sam.
"We need more popcorn," Tony says looking at Amnesia expectantly.
"You're a big boy, get it yourself," she replies but unfortunately, she had to get up anyways to put her book back and grab a different one or something else to occupy her busy mind.
"Thank you," Tony calls out smugly as she takes the bowl and heads for the kitchen. She pauses before she steps into the kitchen as she hears Steve talking to whom she doesn't know quite yet.
"She knows what they did to him. She might be able to help us find him. Then we can fix him and get him back into shape," Steve says and Amnesia knows they're talking about her James. She was right. They want him back, and they're just going to keep torturing him.
"All right, I'll see what she knows," the person Steve was talking to says and Amnesia's heart breaks. The only person in the compound that she fully trusted just agreed to help the person trying to hurt her. The person was Sam Wilson.
"Thank you and maybe you could, I don't know, finally get the nerve and just ask her out already? I mean, you're worse than I am." The captain says and Amnesia decides she needs to make the popcorn and carry on as usual before she makes her next move. "There she is, just who we were talking about," Steve says merrily when he sees her step into the kitchen.
"Hey, do you know where the popcorn is?" She asks looking into the cupboards, not ready to even attempt to look at Sam doesn't know if she'll be able to without causing anomalies in the electricity.
"Uhm, right here," Sam says reaching for a cupboard behind her and standing closer to her than people that are not involved with each other do.
"Thanks," she mumbles taking an awkward step away from him and to the microwave, ignoring the contact that came with their arms brushing.
"What's wrong?" Sam asks picking up on her mood way too easily.
"Nothing I uh found out Heath Ledger is dead and I'm just disappointed because he made a fantastic Joker," Amnesia lies finding it surprisingly easy to lie to a person pretending to be a friend.
"Yeah, he was. Are you and Tony watching the Dark Knight Rises," Sam agrees as Amnesia puts the popcorn in the microwave, nodding to answer Sam's question. "Would you like to go out tonight? Like on a date?" He asks hoping he hides his nervousness and trying to ignore Steve giving him two thumbs up behind Amnesia's back. She wants to say no and go to her room and mourn the loos of a friend but she knows she can't. They started a game of cat and mouse, and she decided she would be the wolf.
"Love to," Amnesia says deciding it would make or break her stay here.
An hour before they're set to leave, Amnesia hides her backpack in the back of Sam's car after hearing that they're going to some restaurant away from the compound.