Important story notes:
This takes place after the fixing of the Snap, but Tony and Nat both lived. Clint is dead, but everyone else within The Avengers is basically intact. Tony has both the facility upstate, and Stark tower.
The first time they knew of her existence was when an explosion tore through just over two acres of land in middle-of-nowhere Virginia. Hours and thousands of gallons of water later, police found the remains of a 40-year-old man next to an untouched, though panicked, teen girl. It wasn't much longer before SHIELD got involved.
Fury, ever the delegator, tasked Tony with the job of taking on her guardianship. Because after you start raising one super teen, what's one more?
Peter remembers seeing her for the first time, just two weeks before. Her clothes were charred, though they looked like they would have survived the blast if it weren't for the several rips at odd intervals in her shirt and jeans. He'd watched from his room as she'd been led from the black SUV, eyes warily taking in the lush countryside and monstrosity of a building in front of her.
Her hair was black but was clearly dyed. He could see bright red roots creating a streak down the top of her head.
Between his crime fighting schedule, and her 'adjustment period' as Tony called it, that was the last he saw of her for almost a week. By the time he spoke to her in person, he'd heard quite a bit about her from Nat and Bucky. Bruce and Steve were much more tight-lipped, ever the gentlemen who refused to gossip about others. Nat and Bucky had less reservations about gossip, which had surprised Peter after he had moved in what he liked to call the 'Top-Secret-But-Not-Really-Top-Secret-Bunker." Or "bunker" for short.
He still swears that much of Nat and Bucky's interactions with him at the beginning were to help him feel more acclimated after May's death. The irony of having saved the world, only to come back and find out his aunt had terminal cancer did not escape Peter.
Most of their interactions have been short, awkward, and to the point so far. Their first was less interaction, more role call. She'd nodded politely, but hesitantly at him in greeting.
"Maureen Morris."
"Hey, Maureen, I'm Peter." He'd held out his hand to shake hers. The sound of her heart rate speeding up didn't elude his enhanced hearing. After a few staccato thuds, she'd accepted his hand and shaken it quickly, and loosely. Up close, he took in the paleness of her skin, the dark circles ringed under her eyes. She was a little on the chunkier side, what Aunt May would've stubbornly called 'baby fat' though she was clearly around his age. Tony had led her towards one of the training rooms after that. They'd needed to fireproof the room before they could get an inventory of her powers.
Typically he sees her now during meals, to which she just started coming. Before Tony was sending food to the Med Bay where Bruce was still monitoring her, and where it was safer in case she lost control of her powers. Nat had disclosed to Peter that Maureen seemed to be having nightmares with similar reactions as him. If it were anyone other than one of the team who immediately thought of Peter when nightmares were mentioned, he would've been embarrassed. But given everything they'd been through together, he wasn't really that upset about the comparison. Instead, it made him wonder what she felt after waking up. What were her reactions? Did she wake up with fire eating the things around her, like he woke, halfway up a wall?
But most of all, he wondered: what was it she saw in her nightmares?