I'm so stupid and I realized that I posted two chapter 17's before this one so sorry and enjoy:)

Chapter 16: Surprise Again

Life is really weird. You spend the first part of your life learning facts to be able to work for the rest of your life and by the time you're finally able to relax, you're almost dead anyway. It's mainly work than die, and whatever happens in between is either good or really bad. Steve could pretty much say that the situation he was in was really bad.

He kept watching and watching the doctors doing stuff t Natasha, waiting for the perfect moment to strike, but then suddenly the doctors just stopped working and started packing up. He was confused, Natasha was still tied down onto the table, so they obviously didn't succeed in deprogramming her yet, so why the hell were they stopping? Something was wrong. He strained his eyes to look closer at Natasha and that's when he saw it. There was a bomb attached to her. A bomb! He had to act fast. One of the guards walked in front of him and kneeled down.

"It looks like this parties over, and your little girlfriend over there is going to go boom" the guard said with a smirk.

That's when the second guard came over too. "Trust me, we're doing you a favor. I've heard stories about that one and you do not want to be with that screwed up bitch. I'm not saying I wouldn't want to hit that because look at that body, but I try to stay away from the crazy ones" he said and both the guards started laughing.

The anger inside Steve was boiling. If he couldn't save her the least he could do was protect her name. With that head butted the first guard in front of him, stood up with the chair still attached to him and broke the chair on him. The other guard reached for his gun and was able to shot Steve in the leg but he wasn't stopping. Steve tackled him and wrestled the gun out of his hand, allowing him to shoot him in the chest twice. He than kicked open the door leading to where Natasha was and wasn't prepared for the horror he saw before his eyes.

There was blood everywhere. On the floor, the walls but that wasn't the worst of it. As he walked closer to her he noticed that she was barely conscious. There were bruises covering almost every inch of her body and she looked in a lot of pain. He couldn't believe they just left her here to die. When he walked in closer to her he saw her eyes start to focus despite her black eye.

"They couldn't make me forget" she mumbled to no one in particular.

Steve shook her lightly to get her more alert and said "Nat, we need to get out of here, okay, just keep your eyes open.

"I'm not going anywhere, can't let you take all the credit" she said ashamed of how weak her voice sounded.

Steve was a little worried about the way she was so positive at a time like this. Normally she would probably be swearing or hitting Clint, but she was making jokes.

"Well don't just stand there, get this bomb of me" she said trying to grin but it came out as more of a grimace.

There was a bomb attached to her and she knew that her chances were slim but she couldn't let Steve see her weak, not if this was going to be the last time he would ever see her. She didn't believe in god but if there was one right now, she was praying that maybe he would give her a second chance. Even if it meant a chance to say goodbye.

"Any chance you know how to disarm this thing?" He asked, but Natasha couldn't hear him because all of a sudden she felt really dizzy.

"You need to get them out of here" she said as loud as she could muster, trying to get off the table but it just ended in pain, she was still tied.

"Who do I need to get out of here?" Steve asked becoming even more worried because the bomb only had 8 minutes left.

"The kids, the program, you-you need to save them a-and leave, this is my fault I couldn't save her."

"Nat there's no kids here, the black widow program ended ages ago."

"She's gone I couldn't save her."

"Who couldn't you save?"

"The girl, she was hurt and i just watched."

Why was she acting like this, there was no girl. Natasha was getting paler by the second and all the confidence that Steve once had was long gone.

"Tasha, listen to me, I'll save her I'll save the girl, just hold still so I can figure this out."

"St-Steve, there's not enough time, you need t-to go now and, are you shot?"

"I'm fine just wait, we have enough time please..."

"Listen to me. I-I can't feel my legs, I am probably running off of adrenaline and your shot, if you don't go now we're both screwed."

"Tasha, I can get you out of here just.."

"I can deal with all the other stuff I've done in my past, but if I'm the reason you die, I-I don't think I could handle that. You're Captain America, the world needs you, I'm just a spy. So please leave for me." she said practically begging him.

"Look, I don't care how stubborn you try to act, I'm not leaving you behind, I don't care what you say, I don't care if you hate me for it, you are not dying today, not without me anyway. We have a dance to attend and I'd rather it be sooner than later so shut up and let me disarm this bomb." he said.

There was five minutes left on the clock.

'Okay so there's a box, if i open that and cut the red wire and twist the blue one with the yellow one and attach the green one to where the red one was, it might just work' he thought to himself, though he wasn't completely sure it was correct because the last time he disarmed a bomb it was 1939.

If there was a more appropriate time to use the term "YOLO" which was a word that he heard was really popular on the twitter, than now might be the time. Well in his case he kind of lived twice after the ice thing but that didn't matter now. All that mattered was getting
Natasha out of here.

As he did the last step, he heard Natasha groan and he cringed, bracing himself for impact. Surprisingly he actually did it right and nothing blew up in the process, with just 1 minute to spear.

He than quickly undid Natasha's binds and lifted her up into his arms. She didn't even protest or complain that she was fine, so he knew this was bad. After picking her up he noticed more blood.

"You're going to be okay, just hold on" he said more to reassure himself at the moment.

Steve was just about to make a move towards the door, ignoring the pain in his leg when Dr. Hellosh walked in looking crazier then ever. He had a gun in one hand and detonator in the other. Steve froze and instinctively held Natasha a little tighter.

"You move and I'll blow this whole place to the ground!" he said and probably for the first time in his life, he was not lying.

Cliffhanger!