RavensBlood

So this isn’t my first account but I lost my other one and just thought I’d start over. First some rules on my page.

No being disrespectful, racist, homophonic,(but I am pretty oblivious if people are rude or not so I will try and understand your tone and all but please be clear), etc!

If you’re nice, I’m nice. If you’re rude, I block you.

I will take requests but nothing involved with rape, drugging, abuse, etc.

If I come up with more topics that need to be addressed, they will be.

Now for the fun part!

I will take requests (although it may take time or no time at all for me to get to them since I kinda stick to short stories but I will try!) with smut like light CNC, but that depends on the ask, BDSM, spanking, choking, sensory deprivation, Sadomasochism, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Age Play, Degradation, and maybe some other stuff I just can’t think of right now(I blank out a lot sorry) but if you ask for something I am or not am not comfortable with, I will kindly let you know and compromise for something close to it.

I like a lot of fandoms and will write for most of them but I may be a bit rusty with my knowledge on them, though don’t be afraid to ask.

Fandoms I like and will write about are: Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, Twilight, (some) Call Of Duty, Stray Kids, (some) Ateez, and (some) Transformers, again if I remember anymore I’ll add them!

Chapter 4

The bedroom at the end of the hall was sparse—nothing but a simple wooden chair, a small dresser, and a worn mattress with a heavy olive-drab blanket. Bob guided you inside, staying strictly by the doorframe to give you space. He looked around the small room as if he were inspecting it for hidden cameras or O.X.E. tech, his large frame completely dominating the narrow entryway. "It's not much," Bob murmured, his voice dropping into a shy, quiet rumble. "But it's dry. And nobody will come in here. I'll be right outside on the couch. If the noise inside your head gets too loud... or if you just need me to stand by the door, you just have to knock on the wall. I'll hear it." You sat down on the edge of the mattress, the old springs groaning softly beneath your boots. You looked up at him through the deep shadows of the room, observing the way his hands still trembled slightly, the way his ragged clothes didn't fit his massive shoulders, and the pure, unfiltered empathy in his eyes."Bob," you said quietly.He froze, his head snapping toward you. "Yeah?"

"Why are you being so nice to me?" You tilted your head, your voice completely genuine, stripped of any suspicion. "You don't know me. For all you know, O.X.E. put me in that box because I'm exactly what Walker thinks I am." Bob swallowed hard, his throat completely dry. He rubbed the back of his neck, a small, incredibly sad smile breaking through his exhausted features. "Because when I looked at you through that glass," Bob whispered, his voice cracking slightly as he took a step closer, stopping just short of the bed, "for the first time in my life, the Sentry didn't tell me to run. And the Void didn't tell me to fight. It was just... quiet. You make the noise stop, y/n. I don't care what's written in your files."

The silence that settled between you was magnetic, heavy with a slow, burning tension that made the air in the small room feel thick. You looked at his hand, inches from yours on the mattress. You wanted to reach out, to feel that strange, grounding warmth again, but the caution of a lifetime of survival held you back. "Go get some rest, Bob," you murmured softly, a faint, real smile finally touching your lips. "I'll see you in the morning." Bob nodded quickly, his face flushing all over again as he stumbled backward out of the room, gently clicking the door shut behind him.

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Two hours later, the safe house was dead to the world. You lay awake on the mattress, staring up at the cracked plaster of the ceiling. The silence of the countryside was unfamiliar, almost deafening compared to the constant hum of cryogenic stasis fluids. Your fingers lightly traced the hem of your jacket, your mind replaying the look in Bob's eyes when he had pinned you to the concrete wall—the terrifying, magnificent gold that had vanished the moment he realized you were just a person trying to breathe. Suddenly, a faint, rhythmic scratching sound echoed from the hallway. It wasn't a footstep. It sounded like metal scraping against wood. Your muscles locked instantly. You slid out of the bed without making a sound, your boots hitting the floorboards with practiced, silent grace. You crept toward the door, pressing your ear against the cool wood, holding your breath. Through the thin drywall, you could hear the low, frantic murmurs of a conversation happening in the dark communal space. "...her biometric signature doesn't match any known O.X.E. database," Bucky’s hushed voice carried through the hallway, dripping with a lethal, tactical alertness. "But I ran the residual encryption codes Ava pulled from the mainframe before the incinerator blew. They didn't build her, Yelena. Those are old Soviet algorithms. Hydra algorithms."

"Hydra went dark years ago, Barnes," Yelena’s voice was a sharp, skeptical whisper. "Not all of it," Bucky fired back, the metallic hum of his arm shifting in the dark. "They had an undocumented division. A deep-science cell that predated the Maximoff experiments in Sokovia. If she’s a leftover from that cell, she isn't just an anomaly. She's a sleeper agent. And right now, she’s sitting in a room with a man who can accidentally level a continent if she triggers the wrong part of his brain." Inside the room, your chest tightened. The air around your fingertips began to hum, a faint, almost invisible vibration rattling the glass on the dresser.

They were circling the truth. But before Bucky could say another word, a sharp, heavy thud echoed from the living room floor, followed by the sound of Bob violently tossing and turning on the old couch, letting out a low, agonizing groan in his sleep. The conversation in the hallway cut off instantly into a tense, waiting silence. You stood in the dark, your heart hammering against your ribs, realizing that the fragile safety of the house was already fracturing—and the man sleeping on the couch was the only thing standing between you and the dark.

Through the thin wood of the bedroom door, the muffled voices of Bucky and Yelena had faded back into the shadows of the hallway, but they were instantly replaced by a sound far more distressing. From the living room, a low, ragged gasp cut through the dark. It was followed by the sharp, metallic groan of old couch springs straining under an immense, sudden weight. Bob was thrashing.

You stood perfectly still in the center of the dark bedroom, your boots barely making contact with the floorboards. Through the drywall, his breathing turned into a rapid, hyperventilating wheeze. It was the sound of a man drowning in his own mind, trapped in a nightmare where the sun was collapsing and the darkness was swallowing him whole. “No... no, please,” Bob’s voice drifted down the corridor, a fragile, broken whimper that didn't belong to a god-level threat. “Don't let it out. Don't look at it.” You didn't think. You didn't stop to consider Bucky’s warning about stepping out in the middle of the night, or how volatile your presence might be to a fracturing mind. You gently turned the handle, the old latch clicking softly in the quiet house, and stepped out into the narrow, moonlit hallway.

The communal living room was bathed in stark, silver shafts of light cutting through the uncurtained windows. Bob was twisted in the center of the sagging sofa, his massive frame curled tight. The thin institutional blanket was tangled around his torso like restraints. Across his skin, faint, erratic veins of brilliant golden light pulsed under his flesh, casting erratic, geometric shadows against the peeling wallpaper. The air in the room was boiling, thick with the scent of ozone and scorching fabric. The Sentry was fighting to break through the surface of his terror.

You walked across the creaking floorboards, keeping your movements slow, fluid, and entirely visible in the moonlight. As you neared the edge of the couch, the ambient heat radiating from his body pressed against you like an open furnace. "Bob," you whispered, your voice a calm, grounded anchor in the sweltering dark. "Bob, look at me. You're awake. You're out of the box." He didn't hear you. His head thrashed against the structural cushion, a sudden, blinding spike of golden light flaring from his closed eyelids. The air around him began to hum, a high-frequency vibration that made the dust motes in the air dance violently. Knowing the risk, you reached out. You let your bare hand slide into the heat, your fingers pressing gently but firmly against his broad, trembling shoulder. The contact was instantaneous. The violent hum in the room snapped shut. The blinding golden veins beneath his skin rippled once, turning a deep, soothing amber before dissolving entirely back into his veins.

The suffocating heat vanished, replaced by a soft, natural warmth that seemed to drink in the cold air of the farmhouse. Bob’s eyes snapped wide open. His pupils were dark, wild, and entirely human. He stared up through the shadows, his chest heaving under his ragged shirt, his gaze locking onto your face as if he were trying to determine if you were a ghost or reality. "You're here," he choked out, his voice a raw, trembling rasp. He didn't move away from your hand. Instead, his shoulder leaned subtly into your palm, drawing in the grounding weight of your touch. "The noise... it just stopped. The moment you touched me, it went entirely dark. How do you do that?" "I don't know," you murmured softly, sliding down to sit on the very edge of the low coffee table opposite him, keeping your hand resting gently on his arm.

"Maybe whatever they did to me just matches the frequency of whatever they did to you. A variable to balance the math." Bob slowly uncurled his massive frame, sitting up on the edge of the cushions. He looked down at your hand on his arm, his face turning a soft pink in the moonlight, entirely flustered by how close you were sitting. He was intensely aware of the fact that the entire house was dead silent, and that you had left your safe room just to pull him out of the dark."I was dreaming about the lab," Bob whispered, his wild brown eyes turning incredibly soft as he looked at you.

Chapter 3

The armored truck cut its headlights a quarter-mile before the final turn, rolling to a silent, heavy halt in the overgrown gravel driveway of an abandoned farmhouse.

Outside, the early morning mist hung low over the dark fields, swallowing the pale, silver light of the moon. John killed the engine, the sudden silence inside the cabin was thick, punctuated only by the rhythmic, metallic ticking of the cooling radiator.

"We're here," Yelena announced, sliding her shock batons into her tactical belt with a sharp click. She looked across the dim red cabin at you. You hadn't moved from your spot against the metal paneling, your knees pulled slightly toward your chest, your features shrouded in the deep shadows of the corner. "The welcoming committee inside isn't exactly warm, but they aren't O.X.E. either. Keep your hands where we can see them, and nobody gets hurt." You gave a slow, deliberate nod.

As you shifted to stand, your boots catching on the steel floorboards, your shoulder brushed against Bob’s arm. An immediate, sharp jolt of static electricity snapped between your jacket and his sleeve. It wasn't the standard bite of dry winter air; it carried a sudden, localized spike of heat that caused the air between you to shimmer with a faint, golden distortion for a fraction of a second.

Bob flinched violently, his face flushing a deep crimson as he scrambled backward, nearly tripping over his own thin institutional blanket. "I—uh—sorry," Bob stammered, his voice dropping into a panicked, high-pitched whisper. He wouldn't look you in the eye, his wild brown eyes hyper-focused on the floorboards as he clutched the blanket closer to his broad chest. "I didn't mean to... the Sentry, it just... it reacts when things get close." "It's fine," you said softly, your voice raspy from the stasis but entirely steady. You looked down at your own hand, wondering if he had felt the strange, deep pull that had just rippled through your own chest. "You're just warm."

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The front door of the safe house creaked open, throwing a stark, yellow wedge of light across the wooden porch. Waiting in the communal area were Bucky Barnes and Alexei Shostakov. Bucky stood near the shadow of the kitchen counter, his vibranium arm gleaming faintly under the low-hanging bulb, his posture completely rigid. As the team filed in with you and Bob in the center, Bucky’s sharp eyes instantly locked onto you. He didn't see a threat he recognized, but his decades of black-ops conditioning screamed that you were an unknown variable.

He could feel the heavy, unnatural weight to the air around you—the unmistakable pressure of a living weapon."Walker," Bucky said, his voice a low, guarded gravel. "Comms said you found one target. Who is this?" "Her file was totally wiped, Barnes," Walker said, tossing his rifle onto the wooden table. "Wiped at the root. Call her y/n. But she’s the reason the whole O.X.E. sub-level had an automated incineration protocol. They wanted her erased." Alexei stepped forward, his usual boisterous energy completely absent.

He looked at you, then at Bob, who was hovering less than an inch behind your shoulder like a massive, protective shadow. "To hide a person behind a structural wall... it is a coward’s game," Alexei rumbled softly. "Are you broken?" "Not broken," you responded calmly, meeting the old super-soldier's gaze without blinking. "Just untracked." Bucky didn't look convinced. He took a slow step toward you, his metal hand resting flat against his belt. "We have a space problem. There are only three rooms. Alexei and Walker have one, Ava and Yelena have the second, and I have the third. We don't have a spare cell for someone who can sweep an artificially enhanced super-soldier off his feet."

"She can have mine," Bob spoke up suddenly. The entire room went dead silent. Yelena slowly turned her head, a sharp, amused eyebrow arching so high it nearly disappeared into her bangs. Bob was practically vibrating with nervous energy, his hands wringing the edges of his blanket, but his tone had been fiercely unyielding. "I'll... I'll take the couch," Bob mumbled, his face turning an even darker shade of red under the kitchen light as he realized everyone was staring at him. "I don't sleep much anyway. The Sentry doesn't like it when I close my eyes. She needs a place to lock the door. She needs to feel safe." Bucky looked from Bob’s desperate, protective expression to your unreadable face.

Chapter two

The heavy armored doors of the getaway vehicle slammed shut with a resounding, metallic thud, instantly cutting off the distant, muffled roars of the collapsing O.X.E. complex. John Walker threw the truck into gear, the engine roaring to life as he stomped on the gas, tearing away from the blazing facility and out into the dark night.

Inside the cramped cabin, illuminated only by the faint, tactical red hum of the overhead dashboard lights, the intense adrenaline of the standoff evaporated into a heavy, watchful silence.

The Sentry’s glowing, celestial gold aura receded entirely. Bob collapsed back onto the bench seat, his frame shrinking from a majestic, god-like warrior into a ragged, shivering man clutching his thin institutional blanket. He blinked rapidly, his wild brown eyes completely out of focus as he stared at the woman sitting on the steel floor across from him.

Stripped of the violent, hyper-focused adrenaline that had driven her to sweep Bob off his feet and pin him by the throat, her posture shifted into a loose, calculated stillness. She sat with her back flat against the armored paneling, her knees bent slightly, her boots flat on the vibrating floorboards. There was nothing loud or distinct about her appearance. She didn’t wear the bright markers of a corporate hero or the clinical uniform of a lab experiment; she looked like any ordinary woman you might pass on a city street, her features shrouded in the cabin's deep shadows, her dark hair tangled with gray facility dust. She was a blank slate—an unknown variable thrust into a room full of soldiers.

Instead of panicking, crying, or breaking down under the weight of the night, she simply watched them. Her chest rose and fell in a steady, deliberate rhythm. She didn't look afraid; she looked remarkably present, her eyes tracking every movement in the vehicle with sharp, quiet intelligence.

"So," she said finally. Her voice wasn't dripping with the venom she had used during the fight, but it carried a raspy, unyielding weight that cut right through the rumble of the engine. "Who authorized the extraction? Because judging by the lack of matching uniforms and the fact that we were almost cooked alive, you aren't the regular cleanup crew."

Yelena Belova didn't raise her weapon, but she didn't lower her guard either. "We aren't a crew at all. We were looking for each other," she gestured loosely toward Ava and John. "Finding you behind a false structural pillar was just a very explosive accident. I'm Yelena."

The woman nodded slowly, her gaze drifting toward Bob, who shrunk slightly under her attention. "He’s strong. Surprised me."

John Walker called out from the driver’s seat, his eyes tracking her in the rearview mirror. "Look, lady, your file on the O.X.E. terminal was completely wiped. Redacted across the board. No name, no history, nothing. If we're going to keep driving you away from a government black site, we need to know who we're sitting next to."

She went quiet for a moment, her fingers lightly tapping against her knee. "You can call me y/n. As for who I am... I'm just someone who has been running for a very long time. O.X.E. finally caught up to me a few months back. They wanted to see if whatever is inside my head could balance out whatever they put inside his." She glanced at Bob again, her expression softening into something resembling pity. "They didn't get very far before you blew the doors open."

Bob looked up from his blanket, his voice a low, hesitant whisper. "Do you... do you have a voice inside your head too? A bad one?"

Y/n looked directly into his anxious brown eyes. The dangerous, magnetic spark that had flared between them when he pinned her against the concrete wall returned, but this time, it was quiet and grounded in an unspoken, mutual understanding. "Not a voice, Bob. Just choices. Some of them are heavy. But I'm still the one making them."

Ava, who had been sitting completely still on the opposite bench, let out a slow breath, her form flickering with a gentle purple hue as she relaxed. "She's stable, John. Drive."

For the rest of the twenty-minute ride, the cabin settled into a cautious peace. Y/n didn't retreat into herself, nor did she threaten to tear the truck apart. Instead, she and Bob remained locked in a silent, steady conversation of glances—two entirely different anomalies, stripped of their pasts, suddenly finding themselves anchored to each other in the dark.

The air four levels beneath the O.X.E. research complex didn't taste like air at all. It was a suffocating cocktail of stagnant ozone, chemical preservatives, and the damp, heavy chill of sub-level concrete.

Yelena kept her stance straight and prepared, her boots making no sound against the dusty floor as her twin shock batons hummed with a low, defensive vibration. Behind her, Ava flickered like a broken television screen, her jaw tight as she fought to keep her molecular structure from phasing through the solid ground. John brought up the rear, his gun raised, his eyes tracking every shadow that danced in the dim crimson glare of the facility’s emergency lights.

And then there was Bob.

He shuffled along in the center of their loose formation, a ragged, shivering man wrapping a thin, stained institutional blanket tightly around his broad shoulders. His bloodshot eyes darted erratically from the cracked ceiling panels to the massive, armored vault door they had just blown open. He looked less like a god capable of tearing down stars and more like a stray animal expecting a blow.

"Bob," John’s voice was a low, military grate. "Look at these terminals. This look like the main lab to you?"

Bob didn't answer. He took a frantic, uneven step backward, his heel catching on a thick bundle of heavy-duty power cables snaking across the floorboards. With an awkward, heavy stumble, his shoulder slammed hard into a massive, recessed steel maintenance pillar hidden in the deep shadows of the back alcove.

The impact echoed loudly through the concrete bunker. Clang.

A heavy iron cover panel clattered to the floor, releasing a sharp, violent hiss of pressurized hydraulic fluid. The shadows parted as an automated tracking system groaned to life. Deep within the false wall, a secondary containment unit—completely hidden from the facility’s main floor plans—slowly glided forward.

Unlike the chaotic, scratched-up isolation cell they had dragged Bob out of, this unit hummed with a quiet, pristine cryogenic stability.

The team instantly pivoted, weapons raised. Yelena stepped closer, using the back of her tactical glove to wipe away the thick layer of frost and gray dust obscuring the reinforced glass viewport. Underneath the soft, amber internal stasis lights, the glowing digital terminal blinked into existence.

[ CONTAINMENT UNIT: 03 ]

[ SUBJECT NAME: Y/N [REDACTED] ]

[ PROJECT CLASSIFICATION: [REDACTED] ]

[ STATUS: INDUCED COMA / CRITICAL STASIS ]

"What the hell is this?" Walker muttered, lowering his gun a fraction of an inch to squint at the blinking red letters. "Bob. Is this another super-soldier? Part of your project?"

Bob shuffled forward, his wild, trembling hands pressing flat against the cold glass viewport. He stared through the mist at the sleeping girl, his mind racing frantically to find a memory that simply wasn’t there. "I... I don't know," he stammered, his voice cracking with pure confusion. "I've never seen her before. There was only me. There was only the Serum. Why is she here? Who is y/n?"

Through the clearing glass, the team stared in absolute bewilderment. Where Bob looked like a victim of prolonged, agonizing isolation, the girl inside looked utterly untouched by time or trauma. She wasn't wearing a standard, faded medical gown. Instead, she looked as if she had been plucked right off a city street and frozen mid-breath.

She wore a crisp, jet-black tank top and perfectly fitted black ripped skinny jeans. On her feet were sleek, black heeled ankle boots, entirely free of scuffs, dust, or wear. Her wasn’t matted or tangled; instead, it spread out elegantly across her shoulders and back like a dark, deliberate halo.

Her expression was entirely peaceful. There were no stress lines on her forehead, no signs of the psychological torment rolling off Bob in waves.

"She’s dressed for a night out, not a laboratory experiment," Yelena murmured, her eyes tracing the elegant drape of the girl's hair across her shoulders. "If Bob doesn't know her, and O.X.E. hid her behind a structural pillar... she might not be a weapon they built. She might be a weapon they stole."

Before Walker could reply, a sudden, metallic clank of heavy automated deadbolts echoed through the chamber.

The amber lighting snapped into a blinding, rhythmic crimson strobe. The main terminal wall abruptly wiped clean, replacing the redacted biometric data with giant, glowing red digits:

[ SECURITY BREACH DETECTED ]

[ SYSTEM PROTOCOL: INCINERATION HAZARD CLEANSE ]

[ TIME REMAINING: 02:00 ]

A deep, industrial klaxon began to wail, vibrating violently through the soles of their boots. High above, near the vaulted ceiling, massive iron vents slid open with a terrifying hiss, exposing rows of gas-fed igniter coils that crackled with electrical arcs.

"We’re locked in!" Walker yelled over the sound of the incinerator winding up, slamming his shoulder against the heavy blast doors. "The whole damn room is an oven! They’re trying to burn the evidence!"

"The walls are too thick!" Ava flaked violently, her form splitting into translucent afterimages. "I can’t phase us all through solid titanium under a lockdown grid!"

Yelena didn't waste a second and found the source that was holding Ava back quickly. “I can override it!” She hurriedly shouted before John came up with his shield. “On your left!” Before smashing it and letting Ava rush out to open the door from the outside while Yelena sprinted past a frantic Bob straight to the stasis pod. Through the glass, y/n remained completely serene, entirely oblivious to the impending wall of fire. "Walker! Get over here!" Yelena barked.

"We don't even know who she is!" Walker fired back, checking the timer—01:34. "We don't have time to carry a body!"

"If O.X.E. wants her burned badly enough to incinerate their own million-dollar facility, then she is exactly what we are taking!" Yelena smashed her tactical baton into the emergency glass casing of the manual release lever, grabbing the heavy iron handle and yanking it downward with all her weight. "We don't leave people behind to cook!"

A loud, explosive pop echoed as the pneumatic seals blew. A dense cloud of freezing white vapor poured out of the pod, pooling around Yelena’s tactical boots and obscuring y/n’s black heeled ankle boots. As the glass door swung open, the sudden rush of warm air caused the frost on y/n’s skin to rapidly melt into tiny, glistening beads. Her head lolled forward, completely limp, locked in the deep, unyielding coma.

Walker growled, stepping in with his super-soldier strength to scoop y/n up into a fireman's carry. Her arms dangled limply against his tactical vest, her hair cascading down his dark armor.

00:45 seconds.

Above them, the igniter coils roared to life, casting a blinding, white-hot glare across the ceiling as sheets of industrial fire began to rain down.

"Bob!" Yelena shouted, grabbing the shivering man by his collar and dragging him along as the door opens and Ava stands there breathless.

They burst through the exploding doorway, sprinting through a labyrinth of collapsing corridors as the complex tore itself apart. Concrete cracked, dust blinded them, and the heat licked at their backs until they finally ducked into a cavernous, dimly lit subterranean loading bay, safely out of reach of the fire.

Walker heavily dropped y/n onto a stack of industrial crates. Her body remained limp, her hair spilling over the wooden edge. Bob stood a few feet away, his chest heaving, his skin still crackling with residual golden sparks. He looked down at her, completely bewildered. Drawn by a strange, inexplicable pull, Bob stepped forward. "Is she... is she okay?" he muttered. He reached out a trembling hand, his fingers lightly brushing against y/n’s shoulder.

The instant his skin made contact, y/n’s eyes snapped wide open. They weren't cloudy or disoriented from the stasis; they were sharp, lethal, and burning with a terrifying adrenaline.

Before Bob could even blink, her hand shot out like a striking viper, gripping his wrist. In a singular, fluid explosion of motion, she used his own momentum to pivot. Her black ripped skinny jeans blurred through the air as she whipped her legs around, sweeping Bob completely off his feet.

SLAM.

Bob hit the concrete floor hard enough to crack it. Before he could gasp for air, y/n pinned him down. She planted the sharp, solid heel of her black ankle boot directly onto his throat, pressing just enough to cut off his airway. Her hair fell forward, framing her fierce, face as she glared down at him.

"Where am I?" y/n demanded, her voice low, raspy from the cryogenic sleep, but dripping with absolute venom. "Who authorized the wake-up? Speak, or I take your head off."

"Hey! Goth girl! Stand down!" Walker barks, his gum instantly locking onto her.

"Don't move," Yelena warned. "Trust me, you do not want to press that button."

Under the heel of her boot, Bob’s eyes lost their frantic, human panic. The pupils dissolved into a blinding, celestial gold. The Sentry took control.

A shockwave of raw, solar kinetic energy erupted from Bob's body, breaking her leverage. Before y/n could react to the sudden cosmic heat radiating under her boot, Bob's hand moved at supersonic speed. He caught her ankle, twisting just enough to break her hold, and rose in a single, seamless motion.

With god-like strength, Bob drove her backward. Y/n’s back slammed hard against the reinforced concrete wall of the loading bay. Bob pinned her there, his massive, glowing golden hand pressed firmly against the center of her chest, right over her black tank top, locking her in place.

The room went dead silent. The violent escalation suddenly stalled into a tense, breathless standoff.

Y/n was tanked flat against the concrete, her feet dangling an inch off the ground, but she didn't look afraid. Her chest rose and fell heavily against his hand. She looked directly into his solid gold eyes.

The cosmic energy rolling off Bob gently rustled her hair. For the first time, the Sentry wasn't looking at a threat to destroy, and y/n wasn't looking at a captor to kill. Underneath the raw aggression of being pinned to the wall, a dangerous, unspoken attraction flared up between them—a magnetic spark born from mutual, overwhelming power.

"You're heavy," y/n whispered, a defiant, razor-sharp smirk tugging at the corner of her lips despite the hand locking her down. "But your hands are warm."

The Sentry’s glowing eyes narrowed slightly, his grip unyielding but consciously choosing not to crush her. "You're fast," he responded, his voice echoing with a low, resonant power that vibrated through the concrete wall. "But you need to calm down. We aren't your enemies."

Yelena lowered her weapon a fraction of an inch, glancing between the two glowing, super-powered beings practically breathing each other's air. She let out a dry, sarcastic sigh. "Great. Perfect. We rescued a lethal amnesiac, and Bob is having a moment. Can we please flirt outside before the rest of the building blows up?”