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levi-inthesun · 5 years

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Awakening

Chapter 4

Summary: June (Juniper) works at the New York Public Library where she reads to kids once a week, otherwise she’s shelving books, checking out books for patrons, and catching the eye of one Steve Rogers.

Pairing- Steve x Juniper (OC)

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You stood there, eyes closed, listening to the world around you. You could hear the rainfall around you before you could feel it on your skin. You heard men talking some ways out in front of and to the left of you, it was muffled so you figured they were behind a door. You took a deep breath. As you slowly release your breath you could feel the string tugging on your heart again.

You opened your eyes to find yourself on the edge of the forest and the pavement leading to the building, dark clouds looming overhead emptying their contents. You quickly ran through the building in a desperate attempt to find anything that could point to where Steve was.

Once out of the building, your feet carried you back into the forest. You ran your hand along the trees and took your time walking, observing everything you could. There were fresh boot prints in the mud leading to the right, but to the left were broken branches and smears of blood. You plucked a blood-covered leaf and made a fist around it, hoping, praying it would somehow get to those who were waiting for you in the lab.

You kept moving forward, following the trail of blood and destroyed plants. You heard something wrestling the tree above you and you looked up to see a familiar face, bow, and arrow loaded and aimed at a man maybe 20 feet ahead. The man looked in your direction but seemed to look right through you. He released his arrow and you heard a thud as a body hit the ground.

“Good luck Clint,” you whispered to him.

You trekked further, and the trees seemed to be getting closer and closer together until you felt absolutely surrounded. Praying you wouldn’t suddenly become claustrophobic, you took in a few deep inhales, and exhaled slowly with your eyes closed.

Go up.

Your eyes snapped open and you looked around you to find the voice, but no one was there. Nevertheless, you listened and began to climb upwards. You were still barefoot and winced every time your food slipped against the bark, burning. You climbed up the tree until you felt the force guiding you to stop. From your perch, you were able to see much further since the trees thinned out near the top.

“Where are you?” you whispered.

Looking down, you could suddenly pinpoint exactly where Bucky, Clint, Nat, and Sam were. You could feel their focus and determination as well as the deep sorrow they tried to bury. You remembered the dream. Next, you’d find yourself completely broken.

You climbed back down the tree and knelt down on your hands and knees on the damp ground. You cleared the thoughts thrashing around your mind and listened, feeling the earth. Then you felt the vibrations. You stood back up and planted your feet firmly in the earth. You smiled when you could still feel it.

You followed the vibrations below you, carrying you to a clearing. Standing in the middle you slowly looked around, taking everything in.

There were tents here. A struggle. You inhaled deeply through your nose. Burning.

Burning flesh, to be specific. And then you began to feel the flames burning your skin. And you heard a man laughing, speaking with a heavy accent, “Let us see if Captain America” he spat, “can heal from burns.”

The worst part was hearing his screams. You raked your hands over your face, through your hair, trying desperately to make the screaming stop. But it continued, and your body felt as if it were being enveloped in flames.

“NOOOO!!” You screamed out into the empty air around you.

“She’s burning up!” Dr. Cho yelled, everyone turned to see your sweating, thrashing body.

Blankets, hat, jacket, socks… everything was removed that could be beside your sports bra and the boxers you had taken from Steve.

“Her body won’t be able to handle much more of this,” Dr. Cho said, shaking her head. “if she continues going through these extremes and is injured more, she may not make it. I’m putting a limit on this. 1 hour, then we wake her up.”

“You can’t wake her up,” Peter said, standing defiantly. “She made me promise I wouldn’t let her be woken up until she finds Steve. I am not afraid of using force and I have enough medical knowledge that I will be able to wake her up when the time comes if anyone gets in my way.”

The group stared wide-eyed at Peter.

“Very well,” Tony said. “Only because I don’t want to be cleaning web out of my hair and clothes for the next week,” he said, narrowing his eyes at Peter, only sort of succeeding at clearing out some of the heaviness of the room.

Your screams ripped through the air, yet they weren’t loud enough to drown out his screams. You breathed in deeply, the smell of your burning flesh filling your nose. As the scent infiltrated every part of you your agony turned into something else… it became pure energy, untainted and unrestrained.

“Guys,” Bucky said into his com, “do you feel that?”

Everyone confirmed. It was as if the air shifted. The atmosphere felt different. Heavy. Vengeful. The ground shook.

“I think it’s June,” Bucky said to himself and moved forward.

You began to feel the ground beneath you disappear. Air flowing around you as your body rose into the sky.

“WHAT THE EVER LOVING HELL!!!” Peter screamed, causing everyone to sprint back to the room. Your body was now floating in the air, different colored light growing brighter and brighter until suddenly they were surrounded in darkness.

When you touched back down, you opened your eyes. You were radiating; bright, blinding white, gold, hints of indigo. You heard something in the distance, and your head snapped in the direction of the sound and ran. Your feet continued to carry you through the now dark forest. Closing your eyes, you could feel everything around you. Each plant, each animal, each person. You could feel their energy. Your body propelled forward, eyes still shut until you knew you found him.

When you opened your eyes, you were floating in the air in front of a hidden building much like the one before; dark and looming.

“Buck,” Sam called over the com, “Please tell me you see that.”

“Yeah, yeah I think we all do.”

Light exploded in the distance, shaking the ground. The small team made their way forward as quickly as possible, Bucky sprinting ahead.

You barely touched the door and it flew open, crashing against the concrete building. Your feet continued to carry you forward, one step at a time. As you rounded the corner you were met by a group of men. “The f-”

Before they could think to even pull their weapons out your hands rose straight out in front of you before you quickly pulled them apart forcing the men to fly out towards the walls. You kept moving, eyes closed again as you followed the direction of your mind’s eye.

When you stopped, you were face to face with a blank wall. You cocked your head to the side before placing your right palm on it. It crumbled under your hand into dust. Men screamed as you gracefully moved into the hidden room. Some had the sense to pull their guns on you, but it was no use. You were about to disarm them when your eyes found Steve’s body and you ran towards him, getting to him in seconds.

“Steve,” you breathed out, running your hands along his body. Burns began to disappear under your touch.

“Holy shit, June!” Sam yelled out as they made it into the room, picking off men one by one.

“Get him and go!” Bucky commanded.

You turned back to the man in front of you and broke the bonds holding him to the table and lifted him with ease, running back out of the building. The quinjet was 20 yards out, invisible, but you could see it. You could see everything.

Once inside, you ran your hands over Steve’s wounds that weren’t healing yet and felt a pull to place one of your hands on his neck, the other on his heart. You focused all your energy on those two parts when suddenly Steve was throwing up.

Steve managed to croak out your name before you fell to the floor.

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