As The door opened and Peter stepped inside the Milano, Drax and Gamora helped him in and Drax was pleased
"This one has spirit!" Drax said happily about his possible new ally
"You make a keen ally in this battle" Drax said as Peter tapped his ear and his mask started to come off and back to his ear as he moved the backpack closer to him as he hung on to Anthea's baby blanket with dear life, he knew how much this meant to her as much as the tape player meant to him that's why ne needed to find her
"What were you retrieving?" Drax asked as Peter just simply placed the tape player in his hand and walked off as he found Anthea standing there waiting for him with a huge smile on her face
"You are stupid" Drax said as Peter ignored him and Anthea literally ran to him and brought him into a huge hug, Peter was shocked at first because this woman didn't seem like the hugging type but he hugged her back as much
"Thank you so much, I thought I lost it forever" She whispered quietly as Peter just smiled softly and nodded to her
"It was no big deal really" He said trying to act like himself as Anthea released him and they looked at each other for a moment before Rocket coughed
"Alright, we need to find this buyer that Gamora is talking about" He said as he watched Peter took off the backpack and handed it to Anthea who said a small thanks as Peter took off his burgundy colored jacket and placed it to the side as Anthea walked over to the front of the Milano and took a seat while Gamora took the other seat as she was getting ready to ride to Milano
"Anthea" Gamora said as Anthea turned to see Gamora smile slightly
"Thanks" Gamora said and Anthea was confused for a moment
"For what?"
"For giving me a chance and not letting Drax kill me" She said as Anthea nodded and smiled a bit too
"Everyone deserves second chances, even if it was never their faults" Anthea said as she was helping co-pilot the Milano as they were traveling at a good speed
"Groot are you good?" Anthea called back since she didn't hear much of Groot, he was probably exploring the ship
"I am Groot" Groot responded, telling her that he was fine and watching Rocket as he was taking apart the ship and Anthea was ready to tell Rocket to stop until Peter beat her to it
"Hey! You can't part apart my ship for spare parts!" Peter said as Rocket was looking through parts and Peter looked annoyed as Anthea placed The Milano on auto-pilot for a while as her and Gamora went to see what was going on
"Don't touch that" Rocket said as Peter was ready to pick up an object that Rocket was making and Peter huffed
"Why?"
"Because that's a bomb" Rocket pointed out as he was fixing something else and Peter looked like he was going to panic
"A bomb!? You made a bomb on my ship and you're just leaving it lying around?" Peter asked in almost a high-pitch tone and Rocket just shrugged at him
"I was going to put it in a box" Rocket defended himself as Peter snorted
"What's a box going to do?" He said as he watched Rocket open a drawer and Anthea spotted something wrapped in colorful paper and held it in the air
"Will this do?" Rocket asked as Peter took the object out of Rocket's grip, Anthea noticed almost a hint of sadness in Peter's hand when he handled it and dropped it back into the drawer and with his foot he closed it
"No, you're not using that" Peter said almost quickly as Rocket was asking what was the object and Peter looked annoyed
"Just shut up" He said as Rocket raised his paws up in the air in defense as Peter sighed and looked over at Anthea who gave him a small smile in support and he smiled back at her, thankful that she didn't ask questions about the object
"So what's that?" Peter asked changing the subject and Rocket looked at him with a smirk on his face
"This is the hardcore stuff, powerful enough to destroy moons" Rocket said happily as Gamora gave him a look
"We're not blowing up any moons" She said and Anthea nodded at that
"Why do you two suck out all of the fun" Rocket said to himself as he was making the object and Anthea watched as Peter went to Gamora
"So where are your buyer's location?" Peter asked and Gamora just looked at him
"We're going the right direction" She simply said and Peter actually went closer to Anthea and placed his arm around her and brought her in closer to him, Anthea didn't know what he was doing but she was somewhat enjoying having Peter with her but she knew this was Peter just being himself and flirting.
"How are we suppose to do this if you can't trust me?" Peter asked softly as he looked at Gamora as she just smiled and Peter let go of Anthea as he came closer to Gamora
"I would actually trust you if you told me what this is.. I know for sure this is some kind of weapon, something very strong.. Probably Anthea couldn't even beat it"
"You're calling me weak Quill?" Anthea smirked and raised her eyebrows as Peter frowned and quickly shook his head
"No! I think you're strong and beautiful!" Peter defended and Anthea laughed and smiled at him while Peter blushed as Gamora looked at the orb
"If this is a weapon it should be far away from Ronan" Gamora said as Drax quickly grabbed the item and was already thinking
"I think we should use it to destroy him!" He said as Anthea raised her hand ready to quickly release her power to slap the orb out of Drax's hand until Gamora spoke
"Put it down you fool or you'll destroy us all" Gamora said sternly as Drax scowled at her
"I will not you Murderess!" Drax yelled as Anthea frowned and Gamora got very mad and went over to Drax not afraid of him
"Stop acting like a spoiled Princess!" Gamora yelled as Drax scowled
"I am not a Princess!"
"Alright no one is killing anyone on my ship!" Peter said as Anthea went in front of Drax and Gamora and forced them apart
"After we get the money we don't have to see each other again" Peter said as Drax just snorted
"I don't want the money" He said as he tossed the orb to Peter and just walked off, Peter looked down and sighed
"Great, means more money for the four of us" Peter said looking at Anthea but heard a groan and saw Groot was looking at him with a pout and Anthea frowned at Peter and he sighed
"Fine there's five of us.. We're partners" Peter said as Gamora snorted
"We have an agreement, but we are not partners Quill. I'm going to go contact the buyer and tell him we're on our way now and Quill.. Your ship is Filthy" Gamora said as she started to go up the stairs
"She has a point" Anthea said as she left and started to follow Gamora up the stairs as she swayed her hips all of a sudden once she felt Peter's eyes on her as he was checking her not, not ashamed either as he made a comment about his ship while Rocket was disgusted.
A few moments later Rocket decided to go up and help Gamora with The Milano while Anthea went back downstairs and found Peter polishing his space guns
"Are they easy to use?" Anthea asked all of a sudden as Peter turned to her and he just shrugged
"It's pretty easy to use, you just need to have good aim.. Anthea have you never shot a gun?" He asked and she sat at the table and Peter went up close to her, as her legs were hanging from the table, He rested his hands on her legs.
"I was never taught how to use one" She said as she looked down as saw that Peter's hands were resting on her legs, she swore that her cheeks were going to be red and she wish she could just hide right now but Peter was admiring the ginger woman.
"So what would you do if you were powerless?" Peter asked the blue-eyed ginger woman. Anthea just shrugged
"I learned some hand to hand combat but just a little, I guess I'll be useless" Anthea shrugged, Peter took his hand off her leg and took her hand
"Let me teach you then, cause there may be a day where you may be powerless and all you may have is a gun" Peter said as she hopped off the table and he took out the ammo of his space gun
"Right this is what you need to shoot, you always need to reload so always carry some with you" He said as he showed her how to reload and unload the ammo from the gun, he did it a couple of more times before he handed the gun to Anthea
"So like this" She said as she carefully but surely inserted the ammo correctly and he cheered
"You're becoming a natural" Peter said as she smiled and looked at him before he took the gun and unloaded it and he looked at the wall and he went to find his jacket and hanger and hung the jacket at the wall and returned to Anthea
"Aim at my jacket" He said softly as Anthea raised the gun but was holding it the wrong way at first before Peter chuckled at her and went to her, her back pressed against his chest
"Like this" Peter said as he took her hand and aimed the gun at the jacket, in a way they were holding hands as Peter and Anthea's fingers were both on the trigger and Peter noticed she was tense
"Relax, you always have to be calm otherwise everything will go wrong" He said as he wrapped his free arm around her waist and she breathed in as first but relaxed as she felt his breath going down her neck
"You're doing it, Babe" He said softly as they stood there for a while, Peter could do this all day.. Her close to him like this, she smelled so good.. She smelled like the forest.. Flowers, it drove him insane because that was his favorite smell
"Guys we have something!" Rocket called from upstairs as Peter was knocked back into reality as Anthea was blushing as they broke away from each other and Anthea made her way up the stairs and Peter sighed as he placed the gun now and went up after her.
Once Anthea and Peter made their way up the stairs they saw that they were face to face with a huge head and Anthea was ready to ask what on earth in that but Drax beat her to it
"What is that?"
"That's the planet of Knowhere.. A mining Planet" She whispered as Rocket was flying into the skull and Peter and Anthea and the crew were looking outside the windows and saw how busy and dirty the planet looked.
As Gamora was explaining the history of Knowhere she mentioned how Outlaws like to hide in Knowhere the most so they must be careful and Peter just snorted
"We had many outlaws where I'm from.. Billy The Kid, Bonnie and Clyde" He said as he looked back and saw Groot and Anthea were following behind as they were looking around the place, he couldn't help but admire Anthea right now because even though this city was so ugly, Anthea found a way to admire the place.
"That sounds like a place I would visit" Drax said, impressed with Quill's home planet.
"You should" He said but was cut off as he spotted kids running up to them as he narrowed his eyes
"Incoming, watch your wallets" He warned before the crew was surrounded by children asking for units, he looked behind him and saw a little girl going up to Groot and Anthea who looked happy to see the little girl coming up to them.
Groot opened his hand and a little flower grew out of his hand, he looked over at Anthea who smiled and opened her hand and some golden energy came out of her hand and swirled around the flower a few times before the energy went off like a tiny firework and there were golden sparkles going into the flower.
Peter couldn't help but smile at that action and just wanted to tell Anthea that she was beautiful in that moment for being so kind to children, now Peter was never a fan of children and never wanted any children while Anthea just looked happy to see this little girl happy.
Groot took the sparkling flower off his hand and gave it to the little girl who smiled widely and thanked the duo before Peter quickly shooed away the children and they followed Gamora until they were in front of a bar
"This is where your seller is?" Rocket asked, not very impressed with this while Drax snorted also
"What is this place? What will we even do inside?" He asked as they all shrugged and slowly entered the place.
Anthea was leaning on the rails with her arms, looking out into the galaxy and admiring the many stars and colors of the outside and she couldn't help but start thinking about something that had been bothering her lately.
Where were her parents right now? Are her parents even alive? Why haven't they looked for her?
She was brought back into reality as she heard footsteps and saw Peter coming towards her and he stood behind her closely
"I just spent a lot on fuel.. I think I'll be losing money on this job" He said as they both looked out into the galaxy for a moment and she looked back and saw Rocket, Groot and Drax inside the bar gambling on a game inside the bar and drinking while Gamora was in the front of the bar wanting to be alone for a moment.
"Gamora's seller will hopefully be around in a few moments, for now you'll just have to deal with my company Quill" Anthea joked as Peter chuckled at her and looked at the beautiful ginger hair girl
"I actually don't mind" He said softly as Anthea chuckled and Peter looked at her for a moment
"So do you actually know who your parents are?" Peter asked and Anthea looked down for a moment and Peter coughed
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked that" He said as Anthea shook her head
"No it's fine. I don't actually them, I've been searching the galaxy for years but it's hard cause I don't even know who I am with these powers" Anthea said as Peter nodded understanding her. Anthea looked over at him and saw his tape player and she touched the player for a moment
"This is important to you as my blanket was important to me?" She asked as she clicked a button and music started to play and Peter sighed sadly
"My mom gave this to me, she loved sharing with me the pop music she loved listening to when she was growing up.. I happen to have had on me when I was.. When she.. The day I left earth" Peter said as he looked sad as she nodded and looked down, Anthea knew that Peter was also having his own issues but still admired him for still trying to be cheerful
"What do you do with this?" She asked softly and Peter chuckled at her as he looked down at her
"Do? Nothing, you just listen to it and also dance to it" Peter said as Anthea shook her head
"I can't dance" She said as Peter laughed
"Not even once?"
"I mean I danced with Groot at times but it's nonsense really"
"There's people like you, on my planet who can't dance it's a legend called Footloose, and in that legend there's a great hero called Kevin Bacon who taught a whole city with people that had sticks up their butts that dancing was the best thing" Peter said as Anthea scowled for a moment
"Who put the sticks up their butt?" She asked, she didn't expect there was a planet that actually had people walking around with sticks in their butts.. Peter lived in a weird planet.
"No.. That's just a-"
"That's mean, I wouldn't want to visit your planet" Anthea said as Peter chuckled at her
"It's just a expression" He said as he took out the headphones around his neck and placed them on her ears, she frowned at first but the melody was beautiful.
Ah, but when the, the grass got a little greener over on the other side.. I'd just tear out that page
Anthea was amazed on how beautiful this music was, she wished she heard this kind of music earlier. She smiled widely at Peter who was smiling at her glad that there was finally a girl that liked his music taste
"This is beautiful" Anthea said loudly as Peter jumped back a moment on how loud she was but he came back in smiling and nodding, he knew which part she was already on which was the chorus
I fooled around and fell in love.
Peter got closer to Anthea as he took her hand and intertwined their fingers together and brought her closer into him so she was slow dancing with him as he closed his eyes and rested his forehead on hers while she looked up at him, he looked so peaceful and happy she didn't think Peter Quill could be romantic like that
I fooled around and fell in love, since I met you baby
I fooled around and fell in loveAnthea closed her eyes soon and she felt Peter leaning in closer to her, she could almost feel his lips touching her as she was tilting her head ready to welcome his kiss. But it never happened as she saw Gamora pinning Peter against the rails with her knife against his neck.
"I will not let her fall for your.. Pelvic Sorcery!" Anthea heard Gamora yell as Anthea was taking off the headphones and rested them on her neck and was quite confused on what was happening
"I wouldn't do that to her" He said as he softly pushed Gamora and saw Anthea storming off, he was upset at first thinking that his chances with Anthea were ruined until he saw Drax and Groot literally fighting each other and Anthea storming inside to try to stop the fight.
Author's Note:
Wow 33 Followers! For me that's a lot! Thank you so much for reading! Make sure to leave reviews and all it means a lot!
I Love these Anthea and Peter moments I think at the moment my favorite ship that I've ever written is these two.
Since Peter is confirmed for the next Avengers movie of course we will have Anthea at his side, I'm planning on making a huge crossover with my stories by the end.