A/N: Hey guys! I am back from Canada! Let me tell you, being in a cramped car for two days in the very back seat with a dog? Not fun! Anywho, I wrote several chapters, all of which will be up later this week! Enjoy!

Gamora got back to the Milano in a rush and went over to the table where the communicator was and started entering numbers into it from the key pad.

"What are you doing?" Peter asked, raising an eye brow at her.

"I must speak with Maria." She said, not looking at him as she continued to type.

Peter sighed, "Okay, but I don't think it's possible to contact someone from space."

Gamora gave him a look as if she took that as a challenge before turning back to look at the screen, pressing one final button and the screen flashed a sentence that said;

Calling Maria Hill.

Peter was dumbfounded as his girlfriend gave him an 'I told you so' look and Maria appeared on the larger screen in front of them. The SHIELD agent appeared to have been getting ready for bed or something and was holding an infant that must have been no older than three or four months old.

"Gamora? This is an unexpected surprise.." Maria said, still very confused. Peter was more confused as to how Maria was able to even answer the call.

Must be a special program on her computer or something. He thought, walking up to where Gamora stood in the communicator's view.

"And Peter...why am I not surprised? How are my oh-so-favorite intergalactic people doing?" She asked half sarcastically, sighing.

"We are well, Maria. I am calling for urgent matters concerning the Skreleton necklace. Where is it?"

"The necklace has not left my sight since the day you gave it to me. Why do you ask?"

Gamora was about to respond when there was a scream in the back ground coming from Maria's side of the communicator and a girl, no older than sixteen that looked almost like Maria's "Mini-me", holding a little blonde headed childs hand came and sat down next to Maria.

"Yay my favorite people! I see you two finally met!" The teen quipped. The two of them finally recognized her as Maria's younger half-sister, Emily. She looked just like Maria right down to her personality, but at least she knew when to have some fun.

"Yes, we have, Emily. Geez, last I saw you, you were eleven! You got so big!" Peter said, only to earn a glare in response as Emily huffed and picked up the little girl with one arm and took the baby out of Maria's arms with the other before leaving the view of the communicator, "Was it something I said?"

"She's a teenager." Maria said with a sigh.

"Well, when I said 'big' I meant big as in tall and older! Not big as in fat!"

Gamora rolled her eyes, "Worry about that later! Maria, my sister, Nebula, you remember her, don't you?"

"How could I not? She tried to kill me when I tried to get you two to come back to SHIELD with me for questioning. At least you got knocked out by one of our knock-out grenades. For Nebula, I had to call back up and even then she still got away."

"Yes, and I apologize for that. Nebula is after the necklace...she knows...she is assuming that it is still in my possession."

Maria sighed, "I can assure you that it is somewhere safe. I will die before I let your sister get her hands on it." She explained, rubbing her grey eyes tiredly.

"You look tired." Peter said before Gamora could respond, hoping to distract her so she wouldn't worry about the situation as much as she has been.

"Well, it's just me and Emily here at the tower watching a four month old, a four-year-old, and a dog. Everyone else is out of town and won't be back until later this week and next week. My only reprieve is when i'm at work during the week. Quite frankly, i'm ready to kill someone. Preferably Emily or the dog."

"What? Did they get sick of you or something?" He asked, only to get punched in the arm by Gamora.

"No. Steve and his team are on a mission in Guam. Pepper took Betty and Jane with her on business to Malibu. And no, they didn't leave me to babysit. I offered." Maria said, pursing her lips as Emily briefly came back into view, saying something along the lines of, 'No, she get's lonely so she makes us all sleep with her in her room. If she even sleeps at all.' which got something thrown at her and an obscene gesture before Emily ran off, "My father watches them while i'm at work."

"He is not in the crazy place anymore?"

Maria tightly shut her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose, tempted to cut the connection.

"Firstly, it was rehab for his alcohol and drug problems following my step-moms death. Secondly, no he isn't." She said, getting up and leaving the view of the camera, returning moments later with a glass and a bottle of scotch, pouring herself some before she put it to the side and sat back down, "The girls will all be back next week. The team...the Avengers, get back on Wednesday."

"Are you seriously drinking?"

"Emily is putting the kids to bed. So yes I am. If you had to deal with these kids, alone, you'd be drinking at the end of the day too." She said, mumbling something about understanding why her father turned to alcohol and her own mothers death.

"Well, whatever you do, don't kill Emily or the dog! A negotiation could be made for which kid goes." Peter said, attempting to make a joke, only to be punched again.

"That is awful! Why would she let Emily or the animal live but not the kids?"

At least she's distracted. Peter thought before he himself let out a sigh, "I don't see why she'd even consider killing any of them. Babysitting looks pretty easy." He said, only to be laughed at by the two.

"Peter, it is not as easy as it looks!" Gamora said, leaning against the table and smirking at him, her arms crossed.

Peter looked at her, "How do you know?"

Gamora only nodded her head in the direction of the communicator, where Maria was already on her second glass of shot.

Damn. She must be pretty irritated if she's drinking.

Maria had told him that she rarely drank despite being twenty-one when the two of them had met.

"I'll have both of you know that I can so babysit!"

"It's mainly Pepper and Tony's son. He hasn't been sleeping much lately, but Peter...is that a challenge? You think you can survive watching two kids?"

"Yep."

Maria smirked, "Interesting," She said, bringing the glass to her lips and taking a sip of the scotch.

Gamora sighed, "Any way, if the necklace does happen to go missing or you see Nebula_" She started, only for Maria to cut her off.

"You will be informed immediately."

"I guess we will be in contact."

Maria nodded and set the glass to the side, "Yes we will. Oh, and don't be a stranger. If you are ever in the area, feel free to drop by for a visit."

"We will. Congratulations are in order as well." Gamora said, lifting up her left hand and pointing to the ring finger, indicating she saw the agents engagement ring.

Maria was about to say something else when Emily came back into view.

"Alright, it's time for bed! Bye! Don't do drugs, don't drink and drive, practice safe sex and everything else that they teach you in school but you completely disregard! Oh, and watch what you eat too!"

With that, the screen went black.

"So, you noticed the ring too?"

Gamora nodded and turned her head to look at him, clasping her hands in front of her, "You angered Emily. You should not have done that...did you sleep with her?"

Peter gawked at Gamora, briefly thinking that she meant Emily, but realized that she was talking about Maria.

"Yes."

Gamora punched him in the arm again.

"I was kidding! God no! I didn't sleep with her!"

"Good."

"Doesn't mean I didn't try though."

Another punch, this time it was much harder.

"You need to learn to take a friggin joke! She actually threatened me."

"What did she say?"

"She straight up said, 'if you try anything I will cut your dick off.' I didn't want to test the threat."

"Smart." She said, sighing.

"This blows. My second favorite person in the whole galaxy is pissed at me all because she's a hormonal teenage girl and thinks I called her fat." He said, and Gamora turned her whole body to look at him this time.

"Second favorite? Who is the first?"

Peter turned to look at her, brushing a strand of her hair out of her face.

"A certain assassin." He answered, gently grabbing her face in his hands and kissing her. Gamora got the hint and pulled away, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"What is she like?" She said, humoring him.

"She's smart. Beautiful. Fierce. Lethal." He said, giving her a kiss after each adjective, placing each kiss on her nose, forehead, and cheek, placing the last kiss on her lips.

Gamora deepened the kiss, only pulling away when Rocket made his presence known.

"I don't need to see that! Get a room!"

Peter sighed and Gamora rolled her eyes.

"We need to get him a girlfriend."

"Agreed."

A/N: Let me know what y'all think! Please review :)