I Can Still Hear You in the Silence

If you asked Robert “Bob” Reynolds when it started, he wouldn’t be sure how to pinpoint it. It had come so naturally and quietly that he only noticed once it had already taken root. When he was lying in bed, drifting to sleep at the sound of Yelena’s heart, he had sought and memorized.

The one that was so calm and unwavering it drowned out the noise in his own head.

He supposed that was one good thing that came out of having powers he never asked for…Until her heartbeat suddenly stopped, and it almost caused him to tear the world apart trying to make it start again.

Or: Yelena’s heartbeat was Bob’s constant—the one sound that grounded him…until she got a new suit upgrade that muffled it, and he presumed the worst had happened.