I put my bow back into the form of a cuff, because there was no freaking way that I was going to shoot Clint. I was going to try and find a way to try and bring him back. As if on cue, Athena said, “I see that you’re headed to help out Agent Barton. Try hitting him on the head, it should re-calibrate his brain, and force Loki’s control of his brain out.” I wasn’t going to respond to Athena, because a few feet ahead of me, I saw Clint. I slowly and quietly, I snuck up behind him. But he was expecting me to do it. As soon as I reached him, he turned and he shot at me, but I was also expecting him to do that, and I reached forward and pushed his bow away. His arrow narrowly missed my head. He tried to punch me, but I ducked under his arm, and I punched him in the kidney. He turned around and he tried to hit me with his bow. I grabbed it, which was a big mistake, because which is what he wanted. He pulled me toward him, one of his hands yanking on my hair, and his other hand was pointing a knife at my throat. I kept fighting against him, but he kept getting closer and closer to my neck.

Finally, I saw an opportunity, and I took it. I sank my teeth into his arm, making him yell in pain. He tried to go for me one last time, and I used all of my strength to push him down. He knocked his head against the rails. It took him a few minutes to finally sit up again. When he looked back up, his eyes were back to his normal chocolate brown eyes. “Madison?” I couldn’t risk it, to make sure that it really worked, I mustered up all the courage that I had, and hit him really hard, knocking him out. Once he was out cold, I sat down, on the floor, and I thought about everything that had just happened. A few minutes, later my ear piece buzzed to life, just as the medics started to drag Clint away. “Agent Coulsen is down……” As soon as I heard those words, I pulled my knees to my chest, and cried. Another Agent replied, “A medical team in on its way…”

“They’re already here…” Fury said, before continuing, “They called it” I cried even harder now. I had no memory of my past, or my parents, and now my dad was dead. I cried even harder than before, but then Fury told me that Loki had killed my father. My tears kept coming, but this time they were angry tears. Loki had killed my father. I wiped my tears away from my eyes, but my eyes were still red. I walked towards the medical section, and I passed by a doctor. “Excuse me, what room is Agent Barton in?” I asked. “In room 18. I’m sorry about your father, Madison……he loved you, you know that…?” Tears threatened to reappear on my face, but I fought against them. “Yes…I know that he did…Thank you for telling me which room Agent Barton was in…” “Anytime, Agent Carter…” I walked into room 18. I saw Clint, who was strapped to a laid back bed/chair. He was no longer unconscious, I sat in a chair beside him. He was shaking his head, and he kept straining against the straps that held him to the bed.

I was heartbroken to see him like this. “Clint, you’re going to be alright…” I said, he continued to pull against the straps, and he said. “You know that? Is that what you know?” I stood up to pour him a glass of water. He leaned his head back, and he said. “I’ve got no window. I have to flush him out...” “You’re going to level out. It’s going to take some time…” I replied. “Oh, you don’t understand…” He took a deep breath, as he looked up at me, and then he asked, “Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and stuff something else in? Do you know what it’s like to be unmade?” “You know that I do…” He raised his head back up, and he asked me, “Why am I back? How did you get him out?”
“Cognitive recalibration…I hit you really hard on the head…” I explained. “Thanks…” There was a slight pause. “Maddy…” He said, when he didn’t say anything, I unstrapped his hands and looked back at him. “What?” “Do you remember before, before the tesseract project, I said I was going to tell you something…But I never got the chance to…” “Yeah. What was it?” He leaned forward and he gently pressed his lips against mine. My heart fluttered, and I kissed him back. He pulled his lips from mine, but our foreheads still touching. “I love you Madison…”