Chapter 8 I don't own anything

I don't remember when I fell asleep, all I remember is sitting on the couch with Nat eating pizza. Then it came back to me, after the pizza everyone was tired so they went to sleep. I went to sleep too, on the same couch, with Natasha. Oh. OH. Well I might as well be dead now considering what happened last time. I looked at her face, so peaceful when she was asleep, her hair flowing gently down to her shoulders. Lips that are just perfect for kissing, WOAH! Stop there Percy, calm down.

Ok, I'm fine, everyone calm down. I very carefully picked her up and put her in my spot, careful not to wake her. I headed towards the kitchen to make breakfast. I got the eggs out of the fridge and the pan spray from the cupboard. I was about to grab the shredded cheese when I paused, why did I not have any nightmares. This always happens when Nat's with me... Natasha, she must be calming or something. Yeah, that's it. I grabbed the cheese from the fridge and started cooking.

I might be bad at other foods, but I could cook really good cheesy scrambled eggs. I sprayed the pan, going into auto pilot as I thought about my life. I went from a love oblivious 12 year old to a 24 year old who could tell what love is, but is scared to fall in love all over again after my dreams were crushed. I thought about Natasha as I stirred the eggs and sprinkled cheese on them. Natasha Romanoff, often seen as an ice queen, is really a normal human being after all. I chuckled at the thought, what the world would do to find out that Natasha is really human after all.

The eggs were about done, I quickly sprinkled salt on them and mashed them up. I let them cook for a bit more while I got the plates out. I heard a noise and some shuffling and assumed that Nat was up or someone else was awake. I poured some eggs out onto the plates, putting more than the others on the Dora the Explorer plate for Thor. I put the dishes in the sink when I heard a loud clatter, I whirled around with battle reflexes barely saving me. I summoned my sword just in time to block a sword strike from a masked enemy.

He, I assumed it was a he based on his build, jumped back and got into a defensive stance. I automatically replied by swinging my sword at him, he blocked and countered by stabbing towards my stomach. I jumped out of the way and whirled my arms around my head in a side swipe at my enemy. They blocked and used some disarming move I had never seen before and disarmed me, with my sword being across the room I looked around for options.

This is when I noticed Natasha knocked out on the couch, that's probably what the rustling was I realized, it was her getting knocked out. I looked back at my opponent as they swung their sword at me, I rolled and grabbed the pan I had dropped earlier. I got back on my feet just in time to block a strike with the pan. My enemy seemed shocked that I blocked the strike and I used that pause to swing my pan in an arc to hit him right on the head. My opponent fell to the ground, knocked out.

I stood there, momentarily stunned at what had just happened. Then I jumped into action.

"JARVIS, Alert the team and tell them to get down here." I yelled out. I waited for a response when I realized that's probably how my enemy got into the tower at all. I quickly dragged him over to a nearby chair, ripped of a couple of strips of my shirt and hurriedly tied my assailant to the chair. I took his sword and threw it way out of his reach the I ran to Natasha. She was okay, she had just been hit over the head really hard.

I set her up on the couch in a more comfortable position then jogged to the elevator to get Bruce. A few minutes of panic and explaining later Nat was being checked on by Bruce while I interrogated the intruder. I walked over to him and ripped off his mask and I was shocked, sitting there tied to a chair was Leader.

I was in a state of panic, if Leader was here did that mean that the Chitauri were planning an attack? Was it just Leader going rouge? I didn't know anything anymore. After discovering that it was Leader who attacked me, I immediately woke up all of the Avengers. Loki was pissed that Leader was even in his presence, the rest of the team was just mad that the Chitauri could be coming back for another invasion. After calming Bruce down enough to continue trying to revive Nat, we decided to interrogate Leader.

"Alright Leader, first question. How did you get here?" I questioned, mentally staring into his soul.

"Like I'd ever tell you, worm." He would reply. It went on like this for a while, different people trying to get him to crack, but no one could. That is, until Natasha woke up. And let's just say she was mad.

"Alright you little bitch, you are going to answer my fucking questions or I will rip out one of your ribs and shove it up your mother fucking ass." She roared, her green eyes blazing. He cracked. No he didn't crack, he shattered.

"My leader sent me here to assassinate Percy Jackson because he was the most dangerous out of all of you, he said to kill him and bring his dead body back as proof. Then he would launch the attack on Avengers' tower." Leader sobbed.

"Who is this damn leader of yours, bitch?" She raged.

"Thanos, it's Thanos!" He sobbed even harder. "He sent me here through a portal that was made by his power and the staff he had. That's all I know, I swear." He had given the information, and Natasha's work was done.

After disposing of the body, we went to Fury to tell him what we had learned. "Okay, nicely done getting the info, but what are you going to do with it?" He asked, I felt like he was testing us on what we would do. "Well if we had the staff I could, with Bruce's help, probably make a portal, but we don't have the scepter." Tony said, and it sounded good in theory. But it would require the staff, which we didn't have. Fury must have read my mind because he then said, "Or do we?" And slid Tony a flash drive and stalked out of the room.

We all crowded around Tony to see what it was and saw one label written on it. Scepter Data. Tony was so excited that he ran out of the room and almost drove off without us. I was still doubtful of this plan though.

"This will be cool guys, c'mon Aquaman, Point Break, Reindeer Games, it'll be fun! We get to try to make a portal, sure it might be a daunting task, but we can do it!" Tony yelled loudly and charged towards his lab, dragging Bruce and Loki behind him.

I still thought the whole idea was insane, but then again, we're the Avengers, and we are the definition of insane.

I went to the gym for the first time, because I needed to do some thinking, and having ADHD isn't good for thinking stationary. So I did a mixture of running, punching bags, and normal things like sit ups and push ups.

Despite what people used to or do think, I'm not stupid. I could be oblivious, but that was when I was 12, and who isn't oblivious when they're a preteen. But yeah, I'm not oblivious or anything, and I knew what love felt like. I knew what it felt like to be loved, and I wanted, no needed it in my life. I may have loved Annabeth, but Aphrodite always said she would mess with my love life. And I wanted it to stop, I was putting my foot down. I will choose who I love and how much I love them. Now I had finished working out and was walking towards my floor to take a shower, still on auto pilot mode. I knew who I loved and I needed them in my life right now. Or as soon as I took a shower.

After my shower I checked the time, it was 3:37 in the afternoon. Good, I had time. I left the tower, telling the new and improved JARVIS I was going shopping. I went on a spree, looking for a nice shirt and pair of jeans. After thirty minutes I had my clothes and went to this fancy restaurant, reserving a spot for two and then walking back to the tower.

With it now being 5:00ish, I needed to get ready, the dinner was at 6:00 and I needed to do this now. I rode the elevator up to the main floor and saw Natasha alone with no one to embarrass me, good. I walked up to her, fighting the nerves and trying to keep calm. I went up and sat next to her.

"Hey Nat, I would like to ask you something."

"Ok, what is it?"

I fought the nerves,'Keep calm, keep calm.' I thought.

"Umm, would you like to, ahh, go on a date with me, err, tonight?" I asked, stuttering all the way through. She blushed, ok this could be good or bad. Blushing from embarrassment or because she likes me. She opened her mouth and the world froze around me, I was waiting for the answer to be no. I knew it would be.

"Yes."

I was shocked, but then again, not really. I knew the feeling of love and I felt it coming off of Nat in that moment and the whole world around me exploded. No, it actually didn't, but it felt like it in that moment. And so awhile later me and Natasha left for our date.

I helped Nat into the car Tony let me use with the excuse, I'm gonna do some stuff alone. She was wearing a tight, red dress that showed off her curves... very well.

I felt under dressed in my jeans and button up. But there was no changing now. When we drove out of the tower I commented on how she looked beautiful and she replied, "You look handsome yourself." When we made it to the restaurant, I only now processed the name, La Casa Venus. I figured this was Aphrodite messing with me again, but I didn't let it bother me. We sat down at a table for two and opened the menu, I honestly had no idea what anything was so I ordered a steak and a Dr. Pepper while she ordered some fancy food and a water. We made small talk over the meal and when we finished eating, I asked her if she would want to go see a movie. She said yes.

I drove to the movies quickly, just in time to catch The Amazing Spider Man 2. We ate over buttered popcorn and I pulled together the courage to put my arm around her during the movie. She gladly accepted my arm. I felt giddy, and at the end of the movie when Gwen died, I squeezed Natasha a bit tighter thinking about my mom. She knew that I was thinking that and hugged me. When we got in the car I said, "This was probably the most fun night of my life."

She smiled and replied, "I had a lot of fun too."

We were leaning closer and closer, just looking into each others eyes and our lips met. There was a bright flash of light. And when I opened my eyes I saw her with her eyes wide open. Then I realized what this was, but it couldn't be. I slowly looked down at our hands. My eyes widened, Oh Gods.

Right there on our hands were rings.

"Natasha, I am going to explain what just happened, but I need you to keep an open mind about this. Okay? Now, what just happened is called a life bond, it is what happens whenever two lifemates meet and kiss for the first time. We learned about this in camp, but it is said to rarely happen and if you find your lifemate, you will be happy for the rest of your life. Now if you are happy about this, say so. If you aren't, do nothing." There was a horrible moment until she whispered, "You could have told me about this earlier." And then she kissed me.

So yeah, I think she's happy about it.

It is done! Holy crap! That seemed so long to me.

So how do you feel about the 'lifemate' thing, honestly I don't care what you say, because it's going to stay. But if you like it, cool.
Also, holy shit mad Natasha is scary, Oh my god i'm scared of a fictional character
One last thing, this story's plot probably sucks and the romance is horrible, but what do you expect coming from a 12 year old, internet obsessed nerd?

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I'm out
-Nerd