Pietro Maximoff

The twins are both 19.

This was not something they wanted to be found out, this was something they strived to be kept hidden and this situation, this reaction, is the exact reason they tried to keep it a secret.

"Wait your only 19?" Bruce stares at the twins looking so confused. Pietro's internal groan matches his sister's as their minds connect.

Why did you let that slip out?! Pietro asked glaring at Wanda.

Wanda glared right back. We just became legal citizens here we should not be breaking laws. I know you are use to drinking in Sokovia-

Well things are different in America we looked these things up. That is why we agreed to not talk about our age.

Maybe if you didn't try to drink it!

Yeah like that wouldn't have been suspicious!

"You little bastards." Is all Clint says and he's glaring at both of them like a disapproving father. Honestly it's kind of working.

Pietro sighed and tipped his head back where he was sitting on the couch. Wanda and he had done so well at hiding how young they were and now it was all ruined because Tony offered him a celebratory thank-God-we-all-survived-that-mission drink, and Wanda being Wanda had floated the drink away and said they weren't allowed they were only 19.

"Wait so you two decided in your not fully developed pubescent minds that charging into life threatening situations daily was a good thing? Holy shit you almost died! What is wrong with teenagers?!" Tony seemed to be half in shock, half in humor. He gulped down the rest of his whisky and started muttering about Pepper killing him.

"Well what did you expect us to do? Have these powers and just stay back? After everything we did…" Wanda was reasonably trying to explain for both of them but if Pietro learned anything from living with these people it's that none of them are reasonable.

"Okay guilt tripping yourselves isn't going to help anyone in this situation." Clint said still looking mad with a frown seemingly tattooed on this face at this point.

"You know I wouldn't frown so much old man it could… what's that phrase stick like that?" Pietro couldn't help but poke fun at him. It was just too easy. Wanda looked like she wanted to face palm.

Well their goes them treating us like adults… was the thought that shot through his head in his sister's voice.

Clint turned to Pietro and his glare intensified. "I swear to God kid don't make me fucking ground you."

That finally made Bruce let out a snort and Steve actually full on laughed.

"You are not our guardian we are legal adults therefor you cannot ground me." Pietro said smiling smugly.

Clint squeezed his hands into fists but looked more annoyed then angry now.

"Your still a little shit."

"And very proud of it."

"Alright this is getting us nowhere." Bruce suddenly said standing up and once again being the only sane person.

"So we found out the twins are a little younger then we thought. Honestly how old did we expect them to be?"

"Honestly I was starting to wonder if they had reached 20 years yet." Thor said. Bruce gestured to Thor. "Yes, thank you Thor, see we knew they weren't that old to being with."

"But… I mean 19 that's young." Sam murmured.

"I started younger, the point is that they are the age they are and they are right we have no legal authority over them, so does anyone have any propositions?" Natasha said finally seeming to get everyone on the right track.

Tony of all people finally sighed. "Look you two have proved you can take care of yourselves except when you're being stupidly noble." A glare or two were tossed in Pietro's direction and Wanda simultaneously grabbed Pietro's hand and connected their minds to keep him as close as possible.

"We aren't going to treat you like kids. I mean Agent One is right she started young and Capsicile is pretty young technically, Winter is Coming over there has to be around the same age."

"Two years older." Bucky said. Tony nodded to him and continued. "But you're still young and Pietro you did get hurt I mean…." Tony seemed to be thinking and taking this seriously so everyone gave him room and stayed quiet. Pietro stared at the man silently.

He didn't want to be treated like a child. He had done so much bad in such a short time, he wanted to fight and make it right. Sure he's a little shit, he loves messing with all of them, it's fun, but he is ready to fight them if they say he and Wanda have to sit out.

"Maybe just, if we tell you to leave, which we won't do unless things are very bad like world ending and we don't have time to stop it bad, just listen to us and leave. Don't complain if we put you on crowd control a few more times then everyone else." Tony shrugged and Pietro looked around everyone seeming to nod and agree and he felt his shoulders unclench. That was not so bad, he could deal with that. In a way, it felt like people were looking out for him, not treating him like a child but just worrying about his safety. Pietro thinks he can deal with that. When he looks at Wanda and sees she's in agreement, Pietro feels himself brighten and feel this warmth, he feels like he belongs.

However, unwilling to drop his façade, he turns back to the Avengers and with a smirk on his face retorts back.

"Let us drink and you got yourself a deal."

"Abso-fucking-lutley not."

"No."

"Not letting you two break the law some more."

"Do you want Pepper to kill me?"

Pietro sat back; well it was worth a try.

He will randomly fall asleep anywhere even in the middle of the floor.

If you put two and two together that one should have been a bit obvious. I mean a super speedster would run on a super fast metabolism and what happens after you burn through all your food? You sleep; you crash hard and become unconscious to the world as a whole. Everyone thought that just meant Pietro would be taking a lot of naps and technically that part was true. Where he would be taking said naps became a surprise to everyone.

Jane was actually going to bed at a normal hour for once and while she was walking back from her lab to her room she was on the phone with Selvig asking his advice on some discoveries. She was right in the middle of a sentence, eyes looking ahead, phone to her ear and turning a corner when her foot caught on something and surprised Jane let out a squeak as she went tumbling down. She dropped the phone to catch herself and could hear Selvig's slightly panicked tone as he called if Jane was all right. Jane's head sprung up as she looked this way and that to see what tripped her only to see Pietro Maximoff wedged in a corner all curled up and sleeping.

She kind of just laid their for a second, sprawled out on the floor staring at the silver haired teenager snoring in a corner.

"Jane?" Selvig called again a little louder. Jane finally scrambled up and grabbed the phone from the ground.

"Sorry, sorry I'm fine I just fell over something." Jane responded.

"What?"

"Pietro Maximoff."

She could practically see Selvig's confused look from the other side of the phone. Jane scanned him up and down and noticed he was wearing sneakers and if she got closer could see crumbs still hanging on his clothes. Of all things it made her roll her eyes.

"I'm guessing the kid was working on his running, ate a lot of food and then burned himself out before just collapsing in the first corner he saw."

Selvig made mumbling noises of agreement and Jane poked Pietro with her tiny foot a few times jostling the speedster awake.

Pietro squinted at her looking slightly annoyed to be abruptly awake.

"Hey Pietro I know your sleepy but your down in the lab hallways wouldn't you rather sleep in your bed?" Jane asked. Pietro seemed to be contemplating this question before he sighed, got up and at a normal speed made his way to the elevators. Jane smiled counting it as a personal victory and continued on her way.

Jane mentioned it in passing and Wanda confirmed that when Pietro was tired he had the habit of just sitting down anywhere he found comfortable. No one realized that Pietro found the weirdest places comfortable.

Clint and Natasha walked into the gym to find him curled in the middle of the sparring mats. Steve found him curled up like a cat on the rug in the common room. Another time Sam, Bucky and Steve found Pietro in the garage curled up in the backseat of one of Tony's sports cars.

"How the hell did he get in the car anyway?" Bucky randomly wondered later on.

Don't even ask them how many times they have tripped on Pietro because he was smack dab in the middle of the hallway or tucked partially into a corner, almost everyone has bruises from being accidentally tripped by Pietro. Said speedster is also getting fairly annoyed that everyone is accidentally kicking him in his sleep.

"Alright, we have to find someway around this." Pepper stated after she accidentally clipped Pietro in the head with her heel and worried that she might have caused him brain damage. Pietro shrugged, he didn't like being kicked but when he was tired he was really out of it and didn't know if it could be helped. Luckily Wanda finally came up with the solution.

"Spread out random sections all over the tower and mark them off with tape. I mean put them all over because if Pietro's running and he sees them then he will remember what they are for."

So the residents of the tower spent a few hours going everywhere and taping off little sections all over.

It was Bruce that saw their plan had worked; going towards the elevator to bring him up to the kitchens he saw the corner of a bright orange area and gave it a wide berth as he turned the corner. Sure enough there was Pietro once again curled up and sleeping away. Bruce smiled and little and shook his head before continuing on to grab some tea.

Anytime the weather changes his wounds will start to hurt and he'll rub them and someone will have to distract him, if that doesn't work he has to blare music.

It happens a lot for all kinds of different injuries, when the weather changes you feel an ache. It happens with scars or if you've had major surgery so the fact that both are combined when it comes to Pietro doesn't help. At first he tried to play it off as a joke that he knew when the rain was coming because his chest would start to ache where the bullets hit him. Of course no one found that joke particularly funny, Pietro himself included, but he had to joke. Thinking about them, why they ache, the fact that he almost died- it scares him. Sometimes when they start aching he will just sit there rubbing his chest, just trapped in his head.

"Hey twin one."

Pietro snapped out of his morbid musings and turned to see Natasha and Clint standing near the door. Natasha was looking at him and when they made eye contact she gestured for him to follow them.

"Clint has target practice come stop his arrows from hitting the targets."

Clint gave Natasha a glare and Pietro smirked before following both of them. He didn't manage to stop all of Clint's arrows but a fair few of them never made it to the target. He appreciated that Natasha's gun stayed in its holster the entire time. So all the avengers made sure when they saw Pietro rubbing his chest and staring off into space that they got his attention and kept it off his old injury. This pretty much worked with a few of them being creative but one morning it was really bad. The ache hurt from the second Pietro tried to sit up in bed and he was popping Tylenol every time it was safe enough to take another one.

By the afternoon a few of the avengers had tried and failed to keep him distracted and by noon Pietro was sitting on the couch rubbing his wounds. Wanda was beside him trying to just be there as a form of comfort. Soon though, Darcy came in carrying an I-pod and earbuds. She got up in Pietro's face and popped the earbuds in his ears. Pietro gave her a strange look.

"Look music is great on a normal day and I've noticed that Tony blares rock when he needs to zone out and Steve will play whatever's next on his 21s century list when he needs some me time even Sam's got his PTSD music of choice. So you know what, we're going with musical therapy for you. This iPod has every genre of music; you are going to find something that works." Darcy then played the first song and put the iPod in his hand.

Pietro stared at it a little bit obliviously, listening to the music and then he started looking through the songs, clicking on different ones and trying them out. Finally he found something that seemed to unclench his body and make him smirk a little. Darcy looked over to see the cover of an old Green Day album.

"Huh rebellious punk rock I should have guessed." Wanda smiled at Darcy and Pietro put his head back against the couch and relaxed.

Every time Pietro starts to feel the familiar ache he pops the earbuds in and turns the sound up loud, blocking out the world and the troubling thoughts for a little while.

He flirts a lot, with everyone; Natasha, Wanda and Clint are usually the ones dragging him away because the girl is in an awful state of giggling and blushing.

They actually discovered this at the college where Clint got his caw caw motherfuckers catch phrase. Wanda knew this way before anyone else because she was the one that usually had to drag Pietro away from all the girls. It wasn't a jealously thing, if Pietro wanted a girlfriend that was fine with Wanda but he didn't want a girlfriend, he just loved to flirt. It was made very apparent that day on the college campus. Pietro was on evacuation duty and then was suppose to go and help Wanda confuse mindless henchmen. The latest building he was evacuating was a dorm and of course some of the girls and boys had gone up to the roof for safety or to get a better view on what was going on. They were cheering as they watched Steve and Thor tag team some henchmen from far away when one girl who was leaning over the edge too much got jostled and fell. Her scream cut through the air before Pietro sped in and caught her. The girl breathed out rapidly before looking up at her savior. Pietro noticed the girl was pretty and saw the girl give him the up and down so he smirked and pulled her a little closer.

"Don't worry if you fall I'll catch you." Pietro said. It made the girl blush but the team over the coms was another story. He heard Wanda grown in frustration.

"Are you seriously trying to pick up a girl right now?" Tony asked almost curiously.

"Of course you would do this. Of fucking course." Clint grumbled out.

"Lame line." Is all Natasha said.

Pietro ignored them all and opened his mouth to say more but it was almost like the captain could sense it.

"Quicksilver put the girl down and get back to work." He said in his special Captain American I-am-the-boss voice. Pietro rolled his eyes but set the girl on her feet gave her one last wink and sped to the roof to order all the kids to get down.

It would not be the last incident of Pietro flirting with everything that could breath; they didn't even talk about the time he was caught almost making out with a crown princess at a gala. It was almost an international incident and is on the do not talk about ever again list.

But the best one was during the clean up when the avengers sometimes gave interviews to the news stations. Pietro was being interviewed by one of the new interns and there are still gifs of Pietro's flirty wink and coy smile as he basically propositioned the girl on the air. Not that the girl was complaining but that is beside the point. It was a PR nightmare and Pepper refused to talk to any of the avengers for a whole week.

From time to time whenever the avengers hear Pietro flirting over the coms they will yell in his ear "Flirty winks on channel 9 news!"

It works about half the time.

Love Pietro so much anyway next we have Wanda Maximoff so stay tuned!