Disclaimer: not mine as usual except for any original characters

A/N: this was supposed to be longer, I was going to have Norah's family added in at the end but I'm too tired to add that to this chapter so they are going ot have their own chapter instead. tada!

Chapter twenty-two

When Norah had first been put under a medically induced a coma Tony could barely sleep, he had dreams….nightmares, about Norah and about what happened to her in Sokovia, bout her being kidnapped by Ultron and about her bleeding out and dying there in Sokovia. There had been a few instances where he had woken Pepper up from his nightmares about Norah but for the most part he would usually just startle himself awake from them without waking her and since he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep after seeing those images in his mind he would make his way to the Medical Wing to look in on Norah – to reassure himself that she was still alive, unconscious but alive. Even after Norah had woken up from her a coma Tony couldn't help but come down to her room and check on her, to make sure that this all hasn't been some sort of dream, to be sure that she wasn't still in a coma and hooked up to all sort of machines that were helping her while she healed up. Maybe it was paranoia but being down there and being able to go into her room and see her while she slept and knowing with absolute certainty that she was okay and was on the road to recovery, well it helped his mental wellbeing and made him worry just a little bit less – he truly did worry as if Norah was his flesh and blood daughter.

But this October morning visit to his daughter's room in the Medical Wing of the tower was different; the Sokovian was there with her. Instead of Norah laying asleep in her bed – alone, like she should have been – Pietro was lying beside her with one arm tucked underneath his head and the other wrapped securely around her waist while avoiding the wounds on her side that she had sustained in Sokovia. Nope, Tony was definitely not a fan of this….scene that was in front of him right now not in any shape or form. Clenching his fingers tightly around the handle of the coffee mug in his hand and narrowing his eyes dangerously he made to move into the room and drag the male out forcefully but before he was able to do just that he spotted familiar red wisps of energy which wrapped around his person and pulled him backwards – a very unmanly yelps escaping his mouth – and the door to Norah's room shutting quietly so to not wake the occupants within it.

"Hey!" Tony said as coffee spilled down the side of his hand from Wanda pulling him back and away from the doorway of Norah's room. "What the big idea?" he questioned, a scowl on his face as he looked at the younger woman.

Okay, so he knew why Wanda pulled him back and out of the room. For one, Pietro was her brother and Wanda probably did her voodoo magic and saw what he intended to do and the sort of bodily harm he wanted to cause to Pietro and secondly, Norah was sleeping and it would probably be best to let her sleep for a while – she's starting to get bags under her eyes. But Tony was Norah's father all things considered and even though Pepper, Natasha, Clint and even Thor have talked to him about Pietro and the 'thing' that Norah and him have going on (he refused to call it a relationship) he couldn't help but dislike the kid, he didn't hate him but he did dislike Pietro. Norah's dated a bit and out of the handful of guys she's been on dates with he's met two of those guys which he was pretty certain Norah did all in her power to make sure he didn't meet many of them, something about him being egotistical, arrogant, overbearing, protective and saying something insulting or threatening to them. It's not his fault the majority of them are too stupid or not good enough to date Norah, he wanted what's best for Norah and most of those guys were definitely not on the list of what was best and what he wanted for Norah.

Norah, Natasha, Pepper and Bruce have all tried to tell Tony that Norah was an adult, that she wasn't a teenage who he could tell what to do and what was best for her, he needed to let her live her life and make mistakes and for the most part he did but when it came to her dating and seeing people of the male persuasion he just couldn't seem to help himself. He knew about every single guy she's dated no matter if it lasted only a few weeks to a few months – he did background checks and work history – he even knew about a few of the guys she had a friends with benefits sort of relationship which he will deny knowing about till he's on his deathbed, but this thing with Pietro was different. Pietro was different…enhanced and Norah being a Mutant felt connected to him because of that, she liked him and found him more attractive because of him being enhanced, and Tony knew that because of that fact that he was more likely to lose Norah to Pietro. And yeah, he was probably being a selfish asshole but Tony didn't want to lose Norah after only spending nearly three years with her as his daughter.

Wanda crossed her arms and shook her head at Tony, "They are fine, not doing anything bad. Let them sleep." She told him and frowned at the former weapons dealer. "I know you do not like Pietro for not reason. I-"

"No, no." Tony interrupted. "It's for a good reason."

Rather than responding to his childish interruption Wanda continued on. "You do not like Pietro. I only know bit of why, that you think he is bad for Norah or not good enough for her." She said and looked at him knowingly but Tony did not look away even if she was correct in her thinking. "You do not mind me, I can tell but yet, you treat my brother like you do. Pietro is good person; we did what we had to or what we thought we had to do to help our people – our country. Pietro has done much for me, he sacrificed things to be sure I was happy; he offered me most of his food when we were both starving so that I had a full stomach. So tell me Mr. Stark," Wanda said evenly to Tony as she stared him in the eye intently, trying to understand why he treated her twin brother like he did and then turned and welcomed her with semi-opened arms. "Why do you not accept him when you accept me?"

"Look," Tony said as he rubbed his free hand that wasn't holding the coffee over his nose in frustration and then looked at Wanda who was looking at him curiously, waiting for him to answer her question. "Kid, I just don't like your brother, okay. You can't like everyone you know. Trust me, there's hundreds of people out in the world that I've met in my years that hate me and think that I'm a complete ass hole." He pointed out to her simply. "So not liking your brother isn't that big of a deal."

Wanda looked at him, "Pepper says that you are a complete asshole at times." She pointed out to him and then gave a small smile, a scheming sort of smile. "You, Tony Stark, are jealous. It is not Pietro that you do not like, you do not like because he is close to your daughter, because he is close to Norah and cares much for her. You do not like my brother because Norah likes him so much and you do not like that. You think you will lose her."

"What?" Tony asked incredulously. "W..What? Have you been talking with Pepper or something?" he questioned and then shook his head immediately when Wanda opened her mouth to answer his question. "You know what, no, don't tell me. I don't want to know if my girlfriend is conspiring against me when it comes to Norah and whatever thing she has going on with Speedy."

Tony shook his head at the dark haired female in front of him who was doing what any good sister would do and was defending her brother, turning away from her he glanced at the door of Norah's room one last time with a scowl firmly in place before giving a small huff of annoyance and walking away. He didn't want to hear anymore from Wanda about her brother, about how he was a good person (which he knew he was even if he wouldn't admit it) he definitely didn't want to hear what things she found in his mind so rather than dealing with that Tony left and headed towards his lab, he was sure there was something there he could mess with. Preferably something that wasn't an AI or that would be Ultron-like. Maybe he'd go and look for Vision, introduce him to rock music or porn which Pepper would definitely yell at him for.

Wanda shook her head at the middle-aged man; she may not hate him for what had happened to her and Pietro's parents all those years ago and she was starting to forgive him but she will admit he was a bit selfish and an asshole at times. But he was Norah's father, or rather Norah's chosen father and so she would be civil and as nice to him as she could muster at the moment. Maybe in a few years she would fully forgive him but now was not the time.

Opening the door of Norah's room as quietly and slowly as she could so to not wake either Norah or Pietro up, Wanda peeked a look at the two and couldn't help but smile to herself a bit at the sight that greeted her. There lying in the bed was Norah and Pietro, but Pietro his face buried in Norah's rather vastly amount of curly hair and Norah had shifted a bit closer to Pietro's taller frame as if she was trying to meld herself with him. Deciding to leave, Wanda shut the door and decided to make her way to the common room/kitchen area to see if anyone was awake, maybe Vision or Natasha would be willing to watch a movie on the very large screen TV that was in the common room.

"What's going on?" Norah asked sleepily when she heard the door to her room open and shut for the second or third time that morning, something that kept on interrupting her sleep which she desperately needed after a night of nightmares.

Pietro shifted a bit behind Norah so that now Norah's head was tucked underneath his chin – less likely to accidentally inhale Norah's blonde curls as well. "Tony and Wanda." He mumbled back as he slipped on of his legs in-between Norah's carefully, in case it caused pain to the one that had the bullet wound in it. "Tony saw us sleeping here, was going to come in and yell but Wanda stopped him before he could." He explained tiredly, it wasn't just Norah who was tired at the moment.

"Oh." Norah said as she yawned. "I should talk to him, he needs to stop acting like a jackass when it comes to you and when it comes to you being with me." She said and couldn't help but let a smile slide onto her face at the fact that they were now officially boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Hmm, later." Pietro said as he wrapped his one arm around her waist a bit tighter around her. "Let us sleep moj mali bik, we deserve sleep. Yes?" he said to her and looked down at her and saw that she was already asleep again, smirking at that Pietro closed his eyes so that he could try and fall asleep once again, at least for a few more hours.

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It was mid-afternoon and for once Norah was alone in her room in the Medical Wing; Natasha had brought her lunch which consisted of some Greek flavored chicken and some steamed vegetables but had left after she received a phone call from…..someone, she had been awfully sneaky about who it was but Norah just shrugged it off, Natasha was a spy/assassin after all. So deciding now was the best time to get into contact with her friends and to let them know that she didn't in fact drop off the face of the Earth and that she was still alive, she promised, she made a few calls. Well two calls, one being to Francheska who was in Europe for work and the other to Kitty and Piotr and Rogue if she was around, though the girl did tend to spend a lot of time around Remy/Gambit from what the gossip at the Institute was.

So while eating some of the food that Natasha brought her, Norah called Kitty and put her phone on speaker so that she could eat and talk at the same time….that's if she could get any word in edgewise – Kitty was a talker.

"Eleanorah!" the high pitched voice of Kitty said over the speakerphone of Norah's phone. "What is wrong with you? I haven't heard from you in at least two weeks; no phone calls, no texting and not even an e-mail. I would have even taken a letter in the mail. Where have you been? What have you been doing?" she demanded without even taking a moment to breathe while talking.

"Uhh-" Norah said lamely, searching for the right words.

"I do not think Uh is the right response to Kitty's questions." The familiar deep voice of Piotr said over the line.

Norah gave a small laugh at that and chewed the rest of her food before responding "Well, you see, you can't overreact or panic when I tell you." She started out cautiously, Kitty, Rogue, Piotr and her have all been friends since Norah had joined Xavier's Institute when she was fifteen years old and now some of them worked at the school as teachers and others were mainly X-Men – they've all changed over the years but continued to stay close to one and another.

It was Rogue who spoke next, who Norah didn't even realize was with Kitty and Piotr. "What did ya do, sugah? Ya ain't in some kinda trouble that we need to be comin' to bail ya out of? Ah thought that's what Tony was for." She said in her familiar southern drawl.

At that Norah gave a small smirk, "Nothing to be bailed out of, promise. But I kinda sorta might have gotten into a bit of trouble along with the other Avengers. World saving sort of trouble." She said in a rush just to get the words out before she chickened out, oaky not chicken but before she decided she'd rather not worry them needlessly.

"Is dis de friend you tell Remy about?" an unfamiliar voice said but considering he had a Cajun accent and referred to himself as Remy, Norah assumed that this was the Remy that Kitty has been telling her Rogue has been spending a lot of her time around and going out with.

Norah sighed, "Jesus Christ, how many people are there with you guys?" she questioned rhetorically. "I'm never gonna get to tell you what happened if people keep on speaking up." She said.

It was Rogue who spoke up next, "Ah promise there ain't nobody else. Just mahself, Remy, Kitty and Piotr. Now sugah, go on and tell us what happened. Why ya haven' called or contacted us in two weeks." She said to her.

"Well," Norah said and paused for a moment to get her thoughts in order. "I told you we've been going after Hydra bases and so we went to one and got Loki's scepter back finally and Tony had a project that he scrapped because the technology didn't exist yet but with the scepter-" she said, cutting herself off.

Kitty sighed only imagining where this was going. "He could try it out." She answered for her. "Have I told you that sometimes Tony is too much of a mad science for his own good?" she questioned.

At that Norah gave a snort of amusement, "Trust me, we tell him that every day and try and reign him in but it doesn't work all that often sadly." She said and shook her head at what happened in the last few weeks. "So Tony with the scepter decided to try and create Ultron – something he designed as a way to protect the world from outside dangers like aliens and whatnot. But…but things didn't exactly go as planned." She admitted to them and looked down at herself where she could still see a few bandages from her bullet wounds; they were slowly healing but not soon enough for her liking. "The program, Ultron, well it kinda went to shit. Something was wrong or, well, we're not really sure what happened but there was a glitch and rather than trying to protect the Humans of the world Ultron wanted to kill everyone. He said that we needed to evolve into something more, or something along those lines."

"When we were in Sokovia where we found Loki's scepter we ran into these twins, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff who had been experimented on with the scepter and had developed powers because of it. Ultron had contacted them and convinced them to join them, said he was going to help the Human race and was going to help them take the Avengers down." Norah explained, not giving Kitty, Piotr, Rogue or Remy time to respond to what she had just told them. "When Tony had been dealing in weapons he had sold some to people who had bombed buildings in Sokovia and so they blamed Tony for what happened and wanted to take him down. We fought against them and Ultron in South Africa and then something happened, or the two of them realized that Ultron's ultimate goal was to kill of the human race so they joined us in fighting."

Norah paused for a moment and took a drink of the mug of tea that Natasha had brought up as well, Irish breakfast tea made just the way she liked it with a dash of cream and sweetened perfectly. Norah knew that Kitty and Rogue were probably going to take this news badly, well once she told them about being shot by Ultron from one of the jets that the Avengers used, and Piotr probably wouldn't be too happy either but it was hard to tell how he was feeling through the phone.

"Norah-" Rogue began but Norah interrupted her.

"We all headed back to the Tower, Tony with the help of Bruce and Thor created what Ultron should have been and Thus we have an android thing named Vision, and then we all headed to Sokovia to try and stop Ultron from killing all of us humans off. Pietro and Wanda fighting on our side this time instead of on the side of Ultron." Norah said and gave a small smile when she said Pietro's name, she couldn't help it. "Long story short I ended up getting shot about five times while trying to save Pietro and Clint and some kid that got left behind accidentally, I nearly died from being shot and losing too much blood and got a bullet wound right in my lung and then was in a coma for about eleven days and have been awake for about three or four days now." She ended and then stayed quiet until any of them said anything.

Norah had left the institute at seventeen because it wasn't suited well for how she knew her powers worked, it wasn't the right sort of environment to help grow her powers, to help them develop and become more advanced but she appreciated what she got from the Institute and what she was taught there with controlling her powers. Well, with controlling the more dangerous one of her powers at least. She missed Xavier's at times because she missed being surrounded by Mutants and being able to talk and complain to them about Mutant like problems and she missed being around those that were some of her first friends – Mutant friends who wouldn't judge her. She loved her life in New York City and loved having Tony as a father and everyone else but Norah missed the first friends she had ever made that accepted her Mutant powers.

Over the phone Norah could hear some low whispers, swearing and even some French which she could make a few of the words out – they were being spoken a tad bit too low and too fast for her. So while her friends and Remy were talking or doing whatever they were doing Norah ate a bit more of her food and drank her tea calmly, she felt as if today was going to be a good day and on the plus side she had gotten a decent amount of sleep. That was definitely a win in her book.

"Ya…ya nearly died and ya didn't tell us or nothin'?" Rogue questioned finally, anger laced in her voice. "Ya didn't have any of them tell us or try contactin' us at the Institute?" she questioned.

At that Norah rolled her eyes, "Well I was kinda unconscious and all, couldn't really tell them what to do and I think Tony and them were too worried and out of it to think about contacting anyone." She explained. "I'm fine."

There was the sound of a loud snort, "Being shot five times is not fine Eleanorah." Piotr pointed out to her.

"You know," Norah said, a playful tone in her voice. "I really hate it when people call me that. How many times are you going to make me tell you to stop calling me that before you start calling me Norah Piotr?" she questioned him.

"I will always call you Eleanorah." Piotr answered simply with an amused tone.

"Remy tinks dat dis is one hell of a femme, ya were shot five time not just anyone can do dat and live to tell de tale." Remy's voice sounded through the phone.

Hearing that Norah smiled and couldn't help but grin at his Cajun accent, she's never heard one before but she can understand now why Rogue was so taken with him. "I know right, I'm one hell of a badass woman." She said with faux-arrogance.

"If you ever do something like that again it's not robots trying to kill you that you'll have to worry about." Kitty said dangerously, though Norah knew she was only saying that because she worried. "And the moment I see Tony I'm going to give him a piece of my mind and…and set Piotr on him or something. He's going to know how angry and pissed off I am at him."

Norah laughed, "You'll have to get in line." She said to them with a smile on her face.

After that was said and done Norah, Rogue, Kitty, Piotr and even Remy chatted for a while and caught up with her friends and anything new that was going on in their lives and how the school was and the new students at the school were doing and if they had any problems with the anti-Mutant protestors or if that had calmed down a bit. She asked about Storm, Xavier, Jean, Hank and everyone else that was still there – Logan was still a wanderer who didn't tend to stay in one place all that often for very long unless Xavier asked it of him. It was nice to catch up with her friends and to meet Remy officially since she's heard so much about him even though it wasn't in person and she even managed to sneak a promise out of him of having him make authentic New Orleans Gumbo.

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I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I did, I've been wanting to add some X-Men characters into this story and well I love Rogue and Kitty and Piotr so I added them.

Is there anything you'd like to see involving Norha and Pietro or anything like that? Any sort of situations that you want to read with them? I'm open to suggestions and requests.