Chapter 10

By: MysticFantasy

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"How'd he do it? That's all I want to know." Tony said as he paced the floor outside Steve's room.

"It's the lingo." Clint stated. "Even after all these years, I still have no idea what they're talking about. Doctor's. No offence, Bruce."

"None taken since I'm not that kind of doctor." Bruce replied with a small smile as he removed his glasses. "But I am amazed that he was able to talk us all out of the room for a while."

"He's a little too good at it." Natasha said fingering her gun.

"He's clear, Nat." Clint said standing and trying to calm her down. "He's good to be the doctor for us."

"I know." Natasha said removing her hand from her gun. "It's just strange that he asked us all to leave while he checked Steve."

"Unless Captain Purity is waking up, then this is all strange." Tony said.

Bruce, Natasha and Clint looked at Tony with a strange look.

"I watched way to many crazy medical movies." the billionare declared. "Part of the reason why I don't like hospitals."

"I think we need to let Pepper make you watch chick-flicks." Clint said.

"You do and you won't find your arrows for a month." Tony warned.

The two men began a stare down that the other three quickly ignored.

"The healer has been with the captain for a while now." Thor said after a few quiet minutes which caused Tony and Clint to stop their staredown.

"They have." Bruce agreed and Natasha's hand went back to her gun. She was about to start walking to the door, it opened and an older looking doctor walked out.

"Doctor, you sure took your time." Natasha said.

"Sorry about that. Just had to make a few confirmations."

"Confirmations on what?" Bruce asked.

"Captain Rogers is showing promising signs of awakening some time today. Maybe before late afternoon."

Natasha felt her heart leap into her throat at the doctor's words and felt her lips slowly turn into a smile that she was forced to restrain from forming. She felt a huge weight lift from inside her knowing that Steve would finally be waking up.

The last day and a half had been murder for all of them just waiting for even a single twitch from the soldier. Now they were getting solid confirmation that he would be waking up soon.

The doctor spoke with them for a few more minutes before he took his leave and allowed the five to return into the room where their leader was still sleeping.

Natasha right away went over to his bedside and held his hand.

"Well, that's about the best news we've heard in a long time." Tony said sitting down heavily on the small couch he had demanded to be moved into the room along with comfy armchairs.

"So, how are we going to handle the situation when Cap wakes up?" Clint asked. "He's going to know that we know he was right the whole time."

"True but it's still confusing." Bruce said. "Steve and the Howling Commando's were the only ones who knew the locatin of the hide-out house. Sergeant Barnes was the only one of the Commando's that went M.I.A. His body was never found and now this happened when Steve was clearly the only one who could have known the location of that house."

"Steve was right all along." Clint said. "He saw James Barnes that day at Coney Island. Somehow, the guy is still alive and still the same as when Steve last saw him."

"Everything is being turned upside down right in front of us." Tony said as he rubbed his tired eyes. "James Barnes is alive and tried to kill Steve."