Chapter 3

The next day, Steve and I were walking hand in hand together to go see how Banner and Stark were coming along with the scepter. As soon as we walked in, we watched Tony poke Banner with an electrical shock device.

"Ow!" Banner said as he rubbed his side.

"Really? Nothing?" Tony asked with a slight frown.

"Are you nuts?" Steve asked Tony as he walked in before me.

"Well, if it isn't the horny old people." He turned to me. "Might wanna adjust your hearing aid so you can hear when you're being too loud."

"Oh, trust me…I know I was being loud." I said back. "Don't be so jealous that I'm getting some and you're not."

Stark let out a laugh. "Me? Jealous? Ms. Black, you don't know me at all. You should try though, I bet I'm more fun that this old man."

"Is everything a joke to you?" Steve asked, frustration showing on his face.

"Funny things are. You two going at it is included as a funny thing." Tony replied back with a cocky attitude.

"One, threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny." Steve looked over to Banner. "No offense, Doctor."

"No, it's alright." Banner said softly. "I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things."

Steve looked back over to Tony. "And two, you need to treat Evelyn with respect. I don't care what you have to say about me. But with her…she is a woman. You need to treat her like one." Steve shifted in his spot. "And you need to keep focus on the problem, Mr. Stark."

"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us and why now? Why not before?" Tony walked around the room as he spoke. "What isn't he telling us?" He leaned on a counter. "I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables."

"Now, now…mommy and daddy need to stop fighting." I said as I leaned against a counter "You think Fury is hiding something, Stark?" I asked.

"Of course. He's a spy. His secretes have secretes." Tony said and looked over to Banner. "It's bugging him too."

"Uh…I just wanna finish my work." Banner said as he raised his hands in self-defense.

"Bruce…you can tell us. We're not going to be gossiping around the aircraft." I said with a sweet smile.

Banner bit his bottom lip before he started to speak. "He said a warm light for all mankind to share. I think that was for you." He said and pointed to Stark.

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly…" Tony gave him an offended look. "…building in New York?"

"It's powered by Stark Reactors, a self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for what, a year?" Banner asked Tony.

"That's just the prototype. I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now." Tony responded.

"So why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, what are they doing in the energy business in the first place?" Banner asked and it made me nod in response, letting him know I was listening.

"I should look into that once my decryption program finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files." Tony said as he grabbed his bag of blueberries, popping some into his mouth.

"You're breaking into all of their files?" I asked as I stood up straight from leaning on the counter.

"Yes, and that means all of the files they have on you too. You want to know about yourself, I'll have the answers in no time." Tony held the bag towards Steve. "Blueberry?"

Steve ignored Tony. "You're confused about why they didn't want you around?"

"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically not possible." Tony replied back as he walked over towards Banner.

"I think Loki is trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war and if we don't focus, he'll succeed. We have order, we should follow them." Steve said in a strong voice, trying to prove his point.

Tony rolled his eyes. "Yeah…following isn't really my style."

"And you're all about style?" Steve asked as he got closer to Tony.

"Of all the people in this room, which one is; a) wearing a spangly outfit, and b) not of use?" Tony replied as he popped a blueberry in his mouth.

"I happen to love that spangly outfit." I said with a grin. "Also, he is of use."

"I bet he is to you, Ms. Black." Tony said with a hidden grin.

"Steve…Evelyn, tell me none of this smells a little funky to either of you?" Banner asked.

"Just find the cube." Steve ordered as he walked out of the room.

I turned to the two. "I'm with you guys. Something isn't right." I looked to Tony. "Like why would they hide myself from me?"

"Come back in about ten minutes and you'll know why." Stark answered as he showed me the progress bar of his program.

I nodded when I saw the progress bar. "I'll be back. I'm going to go talk to him." I said and walked out of the room.

I didn't go look for Steve. In fact, I went to where Loki was being held in. I opened the door and walked close to his cage. He noticed me and grinned slyly at me.

"Well, if it isn't Evelyn Black." He stood up from the floor. "What can I be of service to you?"

"You know something about me, don't you?" I asked and leaned on the railing.

"Oh, I know all about you." He walked up closer to the glass. "What would you like me to answer?"

I looked over Loki's face. I studied his body language and started to feel his emotions. I wondered if I could tell if he was lying. "Are they hiding myself from me because I'm some sort of monster?" I was just trying to make up a question.

"Yes." He was lying.

"…Yes?" I asked shockingly, playing my part. He had no idea I knew how to use my powers.

"The power you have inside of you is greater than what you know. Before you were frozen, you found out those powers." He grinned at me. "You are what I need to make myself king of this planet. I know you will help me in this." He wasn't lying about that part.

I shook my head. "No, I'm not going to help you. Want to know why?"

"Why is that?" Loki asked, his smirk going away slowly.

"Because I am not a monster. I am a doctor and a hero, not a villain." I winked at him. "See, what you didn't know about me is that I can read people." I went up to the door of his cage. "You cannot fool me, Loki." My eye glowed a bright purple color. "I'm not your slave."

I walked into the lab room where I was with Steve, Tony and Banner. Now there was Banner, Fury, Steve, Stark, Thor, and Natasha.

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean we're…" Fury was interrupted by Tony.

"I'm sorry, Nick." He turned the computer screen around. The screen showed plans about this weapon of mass destruction they were making. "What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve snapped at him.

"Did you know about this?" Banner asked Natasha and pointed to the weapon.

"You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?" Natasha asked.

"I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed." Banner said.

"Loki's manipulating you." Natasha admitted.

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy." Banner walked around the counter. "I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."

Nick turned to Thor and pointed at him. "Because of him."

"Me?" Thor asked in a questioning tone. "My people want nothing but peace with your planet."

"But you're not the only people out there, are you? And you're not the only threat." Nick added. "The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled the cube?" Steve asked.

"We wanted to wake up Ms. Black so she could help study the cube. If I knew she wouldn't remember anything, I wouldn't have thawed her out." Nick said.

"Well, that wasn't nice." I said and everyone turned and noticed me. "I'm sorry, that I don't remember anything. I am trying really hard to." I started to walk slowly to Nick, having my arms crossed. "If you'd like, I can go back to sleep while you continue to fuck everything up."

"Evelyn…" Steve said softly as he walked up next to me. He wrapped one arm around my front, holding me back. "You need to calm down…"

"I am calm." I snapped at him.

"Your eye is glowing." He whispered in my ear.

"See, you don't know what you are. You don't know how to control yourself. We thought you would know after all these years." Nick said and walked up to me. "You are of use to us more on the battlefield rather than in a lab coat."

My hair started to float around me, slowly rising up. Steve quickly got in front of me and held my chin up to look at him. I could see he was saying words but I couldn't hear him. Something was going on with me, I had no idea what. Maybe Loki was right, maybe I am a monster.

I needed to show Nick Fury that I am on the good side. I needed to show him I can control my powers. I needed to prove him wrong.

Slowly I closed my eyes and imagined a simple world where I was out in the sun, letting the heat warm my pale skin. Beside me, Steve was holding my hand as he napped in a chair. He looked so handsome. Finally I started to hear things again.

"-alright. Don't shoot her. See?" I opened my eyes and found Steve pointing at me while holding one hand up at Fury. It looked like he was trying to calm a beast. "Her eye isn't glowing and her hair is normal again."

I looked over at Fury who had his gun out of his holster. "Don't ever do that again, or I'll have you locked up with Loki." He threatened but I didn't let his words bother me.

"Fury, your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for higher form of war." Thor said aloud.

"A higher form?" Steve questioned as he stood slightly in front of me, I guess guarding me from everyone.

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something." Nick said.

"A nuclear deterrent, cause that always calms everything right now." Stark said.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?" Nick asked Tony.

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep…" Steve was interrupted by Tony.

"Wait! Wait! Hold on! How is this about me?" Stark asked as he held up his hands.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Steve asked back in a sassy tone.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor said.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Nick asked.

They all started talking over each other and were arguing. It was really annoying. I focused on Steve and Tony only after a while.

"Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" Steve asked as they both got closer to eachother.

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist…" Tony started to name off a list.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you." Steve argued. "I've seen the footage. The only thing you fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."

"I think I would just cut the wire."

"Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"A hero like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a little bottle that was created by your girlfriend." I felt my blood start to heat up again.

"Don't bring Evelyn into this."

"She's been in this since she helped make that serum."

"Put on the suite, let's go a few rounds."

"Steve…" I said and went in between the two. "You two need to stop fighting. Also, no you will not go a few rounds. We need to work together to defeat Loki." I placed my hand on Steve's chest, feeling his heart rate.

"You people are so petty and tiny. The only one with a brain is the one who doesn't remember anything." Thor said.

"Natasha, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-…" Nick began to say.

"Where? You're renting my room." Bruce said.

"The cell was just-…"

"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know, I tried!" I saw a flash go by in my head.

I felt this horrible feeling of killing myself. Why? Why would I need to kill myself? There was a pain in my chest that started to hurt me. This ache of losing a loved one. The ache of losing someone who means more than your life. I tried to kill myself once, long ago.

I started to remember being in my room seven days after Steve was gone. He was supposed to show up and take me out to dinner. I was going to buy dinner. He never showed. That was when I knew he was gone completely from my life.

I was lying in my bathtub, full of water. I was in my dress that I wore once only for Steve at a bar. It was his favorite one. I wanted to die in it. I didn't want to shoot myself, I didn't want to take pills, and I didn't know what I wanted. This was just one way I thought about going.

That night, I was drowning myself in the water. I tried to hold myself back from coming up for air. I tried so hard, but when I was starting to lose consciousness, I saw him. I saw Steve in my head. I saw his bright smile. His beautiful blue eyes were staring at me; he looked like an angel.

I came up from the water, gasping for air. Steve wouldn't want me to end my life. He would want me to live and move on from him. I sat there in the tub, crying the pain away. He was my angel that night and always will be my blue eyed angel.

"Dr. Banner…put down the scepter." I heard Steve warn Bruce.

I snapped back into reality, looking around at everyone. They all stared at Bruce who had the scepter in his hand. Bruce put down the scepter and walked to a computer.

"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce mumbled as he sat down.

"You located the Tesseract?" Thor asked.

"I can get there faster." Tony said.

"Look, all of us…" Steve was interrupted by Thor.

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard; no human is a match for it."

Stark turned to leave but Steve stopped him. "You're not going alone!"

"You gonna stop me?" Tony asked when he turned around to face Steve.

"Put on the suit, let's find out." Steve ordered as they both got closer to each other again.

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man." Tony bit back.

"Put on the suit." Rogers repeated himself.

At that moment, I heard Banner shout out while he was looking at the computer monitor. "Oh my god!"

There was a loud explosion, causing the aircraft to shake. Some of us were knocked down on our asses. Steve came over and helped me up off the floor. He looked over to Tony with a 'this isn't over' face as he spoke.

"Put on the suit." Steve ordered, but not to fight him.

"Yep!" Tony agreed as he ran to go put on his suit.

Great, so not only are we having team troubles, we are under an attack. This day just keeps getting better and better. The bright side, sort of, to this day was I remembered something.

A/N: :( Poor past Evelyn…I hope you all enjoyed my chapter! :) Tell me what you thought of it!