Kya woke up with a start. She darted up, and a gentle hand met her shoulder.
"Easy ребенок паук."
The waterbender looked to see Natasha sitting next to her bed. She didn't hesitate to wrap her arms around her surrogate mother. And as Kya took shaky breaths, the red head ran a hand up and down her back soothingly. "It's okay Kya, it's over."
As the silver haired woman lightly buried her face in Natasha's shoulder, memories rushed through her head at the speed of light. Fighting robots. Sokovia flying. Bucky showing up. Pietro-
Realization struck the waterbender like a lightning bolt and she quickly drew back from Natasha. "Pietro-"
The ex-red room assassin smiled tiredly. "He's alive Kya."
The silver haired woman looked at her surrogate mother, hope and relief blooming in her chest. "He's alive?"
Natasha nodded. "You saved him."
Kya laid back against the pillows and sighed in relief. She reached across the bond, and could feel the speedster's life force. Sitting up, the waterbender started pulling the sheets off herself. "Can I see him?"
The moment she stood on her feet, dizziness hit her like a tidal wave. She wobbled for a spilt second before Natasha gently eased her back onto the bed. "Easy."
Kya looked at her surrogate mother in confusion. "Why do I feel so weak?"
Hardness covered the ex-red room assassin's face. But since the silver haired woman knew her so well, she could see a hint of fear. "After you healed Pietro, you passed out. Steve and Bucky caught up with Clint and helped get you and Maximoff into the life boat."
Natasha took a shaky breath before composing herself again. "The both of you were hardly breathing and your pulses were weak. Kya, you were barely alive."
The assassin's green eyes clenched shut as she once again tried to compose herself, only this time, it was a bit more difficult. Meanwhile, Kya was silent as what she was just told sunk in.
"And you used the Spirit water to heal him."
Green eyes looked into blue eyes. "Steve told me about the bond."
Wait... what?!? "Natasha I can explain-"
The red head cut her off with a tired smirk. "There's nothing to explain. He loves you, clearly you love him if you're willing to gamble your life for him."
Kya froze.
'Clearly you love him if you're willing to gamble your life for him.'
Love...
Do I love him?
She thought back to the day they met, and how she instantly found him beautiful. She remembered when she first discovered their bond. She remembered when he cornered her in Africa and almost kissed her. She remembered when he said he loved her in Seoul.
Yes, I do love him.
With a soft smile blooming across her face, Kya looked at her surrogate mother. "Speaking of love and Steve, what happened between you two?"
-Time Skip-
After Natasha left, Kya had a string of visitors. Fury and Clint came in to confirm that she was alive and so Clint could wrap her in a large bear hug. Tony came in to tell her about the new Avengers Facility the team would be moving to... And that Bruce had disappeared during the final evacuation.
She would miss him.
But she didn't see either of the Maximoff twins.
It was only after Steve visited that she finally had the chance to see them.
But it was after a conversation that she was dreading on having.
"How are you healing up?"
The waterbender smiled at the super soldier. "I'm good. I'm just tired and I feel dizzy whenever I move to quickly."
Steve returned her smile. The two were silent for a few more moments before Kya spoke again. "How's Bucky adjusting?"
"Far better than he would have been without his memory being fixed."
At the pointed look on the man out of time's face, Kya knew he knew.
"Steve I can-"
He held up a hand. "It's okay Kya. Bucky explained everything to me... And he was right, he needed time to sort things out on his own."
The silver haired woman stared cautiously at Steve, causing the super soldier to laugh. "I'm serious Kya. I... I can't thank you enough."
She smiled. "It was the least I could do... Steve?"
"Hm?"
"How's Pietro and Wanda?"
She knew that the speedster was still on the helicarrier. And if he was here, so was his sister.
Steve frowned. "No one told you?"
"Told me what?"
The super soldier sighed. "Pietro has been in a coma since Sokovia was destroyed. You did save him from dying Kya, but he himself is trying to catch up to the erractic change from being dead to suddenly being alive."
Kya laid back against the pillows and stared up at the ceiling. How ironic, a man with enhanced speed trying to catch up with something.
"I need to see him."
Steve moved to stop her, but the waterbender looked him dead in the eye. "Please Steve."
The man out of time sighed before agreeing. After helping her slowly stand up, he led her to the room the Maximoffs have been staying in.
The moment Kya opened the door, a red and brown blur darted towards them and wrapped the silver haired woman in a huge hug.
"Thank you... I can never-"
The waterbender gently rubbed Wanda's back in soothing motions. "Shhh, it's alright Wanda. It's alright."
Kya turned to look at Steve. "I'll be fine."
After he nodded before offering Wanda a comforting smile and leaving, the brunette led the silver haired woman to the side of Pietro's bed.
Kya pulled up a chair and sat next to the female Maximoff. "Has anything changed?"
Wanda somberly looked at her brother. "No, not since Sokovia."
She turned to look at Kya before shyly taking her hand in her own. "When he died, it felt like I myself had died. I ripped out Ultron's core because of it. But... when you healed him, when you saved him... it felt like I was reborn. And Kya, I can never thank you enough."
The waterbender smiled before flipping her hand over and squeezing Wanda's. "It's my job."
The female Maximoff smiled before squeezing her hand back. They both looked at sleeping Pietro.
Kya took a deep breath before squeezing Wanda's hand again. "He'll wake up."
Wanda nodded before squeezing back. "He'll wake up."
-Time Skip-
It was two weeks later when Pietro finally did wake up.
After Kya had convinced Wanda to take a shower and change into a fresh set of clothes, she sat in the same chair she's been sitting in for two weeks with a sigh.
"You know, weeks ago I was ready to end you and Wanda. But now... Now Wanda and I are friends. And I'm pretty sure I don't want to kill you. In fact I'm pretty sure I love you."
She pressed her lips to Pietro's knuckles. "I love you Pietro Maximoff."
Kya froze when she felt his hand twitch. And then...
"It's about time Princessa."
The waterbender's eyes shot up to see Pietro looking at her with tired eyes and a smile. Tears flowed freely down her cheeks as she let out a choked sob and threw her arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around her and buried his face in her hair, breathing in the smell of the ocean she emitted.
"Maybe I should die more often if it means you react like this."
Kya restrained herself from hitting him as she drew back from the his arms and glared. "If you die again, I'll kill you myself."
Without much warning or thought, the waterbender grabbed Pietro's face and kissed him. The speedster eyes widened in surprise for a split second before kissing her back, his entire body relaxing in relief as he finally got to do what he's been aching to do from the moment they met.
Kya pulled away and pressed her forehead against Pietro's, an elated grin spreading across her lips. "Told you if you stuck around you'd get your kiss."
Pietro smiled. "Worth it."
He ran his fingers through her silver hair before asking a question he had been dreading to ask. "Sokovia?"
The silver haired woman sighed somberly. "Destroyed. But most of her citizens survived."
He said nothing. Kya gently brushed a thumb over his cheekbone comfortingly. "Pietro, you and Wanda have a place with the Avengers. You have a place with me."
For a moment, the speedster didn't say anything. Then, he smiled. "I almost didn't see that coming."
The waterbender rolled her eyes playfully before smiling back and kissing him again.
-Time Skip-
Kya grinned and cooed at the baby on the screen. She and Natasha were watching a video Clint had sent them, who retired a month ago when Nathaniel Pietro Barton was born.
"How are they?"
The two turned to see Steve walking towards them. Kya turned her phone off before tucking it away in one of the pockets of her suit. "They're happy... And Clint's settling into retirement surprisingly well."
Natasha snorted before looking at her boyfriend as the three of them began walking towards the training room. "So how do we look?"
The super soldier sighed. "Well, we're not the '27 Yankees, but we've got some good hitters. They're good, but they're not a team."
The red head grinned. "Let's beat them into shape then."
Kya smirked, remembering her training days under Natasha and Clint. They entered the training room to see their new line up. War Machine, Falcon, Vision, Scarlet Witch, and the one who makes the silver haired woman's heart race as fast as he does, Quicksilver.
Pietro's face lit up, grinning as their eyes met. She grinned back.
Steve looked at the team assembled before him. "Avengers..."
Author's Note: Oh my god...
I FINISHED SILVER WATERS!!!!!
Now book two is in the making and I will let you know when the sequel comes out.
If you liked the world I created here, I am writing two fics that will be the Silver Waters series, they're called Scarlet Stones and Winter Winds.
I don't think I need to tell you who the OCs are going to be paired with.
The first chapters for both will be published before the sequel for Silver Waters is, so keep an eye out :).
Until then, if you can't for more Kietro/Pya goodness, submit a request to Silver Raindrops and I will do my best to write it. Love you all!!!