Water

Rose Waters was wrapping white, medical cloth around her hands when Loki came in. It had been almost two years since Rose Waters had first interrogated the trickster, and for some odd reason, she liked him. Maybe it was the stupid pranks that he played on her siblings, like dye Gamora's hair dark green, but she enjoyed his company. It brought something into her home that she hadn't felt in... well, she's never really felt it before. Fun, was it that Loki said?

It was strange. To Rose Waters, fun was slashing a man's throat open and whispering that his sacrifice was going to save the universe. Fun was easily destroying a soldier in a sparring match. Fun was walking into a room and feeling every being's breathing cease in shock at her prescence. That was fun... or was it? Or had she just confused it for too long with power?

Either way, the 'fun' that Loki had introduced into Rose Waters' world wasn't appreciated very much by Thanos, who immediately put a stop to it. In fact, he made sure of it by always separating Rose's and Loki's missions as far apart as possible. Rose had even overheard that Thanos was sending Loki on a pretty big mission soon... something about the Tesseract...

Rose Waters didn't mean to overhear the conversation, she just sort of... did. Her hearing always just focused on any conversation that involved her beautiful space stone.

When Loki walked into the room and saw Rose Waters, her eyes concentrating on the gauze that she yanked at harder and harder around her pale skin, he immediately stopped and stared at her for a moment. A moment too long.

"What?" Rose questioned, her voice low and dark. Just because she tolerated, and maybe even enjoyed, his presence didn't mean that she wanted to be by him all the time. He was just the most preferred person to talk to in the entire ship- or universe for all Rose knew.

"Shouldn't you be going to the medic bay for that?" Loki questioned as Rose Waters bit the end of the bandaid to tear it before patting it a few times. Red blood seeped through it a little, but Rose Waters didn't mind. It's not like she's never seen blood before.

"I like my scars." Rose Waters replied simply and stood up. Her chin jittered a little as she bit down on her bottom lip to stabilize herself. Despite the fact that Rose Waters had her ability for practically her entire life, she still haven't completely mastered it. Sometimes, she would teleport just a fraction of an inch, which made it seem almost like she was blinking in and out of existance.

But it wasn't like Thanos cared anymore. He didn't care about Rose Waters' health for a long time, ergo why she was wrapping up her scars right now. After all, in the matter of weeks, Loki was suppose to be back with the Tesseract. And after Thanos has the Tesseract, Rose's little trick of teleporting him from place to place would be useless. She would be useless.

After all, while she did try her damn best, her nine and almost ten year old body could only barely be on par with Nebula in a fight. She might've been training her entire life, but she could hardly teleport across her own ship without feeling completely wiped out, much less with another person. It was true, she was practically useless to Thanos' glorious army besides her little teleporting trick.

And even that would be useless within the month.

"Are you alright, Rosie?" Loki questioned as Rose Waters stood up, her eyes burning in fury.

"Don't call me that!" She snapped, her being blinking in and out of existence in her anger.

"Whatever you say, Rosie." Loki replied, holding his hands up defensively as Rosie reached out to slap him. Or stab him if her sword would teleport into her hand. Whichever one came first.

But Loki only caught her hand and gave her a wicked smile. "You're being so irrational lately, Rosie." He taunted as he suddenly jolted Rose's hand away from him. And, due to her rather poor stance, she fell over, landing right on her back. "Are you becoming a teenager, little one? Oh no, it's too soon."

In response, Rose Waters simply slammed her eyes shut and took in deep breaths, desperate to remember her training. Either she really was slacking, or Loki just got a little better of a fighter. She wouldn't bet on the latter, that man had the fine-motor skills of a brick.

"Just get away from me."

Everything happened all at once.

Tony Stark's suit booted up and almost immediately, he was able to send an incredible blast at Thanos, who easily blocked his movements with a simple wave of his golden glove. However, as he did so, Captain America punched Corvus Glaive in the back of the head, which only faintly made him limp forward before he turned around and snarled at the soldier.

Black Widow immediately teamed up with Thor to take down Cull Obsidian, the large, almost Hulk-size being who immediately let out an intimidating grunt in the direction of the two puny figures. Proxima Midnight was the only one who really got some time to prepare, her staff immediately out and into a fighting stance as she let out a battle cry at Spider-Man, Wong, Ant-Man, and Wasp, all of whom began to charge to the intimidating member of the group. All this happened as Bruce Banner desperately began to attempt to release the Hulk, only to reach no prevail.

Chaos began, all while Rose Waters simply stared, her presence almost forgotten by practically everyone.

Rose Waters' mind rushed to the numerous star systems where she would be safe. Thanos would already lash out at her for not helping out to begin with, and his trust in her is already shattered to begin with. She could join the Avengers' side... if she was stupid. It might've looked like a okay, or even fair, fight, but it wouldn't last long. In a matter of minutes, Thanos would lose patience and let loose the energy of the Power Stone... and Rose Waters didn't exactly want to be even in the same system as him when that happened.

Perhaps she could go to her base on Mars, but no, that was already breached. Would anyone think of finding her in Knowhere? Or could she could go to...

"Didn't forget about you!" A voice shouted before a blur of white spiderwebs flew onto Rose Water's body. However, she didn't seem to mind in the least, much too consumed with where to go to even pay attention to Spider-Man as he paused by her. For a moment, Peter Parker just looked at Rose's face, still unsure onto whether or not this was the same girl he knew from Physics class. But as sure as the sun glowed, it was the same person, he could tell just with a glimpse of her brilliant, neon colored pupils. Still, there's no such thing as being too careful. However, he was staring for a touch too long and Rose Waters blinked once before looking up to see the legend of Spider-Man. At the sight of his mask, Rose Water's narrowed her eyes.

"What do you want, Parker?" Rose Waters snapped immediately causing Peter to widen his eyes.

"You know-" He started when his Spidey sense went off. Almost immediately, he began to push Rose Water's out of the way, but the very second his skin touched her's, Rose Waters' blinked and they appeared on the top of a building that overlooked the fight.

Almost immediately, Peter Parker began to freak out, his skin feeling tingly and his head a little uneasy as Rose Waters looked outside as the building opposite to them continued to crumple down on the spot they once stood. If it weren't for Rose Waters, they would've been crushed in the rubble.

"Whaaa..." Peter whispered softly as Rose Water's simply rolled her eyes and took a knife from her sleeve before she began to easily cut away at the webbing that encased her. When she finally got out of it, Peter Parker had finally snapped out of his trance and began to speak in full sentences. "You... You know?"

"Of course." Rose Water's spoke and watched the fight continue. So much destruction... in the past, it used to make her smile. It used to make her want to tear the world apart even farther, sending everything into hell. But now, all it could do was let her heart sink to the bottom of her chest.

Peter Parker took off his mask, figuring there was no point now. He suddenly found it hard to breathe, his eyes looking down at his allies and the aliens that attacked. Almost immediately, he dropped the subject of his true identity and looked over at Rose Waters, his eyes wide.

"We need to help them." He stated rather quickly as Rose Waters simply shook her head ever so softly. To Peter's surprise, she was sitting down, her long blond hair blowing in the crisp air. She looked as if she had tears in her eyes, but maybe that was just a trick of the light.

"I don't need to do anything." She whispered softly and took in a deep breath. "Nothing."

"You... You can still help us!" Peter stated frantically. His mind flickered back to when they were in class together, when she would ask the teacher questions on some theories she apparently 'thought of out of the blue'. Theories about space travel, teleportation, and telekinesis, things that modern scientists still have trouble understanding. Theories that blew his own mind and made him think that she wasn't only beautiful, but a genius as well. What made him develop a slight crush on her in the first place.

Peter suddenly realized why she knew all of those theories.

"You're a good person, I know you are!"

Rose Waters was the girl who sat the back of the class, her eyes almost hungrily absorbing every ounce of information in the classroom... no, not information, just the class itself. He remembered faintly how her eyes would linger on him as he sharpened a pencil, or on a girl nearby as she brushed her hair. She wasn't looking for information, she was looking for normality. What it meant to be normal.

Peter could tell... that's exactly what he did after he got his powers. He observed others do the art of being normal, a reflex that disappeared to him the moment he developed his powers.

Despite his almost startling words, Rose Waters didn't even turn her head towards him, but he saw a solemn tear run down her pale cheek. His words lingered in her head, and they would for the rest of her life.

Another explosion rang off, Iron Man getting blown into a lamp post as Spider-Man widened his eyes before he spoke once again.

"They're losing, I need to help them." He whispered and was about to run off the building, a web already being slung when Rose Waters blinked and he appeared a few feet behind where he originally was, quickly losing momentum at the realization of what had just happened.

"Wha-" He started when Rose Waters finally looked up at him.

She was powerful, more powerful than Peter Parker may ever know, but at the moment, she was nothing more than a scared, vulnerable little girl.

She opened her mouth to speak, to say that words that she knew had to leave her mouth. The words that she's been thinking ever since she first committed her life as a runaway. The words that she never dared to leave her tongue until now.

And the words probably would've went through if it weren't for a certain unwanted appearance.

"My golly, I was right!" Loki announced, instantly startling the two young, powered individuals. "My little Rosie is turning into a teenager-and a love-struck one at that!"

At the sight of an old comrade, Rose Waters' immediately stood up and blinked rapidly, desperate to get the wet tears out of her eyes. Loki noticed, of course, but didn't say a word.

"Ruling Asgard get a little boring?" Rose Waters questioned, her voice slick with sarcasm as Loki shrugged.

"Something like that."

The God of Mischief opened his mouth again, ready to continue his little speech, when a sudden burst of bullets rang out. While others would've probably curled into a ball in fear, the three simple stood up as proudly as ever as a ship of blue, orange, and silver began to hover over New York City.

"What's up peeps, your prayers have been answered!" A man with deep blonde hair shouted, his eyes only focused on the purple monster in front of him.

"The Guardians of the Galaxy have arrived!"

... Is it too late to say I took a little break?

Super sorry for the late chapter, but I really wasn't feeling any Avengers vibes lately. However, as you guys probably know by now, Captain Marvel is being released today so I decided to continue this story!

Please, please, please review to let me know if this story is worth continuing! I love reading them and they really give me the motivation to keep going!

Totally going to watch Captain Marvel after this... might give me some more inspiration :)

~Emily