~ Erin a.k.a The Glitch POV~

I walked down the hall just done with my daily dose of Loki babysitting. My wrist started stinging again. God all these weird things happening lately. Loki, Tony, Thor and Steve had been giving me these looks the past week. Or when our eyes linked they would look away. They would stiffen if I touched their arm or something and they all avoided but stayed close to me at the same time.

I dragged a hand down my face. That I myself wasn't really sure what the hell I was feeling didn't really help either of course.

"God damn. klothay." Another one. Why do I always do that?! These feelings!

I just tried to ignore it, let my body react how it wanted and just move on. Maybe I played it off to easy. I inhaled and exhaled loudly. I was damn tired now that my shift was over. I had been thinking of skipping food before going to bed because of that not feeling well I ate less too but I was pretty hungry right now so I changed direction to the cafeteria anyway.

It was somewhere around 6:20 so it was very quiet here. A couple of agents sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking a bit.

I grabbed a coffee too even though I hated coffee. Way too bitter for me. With a croissant I flopped down on a chair next to a window wall of the Helicarrier. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket again. Grunting I let my face slip off of my hand and slammed my head on the table. Not too hard of course. Jared had been calling me over and over and over again! I never picked up. When he finally stopped I got an message from Nick Fury to all gather in the storage room.

I stuffed the rest of my food in my mouth and the last coffee behind it and made my way to the storage. Maybe they found out about that Ether stuff. Well sooner or later they would but apart from making me feel sick and the super annoying nightmares I was fine and nothing seemed to happen.

Walking past the closed door where the prisoners were behind I thought of Loki who was probably reading again. I really didn't knew how he did that all day, followed by talking to me all night! Did he never sleep? Probably when I wasn't there. All the others were already there at the door of the storage. I walked up to Steve.

"So what are we here for Cap? You know the details?" He shook his head.

"Fury asked all of us here but I have no idea why. Seemed urgent that's all. But we wouldn't be here if it wasn't." He smiled a little.

'Hu, I think I know what we're here for.' I thought as I shrugged my shoulders.

"Hey are you alright?  You have been looking kind of tired the last couple of days." He asked worry in his voice.

"Yeah." I answered a bit uncomfortable. Nick Fury came down the hall looking ready to kill. I kept my gaze on him. "I um, I just have some stupid nightmares that's all. Ruins the sleep a bit." He follows my gaze and stiffened as he noticed the look on Fury's face.

"We're dead." Clint stated dryly.

"Your forgetting the part where we will be shouted at." Tony whispered so it was just out of reach for Fury's ears.

He walked past us saying we should follow. He was not in a very good mood so everyone just did.

"Ready to escape this?" Tony whispered in my ear half serious.

I snickered and gave him a low five softly so nobody would hear it. Steve just shook his head at Tony who pulled a funny face at him.

Fury had let the guards open the door to the storage and we all went in. I walked behind a little and looked around when suddenly the pain from the nightmares became real. I could feel it pulsing trough every vein and my breath got stuck in my throat. It felt like a force flew into me and pushed everything I was, me, out the back. Within a second from the moment the pain started this happened and I now collapsed on my side on the floor.

With a loud thud I fell down. The others surrounded my body but the weird thing was I myself was still standing. Hovering a bit above even. I could not talk or really move but I felt fine. I sighed, what just happened?

  ~Steve a.k.a Captain America POV~

Suddenly I heard a thud behind us. Erin had collapsed on her side out of nowhere. We all ran back to her now limp body. Tony, Thor and I crutched down next to her as Natasha called the paramedics. Carefully I slit a finger over her neck to the place where the vein to her heart was. No heart beat. I frowned frustrated.

'She has to have a pulse. How can she lose it in seconds?!' I thought checking again.

"How can she.. why doesn't.." I stuttered out not understanding how this happened.

"She can't be dead. She is healthy she is just tired from lack of sleep." Tony said more sounding like he wanted to believe it then truly believing it.

The girl I liked, no, the girl I loved was dead.

Posted; 20-07-2014

reedited; 29-06-2018