jadedgiantess | The Effect of Video Evidence [Fic]

Nick Fury is not a happy man at the moment. For one thing, he's got enough information to prove to his satisfaction that someone turned a hero he was on fairly good terms with into a weapon. Then there's the fact one of the men serving under him was clearly an idiot. Not to mention that when Jen stopped call, a number of worried heroes started to call and make threats. To top it all off, this isn't the only thing he has to do today.

"Move along, agent, you've been reassigned."

"Sir I didn't do-"

"I said you've been reassigned. The brief is in your quarters."

The agent leaves in a cloud of bad news and Fury doesn't give him another month before he breaks. It happens sometimes. High stress, horrors on the job, and the knowledge that no matter how good you are someone out there was born better can get to anyone. If he hadn't made a stupid mistake, Nick might have done something to help him. As it was, when the guy went it wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to happen to SHIELD.

With him gone, there was a good chance that it would be easier to rouse Jen from her near catatonic state. That and turning down the drip that the last nurse had left far too high after being intimidated by the guard. He gives her fifteen minutes before he gently takes the file out of her hands and talks to her in a gruff tone that is only softened by a nickname.

"Come on, Greenjeans, time for you watch something."

He hits switches and brings down a big screen. The security tape from the courtroom where she initially lost control starts to play in black and white. Even drugged and exhausted, Jen can't help but turn to pay attention to the screen. She's ready to put together the fragments she can't quite organize in her head. Maybe if she sees it happen, she'll finally understand.

Everything looks so normal. She remembers preparing the briefs, everything she watches up until she takes a drink of the water. Everything else in goes fuzzy after that. Like the clerk grabbing at her chest with her face contorted in fear. Jen had been sure she was terrified of her, but the woman was looking into an empty space. Whatever caused the problem wasn't Jen.

She watches herself go and try to use CPR when the clerk's heart stops, completely oblivious to the fact the city's attorney and one of the defendants were suffering similar attacks as she focuses on the woman. That is, until Jen falls down herself. Jen watches her body contort and shudder on the floor. The woman who stands is the monster Jen knows she can be. She begins to destroy the courtroom and that's when Fury kills the tape.

"You didn't kill them, Greenie. Richards called it a self-replicating neurotoxic chemical. Forces your brain not to be able to shut off the fear response. We found it in each of the bodies along with signs of a major heart attack in each instance. Best we can put together is someone saw you coming and decided you were a good way to cover up a murder."

Fury watched Jen's face transform over the course of the video and his explanation. Fear tinged with loss to confusion to a growing anger to a pure and furious focus. Someone had used her, and it wasn't the first time. They made the mistake of thinking she was like Bruce. The She-Hulk wasn't the part of Jen that made her dangerous in the long run. That came from the woman behind the green, and that woman was pissed.

"Tell me what I can do to help take you them down."

And that made Fury smile.