So once again I was procrastinating, and decided to post another chapter. This story is starting to take off and I've gotten super excited to write it, but a little fearful it might run away on me lol. Please rate and review :)

I do not own these characters, just the OC

Enjoy

The soft humming and the gently vibration of the walls and the floor lulled Lexi gently into consciousness. Slowly opening her eyes she was met with the feeling of metal around her, she recognized that the room was lit and that it was bright. It took some time for her eyes to adjust to the brightness. She slowly started to ease herself up from the bed and registered her surroundings. She was a small room which smelt like cleaner, wearing white scrubs, on a small cot. Gentle beeping was also heard in the background, that's when she noticed that there was various things that showed moving images. She was very confused as to her surroundings, she knew that she was no longer in that cold dark room, yet she couldn't quite piece together how she managed on getting to her present location.

That's when she heard voices outside the doorway. They seemed muffled yet at the same time started to grow louder. The monitors started to beep louder, the humming of the room also seemed to grow louder. She put her hands to her ears trying to block out the sound, make everything quiet, yet it didn't seem to work and only grew worse when three men came into the room, seeming to have a very heated debate. She continued to try and block out the noise.

"I don't care she isn't even awake yet, you can't expect to get you any information without establishing we are here to help her."

"Dr. Banner I appreciate your concern towards the woman, but we need answers, and she's the only one that can give it to use."

"Director, I will have to agree with Dr. Banner."

"And once again I appreciate your concern, but I will get that information." Fury began to walk towards the now conscious woman, with an intent to gain those answers. Lexi looked up, while still covering her ears and looked at the man with the eye patch, who was glaring at her. She slowly began to drop her hands away from her ears and leveled her gaze at the man. "I need you to tell me why you were at that facility, and what they were doing with you." She continued to look at this man, with a quizzical look, she didn't even know his name and why they wanted her, she needed to be wary of these men she didn't know if they worked for the same people from before or not. She decided to listen to her grandmother's advice and play dumb regarding any questions about her. She decided not to use her voice and shake her head. Fury repeated his question, which earned him another shake of her head. He heaved a heavy sigh, then slowly raised his voice, "Why were those men holding you captive!" Lexi tensed up at the volume of his voice and shook her head more vigorously. He began to advance on the woman, with an outstretched hand. Unsure as to what he was planning she shuffled further away from the man, making herself as small as possible.

"Stop your scaring her, you aren't going to get any answers this way." Bruce said

"Director, please." Agent Coulson remarked.

Lexi was getting more and more uncomfortable with the situation, she decided that if they won't back off with her being submissive then she would go on the defensive and get away. Noticing that the door was open she quickly gauged if she could make a run for it. She decided to take it. Once more gathering the wind into her fist and throwing it at the three noisy men, successfully knocking them off their feet. She took the chance and bolted from the room, feeling something peeling from her skin in the process but disregarding it, her survival instincts were kicked into over gear, she was determined to escape. She ran down the hallway, veering in different directions, unsure as to where she was supposed to go. She noticed a flight of stairs at the end of the hallway and started bounding up them. A loud voice then echoed through the stairwell, "Somebody stop the woman in the white scrubs, she is wanted for questioning, engage and capture, I repeat engage and capture."

She saw a doorway that looked promising, once again bounding down the hallway. She rounded a corner and was met with various individuals in uniforms, that wasn't good. She immediately threw the wind once more down the hallway, quickly stepping of the prone bodies and continuing her search for an exit. She was still running when a nearby door opened and three people stepped out. They looked down the hallway at the woman and immediately blocked off her escape route. Once again gathering the wind and throwing it at the people, however unlike all the others they remained standing, frowning slightly she threw a stronger gust of wind, pushing them back but not over.

The woman with bright red hair, raised something towards her, she recognized it as a weapon that her previous captors carried with them. A man to her left had trained his bow and arrow at her, and a third man held a very intimidating hammer in one hand. Lexi swallowed hard, she didn't want to expose her other secrets to these people but if necessary she would. She began to gather the wind once more, but held onto it expanding it into a swirling ball around her fist, she took one deep breath and began to run towards these people. The man with the bow let an arrow loss, but Lexi easily dodged it, the woman with the black contraption fired at her but she was also able to dodge the attack, the man with the hammer, began to advance upon her, she knew that in close combat situations she could hold her own, but this man was twice her size, she let the air ball barreling into the man which knocked him over and took out the two other people with him.

With quick reflexes she bounded over the three individuals and ran into another stairwell. Panting hard as she climbed higher she could hear the howling of the wind from outside, looking out a doorway window confirmed that it led outside. She quickly opened it and stepped out into the open tarmac of the helicarrier. Before she could get into a full sprint she was stopped by a red and gold man. She halted to a stop. "Hey sleeping beauty, it's ok. Why don't you come with me and when can get this misunderstanding cleared up?" the red man asked. Lexi grew hesitant while raising her fists and gathering the wind around them; yet, he did ask nicely but everyone else had tried to attack her, could she trust him? She shook her head and was getting ready to gather the wind once again when she heard someone behind her.

"Alexis Taylor, it's ok we aren't trying to hurt you." She turned around, dropping her defences as she realized someone had used her full name. What surprised her even more was who had used it. The man that had rescued her from the other people was standing there. She was trying to determine if he was being sincere. He slowly lowered the shield on his arm to the ground, raising his hand slightly above his waist and towards her, trying to look harmless. She slowly raked her eyes over his face, concentrating on his eyes, which held sincerity for what he had stated as well as something else, pity maybe?

As Lexi was determining if her saviour was sincere, the rest of the Avengers came out onto the tarmac and watched the exchange between the Captain and the woman. Steve took one step closer towards Alexis, "it is alright, my name is Steve Rogers, I'm not going to hurt you. Please you can trust me." Slowly approaching Alexis.

Lexi listened to his words while maintaining eye contact with him. Hearing the sincerity in his voice, she slowly began to lower her fists and release the wind from around them. She nodded towards him, "I trust you." Completely relaxing her stance, she allowed him to approach her. He gestured towards the doorway she had just recently exited, silently asking her to return inside, and clear up this misunderstanding.

Steve placed his hand on her lower back and started to escort. They passed the various hallways she had originally passed, making their way to the debriefing room. As they walked into it, Lexi tensed, there were a lot of people in a small area, and lots of eyes on her.

Steve noticed this and began to lead her towards a chair while maintaining his touch on her. She softly sat down and he rested his hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her with his reassuring presence. However it did little good when Director Fury strode through the doorway, causing Lexi to further tense up and level a glare at the man.

A small smirk crossed Tony Stark's face as he watched the glare from Alexis' face match that of Fury's. Giving off a soft chuckle at how Steve was trying to calm Alexis down, yet failing at the same time. Slightly shaking his head he looked at Fury, "so...patch, what did you do to cause her to start running? I don't really blame her though. Your scary even without saying anything." Again emitting a soft chuckle.

Fury turned his glare towards Stark, "I was only asking her why she had been captured." "Yea, but not very nicely." Bruce interjected. "Well apparently that back fired." Clint pointed out. "True, but are you really surprised? this is Fury we are talking about." Natasha added. "It was unnecessary, you scared her and made her flee. She was already traumatize to begin with." Steve also pointed out.

There was so much dialogue going on, regarding Lexi, that she didn't even register in the room. She finally had decided that she would provide vague answers towards their questions, without revealing too much. She decided to clear her throat, and gain the attention of the people in the room. However it seemed to fail, as the discussion continued around her, regarding who is to blame for scaring her and making her flee. Her eye began to twitch, a horrible habit developed for when she didn't get the attention she needed. the volume in the room began to raise as people started pointing fingers at each other. That's when she decided to have enough. She quickly stood up, and levelled a glare towards the man addressed as Fury.

"If you had asked me nicely I would have answered your questions. However since you did not, I decided to defend myself. Now if your all done pointing fingers at each other, I can play 20 questions. However, I would like to ask the first question. Who are you all, and how did I get here?" Going around the room, each individual began to introduced themselves, she noted that Steve had not let go of her shoulder, even when reintroducing himself. She smiled warmly at this fact, earning a small blush to cross his face. "And I am Alexis Taylor, please call me Lexi." "Well, now that introductions are over, why don't you grace us with the story as how and why you were captured." Fury directed towards Lexi. She retold her story removing what her grandmother had told her, and not informing them of her various powers (except for the ones they had already seen). The hand on her shoulder lightly squeezed when she passed the difficult part of telling how her village was destroyed and her grandmother dying. She swallowed her tears and continued her tale, until she reached her capture, how they had experimented on her, trying to determine her abilities, torturing her when she wouldn't cooperate. How they tested her when they threatened the safety of the remaining villagers. Then lastly to when Steve had rescued her. She smiled fondly as she recalled their meeting, with a slight blush crossing her face when another squeeze was felt.

Steve couldn't believe what had happened to Lexi, how she had survived such an ordeal. Once again he vowed to protect this woman from any more harm. Fury began to tell how the compound was a secret HYDRA base and therefore Tony, Clint, Natasha, and Steve were sent to investigate, then finding Lexi.

"Which leads me to my original question, why were you captured." Fury was beginning to grow impatient with the lack of answers he was getting. He wanted to figure out she was involved in all this and why HYDRA wanted this woman. He knew that she wasn't telling them something, and this go around was starting to get on his nerve. Lexi shrugged her shoulders; "honestly I have no idea why they captured me, they never said why, and I wasn't really in the position to really interrogate them. I was preoccupied." She snapped back. Fury's uncovered eye twitched; this woman had an attitude, "You are not telling us something and I want to know what!" Lexi flinched slightly from the underlying threat in his voice, and began to move into a more defence able position. This man made her uncomfortable with his questions. "Back of Fury, she said she doesn't know." Steve snapped at Fury. "Fine, but I will find out. Let's hope it doesn't bite us in the ass." Fury sighed and stormed out of the room.

Breathing a sigh of relief now that Fury was no longer in the room, Lexi began to relax. Once again looking around the room she gave a soft smile to the gathered people "I don't believe I have thanked you all for saving me. Or apologized for attacking you earlier." Specifically addressing Thor, Clint, Natasha, Bruce, and Agent Coulson. They shrugged it off, saying they were alright and understood why she had done so.

They all began to file out of the room, leaving Steve and Lexi in a slightly uncomfortable silence. He had removed his hand from her shoulder once Fury had left the room, and Lexi slightly missed the touch, causing her to blush a deep crimson colour.

Steve cleared his throat, he had found the silence more uncomfortable as he was not exactly the best with interacting with women. Especially women he found an interest in. "Would you like to return to the room you were in previously? I can take you there if you like." Steve asked. Lexi smiled at Steve's offer; "If you don't mind I would actually like to go back outside, if that's alright?" "Of course ma'am." Lexi smiled she was excited to be back outdoors, being in enclosed spaces for so long had caused her to gain a slight case of claustrophobia. "Please call me Lexi, you did save me." Steve blushed "Of course ma-... I mean Lexi. Please follow me."

They began walking back out the tarmac, as Lexi had requested. Steve watched as Lexi walked further out onto the tarmac and spread her arms out wide and twirled in a circle. The most beautiful smile he had ever seen was stretched across her face. He saw how free spirited she was, that regardless of what had happen recently happened to her, that she did not let it affect how she viewed the world and relished in simple delights, such as the sun and wind.

She turned towards Steve, still having her wide smile and giggling softly at what she had just done and blushing at how Steve looked at her. She could see wonder and awe, and something else but she couldn't place what it was. She slowly walked towards him. "I never got to thank you for saving me. Thank you I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't shown up." "You do not need to thank me, you saved me as well. I think that makes us even." Lexi blushed "I hardly think we are even, you rescued me from the dark cold room, then once again against the men that were holding me captive, and once again after we made it outside. That adds up to 1 of 3 thanks I owe you." Steve lightly chuckled at her thinking. She was an interesting woman.

She was childish with her pleasure, defiant when provoked, and loyal with her responsibility, her voice was like honey with a slight sing song lilt, with the added bonus that she was beautiful when smiling and blushing. He couldn't understand why but he wanted these emotions to be directed towards him and for him to cause these changes in her.

He held her gaze causing her to blush even deeper. He smiled "would like me to show you around?"

"I would love to." Lexi smiled back.

As they turned to re-enter the helicarrier the entire thing rocked dangerously sideways, causing Lexi to loss her balance and tumble towards the edge. "Lexi!" Steve yelled her name as she fell off.