Chapter Twenty: Alone

"I had a moment of weakness, I'm over it."

-Katherine Pierce

Bucky's eyes flew open when he heard a loud thump coming from Katherine's room. He had been trying to sleep when the sound had awaken him. He doubted that Katherine was destroying her room like he did to get out his anger. Katherine usually vented by keeping all of her anger inside or making someone else miserable.

He stood up and looked out the small window that connected both rooms He frowned when he saw Katherine's head. Had she passed out on the bathroom floor and was that blood on the floor?

"Jesus." He swore under his breath as he opened the door and found Steve. Apparently he had been standing there for several minutes wondering if he should come in or not.

"Bucky, hi." He said dazedly.

Bucky ignored the greeting. "Katherine, she passed out in the bathroom and I think there's blood. Steve's own eyes flew up in alarmed as he followed Bucky towards Katherine's room next door. "It's locked." He said.

"I'll take care of it." Bucky growled as he punched the door with his metal hand breaking down the door. Steve and Bucky entered the room and saw Katherine passed out on the bathroom floor, there was blood pouring down her wrists, but strangely her cuts weren't that deep.

"Are they healing themselves?" Steve asked incredulously.

"Somewhat." Bucky said inspected her wrist. "The serum can only do so much, get Banner. Now!"

Katherine's eyes flew open, she was greeted with a warm bright light, and it took Katherine a minute to realize that it was the moon. It was night, but shouldn't she be dead? Not that she expected to be in Heaven or anything, but she certainly didn't expect to be alive.

"You're awake." She heard a voice say.

Katherine turned around and saw Bruce sitting in a chair across from the bed, looking tired, but pleased. Katherine looked down and saw that her wrists were covered with tight bandages. "I'm alive?" she sounded almost disappointed by it.

"Yes, speaking of which don't do it again, not unless you want to be placed under suicide watch which believe me it's no fun." He tapped her wrist. "The super serum saved your life, apparently it can heal some minor wounds.

"At least it's good for something."

"That and Bucky saw you passed out on the bathroom floor, Steve was the one who called me. They were both pretty worried."

Katherine scoffed as she watched Bruce redressing her wounds. She stared at him, he looked familiar other than Bruce Banner that is. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the big, green-"

"Monster?" Bruce guessed.

Katherine reddened. "I wasn't going to say monster."

"Believe me its ok." Bruce gave a small laugh. "I've been called worse."

"Sorry, believe me I know the feeling."

"You get used to it." He patted her wrist. "All done."

It felt strange to be receiving all of this kindness. Being beaten and seeing blood was more common for her. "Thanks."

"What do you mean you're going to Russia with Natasha and Clint?" Gwen demanded as she frowned. They were still on the helicarrier and Peter and Gwen had been kissing and teasing each other when Peter had blurted out that he was going to look for HYDRA headquarter in Russia with Natasha and Clint.

"They were short on people." Peter said defensively. "Besides it's my chance to prove myself to the team."

Gwen didn't look convince.

"It's only for a day or two, Gwen." Peter kissed her. "Just keep Aunt May busy ok?"

"What am I supposes to say to her Peter?" Gwen asked. "What is a valuable excuse for going to Russia?"

"That it's a school project." Peter shrugged. "Or a field trip to a science research center or something. Just keep her busy for a day or two."

Gwen sighed. "All right." She petted his cheek. "But you owe me one and please be careful."

"You haven't touched your dinner." Katherine turned around and saw the now cold dinner tray. She had been forced to stay at the hospital wing for the weekend, she hadn't expected any visitors. Her meal had been delivered an hour ago, but she wasn't really hungry.

Though Katherine was surprise to see Gwen. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to see you." Gwen said. "Bruce um told me-I mean just in case you needed anything." She quickly changed directions.

"I killed your teacher, Gwen." Katherine scoffed as she played with the dinner roll. "I'm not exactly friends' material."

She saw Gwen flinched. Good the more people that stayed away from her the better.

"And don't say that I didn't know what I was doing because I knew perfectly well and if someone keeps making excuses for my behavior, I'm going to scream."

Gwen didn't say anything.

"Thank you." Katherine said picking on the mashed potatoes. "And for what's it worth I wasn't after you, I was after Peter or HYDRA was after Peter they probably wanted to do to him what they did to us." She hesitated. "I'm sorry about your teacher Gwen, she seemed . . . nice."

"She was." Gwen admitted. "Well, if you need anything or someone to talk to well, I'm here."

"Why are you being so nice to me?" she asked suspiciously.

"Because you look lost and I know what's it like to feel lost." Gwen said. "All I'm saying Miss-I mean Katherine is that you don't have to be alone anymore."

-End of Chapter Twenty-