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A/N: I know I took a good long while to get this out and I'm sorry about that just wasn't able to find a muse or get the words out in the way I wanted them so I took a small break and read some Walking Dead fanfics instead for a while but now, I am back!

A/N2: Hope you enjoy!

Chapter Nineteen

"I…I was shot." Norah said matter-of-factly to Wanda who was sitting beside where she laid on the rather large medical bed.

No matter how you looked at it there was no getting around the fact nor the vivid memories that Norah had been shot while in Sokovia, that she had been shot and that it was Ultron who had done it. One moment she had Blinked herself from wherever she had been standing and over to where Clint, the kid Clint was bringing to one of the lifeboats and where Pietro was and then the next moment she Blinked them to somewhere that was out of the way of the path that Ultron and the quinjet were in but before she had the chance to Blink the four of them away she felt an intense burning sensation but couldn't pinpoint the exact location on her body where it was coming from, all she knew was that it hurt but she didn't have time to think about it at the moment, she needed to get the four of them out of the imminent danger that they were in. It was only after Norah had saved Pietro, Clint and the kid and had tried to take a few steps that she realized that something as most definitely and indisputably wrong with her – collapsing to the ground was a big hint too, and the blood.

Before that moment Norah had never really feared for her life or thought about all of the things she would lose if she were to die, but right then and there she had feared for her life and lamented what she would miss and wouldn't get to do again. She wondered if she would ever get to see her dad again – Tony – or Pepper, or have a girls night with Pepper and Natasha….and sometimes joined by Clint, or argue with Steve about the fact that he acted like an overprotective brother at times and treated her like some silly woman from the 1940's while he opened doors for her and pushed her chair in as well (It was cute in the beginning). But what had flashed through her mind the most vividly was the fact that she'd never be able to reconnect with her older sister Niki, that she'd never have a chance to get to know Pietro and Wanda better and that she'd never have a chance to kiss Pietro again.

Wanda nodded at Norah as she took one of the blonde haired girl's hands within both of hers and squeezed gently, silently showing Norah that she was there for her. "Yes." She said with a small nod and then looked at Norah in concern, getting shot is not something that a person can take lightly. "You were shot in Sokovia. Do you remember what happened?" she questioned softly, watching Norah like a hawk in case she had a sudden adverse reaction to waking up or to trying to remember everything that had happened.

Wanda knew what had happened, both Pietro and Clint had told her and the rest of the Avengers what had happened to Norah and that Norah knew she had been shot but she had also been through a traumatic experience and a trying week and sometimes people forgot things that had happened to them after they experience something so traumatic. Even the doctors that had been working on Norah weren't certain if she would remember the fight with Ultron in Sokovia but had told them all that with time it would all come back to her and that if she needed it that she could go to therapy to help deal with the memories and nightmares that she may end up having. Wanda was more than willing to be there for Norah; to support her, to talk to her, to treat her as normal as possible, to be her friend, as was Pietro. Neer in her twenty-three years has Wanda ever been shot before but she has seen others who were, some who were older than Norah and some that were much younger than Norah was now. Some people who were shot accepted what had happened and dealt with it accordingly, and some….well some would have a break down about what happened and would wonder why it happened, why it happened to them of all people and would want to blame someone or something for it even if they weren't at fault. Wanda just hoped that Norah would be the first sort of people – the ones who accept it and deal with it the best they can.

Closing her eyes tightly, Norah tried to sort through her erratic memories that were swirling around in her mind at the moment and did her best to make sense of everything and try and piece together what exactly had happened in Sokovia. "Ultron." Norah said suddenly as she slowly opened her eyes and looked into the blue colored eyes of Wanda that mirrored the one's of her brother. "Ultron shot me." She said as she gazed at Pietro who was still dead asleep in his chair, the back of his head inches from her and within reach of her fingertips if she wished to touch him. "I…I Blinked over to where Clint, Pietro and that kid were, I saw Ultron heading straight for them and shooting at them from the quinjet. I couldn't, god, I couldn't let them get shot especially the kid who couldn't have been more than eight or nine years old. So I made a choice." Norah said to Wanda, her brow furrowing a bit at trying to remember some parts of what had happened to her that led her to being in the medical bed that she was laying in at the moment. "I Blinked over to them and grabbed Clint and Pietro by their shoulders and Blinked them, the kid and myself out of danger but I guess I wasn't fast enough. I…I got shot. I don't remember how many times but I know it was at least twice. I don't remember if Pietro or Clint or even the kid was shot or not, I was in so much pain and exhausted from everything. From running, from barely getting any sleep, from using to much of my powers….just everything made me tired and then getting shot, well that certainly didn't help things."

At that Wanda nodded, "That is what Pietro and Clint told, they say very similar story." She told her softly, a soft smile on her face at the fact that Norah had finally woken and no longer would have to see her brother being a subdued version of himself and acting like a hermit.

For a moment the two females lapsed into silence, Wanda thankful that Norah woke up after being unconscious for eleven days, nine of which she was in a medically induced a coma and Norah, well Norah was thankful to be awake and a live even if it was a bit painful on her part but at least she wasn't dead and personally she saw that as a win. Norah really wasn't fond of that whole dying and dead situation; just not her style.

Finally though, Norah broke the silence that had settled between the two. "Please tell me we finally got rid of that bastard." She spit out and then looked up into Wanda's eyes with a serious look in her eye, a fire within her eyes waiting to hear whether or not they still had a murder crazy robot needing to be killed. "I really am too tired to do this whole week on repeat until we kill the guy, so please, please tell me we killed Ultron." She begged Wanda tiredly as she slipped her hand from being encased by Wanda's and rubbed the right side of her temple, for sleeping for so long she sure had a hell of a head ache.

At that Wanda gave a half smile and shook her head at Norah, "Do not worry, we defeated Ultron, we do not need worry anymore." She told her simply.

"Thank the gods," Norah said with a heavy sigh of relief and then looked fondly at Pietro who was lying his head near her hips and then at Wanda. "Are you okay? Pietro? The other's haven't been treating you badly have they?" she demanded, a tight lipped expression on her face at the thought of her newly made friends and whatever Pietro was to her being treated badly. "I can kick their ass if you want, or just because." She said with a sly smirk on her face, a sign that she was still the same even after going through the whole getting shot thing and being unconscious for almost two weeks.

Hearing that made Wanda's heart soar; neither she nor Norah have known each other for all that long but Norah had threatened her friends and family if they had mistreated Wanda in any way and that Wanda thankful that things had happened as they did because otherwise she and Pietro would have never met Norah. Wanda hoped that in time, both she and Norah could grow to be close friends and that she would finally have that female friend that she had always hoped for – Pietro simply didn't measure up to having a female friend and he got overprotective whenever a boy showed interest in her or whenever she talked about a boy she found attractive.

"No, no there is no need for that." Wanda told her with an amused smile on her face at Norah's antics, happy that Norah seemed to be acting like usual and didn't seem to be all that affected by the fact that she had been shot. "They have been very friendly. They show me through the city, show Statue of Liberty, the Museum of Natural History and Central Park. I ate a….hot dog?" she questioned uncertainly as she tried to remember the new food that she had tried when she had gone sightseeing with Steve and Natasha. While living in Sokovia neither Wanda or Pietro really had a chance to try different foods. "Yes, hot dog from food stand. I've never tasted anything like it. I thought it would be like sausage or Salami but it wasn't. I loved it." Wanda said with a wide grin on her face from remembering the experience but then frowned, she should not talking and gossiping like this with Norah who had only just woken up not even twenty minutes ago, Wanda should get one of the doctors and let them know that Norah woke up.

Norah nodded smiled at that, "Yeah, food stand hotdogs are the best." She said to her and wished that she could have one of those right now, but she got the feeling that neither Wanda, Pietro or any of the others would authorize her gallivanting into the streets of New York City simply to get a hotdog from a street vendor. "Never trust the chili dogs though, never ever." She said to Wanda with a dead serious tone of voice as she looked her in the eyes. "You'll regret it, trust me." She said gravely and gave an involuntary shiver at that horrible memory, she couldn't bear to eat or even look at chili or hot dogs for at least three months straight.

Norah couldn't even begin to describe how thankful she was at the moment, how thankful she was for the fact that she was still alive and kicking an able to be her sarcastic and sassy self – okay, technically she was confined to a bed at the moment and covered in bandages and in a hell of a lot of pain but it was better than being dead as a doornail. Being alive meant that Norah could try and reconnect with her sister who she had left a somewhat short message for on her answering machine before she and everyone else had headed to Sokovia to fight Ultron, hopefully now that she was awake and alive she could call Niki and maybe…..maybe go and see her once she gets healed up enough. One thing Norah missed about having a sister was the relationship that she had with Niki, she missed staying up late and having a girls night which her sister did without complaint even though Norah was seven years younger than her, she also missed being able to talk to her sister about their mother when she was getting on her nerves or when Norah thought she was overreacting and god, he just missed having a sibling. And even though Niki had originally sided with their mother on the whole Mutant thing, Norah missed her sister and wanted to see her again and hoped to all the gods that these years of being separated changed Niki's mind, made her see Mutant's as they really were – people not things to be feared.

Norah wondered if Niki had a family of her own now, and she kinda hoped that she did have one. A nice husband and a kid or two that Norah could spoil rotten since she's missed out on so many years or something like that and maybe even a dog or something. When she had been younger Norah had always wanted what every girl wanted; prince charming to come into her life and sweep her off of her feet and take her away to a better life or some shit like that. But the whole being a Mutant thing pushed those fantasies right out of the window, it would be hard to find a prince charming while being a Mutant which most of society feared because a few of them were bad apples and really, finding prince charming was a bit overrated and over romanticized. Norah would take an attractive Sokovian with silver/blonde hair over prince charming any day of the week.

"When Pietro first told me of you – after you met in woods – and said that you were like us, different. I brushed it off, I did not think we see you again after that and forgot about you. But then we saw you again, in South Africa." Wanda started to say quietly to Norah, doing her best to keep quiet so to not wake her slumbering brother up who has been doing his damndest to stay awake. "He talked of you after South Africa, I saw his obsession and how drawn he was to you and I tell him stay away, say that you are not good. I said that he didn't need to get mixed up with you, you were with the Avengers and we were with Ultron. I thought he was fascinated because of what you could do, because you were different like us." Wanda admitted as she looked away from her brother's sleeping form and to Norah who was gazing at her with curiosity, wondering what exactly Wanda was getting at or what she was trying to tell her. "I did not like you or the interest that Pietro had for you, I thought it distract him from what we needed to do. But then," she said with a pause and looked at Norah with a soft smile on her face and a lighter tone of voice. "Then I changed mind, I saw into your mind and saw what happened to you in St. Louis." She said and noticed Norah shrink back involuntarily but continued on with what she was saying. "I saw your family, the Mutant school you went to, the friends you had there. I saw the home you had in Sweden and I saw SHIELD finding you in Romania and offering to help. I saw it all when I was messing with your mind and….and I saw what you thought of Pietro."

Looking at Wanda curiously Norah cocked her head to the side a bit as she stared at the brown haired girl and wondered why she was telling her all of this and for a moment panicked and wondered if she was about to use her power on her and threaten her to either stay away from her brother or to not hurt him. Her common sense came back to her soon after that thought strayed into her mind, Wanda had been amused by both Norah and Pietro's relationship or whatever it was that they were doing and seemed to encourage it even so it was unlikely that she would try and threaten or hurt her. Also, Norah really hoped that Wanda hadn't seen the more rated R thoughts she had about Pietro.

"You two have only know each other for short time but you were drawn to him; to his arrogance, to his playfulness, to his person in general and felt and interest to him the moment you two started bantering in the forest of Sokovia. And he was fascinated by you the moment you punched him in face and chased after him without a thought to your safety, you ran after him without hesitation because you wanted to do what is right, because you wanted to help your friends. You were not afraid to face problems or danger head on, you are stubborn and fierce….like a bull." Wanda said to her and thought that Moj mali bik which Pietro often called Norah fondly fit her perfectly now that she knew Norah a bit better. "It has always been just Pietro and I since our parents died when we were younger, I have never trusted anyone much and had never trusted anyone that Pietro had even though about dating – he didn't date often, he always say to me 'Wanda, you are most important female in my life. I do not have time for silly girls'. You though, I see in eyes that you are trustworthy and genuinely care for my brother. I can see you aren't pretending to get something from him be it sex or money, you are not doing this to pass time but you care for him. You are good for Pietro and he is good for you, at least that is what Pepper and Natasha say." She told Norah sincerely, hoping that whatever is happening between her brother and Norah became something long term and serious. "I hope you know that it is not just Pietro who cares, he may care in different way but I care as well and hope to consider you friend one day."

For a moment Norah said nothing in response to what Wanda had just said and revealed to her, Wanda had just been so open and honest with Norah and told her what she had thought of her at first and what she thought of the relationship her brother and Norah had. It was nice, more than nice even, to hear that Wanda wanted to consider Norah her friend which Norah was more than willing to do since she had too few female friends – basically just Natasha and Kitty and her friend Francheska 'Frankie' from University who had moved overseas for work six months ago. So Wanda wanting and hoping to be friends with Norah was the highlight of everything that Wanda had just told her.

"Honey," Norah said in a teasing tone of voice as she looked at Wanda with a playful smirk on her face. "Once I get my claws in you there's no going back, we're friends now and nothing can change that fact." She told her which made Wanda give a grin, teeth showing and all. "Unless of course you eat the last of my Chocolate Chip Mint Ice Cream, we'd have a problem if that happened." She said and leveled Wanda with a death stare that meant certain death if she ever dared to do what Norah just said.

At that Wanda couldn't help but give a giggle that was reminiscent of a teenage girl, "I will not eat your chocolate chip mint ice cream as you call it, though I have never eaten it before and it does sound interesting. What does it taste like?" she questioned as she looked at Norah expectantly, waiting to hear her answer.

Norah looked at Wanda unblinking, barely able to comprehend the fact that she's never had the chance or had the opportunity to taste chocolate chip mint ice cream because of where she and Pietro had lived and grown up and because of how they had grown up – poor and without much of a chance to better their lives, at least not until Hydra had come around and even then they didn't better their lives, instead they just gained powers.

"I guess I have my work cut out for me, hmm?" Norah asked rhetorically to Wanda who looked at her in confusion. "I'm going to introduce you and Pietro and probably Vision to Pop Culture, to Meme's, to Snapchat and Facebook, and to all sorts of different food and whatnot. Tony has an obsession with Shwarma but I don't see what the big deal is, but Chinese and Thai food, god, it's mouthwatering. Oh!" she said suddenly, excitement in her eyes. "Banana splits, I'm so going to introduce you two to that and pizza and really bad TV shows. But on top of the list is Chocolate Chip Mint Ice Cream, FYI." She told her with determination in her voice and a serious look in her eye that made Wanda a bit cautious about what she may be getting herself into whether it willingly or unwillingly.

Turning her dark brown eyes from Wanda and instead towards Pietro's sleeping form Norah couldn't help but give a soft smile at the man who she had somehow found during this turbulent week or so while dealing with Ultron and him trying to kill every living human being, a man who she tried to tell herself to not get involved with or even think about how attractive and cute he was but failed in doing so within five minutes after telling herself that. Shaking her head at Pietro and how uncomfortable he looked sleeping in the chair beside her bed Norah slowly reached out a hand towards him, her left hand which was closest to him, and gently began to run her fingers through his silver/blonde colored hair relishing in the fact that she was able to touch him and that he was in fact there and that this wasn't some sort of sick and twisted dream that her drug induced mind came up with. Slowly and with a feather light touch, Norah moved her fingers from his hair and slowly moved them down the side of his face where she could feel more than just a bit of stubble – obviously he hasn't really taken the time to shave since arriving at the tower – and then they ghosted over his cheek, slowly brushed against his bottom lip and then finally she cupped one side of his face with her hand and caressed his cheek with her thumb. Slowly Pietro began to wake from his sleep and blinked his eyes rapidly for a moment before his blue colored eyes focused on Norah, furrowing his brows for a moment as he tried to comprehend what he was seeing his eyes widened when he realized what he was seeing and before Norah could even utter a word he had gotten up and pulled his chair as close to her bedside as he possibly could and grasped her hand within his own.

"Norah-" Pietro began to say but before he could say much more than his name he was interrupted by Norah.

Norah couldn't help herself, she really couldn't and so the moment Pietro had uttered her name with his accent she had sat up a bit painfully and ignored Wanda hissing her name, trying to scold her for sitting up when she should be laying down and instead grasped Pietro by the shirt he was wearing and pulled him to her and kissed him quite forcefully. Reaching up with one hand Norah grasped at the hair that was at the back of his neck as her other hand steadied her on the bed so that she didn't teeter to one side or the other, meanwhile Pietro framed both sides of Norah's face with his larger hands and returned the kiss just as forcefully and passionately.

It's been eleven days since he had last seen Norah awake and since he had last spoken to Norah and it wasn't exactly the best memory; he had been frightened that she would bleed out and die before he had a chance to get her to the Helicarrier so that she could get patched up and fixed from the numerous bullet wounds that had entered her body because she decided to save him, Clint and the kid from being shot. He was thankful that he still lived and that he hadn't died in Sokovia but Norah scared him to death, he had only just found her and refused to lose her simply because she was doing what she thought was right and ended up getting shot because of it.

Pietro kissed Norah at a much slower and softer pace after the first few initial kisses after realizing that she was finally awake, "You took your time moj mali bik. I thought you became sleeping beauty while sleeping and that why you were taking so long." He said to her teasingly as he pressed his forehead against hers and let out a relieved sigh at the fact that she was finally awake, a good sign that her body had recovered well and had healed up enough to do so without being in a medically induced a coma.

At that Norah scoffed, "I'm the farthest thing from Sleeping Beauty that you will ever meet." She told him with a soft smile on her face as she laid her hand on the back of Pietro's neck, keeping him in place.

"I think different." Pietro said to her with a small chuckle and then inhaled deeply, taking in the earthy smell of Norah and then twitched his nose a bit when some of her curly hair brushed up against his nose uncomfortably. "I have missed you, you slept and slept for much too long." He said to her. "I am glad you did not die."

"Me too," Norah said as she maneuvered her head from being pressed against Pietro's until it lay against his shoulder. "I didn't want to die, and besides," she said as she pulled away briefly to look up into his thankful eyes. "I made you a promise and I wasn't about to break that promise simply because I was shot however many times and nearly died."

Hearing that Pietro chuckled softly and pressed a kiss to her temple, something which he has missed desperately since she had been unconscious and couldn't wait to do once they had the privacy to do so. "Oh, moj mali bik how I have missed you." He said to her and closed his eyes for a moment to enjoy the feeling of having Norah so close to him once again and able to feel the heat of her skin against his hand once again.

Wanda was quiet during this exchange and knew that the two of them needed this, needed to reconnect and find out for themselves that one and another were fine as could be. But she did know that Norah definitely should not be sitting up at the moment and that they needed to let the others, or at least the doctors know that she was awake finally. They would want to check her out themselves and be absolutely certain she was okay and make sure that she wasn't in too much pain and to check on her healing wounds as well.

"Norah," Wanda said gaining both her brother's and Norah's attention, both looking at her a bit sheepishly for forgetting that she was there in the room with them. "You must lay down, you are not completely healed yet. You must rest." She said to her sternly, eyes narrowing at the stubborn American.

Pietro could have hit himself for not realizing that even though she had woken from a coma that she would not be healed up completely, "She is right, you must rest so your wounds heal faster." He said to her and then slowly eased her back down on her back and pushed against her uninjured shoulder/neck area and gave her a look. "Do not try to move."

At that Norah raised a brow and tried to cross her arms from her laying down position but soon hissed in pain when she did so and pulled back the shirt she was wearing that tied on the side and saw a bandage over her chest, having a wound there was not a good thing or at least from what she has seen in movies and read in books.

"I told you to not move, silly stubborn American." Pietro said as he settled back down in his chair beside Norah's bed and then looked at Wanda. "We should let others know, yes?" he questioned as he reached forward and grasped Norah's hand and slowly caressed the top of her hand with his thumb.

Wanda nodded at her brother, "Friday?" she questioned to the room which earned a raised brow from Norah wondering who the hell Friday was.

An Irish lilting voice answered, "Yes Wanda?" a voice responded.

"Can you get doctors and say that Norah has woken up, and get Tony and Pepper." Wand responded to the voice politely and then gave a pointed look to Norah when she tried to protests that statement.

"Certainly." The voice Friday said to Wanda.

Looking between Pietro and Wanda, Norah looked at the two expectantly. "So, am I guessing right when I say that that must be the new Jarvis?" she questioned curiously.

It was Wanda who answered her, "Yes, Tony…..installed," she said searching for the right English word. "Her into the building a day or two after we arrived here."

Closing her eyes for a moment Norah took a deep breath and then grimaced a bit at the pain that blossomed in her chest from that action, it felt as if her chest was being pulled a part and not in the same way as when she Blinked from one place to another. Blinking was more of an uncomfortable sensation rather than a painful one like taking deep breaths was for her.

Opening her eyes once again Norah saw both Pietro and Wanda looking at her in curiosity and concern, she must have really worried everyone if they were looking at her like that and was dreading to see how Pepper and Tony were going to react when they see that she was awake. "How long was I out for?"

"Eleven days." Wanda told her bluntly.

Hearing that Norah's eyes widened a bit in shock, she knew she had been shot a few times, how many times she wasn't exactly sure but she knew it was enough times that she would be out for at least a couple days but she never thought that it would be for almost two weeks and she wondered what sort of wounds she exactly had that resulted in her being unconscious for that long and how serious they were. She wondered if her sister was worried about her after the phone call she had left on her answering machine, it's been eleven days since she placed it and obviously hasn't been able to call her back. Niki probably thought she was dead; hopefully she would be able to call her soon and let her know that she wasn't dead or anything but just majorly injured.

Before Norah had a chance to questioned why she was out for so long the doors suddenly burst open and in strode Tony who was wearing some lounging pants and a Black Sabbath band shirt, in after him was Pepper who was dressed similarly except instead of a band shirt it was one of Tony's expensive button up shirts and then in after them was three Asian doctors one of whom Norah recognized as Hellen Cho.

"Norah!"

"Blinker!"

It was obvious who said what, only Tony called her Blinker really. It took but moments for Tony and Pepper both to reach her bedside which Pietro seemed to have disappeared from, looking around the room she saw that he was standing with Wanda by the door of her room letting Pepper and Tony have time with her. As much as she wanted to spend more time with Pietro, she also wanted to spend time with her self-appointed father and Pepper who were her family.

"Oh Norah," Pepper said the moment she sat down in a chair and gently caressed the side of Norah's face. "Thank god you're awake and okay." She said to her and quickly pressed a kiss to Norah's cheek.

"Yeah Blinker," Tony said as he looked down at Norah with a playful grin to hide the worry and pain he's been in since she's bene unconscious but it was obvious to those closest to him what he was feeling. "Sure took your sweet ass time waking up, I was starting to consider poking you and hunting down your violin to play badly to you to see if you would wake up."

Hearing that Norah scowled up at her father, "Don't you dare go near my violin or I'll cut your arm off." She growled at him with narrowed eyes, she didn't trust Tony to not fuck her violin up in some sort of fashion.

Tony just laughed at Norah's half-hearted threat and gave a genuine sigh of relief, he knew that she was going to be fine before and that the doctors had told him repeatedly that they just needed time before they took her out of a coma but seeing is believing and seeing Norah awake really solidified the fact that she was okay and was going to heal up perfectly fine other than a few scars.

Norah tried to not break down and tried to not overreact like a teenage girl but she remembers everything that she had been feeling when she had decided to Blink herself to save Clint, Pietro and that kid and one of those thoughts were that she would never be able to see Tony or Pepper again. She knew that there was going to be a big chance that she may die from what she was doing and did it anyways and it killed her that she might not be able to see her family again – her Avenger family.

"D..dad." Norah stuttered a bit and did her best to reel in her tears but was failing quite miserably. "I, god…I just-" she said but cut herself off as her voice broke more and more as she talked.

Both Pietro and Wanda seeing this knew that it was time for them to leave and let Norah and Pepper and Tony have some family time now that Norah was finally awake, Pietro didn't want to leave Norah's side now that she was finally awake but he knew she deserved to be left alone with the man who she saw as a father and the woman who was like a sister/mother to her. So they gained Pepper's attention and mouthed they were giving them some alone time and then Pietro sped himself and Wanda out of the room and back to the level where the common room/ kitchen was located at.

Tony saw the twins leave out of the corner of his eye but he was more concerned with Norah at the moment, "Oh Norah." He said softly as he scooted himself onto the bed and leant down and gently hugged her and let her grasp at his shirt in an almost desperate fashion and cry into his shoulder. "You're okay now kid, you're okay. I'm here, Pepper is here and everyone else is still here and okay with only minor injuries. Okay." He said to her as he gently brushed his hand down her head and let her have a good cry, something she probably needs after everything that happened. "Ultron is dead and isn't gonna be bothering us anymore. Okay?" he said to her as he pulled back a bit and looked into Norah's eyes searchingly, making sure that she was comprehending what he was saying and understood that none of them were in danger anymore.

Hearing the reassurance in his voice Norah took a few calming breaths but not too deep so to not cause herself any pain and nodded at what Tony said to her, "Okay." She said softly but still kept her hands firmly in place, clutching onto his black band shirt.

"Oh," Tony said as he sat back up and looked down at Norah's face that had a few tears running down it and brushed them away as best he could. "Once you're healed up enough I'm so going to yell at you for doing something so stupid. From now on I'd prefer you to not be shot, I'd rather not have an almost heart attack again. For future reference."

When he said that Norah gave a small laugh, "I'll do my best." She said to him and gave him a sassy look. "No promises though."

"No, there will be no more missions and no more getting shot Eleanorah." Pepper said authoritatively to Norah, a look of worry, anger and determination on her face as she said this, her arms crossed as well.

Seeing Pepper's face Norah pursed her lips and nodded, even though she sincerely doubted that she wouldn't ever go on another mission again but just not all that often. "Okay." She said to her simply, her voice a bit higher than usual making Pepper's eyes narrow suspiciously.

Hellen Cho and her team stood near one of the far wall's and decided that Norah, Tony and Pepper had had enough time to reconnect with one and another and decided that it was time to get on with things.

"Tony, Pepper I need you two to give us some room to work." Hellen said as she looked at the two who both reluctantly did as Hellen had asked of them. "Thank you." She said with a nod and then turned to her two co-workers/co-doctors and started to speak to them in Korean, giving orders and telling them what needed to be done first. "Well, let's check out those wounds of yours."

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Finally after forty minutes of embarrassment and pain – she wasn't all that fond of having her shirt opened up or pants pulled down in front of Tony for Hellen to look at her wounds – and after doing a few breathing exercises and range of motion exercises Hellen Cho had deemed her on her way to healing up quite well but not yet well enough to leave the medical room which she has been stuck in for eleven days. All Norah wanted was to be back in her own room, in her own bed, in her own clothes and then wanted to sleep for at least a day and not be cooped up in the Medical Wing of Stark Towers.

At the moment Norah was alone in her room with Hellen Cho who was administering some medicine for the pain that Norah was feeling at the moment; Tony and Pepper had gone to get her some food and Pepper had told her that Pietro and Wanda had left to give her some privacy with her family which she thought was sweet and was also disappointed at the same time but she was more than certain she would be seeing Pietro soon.

"Norah," Hellen said as she finished up with the medicine that was hooked up to an IV into Norah's arm. "I sent the cradle back to Seoul to be repaired when I first arrived here but if you want I can have it sent back and use it to heal you the rest of the way up so that you don't have to wait and so that you don't have any physical scars from what happened." She suggested to the younger blonde haired girl.

It was a nice offer, a very nice and tempting offer and one that Tony, Pietro and all of the others would probably want her to take and though Norah knew that the cradle was a good invention when not used for dark purposes she simply couldn't do it. She couldn't do it because of Utlron and all that happened because of him and she also thought that the scars were a good thing as odd as that sounded, the scars that Norah now carried from her ordeal would remind her of what happened and what she had been willing to sacrifice in order to save Pietro and Clint and that kid. It shows that she really could be one of the Avengers if she truly wished to.

"No." Norah said simply, shaking her head at the offer. "Thank you, but no." she told her.

Hellen had looked at Norah oddly when she had said no, "No?" she questioned, wanting to be certain she had said and meant that.

"No." Norah responded with a definite tone. "I don't want to be healed by it, I know what it does and that Ultron had used it for something bad but I…I can't. I'm okay with having scars. It's okay." She said to her with a small smile on her face to show Hellen she really wasn't bothered by the scars she had received.

"If you change your mind-" Hellen started to say but Norah interrupted her.

"I won't." Norah said with conviction.

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I'd rather have a longer chapter than this but it is what it is and I am hoping to get the next chapter out either friday or Saturday depending on how things flow and go. But thank you so much for your patience with waiting for me to update and I hope you like this chapter.

Also, please review, I love reviews.

Quotes:

"How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

"It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now."

― Shelly Crane, Wide Awake

"Hug me till you drug me, honey;

Kiss me till I'm in a coma."

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited