Living with the Avengers

Pepper sat down on the other side of Sher’s bed as Tony paced around the room, Bruce put his glasses back on and sat down, sighing, and stopped typing at the computer. Tony stopped mid stride and turned towards him.

“Just…Just tell us.” Tony said as he slumped into a chair next to Steve, Thor and Loki walked in at that moment a Loki frowned.

“Will she be ok?” He asked as Bruce nodded.

“That’s what I was getting to…firstly Sher’s wounds are healing well, I managed to get the bullet shards out of her shoulder without problem and the internal bleeding has stopped,” Everyone sighed in the room until he continued.

“But, this is the bad news…” He paused unsure if he should continue, Loki narrowed his eyes.

“Spit it out man.” He hissed, Bruce gulped and nodded.

“She’s in some sort of shock induced coma, meaning she’s going to be asleep for a while, I don’t know how long or why but she will.” Bruce finished and let out a shaky sigh, while Steve held his head in his hands.

“I shouldn’t have let her go alone.” He said as Tony put a hand on his back, Thor’s voice boomed around the room.

“I was not present at the time but you cannot blame yourself Rodgers.” Tony nodded and slapped Steve’s back in a reassuring way.

“Point-break is right, we shouldn’t have let her go alone, not just you Steve.” The blonde nodded but still looked down at the floor in shame, Pepper covered her mouth as she stared at Sher, she couldn’t believe this had happened to her, not even 24hours ago she had gone shopping with this woman and now she was in a hospital bed asleep. Bruce spoke up he pinched his brow.

“Who’s going to tell Fury?” He said it almost regrettably as everyone shared a look, then Tony put up his hand.

“Sure why not? I’ve had enough to deal with today, Fury is nothing…” He mumbled as he stood up and left the room, soon everyone parted ways until Bruce went back to typing on the computer and Steve stayed by Sher and picked up a newspaper from the 80’s.
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“Sure why not? I’ve had enough to deal with today, Fury is nothing…” Sher could hear Tony’s voice in the darkness as she silently spoke to herself, she walked around soundlessly, she was still her but she was walking around in a never ending blackness, she sat down and sighed, not even sure what she was sitting on.

“So the comatose theory is true, people are still aware when they’re asleep.” She mumbled to herself as she stared into the black abyss of her mind, Bruce said she was in a coma due to shock, surely Jed didn’t cause her too much stress right?

As if on some sort of cue she heard footsteps behind her as she turned around her eyes widened, even if it was her mind who she saw still shocked her. Rushing to her feet she ran towards the person and hugged them, a smile was plastered on her face as she gripped into their shirt.

“Sis, you’re here…” She breathed, well aware it was just her mind, but she wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to speak to her sister, weather she was fake or real meant nothing to her right now.
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Fury handed Natasha and Clint Sher’s file, it had all her information as the two read though it carefully, once they were done Natasha snapped it shut and hand it back to the director.

“So that why you trust her so much.” Clint said as they turned to the one way glass at the man sitting with his legs propped up on the table in an almost uncaring way, Fury nodded.

“We’re unsure if it was Vortex that attacked her family back then or he joined the group after, I still want to know how this man is alive, Sher killed him. And he’s said nothing for the past 5 hours we’ve been questioning him.” Natasha’s eyes widened a fraction.

“She killed him?” She looked back at the man with the scares on his face.

“She can be violent when she needs to be. That’s how she got her reputation here.” Was all he said as he turned to leave for the door his phone rang, he stopped as he stuck his hands in his pockets and pulled out his phone.

“Hello, Stark?” There was a short pause before Fury looked at Clint and Natasha.

“Yes I’m with them.” Another pause, longer this time and Fury frowned.

“What do you mean awhile?” Natasha looked at Clint but he shrugged, Fury ended the call and looked towards the two of them.

“Get back to Avengers HQ, Sher’s comatose.” Clint’s eyes widened this time.

“What kind of comatose?” Fury glared at him.

“That’s what I asked Stark, now go.” Nodding the two left, but Fury called them back.

“You might want to take this.” Fury handed Sher’s file to Natasha and they parted ways.
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When Clint and Natasha made it back the house was silent, everybody was doing their own thing on their own, it was as if Sher ‘leaving’ had ripped a hole in the group, a big black gaping hole, only Tony looked up as they entered, Pepper had gone to bed a while ago meaning he was alone.

“Where’s Sher?” Natasha asked as Tony got up and walked over to them from the sofa.

“Floor 5, Steve and Bruce haven’t left her side. Anyway, what you guys got on this Jed?” He said the name like it was taboo but Natasha shook her head solemnly.

“Not much, but we have Sher’s SHIELD file, he pops up.” She pressed the papers to Tony chest as he takes then and skim reads as they get into the elevator and go to floor 5. When they get there Steve looked up from the ‘war horse’ book he was reading and sets it on a table, Bruce turned in his swivel chair and yawned it was now 6 in the morning, meaning that pretty much everyone had been up all night waiting for Sher to miraculously wake up somehow.

“I feel for this kid.” Tony muttered as he finished properly reading Sher’s file, he then handed it to Steve who read it, once and a while glancing up a Sher with eyes full of pity.

“She had it rough?” Bruce asked as Clint nodded.

“This Jed pops up quite a lot, especially with her family’s murder, killed her sister right in front of her.” Natasha said as Tony rubbed his eyes.

“That low midguardian needs to perish.” Loki growled as he appeared out of nowhere, making everyone but Natasha jump in their tired states.

“What’s the plan then, Reindeer games…?” Tony muttered with little enthusiasm in his voice.

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