"How's the little tot doing?" Wade asked as I peered into a microscope.
"She's doing good. She doesn't like sleeping alone, though."
"So, you're not coming back to my place anytime soon, then?"
''Fraid not. You could stay with me though, if you think I'll be shot in my sleep."
"I might just take you up on that offer." He kissed the back of my neck. "But what I had in mind won't work if there's a kid in the room."
"You, sir, are a bad person." I laughed as I scribbled down some notes on a clip board.
"Any progress?" Fury came in, smiling. That scared me.
"A little. I ran some tests and Carson's research was all wrong. It would have killed the Cap." I replied with a sigh.
"Anything else?"
"There's a serum I've been working on. It would stimulate all his natural body functions. The hard part would be thawing him out. Tony's been working with Patrick on a machine to do exactly that."
"Wonderful. Have you been having any more troubles?" he asked, looking me over.
"You mean in the way of assassins? No. It's been safe and quiet for a couple weeks now."
"That worries me."
"You, too, huh?" Wade laughed. Fury narrowed his eyes at him.
"Deadpool, I trust you're behaving yourself?"
"Do you see me trying to kill anyone?"
"That's the bad thing about you, Deadpool, we don't always see what you're up to."
"Sir, you've got a visitor in your office.' One of them men in suits said from behind him.
"In my office….in New York?"
"Yes, sir."
"Shit. Keep up the good work, Anna." He was gone as quickly as he had appeared.
"Patrick!" I called.
"Yes?"
"How are those schematics coming?"
"Great. We'll have them perfected by the week's end."
"Epic." I smiled. "The serum is near perfection, too. We could have Steve Rogers awake in a couple weeks." I giggled at the thought of all our hard work paying off.
"You're getting closer. I'd expect assassination attempts to rise." Wade said.
"Why are you talking like a stock analyst?"
"It's my day job?" he shrugged.
"Why don't you go ahead and quit your day job?" I laughed and put my notes down on my desk.
"At the moment, my day job is watching you."
"Sounds sexual."
"It could be." He bit my ear and I yelp softly.
"Stop that!" I hit him in the arm.
"Anna, we need your help over here." Cynthia called.
"Coming!" I replied. I kissed Wade on the cheek. "Go on back to the mansion. I'll see you when I get back."
"I can't keep you safe from the mansion."
"I think I can handle one drive back to the mansion at night." I laughed. "Go on."
On my way home, it was raining. It was April, the month of rain, but I still hated it. Al had good wipers on the Jag, thank God. I drove slowly back to the mansion. I hated driving in the rain. There was too much of a risk for hydroplaning.
I could barely see in front of me; the high beams on the Jag weren't very good. I had a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. I hoped my plan would work.
I knew that one of my team members was working for Hydra. With my admission that Steve would be awake in a matter of weeks, I knew Hydra would strike. The conditions were perfect tonight. I knew someone was going to try to kill me. I needed to know who it was. The only people in the lab today were Killebrew, Cynthia, and Patrick. If someone attacked me, I knew three possible suspects. I had my gun in my lap, ready for whatever someone threw at me.
The jag jolted, and I stomped on the breaks. I had a flat tire. I don't think it was an accident. I put my hair up in a ponytail, readied my gun, and got out of the car. I walked in the pouring rain around to the passenger rear tire. It was dead flat.
I felt a boot kick me in the back. I dropped to my knees with a scream. I pulled up the gun and fired blindly. Shit! I couldn't see in the rain! I saw the fist fly towards my face. I ducked, and swirled around, one leg outstretched, and knocked my attacker over. I heard a grunt; it was female.
"Cynthia, you fucking Hydra bitch!" I yelled as I kicked her in the side. "How much are they paying you, ya lil whore?" I curbed stomped her for what seemed like hours. I could see the red of the blood mixing with the puddles of rain. I grabbed her by the shirt and threw her in the trunk. I jumped back in the Jag and drove back to the lab, ignoring the flat tire.
I tied her to her chair in the lab. It spun, that made me smile.
"Kill me. Go ahead. Two will spring in my stead." She spat.
"Ya know, I am really tired of hearing that." I laughed.
"You're a stupid bitch! You sent Deadpool back; no one was there to save you."
"Umm, bitch? I just saved myself. And don't flatter yourself to think that I had no idea what was going on. I sent him away on purpose! He'd want to kill you, but I need answers."
"I'm not saying shit!"
"Oh, you will. And if not, you'll scream until it's music to my ears, you little Hydra flunkie." I gripped the baseball bat I found in the Jag tightly in my hand.
"You think a little pain will do anything? I've been trained to-" I howled in pain as I smacked her in the head with the bat. The chair spun around. It made me laugh. I stopped her and pulled her chair across the room by her long blond hair. I grabbed a beaker of acid. "Now, I want answers. Who are you working for?"
"Fuck you."
"Wrong answer. I'ma try again. Who are you working for?"
"You will all suffer under the rule of Hydra!"
"Still not playing by the rules, bitch." I lifted her head up and let a little of the acid trickled onto her face. I could hear the sizzling of her burning flesh over the sound of screaming. "Who are you working for?"
"FUCK YOU!"
I shrugged and poured some more down her exposed cleavage. "That's what you get for being a treacherous whore." Her screams were bloodcurdling. I braced myself. This was no time to wimp out. I needed answers, and I really didn't want to die. This bitch was only getting what was coming to her.
Three hours later, I was staring at a corpse. I pulled out my cell phone and called Fury.
"What?"
"Nice way to answer the phone."
"Do you have any idea what time it is?"
"I need a clean up."
"Who did you kill this time?" He sighed.
"Hydra assassin. And a mole."
"Two bodies?"
"Nope, just one."
"Damn it. Who was it?"
"Cynthia."
"Shit. We should have known that."
"I've got the whole thing on tape."
"You mean the murder?"
"No, you sarcastic ass. The interrogation."
"Interro- you're not authorized-"
"Well, I did it anyway. Now, I'm going home and to bed. I'll talk to you tomorrow, sir." I hung up the phone and teleported home, leaving the Jag to be picked up by a mechanic the next day.
When I got back to the mansion, both Wade and Dena were in bed asleep. It was so creepy, it was cute. I stood there for a moment, my breath caught in my throat. This was the one thing I had been denied all my life; the thought that I could ever have a family. The two of them looked like a father and daughter, and I made the mother. I took a shower, then climb into bed beside Wade. I draped my sleeved arm over both of them. I felt like part of a real family then. Wade drowsily nuzzled into me, I smiled, and let myself fall asleep.
The next day I woke up to Dena giggling. I groaned and rolled over to look at her. Wade was tickling her. Holy shit. Seriously? Wade was playing with her? Talk about tale of the body snatchers.
"Well, good morning, kitten." He smiled at me as I woke up. His mask wasn't on, so he leaned over and gave me a quick kiss.
"Good morning." I stumbled over my words. I was so tired.
"When did you get home?" Dena asked. "We waited for you."
"I have no idea." I laughed easily. "I was so tired I just took a shower and climbed into bed."
"Anything interesting happen after I left?"
"Yeah. We need to talk about it later." I cracked my neck, and rubbed at my shoulders. I was so sore from swinging the bat across Cynthia's head all night.
"Fair enough."
"Sis, I'm hungry." Dena yawned.
"Alright, let's go have some breakfast." I smiled at her calling me sis. It was just turning out to be a good morning.
"Logan said he was gonna make me pancakes."
"Well, let's go hold him to his promise and wake his ass up!" I laughed and watched as she ran down the hall to Logan's room.
"She's so cute I wanna puke." Wade laughed as he leaned back.
"I know." I smiled and got up to get dressed. Wade pulled me back down into his arms.
"Where do you think you're goin?" He kissed my neck softly.
"Wade, I have to get dressed." I giggled.
"Now, what's the sense in getting dressed when I'm only going to rip them off of you again?" He bit my neck lightly and I moaned.
"You are such a tease." I whined.
"Tease? Who says I'm teasing?" He smiled and kissed me, hard. I wrapped my arms around his neck and let myself melt into him.