Fated Marks

Third Person’s POV- Seattle, Washington

“Yeah mom I know.” A jogger said as she spoke through her headset. “I’ll call them when I get home.”

“Why don’t you call them now?” the lady answered.

“Because I’m out jogging mom.” He answered.

“Where?” She answered.

“The beach, look I’ll be home in twenty minut…woah!” He said as he tripped. “Ah yeah I’m fine just tripped on…Oh my gosh.. uh mom I’m going to call you back later.” He said hanging up.

“Shit, shit, shit.” He said sitting up and moving closer to the person he tripped on. He flipped them over and saw a girl with blue lips.

He quickly pulled out his phone and dialed 911.

“Nine one one what is your emergency?” the operator answered.

“Hi I’m at the hidden beach in Marine View Park there’s a woman who washed up on the shore. She’s unconscious, her lips are blue and I think she may be dead.” The jogger said. “And she’s bleeding.”

“Please stay on the line and ambulance is on its way. If you know CPR could you please start chest compressions.” The operator said.

“Alright.” He said starting chest compressions. “I really hope I didn’t just trip on a corpse, come on.”

In ten minutes he could already hear the sirens.

“Come on, just a little longer.” He said continuing chest compressions.

“Hey over here!” One of the paramedics called out before running over.

“How long ago did you find her?” He asked.

“I tripped over her ten minutes ago. She was unconscious and she isn’t breathing.” He explained.

“Her core body temp is low. She’s hypothermic.” The paramedic explained before noticing the blood. “Shit.”

“So warm her up that’s how you cure hypothermia right?” The jogger said.

“Yeah but we can’t do that here.” The paramedic said before talking out his radio. “We’re going to need medical evac. Patient is hypothermic with a GSW in the abdomen.”

“Evac is on it’s way.” The responder said.

“Is she going to be okay?” The jogger said.

“I don’t know. We need to airlift her out of here” The paramedic said as a helicopter seemed to get closer and closer.

Within ten minutes the helicopter had landed and the girl was on a gurney getting loaded onto the helicopter.

“The closest level one trauma center is University of Washington Medical Center.” The pilot said.

“Go there, and make it fast we can’t keep this up on our own.” The paramedic giving her chest compressions said.

“Copy.” The pilot said as they took off.

Once they landed on the roof of the hospital the doctors immediately rushed her to an exam room.

“Female looks to be about eighteen years of age washed up on shore with a GSW to the abdomen and hypothermic.” The paramedic said.

“Shit we need to get her on bypass and warm her up.” The doctor said. “Do we have her name?”

“No ID or anything on her.” The paramedic answered.

“Get one of the interns to take a photo of her and forward it to the authorities see if we can’t find her parents or any family.” The doctor said.

Third Person’s POV-

“The nanobot’s signal is moving. It started off in Seattle but it started moving. My guess is they’re moving Barnes back to base now that his mission’s done.” Tony said.

“Where are the headed to?” Steve asked.

“No idea. It could be anywhere at this point. We’re going to have to wait a few hours and…” Tony started.

“No.” Steve said. “It’s only a matter of time before they find the signal the nanobots are transmitting and who’s tracking it. We can’t lose Bucky.”

“That’s not an issue. The reason the nanobots can only be tracked using a certain frequency is because Hayley programmed them to so all of them transmit at that single frequency. Any other and they would only pick up a couple of them but not all of them and even then the signal would be so small it’s negligible.” Bruce said.

“Hayley thought it all out. She was five steps ahead of everyone even us.” Tony said taking a sip of his drink. At that instant Clint and Natasha walked into the lab.

“Is Jarvis still running facial recognition on Hayley?” Natasha asked.

“No, there isn’t really much of a point.” Tony said taking a bigger gulp of his drink.

“Barnes’ signal was coming from Seattle.” Clint said.

“Yeah,” Steve said.

“Hayley was born in Seattle and her mom’s buried there. She was supposed to meet up with Adler in Chicago but if the signal’s coming from Seattle…” Clint started.

“Then she didn’t stay in Chicago, Adler moved her.” Tony said. “Jarvis run facial recognition for Hayley and focus on Seattle.”

“Yes sir.” Jarvis answered.

“It’s a long shot but it’s worth…” Tony started.

“Ninety five percent facial recognition match found.” Jarvis said.

“Ninety five?” Steve said.

“It’s not a perfect system, camera angles and lighting affect it.” Bruce said. “But it’s a near perfect match.”

“Where is she?” Thor asked.

“University of Washington Medical Center.” Tony said.

“Is she okay?” Clint asked.

“She’s in surgery. They found her washed up on a shore, hypothermic with a GSW to the abdomen.” Tony said.

“We must go at once.” Thor said.

“Yeah, Jarvis let them know we’re on her way and forward her medical files to them while you’re at it.” Tony said.

“What about Bucky?” Steve said.

“Hayley’s fighting for her life and you’re worried about the Terminator?” Tony said angrily.

“That’s not what I meant. I mean what do we do about him?” Steve said. “He’s moving away from Seattle.”

“There’s nothing we can do while he’s moving. We can track the signal once it stopped moving.” Natasha said. “It’ll give us time to figure out what we’re going to do next.”

“Is the quinjet ready to go?” Clint asked.

“All set.” Tony set.

“Then let’s move.” Steve said.

With the quinjet going at full speed the normally long six-hour flight was done in less than four hours. They landed in a private airfield outside of the city and quickly loaded into a car they had waiting for them.

Once they got to the hospital they all but jumped out of the car and ran straight to the emergency room.

“Hi can I…” The nurse started.

“We information on a patient, Hayley Adams she was brought in a few hours ago.” Clint started.

“They found her washed up on a beach.” Tony added.

“GSW to the abdomen.” Natasha added.

“Oh uh… you’re uh…” The nurse said immediately recognizing them.

“The avengers yeah, Hayley?” Tony said.

“Yes um… Can you please wait here a doctor should be out shortly on her status.” The nurse said. “Next!”

“But…” Steve started.

“Sir you’re going to have to wait.” The nurse said before they were moved out of the way by another patient.

“Uh is there by chance another waiting room?” Tony said looking around at everyone who already had their phone out and were taking photos of them.

“Yes, Hospital security will be by shortly to escort you to a more private waiting room. Next!” The nurse shouted.

Less than five minutes and they were escorted to a private waiting room five floors up.

“What the hell is taking them so long?” Clint said.

“She came in Hypothermic and with a gunshot wound. No news is good news.” Natasha said.

“I don’t care I’m going to ask.” Tony said getting up and walking to the door but as soon as he did it opened and a man wearing dark navy scrubs walked in.

“Are you all the family of Hayley Adams?” the doctor said.

“We’re her soulmates.” Thor answered.

“Well that explains the marks.” The doctor said. “I’m Doctor Hunt, I’m Hayley’s Doctor.”

“How is she?” Steve said.

“Miss Adam’s came in Hypothermic with almost no resting heartbeat and she wasn’t breathing. Under normal circumstances she would have been declared dead on the scene but the Hypothermia preserved brain function and she still had pupillary responses. We put her on Bypass and warmed her back up before taking her into surgery. The surgery itself was successful but her heart stopped three times. We don’t know if she’ll recover or if she’ll wake up.” The doctor said.

“What do you mean wake up?” Bruce asked.

“She’s in a coma.” Doctor Hunt said. “I’m very sorry.”

“Can… uh can we see her?” Clint asked with his voice cracking.

“She’s being moved to a private room, some one will come and get you when she’s all set up.” Doctor Hunt said.

“Thank you.” Tony said choked out. The Doctor nodded before walking out of the room.

“What is a coma? Is it some sort of sleeping curse? Or like the Odin sleep?” Thor asked.

“The injuries she received made her unconscious and she can’t move. It’s like a deep sleep but there’s no way to know when she’ll wake up.” Bruce explained. “It can be days, months, years or… never.”

“There must be something we can do.” Thor said

“There isn’t.” Natasha said she said looking at him with red rimmed eyes.

“I’m going to go see if there’s a way we can get her transferred to New York, get a second opinion.” Tony said walking out.

“Tony.” Steve said trying to stop him.

“Steve let him.” Bruce said. “He needs space.”

“Excuse me, Miss Adams is in her room. I can take you there now.” One of the nurses said.

“Yes thank you.” Natasha said getting up.

Everyone quietly followed the nurse downstairs and down the hall until they stopped in front of a pair of glass doors.

Natasha struggled to hold back a gasp at the image of Hayley in a bed surrounded by all sorts of machines and tubes and wires sticking out of her.

“She’s on a ventilator?” Bruce asked.

“We’re giving her lungs a break, the drowning really strained them.” The nurse said.

“Right, she drowned.” Steve said struggling to hold tears back.

“I’ll give you all a moment.” She said walking away.

Natasha walked inside the room and gently put her hand on Hayley’s.

“Krasivaya.” She whispered tucking a lock of her hair behind he ear revealing the finger shaped bruises on her neck. Natasha teared up before leaning down to kiss her forehead.

Bruce hesitated before grabbing the clipboard hanging at the end of Hayley’s bed. He grimaced before putting it back.

Clint moved to sit down on the side opposite of Natasha and took Hayley’s other hand. He noticed the bruises on his arm and wished Hadrian wasn’t dead so he could finish him himself.

Thor stood in the corner not knowing what to do. Hayley looked so small and fragile lying on that bed with the machines around her making the only noise that could be heard in the room.

Steve stood at the doorway struggling to choke back a sob. Hayley was the strongest person he knew. Despite everything that happened to her she would do anything for the people she loved, including give up her life. He couldn’t help but feel responsible for all of this.

Tony walked in and froze. He stared at his soulmate. He knew it was bad but seeing it was something else.

“Tony?” Steve said.

“They said it’s too soon to move her. They want to see if she’ll… If she’ll make it through the next few days to see if she’s stable enough to move.” Tony said. “They’re also asking if she has a medical directive.”

“Medical Directive?” Steve asked.

“They want to know if Hayley would want to stay connected to the machines or not.” Bruce said.

“But those are what are helping her heal?” Thor asked.

“They… they’re also what may be keeping her alive.” Clint choked out.

“Let’s not go there. Hayley’s strong she’s not going to give up.” Steve said. “She’s going to get better. She has to.”

They stayed quiet until a sudden beep got their attention. Tony took out his phone and checked what was the alert.

“Tony?” Steve asked.

“Barnes’ signal stopped moving.” Tony said.

“Where is he?” Natasha asked.

“DC, a few blocks away from the Triskelion.” Tony said.

“It fits. If Shield is Hydra…” Natasha said.

“If? You really have doubts after everything we’ve seen, after Hayley…” Clint snapped.

“I know I’m just… adjusting to the situation. It’s not everyday you find out you traded the KGB for something worse.” Natasha said frustrated.

“We can’t just storm in there and take Barnes back, not with Project insight at their disposal.” Tony said.

“Then we take both.” Steve said.

“You’re talking about three Helicarriers with really big guns that shoot really fast.” Tony said.

“He’s right we try to storm the castle and they’ll launch whatever they have ready. Thousands if not millions of people could die.” Natasha said.

“Then we need help from someone that knows exactly how it works any weak points in the ship or the programming.” Bruce said.

“Fury?” Thor suggested.

“You think we can trust him?” Tony asked.

“At this point I don’t think we really have much of a choice.” Bruce said.

“You think he’ll actually agree to bring it all down?” Tony retorted.

“We’re not asking.” Steve said not taking his eyes off of Hayley.

“I’ll make the call, ask Hill and Fury to meet us at the Tower.” Tony said. “Tomorrow though. Hales shouldn’t be alone.”

Hours passed by and they stayed in their places around the room. By the time visiting hours were over no one was willing to budge.

Tony stepped out of the room to talk to the head of the hospital and to probably make a very generous donation in exchange for them staying.

“I’m heading down to the cafeteria, get us all something to eat and some coffee before they close.” Bruce said.

“I shall go assist.” Thor said as Steve’s phone started ringing.

“It’s Hill.” Steve said stepping out.

The two assassins stayed in their seats not bothering to even nod in acknowledgement. Natasha sat at Hayley’s side holding her hand rubbing her soulmark on Hayley’s arm. Clint sat on the opposite side holding Hayley’s hand as he leaned against the bed not taking his eyes off of her.

The only sounds in the room were from the beeping heart monitor and the whooshing sounds over the ventilator.

“We shouldn’t have left her alone.” Clint said.

“She didn’t give you a choice and even if you hadn’t she would have found a way to leave. Doubt even handcuffs would have stopped her.” Natasha said with a sad smile. She brushed some hair off of Hayley’s forehead before resting her hand on her cheek. “She’s strong, she’s going to make it.”

Natasha stood up and stretched her legs at the exact moment the heart monitors started beeping louder and faster.

“Nat?” Clint said looking at her concerned.  

A nurse ran into the room and looked at the monitors.

“We need a crash cart in here now!” She yelled.

“What’s going on?” Natasha asked.

“She’s crashing, She’s going into cardiac arrest.” She said. As a whole team of doctors and nurses came in.

“Can you do something?!” Clint shouted.

“Sir we’re going to need you to step out of the room.” One of the nurses said.

“What’s going on?” Tony said walking in.

“You all need to wait outside.” The nurse said all but pushing them out.

The doctor started chest compression before shouting. “Give me five of epi.” He said.

“What happened?” Tony asked.

“She was fine then the heart monitors went off. She crashed.” Natasha said.

“Come on Hales.” Clint muttered as he looked through the room windows.

“Paddles!” Some one shouted.

“Got it.” Someone said handing them over.

“Charge to two hundred!” Someone called out.

“Hayley!” Thor shouted before trying to storm into the room only to be stopped by Steve.

“Thor you have to let them do their job.” Steve said.

“Clear!” Someone shouted. They shocked Hayley and her body jumped but nothing. “Again charge to two fifty.”

“Don’t do this Hayley.” Natasha whispered.

“Clear.” Someone said and again nothing. ‘Three hundred… clear.”

“Please baby.” Tony whispered.

Everything was quiet until they heard a quiet beep followed by a steady rhythm that followed.

“We have sinus rhythm.” The nurse said.

“Check pupillary responses.” One of the doctors said.

“Still responsive.” The nurse said.

“Still comatose.” The doctor said before coming outside.

“How is she?” Steve asked.

“Miss Adams went into cardiac arrest. We managed to restart her heart but this was the fourth time. The strain her heart goes through each time we have to revive her is taking it’s toll it’s taking longer to bring her back.” The doctor said.

“Is there anything you can do?” bruce asked.

“We can put her on bypass for a while but we might not be able to restart her heart again. Does she have any other family?” he asked.

“No we’re all she’s got.” Tony said.

“It might be time for you all to prepare for the possibility your soulmate may not make it through the night.” He said.

“There has to be something you can do.” Clint said.

“We’ve done everything we can, all we can do now is wait. It’s in her hands now.” The doctor said before walking away.

“No, there has to be something.” Tony said.

“Tony,” Bruce said.

“I’m flying in the head of Neuro from Columbia and the head of cardio while I’m at it.” Tony said walking out.

“Midgardian medicine cannot help, but perhaps the healers on Asgard can help.” Thor said.

“We can’t move her. She might not make it.” Natasha said, her voice cracking a bit.

“It’s worth a try.” Thor said walking out.

“Uh.” Steve groaned as his phone rang again. ”I have to take this.”

“I think I should call Will. He should know.” Natasha said.

“Didn’t he say he never wanted to see Hayley again?” Clint deadpanned.

“If he didn’t care he wouldn’t have called to tell us she had left the tower. He deserved to know.” Bruce said. You should also call Rebekah and Kol. I’m gonna find Tony, try to keep him from buying the hospital.”

“You can go in now.” The last nurse who was in the room said as she walked out.

Clint sighed and choked back tears before walking back to his seat. He stared at his soulmate before taking her hand.

“Hales, I don’t know if you can hear me but if you can you need to wake up. You don’t get to check out on us. You’ve never stopped fighting before and you can’t stop now. We still have a lot of things to do together. We need to evict the family of raccoons from the attic. We need to bicker about the remodel and the size of the TV we’re going to hang in the den.” Clint said chuckling sadly. “We need to go on another road trip. We’re supposed to spend the rest of our lives together Hales. We need you baby, We love you so damn much. Please wake up. Please.” He sobbed.

Calliope’s POV-

Please, wake up. Please

“Mh.” I groaned.

“Cal wake up.”

“Five more minutes.” I mumbled before I heard footsteps and the blinds we slid open and the bright light burned my eyes. “Uh!”

“Morning sunshine!” Will cheered.

“Will, it’s too early.” I whined.

“It’s nine am.” I retorted.

“And we have class at ten thirty. Come on Josh is making breakfast.” Will said.

“Coffee.” Josh said walking into the room and putting my favorite coffee mug on my nightstand.

“That’s why he’s my favorite roommate.” I said sitting up.

“Hey!” Will whined. “What happened to Bros over hoes? No offense baby I love you.”

“Love you too.” Josh said giving him a quick kiss before walking out of the room.

“Technically he’s also my bro and he wakes me up with coffee.” I said with a smirk. “Thanks Josh!” I called out.

“You’re lucky I love you.” Will said getting up. “Hurry up or we’ll miss the train.”

“Yeah yeah.” I said as he walked out. Five more minutes won’t really make a difference.” I said lying back down.

“Cal I have a bucket of ice water with your name on it!” Will shouted.

“I’m going! I’m going!” I said jumping out of bed.