"Oh, shit." I sighed, and I would have started moaning, if we weren't interrupted by my phone ringing. "Ugh. Shit." I picked it up, and he did that thing with his tongue on my neck that drove me nuts. I shivered involuntarily, but my eyes went wide when I saw who was calling. "Shit. Shit, shit, shit." I tried to shove him away, but he grew even more persistent. "It's my mom. It's my mom, now cut it out, c'mon! Seriously!" I shoved him using my full strength this time, and slid off the bed, going to close the door as I answered. "Hey, Mom."
"Hey, sweetheart. I've got a hit for you guys." I tucked my phone between my ear and my shoulder, and went over to the nightstand, snatching the tablet before he could grab me and pull me back into bed. He pouted at me, and I smirked, opening up the app on there to set up the mission info.
"Go for it." She drilled off the location, who was there, and then, finally, what was there. I froze when she did, and my eyes went a little wide in fear, but I controlled it.
"I don't want you anywhere near that thing, do you understand?" I laughed bitterly, refusing to look up and meet his eyes. I knew what he'd say, and I didn't want to hear it.
"You can't really stop me. Dad can't either. I'm an adult, you guys can't keep trying to protect me. You have to let me make my own path, I proved that when S.H.I.E.L.D. fell-"
"I know you did, but I'm still your mother, and Tony is still your father. We can still worry about you, you know." I smiled fondly. "I miss you."
"I miss you too. But now, since you gave me this info, I gotta go. Talk later?"
"Yeah. And then you can tell me why it took you so long to answer." I froze, but I knew my face was flushed from the sound of his laughter. I shot him a glare, and picked up a pillow off the floor, chucking it at his smug face, but that only made him laugh harder. Mom gasped. "Ellie, do you have a guy there right now?!"
"MOM! I am so not talking about this!" More laughter. But I didn't have anymore pillows, so I held up a hand, creating a fireball, and raised an eyebrow at him as he stood up, smirking at me like it was a challenge I'd just given him. I held it in front of me, shooting him a warning look.
"That's why you took so long. Oh, my God, you're becoming Tony." I groaned, and covered up my face. I yelped in pain, though, and he took his opportunity, wrapping his big arms around my waist, and burying his face in my neck, kissing the spot in between my shoulder and my neck, making me shiver, and goosebumps rose all over my skin.
"No! No, no way. I already went through that phase, you missed it. I'm good. I think I'm just gonna stick with one guy for now, but he's kind of getting on my nerves." He shot me a look, and I muffled a squeal, as he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. "I gotta go, Mom, Dad's about to walk in!"
"Okay, honey. Be safe! I love you!"
"LOVEYOUTOOBYE!" I yelled as he ripped my phone away, and tossed it on the floor. "Hey, watch it! That shit's expensive!"
"Ellie, do me a favor. Shut the fuck up." I gaped at him, and laughed, as he threw me back on the bed.
"But what about the base? We gotta tell the team-" He shook his head, and climbed on top of me, kissing me softly. He pulled away, and left me breathless. "Okay. The team can wait." I leaned forward, and grabbed his face, kissing him hard. I bit his lip a little, and he moaned, kissing me back just as hard.
"Oh, yeah." He sighed, pulling away, and pushing my hair behind my ear. He looked at me with a hunger in his eyes, a want that made me feel even hotter. It made me feel wanted, and good. Ugh. This guy was making me feel things. "The team can wait."
Natasha skidded the car for me, and I rolled out, kicking some goons asses, and blasting them into oblivion. Steve drove by, and held out a hand, pulling me onto his bike. I sat in front of him and took over the controls so he could knock some goons out with his shield, catching it as it bounced back to him.
"Shit!" Dad yelled in frustration as he bounced off the edge of the base. There must have been a force field we didn't know about; this base was high tech for a Hydra base.
"Language!" I turned around and gaped at Steve, and he winced. "Uh...that just slipped out." I scoffed, and burst out laughing.
"You were saying much worse last night, and yet you yell at him for saying shit?" I paused, but giggled. "I cannot believe this. You're a literal grandpa."
"Ellie." He said it in a warning tone, and I smirked, rolling off of the bike and beating up a couple more. "On your left!"
"Yeah, yeah! Go yell at the kids about their language, old man!" I tapped the com in my ear, and spoke to JARVIS. "J, what's the story upstairs?"
Sir has run into a force field surrounding the base. There seems to be no way to penetrate it.
"What did I tell you about impossible things, JARVIS?" I spun around as one guy came my way, and kicked him in the gut, sending him flying back into a tree. I spun around and blasted another guy in the face, giving him some serious burns.
I believe your words were, 'Nothing is impossible as long as you have explosives.' I smirked.
"That's right. So, Daddy-O, what's the plan? How are we getting in there?"
"We? There's no we here, princess, there is only me." I laughed, as a bunch of goons cornered me. I round-house kicked them to the ground, and then jumped on top of another one, strangling him with my thighs.
"Uh, I was the one who found this place and it has a force field. There's no way that I'm not going in there." I let the guy drop, and went to attack another, but something knocked me off my feet. I collapsed, and frowned. "Okay...what the fuck was that?"
"Elizibeth Stark, you watch your language! Respect your elders!" Steve got the other goons for me, and I got back to my feet just as quick, blasting whatever sped by us again.
"That's not going away anytime soon." I frowned, watching the thing speed by again. "We've got an enhanced in the field." STeve told everyone else.
"Is that what that thing was?" I turned to Steve, and he nodded. Goldi landed next to us. "I don't want you two to judge me, but that's pretty cool. I kinda wish Extremis came with super speed." I paused, when a thought crossed my mind. "What do you think the sex would be like? That'd be fun to-"
"The bridge is down. Kid, get your ass up here." I grinned, and JARVIS brought my suit to me. I hopped in, and he flew up to the base, letting me out right behind Dad. "And please don't distract the team. We're working here, and you wearing that stupid catsuit isn't gonna help matters." I laughed at him, and went over to the computers, getting out the drive to grab all the information we could. "Seriously, don't you think that it's a little too showy?"
"I'm twenty-two, I'm not a kid anymore. Could you stop treating me like one?" Dad hissed, and made a face. I rolled my eyes. He was worse than Mom, and that's pretty hard to beat. "This is why we don't talk about my wardrobe. I'm glad Pepper at least has taste."
"Really? We're going to talk about taste?" I sighed, and plugged the drive in, ordering JARVIS to nab whatever he could. "J, IR scan the room. Anything here we should know about?"
On the wall to your left. I'm reading steel inforcements, and an air draft. I grinned, and Dad went over to it, pausing in front of the wall.
"Please be a secret door, please be a secret door." We both muttered it at once, and then he pushed it, opening it right up. "Yay!" There were stairs, and the stairway was lit by old torches. I headed down the stairs first, and handed Dad a gun.
"You remember how to hold this now?" He shot me a look.
"Did Rhodey tell you about that?" I smirked, and fired up my hands, holding them out in front of me.
"Of course he did. It was the only time you were ever vulnerable, and it was hilarious." Dad grumbled, and I went ahead, sure that it was safe. I froze, when I got down the stairs, and looked up to spot one of the caterpillars that still haunted my dreams. My breathing hitched, and I swallowed, staring at it with wide eyes.
"Ellie, don't run off like that, kid, you don't know what's-" Dad cut himself off, when he followed my gaze, "...down here." I thought a panic attack would come, despite Extremis' effects, but nothing hit me. "You got this?" I nodded, and Dad set a hand on my shoulder, walking past me to look around. I swallowed back a lump forming in my throat, and followed him. I spotted the sceptre across the room at the same time he did, as we walked past all of Strucker's work. It was mad.
"Goldi, we got eyes on the prize." I muttered after tapping my comm, but I wasn't looking at the prize a second later. I was looking at the complete opposite.
I gasped, and screamed, ducking when the centipede monster flew over me. I watched as it did, making sure it went away, before I really gathered what was going on.
My team was lying on each of the steps...dead. The Hulk was at the top, followed by Nat, and Clint, and Thor, and then...Dad. I ran over to his side, but he was already dead, his lifeless eyes staring into the void.
"Dad, wake up, come on." I shook him, but he just slumped over. I bit my lip, and fought off tears. "Dad, get up! GET UP!" I shook him again, but he was gone. It was too late.
"Save...us." I frowned, turning slowly, glancing at Steve. He was on the step below Dad, and he was reaching out for me. I was still holding my dad's t-shirt in my hands, looking at all of them in a panic. I watched, as the portal opened up, and centipedes flew through it. I turned back to Steve, and I saw blood running down his nose. "You could've...saved...us..." He tried to reach out to me. I reached for him, but the portal was pulling me out, and away from my team. "Why didn't you do more?" I saw Loki stomp down the steps with his sceptre, and smirk, as he stabbed Steve in the heart. I tried to scream, but the air was being sucked from my lungs, and I was dying. Again.
"Ellie!" I spun around, and screamed at the sight of the centipede, but Dad held me by the shoulders. "Ellie, look at me. Look at me." He grabbed my chin when I couldn't stop staring, and made me look him in the eye. "That thing's dead, sweetheart, look." I hesitated, but looked at it again. "It's not coming back. You're safe now, all right?" It wasn't me I was scared for, but Dad didn't get that. He didn't see what I saw. He hadn't been there at all. Dad shook me, though. "Bug, you're safe."
"I-I know, Dad. I know." I bit my lip, and turned back around. I stared at the sceptre for a brief moment, before I took a hesitant step forward, making my way up to the sceptre. I held my hand out for a glove, and it came flying onto my hand before I grabbed the sceptre, staring at the gem it held. "I'm safe now."
