:'( I'm sorry! I'm so sorry for not updating sooner. School is getting crazy. I have a really weird schedule because of a different math class I'm taking. This means I have to go to a different school across the street right after my first class :( I'm getting lost so I've been spending my hours trying to comprehend this strange thing called school (especially Fridays, Fridays are insane). I've also been trying to learn a new language called Geometry. It's not working.
Anyway. Enough ranting. Allons-y!

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I'd like to be a kid again but only because naps were insisted, twirling in circles was acceptable, and the only password I had to remember was open sesame.
-Adar Burks

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"Three foot one?!" asked a shocked billionaire, Tony Stark. Parker rolled her eyes.

"I was — am — whatever — a small kid, okay? I didn't even hit my growth spirt until high school!"

"Wow. I never thought I'd see you in such a venerable state."

"Stark," warned Parker through gritted teeth.

"Can you two please stop arguing?" asked Bruce. Silence. "Thank you. Well, you're in perfect health by a four year old's standards. Put them in twenty-three year old's standards…not so much." Parker sighed.

"Do you have any guess as to how long the others and I will be like this?"

"Well you jumped forward and took a majority of the blast, so you'll be in your state the longest. I don't have an exact date as to when it'll wear off, but from the information Tony and I have gotten, I suppose…in about a week for Elizabeth and Lily."

"Good," said Tony. "It's kind of hard to date someone twenty years younger than you."

"And for me?" asked Parker. "Two weeks? Three?" Bruce hesitated before mumbling something quietly. "Didn't catch that."

"About two months give or take," he said. Parker's heart seemed to fall straight into her stomach. "Unless Thor manages to track down Loki or Tony and I come up with a remedy, it might even take longer."

"NO!" yelled Parker. "I can't stay like this for two months!" She kicked her legs and immediately she covered her mouth with her left hand. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I yelled."

"You're starting to become more like a four year old," Tony explained with a sigh. "Temper tantrums."

"And my memories?"

Tony and Bruce exchanged worried glances. "Well," began Bruce. "According to the data, and by the way you're progressing backwards…"

"After a few days your memories will be gone."

Parker felt the news hit her like a dagger. Bruce and Tony waited fearfully for her reaction. She felt tears come to her eyes. No. She would let herself cry. She'd been in worse things before. She got stuck inside a doom-bot when it exploded for goodness sake! She was Nightingale. THE Nightingale. She was a hero. Someone the younger children looked up to! A national figure! She had stopped terrorists, aliens, robots, and mutated tigers for crying out loud! Yet here she was, the great Marie Kiehof, crying on a doctor's examining table.

"Hey, it's okay."

"NO! It's NOT!" She jumped off of the table and ran out of the room.

"Parker!" she could hear the two scientists calling after her. She didn't care. She turned a corner and ran into something. Or someone, really. She looked up, wiping away her tears. It was Steve. He kneeled down to her level. "Hey," he said. "What's wrong, Parker?" Parker continued her attempts in wiping away her tears, but her eyes were puffy red.

"I-I don't wanna forget," she said.

"Forget what? What are you going to forget?" Parker wrapped her small arms around his neck.

"Everything! I'm gonna be four year old me in a few days!" She cried into Steve's shoulder and after a moment, realized he was carrying her.

"It's okay. Magic can't last forever, can it? Thor is out to find Loki as we speak." Parker sniffled.

"So I might not loose my memories?"

"If we find him soon enough, you won't loose your memories." Tony and Bruce came around the corner.

"Parker," said Bruce, "me and Tony will get working on a machine to reverse what's happened right away."

"O-Okay." She turned to both of them. "What about Elizabeth and Lily? Are they going to forget?"

"By the looks of it, no," Tony said. "That means they can help out."

"Okay. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be acting like this," apologized Parker.

"It's fine," Bruce said. "You can't help it. You have an adult mind, but child-like impulses. I imagine it's hard."

Parker nodded. "It—" she yawned— "is."

"I suggest you go take a nap."

"I don't take naps," refused Parker.

"With your child metabolism and as your friend," said Bruce, "I'm telling you that I think it would be best if you took a nap."

"If you do, maybe we could have a treat later," Tony bribed.

"Fine," Parker eventually agreed. Steve nodded to Tony and Bruce then walked down the hallway to Parker's room.

"Yes! Treats are still a good form of bribery, even for a twenty-three year old!"