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

15. Chapter 15

Disclaimer: I do not own as usual

A/N: Look! I finished all the chapters for the movie and now can move on to the cooler and better stuff! yay! Enjoy!

Chapter Fourteen

~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Tony ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~

This battle that is going to be happening in Sokovia isn't like the other missions that the Avengers have been on before, not even close. When they went off on those other missions that they've been doing for the last six months to a year, well there was a good chance of them all coming out of those missions alive and with only a few injuries and a few scars to add to the collection of what they already had. But this, this was different. There was no certainty that they'd make it through the day, that they would be able to live through the battle, that they'd survive the attack of Ultron's and be able to see their loved ones at the end of the day. But it didn't matter if they lived or died, what mattered was that they were willing to do what's right, to fight the good fight and hope to whatever higher being they believed in that they'd be able to beat Ultron before he succeeded.

This was not what Tony wanted for Norah, he didn't want her to get involved so deep in Avenger business that she had to come with them to fight Ultron but he knew, he knew that they needed her and her powers, especially her power of combustion. But it killed Tony that he had asked her for one favor – to come help him and the others in Sokovia. It was supposed to be just one mission but it ended up so much more; she had to fight against Ultron and some of his metal army, she had to fight for her life and she's about to go into battle and is more than likely experiencing honest to god fear and terror at that thought and it killed Tony that he couldn't protect her from that.

This was Tony's fault; he's had time to dwell on that thought since Norah had refused to talk to him and had stalked off like an angry teenage girl who was told she couldn't go to a party and had instead say by Pietro and Wanda. He didn't like her being near them, in particular Pietro (even more so after he caught them making out) but Norah was stubborn and wouldn't listen or do what Tony told her especially if she thought he was being an idiot about things. Tony had caused this all to happen and for the human race to be in danger like it was; he had created Ultron and then decided that it was a pipe dream, something that couldn't feasibly happen because they didn't have the technology yet to make something like he intended, but then they were able to get their hands on the scepter with the scepter they would be able to try and maybe have a glimmer of a chance to make the Ultron program work…things didn't work out the way they were supposed to though.

Quietly as he could so he didn't wake his other teammates that were take the chance to sleep before getting to Sokovia, Tony stood up from his seat near the front so that he could take over for Clint in flying the jet when he wanted him to and headed over to where Norah was sleeping. Norah was seated in the back on one of the benches that went along the wall of the jet, on one side of her was Pietro who was leaned back with his eyes closed and her other side was Wanda who was laying across the cushioned benches with her arms curled up to her chest and Norah was laying against Wanda's sleeping form with her head laying against her hip/side area.

"Norah." Tony whispered to his sleeping daughter and gave a sad smile, right then she looked like a girl her age who had fallen asleep with her friend watching a bunch of chick flicks or something like that rather than a girl who was completely exhausted from all of the fighting and planning they've been doing in the last however many days. "Norah," Tony said once again and lightly shook her should to wake her. "Wake up." He whispered to her trying his hardest to not wake either Pietro or Wanda from their sleep, this was a conversation for just himself and his daughter.

"Unngh." Was the attractive sound that Norah made in response to Tony trying to wake her from the dead of sleep.

"Norah," Tony whispered as he crouched down in front of her and moved some of her curly hair out of her face that managed to escape her braid. "Norah, wake up."

With what looked like great effort, Norah finally managed to open her eyes and stare up at Tony with a 'why the fuck are you bothering me' sort of look. "What?" she asked him harshly, her voice addled with sleep at the moment.

Tony gave a tight smile, hoping she would listen and not brush him off and tell him to go away. "I want to talk to you." He told her.

At that Norah raised a brow at him, "You want to talk to me at…" she looked at her wrist where a bright green watch was. "Three in the damn morning?" she asked, thinking he was out of his mind and wondering why he wasn't sleeping like most of everyone else was.

"Uhhh…yeah, basically." He told her with a shrug of his shoulders.

Giving a sigh Norah maneuvered her face so that she could look at Tony with both of her eyes rather than one, "Fine." She agreed reluctantly.

When she said that Tony gave a small smile but Norah just looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to talk about whatever it was that he needed to talk to her about at three in the morning. "Norah, I'm sorry." He whispered to her simply as he looked into her dark brown colored eyes. "I…I get why you're pissed at me and why you were trying to stop me. I was being an ass about listening to you and you were right, I shouldn't have been fighting Capsicle like I was. But I felt like I had to do that, I had to go all mad scientist and try…..there wasn't any other option. Not in my mind at least." He told her honestly and then gave a big sigh as he ran his hands through his hair. "I know I did something stupid Norah and I get you're pissed at me and you got every right to be. I wanted to protect the world….I wanted to protect you and Pepper. Ultron was my answer."

"Ton-" Norah started but Tony held up a hand, effectively quieting her.

"I love you Norah, you know that right?" Tony questioned to which Norah nodded her head without hesitation, she may be angry but that doesn't mean that she hates him or anything. "I never wanted kids; they're messy, emotional, take eighteen years to grow up and then after that they are still around. I had a shit relationship with my own father as you know and that made me put off from wanting kids – ever. But you," he said and gave a genuine happy smile on his face as he looked at her. "You were like nothing else Norah, you didn't keep quiet about not liking Fury telling you what to do, you made your intentions known with SHIELD and told them you wouldn't be used for your powers and that you wouldn't join their ranks. I heard about you from Natasha and Clint, I knew of you but never really went through the effort of meeting you. I'm Tony Stark, why would I." he said sarcastically. "But then you opened your mouth and called Fury Patchy I had to get to know you. I acted without thinking though, something I do a lot of, and decided I was going to bring you home and let you live with me and Pepper. You amused me, I couldn't let you live in those sad excuse of a living quarters that Fury gave you." He said to her with a wry grin on his face. "Pepper thought I had lost my mind and told me to take you back to the headquarters because she thought I'd get bored eventually, that I'd ignore you soon enough but I proved her wrong."

During this small speech of Tony's all Norah could do was stare at the man, stare and wonder what exactly he was getting at. "Tony wha-" she began but he pressed a finger to her lips a bit harder than was necessary.

"You are my daughter Norah," Tony said to her with a wavering smile, feeling so many emotions right now over this heart to heart he was having with Norah at the moment. "I don't care if your birth father finds you somehow and tries to stake claim on you. I am your father and no one can change that. You are important to me and I hate that I hurt you, that I disappointed you and that I made you afraid of me." He said to her.

When he said that Norah furrowed her brows, "You didn't scare me." She told him as she looked at him in confusion.

Tony gave her a pointed look, "I saw the look on your face, I saw the fear." He told her simply.

"I was afraid of how you were acting, of what you were saying not of you." Norah said as she reached over and flicked him in the ear in reprimand for thinking that.

Tony pulled away from Norah and glared at her, "Ow, what the hell?" he asked as he looked at her in annoyance.

All Norah did was roll her eyes at him, "Oh, come one. That didn't even hurt you big baby." She said to him in amusement and then the two just looked at one and another, glad to have the air cleared between one and another. "I love you too Tony, you're the only one I consider a father. Even when I was around my father he was never a father to me, he could walk up to me right now and I would not hesitate to tell him what I think of him and to tell him that I do not consider him a father. You're my dad." She told him before she got a twinkle in her eye. "Sure sucks to be you." She grinned at him.

Tony gave a loud snort at that, "I'll get over it I think." He said to her and brushed his knuckles over her cheek in a loving fashion. "You got lucky though, getting a genius and rather amazing father. Damn." He told her.

"Whatever," Norah said as she shook her head and yawned again. "As much as I'd love to stay up and talk more I'm going to sleep." She said to him as she slowly lay her head back down on Wanda and curled her feet up and rested them on Pietro's lap.

Smiling, Tony stood up from his rather painful crouched position – he wasn't a twenty year old anymore – and lightly kissed Norah's forehead before he left her tired figure and headed back to the front of the jet so he could trade spots with Clint and fly the Jet for a while so that Clint could get some sleep in.

~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Sokovia ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~

Arriving in Sokovia was terrifying; this is where it ends and where they try and save every living person and thing on the Earth before Ultron can get to them. Sokovia is where they do all they can to stop Ultron from becoming the destruction of the humans and of the world, this is where they all fight for the right to live and this could be the place where they all could die. None of them quite knew what the possible outcome of this day….of this battle could be, but they were here nonetheless – come what may.

Stepping out of the jet into the early morning air Norah looked out at the city where Ultron had decided the battle needed to take place and sighed; they could try and get everyone out of the city, they could help them make an escape but no matter what it would not be able to save everyone even if they wished it could. Pulling her gaze away Norah saw that Pietro was standing off and away from everyone else and looking at the country where he and his sister had been born, the place where he had been raised and the place where his parents had died.

Approaching slowly, Norah came up behind Pietro and slowly ran one of her hands up his back and to his shoulder where she left it and looked up into his conflicting face,
"Are you okay Pietro?" she questioned in concern, earlier he had seemed confident or at least ready to get back here and take on Ultron and take him down but now he looked as if he wasn't sure what he should do or needed to do.

Pietro turned to look down at Norah and give her a smirk but all that he managed to give her was a half assed attempt at a frown. "I made a mistake," he admitted after a bit of silence. "Wanda and I both. We joined Ultron to make better world, we hated your Avengers and your Tony Stark – I still do, but less now – I did not think it would be this. I did not think Ultron would become this. I regret this."

"We've all made mistakes before Pietro, it's a-" Norah began to say but was cut off by Pietro before she could finish her thought.

"Not like this." Pietro said angrily and reached up and clasped Norah's hand that was still on his shoulder and hung his head. "People could have died because of Wanda and I being with Ultron, if she tried hard enough she could kill with her power. She's strong." He told her.

Rather than saying anything at the moment Norah just stood there and let him clasp her hand in his; she could understand his anger and guilt at what had happened before and why he felt like this. She, too had felt like this at one point in time….a few points in time before. Her power of combustion, of being able to blow things up, was not always so easy to control and she had a few accidents before and had hurt a few of her fellow classmates without meaning to do so and had nearly taken a whole wall of the school out once when she was getting angry and pissed off with one of the girls a dorm or two down from her. Professor had to incapacitate the two of them before they did much damage to one and another or any of the student body.

"You didn't though Pietro" Norah said to him softly. "Before there was a chance of it getting ugly and before you could have caused any deaths you stopped and got yourself and your sister out of that situation and decided to help us." She said to him soothingly, wondering where exactly these thoughts of his were coming from. "Life sucks sometimes Pietro; there is no getting around that. It sucks, it's horrible and you wish you could rewind it sometimes, but you can't." she said to him from personal experience. "You just gotta deal with what you got and go along for the ride and hope for the best." She said with a half-smile on her face and then turned a bit so that she could look up into his eyes playfully. "'Sides, of you hadn't of gone with Ultron you wouldn't have met my bodacious self, would you?" she questioned him with a wink and then leaned up and kissed his cheek chastely when she noticed that Steve and the others were gathering to go over the plan once again.

Steve looked around him at the people that he called friends and family, he looked at Vision who they all thought was going to turn out like Ultron or worse, he looked at Pietro and Wanda who were willingly risking their lives to help them and hoped, he hoped that this would be enough. That this plan of theirs would work.

"This won't be easy." Steve said to them suddenly as he looked at everyone trying to convey how serious he was about that. "This won't be like other missions that we've gone on before, this won't be an in and out quickly sort of mission either. This will be just as dangerous, if not more so than the battle of New York but instead of them wanting to take us over Ultron wants to kill us all off and doesn't care how he does it as long as it happens." He said seriously as his eyes swiftly looked over at the city where Ultron was, waiting for the right moment to attack and kill everyone and everything in sight. "Don't do anything stupid and don't take any chances that will get you killed."

Tony spoke up from within his Iron Man suit, "And if we get killed?" he asked.

Steve looked at Tony for a moment, "Walk it off." He said in an almost dead serious tone of voice, leaving no room for anyone to get themselves killed while fighting against Ultron and his metal minions.

With that said Steve began the trek away from the jet and down towards the city to help in any way he could to evacuate the people of Sokovia. Everyone had jobs to do to help; Wanda was going to use her powers to convince people that they needed to leave their homes as soon as possible and get out of the city, Pietro was going to go to the Police Station and tell them they are being attacked (and somehow convincing them it was true) and other businesses so that they all had a chance to escape, Norah was going to be using her power to help bring people out of the city and any that either don't have transportation or weren't able bodied enough to do so and Bruce was heading towards wherever it was that they knew Natasha was being kept at and was going to get her out. Thor, Tony, Clint and Vision were doing who knows what but whatever it was it was something to help and something that would hopefully help them defeat Ultron.

Everyone began to make their way towards the city to do their designated jobs but before Pietro was able to wander off towards the city as well Norah grabbed him by the collar of the tight shirt he was wearing, a shirt that showed off his torso amazingly, and pulled him down to her height and looked him in the eye fiercely.

Pietro looked at her with amusement and curiosity, "Yes?" he asked with a smirk on his face.

"Try to not get yourself killed, I get that your super-fast and all but that doesn't mean that you still won't get killed or injured." Norah told him with a pointed look, silently telling him he isn't invincible.

Hearing that Pietro smiled at Norah, "Do not worry moj mali bik, I will be fine. You don't do anything stupid, yes?" he said and pressed his forehead against hers. "You owe me, we are same team now."

For a moment Norah was confused as to what he was talking about but when realization hit she couldn't help but grin a bit, "A situation where less clothing is involved." She said with a small laugh. "I'll do my best to make sure that happens after this."

"Good." Pietro said and quickly pressed a kiss to her lips before speeding off into the city.

Looking out at the city Norah nodded to herself, it was time to go and act like the super hero's that the Avengers were known for; it was time to help save the world.

~_~_~_~_~_~.~_~_~_~_~_~_~._~_~_~_~._~_~_~_~_~_~.~_~_~_~

It was complete and utter chaos around her at the moment; one second she was helping people escape from Sokovia which was about to become the middle of a battle ground between Ultron and the Avengers and the next thing that Norah knew there were dozens upon dozens of Ultron's metal minions coming up and out of everywhere possible and began to attack every person that was in sight of them be it a civilian or the Avengers. They didn't care who they were attacking just that they were human and that they needed to be destroyed – according to Ultron at least.

"Is this what Christian's hell is supposed to look like?" Norah asked quietly as she tried to take in all that was happening around her, she knew that she had to jump in the fray and fight but seeing so many people flee for their lives and the lives of their family members was horrifying to see, it was burned into her mind.

"Norah!" The voice of Clint interrupted her from her train of thought. "Get your head in the game, you need to fight. Okay." He said to her.

At that Norah nodded to herself, "Yeah, yeah. I know." She said and shook her head to dispel those previous thoughts from her mind.

Taking a deep breath Norah looked closely at what was happening around her and what she was needed to do, if any of her Avenger teammates were around her and needed help and if there were any civilians around that needed her to save them from the metal minions. As horrifying as it was to see something like this – to see what a war might look like in real life – she needed to not think about, she had to clear her mind of everything that wasn't related to the battle and to defeating Ultron and get her head in the game as Clint said and start fighting. She couldn't be an actual Avenger without fighting, she couldn't be the hero that all of her family was if she didn't try to help.

So with that thought in mind Norah didn't hesitate to throw herself into the fray and Blinked herself straight over to a woman and a young girl who couldn't have been more than five years old, a minion standing not but three feet from them and was raising its hands up in a threatening manner and was more than likely intending on injuring or killing them with a blast. Before the minion had a chance to realize what was happening Norah had grasped both mother and daughter by the shoulder and Blinked them from the middle of the city to the outskirts of the city where everyone was making their escape. Giving a gentle smile at the young brown haired girl Norah once again Blinked herself back to where she was and began to run, duck, dive, block and do every single other thing that she could possibly remember about fighting and trying to kill the damn metal minions of Ultron's. Things that didn't deserve to be alive, to exist, to do anything at all.

Blinking herself about five blocks up the street Norah turned down an alley and stopped suddenly when she saw three minions standing in front of her, the moment they noticed her they switched their attention from getting ready to take off into the air to her and stalking towards her in a threatening fashion. Okay, so Norah may have had a freak out earlier when the fighting started happening but she's never been in a fight around civilians and so she may have been thinking a bit irrationally but she can fight against the bad guys, she knows how to deal with the bad guys that are trying to kill her and those she cares about. These metal minions guys are nothing.

"This seems fun." Norah said to no one in particular as she eyed the metal minions that were making their way towards her.

Smiling a bit sadistically Norah held her hands out in front of her loosely and the moment that the minions were where she wanted them she flicked her hands out towards them in an almost violent manner and then Blinked herself further away from them and the alley and smiled when she saw bits and pieces of them fly up into the air above where they had been. She doesn't use her combustion power as much as she does her Blinking from one place to another but she does know how to control it with ease now – SHIELD helped a lot with that.

Turning around and heading back to the street and running down it Norah weaved in-between all of the panicking people, she wished she could help them all now but she had to keep the metal minions of Ultron's away from them and kill them as fast as she could. Suddenly there was a blast right in front of her face that missed her by centimeters, backing away a bit she saw two of the metal minions aiming again so not even taking the time to think Norah dropped to the ground and pulled herself under a truck and to the other side of the sidewalk before she crouched beside the truck and waited a few moments, it would only be a few moments before the minions would either come around the truck or jump on top of it to get to her.

Trying to quiet her breathing Norah listened closely and not even half a minute later she heard the tell-tale signs of the minions jumping on top of the truck, effectively ruining the car, the moment they peered over the side Norah turned towards them and used her power to separated their limbs from the rest of their metal bodies and then flicked her hands at their heads and torso to be sure they wouldn't be able to do anymore damage.

Before Norah had a chance to Blink herself from where she was at the moment and to a different part of the city there was a large rumble sound coming from every direction, it felt as if there was an earth quake happening right beneath her feet and she could even hear car alarms and alarms from local businesses going off. The rumbling and the ground beneath her feet moving so erratically forced Norah to fall right into a car that was parked askew in the middle of the street, giving a slight groan Norah tried to look around to see what was going on but she couldn't really see much of anything.

"What the hell is going on?" Norah asked through the comms as she struggled to get back onto her own two feet after being forced to the ground. "Don't tell me that there's a sudden earth quake on top of having to deal with Ultron because I just might lose my shit then."

It was Steve who answered her, "The city is breaking away and…well, it seems that the city is going to be flying." He told her straight to the point.

For a moment Norah just blinked a few times and wondered curiously if Steve had just told the world's worst joke or if he was dead serious about the city being uprooted and flying in the air, "You've got to be joking." She said to him in an unbelievable tone of voice.

Turning quickly Norah saw two metal minions approaching a young girl and guy who looked to be around Norah's age and before the minions or the couple knew what was going on Norah had flicked her one hand at it and blew it to bits before it had a chance to harm them and kill them like they were ordered to do.

"Wish I was kid." Steve said to her which made Norah scowl at being called a kid, physically speaking Steve was only about five years older than her, tops.

"I really hate it when you call me kid, old man." Norah said back to Steve as she Blinked herself away from where she was once she was certain the street and the alley way near her were cleared of people and of any of the metal minions.

Steve laughed at that, "Yeah, yeah. I know." He told her.

After that Norah lapsed into silence and carefully began to make her way through the streets again without using her power, she needed to be careful where she Blinked herself to just in case there were minions or Ultron sitting in wait for the perfect opportunity. Norah may be able to act pretty damn fast with her Blinking power but there's always a chance that just one time she may not react fast enough and end up getting herself killed or worse.

It was kind of impossible to believe what was going on at the moment; a city flying up above the Earth by who knows how much and quite personally Norah really didn't want to know, they are being targeted by a murder crazy robot that wants to kill off the human race and on top of all of that all Norah wanted was to be lazy on a couch while watching some Walking Dead and eat ice cream right out of the tub – preferably mint chocolate chip. This Ultron was really starting to piss her off and if he makes her miss an episode of the Walking Dead or Sleepy Hollow she was going to be pissed and she would try and take him on herself just to end this once and for all, who knows if she'd end up dead or alive but it's the thought that counts.

For about fifteen minutes Norah made her way around the area she was in seeing if there were any people remaining in the general vicinity and taking out any of the metal minions that she may come across which only ended up being three or four thankfully. Taking a sharp corner Norah looked up and saw a blur heading straight and not even a moment later Pietro stopped right in front of her, a playful grin on his face as he looked down into hers.

"Hello." Pietro said to her as he pushed some of her hair back behind her ear that escaped while she was running, Blinking and fighting. "I told you I would not get myself killed." He told her arrogantly.

At that Norah scoffed at him and poked him in the shoulder, "The battle's not over yet Pietro, don't get too full of yourself." She told him and then glanced over his shoulder but the moment she did her eyes widened, there standing about ten or so feet from where they were was at least ten or fifteen metal minions. "Shit."

The moment Norah whispered that Pietro turned around so quickly that she didn't even register that he had done so until she saw the back of his head. "I take care of this, you go." He said and was about to get ready to run at them to get rid of them before they attacked him and Norah but before he was able to do that Norah laid a hand on his chest and shook her head. "Norah, what are you doing?" he questioned.

"I'll take care of this Pietro." Norah said with a hint of a smirk on her face as she walked forward but Pietro grasped onto her arm before she could make it a step.

Pietro gave her a look of panic, "How?" he asked her, his eyes wide. "You will…Blink then to different place?" he asked, confused as to what she could do and worried for her safety.

At that Norah shook her head, "No, but trust me, I'll be fine. Just….just don't get in the line of fire of my hands or arms. It won't end up all that pretty." She told him mostly in a serious tone before she stepped forward towards the minions and looked at the murder crazy robots that were trying to kill them.

Moving her arms to the side a bit and raising them until they were level with her chest and faced towards the minions Norah concentrated as hard as she could to build up as much power as she possibly could so that she could use it to destroy each and every single one of the minions that were standing in front of her and Pietro at the moment. Taking a deep breath Norah slowly let it out before she basically thrust her arms forwards towards the minions and then quickly flicked her hands at them as well and not a moment later did each and every last one of them exploded into bits and pieces of metal that littered the street that they were standing in at the moment.

While that had been going on Pietro could not help but keep a close eye on Norah and on the minions of Ultron's that were trying to kill them; Norah may have told him that she could take care of this and to not worry but he was not sure what she had up her sleeve, what she had planned for them and wanted to be able to whisk her away and out of danger if she was unable to take care of the robots like she said she could. This though, this was definitely not what he was expecting.

"I told you I could take care of it." Norah said with a smirk on her face as she looked at Pietro and lazily laid her hand on her hip in a 'told you so' sort of action.

Pietro looked at her in awe, "How?" he questioned curiously, wanting to know how this girl….woman who he had thought only could Blink from place to place now could make things explode.

Norah shrugged at his question, "I have two powers." She told him simply, as if she was talking about the weather or work.

Suddenly and without warning Pietro appeared in front of Norah and pulled her to him tightly as he looked down into her face. "That," he said in a rough sounding voice as he looked into her dark brown eyes heatedly. "Was sexy, it should not make me hot but it does." He admitted to her honestly as he pressed his hips into her so that she could feel how hot he found her destroying Ultron's minions with her other power was. "Incredibly sexy."

Leaning down, Pietro quickly cradled the back of her head and pulled her to him so that he could lean down and kiss her with all he was worth; wanting to show her how much that affected him and how happy he was that she was okay and was still alive and kicking. Smiling into the kiss Norah lifted one of her hands up and traced the area where he had facial hair that wasn't hindered by the two of them kissing – she found facial hair incredibly sexy.

"Hey Norah, Pietro." Clint's voice said suddenly over their ear comms. "Great that you two have a thing going on or whatever, I really don't care to tell the truth but guys, we're kinda in the middle of a battle can you wait until this is over to make out and say that kind of shit. I really didn't need to know what makes the Speedster hot."

At that Norah couldn't help but give a laugh at how uncomfortable Clint sounded when he said that, looking up at Pietro she placed one last quick kiss on the corner of his lips before moving away from Pietro so she wouldn't be tempted to touch him and think naughty things about him and his beautiful torso that she caught of glimpse of in the locker room. Gesturing towards the street with her head, Norah looked at Pietro and mouthed the words go at him to which he hesitated for a moment and looked at her before giving a reluctant nod and taking off in nothing but a blur.

Giving a sigh Norah ran her hands over her hair that was amazingly still in the braid she put it in when the left Stark Tower and began to run down the street and Blink herself around the area checking for people like she had been doing earlier and making sure there were no straggler minions in the area waiting for the perfect moment to attack. It may be fall right now but all of this running, fighting and Blinking all over the place was really starting to make Norah sweat and feel sticky which she was not a fan of at this particular moment; if she's going to be feeling like that she'd rather it be from something fun like bedroom gymnastics or from working out in the gym or something along those lines.

"We're clear here." Clint said over the ear comm.

"Clear in my area too." Norah responded.

There was the sound of a pain filled grunt and heavy breathing before Steve responded over the ear comm, "We are not clear, we are very not clear here." Steve yelled through his comm with the accompanying sounds of fighting going on in the background.

Clint was the one who responded first, "All right, coming your way." He said to him.

"Be there in a blink of an eye." Norah said with a small giggle, unable to help herself but use that phrase, surprisingly she doesn't get the chance as often as she would like.

When Tony and the others heard her say that there was a collective groan and/or sigh through the comms at her bad attempt of a joke – they have no taste when it comes to cheesy jokes sadly.

Tony sighed through the comm, "Oh come on Norah, really? First you kiss Speedy Gonzales which we all heard and now you're telling cheesy jokes? You going to start telling horrible dad jokes next?" he asked her sarcastically.

"Shut up," Norah defended herself before she quickly Blinked herself from where she was standing in an abandoned street somewhere in the city and to the bridge where Steve, Natasha and a few of the others were fighting off Ultron's metal army at.

It wasn't that pretty of a sight either, they seemed to be surrounded and every time they killed a few off more would suddenly appear to take their place in fighting against the Avengers. It seemed as if it was a losing battle against the metal minions of Ultron's, something that they all were getting pretty damn sick of.

So with pursed lips Norah jumped right besides Steve and Natasha and began to help fight the metal army off as best she could and being extra cautious of where everyone was when she decided to use her more dangerous power to destroy the metal minions and rip them apart. It would do no good to do that to close to one of her teammates and accidentally knock one of them out from stray metal pieces simply because Norah decided to not be conscientious of where everyone was standing and how close they were to her and the metal guys.

Out of the corner of her eye Norah saw that both Pietro and Wanda had arrived but still no sign of Clint, she assumed he would be at least five or ten more minutes since he didn't have the power of super speed like Pietro had. Turning away from where Pietro and Wanda were – she needed to concentrate on what was happening right in front of her – she continued fighting with all she had, she punched even if it hurt like a bitch, she blocked, she Blinked away before they managed to get their hands on her, she kicked at them and dodged them and basically did everything and anything possible to fight these guys and keep them away from the innocent people of the city. She'd rather have them be distracted by her then by some innocent bystander who doesn't know how to fight unlike Norah.

"Hold your fire!" an accented voice suddenly shouted from a few feet away from where Norah was and she assumed it was the police who had joined in taking fire and fighting against Ultron's metal army.

Norah couldn't really worry herself about that right now, she had too much on her plate to worry about as it was. Taking a slow, deep breath of air Norah cleared her mind of everything that was going on and all of her worries about what was going on and concentrated on the fight and on having Steve and Natasha's back. Couldn't be called a team if you don't have one and another's backs in situations like this.

"Norah!" Natasha yelled to gain the younger girls attention who had just destroyed two of Ultron's metal guys and were now laying in a lump at Norah's feet.

Norah looked over at Natasha questioningly, "What?" she yelled back while she looked from her to her surroundings so to not be caught by surprise.

"We need to get these people inside," Natasha said to her and then gestured to the brick and glass building that was behind where she was standing and were a few of the people were making their way towards, but most were in a panicky mess and weren't sure what to do or where to go.

Giving a nod Norah suddenly appeared in front of Natasha who stepped back in surprise at her sudden appearance but soon pointed Norah off in a direction of where some people were at and then went her own way to start helping some of the people into the building that they were going to be using as a refuge for the time being. Until they could think up of a plan, until they were able to defeat Ultron…..if that was even possible because honestly, right now it was looking like they were on a slippery slope and they didn't seem to be on the winning side of it.

Norah went up to an older couple who looked to be in their late seventies to mid-eighties if she had to guess, both of whom looked like they couldn't move all that fast or all that well if the walker that the woman had clutched in her hands was anything to go by. So approaching them with a soft and welcoming smile Norah did her best to communicate with them but they were old and did not know much English as was common with their age group, so doing the best she could Norah told them she was going to take them into the building and for them to not move. Gently but with steady hands Norah grasped first onto the woman who was holding her walker and then onto the man who had an arm wrapped around his wife and then Blinked herself and then up to the building and near a bench so that they could sit down immediately, being Blinked from one place to another did not feel all that nice the first time around. Pietro, Steve and the others could attest to that.

As Norah continued helping get people from outside into the building that they were using for safety, at least for the moment, she listened in on the conversation that she could hear Steve and Tony having through the ear comm that was in her ear at the moment.

"The next wave is going to hit any minute, what have you got Stark?" Steve asked the billionaire.

There was a sigh on Tony's end when Steve asked him that, "Nothing great. Maybe a way to blow up the city, try and keep it from impacting the surface as soon as you guys get clear." He told him.

Steve gave a small grunt, "I asked for a solution not an escape plan." He pointed out to him.

"The impact radius is getting bigger every second, we're gonna have to make a choice." Tony said to him solemnly at what was happening around him and thought that this was definitely not how he wanted things to play out.

After hearing those words Norah stopped listening to what Tony and Steve were talking about and instead Blinked herself inside of the building and pushed herself up against one of the windows that looked out to what was going on outside and brought her hands up to the sides of her head and dug them into the hair that was there. Norah didn't want to believe what Steve and Tony were insinuating, that they won't have a way to escape the floating city and even if they do somehow find a way to get off of the city and get everyone else off of it there would still be the Ultron problem to deal with and if they don't get rid of him right then and there it was more than likely that he would end up killing the human race before they could even make a plan of attack on him again.

Without even realizing it tears suddenly sprang out from Norah's eyes and slowly began to make their way down her face and no matter how many times she tried to wipe at them and to make them stop she couldn't. She didn't want to die, she wanted to reconnect with her older sister Niki, she wanted to meet any family members that her sister may have gained in the last eight or so years, she wanted to see her mother again even if the last time she saw her she wanted to 'fix' Norah of her Mutant problem, she wanted to be able to use her University degree that she only just got and she….and she wanted to get to know Wanda and Pietro.

"Norah." A soft accented voice said to her and grasped her hands with soft feminine hands which clued Norah in that it was Wanda who had come up to her. "Norah it's all right." She said to her softly as she slowly removed Norah's hands from where she had been grasping at her hair.

At that Norah couldn't help but give a dark laugh, "No it's not. No it's not Wanda. We aren't making any headway, we kill and kill and kill more of those damn metal soldiers but we aren't making much of a dent." She told her and gave a sad smile at that simple fact and wished she had some vodka to drink before she died. "Ultron is-"

Before Norah had a chance to say anything else Wanda grasped her by the upper arms harshly and looked her in the eye with a steely resolve, "No, listen to me Norah." She told her. "Do not give up; do not lose hope that we won't be able to win this. We can and we will. You are Avenger, you must fight like one and believe like one. You have gifts Norah," she said as she grabbed Norah's hands in hers. "You have gifts and you must use to help. Don't lose hope Norah. We must, absolutely must succeed in defeating Ultron because if we don't he wins and will kill all humans." She told her.

At that Norah slowly breathed in and out a few times before giving a definite nod, agreeing to what Wanda was trying to tell her. "Thank you. I…I don't know why I was thinking that." She admitted a bit sheepishly at how she acted.

"It is fine, all have days like that." Wanda told her and then pulled Norah into a hug which she accepted without any hesitance.

Norah pulled back with wide eyes when she heard a voice she was not expecting to hear come through her ear comm, quickly before Wanda had a chance to ask what was going on she made her way outside and down the steps and looked over in the direction were both Steve and Natasha were and saw Helicarriers.

"Patchy?" Norah questioned in disbelief as she looked past the city limits of the floating city and grinned at the fact that Fury had their back and brought the cavalry.

There was a heavy sigh on Fury's end before he answered, "Yeah Sjoholm, fancy seeing you here." He said to her with a tone of fondness and frustration all at the same time. "Pulled them out of storage, they're a little dusty but they'll do."

Steve shook his head from beside Natasha, "Fury you son of a bitch." He said with a small smile as he looked over at the Helicarriers.

"Oooh, you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Fury asked in amusement.

There was a gust of wind from beside Norah and she knew without a doubt that it was Pietro, who when she turned to look at him had an amazed look on his face when he saw the Helicarrier flying beside the floating city that they thought they had no way to get off of.

Pietro looked over at Norah and then back at the Helicarrier, "This is SHIELD?" he questioned.

"What SHIELD is supposed to be." Steve answered to him simply.

At that Pietro gave a half smile, "This, not so bad." He admitted as he looked over at Norah and reached over and squeezed her hand for a moment before letting it go.

It only took moments for the life boats, as Fury called them, to come out from some secret compartment on the Helicarrier and begin to make their way towards the floating city so that they could load up all of the civilians and get them off of the city as soon and as fast as possible. Though, they so needed to change the name of lifeboats to something else, something that fit more because quite simply they didn't look anything close to being a lifeboat. But SHIELD will do whatever SHIELD wants.

"Let's load them up." Steve said and then looked over at Pietro. "Can you try and ward off any of Ultron's metal suits while we're loading them up?" he asked and Pietro gave a nod before taking off once again.

It didn't even take a minute for everyone to see the lifeboats heading towards them before they all started bursting out of the brick building and heading towards where the boats were approaching them, they were all desperate to get off of the city as soon as possible and go back down to the ground – where it doesn't float up above the ground. So Steve, Norah, Wanda and Clint went to help everyone onto the lifeboats as quickly and safely as they possibly could and trying to keep everyone from panicking and making a mass flood of people onto the boasts.

"I've got a plan." Tony said through the ear comms once again.

It was Thor who responded to him, "We're running out of time. They're coming for the core." He said to them in a dead serious tone of voice.

Tony made a sound of understanding, "Get the rest of the people on board of that carrier. Avengers," he said and waiting to make sure they were listening to him, dramatic man that he was. "Time to work for a living."

Vodka was needed when this was all done and over with, the good stuff that Norah keeps stored in a secret place that not even Tony has been able to figure out the location of. All it seems that they are doing is running, fighting, pausing to help and then once again running away from or to the metal minions, fighting once again and then pausing to help once again before the cycle continues once again. She just wants this to be over with, she wants Ultron to be destroyed once and for all so that she doesn't have to worry about him coming after her friends and family any longer or worry about him trying to kill off the human race.

They headed to where the core was – the church where Pietro and Wanda had first met Ultron and decided to join him. This was the place where they needed to be so that they could protect the core from all of Ultron's metal minions and protect it from Ultron himself, there's no telling what will happen if Ultron gets what he wants in the end. Definitely nothing good, that was for sure.

"Norah!" Tony said once he was within shouting distance of the church and strode inside without looking at anyone else, his eyes looking at his daughter in concern. "Are you all right?" he asked.

At that Norah rolled her eyes and pushed on the metal of his suit, "Fine, Tony. Promise." She told him and gave a scouts honor sort of salute to him to show him that she was genuine about that.

Tony looked down at her through the eyes of the suit "I heard you talking to Wanda." He told her and cocked his head to the side curiously.

"I'm fine," Norah said waving her hands dismissively. "Lapse of….judgement? Of sanity." She said with a nod of her head. "Its fine now, promise." She told him.

He gave a nod of his Iron Man head and then looked out of the arches of the church they were in, "Romanoff you and Banner better not be playing hide the zucchini." He said jokingly, wondering where they were.

At that Norah shook her head at her father and wondered about his sanity, and wondered how in the world no one has tried to kill him from his sarcasm, jokes and asshole comments that he tended to make a good majority of the time. In fact, how Pepper hasn't murdered him in a fit of rage and frustration was shocking.

There was a hand on Norah's cheek suddenly, pulling her attention from her thoughts to what was going on in front of her. "You are okay?" he asked as he looked at her in concern.

Pietro had also heard Norah and Wanda's conversation through the ear comm he was wearing but he wasn't going to drill her or ask her repeatedly if she was all right, now wasn't exactly the time for that and besides, he heard the outcome of the conversation the two females had and he knew that he had nothing to worry about. Norah was having a small breakdown during a battle; it wasn't unusual or unheard of.

"So," Natasha said as she walked in and joined everyone. "What's the drill?" she questioned curiously, a raised brow directed over at Steve and Tony.

Tony gestured over towards the core that was in the middle of the building, "This." He said as Natasha looked over in that direction before pulling her eyes away and giving Tony an expectant look. "If Ultron gets his hands on the core we lose."

Not even a second after Tony had explained that to Natasha did Hulk drop out of the sky or wherever it was that he was and he dropped right out in front of the church and crushed one of the Ultron's metal men when he had landed, effectively destroying the machine without much effort. Once Hulk had joined them Ultron decided to make his face known finally after having the majority of the Avengers fighting against his minions rather than him himself, he was maybe fifteen feet from where they stood in the church, surrounding the core protectively refusing to let Ultron get what he wants.

Thor looked at Ultron in anger and frustration, "Is that the best you can do?" he challenged him threateningly with his hammer that he held in his hand.

Steve gave a heavy sigh when Thor said that and then looked out at Ultron and saw the metal army that Ultron had called to him and saw at least twenty or thirty of them if not more than that. "You had to ask didn't you." He said to Thor rhetorically.

Ultron stretched his arms out from his sides and then gestured to his metal army, "This is the best I can do. This is exactly what I wanted, all of you against all of me. How could you possibly hope to stop me?" he questioned a sadistic grin on his face as he looked over the Avengers that were assembled in front of him.

Tony looked over at Steve and then at Ultron, "Well, like the old man said. Together." He explained to him simply.

Hulk glared at Ultron and the others and gave a mighty roar in warning, when he did that Norah looked over at Hulk with a grin before looking back to Ultron. "What he said." She said to him defiantly and then let her arms out loose and got ready for the attack that was about to be going on in a manner of seconds.

"You do not need to do this Ultron." Vision said, to try and reason with him and what the angry machine was doing.

"Oh, no. No, no, no." Ultron said as he looked at Vision, the body he was supposed to have had. "I do. I really do." He said to him and then looked at his army and they suddenly surged forwards towards the Avengers.

It was instantaneous; Natasha, Hulk, Tony, Vision, Thor, Pietro, Wanda, Norah and Clint all started to fight with Ultron's minions within seconds and were doing their damndest to keep them all away from the core as well as away from one and another which was one of the more complicating tasks. They would get rid of one and another would take its place, Ultron was doing all that he could to have these metal men that he controlled get at the Avengers and get to the core so he could do whatever diabolical deed he wanted to do.

Norah was fighting near Clint and was doing her best to be careful with her powers and to make sure that she didn't accidentally take a wall out while trying to hit one of the metal minions, they could move suddenly and Norah could be already committed to the motion of using her power and it could take a wall out without her meaning to or that being the original target. It happened a few times back at Xavier's but back then she hadn't been at her full potential like she is now.

Before Norah had a chance to realize what was happening there was one of the metal minions had grabbed Norah and threw her against the wall hard enough that it took her a few moments to get her bearings and for her vision to focus. She heard the shouts of her name from Tony, Pietro and her other teammates but she ignored them, shook her head a bit before she stood back up and threw herself at the minion who had thrown her against the wall and wrapped her legs around it's torso before she took the knife that she had in her boot out and shoved it forcefully through the head of the thing and then jumped off of its back and flicked her hands at it so it was nothing but a heap at her feet.

Fighting and fighting and fighting, that's all that they were doing and that's all it seems that they will ever do but Norah would rather fight till she breaths her last breath than be killed simply because she decided to give up from how hopeless something may or may not be.

Glancing to the left Norah saw that there was a metal minion going after Natasha who was already fighting two other ones and so Norah quickly ran over the few feet it took to get to Natasha and then grabbed her shoulder roughly without meaning to and Blinked her out of the way of the metal man that was about to slam his fist into the top of her head. Something that could possibly kill her depending on the strength that the minion would have used on her and Norah would really rather not chance finding that out.

"Thanks." Natasha said before she headed back into the fight once again.

Looking straight upwards Norah saw that there were a whole bunch of the metal men coming at them from above, or at least that was what their intention was but Norah wasn't about to let that happen. So, raising her hands upwards towards where there were she quickly flicked her hands upwards towards tem and forced them to explode to bits and pieces of metal in a backwards direction with only a few pieces falling to the ground where the Avengers were fighting at the moment.

Soon it was obvious that Ultron was not going to be able to get past any of them, they were all too stubborn and hated Ultron much too much to let him through and Vision, Thor and Tony stepped outside to confront Ultron and blasted him with their powers. Thor using his lightening power, Vision using the mind stone and Tony using the power in his suit to blast at Ultron.

"You know with a –" Ultron began to say to them but was cut off unexpectedly by Hulk leaping at him and throwing his fist right into the middle of his face which resulted in Ultron flying out of their current vicinity and across the city far away from where the Avengers were at the moment.

Hulk turned from the spot that Ultron had just been in and looked at the metal minions that still remained and growled at them, challenging them to try something but they looked at him for a moment before taking off into the skies to escape from the flying city and from the Avengers who only wanted to kill them.

"They're trying to leave the city." Thor said as he watched the metal army fly off and away from them.

Tony shook his head, "We can't let them, not even one. Rhodey?" he questioned through his ear comm.

"On it." Rhodey said in affirmation.

Steve was looking at everyone that now stood with him in the room, looking every part the leader of the group. "We gotta move out, even I can tell the air's getting thin." He said and then looked at Clint, Natasha and Norah. "You guys get to the boats. I'll do a sweep for stragglers and be right behind you." He said.

Clint furrowed his brows, "What about the core?" he questioned, they couldn't leave it alone in case Ultron or one of the metal minions came back for it.

"I'll protect it." Wanda said as she looked over at Clint seriously and then over at Steve. "It's my job." She said with certainty.

Clint looked over at Natasha and Norah, "Nat, Norah. Let's go." He said as he made his way out of the church with Natasha following without much of an argument or grumbling for not being able to keep on fighting.

When Norah didn't move to head towards the life boats Steve looked at her with an arched brow, "Norah?" he questioned and then gestured towards the exit of the church. "Get to the lifeboats and get to safety." He ordered.

In response to that Norah shook her head, "No." she said to him simply while both Wanda and Pietro watched this with rapt attention, never seeing someone say no to the Captain as of yet, both wondering what will happen. "You'll need me here Steve, in case one of the people here needs immediate evac. I'm the only one who will be able to get them there in three seconds flat, so no Steve, I'm staying and I'm helping."

"Now look here Norah-" Steve began to say in a mix between a commanding officer and a stern father but Norah interrupted him before he had a chance to finish his sentence.

Norah looked at Steve, "Steve," she said to him softly. "We don't have time for this right now. Just go, I'll be fine. Contact me if you find someone who needs help." She told him with a 'no arguing' sort of expression on her face.

Shaking his head, Steve knew when he was fighting an argument that he couldn't win if he had all the time in the world. So instead Steve just turned tail and headed out into the city to search for any people that may have been left behind unintentionally and get them to the life boats as fast as he possibly could.

Suddenly Pietro reappeared after one of his fights with the metal minions had taken him outside, looking at Wanda and Norah curiously he approached the both of them with curiosity in his eyes.

"Get the people on the boats." Wanda said as he looked between him and Norah. "Both of you." She commanded.

Pietro crossed his arms over his chest and looked at his sister as if she had just lost her mind, "I'm not going to leave you here." He said to her as he shook his head at her.

Wanda narrowed her eyes when he said that, "I can handle these." She said and threw some of her red wisps of energy at one of the metal men that tried to come at her but she had destroyed him and pulled him a part before he had the chance to get near to her.

When Wanda had done that Pietro conceded that she could handle them fine and that she was not the young girl that he used to protect and take care of when they were young, she no longer needed him to look out for her even if he desperately wanted to do so. Wanda was her own person; she was strong and fierce and was not afraid of being in danger to right the wrong that she and Pietro had made.

"Come back for me when everyone else is off, not before." Wanda said as Pietro approached her and she looked down into his face. "Do you understand?" she asked, or rather ordered of him.

Pietro was walking past his sister to do as she asked of him even if he really didn't want to do it, "You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you." He said to her with a playful grin on his face.

Wanda gave a small smile when he said that and laughed a bit, "Go." She ordered of him and as he sent one last look at Norah and his sister he took off.

"Be safe Wanda," Norah said as she looked at the female Sokovian. "I'll be very annoyed if you end up getting yourself injured. Tears will more than likely be involved and I don't like it when that happens." She told her with feigned annoyance at the thought of crying.

Wanda shook her head at her, "You as well Norah. Now go before I force you to." She told her as she wiggled her fingers at her.

Norah Blinked herself out of the church to a few streets down and began to search around the area to find any people who may have been left behind on accident or because they were too afraid to move – she didn't blame them, she was scared shitless too – and made sure that they made it to one of the lifeboats that were waiting on the floating city before she headed back out to the city once again to continue her search unwilling to leave one single person who still breathed in the city. After blinking to all sorts of random places in the city Norah had ended up finding at least three or four other people who hadn't left their homes or had been too frightened to even think about leaving to find some safety, thankfully she had decided to join Steve in looking for people.

Norah was once again near where the lifeboats were, intending on either getting on one or going to join Wanda until they were sure that the people of the city were on the lifeboats but before she had a chance to make that decision there was the sound of the quinjet shooting and quickly as she could Norah turned to see what it was shooting at and saw Clint with a small boy around the age of eight or so clutching onto him for dear life. Seeing a blur heading towards Clint and the boy intending to try and save them from the fire of the quinjet Norah closed her eyes for a moment and gathered all the strength that she possessed knowing without a doubt that she was about to do something incredibly stupid because of Clint, the young boy and Pietro who was heading towards where Clint was.

Norah knew that if Pietro succeeded in saving Clint and the boy that he would end up getting himself shot up and killed and that was something she couldn't let happen to either him or Clint; Clint had Laura and the kids to think about and Pietro had his sister Wanda to think about who Norah was somewhat sure would not be able to live through him dying. Norah, well Norah hasn't seen her family in about eight years or so and so they wouldn't know any different, but Tony and Pepper would be pissed if she got herself killed but she had to do this. She…..she couldn't let Pietro die.

So taking a deep breath and looking at where the quinjet was heading, where Pietro was heading and where Clint and that kid were crouched at to protect themselves Norah made the decision and Blinked herself away from where she had been standing and reappeared just as Pietro had showed up and quickly grabbed him by the shoulder and then pressed her hand on Clint's before Blinking them away but not before she heard the gunfire from the quinjet. Reappearing near the brick and glass building that everyone had been taking refuge at Norah gave a sigh of relief when she saw that both Pietro and Clint were alive as well as the child.

"Tha-" Norah began to say but the moment she spoke was when she realized that there was something definitely wrong with her, looking down at herself Norah's eyes widened when she saw gunshot holes in her clothing and blood began to appear at a rapid pace and she looked up at Pietro and Clint who both were looking at her in shock and then before either of them knew what was happening Norah collapsed.

Pietro putting his powers to use quickly caught Norah before she could injure herself more and laid her out on the hard ground and looked at her in panic, not believing that she had just sacrificed herself to save him and Clint who he had intended on saving. Quickly as he could he pressed his hands to the wound that was in one of her sides, desperately trying to stop the bleeding and to keep her from bleeding out, he wasn't sure what to do right now or if she was in danger of bleeding out or what exactly. He's never been in this sort of situation before and has never had training with anything medical related other than how to put a band aide on and wrap a minor would, nothing as serious as this.

"Norah, hey, Norah. Please," Pietro said as he grabbed one of her hands with his free one. "Look at me, yes? I need you to look at me." He said to her as he watched as Norah looked around wildly with pain filled eyes, he turned from her for a moment and looked over at Clint who had wide eyes fixed on Norah. "Old man," he said gaining his attention. "I….What must I do?"

Before Clint could answer that question Norah started gasping, "It…it hurts. God, it hurts. Please." Norah said as she tried to grab at Pietro's shirt, clinging to it as if it was the only thing that was keeping her alive at the moment.

Never before has Pietro been in a situation like this, never before has he ever felt so intensely for someone in such a short time like he does with Norah. Norah means a lot to him for some odd reason even though it has only been a week or so at the most that they have known each other and at least half of those days he had been with Ultron but even then she had piqued his interest and he couldn't help but be drawn to her and now, now Norah was laying on the ground of Sokovia bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds because she wanted to save him, save Clint and save the little boy that Clint had been trying to save.

"Norah, you must live for me, yes." Pietro said from where he was kneeling on the ground next to Norah who was lying on the cement ground and bleeding from the gunshot wounds she had received because she decided to save Pietro, Clint and a young boy Clint was bringing to be transported from the floating city. "You cannot die."

At that Norah gave a pained laugh, "I'll…I'll try my best." She said as she hissed in pain, she could feel where all three of the bullets that hit her were in her body and god did they hurt like a bitch but it was worth it in the end; she saved Pietro, Clint and the kid. "I'm not really in the mood to die."

Clint looked at Norah and took a shaky breath; he went with Fury to find her in Romania and offer her help and training with her powers, he has known her for three years and he cared for her like family and seeing her laying on the ground and bleeding and from the looks and sound of it she could have been shot in the lung which was not a good thing at all. Norah didn't deserve this, Tony and Pepper didn't deserve to go through this. Norah was only twenty-two and had just finished University with a double degree.

"Pietro." Clint said softly as he looked at where Pietro was knelt down besides Norah, and then looked at Norah who was in serious trouble if her wounds didn't get tended to soon. "We need to go, we need to get her to the Helicarrier."

"Go," Pietro said and waved Clint to go ahead of him. "I will be moments." He said as he turned back to Norah with a gentle smile. "Moj mali bik." He said as he grabbed her hand which had blood on it from her pressing her hand on one of her wounds. "You will live for me, you made promise to me." He said as he shifted and slid one arm under her knees and another around her back and stood up carefully and much slower than he would have preferred to go but he was not about to take any chances when it came to Norah's health and safety.

Norah slung an arm around Pietro's neck, her fingers weakly touching his silver/blonde colored hair and gave a small grin. "I did, didn't I?" she said as her pain filled brown eyes looked up into his intense blue colored ones. "I promised to be in the sort of situation where less clothing would be involved."

"Yes, you promised that to me." Pietro said as he steadied her in his arms. "I do not like promises being broken." He said to her with a half-hearted grin, he hoped to all the gods that existed that Norah would live and would not die in the fifteen minutes that it would take to get to the Helicarrier.

"I'll do my best." Norah said softly, blinking her eyes rapidly. "I'm so tired Pietro." She said to him weakly.

Hearing that Pietro's eyes widened, he may not know much when it came to the medical field but he did know enough that someone should not fall asleep after they were injured, especially with how seriously Norah seemed to be injured. Without a second thought in mind Pietro sped quickly to the ships that were transporting them to the Helicarrier and did all that he could to keep Norah's eyes open; he would not lose Norah after only just finding her.

~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Author's Note ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~

Well I finally finished all of the chapters for the movie and am so proud of myself for being able to do that, some days i wasn't so sure if I could but I did and now, now we can move onto more Norah/Pietro relationship stuff and having Norah see her family again soon hopefully.

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