it was black but slowly my vision came back "morning sleepy head" a man with a thick Russian accent "who do you work for?" he asked "the mini mart down the street from the motel" I shrugged, SHEILD set up a fake record at a small grocery saying that I was an employee there and that I owned a smell apartment a few blocks away, a large man punched me across the face "ow" I groaned "you know that we don't tolerate lies, so I will ask again. who do you work for?" he asked again "Mini mart!" I yelled, the man punched me again "you sick bastard" I spit in the Russians face "I will ask nicely one more time, who do you work for?!?" "MINI MART!" the big man punched me "son of a bitch" I muttered raising my heel of the ground and crushing the foot of the man who stood in front me asking the questions "for that you get extra" he spat as he picked up a crow bar and hit me in the stomach, I spit some blood out and he hit me again "why are you doing this?" I yelled " you escaped, you cant go around telling people about us" he glared at me "I wont and I didn't I swear please let me go!" "ah ah ah, I cant do that, but I can beat you into telling me or a can kill you" "kill me now because I am not saying anything" " that can be arranged" he hit me in the stomach again and the other, bigger man knocked me out.

I woke up in the compound med bay hospital bed with a worried Nat on my left and a worried tony on my left. suddenly a rush of pain hit me in my head and stomach. "ow" I groaned in pain Nat noticed "ow, ow, shit, ow" I groaned as the pain got worse "y/n? y/n where does it hurt?" tony asked standing up "everywhere!" I cried praying it would stop. I sat up curling into a ball needing it to stop, Nat handed me a bowl and she held my hair back. I threw up blood into the bowl as tony put something in my IV and the pain slowly stopped I kept throwing up for about 30 more minutes. Nat and tony were there the whole time the other team members came in to check in on me but other than that I was still in constant pain. tony gave me pain killers but they didn't help much.

I slept and Nat slept in the bed with me to make me feel safer. apparently while on the mission some hydra agents captured me and the team found me after a week of searching. battered and bruised the took me back to the compound to find out I have brain injury's and internal bleeding. tony called in the best of the best but the recovery will be long and hard.

after about a month and three surgeries I was in bed talking to Nat. "as soon as I can I'm taking you on a date" she told me proudly "where are we gonna go?" I asked, talking helped keep my mind off the pain. "a fancy restaurant?" "sounds nice" I smiled weakly. "are the pain killers wearing off?" "yeah, but I'm ok its fine" I lied I didn't want her to worry "I am still gonna get tony, Jarvis!" "yes miss Romanoff?" the kind voice boomed "call for tony please?" "right away ma'am" "thank you"

"hey? everything ok?" he asked worry lacing his words "her pain killers are wearing off" he looks over at me with a sympathetic look, it got hard to see after tears formed in my eyes "ok one moment" he said putting something in the IV. after a moment the pain lessened and I started to get drowsy. "night y/n" tony said sitting in the arm chair on my right side. Nat sat down next to me and stroked my hair as I drifted off to sleep.