Chapter 3
By: MysticFantasy
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"What happened to him?" Thor demanded trying to make his way down the hall where the injured were treated.
He had arrived on the SHIELD fortress a short time ago and when he noticed that Steve was missing from the group he had asked where he was. When he'd been told that Steve had been badly wounded, lightning started to flash outside in the clouds from Thor's anger that someone had tried to hurt his friend.
"Thor! Keep it down! That's not going to help Steve!" Tony warned standing in the path of the blond Asgardian.
"Please, just tell me what happened to the captain." Thor requested a bit more quietly. "Tell me why I cannot see him."
"Look, just calm down and I'll tell you everything." Tony offered as he motioned for Thor to go back into the lab.
The tall blond man nodded before returning to the lab. He sat down on a chair and Tony sat on another a few feet away.
"Steve went on a mission alone not too long ago. It was dealing with an enemy he personally knew when he had been in the second world war. This enemy turned out not to be the real one, which is good, but when Steve was trying to make it back to us they saw him and tried to stop him. Steve managed to destroy the weapons they had been making but when he was trying to escape he got hurt. He got hit in the head so bad that he has amnesia. Do you know what that is?"
Thor shook his head.
"It means that he doesn't rememer us, he doesn't remember that he's Captain America and he doesn't remember anything about his life before getting hit. He sees us as strangers and won't trust us like he did before."
"Will he recover from this amnesia?" Thor asked.
"We're not sure." Tony answered after a moment of silence. "This is something that Steve has to recover from on his own. There's a chance that he will remember and there's a chance that he won't. We have to be prepared incase he doesn't. We'll have to earn his trust and friendship again while trying to remind him of who he is. He won't believe us right away so don't be upset if he doesn't believe anything we tell him right away."
"This is most troubling." Thor said standing and slowly pacing around the room. "The captain does not remember that he is a soldier and fought with us against my brother."
"It's hard, I know." Tony agreed. "But we have to be patient. We can't force him to remember. It doesn't work that way. The best thing we can do is be there for him."
"Agreed. The Captain fought bravely at my side. I do not plan to let him down during this time when he needs his friends at his side." Thor declared. "I will help in any way that I can."
"Good. I'm glad to hear that buddy." Tony said. "There's still a few things that you'll need to know before you can see Steve."
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A tired yawn escaped his lips as he started to wake up. After Clint and Tony had left, Steve had decided to take a short nap.
He had been oddly tired after the two men had talked to him and figured he should get some sleep. Maybe things would make a little more sense once he was a little more rested.
Opening his eyes, Steve quickly spotted someone sitting next to his bed. He blinked to clear his vision and once he was fully able to see again it was easy to see who was sitting there watching him.
"We gotta stop meeting like this." he said with a smirk.
Natasha lightly smirked. There was definately a small change in personality.
"Feel better?" she asked reaching over to the nightstand by the bed to pour water into a plastic cup.
"Rested." Steve answered sitting up a bit and taking the cup she handed to him. He quickly drank the cool liquid and felt better now that his thirst was gone.
"That's good. We never exchanged proper greetings before. I'm Natasha Romanoff."
"That's a beautiful name." Steve said.
Natasha smiled at his compliment.
"So...this is the second time I've woken up and you're here. Are we dating or something?" Steve asked with a smirk.
"No." Natasha answered quickly. "No, we're not. We're teammates and friends."
Steve almost instantly lost his smirk.
"You talking about that supposed superhero team that Clint and Tony told me about?" he asked.
"You can decide if you want to believe we're superheroes or not but we are part of a team that does a lot of good in the world." Natasha answered.
"I'll save my opinion for a later time." Steve said.
"Probably be best." Natasha agreed.
"So, how long before I can get out of this bed?" Steve asked.
"The doctor wants you to stay on bed rest until they clear you which could be another three days. Bored?"
"Very." Steve answered. "I feel like doing something. Bump on the head or not."
"Well, at least you still sound like yourself." Natasha mused.
"Stubborn?"
"You were at times but it was during times when you needed to be." Natasha said. "You'll soon find that Tony is the most stubborn out of all of us."
"Yeah, I picked that up from him when he was here." Steve said.
"There's a lot more to him than just that though. He will try to get you to go to parties a lot."
"Did I go when he would ask?"
"Not really. The kind of parties that Tony attends or throws himself are not the kind any of us would be caught at. He tries to make them sound like something we would go to but we know Tony too well."
"You do at least." Steve pointed out.
"You'll remember him soon enough or at least figure him out very easily. It's not that hard to read the guy."
Steve grinned.
"So is there anything you can tell me about myself?" he asked. "What was my superhero name?"
"If you're serious I'll tell you a few things." Natasha replied noticing that Steve was a little more joking. That was already a big notice from his real personality. She was sure that Tony would be happy to hear that.
"Alright." Steve agreed. "I don't like that I lost my memories and it's even worse that I barely even know my own name and that everyone is keeping things secret from me. I can handle just knowing a few things. For now."
"Alright then. What's your first question?"