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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Wouldn't miss it for the world, I cant wait to see the look on Tasha's face when you beat her," he joked as Luna felt a small surge of pride in her chest at her brother being so confident in her abilities, "but," he continued, "Ill come down in a bit, you go get warmed up, just ask F.R.I.D.A.Y to take you down to the training floor," he finished, before walking towards one of the two lifts that led to his floor. Stepping into one he said "I'm just gonna go check up on Sam before coming down, plus I know he won't want to miss this." And with the click of a button he was gone. Luna, however, was confused. She had been told about F.R.I.D.A.Y, of course she had been. The only problem was, that she hadn't actually spoken to the AI yet. Stepping gingerly towards the other lift Luna called out, "um, F.R.I.D.A.Y". She practically jumped out of her skin when a female Irish voice replied "Yes, miss Luna," She was actually convinced her soul had momentarily left her body when a voice from the ceiling spoke back to her. She knew it definitely had when the lift doors opened without her having to even press a button to call it. Warily she stepped inside, asking the body-less voice to please take her to the training floor. She stopped to think for a moment, because who would have a whole floor dedicated to just training? But before she could doubt herself any further the lift began to move downwards (Luna assumed that was F.R.I.D.A.Y's doing) and she guessed that the voice must have understood what she was saying anyway. It made no sense for a whole floor to be dedicated to training, right?/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Apparently, when you're Tony Stark you can indeed have whole floors dedicated to whatever the fuck you want. Stepping out of the lift, Luna thought she was actually about to go into shock. The room in front of her was huge. She could see the average line of treadmills and punching bags and bikes, but there was a massive area of the floor dedicated to sparring mats and another section of the room seemed to be dedicated entirely to a jungle gym style assault course… on the ceiling… emthe ceiling/em. Stepping out of the lift and into the room she saw that there was even more stuff in the room. Including what seemed to be a glowing dome over one part of the room, which Luna assumed would be where the team could practise their powers. There was a whole archery range, and as Luna turned to look further around the room her breath caught in her throat as she saw what looked like a dance studio hid behind a door. She felt her feet carrying her over to it and before she knew it she had her hand on the handle and was inside a gorgeous mirrored room, with a barre on one of the walls, a pile of what looked like pilates mats and the perfect flooring for a dancer. "Like what you see," Luna heard Natasha, who she had felt walking up behind her, ask with a practically audible grin in her voice. "It's stunning" was the breathless reply that Natasha got. "You're welcome to use it any time you want," she said, feeling extremely gratified when she saw the grin blooming on Luna's face as she turned to Nat with wide, excited eyes. "I haven't danced in years," was the slightly deflated answer she got back though, and Natasha realised Luna was trying not to impose, so she went further to reassure the timid girl in front of her, "Well," Nat answered, "Im the only one who uses it, so it'd be great to see someone else get some joy from it, come use it whenever you want." Another smile greeted her. "Now come on, I want to see you fight, and oddly enough it looks as though al of the avengers have gathered to 'train' at the same time." Luna laughed slightly. Honesty she wasn't surprised she'd gathered an audience, they were a team of fighters and she was a potential asset. Plus, they had to be curious after the 'incident' from a few days ago. "Great," Luna replied, "I always work better with an audience," she finished, a dangerous smirk suddenly appearing on her face, one that could match (and though nobody would admit it,) or even beat that of their own resident Black Widow. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The two moved together towards the area of the room that was decked out with sparring matts, which suddenly had a ring of people on one side of it, all sitting or standing by the benches that had clearly been put into place for when people were taking breaks. Bucky and Sam were sat on the bench, chatting along with Steve who was stood in front of them, arms crossed, looking very much Captain America like. Tony and Bruce were sat across from them, both feigning interest at some paper in front of them, but Luna wasn't blind to the fact that their eyes lit up when she and Nat walked over. Clint too was there sat next to Wanda, talking quietly between themselves, a sudden hush however came over all of the group when the two women came over. They were excited. Luna didn't blame them. Although, she did find it a little funny how none of them seemed to be in a judgemental mood. Typically when she sparred with other agents the room was tense, wanting to make sure their killing machine was working perfectly, however now the atmosphere was light hearted. Luna chose not to think too much on it though, instead moving to the opposite sides of the mat to Nat, before catching Bucky's eye as he sent one of his signature winks her way. Not one of his boisterous winks, it was a communication of 'you got this, show them what you're made of'. Nat quickly went through the rules with her, no permanent injuries allowed, no powers or weapons although enhancements were fine, after all you couldn't exactly turn them off. First to tap out wins that bout, and there were 6 in a match. Luna got a quick nod from Wanda and a "go on kid," from Tony before soon enough Natasha nodded and the round began. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"She had, it seemed, underestimated Natasha skills. Granted it was hardly going to be a problem for Luna, she was after all trained specifically to fight the avengers, and Hydra's intel about Nat's fighting style was right. Luna decided however, that she wanted to have fun with this match. Nat sprang at her quickly, moving to swipe Luna's feet out from under her, and Luna let her. But once she was on the ground she quickly reached out and yanked Nat's supporting leg out from her, using the momentum to pull the Widow down and herself on top of her. Nat fired a quick shot at her face, which Luna easily intercepted and quickly blocked, moving her body to hold Natasha in a pin. As she expected, Natasha attempted to flip them, and Luna let her so that their positioning was reminiscent of how it had been two days ago during the incident. Luna quickly lifted her left leg, kicking it into Nat's abdomen, flipping the woman off of her, as she rolled over to a crouched position. Natasha liked to go for the legs, get her prey under her on the ground. Luna was trained against it, knew that when she had her opponent on the ground she left her abdomen uncovered, and she used it against her. Nat was sprawled out on her front and in a quick motion Luna had rendered incapacitated in a hold, and soon enough Natasha had tapped out of this round. Luna looked up to a sea of shocked faces and one with the biggest smirk she'd perhaps ever seen. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""What the hell" whispered Sam, "She didn't even break a sweat." Tony looked to her, then to Nat, and back again, before a smile broke out on his face, saying "I knew I was right to bet on you kid, get ready to pay up Clint." Luna reached down her hand to help Natasha back to her feet and before anymore input came from their spectators another round started. This time Nat went high, aiming a flying kick at Luna's head, which soon became useless as Luna rolled under Nat, swapping their positions. Luna barely gave Natasha a second to hit the ground before she started a full on frontal assault, jabs flying at the speed of light, giving Natasha no other choice than to simply try to block, all hitting their intended mark, not deliberately hurting her partner, but none the less knocking Tasha back until out of the blue Luna launched a kick at her right shoulder, something Hydra had trained her to do, knowing that her opponents body positioning after a rapid fire attack would leave the body part open to attack. Soon enough Nat was on the ground again, tapping out. Sam seemed to be hung up on the fact that Luna emhadn't even broken a sweat/em, whilst Steve stood their, mouth open, obviously impressed. Tony looked like a child on Christmas morning who'd just opened his dream present, whilst Clint looked like he had just opened a packet of socks. Sure, Luna could see he was impressed, but also, no one liked to loose a bet. Wanda seemed to be sat there with a look of respect plastered on her face with a smile turning the corners of her lips upwards, whilst Bucky seemed to be smirking the smirk of all smirks. He knew she would win, of course she would. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"They went on for two more rounds, Luna besting Natasha relatively quickly each time. They had just however begun their fifth round and it was growing intense, all of their spectators yelling as they fought, Nat and Luna both getting lost in the fight when Luna suddenly felt herself being thrown violently across the room. She lifted her head blearily, as her ears rang and she panted breath in and out of her lungs, suggesting she had hit her head quite hard on the ground. She tried to sit up, but found herself stuck, physically stuck to the floor, with what could only be described as webbing. Bucky was sprinting over to her along with Sam and Steve, while everyone else turned on whatever it was that had just launched Luna across the room. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""-id, Kid can you hear me?" She could hear Bucky yelling at her as he used his metal arm to rip away some of the material holding her down. She could hear Tony across the room yelling at someone who was stood in front of him, cheeks bright red and head down, before Tony pulled him in for a quick hug. Snapping fingers in front of her face quickly brought Luna back to awareness and Luna looked up to see Sam staring at her, eyes wide with concern while Bucky kept trying to pull at whatever was holding her down. br /"Are you alright?" He asked her./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Yeh, yeh," replied Luna, "I got hit pretty hard and my heads ringing like a bell, but I'm alright" she answered, moving to sit up now that Bucky had removed most of the webbing. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""все в порядке, сестренка, значит тебе здесь комфортно. И Питер, несмотря на то, что он идиот, - идиот из лучших побуждений, а не угроза, поэтому вы его не почувствовали" Bucky continued (thats okay, sis, it means you're comfortable here. And Peter, despite being an idiot, is a well meaning idiot, not a threat, its why you didn't sense him )./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Switching back to English, Luna looked at Bucky in a questioning way "Who's Peter? And why can he shoot webs?" Bucky chuckled before turning Luna around to see Tony walking towards her with a scruffy looking boy, about her age, being pushed towards her in front of him. "This," said Tony, "is Peter." Before Luna even had the chance to take in the chocolate brown hair and goofy expression in front of her, Peter started rambling./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Miss Luna, I am so so so sorry ! I was on my way up to the lab and F.R.I.D.A.Y said that Nat was in the middle of a fight on this floor and that she was loosing, and well nat never looses, and then Fri said everyone was just watching, and I have this thing called a spider sense and it wasn't going off but I was worried something was wring and when I came up here and saw you beating nat and I didn't know who you were so I-"/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Woah Peter, maybe take a breath in there somewhere," joked Bucky, laughing harder when he saw Peters face burn a bright red and his hand come to rub sheepishly at the back of his neck./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"She checked her appearance in the mirror once more before stepping out into the hallway of Bucky's floor. Wanda had sent her down a long sleeved top and pair of grey leggings, and whilst Luna didn't know if it was intentional or not she was glad the black form fitting top covered all of her scars. Bucky had told her that when they were bringing her back from the Hydra base he'd told the team about her past and their time together under Hydra's command. She didn't need to ask if he had told them about that night, it was simpler to assume he had; Bucky was smart enough to know better than to bring it up in front of her, and Luna knew that one of the best ways for him to be able to avoid bringing it up was to make sure all of the team already knew about it. That was it saved Luna from having to explain her scars to anyone and it meant that the team wouldn't accidentally trigger any memory related panic attacks. Regardless, it made Luna feel a little unsettled that everyone knew about that night and she hadn't been the one to tell them. It wasn't Bucky's fault, and they needed to know, but it made her feel vulnerable, them knowing something so personal about her and her past, while all she had on them were essentially case files she could barely remember, etched into some far away part of her brain. She trusted them. They'd done nothing to deserve anything otherwise, but she still bristled at the thought of them knowing. Then again, she bristled at the thought of anything to do with that night. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Wouldn't miss it for the world, I cant wait to see the look on Tasha's face when you beat her," he joked as Luna felt a small surge of pride in her chest at her brother being so confident in her abilities, "but," he continued, "Ill come down in a bit, you go get warmed up, just ask F.R.I.D.A.Y to take you down to the training floor," he finished, before walking towards one of the two lifts that led to his floor. Stepping into one he said "I'm just gonna go check up on Sam before coming down, plus I know he won't want to miss this." And with the click of a button he was gone. Luna, however, was confused. She had been told about F.R.I.D.A.Y, of course she had been. The only problem was, that she hadn't actually spoken to the AI yet. Stepping gingerly towards the other lift Luna called out, "um, F.R.I.D.A.Y". She practically jumped out of her skin when a female Irish voice replied "Yes, miss Luna," She was actually convinced her soul had momentarily left her body when a voice from the ceiling spoke back to her. She knew it definitely had when the lift doors opened without her having to even press a button to call it. Warily she stepped inside, asking the body-less voice to please take her to the training floor. She stopped to think for a moment, because who would have a whole floor dedicated to just training? But before she could doubt herself any further the lift began to move downwards (Luna assumed that was F.R.I.D.A.Y's doing) and she guessed that the voice must have understood what she was saying anyway. It made no sense for a whole floor to be dedicated to training, right?/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Apparently, when you're Tony Stark you can indeed have whole floors dedicated to whatever the fuck you want. Stepping out of the lift, Luna thought she was actually about to go into shock. The room in front of her was huge. She could see the average line of treadmills and punching bags and bikes, but there was a massive area of the floor dedicated to sparring mats and another section of the room seemed to be dedicated entirely to a jungle gym style assault course… on the ceiling… emthe ceiling/em. Stepping out of the lift and into the room she saw that there was even more stuff in the room. Including what seemed to be a glowing dome over one part of the room, which Luna assumed would be where the team could practise their powers. There was a whole archery range, and as Luna turned to look further around the room her breath caught in her throat as she saw what looked like a dance studio hid behind a door. She felt her feet carrying her over to it and before she knew it she had her hand on the handle and was inside a gorgeous mirrored room, with a barre on one of the walls, a pile of what looked like pilates mats and the perfect flooring for a dancer. "Like what you see," Luna heard Natasha, who she had felt walking up behind her, ask with a practically audible grin in her voice. "It's stunning" was the breathless reply that Natasha got. "You're welcome to use it any time you want," she said, feeling extremely gratified when she saw the grin blooming on Luna's face as she turned to Nat with wide, excited eyes. "I haven't danced in years," was the slightly deflated answer she got back though, and Natasha realised Luna was trying not to impose, so she went further to reassure the timid girl in front of her, "Well," Nat answered, "Im the only one who uses it, so it'd be great to see someone else get some joy from it, come use it whenever you want." Another smile greeted her. "Now come on, I want to see you fight, and oddly enough it looks as though al of the avengers have gathered to 'train' at the same time." Luna laughed slightly. Honesty she wasn't surprised she'd gathered an audience, they were a team of fighters and she was a potential asset. Plus, they had to be curious after the 'incident' from a few days ago. "Great," Luna replied, "I always work better with an audience," she finished, a dangerous smirk suddenly appearing on her face, one that could match (and though nobody would admit it,) or even beat that of their own resident Black Widow. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The two moved together towards the area of the room that was decked out with sparring matts, which suddenly had a ring of people on one side of it, all sitting or standing by the benches that had clearly been put into place for when people were taking breaks. Bucky and Sam were sat on the bench, chatting along with Steve who was stood in front of them, arms crossed, looking very much Captain America like. Tony and Bruce were sat across from them, both feigning interest at some paper in front of them, but Luna wasn't blind to the fact that their eyes lit up when she and Nat walked over. Clint too was there sat next to Wanda, talking quietly between themselves, a sudden hush however came over all of the group when the two women came over. They were excited. Luna didn't blame them. Although, she did find it a little funny how none of them seemed to be in a judgemental mood. Typically when she sparred with other agents the room was tense, wanting to make sure their killing machine was working perfectly, however now the atmosphere was light hearted. Luna chose not to think too much on it though, instead moving to the opposite sides of the mat to Nat, before catching Bucky's eye as he sent one of his signature winks her way. Not one of his boisterous winks, it was a communication of 'you got this, show them what you're made of'. Nat quickly went through the rules with her, no permanent injuries allowed, no powers or weapons although enhancements were fine, after all you couldn't exactly turn them off. First to tap out wins that bout, and there were 6 in a match. Luna got a quick nod from Wanda and a "go on kid," from Tony before soon enough Natasha nodded and the round began. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"She had, it seemed, underestimated Natasha skills. Granted it was hardly going to be a problem for Luna, she was after all trained specifically to fight the avengers, and Hydra's intel about Nat's fighting style was right. Luna decided however, that she wanted to have fun with this match. Nat sprang at her quickly, moving to swipe Luna's feet out from under her, and Luna let her. But once she was on the ground she quickly reached out and yanked Nat's supporting leg out from her, using the momentum to pull the Widow down and herself on top of her. Nat fired a quick shot at her face, which Luna easily intercepted and quickly blocked, moving her body to hold Natasha in a pin. As she expected, Natasha attempted to flip them, and Luna let her so that their positioning was reminiscent of how it had been two days ago during the incident. Luna quickly lifted her left leg, kicking it into Nat's abdomen, flipping the woman off of her, as she rolled over to a crouched position. Natasha liked to go for the legs, get her prey under her on the ground. Luna was trained against it, knew that when she had her opponent on the ground she left her abdomen uncovered, and she used it against her. Nat was sprawled out on her front and in a quick motion Luna had rendered incapacitated in a hold, and soon enough Natasha had tapped out of this round. Luna looked up to a sea of shocked faces and one with the biggest smirk she'd perhaps ever seen. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""What the hell" whispered Sam, "She didn't even break a sweat." Tony looked to her, then to Nat, and back again, before a smile broke out on his face, saying "I knew I was right to bet on you kid, get ready to pay up Clint." Luna reached down her hand to help Natasha back to her feet and before anymore input came from their spectators another round started. This time Nat went high, aiming a flying kick at Luna's head, which soon became useless as Luna rolled under Nat, swapping their positions. Luna barely gave Natasha a second to hit the ground before she started a full on frontal assault, jabs flying at the speed of light, giving Natasha no other choice than to simply try to block, all hitting their intended mark, not deliberately hurting her partner, but none the less knocking Tasha back until out of the blue Luna launched a kick at her right shoulder, something Hydra had trained her to do, knowing that her opponents body positioning after a rapid fire attack would leave the body part open to attack. Soon enough Nat was on the ground again, tapping out. Sam seemed to be hung up on the fact that Luna emhadn't even broken a sweat/em, whilst Steve stood their, mouth open, obviously impressed. Tony looked like a child on Christmas morning who'd just opened his dream present, whilst Clint looked like he had just opened a packet of socks. Sure, Luna could see he was impressed, but also, no one liked to loose a bet. Wanda seemed to be sat there with a look of respect plastered on her face with a smile turning the corners of her lips upwards, whilst Bucky seemed to be smirking the smirk of all smirks. He knew she would win, of course she would. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"They went on for two more rounds, Luna besting Natasha relatively quickly each time. They had just however begun their fifth round and it was growing intense, all of their spectators yelling as they fought, Nat and Luna both getting lost in the fight when Luna suddenly felt herself being thrown violently across the room. She lifted her head blearily, as her ears rang and she panted breath in and out of her lungs, suggesting she had hit her head quite hard on the ground. She tried to sit up, but found herself stuck, physically stuck to the floor, with what could only be described as webbing. Bucky was sprinting over to her along with Sam and Steve, while everyone else turned on whatever it was that had just launched Luna across the room. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""-id, Kid can you hear me?" She could hear Bucky yelling at her as he used his metal arm to rip away some of the material holding her down. She could hear Tony across the room yelling at someone who was stood in front of him, cheeks bright red and head down, before Tony pulled him in for a quick hug. Snapping fingers in front of her face quickly brought Luna back to awareness and Luna looked up to see Sam staring at her, eyes wide with concern while Bucky kept trying to pull at whatever was holding her down. br /"Are you alright?" He asked her./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Yeh, yeh," replied Luna, "I got hit pretty hard and my heads ringing like a bell, but I'm alright" she answered, moving to sit up now that Bucky had removed most of the webbing. /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Okay, Im going to go and grab you an ice pack and send Bruce over here with Peter to make sure you don't have a concussion. If you can, try and slow your breathing down a bit." Said Sam as he moved to go to the first aid kit, stopping at Bruce on his way. She felt Bucky pull her into a soft side-hug as he helped her to her feet, but Luna was tense. She had lost herself in the spar with Natasha, she hadn't even picked up on someone else joining them, and suddenly she was being thrown across the room. She was slipping and she was scared. She had already let herself become too comfortable here, and she was already paying the price. Soon enough Bucky's face was in front of her own as he caught her face in his hands, checking for himself she was okay. "остановись здесь, маленькая луна, я вижу, как твой мозг работает в твоей голове. Ты в порядке ?" (stop right there, little moon, I can see your brain working inside your head. Are you okay ?) /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""да, Баки, я в порядке. Он просто застал меня врасплох, я даже не заметил, как он вошел." Luna replied wearily (yeh Bucky, I'm fine. He just took me by surprise, i didn't even pick up on him entering. ) /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""все в порядке, сестренка, значит тебе здесь комфортно. И Питер, несмотря на то, что он идиот, - идиот из лучших побуждений, а не угроза, поэтому вы его не почувствовали" Bucky continued (thats okay, sis, it means you're comfortable here. And Peter, despite being an idiot, is a well meaning idiot, not a threat, its why you didn't sense him )./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Switching back to English, Luna looked at Bucky in a questioning way "Who's Peter? And why can he shoot webs?" Bucky chuckled before turning Luna around to see Tony walking towards her with a scruffy looking boy, about her age, being pushed towards her in front of him. "This," said Tony, "is Peter." Before Luna even had the chance to take in the chocolate brown hair and goofy expression in front of her, Peter started rambling./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Miss Luna, I am so so so sorry ! I was on my way up to the lab and F.R.I.D.A.Y said that Nat was in the middle of a fight on this floor and that she was loosing, and well nat never looses, and then Fri said everyone was just watching, and I have this thing called a spider sense and it wasn't going off but I was worried something was wring and when I came up here and saw you beating nat and I didn't know who you were so I-"/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Woah Peter, maybe take a breath in there somewhere," joked Bucky, laughing harder when he saw Peters face burn a bright red and his hand come to rub sheepishly at the back of his neck./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""It's fine Peter," spoke Luna quietly, laughing a little herself when she saw Peters head shoot back up with a hopeful smile in his eyes, "you were protecting your family, I get it. No hard feelings," finished Luna with a small smile, reaching her hand out to shake with Peters. "Im Luna," she added. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"ahhhh i cant believe we've finally met Peter ! i cant wait for where this is going to go !/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Reviews are as ever, open! i love getting them through so much ! I hope you enjoyed this new chapter - i cannot wait for whats coming ! /p
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