One session
“You know I feel like your somehow trying to get back at me after our session”
Back hitting the mat, a usual occurrence for Dani when against Natasha, she wondered why she scheduled training after a session in the first place.
“Yeah well you get to emotionally prod, i like to keep things physical Doc,” Nat replied, right hand extended lifting Dani out of the sweat-covered mats.
“Right, so same time next week Natasha? Maybe wait on the body slamming though, I need a good days recovery from you.” She replied stretching her arms over her head hoping to relieve some of the tension in her shoulders.
“Yea that’s if Tony doesn’t switch it for himself to talk about whatever makes his head get bigger” the red haired assassin responded, and she wasn’t far from the truth. You would think the man who has been through the alien hole in the sky would like to talk about it, but his favorite deflecting strategy is confirming his amoure-propre so to speak.
As a fresh on the block clinical psychologist she didn’t think she’d go into this specialty exactly, maybe a nice little building she can work from. Usual clients telling her their woes and her trying her best to ease them from their pains. Yet after a run in with a drunk Tony at the bar she was previously employed, Tony drunk rambling whatever thought reached his lips first, he offered her a job as a personal therapist to the Stark tower.
Far-fetched and a very irregular Thursday night to say the least, Dani said yes as you can imagine. An apartment near the building with high pay and she gets to be near the worlds mightiest heroes, yeah it didn’t take much convincing. After years helping the Avengers and agents with putting the good pieces back together, Dani would say shes highly qualified to be anyones therapist. Boy was she in for a surprise.
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“I don’t know Tony, nothing against Dr. here ” Steve said giving a apologetic tilt of his perfect blond head towards the woman in question, “but this a really sensitive case, something neither of them would be used too.”
“Yes, Cap your right that’s why we need to start early, he’s so used to following you around he needs to talk to someone so he can hopefully get out into the world someday on his own,” tony retorted hopeful of the Winter Soldier’s pseudo guardians permission.
Dani sat idly by bored while the two spoke of her secret client to be. “One session, trial period if you will, he goes in one hour she tries to get him to sing if it works he goes once a week, two if he feels gracious, where’s the harm Cap?” Tony asked popping a piece of candy in his mouth.
“One session. If he wants out, he’s done and goes at his own pace, no pushing it,” Tony nodded. “Done, hell he wants a trip to Cancun instead, ill pay the ticket and haircut myself; scouts honor” Tony agreed hand over his heart in a sarcastic display of his promise.
Dani cleared her throat, “as great as all this negotiating is can someone explain to the person actually doing the job who her client is?” Tony and Steve appeared to be staring at each other anxiously waiting for the other to answer the heavy question.
“Ill let icicle take it from here seeing as this is a little out of my field,” Tony said leaving out the glass door. “Alright Dr. Acosta i’m sure you’ve heard word around here about the winter soldier?” Danielle nodded questioning where this could be headed if it involved the infamous hydra assassin.
“Well during the revelation of hydras mask as shield, we were attacked by the winter soldier only it wasnt until his mask came off that we figured Buckys been the Winter Soldier under hydra this whole time.” Yikes, dani thought, the thought of finding out one of your best friends, who you assumed died, had been the ghost behind the hundreds of assassins throughout the time you were in the ice. She was definitely mentally filing this for her next session with Steve, no doubt his self righteous ass has been carrying this guilt since finding out.
“Recently we’ve found a way to make his mind his own and he’d like to be a civilian for sometime as he well deserves and see the modern world. But his mind has had a lot of damage done to it after all the electric shock and cryo he’s been exposed too, so i need a gentle hand in this. I need him to be okay Dr, this is Buck not the assassin, he’s a broken shell of what he used to be please understand this.” While Dani slowly put together the pieces she started to understand her new challenge; bring Bucky back from himself, easier said then done.
“Well Steve guess i only have one question,” he looked at her expectantly, “when do we start?”