Hey ya'll! Here's kind of a filler chapter, but it's got some good stuff in it, and I hope you like it! This chapter, I'd like to deticate to xPoppyx! Enjoy!

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When we touched down in Nevada I could see Tony's jet waiting. We literally were taken off of one plane, and brought to the next, about an hour later we were in Los Angeles, where Happy, Pepper and MeeMaw were waiting for us. "Hi honey." she said as she walked over to Tony as he stepped off the plane, groaning and stretching. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her before she greeted the rest of us, Happy looked pleased to see all of us, though as much as I loved them; I was more interested in the last person that had come to greet us.

"I see you really do take after me, childbirth hasn't affected you at all." MeeMaw said looking at me and I smiled. "Your hips are a little wider, but that's to be expected."

"When you push a baby out, yeah, you'd expect your hips to be a little wider." I said and she smiled.

"Doesn't seem like Bruce minds very much." she said casually and I smiled.

"Between you and me, he loves it." I said rolling my eyes. She laughed and I hugged her. "I missed you MeeMaw." I said and she chuckled as she patted my back.

"I missed you too Sparky." she said using the nickname she and my grandpa had used when I was a kid. I let go of her and cleared my throat with a smile before she looked over my shoulder. "Bruce, get over here." she said sharply and he smiled lightly as he walked over and stood in front of her.

"Hey MeeMaw." he smiled.

"Get down here and give MeeMaw a hug." she said and he laughed before he leaned down and hugged the old woman. Amanda and Kayla walked over when I waved them over, Kayla was sucking her thumb and Amanda looked curious.

"It's good to see you MeeMaw." Bruce was saying as she let him go.

"It's good to see you too dear." she said patting his arm. "I hope you've been taking good care of my favorite granddaughter."

"Yeah, and, hey, meet your favorite great granddaughters." he said as he gestured to Amanda and Kayla.

"Stop encouraging her." I said with a smile. "MeeMaw, this is Amanda, Amanda this is my grandmother."

"It's nice to meet you Mrs. Strong." she said and MeeMaw waved her hand at her.

"I hear Mrs. Strong and I expect to see my mother in law. Which would suck considering how long she's been dead." she said and Amanda laughed lightly. "Call me MeeMaw." she said and Amanda smiled. "Now, come give MeeMaw a hug." she said and Amanda walked over and hugged her. When MeeMaw pulled back she cupped Amanda's face and stared at her for a moment, before patting Amanda's shoulder. "It's all over now dear." she said and Amanda looked slightly startled and puzzled. MeeMaw however looked at Kayla who took her thumb out of her mouth and smiled.

"You're Mommy's grandma?" she asked and MeeMaw nodded.

"That's right."

"You must be old." she said as she looked at MeeMaw in wonder. Bruce snorted, trying to cover it in a cough making MeeMaw smack him upside the head.

"I can un-adopt you, you know." she said to him and he nodded as he covered his smile with his hand, and walked over to me. I was smirking lightly as well as he stood next to me.

"Kayla sweetie, give MeeMaw a hug." I said with a small smile. Kayla hugged MeeMaw.

"You lot are staying at my house." MeeMaw said as she led us to a car. "Thor and Dr. Selvig, you'll be coming with us as well."

"Oh no fair, can't I have at least one of the scientists?" Tony asked and MeeMaw, Pepper and I rolled our eyes.

"You'll see them sooner than you think Anthony." MeeMaw said and he huffed at the full use of his name.

"What do you mean by that? I get every other weekend and Wednesday nights?" he asked and she looked back at him.

"You are just like your father Anthony." she shook her head and he made a face before turning around and looking at everyone else.

"Okay, might as well get going!" he said as he gestured to his cars that were waiting for them. Thor and Erik followed after us to the car MeeMaw had parked off to the side. The minivan had one of those built in car seats for Kayla, and I got into the driver's seat, seeing as I knew where we were going and MeeMaw wasn't legally allowed to drive considering her age and all. When everyone piled into the car I drove us the 45 minutes to MeeMaw's house, Thor was extremely amused by the rear air conditioning controls and Kayla, like she usually did when she was in the car, passed out on his arm with her thumb in her mouth.

"MeeMaw, are you still staying at the home?" I asked when we got to her house, she was unlocking the door, Thor was holding Kayla, and his bag, Bruce was right behind me, Amanda was half asleep, leaning her head on his shoulder and Erik was bringing up the rear.

"Oh of course dear, I'm just checked out for the day." she waved her hand in annoyance.

"There's one other question I have." I said as we walked into the house.

"Just a minute sugar." she said and patted my hand. "Dr. Selvig, the bedroom upstairs and down the hall to the right, Thor, the door right past Dr. Selvig's is the staircase to the tower, you're in there, Amanda, you and Kayla will have to share the room down the hall and across from Dr. Selvig's and you two get the master bedroom." MeeMaw said, pointing to each of us as she spoke.

"Thank you Mrs. Strong." Erik said with a smile and she nodded. They started up the stairs and I went to the kitchen with MeeMaw where I turned on the sink and filled the kettle with water. I put it on the stove and joined her at the kitchen table where she was watching me.

"What about Mom and Dad?" I asked softly and she nodded.

"They know you're alive." she said and I stared at her in surprise. "I told them you were in witness protection, that you witnessed a murder and went to the police, turns out the murderer was in the mob, classic story really." she explained.

"Brian- Bruce's dad- he called me a mutant..." I said softly and she nodded.

"Well, you are honey." she shrugged and I looked at her curiously. "You've always had the uncanny ability to empathize with people, no matter what their situation; not to mention your talent for getting yourself out of tight situations, the window in your room, do you remember how hard of a time Bruce had getting out of there?"

"How do you know about that?" I asked and she smiled lightly.

"There's not much in this family that happens without me knowing about it." she said as she patted my hand. I laughed and ran a hand through my hair.

"That's such a SHIELD answer." I muttered and she continued to smile.

"I also read your reports of what happened in Virginia, everything you told Agent Coulson, I listened to the tape, I looked at the pictures. That escape was pretty impressive."

"It was all luck."

"Exactly. It was luck. Luck of your genes." she said and I smiled gently. "I'm very proud of you sweetheart." she said as she took my hand.

"Thank you MeeMaw." I said softly and she stood up to turn the stove off. I got up and pulled down some mugs and pulled out a box of tea. "Black raspberry tea?" I asked and she nodded.

"You read my mind." she said and poured the water into the two cups. "There's a reason I've always insisted you're my favorite." she said as she put the kettle back onto the stove. "You were the only one to take after me."

"How did you know?" I asked as I put the tea bags into the steaming water and put the cups onto the table. I moved around the island in the kitchen and got the cream from the refrigerator and the sugar bowl from a cabinet, along with some spoons and napkins.

"When babies are born, that's when someone like us shows our abilities the strongest. Over the years, while we're growing, our abilities suppress themselves, until puberty, when puberty hits our bodies change, those suppressed abilities come back with a vengeance." she sighed. "You should have seen me, passing for a sixteen year old when I wanted to, when I was thirteen years old, oh, my father nearly had a heart attack." she laughed and I smiled. "You were different though, you always were good at your abilities, probably why you were so easy as a kid. Could explain why you clung so tightly to Simon for all those years, lord knows it wasn't because he was a good person."

"MeeMaw, on the inside he was..." I tried to protest but she shook her head.

"That boy has darkness in him honey. As an empath, you see only the good in a person. It's a gift, and a curse. You know I wasn't surprised when you married Bruce." she continued and I looked at her.

"I love Bruce, I would do anything for him." I said and she nodded.

"I know you would honey." she said. "I love the boy too, he's a gentleman; he doesn't have the same type of darkness Simon has." she continued. "I think you should know though, Makayla is different." I sighed as I put my palm to my forehead.

"How different?" I asked and she shrugged.

"Maybe we'll find out, maybe we won't." she said simply. "All you need to know is, there's a good chance one day you will find out, and you're going to need to know how to deal with it."

"Of course." I said with a nod. "So- So you..."

"And Dad."

"Dad?" I asked in surprise and she nodded. "Anyone else?"

"Honey, you're my favorite for a reason." she said with a shrug. I smiled with a small sigh and leaned back in my chair before I leaned forward again, spooned two spoons of sugar into my tea and took a sip.

"So SHIELD..." I said and she nodded.

"Howard too." she said and I sighed.

"My entire life has been intertwined with Tony's..." I muttered.

"There's no such thing as coincidence you know." she said. "I had hoped you would join SHIELD when you got out of school. You stopped wanting help, you decided you wanted to do everything on your own." she sighed with a small laugh. "Then you got the job working for Howard's son. I wanted you to work for SHIELD. You worked for the son of its founder." she shrugged. "It was really only a matter of time before you got involved."

"MeeMaw, I'm only involved through SHIELD protecting us." I said slowly and she raised an eyebrow. "Aren't I?" I asked and she nodded after a moment.

"For now." she agreed.

"Mr. Osborn," an agent of HAMMER walked into the office. "We've located Dr. Banner."

"Where?"

"Ohio."

"No, it's Brian we're looking for, not the Hulk." he shook his head and the young woman cleared her throat.

"With all due respect sir, that's the Dr. Banner I'm referring to."

"What the hell was he doing in Ohio?" he asked with a frown. "Send a team to go pick him up." he waved a dismissive hand and the young woman tossed down a newspaper in front of him.

"Dr. Banner is dead Sir." she said and he looked up at her slowly. "There was an old man, a groundskeeper who said he saw a group of gangsters there that night, visiting someone they had buried the day before, he said he went to check the other side of the grounds, give them some privacy, when he returned, they were gone, and Dr. Banner was dead, however if you notice the time and date, that's the same night the younger Dr. Banner um, what's the phrase? Hulked out- not twenty miles from there and around the same time the groundskeeper called in the body. The rain washed away any evidence the CSI could have gotten, mostly because the old man hadn't thought to cover him in a tarp, but I do know that someone dropped off flowers to the grave."

"So he brought flowers to a grave."

"Not just any grave. The grave of Rebecca Banner." she continued. "But what about his son, Hulking out right after the estimated time of death?"

"Coincidence."

"I don't believe in coincidences sir." she said and he frowned lightly.

"Neither do I..." he muttered. "Get on finding out where those flowers are from."

"Yes sir." she nodded and turned to the doorway.

"Oh, and Agent...?"

"Hand, sir. Victoria Hand."

"Right, Agent Hand, keep this between us." he said with a smile.

"Of course sir." she said with a nod before she walked out of the room.

He sat there behind his desk before he picked up the paper, and walked over to the window, his hands behind his back as he looked out the window of the Oscorp building.

This was not according to plan.

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