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Chapter 4

Gamora's Point of View

Pepper was more than enthusiastic to plan a girls night out for us and she even offered to plan the whole thing so I could spend the rest of the day with Emma. So as I told Emma the good news I asked her, "So what do you want to do today?" She looked at me and smiled, "Well me and Christina always make a point of going and getting ice-cream on our birthdays, it's our girly treat." She laughed. "Ok sounds good will we go now?" I asked.

Emma nodded and asked me to get her daughter while she went to tell her husband. I found Christina playing with the others, "Hey honey your mom asked if you want to go and get some ice-cream with us? She said you do it every birthday." I asked my granddaughter. She looked so much like Emma as she looked up at me, "No its ok you go without me. We are playing house and we have boys now, which makes it more fun!" she told me as she pointed to her uncles. "You sure?" I asked shocked that a kid turned down ice cream. She nodded her little head as I left her to play.

"Where's Christina?" Emma asked as I met her at the door. "She said she would rather play house!" I smirked. "oh ok, um well then I think a restaurant is more appropriate for two adults!" Emma laughed. "We could ask dad and David if you want?" she suggested. "Um no I think just some mother daughter time would be nice." I told her. She smiled at me and nodded. As we walked out to the garage I asked, "Are we borrowing one of Tony's cars?"

Emma looked at me horrified, "25 mom I can afford my own car!" she laughed. "It's over here behind Tony's!" she told me. "This isn't the car you arrived in?" I asked confused. "I know that was David's mine is way cooler but I hate to get Tony to um add a few things." She replied. "Like what?" I asked opening the door to the red bug. "Things to help me get out of lets call them situation's that arise in my line of work!" she replied. "A spy car?" I laughed. "Exactly my little spy bug!" she smirked as she pulled out of the garage.

"So where are we going to eat?" I asked. "Well seeing as how most people aren't used to seeing a green lady walking around, I think we should stick to somewhere familiar. I was thinking maybe my restaurant?" she said. "YOU OWN A RESTAURANT TO?" I gasped. "Yip it's a year old soon, it was just a hobby. Plus it is great for Christina at school, when her friends ask what mom does she says she owns a restaurant. You know as opposed to she is a spy who hangs around with the original Avengers." She laughed.

I laughed at the thought of my little granddaughter blowing her moms cover. "Does she like it here?" I asked. "Who Christina? Why wouldn't she, she hasn't lived anywhere else before!" Emma asked confused. "Oh that's right, I forgot. Um Emma have you ever considered, you know coming home for a while?" I asked hestitanlty. "Mom this is home for me, you know that!" Emma sighed as she pulled into a car park.

"I know Ems just thought I would try." I said trying to smile. Emma looked at me with a sad expression, "I know you want me to live up there with you, but I cant I have a life here. A good one!" she told me. "I know Ems sorry I brought it up." I replied. Emma sighed and looked at me, "But I suppose a holiday up there isn't out of the question." She added. "WHAT? REALLY? YOU MEAN IT?" I asked excitedly. "YES mom I mean it!" she grinned. "COOL!" I smiled.

After that we got out of the car and walked into Emma's restaurant. It was called Milano's. "Milano's?" I asked as I read the sign. "Yeah it reminds me of you and dad, in your ship on little adventures." She replied. Inside was elegantly decorated with big dangling lights, and classy artwork. "Its lovely." I said as we grabbed a table. "I know I love it!" Emma replied. As we looked at the menu a waitor approached us, "Usual boss?" he asked. "Yeah please, and Jeff this is my mom." She introduced us.

"Hi Jeff, I will have whatever Emma is having." I told him. "Coming up!" he chimed as he walked away. As I looked around the room I saw personal touches Emma had. She had a picture of her kids hanging up on the way, obviously relatively new. Put on the bigger wall she had a wedding picture. She looked beautiful in it, with longer hair and a stunning, strapless wedding dress. "WOW!" I gasped. "You like?" Emma asked following my eye line. "I love!" I replied. "You look great, when was it?" I asked.

"Just over 2 years ago. It was the summer, beside the beach. Christina was flower girl and Nat and Maria where bridesmaids. Pepper was the wedding planner and I swear by the end we were all going to kill her. But it was perfect not a single detail was wrong. The perfect day followed by the perfect honeymoon in Australia." Emma told me. "Sounds like heaven." I replied. It saddened me to think of all the big moments in my daughter's life that I had missed. "Of course there were a few guests missing, who I would have loved nothing more than to be there." Emma added. I smiled at her and reached over to grab her hand.

As I held her hand I said, "I would have loved to have been there Ems." Emma smiled at me she had tears in her eyes as she nodded. I gently rubbed her hand to try and comfort her. As I did I felt a lot of little scars. "What happened?" I asked flipping her hand around to see. "Dangerous job." She replied. "But still these are deep." I said concerned. "Was a big knife." She told me. "What and they cut you with it?" I asked horrified. "More than once, they wanted info. Mom it was a long time ago, don't worry." Emma said pulling her hand back.

"Can't help it, I should have been here. I should have stayed and protected you!" I cried. "MOM STOP. If you had stayed then who know what would have happened up there. The war might never have ended it could have lead to here. If you had stayed then I might never have met David, I might never have had my kids. And you definitely wouldn't have had the boys. So don't think like that, we are together now, lets enjoy it ok?" Emma said.

I felt tears in my eyes as I nodded in response. My daughter was so much wiser than she had been before she was now giving me advice. But despite what she said, I still regretted leaving her more than anything else. As we sat in silence enjoying each other's company the food arrived.

"Looks great!" I said as I loaded my fork. It was the nicest food I have ever tasted; I think Emma called it lasagne. "We have a pretty good chef, he's actually David's brother so it works well, us all running the business together." Emma explained as we enjoyed the meal. As we eat Emma's phone rang. "The office!" she sighed, "I've got to take this do you mind?" she asked. I shook my head as she answered. "Hello?" she said. "I'm on my day off can't someone else do it?" she asked the other person. "New York Avengers group? That's Nat's team why didn't you ask her?" Emma complained.

"So Nat gets time off because you're afraid of her?" she scoffed. "Well guess what I am off to and she trained me so I can kill you just as quick as her!" she hissed. "Ok that's a good idea you ask him. Bye" she said ending the call. "Trouble at work?" I asked. "The New York Avengers group have gone a little mad lately. Seems they like the fame!" she complained. "The New York Avengers?" I asked confused. "OH yeah sorry the Avengers branched out, got new gifted kids in different cities. They all work within there areas to keep Hydra and the likes at bay." She explained.

"And you help run them?" I asked. "Yip technically Nat and me own the New York team but we are both on maternity so they have covers." She told me. "So why did they need you?" I asked confused. "Covers can't handle them!" she laughed. "Come on we better get going, didn't you say Pepper had plans for us tonight?" she asked. I nodded and we got up to leave. Ready for a night of fun with the girls.

Until next time ;-)