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*~Homecoming~*

Chapter 4 - Seperate Ways

Ava was watching Steve with an intense stare and waited for him to give the signal to leave. The fight in the king's palace gnawed at her and for the first time she felt inferior and unimportant. Even when she lived in Australia a year ago, all on her own only accompanied by some snakes and a ton of spiders, hiding from the world that saw here as a creep, a mutant that does nothing but destroy lifes.

Ava Johnson left her parents when she was 17 years old because they started to fear her. At first they tried to controll their emotions after they found out that she had those powers but like every teenager, she hit puberty like a stone wall and started to act up. Her parents tried their best to keep her locked up, being afraid that someone would take their daughter away from them or even worse. But one night, Ava managed to sneak out of her room with only the things she was wearing, a sandwich, a bottle of water and necklace her grandma gave her when she was a little child.

After she ran away, her parents tried to get her back by sending the police with dogs and helicopters but their girl somehow managed to go into hiding in a small shed in the Australian outback surrounded. Time was hard for her, especially since she haven't had any idea how to survive on her own but after she learned how to hunt the rabbits that were running around her new home, it got easier. Later she decided to make a living as a mercenary before an organisation named "Shield" found her and offered her a job. Ava agreed even though she never wanted to be a member of the Avengers, she just wanted to live her life and not kill a man every second day.

After Hydra took over Shield, she fled never wanting to come back but Steve Rogers found and recruited her and long story short, she ended once again imprisoned not by her parents but the government in the raft where T'Challa and Steve rescued her.

Ava's life has never been easy but she grew so sick of it that she just snorted at Steve, who was trying to explain their next plan.

"What's the matter, Ava? Did I say something wrong?" he asked her with a slight look of confusion on his face. "I'm sorry but I'm hungry, I haven't slept for 24 hours and some fucking Hydra agents tried to kill us. I get it, we have to meet Wanda, Clint, Scott and Sam in order to search for the most important thing in the world, the red book. Can we leave now?" Some wrinkles formed on her forehead while she was speaking and her tone got harsh.

T'Challa grabbed her arm and she stiffened immediately. He looked at her and she knew that she had no right speaking to Cap like that, even though he was her friend, no especially because he was her friend. Evie and Bucky stood beside her and didn't dare to speak a word.

Cap interupted the awkward silence and looked Ava direclty in her eyes. "I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't mean to do that."

Ava's body relaxed a bit and she felt the need to apologize. "No, you don't have to be sorry. It was my fault. Today was a bit too much for me. I was afraid... to ..." She stopped mid sentence and looked at the floor, afraid to admit that she felt weak.

T'Challa hadn't loosen his grip on Ava until now. He watched her and felt pity for this small person standing besides him. She was not much bigger than 5"4' and he often annoyed her by patting her head which resulted in him being hunted by a massive ball of fire.

Steve gaze was now upon Bucky who made a quick gesture. "Alright, I think we should all leave now and meet the others. There is some food left in the plane and you can all sleep for a bit until we reach Wanda and Co." added T'Challa. He and Steve went the front of the plane, discussing where to find their friends whereabouts.

Ava meanwhile sat down in the back grabbing a snack and stuffing it into her mouth. She knew that this wasn't nearly enough to appease her hunger but it was better than nothing. She felt Evie's look resting on her but she didn't want to talk so she just gave her a quick smile and tried to find a more comfortable position to sleep for a bit. It wasn't that easy considering the machine that T'Challa was flying was not a luxury plane but one built for soldiers or paratroopers. After half an hour she finally managed to get some sleep.

"Ava, honey. Come over here, were taking a photo for our family album!" her mother told her. She felt like a small child and ran towards her parents with tears in her eyes. After all this time she finally understood that her mum and dad wanted to protect her from the world and its gruesomeness. She hugged her dad and felt his hand on her back. "I missed you honey! Where have you been all the time? " he asked and looked her in the eyes with his usual loving look. "I... I don't know" Ava mumbled and felt a hand on her shoulder. "Ava. Dont leave us again, please!" Her mom cried when something ripped her daughter violently out of her dream.

Ava woke up with a terrified look on her face. Her palms were sweaty and only after a few moments she realised that it was all a dream and Evie tried to wake her because they reached their destination. "Sorry to wake you but we reached Rome. Sam, Scott and Wanda are waiting for us near the airport." her friend gave her a worried look when Ava made her way to the door. Evie sighed "I hope she's alright."

T'Challa, Bucky and Steve were already waiting for them outside of the plane next to an awfully red family car. Ava smiled. "Well, I see you got the best car in Italy."

"I see your in a better mood now. And sure at least it's not attracting unwanted attention." Steve watched her when she made her way down the stairs of the plane to them. "Thats not the word I would use." She laughed and felt Evies presence next to her.

"Okay, let's get in the car and meet the others. It's a ten minute drive to our meeting spot so let's make sure that they don't have to wait too long for us to arrive." said Steve and opened the door to get on the driver's seat.

"SHOTGUN!" Evie screeched whilest running towards the car and Ava grunted. "No way, I'm not sitting in the back with these two but you said shotgun first so I'm fucked. Bucky, I think you should sit in the middle, it's too risky. Someone could see you and after all these "accidents" that's definetly not what we want"

The Winter Soldier inhaled a deep breath and got in the car with Ava to his left and T'Challa on his right.

After a bit more than ten minutes they reached a small field next to the street where a black truck was already parked.

"I can't wait to get out of this thing. I think my leg fell asleep. I'm getting too old for this." Bucky snorted.

Ava laughed: "Calm down, grandpa. Don't be so grumpy all the time."

Steve was the first to get out of the car and he greeted Clint, Wanda, Scott and Sam with a bear hug. "It's so nice to see you again but I haven't told you everything that you have to know. I was afraid that someone could read the mail I sent you so I left some important parts out of it."

The other four finally got out of the car too and stood beside Steve. "Hydra tried to capture Bucky and killed many of T'Challas men in the process. The most important thing that we have to do is to find the Red Book and destroy it one and for all."

Ava couldn't remember a moment when she saw Steve this obsessed with something.

"There are two locations where they could hide the book. One is near a small town in Russia, the other in Argentina. That's where T'Challa, Ava, Wanda and Clint are going to search for it. Do you have any more questions?"

No one said something.

"Fine. We're grabbing some supplies in Rome and leave as fast as we can. Wanda, did you book the tickets to Moscow?" Cap added

"Sure. And -" Steve didn't even let her finish her sentence.

"Good. So let's go."