Window, fireplace, rain barrel, fireplace, window. This is the only things that you saw as you paced back and forth as you waited for the Avengers to show up. It'd been hours since you'd called them and the last thing you'd heard was Bucky slamming the fake Steve into the wall of the quinjet and snarling, "Who. The fuck. Are you?"

As you paced back and forth, chewed on your bottom lip and you were quite sure that it'd be chapped to the point of near bleeding if not already bleeding by this point but you didn't care. All you cared about was the team getting here safely and figuring out where the real Steve was. You'd already cooked and eaten the fish but you were so worried that you barely even tasted it and as soon as you were done you immediately began pacing again.

It was nearing sunset and your stomach was growling but you were trying to ignore it when you heard the whine of the quinjet's engines overhead and you almost ran outside before you stopped yourself and decided to stay inside and wait and see if it really was your friends. You decided to cook up the last of the fish as you waited. You'd just gotten the last piece out of the frying pan when Bucky came storming through the door followed closely by Tony, Nat, and Bruce.

You held up your finger and thought quickly and then said, "Tell me something only the Avengers would know about me." Tony looked highly confused while both Bucky and Nat simply looked proud as they all thought for a minute and said, "You're painfully shy at all times to the point where everyone wants to give you a hug." You smiled and ran over to Natasha and gave her a hug as Bucky sat the unconscious Steve down in the corner just as Bruce came walking through the door and you asked him, "How exactly did we meet."

Bruce stood there looking as confused, if not more so, than Tony and then finally said, "I met you after you were brought to my lab because you were dared by your friends to sneak into Avenger's Tower and bring back a souvenir and you'd almost made it out except the leg of your pants got caught on a screw inside the air ducts and you were thrashing around trying to get unhooked and you ended up falling twenty feet and landed on top of a desk and was instantly surrounded by the team before you passed out."

You grinned from ear to ear and nodded and then asked as you pointed towards the imposter Steve, "So did you guys ever find who this asshole is?" The room that was light and friendly turned cold and tense as Bruce answered, "Actually yea. We had Wanda look through his mind after he'd been knocked out by our dear Bucky over there and found out that he's a top-level HYDRA agent that's had a few surgeries done to look as close to Steve as possible. Turns out you didn't actually... with Steve." Your stomach lurched and you ran for the door and barely made it three feet outside before you hit your knees and retched emptying your stomach of the fish you'd had for lunch and dinner. After you finally stopped dry heaving ten minutes later and Natasha helped you up, you made your way to the rain barrel where you scooped up a handful of water and washed your mouth out and spit the water out beside the barrel. You did this several more times until you were sure you couldn't taste or smell vomit and then made your way back inside full of a fresh new rage as you looked over at the others along with Wanda and Clint and said, "Clint, Wanda, what's one thing that I'm good at but I don't like to brag about?"

Of course, looks of confusion spread across both of their faces and they both looked at each other and then they both answered, "Cooking." You nodded once and then slowly walked over to the wannabe Steve then looked over your shoulder and said, "Does anyone have any restraints? I'm quite sure that once we wake him up he'll come up swinging and I honestly don't want to have to put him out of our misery so soon." The team all looked at each other and then back to you and Tony said, "Why do you want to wake him up? I mean we've got all the information we needed without him being conscious."

You stood back up cracking your neck and back from hours of stress and then turned and said, "So you know where our Steve is? You know the formula for the antidote to... whatever it was that they gave me?" Surprisingly, Tony actually nodded. "You're absolutely sure that this information is correct and that we aren't going to be led into another trap?" You asked quickly knowing that time was of the essence and that the more time you stood here wasting playing twenty-one questions with the rest of your teammates the more time the HYDRA agents had to torture the real Steve, or worse.

Chewing your already chapped bottom lip you weighed the pros and cons quickly and then nodded more to yourself than the team and then looked up at Tony and said, "Bring the fake. If shit goes south then we'll use him as leverage. I highly doubt it'll actually work but maybe it'll buy us some time. And guys?" You looked at your teammates and tried to fight the tears that were welling in your eyes.

"Let me be the one to explain to the real Steve what happened." They didn't say anything but they all nodded sympathetically as Tony walked over and touched his chest causing the suit to form around him and he hoisted the fake Steve over his shoulder as if he were nothing more than a sack of potatoes. You checked your utility belt to make sure that you were still good on supplies and grabbed your phone from the table and stuck it back in the utility belt and grabbed the daggers and shoved them in the sides of your boots and then stood up and said, "Alright, let's do this."

And with that, you walked out the front door of the building and started back towards the HYDRA facility praying that Steve would be uninjured when you found him. You knew that was pushing your luck but what you didn't know is that it would be so...SO much worse than even you could imagine.