"Wade? Wade, I'm home!" I shouted when I walked through the door of my house, suitcase in hand. When no one answered, I gave a large sigh and heaved my things up the stairs and to my room. "Wade!" I gave one last effort before giving up and searching for him.

I looked in all of the rooms upstairs, everywhere on the ground level, and even in the basement. "Must be staying over with Storm." I shook my head and went back into the living room. I flopped down onto my old seventies couch and marveled at the comfort. "I missed you, couch." I began rubbing my face into the pillow that sat ever so faithfully on the right most cushion.

Knock, knock, knock.

"No one's home!" I shouted into the pillow.

"Andi, open up!" I heard Wade yell from the other side.

"Use your key!" I always locked the door, whether I was home or not.

"My key is inside." I smirked and chuckled a little.

"Use the spare." Even though I couldn't see him, I knew Wade flipped open the small hidden door on the doorknob, pulled out the spare key, unlocked the door, and replaced it before coming in.

"Get up. We have to go."

I shook my head. "I just got here. Don't want to move."

He grabbed my waist and threw me over his shoulder. "Come on, let's go."

"Hey! Put me down!" I demanded, flailing my arms.

"I don't think so." Wade tightened his grip on me. "Beam me up, Scotty!" He shouted, a smile on his face. "I've always wanted to say that." He mumbled to me before he disappeared.

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"PUT ME DOWN, WADE!" I screamed at him, still squirming, trying to get free. All of a sudden, Wade threw me off of his shoulder and I slammed into the ground. "Ow, much!"

"We need to talk to you." I looked up and saw Wally, J'onn, Bruce, Tony, Wade, and Fury standing above me in a circle.

"Erg! Stop cowering around me!" I ran like a rat from their circle, but Wade grabbed me and held so that I couldn't go anywhere.

"You are going to stay put and you are going to listen! Got it?" Wade scolded me in a way that I would only let him do.

I still struggled, but Wade wouldn't budge. "What do you guys want from me?"

"Why have you suddenly decided not to take advice anymore?" Bruce questioned, invading my space. "What set you off?"

"Nothing!" I screamed at him. "I grew up!"

He scoffed. "Please. You wouldn't grow up if everyone in the world wanted you to." Bruce got very close to my face. "What happened, Gypsy?"

"Nothing. I told you, I'm fine. I just grew up."

Bruce sighed. "You didn't grow up, you're throwing a tantrum!"

I thrashed around more. "I am not a child!"

"You keep saying that but you do nothing to back it up."

His statement halted my movements. Bruce spun away from me and Fury came up next. "Hello, Andi. I know you're probably wondering what I'm doing here, and I'm just going to say it: When you cane to see me, you didn't look good. In fact, you looked terrible. And I have to say, I was worried about you."

"You don't even like me." I stated incredulously.

He shook his head a little. "That's not true. You may not be my favorite person on the planet, but I don't hate you. I respect you, there's a difference."

"What do you want?"

"I want you to act like the grown up that stood up to me not a month before. I want you to knock this act off, and take responsibility for your actions."

That tore at me. "What do you think I'm trying to do? Every time I gain a little independence, you people drag me into one of these 'interventions' and pull me back in!"

Wade shook me. "Behave." He commanded.

"I am answering honestly, Winston. What else do you want from me?" I growled at him.

"Exactly what I said: Behave."

Fury stepped back and Wally came forward to me. "Hey, buddy."

"What's up, Wally?"

"Why are you acting like this?"

I decided to act stupid. "Like what?"

"Like you don't care about anything anymore. It's almost as if you've lost your humanity." Wally took in a deep breath. "I just want to know why."

I gave him a sad stare. "If you were me, would you be as happy peppy as you are all the time?"

Wally shook his head in disappointment. "That's not excuse. You've never acted like this before."

"Maybe I just want to be mad for a little while. You guys ever thought of that?" I accused the group.

"Are you mad at me?" Wally asked, the fun drained from him.

"No. I can't be mad at you; it's a physical impossibility for me to be angry at you." I scoffed at myself.

He nodded. "I wouldn't mind if you were mad at me, I would understand." I nodded back to him and he stepped back.

J'onn came forward. "Hello, Andi."

"Hey, J'onn. What are you going to scold me about today?" I said bitterly through clenched teeth.

He just shook his head. "I'm not. I know that you feel betrayed, and that you think everyone's going to do that to you. But I won't. I will never deny you an answer to a question, or help in solving a problem. I am always going to be here for you." He gave the tiniest of smiles. "You probably think that is the corniest thing anyone has ever said, but you need to know that there are those people who will not treat you like a brat, one that needed to grow up in this case." He became quiet and stepped back.

"Okay, everyone's done talking, can I go now?" I asked, snarkiness lacing my voice.

"I haven't had my turn yet." Bruce and Fury stood aside to let an older me step forward.

"I don't want to talk to you." If my arms were free, I would have crossed them.

Future-Andi put her hands behind her back. "Well that's too bad. Because you don't have much of a choice, does she Wade?"

"None that I can see."

"What Andi are you?" I inquired, looking at the woman wearing the Lady Deadpool costume.

"Five years into the future." Future-Andi was going to say something, but I interrupted.

"Did you come out of the superhero closet yet?"

She shook her head. "No."

"Why not?"

"I-I don't know." She was startled at the question. "I just haven't told anyone."

My head hung forward. "God damn it! Why the hell not?"

"Because we don't want to tell anyone." Future-Andi stayed calm. "We want to be able to live life, not like Tony over there. No offense, Tony."

"None taken." He added.

"What kind of life would we be in store for if we spilled the beans? We would be constantly bothered by paparazzi and people, and journalists, and people, and those who want to crowd our space!" Now Future-Andi was not so calm, she was becoming slightly neurotic. "Do you want people to crowd our space?"

"No." I said sheepishly.

"So what if Lucius yelled at you? It's just one less person crowding our space." That logic didn't seem like the most solid, but being in the state I was in, I took it.

I was silent for a moment, letting everything I'd heard sink in. "What do I do now?"

Future-Andi scoffed. "Act like Kitty. Have fun for once. And enjoy while you can, because next year…oh boy next year."

"What happens next year?" I worried.

She winked at me. "Spoilers." She hit a button on her belt and disappeared.