Chapter 6

Is this the end?

WAKE UP BARTON!

His mind was so fuzzy, what happened, where was he…he heard a door open and suddenly he felt ice cold water pour all over him, making him throw open his eyes.

"Good morning Agent" Bruce laughed as he said it pulling on the chains that Clint's wrist's hung from pulling him from the floor. Clint felt a dizzying pain as his entire weight was now dangling from his wrists. He felt a pop as his shoulder became dislodged. This was where his training kicked in, the pain was unbearable but he knew he couldn't let that show, even to Bruce.

Bruce had a sly smile on his face "Oh dear, did the bird break a wing" he said prodding at the damaged shoulder. Pain shot through his entire body, all he could do was grit his teeth, he trained for this ." Good thing I'm a Doctor" Bruce headed for the door laughing the whole way.

Clint relaxed as he watched the Doctor leave, back on solid ground he could figure a way out. The door lock clunked 'Well I guess ill be here a while' he thought 'As much as I hate the man, I wish Stark was here'

Outside Cap, Stark and Thor where alerting Director Fury of what had happened and came up with a plan. Fury told them not to tell Coulson, and made sure they understood it was an order not a request.

"Sir with the little Intel we have on this place Barton could be anywhere, even underground" Cap said while trying to plan with Fury.

"We know little, but what we do know is now 2 Agents, and 3 Field Agents are in there…bring them home" Fury disconnected the call.

"JARVIS any chance there is a blue print for this building" Stark hoped they could at least know the building before going in blind.

"Sir, this building seems to be a re-used public building, I am downloading the blueprints now" JARVIS responded.

'Perfect' Stark thought.

As the pain from his shoulder died down and he realized that they was no way out Barton begain to think about things, about Coulson, about Belize. When suddenly the door unlocked Bruce had knives with him and other objects Barton didn't want to make out.

"Don't worry the Doctor's here' his dark eyes looked at Clint as he picked up the knife and drew it across the archers check.

'Breathe' thought Clint 'You trained for this…for torture!' the pain was unbearable 'Take your mind somewhere else' he desperately tried to think of his friends, of Phil…of anything.

"You cant get away that easy Hawkeye" the Doctor said as he hit him around the face "No daydreaming, they wont be able to recognize you when I'm done". Clint tried to shift his weight as he kept taking the beating.

Blood was pouring down his chest, he felt like he was going to pass out "And to think! I almost forgot your medicine" the Doctor said "Don't go anywhere" he laughed.

Cap had separated from Stark and Thor to cover more ground when he heard a door open near by "Get me the syringes, we need to break Hawkeye and make him suffer for sneaking around" Cap recognized that voice straight away.

"Stark, I found the Doctor and Hawkeye. I'd hurry up it doesn't sound good" he said heading towards the now closed door.

Clint had never been so happy to see someone, as he was when he saw Steve. He finally gave in all the pain came flooding in he couldn't help but cry.

"Don't worry Hawkeye, you'll be home before you know it" Cap said calmly seeing how bad his injuries where he knew they had to move fast.

"Stark find the Doc, we have a severely injured Barton here"

"On it " Stark replied sencing the urgency in the mans voice.

Cap very carefully got Clint down from where he was hanging and the man collapsed in his arms. In the distance you could hear Stark's suit firing.

Clint finally let go once he was in Steve's arms and passed out.

"The Doctor is unconscious, how's Barton" Stark was trying to hide the fear in his voice.

"Not Good" Cap stated "I'm requesting a Medevac for them both, he's lost a lot of blood…Coulson should know about this" Cap hated going against orders but as he picked up Clint's unconscious body he realized how pale the man really was.

By the time Cap and the others had met up with the Medevac and handed over the two paitents everything was looking pretty grim. Agent Dipillo walked over to them.

"The rest of Barton's team was killed, injected with oxygen to the blood stream" She shifted her weight "Barton is very lucky to be alive, we are putting the Doctor is a high security hospital until we know what's going on and once Clint is stable he can head back to New York".

"Make sure that hospital is prepared for the Hulk" Cap stated.

"Oh it is, we made sure of that, we believe it was some sort of viral thing that made him act this way but we are awaiting blood work. For now I say you head back home and await instruction".

Stark and Cap looked at each other in shock, "Head home? With all due respect ma'am this 'Virus' must of come from somewhere and I want to find out, not head home and act like nothing happened" Cap angrily walked off.

Clint could hear the beeping of his heart monitor, which meant he was safe. He still hurt everywhere, 'Couldn't of stayed in Belize' he thought as he drifted back to sleep.

Stark was tinkering away in his purpose built lab awaiting the blood samples from Agent Dipillo. "JARVIS call Agent Coulson" He said.

"Certainly Sir" JARVIS responded

"Coulson" Phil picked up

"Hey Buddy" Stark was trying to hide the worry in his voice but clearly failed

"Oh god Stark, what is it? Is everything okay?" he started packing up thinks as he rested the phone on his shoulder "I can be there in 13 hours" he sighed "Clint….is he okay, oh god what's Hulk done?"

Stark was overwhelmed "Am I that bad at lying? Clint's been hurt and is in ICU. Fury told us not to tell you " he sighed "But it seems pretty serious"

Phil slammed the hotel door "See you in 13 hours Stark" he said as he hung up the phone

'Fury is going to be PISSED' Stark thought.