Crossing Paths

by RosiePosey27

Norah was 20 years old when SHIELD took her in and offered to help her with her powers, and when Tony Stark took her in as the daughter he never knew he wanted. A few years later The Avengers called her in to help with Hydra and the Sokovia situation which resulted in Norah meeting a silver haired Sokovian whose interest was piqued during their first meeting. Pietro/OC

13. Chapter 13

Disclaimer: I do not own anything by original characters

A/N: so this was supposed to be out last week sometime but I had a small car accident and wasn't able to finish it like I wanted to but I finally came back and thank you all for reviewing, reading, favoriting and following. Thank you!

Chapter twelve

"Norah!" Pietro said in a panic when Norah had begun to fall to the ground in unconsciousness and quickly ran forward and grabbed her up into his arms before she had a chance to hit the ground. "Norah. Moj mali bik. You tire self, silly girl." He said as he adjusted her in his arms so that she now was laying in his arms bridal style.

"What the hell happened to her?" Steve asked with a dark glare on his face as he looked at Pietro. "What did you two do to her?" he accused and attempted to step towards Pietro in a threatening manner and to take Norah from his arms but before he had a chance to do so red wisps of energy stopped him in place.

Wanda had her hands held up level with Steve's chest and was glaring at him heatedly, "Do not accuse us of something, you do not know story." She said to him fiercely. "We did not do anything to her. Do you think we would have offered our help if we wanted to hurt her or you?" she questioned him with a pointed look.

Steve knew that both Wanda and Pietro had helped him when they did not need to, they had no ties to him or Norah or any of the Avengers but nonetheless they put their lives on the line to help him with Ultron, to help him get the civilians out of the way of the derailed train and they had helped him stop the train from going any further and hurting anymore people. They did not need to do any of those things but for some odd reason, for some unexplainable reason Pietro and Wanda Maximoff decided to fight against Ultron instead of being in his side like they had been in their previous altercation.

Even though Steve knew that they were now on their side, that they were willing to fight against Ultron and wanted to take him down as well Steve couldn't help but worry and make assumptions of the two Sokovian's when Norah suddenly passed out in front of him. He knew that Norah could fight and has seen her do so first hand and has even sparred against her once in a great while when he had gone to the New York SHIELD office and Steve also knows that she is pretty skilled with her powers and that he shouldn't worry about her but he couldn't help it, it was ingrained in his very being to worry about her and want to protect her. He was a true 1940's boy and couldn't help himself. Besides, if Tony found out that he let Norah get hurt on a mission he'd end up getting skinned alive.

"Then what happened?" Steve demanded as looked over at the unconscious Norah whose hair was spilling over the side of Pietro's arm. "Norah has had her powers for almost a decade, Blinking as much as she did would not have done this to her." He said and stumbled forward a bit when Wanda had finally decided to release him from her power and allowing him to move freely once again, at least she didn't use her power to mess with his mind this time. "So tell me what exactly happened then?"

Pietro looked down into Norah's face for a moment and furrowed his brow at the fact that she had a pain filled expression on her face even while unconscious; shaking his head at that fact he pulled his eyes from Norah's face and towards Steve who was looking between him and his sister expectantly, waiting for an answer. "It was not our fault. We all saw TV, saw you and Ultron fighting and we knew we must get to you soon or else Ultron would end up killing you." He started to explain, it was hard to believe that he and Wanda had joined Ultron for the greater good, to help the world become a better place but Ultron's idea of it ended up being the extinction of the human race and eventually, the world. "I have only tried carrying one person with me, I have never tried two and I don't think I could have. I couldn't take one and leave the other, we need both of them to help us fight and I wasn't sure if Ultron's metal army were waiting to attack either."

Steve looked at Pietro and saw how he was looking at Norah and narrowed his eyes at the younger man, Bucky used to look at girls like that and that made Steve suspicious of Pietro that much more. "What does that have to do with anything?" he questioned impatiently.

Usually Steve was the most patient of the Avengers and the most level headed one but after seeing how Natasha was after Wanda messed with her head and after what they had made Hulk do to that city in South Africa, well it's safe to say that he didn't trust them one lick. In fact if they hadn't of helped them he would have probably called in back up or found a way to subdue them until he could have gotten them back to Stark Tower so that they could be questioned.

"Norah used her power, the…Blinking you call it I think." Wanda said this time as she looked into Steve's eyes. "She said she was going to get us from that street that we were watching that TV on, to there on the train. She said it was something she's never done before and that she didn't know if it would work. She did it, but it drained her." She explained to him.

"Helping those people get out of way of train did not help either." Pietro added as he looked at Steve with narrowed eyes, as if he blamed Steve for Norah being unconscious simply because he asked her to use her power to help the innocent bystanders that were in the path of the train.

At that Steve sighed and ran his hands over his head, "I didn't know. I could see she was tired…exhausted but we didn't have the time to deal with that, we've got Ultron to deal with we don't have time to be tired right now." He explained as he looked over at Norah's prone form regretfully at the fact he didn't notice how truly exhausted and tired she was.

For a few moments after that was said none of them said much of anything, they were unsure what they should say and seemed to be at an impasse so to say. On one hand Pietro and Wanda had been on Ultron's side, fighting for him and helping him take the Avenger's down and doing his bidding basically, and now, now they were wanting to help the Avenger's to take Ultron down, they had helped Steve when Ultron seemed close to beating him into nothing but a pulp and they hadn't run away once the danger of Ultron was gone. Steve could understand why they had decided to volunteer for Strucker's experiments and why they had joined Ultron too; all Pietro and Wanda wanted was freedom and peace for their country and Strucker was the first one who offered them a way to do that. He lured them in by telling them that if they volunteered for these experiments of his and survived that they would be different, better, and would be able to do give their country what it deserved. Ultron on the other hand had promised them a better world for not just one and another but for everyone and he had promised them the extinction of the Avenger's which included Tony Stark who they blamed full heartedly for the death of their parents. It was easy to see how they were tricked and conned into doing what they had.

As much as Steve didn't trust either of the twins and really wished he could deny them helping him and the other's he knew that he couldn't, the two of them were much too valuable to him and the team and were needed if they wanted to get rid of Ultron. The Avengers needed everyone that they could get to even have a glimmer of a chance of defeating Ultron; Norah and her powers, Wanda and Pietro and their abilities, Bruce, Thor, Natasha, Steve, Clint and Tony. They were all needed.

"We must find way to New York, to…Stark's." Pietro said reluctantly, a grimace on his face at the thought of having to be in the same room with Tony Stark and having to work on the same side as him but at the present moment he didn't have a choice, they needed to work together.

Steve wasn't sure what to do at the moment really, with Norah out of action for who knows how long they didn't exactly have a way to get back to Stark Tower. If they didn't get back to the tower as soon as possible there was no telling what Tony would be doing to the body that Cho made for Ultron….what kind of experiments he would be trying. Hopefully, hopefully they would be able to find a way there and stop Stark from doing something incredibly stupid and idiotic. Last time that happened he created Ultron.

"Hellen Cho." Steve said in realization, Hellen Cho had a jet for when the Avengers needed her for emergency injuries like Clint's side injury from what must have been maybe five or so days ago.

Wanda looked at Steve curiously, "What does she have to do with this? Can she help us get there?" she asked, hope shining in her eyes that maybe they won't be too late in stopping Tony.

"She won't want to help us, we were with Ultron." Pietro said gloomily with a hard look on his face, he sincerely doubted the doctor would want to help them even if they did release her from the mind control that was making her help Ultron.

"She will." Steve said simply but with confidence in his voice that he's been lacking since the incident in South Africa. "She'll help us, I know she will."

Both Pietro and Wanda looked towards one and another and seemed to have a quick and silent conversation that was mostly filled with facial expressions and head nods and shakes, it looked as if they were arguing with one and another if they should go with Steve and trust him. They weren't stupid, they didn't live a horrible life but they did not live an easy life either and were suspicious of Steve and his intentions, for all they knew he may just be taking them back to the tower so that he and the others could attack them not that it would do much good, Wanda could use her power to get away and Pietro is too fast to really be attacked.

"Lead the way." Wanda said as she gestured towards the street where the police were starting to arrive and ask people questions on what had happened.

When Wanda had said that Steve moved forwards towards Pietro, fully intending on taking Norah from his arms but before he had the chance to do so Pietro had suddenly appeared on the other side of his sister and away from Steve who had frowned at the action. Steve narrowed his eyes at Pietro and looked more closely at the younger man, he didn't like that he was holding Norah even if she did seem to be at ease standing close to him like she had been on the train, it….was unsettling.

Pietro smirked at Steve when he saw how much it bothered the man that he was holding Norah, "I carry her, you can lead us." He told him and couldn't help but give a wide grin when Steve's eyes narrowed even more.

"Come on." Steve said shortly and abruptly turned from Pietro and Wanda and began to make the walk towards Hellen Cho's office and hoped that she would be willing to let them use her jet to get back to New York.

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One thing that Norah decided about falling unconscious because she decided to do something stupid and try to do something new with her power and overexert herself was the fact that it felt an awful lot like a day after drinking with a bunch of college football players….not that she's really ever done that in her life, she's more so of the artistic persuasion. Even though she didn't go out for a night of drinking it sure felt as if she had the hangover from hell along with achy muscles and everything, so not fair. If she was going to feel this horrible waking up she'd rather at least have the fun from drinking something alcoholic and not having it be from her powers.

Giving a small groan of pain when Norah had attempted to sit up from whatever it was that she was lying on – she assumed a bench or a couch – but before she was even a quarter of the way up a gentle but firm hand pushed her back down she that she was lying on her back once again. Giving a huff of annoyance Norah instead decided to try and open her eyes, first she tried to open one eye and squinted at the pain that the brightness that the inside of the jet was giving her at the moment…definitely felt like a hangover. After a few moments Norah had fully adjusted both of her eyes to the brightens and turned her head and saw that it was Wanda and Pietro who were sitting beside her in a pair of chairs, it was more than likely one of those two had forced her to lay back down on the couch.

"Hello." Wanda said with a soft smile when she saw that Norah had her dark brown eyes opened and was looking between her and her brother at the moment.

For a few moments Norah just blinked at the two before she finally was able to muster a response, "Ughh, hi." She said in a very unladylike fashion, Tony would be so proud of her. "How long have I been out? Please tell me I didn't miss kicking the murder crazy robots ass? I'm going to be very annoyed if I did, I may even throw a temper tantrum." She joked as she gave a small pain filled smile; she wanted an Advil right now for her pulsing head.

Pietro couldn't help but let an amused chuckle escape his lips, "No moj mali bik, you didn't miss us killing the murder crazy robots as you said." He told her with a small smile on his face as he reached forward and pushed a stray piece of curly hair out of her face and behind her pierced ears. "Would not be as fun without you, you make life interesting, yes?" he said as he peered down into her dark brown eyes that seemed to be polar opposite from his clear blue eyes.

Wanda watched her brother as he spoke to Norah and shook her head, it amazed her how intensely he looked at the stubborn blonde haired girl and how he spoke to her. It was no secret that neither Pietro or Wanda let themselves get close to many people, they were both too afraid that they would just end up either dying or leaving them in the end and so it was ultimately easier to keep people at a distance instead. The only time Pietro had really interacted with other people who were not other protestors or Wanda was when he was interested in a girl, but this…this thing he seemed to have with Norah was different then the few and far between times when Pietro had spent time with a female in Sokovia. He did not expect more than a few outings with them, none had really understood the relationship he had with Wanda and how she meant more to him than anything else, but with Norah he seemed to want more even if it has only been a few days of knowing her. It was as if Pietro was surrounded by darkness and Norah is the shining light leading him somewhere.

Wanda had looked into Norah's mind while she had been unconscious and what she saw amazed her. Norah felt something for Pietro even though she had only known him for a handful of days, she saw that Norah felt as if something from deep inside of her was pulling her towards Pietro and making it impossible for her to try and not think about him when she knew that her friends – the Avengers – would not approve seeing as he had been with Ultron at that time. Wanda could also see that Norah has never felt something so intense towards someone she felt attraction for before, that none of her previous boyfriend had ever made her feel so alive as Pietro did for her. No matter what way she looked at it Wanda couldn't understand why the two of them felt that way towards one and another when they hadn't met that long ago but she could see it in both of their minds and at how they looked and acted towards one and another, she could see how they felt for one and another. It wasn't love, love at first sight was a child's idea that didn't fit into the real world but there was definitely something there between the two of them, something that made it seem as if they could fit together if they give it time.

"You have been unconscious for about three and a half hours." Wanda told the curly blonde haired girl that was laid out in front of her and her brother. "You scared Captain half to death; he accused us of doing something that made you pass out." She said with a wry smile on her face at how Steve had overreacted.

Hearing that Norah rolled her eyes in a teenage manner and then gave a heavy sigh, "He always acts like an overprotective mother hen when it comes to me no matter how many times I've told him that I can take care of myself. I've proved him wrong more than a few times too." She told them and crossed her arms in annoyance under her chest the best she could from her laying down position. "I'm starting to consider hitting him upside the head every time he starts to overreact, maybe it'll sink in then." She grumbled as she glared over towards where the cockpit of the jet was and where she assumed Steve was at the moment.

Wanda gave an uncharacteristic giggle at imagining Captain America being hit and beaten up by a girl like Norah who barely topped five foot four and looked unassuming, "He worries for you," Wanda said to her, understanding where Steve was coming from and looked at her brother for a moment before turning her eyes back to Norah. "It is good thing. It shows he cares." She said as she looked towards the front of the jet and pushed herself into a standing position. "I will go and tell him that you are awake. He will want to talk to you." She said to her.

Norah smirked at that, "Talk or yell? There's a difference you know." She pointed out to her.

Rather than answering, Wanda smiled at Norah in amusement before she turned and headed towards where Steve was. Steve really did act like a mother hen to Norah at times and god did it get beyond annoying, even after showing him she can take care of herself, even after having him see what she could do with her powers and telling him he needed to stop worrying and hovering so much he still acted as if he had to save her from every single attack. She got that he was from the 1940's and it was ingrained in him to protect women but this was not the 1940's anymore; Norah was a strong and independent woman who doesn't need to be protected from every single damn thing.

"So," Norah said as she looked over at Pietro with a face splitting grin.

When Pietro saw the look on Norah's face he raised a brow at her, "What do you want moj mali bik?" he questioned as he looked at her suspiciously.

At that Norah looked at him innocently, "What makes you think I want something?" she questioned, trying to pull off the innocent next door neighbor sort of look but was failing miserably at it.

Pietro leaned forward a bit so that he was leaning over Norah and looked into her yes intensely, "You are smiling like you are cat that just got the canary," he pointed out to her as he lightly tapped her on the nose with his finger and then sat up straight in his chair once again. "Now, what is it that you want silly girl?" he questioned and looked at her expectantly.

"Tell me what it means." Norah said without hesitation and looked at him pleadingly, clasping her hands together in a begging fashion which made her look nothing like the twenty-two year old she was.

Pietro feigned confusion at her question, "Tell you what?" he questioned as the edge of his lip barely lifted in a small smirk at the teasing he and Norah were doing to one and another at the moment.

Norah sat up a bit and poked him hard in the side making him give a surprised grunt, "You know what I'm talking about so don't even try to act oblivious. Tell me what moj ma….wahtever means." She demanded of him as she crossed her arms under her chest and raised a simple brow at him and waited for him to answer her demand.

"Ahh, but I do not know what you talking about." He teased her which gained him a look of frustration from Norah.

Smiling to himself, Pietro scooted closer to Norah and gently grasped her hand in one of his and then pressed their palms together so that their hands aligned, his fingers extending past Norah's more feminine and shorter ones.

Norah looked at Pietro with feigned anger, but really inside she was amused by his teasing and playfulness. "Yeah, I'm sure you don't have a damn clue what I'm talking about." She told him and shook her head and shifted her hand that was on top of his and laced her fingers through his and enjoyed the feeling of heat coming off of his skin. "Please?"

Giving a laugh at her insistence Pietro shook his head, "No. I admire your stubbornness." He told her.

"Please, please, please?" Norah asked him once again and even stuck her lip out in a pout wanting to know what it is that Pietro has been calling her since they've met.

For a moment Pietro forgot what Norah was asking him, forgot that she was begging him to tell her what his nickname for her meant and instead was thinking about the fact that Norah's bottom lip was sticking out and teasing his so enticingly and was basically inviting him to kiss her. That lip reminded him of the shipyard in South Africa where he dragged her off to one of the abandoned rooms and pressed her up against the wall and experienced what that exact set of lips tasted like and how truly plump her lips were and it reminded him of what it felt like to have Norah's body pressed up against his own. God he wanted to kiss her right now.

"Hey, Pietro!" Norah said as she snapped her fingers in front of his face which brought the blonde/silver haired Sokovian out of his daydream. "You gonna answer or what?" she asked with a quirky look on her face as she gazed at him.

Pietro looked at her and shook his head, "No, moj mali bik I will not tell you what that means." He teased her and then pulled their intertwined hands up towards his face and then gently pressed a kiss to the inside of her wrists where a rather large tattoo covered her skin. "I am sure if you think hard enough you can find way to convince me to tell." He told her mischievously and imagined the things that Norah may think of to convince him.

"Oh really?" Norah questioned alluringly and waggled her eyebrows at him a bit suggestively which he laughed a bit at. "Any hints on how I should go about doing that?" she asked with a playful smile.

Pietro looked closely into her eyes, "I am sure that you'll think of something creative." He told her and then pinched her side playfully making her jump in place a bit.

"Hey!" Norah exclaimed at him but couldn't help the smile that stayed on her face.

Norah knew that when Tony and the others realized what she and Pietro were doing – this flirting thing – that they would not be all that happy with her and would probably try and deter her from continuing it but to be honest she really didn't care anymore. Norah was twenty-two years old and will be twenty-three in six months and technically she didn't need any of their approval, not even Tony's. Besides, it's not as if she and Pietro were having sex, they were just bantering and playfully flirting with one and another. No big deal.

A throat clearing behind them drew both Norah and Pietro out of whatever daze/flirting thing the two of them were doing at the moment, quickly as they could they withdrew their hands from one and another but not without gaining the notice of Steve who frowned more making him truly look like the ninety some year old that he was technically supposed to be.

"How you feeling Norah?" Steve asked her as he gave a sideways glance to Pietro, hoping he gets the hint and leaves so that he could talk to Norah in relative privacy.

Wanda seeing the look that Steve was throwing at his brother and the obvious frown he had on his face at the close proximity that Pietro and Norah had with one and another she decided to take pity on the man, "Come brother, let's leave them to talk." She said and grabbed him by the sleeve of his shirt and dragged him down and away from the two Avengers.

Giving a roll of her eyes at how Steve was acting and the obvious annoyance he had for Pietro, Norah looked at Steve. "I'm fine Steve." She said as she looked at the super soldier who acted like such a mother at times. "Feel like I have a bit of a hangover and my body hurts a bit, but otherwise I'm perfectly fine. Scouts honor!" she said with a wide grin on her face as she went through the moves of making the gesture for scouts honor.

Rather than replying to her little show Steve crossed his arms and looked down at her with a look that seemed to be a mixture of worry, annoyance, confusion and a look of astonishment. Geeze, all he needed was an apron and a spatula and he would be set for the angry mother look. Those were all the same looks that Steve had when he heard Norah swear for the first time, which was completely hilarious to her seeing as he was a man out of time where women rarely swore or said anything derogatory or crude and definitely weren't close to being like Norah who wasn't afraid of saying what she thought, of being stubborn, brave, fierce and well, of being Norah.

Steve looked at her doubtfully but let it go, "So," he said to her with an expectant look. "Want to explain to me what exactly happened out there? Pietro and Wanda told me you tried something new with your power." He said and sent her questioning look at that fact.

Maneuvering herself into an upright position Norah looked at Steve, "Well for one I would not recommend experimenting with powers." Norah said with a wry grin on her face but when she looked at Steve she saw that he did not share in her amusement, so instead she kept on talking about what had happened. "Short version is that we saw you on TV, needed to get there fast so that Murder machine didn't kill you, decided to try and get us there from looking at what was happening on TV. I was able to Blink us there but not without feeling utterly exhausted." She summarized to him. "Good?"

"Norah." Steve said as he looked at her sternly. "What exactly were you thinking doing that? Do you know how dangerous that could have been for you? We don't know what could have happened Norah, you could have gotten killed or something just as bad." He told her in an angry whisper, not wanting Pietro or Wanda to hear their conversation at the moment.

At that Norah pursed her lips and glared at Steve for saying that, "Well sorry Steven, I was trying to help you and save your ass from being killed by Ultron." She told him sarcastically and shook her head at how he was overreacting at the moment. "Sorry not sorry." She told him childishly and crossed her arms under her chest.

Steve would admit that accusing her like that and telling her that she could have been killing doing what she did was probably the wrong way to go about things but he was worried, they don't know what would happen if Norah tried to experiment with her powers so to say. Norah deciding to try something new with her powers, something that she didn't know much about or what would happen really was when her inner Tony decided to come out to play. It was something that really did not need to happen.

"Look, Norah." Steve said with a heavy sigh. "We don't know what could happen if you do try and do new stuff with your powers, try new things like you did." He explained to her.

"I was fine. I didn't die." Norah said defending herself to Steve.

When she said that Steve sent Norah a pointed look, "You passed out Norah." He told her. "That's not fine." He told her.

"But it's not dead either." Norah said obstinately to him and pulled her hair over one shoulder, playing with her hair was one of her nervous habits that she had and couldn't seem to break no matter how hard she's tried. "I get that you guys don't want me to try something like that while out in the field, it was probably stupid of me to do that but I had no other choice Steve. We needed to get on that train and there were no other options. I did what I had to. So you're going to have to just deal with it." She told him flippantly with a shrug of her shoulders, not caring what he thought on the matter.

Steve shook his head at the curly blonde haired twenty-something year old, "You really do need to stop spending so much time with Tony." He said to her and took a deep calming breath. "Try to relax until we get back to the tower, please." He said to her and gave her an almost begging look.

"How much longer?" Norah questioned curiously.

"Forty minutes at the most." Steve answered.

Letting out a deep breath Norah let herself fall back to lying flat on the bench she was on and closed her eyes for a moment as she threw her arm over her face, she was already dreading what was to come and not just the having to fight Ultron but having to deal with her self-appointed father. Tony. She loved Tony and hated, hated that she was going to be going against him on what he was doing and that he would hope for her support but she couldn't give it to him, not with what he was doing. He wanted to do who knows what with that body Cho created for Utlron while under mind control and there are some things that no matter how curious a person is about them should be left alone and not be messed with. Tony thinks that he can use the body and create what Ultron should have been, he thinks that if he makes it right that he can enable the body to protect the world from the unknown, from the things that aren't from this world but he doesn't realize that it's utterly impossible to do so. If they want to hurt the people of Earth they will find a way if they are determined enough, there's always a way around.

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"When this is all said and done Pepper is going to kill you Tony." Bruce said as he was working on some computers trying to figure out the best way to transfer Jarvis into the body that Cho had made for Ultron.

Bruce knew this was a bad idea, a very, very, very bad idea that he shouldn't have let himself get suckered into doing but when Tony had his mind set to doing something he was going to do it, damn the consequences. He should have said no to Tony and been done with it but Bruce knew Tony too well, if he had stuck with no and walked away from Tony's incredibly insane idea the eccentric genius would have done it without him and probably would have ended up creating something ten times worse than Ultron and they were already having a hell of a time with Ultron as it was.

"Yep." Tony responded as he was concentrating on the computer he was working on at the moment. "She's going to want to skin me alive. She'll enjoy it too."

Bruce looked over at Tony who didn't seem all too worried about the ire he would be facing from his girlfriend, "You do know she is going to be pissed about you letting Norah help too, right?" he questioned.

At that Tony grimaced, Pepper was very protective of Norah and thought of her as a younger sister/daughter and absolutely hated it when Tony and the other Avengers dragged her into one of their missions. Pepper said that Norah deserved to have a normal life, or as normal of a life as she could have considering Norah ran away at fifteen and was a Mutant and all, but she wanted the girl to do whatever she wanted and be as normal as she could be and that included not being dragged into missions to take down Hydra. Tony knew he was going to be in the doghouse for a while once Pepper got word of what happened and what he did but he was doing this for the greater good, he wanted the world to be a better place and okay, Ultron didn't exactly get that and some part of his programming seemed to have gone on the fritz but this, putting Jarvis into the body, this is going to be what Ultron should have been. Pepper will be pissed but she will forgive him eventually…..maybe after a weekend getaway to Rome or Venice.

"Yeah, yeah, I know Bruce." Tony said to him flippantly, trying to not think about what Pepper was going to say or rather yell at him once she saw him again. "Now stop talking about my love life and get to work. We don't have time to gossip like a gaggle of giggling grandma's." he said and turned his attention back to the computers he was working on and was hoping against hope that Jarvis would be able to mesh into the body that was laying in the cradle at the moment.

For about an hour or so after that both Tony and Bruce were working diligently with the body that was in the cradle and with the computer systems that were monitoring the body and the transfer of Jarvis' matrix into the body, both were concentrating on their part of this….incredibly stupid experiment and hoping against hope that what they are doing works. Bruce was more so hoping that they didn't make things worse by putting Jarvis in this body, this was intended for Ultron so who's to say that this thing won't become like Ultron or worse.

"This framework is not compatible." Tony said as he was typing away on a computer that was above where the cradle was at the moment.

Bruce was walking around the body and checking the tablet that was in his hands, "Genetic coding ties at ninety-seven percent, you have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes." He told Tony without looking up at him.

Just as Tony was about to respond to Bruce's comment about the schematics Steve, Pietro, Wanda and Norah walked into the lab where Bruce and Tony were working on the body that was hooked up to the computers and were hoping to create a better Ultron, a non-murderous kind. When Steve saw what the two scientists were doing he gave them both a look of completely disappointment, he had hoped that out of the two of them that Bruce would at least use his common sense and not give into Tony's demands and persuasion to try to make Ultron but apparently that wasn't so.

"I'm only going to say this once." Steve said sternly to the two scientists as he looked between the two of them, hoping the serious tone of voice would convince them to back off but knowing Tony it would only urge him on.

Tony rolled his eyes at Steve and rather than stopping what he was doing like he knew Steve wanted to do he just kept on typing, "How about nunce." He quipped back.

Gritting his teeth and clenching his fists in annoyance Steve narrowed his eyes at the man-child, "Shut it down." He demanded, he really did not have any patience for this at the moment.

Norah shifted on her feet a bit before she took a small step forwards intending on approaching the man she called father but was stopped by a hand grasping her around her hip, glancing back she saw that it was Pietro who was looking from her to Tony in concern, as if he thought that Tony in his slight…..eccentric state, would try and attack her if she tried to stop him. Sending him a reprimanding look Norah turned her attention back to Tony and gave a disappointed sigh at what he has decided to do; she knew that Tony was eccentric and a bit crazy at times, he could be a downright asshole a good portion of the time and he was a bit self-centered and was a man who constantly had projects going on, some of which were probably incredibly dangerous but Norah always thought that when it mattered that Tony would see reason, would be able to push aside his recklessness and stupidity and not do something irrational. This was definitely something that Tony shouldn't have even considered messing with and getting his hands into, but Tony being Tony just couldn't help himself and he had to prove to the others that he could make things right and make something that Ultron should have been instead of the psychopath he seemed to be.

"Tony." Norah whispered to herself as she clutched at the necklace that dangled from her neck, as if it was a lifeline that was keeping her grounded at the moment. "Tony!" Norah finally yelled gaining his attention and stepped forwards and ignored Pietro and Wanda's demands for her to not move closer in case the body suddenly came alive. "What are you doing?" she questioned him with a pain filled expression on her face for what he was trying to do.

Tony managed to look up from his computer and looked at Norah, the girl who he called daughter, and winced when he saw the look she was giving him. It was a look filled with worry, disbelief, anger, betrayal and hope, seeing her with all of those emotions fliting across her face made Tony feel like a downright horrible father for being the one to make her feel those but he couldn't stop now, he was so close to achieving what he meant to in the first place when he created the Ultron program.

"I'm doing this for you." Tony said to her with conviction which gained him looks of confusion from Norah, Steve, Pietro and Wanda.

Hearing that Norah stepped back a bit and looked at Tony in bewilderment at what he meant that he was doing this for her, in what reality does this equal Tony doing this for her. "What?" she asked incredulously. "How in the hell is this for me Tony? How?" she demanded of him as she waved her hand over the cradle where the body laid and where all of the computers were connected to at the moment.

"Norah," Tony said softly as he stopped looking at the computer for a moment. "I love you so god damn much, you and Pepper are the only people that I've ever loved this much since my mother died. You may not be my blood but I don't give a rat's ass about that, you are my daughter." He told her as he looked into her eyes seriously. "I…I need to keep you safe Norah, I want to be able to live without having to fear being attacked by aliens, monsters or whatever-"

"But not Ultron?" Norah questioned darkly as she crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at her father figure and wondered if he truly has lost his mind, this was not something that mostly sane person would do.

Tony closed his eyes and swallowed thickly when Norah had said that to him but continued on, "I want to protect you and Pepper, Norah. I want to protect you guys but I can't do that alone, I can't even do that with the Avengers. But this," he said as he gestured towards the cradle. "This will make the world a better place, will keep the world safe. This will be what Ultron was supposed to be. It will make it so that you can't be-"

Before Tony had the chance to finish his sentence Norah interrupted him. "No!" She yelled at him harshly making him and Bruce flinch a bit at how angry it sounded. "No Tony," she said in a more subdued tone of voice. "That's not how things work Tony. I get that you want to keep me safe from the horrible things in the world, from any aliens that might want to come back and try and kill us like they did in New York a few years back but you can't. Tony, you can't treat me like a fragile porcelain doll who you lock up in a cabinet for safe keeping. You can't treat me like that, I won't let you." She told him with a pointed look as she ran her hands through her messy curly hair, a nervous habit of hers. "If aliens want to fucking attack the world again then they will Tony, this….thing won't be able to stop them if they really want to attack and kill us. There's always a way around Tony." She told him with a look of understanding, she knew why he was doing this and why he wanted to create Ultron but he's making a mistake no matter if his heart was in the right place or not. "You've gone completely bat shit crazy. I love you, but please Tony, please stop this before it's too late. Before you create something that you can't control."

God, if Pepper had been here when all this shit had been going on than Tony would have never tried to make Ultron happen, she would have threatened him in some way or would have made Tony see reason and make him realize why creating Ultron was a horrible, horrible idea. If Tony hadn't created Ultron then the human race wouldn't be in danger of being decimated by a murder crazy robot that was originally supposed to be the protector of the human race, not the one who ended them.

Steve looked at Norah who was giving Tony a desperate look, and then turned his attention to Bruce and Tony. "You don't know what you're doing." He told them gravely and hoped that the two geniuses in front of him would see reason and see that they need to stop what they are ding before it's too late.

"And you do?" Bruce questioned and gestured towards Wanda who was standing beside Norah. "She's not in your head?"

Wanda grimaced when Bruce had said that but she deserved it, she messed with his head and made him go on a rampage in South Africa. "I know you're angry bu-"

When she said that Bruce gave a hollow sounding laugh and looked into her eyes intently, the anger that he felt towards her clearly there. "Oh we're way past angry. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." He said to her threateningly as he glared at both Wanda and Pietro for what they had done to him and his teammates.

"Bruce!" Norah admonished as she narrowed her eyes at the man who was usually quite calm and collected. "Please Bruce, please don't do this. We don't know what will happen if you guys go through with making this….thing." she said forsakenly and could only imagine what the outcome will be if they continue as they are, she had to try to sway their minds though, she had to try and get them to stop before it was too late. "We don't know if this thing will be what you two intended for Ultron to be, we don't know if he will end up worse than what Ultron is. You may be trying to create something that will protect the human race but what if it doesn't go that way?" she questioned and then looked at Tony with a furrowed brow. "Tony, please. Please don't do this."

For a moment, a very small moment Tony thought about stopping from trying to make Ultron happen and even considered destroying the body that was in the cradle so that he wouldn't be tempted to make it later on but he shook those thoughts out of his head before they could take hold. He hated seeing Norah in so much emotional pain because of him and seeing her beg for him to stop pulled at his heart like nothing else but he couldn't stop, Norah may not believe him when he told her that he was doing this for her and Pepper, but he was. He was doing this so that they wouldn't have to worry about aliens or things from other worlds and/or planets trying to kill them. He had to do this.

"I'm sorry Norah, but no. I'm not stopping." Tony told her in a gentle tone of voice and concentrated on uploading the necessary information into the body.

Steve realizing that trying to change Tony's mind was a losing battle turned to Bruce, imploringly. "Banner, after everything that's happened. Aft-" he started to say but was interrupted by Tony.

"It's nothing compared to what's coming." Tony argued angrily that Steve and Norah couldn't see why this is something that they needed, that the world needed.

Wanda shook her head at the arguing men, feeling as if she was surrounded by petulant children instead. "You don't know what's in there." She pointed out to them tersely.

"It's not a game."

Pietro gave a tired sigh at all of the arguing that was going on around him and at how the argument keeps on going around in circles and wasn't seeming to make any difference in what was going on and in stopping Tony and Bruce from making the body become what Ultron was supposed to be, so rather than waiting and hoping that one of the scientists saw reason and stopped what they were doing before it was too late he decided to take matters in his own hands. So before anyone could realize what he was doing he whirled around the room messing up the papers that Tony had on his computer station, knocked some of the equipment over and then ripped out the main cord that was connected to the cradle and that was enabling Tony and Bruce to bring this thing to life so to say which effectively shut the thing down before it could become a problem. The moments the cord was disconnected from the cradle there were sounds of frantic beeps, warning sounds coming from the computers signaling that it was no longer connected to the cradle and wasn't able to do whatever it was that Tony was having the computer do to the body that was in the cradle.

Pietro held the cord in his hand before unceremoniously dropping it the ground, "No, no. Go on, you were saying." He said and looked at Banner who was standing a few feet from him and then over at Tony both of whom were looking at him as if they couldn't believe that he just did that.

Looking over at Pietro, Norah had to admit that what he just did was dramatic and effective. It would be hard for Tony and Bruce to bring this thing to life without some of the equipment that Pietro destroyed and with the cord that Pietro had just ripped from the machine none too gently, hopefully making it unable to be fitted back into the cradle.

For a few moments all anyone did was stare at one and another and the cradle that Pietro effectively shut down before it could be created into something worse than Ultron, before anyone had a chance to start arguing or yelling again there was the sudden sound of a gunshot and not but a few seconds later did Pietro fall through the glass floor that he was standing on and into the floor that was directly below him.

"Pietro!" Wanda yelled in worry for her brother.

Quickly as he could Tony began to do all that he could to fix the computers and to get everything back online so that they could finish what they started a few hours ago – creating a protector of the world. There was no telling how much time they lost while arguing and what could have possibly happened to the body when Pietro had destroyed some of their equipment and unplugged the cradle so carelessly, they needed to work as fast as they could and try to get the cradle back online.

"I'm rerouting the upload." Tony said as he turned his back away from Norah, Steve and Wanda and began to type things into his computer that was next to him and working as fast as he possibly could to get everything back in working order.

Before Tony had even typed a few different codes into his computer Steve reacted and threw his shield into the computer's that were besides Tony trying to stop the mad man from doing something incredibly stupid…again. Tony flared at Steve when he did that and used his detachable Iron Man arm and threw a blast at Steve which threw the super soldier into a wall that was behind him, breaking the glass and some furniture that had been in his pathway but he got up quickly and went after Tony once again.

Wanda seeing what was going on and seeing that Stark was fighting against his teammate all because he wanted to create something that could become incredibly dangerous decided to help Steve and try to incapacitate Tony so that he couldn't fight against Steve. Raising her arms up a bit in the direction of Tony, Wanda concentrated and soon red wisps appeared in front of her and she was about to direct them towards the dark haired billionaire but before she had much of a chance to do so arms wrapped tightly around her, trapping her arms to her sides so that she couldn't direct the energy towards Stark.

"Go ahead," Bruce seethed into her ear. "Piss me off." He said in a challenging tone of voice, as if he was waiting for her to do something that would make him become the Hulk.

Norah looked around her at the chaos that was suddenly unfolding and shook her head; this was not what friends and teammates were supposed to do, they weren't supposed to fight with one and another and try and hurt each other. They were supposed to support one and another, to help one and another, to hear each other out and they definitely were not supposed to try and create a murder crazy robot or mess with things that they don't understand. This was an absolute mess.

Shaking her head, Norah looked over at where Wanda and Bruce were and carefully made her way over there just in case Bruce thought she might attack him (she would if he pushed her) and grasped Wanda's hands that were stuck down by her hips and quickly Blinked them out of Bruce's reach and on the other side of the room. Looking over at Bruce, Norah could see that he was looking at her in shock and confusion, obviously seeing what she just did as betrayal of sorts.

"Thank you." Wanda said to her quietly as the two girls looked at the fighting that was going on between Tony and Steve.

Norah couldn't take it anymore, Tony was her father but Steve was her friend and she hated that they were fighting when they were supposed to be on the same team. "Stop it!" she screamed at the two men who were acting nothing like adults at the moment. "Goddamn it, just stop it. You're both acting like children who got their toy taken away." She said to them with an annoyed look on her face. "Stop fighting each other. Now is not the damn time for it. Tony, plea-" she began to say but was suddenly stopped by the appearance of Thor.

For a moment all Thor did was look around the room at each and every person that was there, his eyes looking curiously at Wanda and more than likely wondering why a girl who had been on Ultron's side was now at Stark Tower. But soon, Thor's attention was drawn to the cradle and without a moment's hesitation he jumped on top of it and raised his arm that was holding onto Mjolnir into the air and channeled lightening into it which was giving off quite the light show. None of them had a chance to ask Thor what he was doing because the moment they were able to actually comprehend what was going on Thor suddenly aimed his hammer downwards at the cradle where the prone body was laying and directed the electricity of the lightening towards it, there were sounds of the computers whirring at being able to recognize power surging through them and the cradle and into the body that laid within it.

"What the-" Steve began to say when Thor finally stopped the light show he was using to push power into the body.

But before he was able to utter more than a couple words Thor was thrown from the top of the cradle and a red body with gold accents rose up and out of the cradle and looked around him with curiosity and a bit of fear. Wanda, Steve, Norah, Thor, Bruce and Tony just looked on in curiosity and caution in case this man or whatever you wanted to call him was in fact what they had feared he would be – worse than Ultron.

For a moment the red man just looked over at everyone that was in the room at the moment, seeming to study them and trying to understand who they were and what they were doing at the moment but before any of them could say a word to him, to try and see if he was a danger to them and the other people in the world he suddenly flew forward right at Thor in an attack but before the man could do any damage Thor threw him over his head and through the glass wall that separated Tony's lab from the rather large room that they had held the party in not but a handful of days ago. But rather than going back to attack Thor and the others like everyone thought he was going to do, instead he slowed himself down and floated in midair as he looked out at the landscape of New York City and just took everything in and tried to comprehend everything that was going on at the present moment. What and who he was and what he was supposed to be.

"What the fuck." Norah said from her position in the lab and looked across the destruction of the lab and walls to see the red guy still floating and looking at the cityscape. "What the hell just happened?" she asked rhetorically as she watched Steve and Thor slowly approach the red figure.

"I….I don't know." Wanda said as she gave a hard look towards the man with red skin, she did not trust that thing especially after what she saw in his mind when they were in Seoul.

Giving a sigh Norah grabbed onto Wanda's arm and Blinked them over to where everyone else was gathering at the moment, all of whom were watching with baited breath to see what the man would say or do and waiting to see if they had to kill him because he was like Ultron. Slowly the red man (he really needed a name or something) turned from the window and rather than him being in his naked glory blue began to cover him as if it was a second skin and hid certain body parts that did not need to be seen by everyone and their mother.

"What is happening?" the voice of Pietro said suddenly from behind Norah and Wanda but Norah was the only one who jumped in surprise.

Rather than answering that both Norah and Wanda just gave a shrug and kept their attention on what was happening in front of them, neither really knew what was going on other than the fact that this manmade body had suddenly come alive because of Thor and now no one really knew how to proceed.

Slowly, the red man walked forward a bit until he stood by Thor and then looekd at everyone who was gathered and gave them an apologetic look. "Sorry, that was…odd." He stated and then looked at Thor and gave a nod of his head. "Thank you." He said to him in a voice that sounded exactly like Jarvis.

Steve looked at the man/thing/being that sounded like Jarvis and then looked over at Thor accusingly. "You helped create this?" he questioned an unreadable expression on his face.

Thor nodded, "I've had a vision, a whirlpool that-"

The moment that Norah heard Thor start talking about a vision he had she stopped listening to what he was saying and gave him a skeptical look; okay sure there are aliens she can believe in that, she can believe in Norse Gods, she can believe in Mutants other than the fact that she is one and hell, she'd believe in werewolves and vampires before she believed in people having visions. She's never heard of a person having visions before and as far as she knew there weren't any Mutant's around that had the power of having visions be it of the future or of the past. And now Thor was talking about having visions about this thing that Utlron had created for himself and that Tony decided to try and make into what Ultron was originally supposed to be.

"What gem?" Bruce said to Thor as he took a step closer to Thor and the red man and looked closely at him, studying him and wondering if they made a mistake.

Thor gestured towards the man's forehead where there was a yellow/gold colored stone placed in the middle of it. "It's the mind stone." He said as he turned and looked at everyone so that they could see how important what he was telling them was. "It's one of the six infinity stones. The greatest power in the universe, it's unparalleled in its destructive capabilities." He revealed.

That didn't sound good, that really did not sound good and definitely didn't sound like something that they should keep on the red man who was intended to be the new body for Ultron.

Steve looked at Thor incredulously, "Then why'd you bring-"

"Stark is right." Thor said as he interrupted the lecture that Steve was sure to give him because of what he just did and what he revealed about the stone that was atop the red man's forehead.

Looking at Thor with wide, surprised eyes Norah took a step back right into Pietro who carefully laid one of his hands on her hip, and felt as if everyone had completely lost their minds at the present moment. No one should ever say those words out loud to Tony even if they are true – he's too arrogant, self-centered and eccentric to not let it go to his head and do something stupid. Not even Bruce, who was one of Tony's few close friends, would ever tell the man that.

"No," Norah said as she looked from Thor to Tony to the man with no name. "No. no, no, no, no. You don't tell Tony that, you never, under any circumstances ever tell Tony that he's right." She told them fiercely. "Tony isn't right, not with this, especially not with this shit that is going on." She said and gestured wildly around the room and to the man with the voice of Jarvis.

Bruce shook his head and gave a despondent sigh, "Oh it's definitely the end of times." He uttered to the room.

Thor looked at both Norah and Bruce in disappointment, thinking that since they were both the closest with Tony would be happy to hear that he thought Stark was right, and that creating this was a good thing.

"We need him to help us defeat Ultron." Thor explained to them; they may be the Avengers and they may have a Mutant and apparently two enhanced on their side now but that wouldn't do much damage in the long run, it would only end up getting the majority of them killed.

Steve looked doubtful at what Thor was telling them and ignored it for the moment, "Why does your vision sound like Jarvis?" he questioned as he looked sideways at Tony and waited expectantly.

Tony gave a small arrogant grin, "We configured Jarvis' matrix to create something new." He explained as he looked at what he and Bruce were able to do with the body Cho had made, more than thankful that it had worked and that it hadn't become another Ultron situation.

"I think I've had my fill of new." Steve said shortly, an unhappy look spreading across his face.

The creation turned towards Steve, "You think I'm a child of Ultron." He said to him calmly as he looked into Steve's eyes.

Steve looked at him suspiciously, not trusting him to not be a child of Ultron's. "You're not?" he questioned as he crossed his arms across his chest waiting to hear a good enough explanation that would make him believe any differently.

He shook his head, "I'm not Ultron. I'm not Jarvis either. I am," he seemed confused for a moment before giving a decisive nod of the head. "I am." He said with confidence.

Wanda approached carefully, sidestepping her brother who tried to pull her away from going near this unknown being, "I looked into your head and saw annihilation." She said to him with narrowed eyes wondering how he could have changed so much in a short period of time.

He looked at her sincerely, "Look again." He told her with honest eyes, trying to show her that he wasn't trying to hide anything and that he willing to let her dig inside his mind to find whatever it is that might convince her to believe him.

Clint scoffed at that, "Yeah, that means jack to me." He told them as he glared over at Wanda and walked over to look at Ultron, unsure what he thought of the guy/thing.

"Their powers," Thor said as he pointed at Wanda and Pietro. "The horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, it all came from this mind stone. Nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side-"

Steve interrupted Thor, "Is it?" he asked in a serious tone of voice and looked over at the red being. "Are you? On our side?"

He thought for a moment, "I don't think it's that simple." He replied, not certain how to explain it to them.

Clint shook his head at him, "Well it better get read simple real soon." He said as he walked towards where Norah was who had her back to Pietro and narrowed his eyes, he could see that the kid had a hand resting on Norah's hip under her shirt.

"I am on the side of life, Ultron isn't." He finally responded after a minute or so of silence from everyone in the room.

Tony quirked a brow up at him, "What's he waiting for?"

It's true enough; if Ultron wanted to get to them and to kill them he could do it then and there. He knew where their 'home base' was so to say and he knew each and every single one of them, he knew things about them that not even they knew about one and another so why was Ultron waiting, why wasn't he and his metal army of men flying there to New York to take them out.

"You." He said simply.

Clint glared at Pietro overtop of Norah's head and then turned back to the discussion that was happening, "Sokovia. He's got Nat there too." He told them and turned back to Pietro, catching his gaze he gestured towards the hand that Pietro had on Norah and then gave him an icy glare. "Remove. Now." He whispered to him so that only himself, Pietro and Norah could hear what he said.

At that Norah rolled her eyes but slowly moved Pietro's hand from her hip no matter how much she enjoyed feeling his fingers rub the bare skin there. As much as Norah loved being a little devil at times and joking around and teasing her friends and family she knew now was not the time to do it, she would rather not have Clint jump at Pietro and attempt to attack him. They already have enough on their plate as it is.

"If we're wrong about you," Bruce said in a dark tone as he looked at the body they put Jarvis' matrix into. "If you're the monster that Ultron made you to be."

Before Bruce was able to threaten him too much more, he was interrupted by the said man that he was threatening. "I don't want to kill Ultron, he's unique and he's in pain." He said as he walked a bit away from the group that had formed around him, questioning him on if he was truly a child of Ultron's and if he was trustworthy. "That pain will roll over the earth so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net. We have to act now and not one of us can do it without the other." He said as he turned and looked at each and every person that was in the room with him at the moment and looked into their eyes so that they could see how serious he was about this, about getting rid of Ultron once and for all before he kills off the human race. "Maybe I am a monster." He said as he looked down at his hands for a moment. " I don't think I would know if I were one. I'm not what you are, I'm not what you intended." He said turning from them for a moment. "So there may be no way to make you trust me, but we need to go." He said as he lifted Thor's hammer, a hammer which none of the Avengers aside from Thor has been able to pick up, and handed it to the Norse God who looked at him dumbly.

Seeing this man pick up Thor's hammer as if it weighed nothing more than a feather and seeing Thor looking at the man absolutely perplexed as to how that happened made everyone just stare, it wasn't often that people were able to best Thor even if it was unintended.

"Did that just happen?" Norah questioned as she leaned over towards Clint to whisper.

Clint nodded at her, "Yep," he said to her and smirked when he saw the confused look that was on Thor's face at the moment.

"Hmm. Interesting." Norah said with a shrug of her shoulders and a noncommittal sound.

Thor grasped tightly onto his hammer, as if he thought that the man was about to take it from him or something and then shook his head and looked at everyone with a smile on his face. "All right." He said and acted as if that didn't just transpire and began to leave the room. "Well done." He said patting Tony's shoulder as he passed by.

Steve stepped forward, taking on the role of leader once again and looked at Tony, Bruce, Clint, Wanda, Pietro and Norah. "You have fifteen minutes, get what you need and then get to the jet." He said in a no nonsense tone of voice and then looked back over to Norah. "Show them the locker room so they can change and get them some ear comms."

Norah gave a half-hearted salute to Steve before she turned towards Pietro and Wanda with an almost forced grin on her face at the fact that they were about to head to Sokovia – the Lion's Den so to say – and were going to take on Ultron but Norah did what she could to try and not think on that too much at the moment, once they get in the air and head towards Sokovia she could have a little freak out session about the fact that she could die in Sokovia while fighting against Ultron and his metal minions.

"Let's blow this popsicle stand." Norah said with a grin but all Pietro and Wanda did was stare at her in confusion, not understanding the phrase that she used. "It means let's get out of here." She supplied to them with a slight chuckle and held her hands out to the two impatiently, waiting for them to take her hands so that she could Blink them down a few floors to where the locker room and Gym were located at.

"That is…odd phrase." Pietro said to her and then looked down at her hand that she was offering him and then looked back at her face and scrunched his face up in concern over her wellbeing. "Should you be using your power already, you did pass out." He told her.

Norah raised at Pietro, amusement showing in her eyes. "What, are you worried about little ol' me?" she teased with a hint of a smile.

"Yes, moj mali bik. I am." Pietro told her honestly as his clear blue eyes bore into Norah's who gave an almost involuntary shiver at how intensely he was looking at her.

Calming her emotions – she was acting like a teenage girl at the moment – Norah winked playfully at Pietro. "You sure know how to make a girl feel special don't you?" she flirted and directed a confident smile at him. "Now, don't worry about me Sweets, promise I'll be fine." She told him and gently patted the side of his face with her hand. "Now grab my hand." She said and offered him her hand and shook it impatiently.

Pietro stared at her pale hand for a few moments, debating whether he should do as Norah asked him to or not but before he had a chance to make a decision one way or another Norah reached forward and grasped his larger and warm feeling hand and Blinked them to the locker room which was much smaller than the room they all had been arguing in and deciding in the manmade body was to be trusted or not. On one wall there were about a dozen or so lockers that went from floor to ceiling, there were benches a few feet in front of where the lockers were located at, pushed against another wall that was furthest from the lockers were a few closets that were filled with clothing and shoes for both men and women, they had been prototype clothing that Tony had made for the Avengers for either working out or for going on missions.

"Well," Norah said as she looked around the room. "This is your stop Pietro." She said as she pulled her hand from Pietro's grasp and then gestured towards the room they were in. "You're welcome to anything that you find; that closet over there has clothes and shoes that you can pick from if you want to. I'd definitely get a pair of new shoes, no offense but yours are looking the worse for the wear at the moment." She told him bluntly as she gestured towards his shoes which were old looking and looked to be barely hanging on by a string.

"They are not that bad." Pietro grumbled as he narrowed his eyes at Norah.

At that Wanda rolled her eyes, "Yes they are Pietro, they look like they've been cut up and sewn back together again. Get new shoes." She told him in a motherly tone.

Shaking his head at the two girls he looked to Norah curiously, "Where are you two going?" he questioned.

At that Norah smiled brightly t him, "I'm kidnapping your sister to raid my closet." She told him simply, as if should have been obvious what they were doing. "I've been wearing these," she pulled at her shorts which seemed to be fused to her skin. "For the last two days at the least and well, I really want to get out of them as fast as I can."

"I could help with that if you like." Pietro said with a Cheshire grin on his face as he looked at Norah from top to bottom, taking every inch of her in and committing it all to memory once again.

Wanda looked over sharply at her brother with a look of disgust and was about to tell him to not talk like that when she was still in the room but when she looked over at him she saw that all his attention was on Norah and that he more than likely wouldn't hear any complaints that she would voice so instead she opted for rolling her eyes and giving a heavy sigh. Why did she get put into these sort of awkward situations, she didn't want to know about her brother's sex life or his sex life to be.

"Maybe later," Norah said with a wink. "But for now me and Wanda need to change clothes." She told him and leant up and kissed him on the cheek quickly before she wiggled her fingers at him in a wave of goodbye and then Blinked herself and Wanda out of the locker room and to the floor where her room was located at without a word of good bye to Pietro.

Arriving in the hallway that led to her bedroom, both Norah and Wanda looked at one and another for a brief moment before they burst into girlish giggles that made them sound as if they were twelve year olds rather than the twenty-something year old that that they actually were.

"Did you see his face," Wanda said with a large smile on her face, pretending that she didn't have any worries and was just a girl hanging out with her friend. "He was enthralled with you, I thought he would have torn your clothes off if it wasn't for me." She told her. "You enjoy pushing him."

At that Norah giggled once again, it seems to be a habit as of late, "I can't help it. He makes it fun to push him and to tease and banter with him. It's as if it is a need to do that to him." She explained with a shrug as she reached the door to her bedroom and pushed it open.

Wanda sent a knowing look to Norah, "No, that is how you two flirt. You tease, you joke, you banter, you make each other want. He is my brother and is sickening to see him act like lovesick puppy, but it is funny to watch too. You keep him on his toes." She said and finally looked around the room that Norah led them into and her eyes widened in shock, it was much bigger than the majority of places that she and Pietro had lived in since their parents had died. "This….this is very big room."

"Yeah," Norah said with a heavy sigh. "Tony's doing."

Norah's bedroom was very large and looked as if it could be the size of a simple one bedroom apartment; she had a four poster bed with bedding thrown haphazardly on it, there was a desk to one side, a walk in closet that even had a small couch inside of it, a cushioned chest pushed against one wall of her bedroom, there was also an antique styled vanity and the wall that faced towards the city had half of the wall made of glass that had the ability to darken so that no one had the ability to look in. It was much bigger than Norah needed but Tony insisted on her having one of the bigger and better rooms that were in the tower.

"Personally," Norah said as she went over to her closet and walked inside and pulled a few dresses off of their hangers for Wanda to look through and choose from. "I would have been perfectly fine with a, you know, regular sized bedroom but Tony was being Tony and wouldn't let me. Said it would have been a disgrace to his name, honor and that Stark's didn't settle for small bedrooms or something like that, he was being a drama queen." She said which brought a laugh forth from Wanda's lips at the image that brought up – Tony in a dress and a crown. "I shared a dorm room with three other girls when I was going to Xavier's Institute, I would have been fine with something half the size of this room."

"Xavier's Institute?" Wanda questioned, cocking her head to the side in curiosity.

Norah walked out of her closet with a handful of dresses in her arms and nodded her head at Wanda, "Yeah, it's a private school of Mutants like me." She told her and threw the clothes on a chair that was near her bed for Wanda to look through and pick from. "It allowed us Mutant's to be who we are – Mutants – without having the fear of being ridiculed or hated because of who we are and what we could do." She explained and then a sudden gloomy look appeared on her face. "Not everyone likes Mutants….not even family members." She said bitterly.

"That is not fair, they should not judge for being different. Families should accept their loved ones no matter what." Wanda said fiercely as she picked up a simply black dress that had ties around the waist so that she could adjust it to fit her smaller frame.

"No," Norah said softly. "No it's not."

Wanda looked over at Norah with a furrowed brow and saw the far off look on her face and wondered for a moment if she had a bad relationship with her family before she came to be considered Stark's daughter, she wondered if her being a Mutant caused her birth family to no longer treat her as she should have been, if they no longer accepted her simply because she had a power that enabled her to do things that no regular human being was able to do. From the bitterness she heard in Norah's voice, nada was led to believe that what she thought was true.

Ignoring her thoughts and feelings on the previous subject Norah shook her head and headed back into her closet to dig some clothes out for herself to wear on their mission back to Sokovia. Ultimately Norah chose a pair of brown wash skinny motorcycle styled jeans, a dark green V-neck t-shirt and a black bomber jacket and the same pair of black boots that she's been wearing for the last however many days. Once she was changed Norah headed over to her antique looking vanity and began to quickly pull her hair into a messy side Dutch braid that fell over her shoulder and then slid on a simple cameo necklace that she's had since before she ran away from home. It had been her great grandmother's on her mother's side of the family.

Turning sideways on the bench she was sitting on Norah looked at Wanda and saw she was dressed in a simple black dress and not much else other than the boots that were on her feet. "You need a jacket." She said suddenly to Wanda and walked back into her closet and shuffled things around a bit before she pulled a red leather asymmetrical jacket out and threw it at Wanda who yelled a 'hey' at her for throwing it at her face. "I got that from Tony but he's either an idiot or doesn't listen to me when he should be since he seemed to have forgotten that I'm not a fan of red really, not to mention it's the wrong size for me. It should fit you though."

Wanda slipped the jacket on hesitantly as she looked at Norah uncertain, "Are you sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, trust me I'm never going to wear the thing so you might as well have it and put it to good use." Norah told her with an encouraging look. "Try not to ruin in while fighting though, it is a nice jacket after all." She said and looked at her bed with a longing look, wishing that she could do nothing more than just collapse onto her bed and sleep for a few hours, anything that would let her catch up a bit of her sleep. "Come on, 'spose we should get back to Pietro before he gets bored and leaves the locker room to go and both Tony or something."

"That would be bad." Wanda admitted thinking about what her brother would wish to do or say if Tony found him without Norah to buffer their arguing and/or accusations.

Smiling Norah grasped Wanda by the red jacket she now wore and Blinked them into the locker room that they had last left Pietro in but before Norah was able to yell a greeting to Pietro she took a sharp intake of breath at the sight that greeted her; there standing not but five feet from where she stood was Pietro who was only wearing a pair of pants and running shoes, there was a long sleeved shirt dangling from his fingers obviously intending on puling it on but was interrupted by Norah and Wanda's sudden appearance.

IT was right then and there that Norah decided that Pietro had one of the most beautiful bodies that she has ever had the privilege of seeing in her twenty-two years of life – that includes seeing Steve and Thor without their shirts on too from working out of injuries on missions – as far as Norah was concerned the super soldier and the Norse god had nothing on Pietro. If she would have known what Pietro looked like underneath his clothes when they were in South Africa Norah would have probably jumped him right then and there rather than just making out with him.

Sadly before Norah had much more of a chance to ogle Pietro and the mighty fine chest and abs he had he pulled the long sleeved shirt overtop of his head and down his chest until it hid his bare skin from view, when that happened Norah had literally let out a small whimper. "Damn." Norah said a tad bit too loud.

Securing his shirt in place Pietro looked across the room at Norah and grinned widely, an arrogant look on his face. "Damn what?" he questioned with a raised brow as he slowly approached where she and his sister stood.

Norah had wide eyes when Pietro said that, sure they have flirted before but she wasn't exactly how to respond to Pietro most definitely hearing her affirm that she found him and his body attractive, quickly glancing over at Wanda she made a pleading face at her hoping that she would make a reason to get Norah out of this current situation that she inadvertently put herself in.

"I will leave." Wanda said suddenly which made Norah shake her head unnoticeably at her but Wanda just smiled at her. "I have to…apologize to the Hulk…to Bruce." She said grasping for some sort of reason to leave Norah and Pietro alone in this locker room.

As Wanda walked out of the locker room to head back to where everyone else had last been both Norah and Pietro just stood in spot and stared at one and another; Pietro with amusement and want at how Norah had reacted to seeing him without his shirt on and Norah was looking at him with heated eyes and with slight embarrassment that he had heard her admission. Before Norah could try and say anything to Pietro he suddenly appeared in front of her with his super speed and was but centimeters from her, smirking down at her Pietro took a step forwards but when he did that Norah would take a step back away from him and when he stepped forward once again she would step back…again. So Pietro and Norah continued this dance of sorts until Norah ended up pressing her back up against the lockers that were against the wall which gave Pietro the chance to lean down towards Norah's face until their noses were nearly touching each other.

Pietro grinned down at Norah wolfishly, "Damn what?" he questioned again.

"Nuh uh," Norah said as she poked Pietro's chest in annoyance at the arrogant look he had on his face. "Don't try and play that game with me Pietro Maximoff. You know exactly what I mean when I said that so get that stupid grin off of your face." She said as she narrowed her eyes at him.

Pietro smiled down at her, "Such a feisty one moj mali bik. It is not nice to yell when I was only asking a question." He told her as he lifted one of his hands and gently pulled on the braid that Norah had her hair in and frowned at it, he liked it when her hair was free and wild from being contained by a ponytail or a braid as it were.

Norah smirked back at Pietro, "Life is so much more exciting when you have someone life me in your life; feisty, stubborn, independent, deter-"

Before Norah had much of a chance to say more than a sentence or so Pietro quickly pressed himself into Norah's soft curvy body and framed her face with both of his hands before he pulled her into a heated kiss and gave an inaudible sigh of relief at being able to kiss her once again. Without the fear of being caught by her teammates. Norah responded to the kiss by grasping onto the front of his shirt and pulling him as close to her as she could and then pressed her plump lips harder against his and dug her nails into the back of his neck with her free hand, smiling into the kiss Pietro moved one hand from the side of Norah's face and down to her beautiful bottom and squeezed it for a moment before he pulled it as close to his body and rubbed himself against her so that she could feel exactly what she was doing to him even if all they were was feeling each other up a bit and kissing. Pulling her lips away from Pietro's, Norah slowly kissed her way away from his lips until they had reached his collar bone and pressed feather light kissed along it until she reached his Adam's apple and then in a torturously slow pace licked her way up his neck until she reached his chin and pulled back a bit when she heard his heavy breathing.

"Mmm, Pietro." Norah said with a moan as Pietro leant down towards her neck and gently bit it and sucked at the spot just behind her ear which seemed to be one of her pleasurable spots.

"Eleanorah," Pietro whispered into her ear as he gently tugged on her ear with his teeth and then sucked the lobe into his mouth and then licked up along the shell of her ear and let her hear his labored breathing from all that he was feeling from kissing Norah, from feeling her pressed so tightly up against him and from what Norah was doing to him as well with her own lips and hands.

The two were so caught up with one and another and being sure to kiss as much skin as they possibly could before they had to leave for the jet that neither heard a loud voice outside the locker room yelling at them and definitely didn't hear the door of said locker room opening and allowing someone inside who definitely got an eye full of the make-out session that was happening between Norah and Pietro at the moment.

One thing that they did hear was the ear splitting yelp that Tony let loose when he saw Norah and Pietro making out and being very handsy with one and another when he walked into the locker room where Wanda said that she had last seen the two. He decided that the Witch Twin definitely was sadistic if she let him walk right into this.

"Really!" Tony groaned loudly and very dramatically like a child would. "Really Norah?" he questioned again with narrowed eyes as he watched his daughter and Pietro pull away from one and another and look towards Tony, but he could see them sneaking glances at one and another and that just made Tony want to scream internally. "I knew it! I knew you and him were doing some weird ass freaky sort of flirting thing. I mean, I get you aren't around guys or other people who are around your same age, but really?"

At that Norah bit her lip a bit uncertain, "Tony, you see the-" she began but was interrupted.

Tony quickly waved his hands at Norah and Pietro dismissively, "I don't care and I really, really don't want to know right now, okay. I really, really do not want to think about this or think about the position I found you two in. It….it's too traumatic for me right now. You're my daughter," he said as he looked at Norah and completely ignored Pietro who was standing to the side of her. "And I really am not going to think about this anymore than I already have. Ugh!" he said in disgust and then quickly turned tail and left out the door and down the hallway he had come from when he had gone to search for Norah and Pietro to tell them to hurry up and get their asses to the jet.

Before Norah could move too far away from him Pietro swooped in and quickly stole one last kiss before waking forwards towards the door and stretched his hand out towards her, "Come, you get to experience my power now." He told her with a grin on his face.

With a hint of a smile on her face Norah placed her hand in Pietro's who wasted no time in pulled her to him ad into his arms and then took off at an inhuman pace towards where the rest of the Avengers were.

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Before stepping onto the jet with Pietro, Norah made a quick phone call to someone that she hasn't talked to or seen since she was fifteen years old and hoped that she would be able to live through the battle so that she could actually talk to this person rather than leaving a message on their answering machine and hopefully, hopefully see them face to face someday.

Sighing, Norah entered the Jet and went to sit down near Wanda and Pietro but before she had the chance to do so she was grabbed by the forearm and basically flung into a seat beside Tony who wrapped an arm around her shoulders while glaring over at Pietro – yeah, he wasn't getting over finding the two of them making out anytime soon.

"Tony!" Norah admonished, glaring up into his light brown colored eyes.

Tony looked down at her, "No." he said to her shortly and shook his head back and forth a few times to iterate what he meant. "No necking with the Sokovian boy." He said to her snidely. "I don't trust him."

At that Norah rolled her eyes, "He doesn't trust you." She told him and then shoved his arm off of her and glared up at him. "And right now, I don't really trust you either. You could have made a huge fucking mistake and gotten all of us killed, and why? Because you wanted to make the Ultron work like it was supposed to." She hissed at him quietly even though she knew that everyone else could probably hear them but at least they were giving them a sense of privacy. "God Tony, you're damn lucky that shit didn't hit the fan."

"Oh stop being so dramatic Norah," Tony said to her, anger clear in his eyes that they were going over this all over again. "It happened and I was right about this."

Norah crossed her arms, "Shocking." She said sarcastically to him and gave a huff of annoyance. "I thought you were going to kill Steve, Tony. I thought you two were going to kill each other. You….you can't kill your teammates like that. You can't do that to the people who you are supposed to count on in a fight, that's not how things work." She told him in a quiet tone of voice, not really having the heart to be angry at him, he was her father and she loved him and she understood why he did what he did but she didn't like why he did it.

"Norah, plea-" Tony began but Norah slapped a hand over his mouth stopping him from talking.

"I'm angry Tony, I love you but I'm angry at you." Norah said to him softly. "I was asking you as your daughter to stop but you didn't, you wouldn't even listen to us or listen to why we wanted you to stop." She said with a sad look on her face and looked away from Tony and towards the red man who had decided to be called Vision. "I can't be around you right now." She told him and got up from her spot beside Tony and went to sit in the front of the jet where Clint was flying the jet, he would listen to her gripe and complain if she wanted and would even listen to her about kissing Pietro without many snide or sarcastic remarks and he wouldn't yell at her for the fact that he had been on Ultron's side not even a week ago.

It was frightening, what they were flying towards in Sokovia. The fight with Ultron and his metal minions was not going to be an easy or a very safe battle to be in, there was a high chance that they would die, that all of them would die before they even realized what was happening. But this was something that needed to end before it had much of a chance to begin. They needed Ultron dead so that the human race didn't flicker out of existence like Ultron seemed to hope for.

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I know this took me longer than usual to write but I have it out finally, and thank you to everyone who has been favoriting and following my story. Love you guys

Translations: moj mali bik: my little bull