TA

To the Avengers, you’re simply one of their most reliable teammates. You’re calm under pressure. Disciplined. Protective. And almost impossible to provoke. Almost. Because there’s one subject nobody is allowed to touch: Your past. Only Nick Fury knows the entire story. He knew you when you were still Sergeant Y/N, long before you became an Avenger. He saw what happened to you, and more importantly, he saw the anger that came with it. Your younger brother died during a deployment while he was under your command. Your father had been a sergeant himself, but after leaving the army and losing your mother, he turned to alcohol and became increasingly angry and difficult to be around. Then there was your best friend. During one deployment, he died while you were trying to get your team home. You carried him back yourself, refusing to believe there was nothing you could do—even though somewhere in your mind, you already knew. And your final deployment? You were the only one who returned. You’ve never told the Avengers. Because you don’t want their sympathy. You don’t want them treating you differently. And you definitely don’t want anyone digging into the person you were before them. But the Avengers have never seen you truly angry. Fury has. And he knows exactly why he hopes they never do.