When I awoke I found my savior sleeping peacefully beside me as the sun rose. I went through everything that had just happened to me over the past twenty-four hours and all I wanted to do was scream out in joy, but instead all I did was silently smile. Shortly after, Steve woke up as well, staring at me with a confused look on his face, I promptly realized it was do to a strange girl staring at him while he slept which lead to a small blush appearing on my cheeks as I suddenly found the ceiling very interesting. He let out a small chuckle and suggested we should get some breakfast. We both quickly got out of bed and headed to the kitchen. The sunlight felt good on my face and the bright blue sky gave me a wonder filled hope as Steve and I entered the kitchen, then a less appealing moment approached, meeting the Avengers, not expectedly bad, but still so many new people at once made me very uncomfortable. Steve seeing my uneasiness decided an introduction was in order.
"Good morning guys! I would like you all to meet…"still unable to talk I did something that I can say in complete confidence none of them would ever expect. Unable to ever use my powers, other than the little time I remember out of a cell it was a new or renewed sensation when took water out of a glass and used it to spell out my name. Steve caught my smirk as they all slowly said the letters out loud as I was spelling them.
"M…I…N…A, Mina", they all said in unison.
After that I returned the water to the glass, and of course Tony was the first one to speak. " So… is anyone gonna say anything about how freaking awesome that was! Seriously kid that was beyond amazing, Steve can we keep her?" Tony asks gleefully.
"Really Tony, you're the one who wanted to turn her over to SHEILD" Steve counters.
"Oh no way Fury would suck all the fun out of her, "Tony explains.
"Well anyway, Mina, that's Tony or better known as Iron Man" I give a small wave from behind Steve, where I ended up after Tony's shouting even though it was in excitement not rage it still rattled me a bit, to acknowledge and he nods and he ingests more of whatever is in that metallic pack in his hands.
Then he points to a pale, red-haired woman with a stone-cold face and says, "And that is Natasha Romanoff, or Black Widow. I give her a small smirk and her face instantly softens as she gives a small smirk of her own. It gave me the feeling that I could somehow trust her I didn't give in to those feelings yet I would see how time would prove or disprove that theory. Continuing with the introductions I got acquainted with Clint or Hawkeye and Dr. Bruce Banner, who despite his quite calm and shy demeanor turned into the Hulk, a "not so jolly green giant" as so eloquently put by Tony which was awarded by a very confused look from me, but I let it go. Steve said they were called the Avengers, basically "Earth's mightiest heroes". They all seemed nice enough, but really didn't talk to me much, all except for Tony who kept hounding me with questions until Steve threatened to tape his mouth shut if he didn't stop. After the most delicious breakfast I've had since my incarceration, all of them went their separate ways, the two SHIELD agents said they were headed to their base for missions, the doctor said her was going down to the lab, Tony said he'd be in his workshop and didn't want to be disturbed and Steve said he was headed down to the gym, and as for me, I decided I would just explore the Tower.
-Point of view change (narrator) brought to you by metallically packed blueberries-
Wondering around the Tower somehow she managed to make it to a library. Reading, honestly she didn't know if she could still do it but thought it was worth a shot. When Mina entered, the walls were filled to the brim with books except for one that happened to be the biggest window she'd ever seen, and not even hoped to imagine. To use one word to describe it, the only thing that came to her mind was amazing, utterly and wonderfully amazing. Mina silently read for hours. Mountains upon mountains of books were stacked all around her by the time she had finished, she had read a good quarter of the enter library, and it was only five o' clock. She realized then that she was hungry, so she decided to go back to the kitchen.
Meanwhile, in the lab Tony was trying to decipher the encrypted files he had gotten from the Hydra Lab.
"Jarvis, run all hacking programs on files one through eight on disk drive two,"
"No problem sir, it should be decoded in one hour"
"Thanks"
Mina found her way back to the kitchen and opened the fridge, it had been so long since she had had solid food, it almost seemed to good to be true, but then she realized she had no idea how to cook for herself. So she left the kitchen, in search for Steve. She found him downstairs in the gym, his punches echoing through the whole room, it scared her, that look in his eyes, a mix of not so happy emotions; rage centered and was surrounded by fear, sadness, and regret, swam through his pupils. At that moment she knew that her savior had seen as much pain and sorrow, as she had, maybe not the same type, but pain and sorrow all the same. As the final blow was struck on the punching bag before it broke Steve looked over to see a very frightened short, white-haired girl. In udder surprise he managed to squeeze out, "Oh, hi Mina didn't see you there, um did you need something?" anything to keep her mind off what she saw him doing, he thought to himself. She gave him an unsure nod, yes and put her hand on her stomach. Realizing the reference to the universal symbol they both headed up for lunch. After Steve made burgers, thoughtfully making enough for the other Avengers to have later he sat beside Mina, she decided that she wanted to try to communicate with him, she wanted him to understand her and somehow maybe come to except her, maybe as a friend, all she knew was that she didn't want to be alone anymore, she didn't want to live in the darkness anymore so she would force herself into this world of light and perfect strangers hopefully finding her way in the process. With this new declaration she began to speak, "Thh…is…is ggo…ood", soon afterwards she sighed in defeat. It was an understatement to say he was shocked, but after she finished all he could do was smile and say, "Thanks! Their my own special recipe,"
Back to Stark in the lab:
Jarvis announced, " All files have been decoded, sir,"
" Great lets crack this case Watson!"
"Of course sir…" Jarvis said sarcastically.
Suddenly Tony's holographic screens filled up with lab reports, of a test subject called "NueroFlame".
Lab report, #384:
· Subject reacts to flame with likeness and is seemingly flameproof, still no clear origin of said immunity, skin when separated burns normally, as well as hair. Unknown if she can create them but produces heat when in cooler tempatures.
· The subject is also starting to reject tranquilizer, its subconscious distress led to 7 casualties. Mental ability has continued to increase with age, it has now the following abilities known:
o Telekinesis
o Telepathy
o Levitation
o Pain Inducement
o Suspected Pyro kinesis
o Maybe more unknown, due to this only being displayed subconsciously
….Many lab reports later…..
Lab report, #487:
· Subject's brain activity is quickly decreasing, causes unknown but are speculated to be lack of human contact, though not proven. Dr. M is deciding whether to awaken her or not, it may be a potential threat to those near.
"That seems to be last one sir"
"Well it looks like Mina is a mutant, NueroFlame, cool right!"
"…Of course sir"
"Yeah, maybe it could be her hero name!"
"Her mental stability would make her unable to perform the acts of an avenger sir"
"She'll come around! She just needs to get back into society! Cap's doing fine"
" That is accurate observation sir"
"Hey where is the old capsicle anyway?"
"Captain Rogers and Miss Mina are both in the kitchen eating sir"
"Perfect I'm famished, and Jarvis get all the other Avengers to come to the kitchen"
" No problem sir Agents Romanoff and Barton will return to the Tower in approximately ten minutes"
"Good"
-Back in the kitchen-
Steve and Mina were finishing their burgers as Tony enters.
"Hey there cap!" "NueroFlame" Tony said seductively while wiggling his eyebrows in a similar fashion. At the mention of this name Mina suddenly jumped, and stood backing away.
"Hey, hey didn't mean to startle you just thought it was a pretty cool name,"
"Leave her alone Stark," Steve turns to a frightened Mina and says, "Its okay, its over no one is going to hurt you anymore". Mina was trying to decide whether to trust him or not, but then she remembered that if she was to get out of the darkness, she would need to trust, so she walked to Steve slowly and cautiously, but when she was next to him she wrapped her arms around her waist, and brought her into a warm embrace, she tried to commit this moment to her memory, this is want she wanted, this was the enemy to her darkness and the cure to her loneliness, family.
"Yeesh get a room already", ruining the moment Steve quickly let go of Mina and proceeded to turn a very hot shade of red and said,
"Get more mind out of the gutter Stark,"
"Whatever you say capsicle, I just came to report my findings on little Mina here". Mina returned her hand to Steve's waist. He looked down at her and gave her that famous reassuring smile; it hadn't failed her yet so she decided to trust that it wouldn't fail her now, which managed to put her a little at ease.
"Shouldn't we wait for the other Avengers?"
"Already on it, they'll be down in ten minutes"
Suddenly that made Mina start to shake, so many people, she didn't know how they would all react, she thought maybe they wouldn't be to surprised, if anything she could count on Steve couldn't she? Surely he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her.
Well, there it is, I might add on to it or just leave it and start working on the next chapter, I would love to get some feed back it is my first fanfic after all and all suggestions and critiques are welcome!
