A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, I've been working on another fanfiction, which is about Gamora. On her period. And that has been very fun to write xD. Any who, here's the next chapter. There's a little fun in this chapter, you'll learn a little bit more about Emily. Possibly Maria as well. Enjoy!
Peter spent nearly an hour being chewed out by Maria. Gamora stood off to the side with her arms crossed with Drax, Rocket, and Groot not daring to intervene while Emily sat on the couch holding the ice pack to her face. Yondu and the few Ravagers that helped rescue Lilith felt awkward and left to go back to their ship although they offered to bring them back to their ship themselves.
When they saw Maria and Peter almost yelling at each other, they declined.
"You were going to give yourself up to Nebula and Thanos!" Peter yelled, starting to get pissed off at the agent.
"Yes, but that was my decision! Not yours!" She snapped, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at him.
"They would kill you if it meant getting that damn necklace! Did you see what Nebula alone did to Gamora?" He started, pointing at his girlfriend, "Imagine what they could do to you. A simple Terran! People like you and me? We're not like them! We're not like the Asgardians, not like Xandarian' break much easier than they do!"
Maria scoffed. Same old Maria that he met five years earlier. The agent still thought she was indestructible, despite many near death experiences.
"It still isn't your call." She said coldly, her glare not wavering.
"Oh yeah? Well, how about you think about the people you care about? How would Steve feel if you did that? Your brother and his wife? Your dad and Emily?" Peter asked, nodding his head at Emily, who was still holding the ice pack to her jaw.
"Don't ever bring any of them into this! I don't bring your own family into this, do I? No!" She yelled, crossing her arms.
"I hate to intrude, but unless you want to deal with a cranky four-year-old, I suggest you either end the argument or take it else where." Gamora said, finally growing tired of their fight.
Maria just huffed and went into the kitchenette, grabbing a bottle of vodka and pouring it into a shot glass as the Milano took off from Titan.
"Hey, I have an idea. Since the kids asleep, let's play a drinking game." Rocket said, sitting down at the table.
Maria glared, "Oh? And what did you have in mind?"
"Never have I ever?" Peter asked, talking for Rocket as he grabbed more shot glasses and everyone else sat down.
"I am Groot." Groot said disapprovingly, wanting no part in the drinking game as he went and retreated to his and Rocket's room.
"So, here are the rules. You say something that you've never done, starting with the line, 'Never have I ever...' and finish the sentence. If you have done it, then you take a shot." He explained as he filled everyones glass, even Emily's.
"I guess i'll go first then. I know how this game works, " Maria started, sighing, "Never have I ever gotten into a physical altercation with a blind man." She added, smirking as Emily glared at her.
"That was one time dude! Fuck you!" She said, taking a shot.
"You got into a physical fight with a blind man?" Rocket asked, laughing.
"That doesn't seem fair. He is blind, which means he cannot see. Correct?" Gamora asked, frowning at the teen.
"Oh, this was no ordinary blind man! He's a lawyer in this part of New York that isn't very safe to say the least. He's only a lawyer during the day time hours though."
"What the hell does he do at night? I don't know about you, but I sleep at night."
"I'm not at liberty to say what he and his assassin girlfriend do at night. I found out by accident though."
Maria looked at Emily, "You find out a lot of things on accident."
Emily sighed, "Anyway, I go to school in Harlem and I was barely sixteen. Funny though, Peter, Gwen, and MJ actually used to go to school in Queens, but they followed me to Harlem. Yeah. They stalked me. However, that day they couldn't walk home with me because they had to stay after school and Maria called this guy, Matt, and asked if he had the time, to follow me home from school. I noticed he was following me so I ducked into an alley, confronted him, we fought, and the rest is history. His girlfriend used to hate me. I'll explain that part later."
"How did Maria meet him?" Gamora asked, everyone nodding in agreement.
"He got on SHIELD's radar a few years back and needless to say, we were very interested in him." She explained, shrugging.
"My turn! Never have I ever thrown an inanimate object at someone."
Maria, Gamora, and Rocket all took a shot.
"Let me guess, Maria, this person was Stark?"
Maria shook her head, "No. It was Steve believe it or not."
Emily started laughing, "Oh my God! I remember that! Poor Steve was so confused!"
"Am I the only one who wants to hear the story behind this?" Peter asked, raising an eye brow at the sister's.
"All I remember is that Steve was being an ass to Maria. They had been fighting for two days leading up to it. He just wouldn't listen to her and he got up to walk away and Maria took a plate off the coffee table and threw it at him and when he looked at her, she yelled; 'Now sit your star spangled ass down!' and pointed to the couch. The rest is history." Emily explained, laughing.
"I didn't yell, 'sit your star spangled ass down!' I yelled, 'Captain Rogers, sit your patriotic ass down!' which is far less offensive. Just putting that out there."
"Damn! What did the guy do to piss you off that much?" Rocket asked, smirking at her as the other guardians finished laughing.
"Honestly I can't even remember. It was so long ago and it was over something so stupid, it's gone from my memory."
"I once threw a wine bottle at Peter." Gamora said, shrugging as she leaned back in her seat.
"Okay then, my turn! Never have I ever hitch hiked. For those that don't know, it's when you catch rides with random strangers to get somewhere." Peter said, refilling three of the shot glasses.
Maria and Emily took a shot.
"Oh wow." Rocket said, facepalming at how alike the two were.
"Oh but when I do it I get grounded!" Emily said, crossing her arms and glaring at Maria.
"Well, Em, i'm also ten years older than you and I had other people with me."
"I would very much like to hear this story." Drax said, looking at the teen in interest.
"Maria, Dad, Danny, and all the Avengers and their spouses and Jace and Lilith were all camping and stuff and I missed her. I was left at home with Anna, my siser-in-law, and Ryder, my now eight month old nephew, and everyone was in Florida. I grabbed my backpack and hitch hiked all the way to Florida until I arrived at a rest stop just passed the 'welcome to Florida' sign and grabbed a taxi the rest of the way. I had already met Natasha and Clint several years earlier, so they weren't surprised when they saw me. But, I hadn't met anyone else, not even Steve. I don't know why, but..." Emily said, trailing off.
"Because you were always with friends when Steve and I came around for a visit with Danny and Anna. Anna called me up that day freaking out, so we grounded her when we got back to New York."
"Nothing phases you, Emily."
"Yeah, Drax, I know. I've got a 'fuck everything' type of attitude."
Maria turned and got a good look at her sister, "Oh yeah, Nebula hit you. Isn't that the same place I hit you?" Maria asked, earning strange looks from everyone else.
"You hit me? More like punched me! You've got a good right hook that's for sure. However, when you hit me, the bruise didn't make it painful to talk. I took pain pills so these plus the alcohol is doing wonders for the pain," She said, finally noticing everyones confused looks, "Oh, Maria lost it and hit me because I told a certain someone a certain something. She ran off and no one could find her. I found her at dawn the next morning and she looked like hell."
"Keep your mouth shut then. If I keep secrets from him it's for a good reason." Maria said coldly, and everyone just gave her more confused looks.
"Never have I ever fallen asleep drunk in random places." Rocket said, changing the subject as he didn't want to see the two sisters fight. Fights between sisters can literally turn deadly. Emily's smile dropped when he said that and she took a shot.
"Do we want to know?" Drax asked as Peter took a shot.
"I have a habit of falling asleep drunk in alley's and end up waking up in Matt's apartment. This is actually where the story of Elektra hating me comes in."
"Given your track record with men, I don't blame you. How did you end up in Hell's Kitchen?"
Emily shrugged, "I'm always invited to parties down there for some reason. But yeah, Elektra and I actually got drunk together and the rest is history. Oh, the morning after that, I was confused because I didn't know how I got there, and Matt goes, "You drove. You were actually a little drunk when you arrived." and yeah. Not my finest moment."
"Ha! Nice!" Peter said, giving her a high five.
"Yeah. Abby, a girl who's like a year younger than me, lives with them and had the same response. I cut back on how much I party now and I drink water at most parties now...unless it's a holiday."
"But the drinking age on Terra is twenty-one, is it not? You are sixteen." Drax said, looking at her confused. Emily said nothing as she reached into her back pocket of her jeans, taking out a plastic card with her name, picture, date of birth, and other information. Obviously fake.
"Fake ID." She said, about to put it back when Maria snatched it out of her hands. Emily was about to respond, but her sister stopped her.
"You can have it back when you turn twenty-one and learn to drink responsibly."
"I take it you did not know of her fake ID?" Gamora asked, crossing her arms as Maria just nodded her head in response.
"Maria, you look so done right now! Your face says it all!" Peter said, laughing when he noticed the agents 'i'm so done with this crap' look on her face.
"Oh God. She totally does!"
Maria sighed, "I should've followed through with my threat to put you up for adoption when you were seven."
Everyone ignored her comment and kept playing the game until they were all laughing like drunk idiots.
"Never have I ever had sexual relations in a public place." Gamora said, barely able to get her sentence out before she broke down laughing when everyone except her and Maria took a shot.
"In the bathroom of a church. When I was fourteen." Emily said, laughing at everyone's facial expressions.
"Hey Star Dork! I found the female version of you!" Rocket said, pointing at Emily.
"You really did not need to clarify." Drax said as Groot finally came into the room, sighing and shaking his head at the group.
"I am Groot."
"Why a church?" Peter asked, looking just as confused and weirded out as Drax.
"I don't know. Looking back, i'm not proud of it. I have more respect for myself and other places now. I believe in God too! So now it's awkward whenever I walk into a damn church!" She answered, shrugging.
"Well, I think I have had enough for tonight. I am going to bed." Drax said, getting up and heading to his room.
Everyone one by one started to disperse.
"We should go to bed too. Come on." Peter whispered, wrapping an arm around Gamora and helping her to his room seeing as Lilith currently occupied Gamora's.
They walked into his room to see the child in question curled up with Gamora's blankets on the floor next to Peter's bed.
Gamora stumbled over to the child and shook her awake, trying to act as sober as possible as to not frighten her.
"Lilith, why are you in here?" She asked when the little girl looked at her.
"I had a nightmare and you were busy. So I came in here to sleep. When my Mommy and Daddy aren't around, I usually sleep with Auntie Maria and Uncle Steve," Lilith explained tiredly, "Can I go night night with you? I don't wanna sleep alone."
Gamora felt sympathetic for Lilith. The poor child was completely unaware that Maria and Emily were on the ship.
The Zehoberi looked at Peter, who nodded.
"I suppose. Why don't you sleep in bed with us? or Peter can carry the mattress in from my room. It has to be more comfortable than the floor, hm?"
Lilith nodded and Gamora picked her up, the child still wrapped in the blankets and placed her in the bed and she was back to sleep in no time, curled into Gamora's side.
"You know, my compliment from earlier hasn't changed."
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