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A/N: So I know i haven;t had too mcuh romance or Pietro/Norah interaction so I finally able to put some in this chapter along with some father/daugther bonding between Norah and Tony
A/N2: So if any of you want you can make requests of what you want to see when it comes to Norah and Pietro, or father/daugther moments with her and Tony or any of the other Avengers. I can't promise that I will do all of them but I will see what ones fit my story.
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Chapter twenty-four
Earlier in the day, while Norah had been eating breakfast with Pepper and Thor the latter of which had said that he would be needing to leave back for Asgard within a week or two – Loki's scepter needed to be taken to be placed somewhere secure. Norah got the feeling that Thor just didn't want it anywhere in reach of Tony, he did enough damage with it the first time around and who knows what he could do with it a second time. While Norah had been eating she convinced Wanda to go to her bedroom and to pick out a few comfortable clothes for her to change into that didn't make it look like she was supposed to be working as a nurse or something at a hospital, she was sick and tired of wearing scrubs and just wanted to be in her own clothes. Thankfully Wanda was more than willing to do that for her and had ended up bringing back a simple dark purple tank top that had tribal designs on it, a pair of grey and black capri sweat pants that said Guinness on the butt of it and a loose, thigh length, long sleeved grey colored cardigan drape sweater.
Once Norah was dressed and once everyone had left to go and do their own thing for a while, something which Norah had to force Pietro to do – he and Tony both were still acting a bit overprotective of her and seemed to be hovering whenever she did something which was really starting to get on her nerve's but she'll deal with that later. Right now was not the time for it, Norah was in the middle of escaping from her room in the Medical Wing which she has been trapped in for about five days now but felt more like a year, and yes at first she understood why she needed to stay in the room and rest and not leave the bed to do anything but shower and go to the bathroom but it was starting to get a bit ridiculous now. She could move with relative ease now, there was only slight twinges of pain once in a while and her bullet wounds were closed over now so there was no danger of her accidentally pulling one open if she moved the wrong way or anything like that.
No amount of begging or pleading was able to change Cho's or any of the other's minds, not even Natasha or Wanda was on her side so instead Norah decided to take things into her own hands and decided to leave when she had the chance. Well, more so when no one was around to tell her otherwise.
"Hmm," Norah said to herself as she stealthily made her way down the hallway of the Medical Wing and heading straight for the elevator so that she could head to a different level in the tower. "Friday?" Norah questioned.
"Yes Ms. Norah." The accented Irish voice questioned pleasantly.
Norah stepped onto the elevator that was at the other end of the Medical Wing, "Can you tell me where everyone is?" she asked, she wanted to be sure wherever she decided to head to in the tower that she had little to no chance of accidentally running into them and having them forcefully drag her back to her medical room.
"Ms. Romanoff is out of the tower at the moment, the Captain and Thor are in the gym with Pietro, Ms. Potts is at the office for most of the day, Wanda is in the library with Vision using one of Mr. Stark's tablets to as Mr. Stark said 'to become one with pop culture' and Mr. Stark is in his lab." Friday rattled off to Norah.
Hearing that Norah grinned to herself, with Pepper and Natasha out of the building and Steve, Pietro, Wanda and Vision elsewhere in the building it made now the perfect time to escape and go and head towards her dad's lab to bother him and see what he was doing at the moment, hopefully nothing that would endanger the human race this time around.
"All right, thank you Friday." Norah responded as she pressed the correct button for the floor that Tony's lab was on.
There was an immediate response of, "Anytime Ms. Norah." Friday said to her.
Once on the level that Tony's lab was on Norah slowly made her way through the hallway on silent bare feet – just because Friday said that the others were all occupied at the moment didn't mean that it was completely true, they could have decided to do something else while the elevator was making its way to Tony's level. Norah would much rather not run into anyone who would rat her out to Cho, at least Norah knew Tony wouldn't do that seeing as he's also attempted to escape from medical personnel before.
So quietly as she could Norah snuck into Tony's lab without him noticing (he's distracted by welding some project of his together) and swung herself up onto one of the tables that was behind Tony and admittedly that action was a tad bit painful but nothing that she couldn't deal with, she really needed to start working her muscles once again. So while sitting there Norah watched her pseudo-father at work and smiled tenderly; it was fascinating to watch Tony work on whatever project he had come up with to do that week, he got so completely focused and lost in what he did and put forth so much energy and effort into whatever he was inventing. It was awe inspiring at times to see how passionate and focused he got with some of his projects and it made Norah proud to call him her father even if it isn't by birth.
Tony, so consumed by what he was doing didn't notice Norah walk in or notice her swing herself up onto one of his other work tables so when he had turned around to grab something from the said table she was sitting on cross legged he couldn't help but jump a foot in the air, acting like a fifteen year old girl who was scared of the dark basement.
"Bit jumpy Tony?" Norah asked as a wide grin spread across her face, toying with some bits and pieces of metal that were laying on the table beside her.
At that Tony narrowed his eyes at her and pressed a hand to his chest, trying to slow his erratic heartbeat. "Jesus Christ kid, are you trying to kill me?" he asked her rhetorically, he thought with Norah being banned from using her powers that he wouldn't suddenly finding her popping up in random places but apparently Norah was sneaky even without the temporary use of her powers. "I'm getting old over here you know, I'm much more likely to have a heart attack and die than I used to." He pointed out to her.
Norah grinned even wider at him when he said that to her, "Awwe don't worry gramps, I won't let you die yet. I haven't bothered you nearly enough yet, there's so many things that I still need to get back at you for." She teased him playfully.
Tony sent her a dark look for the gramps comment but still gave a half smile; with how Norah acted and talked at times, and how playful and sarcastic she was and her all around attitude towards many things it truly was easy to see how many people thought that she could have been Tony's actual daughter rather than just a girl he took under his wing and claimed as his daughter.
"Aren't you supposed to be in the Medical Wing? You know, doing that healing thing." Tony questioned, a brow raised and his arms crossed over his chest in a half-hearted scolding manner.
"Right, because you'd do as you're told and stay in that room for as long as I have." Norah said to Tony sarcastically as she rolled her eyes at him. "You wouldn't even be able to last three days in there let alone the five days I've been forced to do. I needed to get out of that room before I lose my mind." She told him with a pointed look and set the scraps of metal she was playing with down beside her. "I'm starting to go batshit crazy in there, there are only so many TV shows and Netflix I can watch, and so much reading and playing on the computer I can do. Besides," she said to him. "I'm mostly fine."
As much as Tony knew he should probably admonish Norah for escaping from the Medical Wing and for not telling anyone and as much as he knew Pepper would have wanted him to march her straight back to the Medical Wing – he couldn't. It would be awfully hypocritical of him and well, like Norah said he would have done the exact same thing in her position. He hated hospitals with a passion and hated being stuck in one place, Tony's personality simply didn't allow him to stay in one place for too long even more so when he has nothing to do while being stuck in the hospital. And Norah being Norah, well she needed to do things as well so to not lose her mind to either going crazy or from complete boredom and sure, her usual sort of things that she did to take up a majority of her time involved her computer be it doing some writing for stories she did for fun, reading or researching random things online or translating or whatever came to her mind really but after being cooped up for so long Tony's pretty sure that Norah wanted to do something that didn't involve any of those things. Norah probably just wanted to get outside and walk around the city for a while but she more than likely knew that was not on the list of things to do as of yet, no matter how rebellious she was feeling.
"Norah." Tony said as he gave her a pointed look that made him look oddly parental for a moment. "You were shot five times kid, you kinda didn't have a choice of how long you were stuck in there." He said to her as he wiped his dirty and greasy hands on a rag which really didn't make his hands any less dirty.
Hearing that Norah pursed her lips for a moment before she waved a hand flippantly in Tony's direction, "Tis but a scratch!" She sing songed to him and then picked up a smaller invention of Tony's that was on the table she was sitting on and studied it for a moment before putting it back down.
For a moment Tony just stood there and stared at Norah, "Did….did you just quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail to me?" he questioned a bit dubiously, cocking his head to the side.
"Yup, basically." Norah answered simply and then stuck her tongue out at Tony in a childish manner.
"Really Norah?" Tony said with a hint of exasperation in his voice; the girl was shot five times not even three weeks ago and then she decided to escape from her room in the Medical Wing and now was quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail to him and the part that she was quoting was from the part where the black knight got all of his limbs cut off, Tony truly wondered about that girl sometimes and wonder if his eccentric tendencies and insanity rubbed off on her a bit. "I wonder about you some days."
Norah shrugged at that, "I wonder about me too." She joked, a playful smirk on her face.
Tony shook his head at Norah and went back to working on his project, a comfortable silence settling between the two for a few minutes before Tony decided to break it and ask Norah why exactly she had decided to come up to his lab from the Medical Wing and not go and bother someone else.
"So," Tony said as he continued tinkering with whatever it was that he was working on at the moment. "Is there a reason why you decided to come and see me?" he questioned as he grabbed a wrench that he needed out of Norah's hands and ignored the pout that she gave him.
"What? I need a reason to see my wonderful, genius, kickass father?" Norah questioned, a brow raised. "I can't just come and see the man who took me in, who treated me like a daughter, who paid for my clothes and schooling and acted like an all-around father just because I wanted to see him?" she asked, feigning insult.
"Norah, I love you but I seriously doubt the first place you would have gone after escaping from the Medical Wing would have been to see me." Tony responded blandly, a knowing look on his face.
In fact, Tony was more than certain that out of everyone that now lived at Stark Tower that Norah would have either gone to see Pietro, Wanda or Steve…well probably not the Capsicle seeing as he would have taken her back to the Medical Wing, but she'd probably go to see Natasha too, she'd probably congratulate her on escaping without anyone noticing or notifying Cho. So it would have been either the twins or Natasha, but Tony doubted that it would have been him first and as much as he tried to hide it and not let Pepper or the others realize, that little fact hurt him. Norah was truly his daughter no matter if her birth family was going to be coming to the tower within the next day or two – Pepper knew exactly what day and the time but Tony didn't pay attention to those sort of details. Now Norah was spending a good chunk of her time with Pietro and talking about him and being all lovey dovey with him and Tony didn't like it whatsoever, Norah was his daughter first and now this kid literally swooped in out of the blue and captured Norah's attention…..it wasn't something he was particularly fond of.
"Don't sell yourself short old man." Norah joked as she jumped up and off of the table she was sitting on and strode the few feet over to Tony and bumped her shoulder against his and looked at him. "But yeah, I kinda wanted to talk to you." She said sheepishly.
Tony couldn't help but laugh at that, "See, told you that you wanted something from me." He joked at her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Boom. I win."
"Ugh! Tony! You're all greasy, let go of me." Norah whined at him. "Do you have any idea the effort it takes to look this good and make it look like I wasn't trying?" she questioned but continued to let him give her a side arm hug, Tony knew that she really didn't care about getting dirty or not, well, unless it was one of her favorite plaid shirts. She had a thing for plaid.
For a moment Norah closed her eyes and leant her head into Tony's shoulder and just breathed for a moment. She's missed moments like this – father/daughter moments with Tony – something which have been hard to have with her being unconscious for almost two weeks straight and then her being confined to her bed in the Medical Wing except for taking going to the bathroom or taking a show and even that had been medically assisted by either Cho or one of her personnel that she had brought with from Seoul.
"I wanna talk to you about mine and Pietro's 'weird ass flirting/dating thing' as you call it." Norah said as she pulled away from Tony and looked at him with a smirk and pulled one of his work stools towards her and hopped up onto it while looking at Tony expectantly.
Norah knew that Tony was about to whine and complain about her wanting to talk about this but it was something that needed to happen, she saw the dark looks and glared that he sent towards Pietro a good portion of the time and she knew that he said things to Pietro though Pietro would never tell her what they were since Tony was so important to her but she knew Tony and knew they were either something insulting or some sort of snide comment that Pietro more than likely didn't even earn.
"Awwe come on Norah, do we-" Tony began but before he could say much else Norah cut him off with a sharp look on her face.
"Yes." Norah said and then slapped a hand over Tony's mouth when he made to disagree with her, she supposed that if she got desperate enough she could always have Friday call Pepper home from the office and say that it was an emergency and she's more than certain that Pepper would only be somewhat miffed at her for doing that and she would still end up keeping Tony in line for her. "Look, Tony, this isn't exactly something that I want to talk with you about and well, this is going to be really weird and awkward and well, you're not my ideal person of who I would talk to about relationship related things with but this conversation kinda needs to happen." She said to him. "I much prefer talking to Kitty or Natasha or Pepper or even Clint since he's kind of an honorary girl at times but-"
Hearing where this was going Tony gave a sigh and pushed Norah's hand away from his mouth, "Norah, do we have to? I get that you're with Speedy Gonzales, I don't like it really but as Pepper said I don't really have any say. And even if I did you wouldn't listen to me, you're too stubborn and hardheaded to listen to anything I would have to say." He said and then ran his hands through his hair before his lighter colored brown eyes locked onto Norah's dark colored ones. "Besides, everyone says that you two being together is a good thing, that he makes you happy and a whole bunch of other shit that I just ignored and pretended to be listening to. Wasn't really in the mood to hear them talk about you and the Sokovian being together."
Norah huffed at Tony and narrowed her eyes threateningly at him, "Yes Tony, deal with it, we're taking about this and I'm not about to give an another option so stop acting like a baby." She said in frustration at his whining like a teenager. "If I have to I will Blink us to somewhere else, somewhere that you've never been to and can't escape from talking to me. But," she said, a smirk on her face. "Do you really want to force me into doing that, after all, Cho did tell me that I shouldn't be using my powers quite yet but I will if I have to Tony."
When Norah had said that Tony just grumbled unhappily and crossed his arms like a three year old child, "Fine." He conceded.
"Thank you, dad." Norah said to Tony and then leant up and kissed the scruff on his cheek, he really did need to shave or at least clean up a bit, he was starting to get that semi-homeless look that looked good on some people but not so much on Tony. "I know you don't like Pietro, and at first I know it was because he had sided with Ultron but dad, we've defeated Ultron, Pietro and Wanda switched sides and helped us defeat him."
Tony just frowned at that, "Yeah, well while he was with the enemy, you kissed him and you two were flirting." He accused.
"Okay, I will admit that was probably not the smartest of things to do." Norah said to Tony with a half grimace. "If it had been anyone else I probably would have ended up dead or something but Tony, you can't tell me that you haven't done something just as iffy as that." She said.
"They never were on the side with someone who was trying to kill my friends and family." Tony said snidely to her.
"Okay, you get points for that but you can't say that something along those lines hasn't happened to you before. You're Tony Stark after all." Norah teased, a small smile on her face which Tony gave a small smile in response, it was hard to not smile at Norah when she talked like that and joked with him.
Tony looked up at the ceiling before responding to Norah, "I've made horrible choices in my life and the moment when I finally decided to get my shit together was after I was captured in the Middle East, after I got that shrapnel imbedded in my chest." He told her as he tapped his fingers against the table in front of him. "I slept with whoever I wanted, drank until I couldn't remember my name and all these awards I got for advances in technology or whatever I didn't really care about. I don't really care about them all that much now, but I understand the importance of going to them at least." He said to her, he hated award parties where everyone was schmoozing one and another. "Pepper helped me change after the Middle East and somehow and then you came along and called Fury Patchy and geeze, I didn't realize that I was missing anything in my life until you came along kid. Pepper made my life better but you just made both of our lives better. You're my daughter and to Pepper you're like the little sister she never had."
"And how does that have to do with Pietro, Tony?" Norah questioned, she was happy that he was willing to share things with her of course and anything she really wanted to now she could probably google or ask Pepper but hearing it from the source was nice.
"I don't want you to make a mistake and date someone like me." Tony said to her.
Norah couldn't help but laugh a bit at that, "Are you insinuating that Pietro is like you Tony?" she asked with a giggle. "Because seriously, no one else in the world can be like you Tony and I'm pretty sure Pietro is pretty different from you and isn't exactly wanting to just sleep with me because if he was he wouldn't have waited by my side while I was unconscious or be willing to take our relationship slowly." She said to him, turning a bit red at talking about Pietro being willing to wait to sleep with her.
"Ugh, Norah!" Tony all but screamed at her. "I didn't want to hear that or visualize that or think about anything that has to do with you and Speedy getting it on." He said in disgust and pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes hoping it would erase the images that had popped up.
As much as Norah wanted to be apologetic for doing that to Tony she wasn't really, he did deserve it with how he's been treating Pietro and the obvious dislike he had for him when he didn't deserve it. Because if Tony was able to accept Wanda without much fuss then he should be able to accept Pietro as well, but no, because Pietro and Norah had a secret romance thing going on during the whole Ultron situation and were now dating Tony had to make sure things were complicating.
"Why Tony?" Norah asked as she looked at him pleadingly, needing to know why and wanting to get this fixed so things don't get awkward later on down the road. "Why? I don't get this, I mean if it was one of those hoity toity guys that come to those Stark Industry parties that you make me go to once in a while that would make sense. But not this."
"Because he's not good enough!" Tony said to her, his eyes flashing angrily.
Norah made a scream of frustration, "I get that you think that but you're not telling me why." She said to him and walked a few paces away from him. "Pietro helped us with Ultron, he fought alongside us, I nearly got shot at that shipyard but Pietro pulled me out of the way before it could happen. He may have chosen Ultron at the beginning but he was misguided, him and Wanda both were by what Ultron was offering. Ultron and Hydra both tricked Wanda and Pietro." She said to him and was really wishing for some vodka or something at the moment, somedays alcohol was needed when dealing with Tony. "Is it him as a person that's not good enough or is he not good enough because it's me he's dating?"
It was at that moment that Tony quieted up and looked away from Norah with a huff; some days Tony wondered why he let himself be surrounded by all of these women who could see right through him so easily. He really wasn't doing himself any favors. Norah was right though, Tony didn't like Pietro just because of who he was and from what he could tell the kid was amusing but the fact that he was with his daughter was what pushed his buttons the most. Norah has dated people in the three or so years that she has been living with Tony and Pepper, Tony has even met some of those guys but in the end none of them would last more than a month or two at the most but Pietro was different from those guys.
Tony knew that Pietro wasn't going to just be a one or two month guy or even just a six month guy but that he and Norah could make it work long term, he could see it in the way that they looked at one and another and the way they interacted with one and another and as much as Tony hated to admit it he could see how happy Norah was to be around Pietro and spend time with him. Norah's eyes sparkled more or however Pepper had described it as, she laughed more, she teased and bantered with Pietro which meant the kid was smart enough to keep up with Norah's witty and sarcastic sense of humor and Norah was also the only person who could probably keep up with Pietro. They'd be good together but Tony didn't want to admit it because that meant that he would be losing Norah and he was already having Norah's birth family come here and so it was a lot of things that were going on at one time and he needed someone to blame and hate.
"Nor-" Tony began as he looked at Norah.
"Tony," Norah interrupted softly, gently laying her hand on Tony's forearm and looked up at him warmly. "I'll always be your daughter, nothing will be able to change that not even the fact that my sad excuse of a birth father is going to be here in only a few days." She said a tad bit bitterly, wishing that it would have been just her mother, her sister and her sister's family that were coming to see her. "No matter what is said and done between me and my birth family you will always be my father, the first number one man in my life. And holy fuck, this is really starting to sound cheesy." She said gaining a snort of amusement from Tony at her curse. "I was never all that emotional of a person or someone that would talk about their emotions or how they were feeling to anyone, not even my close friends and therapy changed that for me. But Tony, I love you and I think of you as my father and you will always be my father as far as I am concerned and Tom…..Tom's not important in any fashion to me. And you don't have to worry about me being taken by Pietro or anything, it's not like we all don't live in the same building where you can see me whenever you want to. Besides, I'm pretty sure Rogue and Kitty would kick my ass if I decided to ignore them for a boy and well, I'd rather not be on the receiving end of Rogue's powers." Norah said off hand with a shudder. "I know this is new for you, me dating someone and me and Pietro being so intense this fast but Pietro and I have a connection and I care more for him then I've cared for any of the other guys I've dated in my life Tony. You are important to me but so is Pietro and I need you to accept him and accept the concept of me and him. He's my boyfriend Tony."
Tony knew these things already, he knew that Norah would only ever think of him as her father and that Tom was just some random guy that she got a few of her gene's from but not someone that would ever have an impact in her life. He knew that he didn't have to worry about Norah being taken away from him by Pietro and he didn't have to worry about never seeing Norah again but he was being an idiot and couldn't help but think those things.
"I know, I know all of those things Norah." Tony relented with a heavy sigh and closed his eyes for a moment. "I know that you'll always be my daughter and I know that we can see one and another whenever we want to. It's just, I wasn't expecting this to happen so suddenly, you're too young to date or at least date seriously." He said to her dramatically, making Norah look at him as if he had grown a second head.
"Tony," Norah said looking at him in amusement. "I'm twenty-two years old dude, I'll be twenty-three in six months I'm more than old enough to have serious relationships. I'm an adult who can adult at times. Promise." She told him as she did the scouts honor sign. "Look, I don't really expect you to accept Pietro with opened arms or anything or to have guys night or be bros or whatever but at least try to be somewhat nice, I'll even accept borderline friendly." She said and looked at him hopefully, sticking her bottom lip out and everything.
Tony knew that he couldn't say no to Norah, well except for that time she asked to try one of the suits, but otherwise he really couldn't say no to her. He loved her too much. "I will try my best Norah, it'll take time. But I love you and I want you to be happy even if it is with a former Hydra allied/Ultron allied speedster."
"I'll take what I can get." Norah said simply and then stood up and wrapped her arms around Tony in a thankful hug.
After the two settled that between them Norah hopped up onto the table that Tony had whatever project he was working on at and watched her father work on…whatever it was he was trying to make. Tony did try and explain to her what he was doing but all Norah did was stare at him blankly for a few moments before she smiled and nodded, she did understand a few things he said about circuits and robotics and was all right when it came to robotics since Tony had forced her to learn so she could help him with his suits or whatever once in a while but everything else went straight over her head.
The comfortable silence that settled between father and daughter only lasted for so long before there was the sound of running feet and the door to Tony's lab burst open, Steve standing there with a worried and frantic look on his face. "Norah's missing! Cho went to her room and she-" stopping suddenly when he noticed that Norah was sitting on the table beside Tony. "Isn't missing apparently." He said a bit lamely and looked at Norah admonishingly. "You're not supposed to be out of the Medical Wing until Doctor Cho says you are physically able." He said to her. "Doctor Cho went in there and you were gone, no note or anything."
"I got bored." Norah said with a nonchalant shrug of her shoulders as she looked up at Steve's taller form "Sorry."
At that Steve shook his head at Norah and rubbed at his temples, "Norah, you really remind me of my friend Bucky at times, you know that. Especially with what you just said." He said with a small sad smile but before Norah could ask about Bucky and his search for him Steve continued lecturing Norah for her great escape. "You know you can't just leave because you get bored Norah, you're in the Medical Wing because you were shot multiple times and need time to heal up before you try moving too much." He explained to her.
Norah looked up at Steve, "I'm fine Steve, promise. I only have minor discomforts if that even." She defended herself and crossed her arms under her chest stubbornly, really starting to get sick of being babied by the majority of everyone. "Seriously, you all are overreacting. Tell me-"
Before Norah had a chance to finish what she had been saying to Steve there was a sudden blur that rushed into the lab and stopped next to Steve, "I have not found-" Pietro began to say and then stopped himself when he saw Norah. "You have found her." He said and then looked from Tony, to Steve and then back to Norah and gave a small frown. "What are you doing here moj mali bik? You should be in room, resting. Not walking around tower, Doctor Cho worried." He said and then looked her up and down to be absolutely certain that she had not jostled her wounds and put herself in needless pain but from the looks of it she was moving perfectly fine and didn't seem to be feeling any pain, at least from the expression on her face she didn't seem to be.
"See," Norah said in frustration as she flung her arm out towards Pietro and Steve and looked at Tony haughtily. "I told you they were overreacting."
"Norah," Steve began once again. "You really shouldn't be out and about, Doctor Cho specifically advised against it you know. It's for your benefit." He told her.
When he said that Norah just rolled her eyes childishly, "Yeah well, she can tell me all she wants that she wants me to stay in that damn room but it's not going to keep me in there. If I escaped once don't you think I'll be able to do it again." She told him giving him a look.
Steve shook his head at her, "Norah, Cho is looking for you. She wants to do a check up to see where you are at in the healing process." He said to her.
"Fine." Norah said unhappily and before she had a chance to hop on down from the table she was sitting on Pietro appeared in front of her and offered her a hand with a small, charming smile. "You know, you're awfully lucky you're cute and have a nice accent." She muttered to him as she took his hand and let him help her down to the ground.
"I am happy that you find me cute and my accent attractive." Pietro teased as he laced his fingers through hers and led her out of the lab and towards the elevator that was on this level of the tower so that they could head back to the Medical Wing.
Norah grudgingly followed Pietro, "I never said your accent was attractive," she teased back to him. "I said you had a nice accent, there's a difference you know." She pointed out to him as she gently bumped her hips against his, Pietro may be taller and stronger than her but Norah did have meat on her bones and curves and if she put enough force behind a hip bump she is more than certain she would make someone stumble a few feet at least.
At that Pietro gave a small laugh, "Yes, I did hear. Nice, attractive very similar that they mean same thing basically." He said to her playfully as he dragged her into the elevator and pulled her back flush against his chest and then leaned his head down until his chin rested on her shoulder lightly. "There is not big difference, is there?" he asked huskily as he slowly kissed along Norah's neck.
"Uh…" Norah said quiet pitifully.
Norah really did try and concentrate on the conversation she and Pietro were having, or rather the bantering conversation that the two of them were having but Pietro kissing up and down her neck like he was was a tad bit distracting. A welcome distraction but a distraction nonetheless. So rather than trying to concentrate on whatever Pietro and her had been talking about Norah instead turned in Pietro's arms and wrapped her arms around his neck and pushed herself up onto her tip toes to more easily reach Pietro's lips – he was a good six or seven inches taller than her. Pietro smiled at her playfully and pulled back before she was able to reach his lips to which she made a whining sound in the back of her throat before she grasped him around the neck a bit forcefully and pulled his head back towards hers and very gently bit at his lip a bit before pressing her lips against his, Pietro cupped the back of her curly haired head with one hand while the other gently snuck underneath her shirt and traced a line along the rim of her sweat pants and stepped closer to her so that their bodies were pressed closely to one and another.
Pietro pushed his lips more forcefully into Norah's, deepening the kiss that they were sharing and playfully bit at her lip to which she made a pleasurable sound in the back of her throat when he did so. Slowly, in case Norah didn't want him to do so or if it was moving too fast for her, Pietro moved his one hand that was under her shirt slowly from her back and towards the front of her torso and then carefully edged it upwards and traced the outline of some of her ribs and smiled into the kiss when he felt Norah shiver at the contact.
In the background both Norah and Pietro heard the elevator stop and ding at whatever level they were at but neither paid too much attention to what was going on around them, well that was until there was the sound of a throat clearing to which both Norah and Pietro very reluctantly pulled away from one and another. Some people may get embarrassed about getting caught or about PDA but Pietro didn't really care, if he wished to kiss his girlfriend in public then he was going to do it no matter what anyone else said.
"Hello Pietro." Wanda said with a hint of a giggle in her voice. "Hello Norah. I see they have found you." She said to her friend.
Norah blushed a bit at being caught by her boyfriend's sister but returned the smile, "Uh, yeah. They found me." She said a bit awkwardly and rubbed the back of her neck.
"It is nice to see you moving about." Vision said suddenly making Norah jump, not realizing that he had entered the elevator along with Wanda. "I am sorry I have not visited you in the Medical Wing, but there are so many things that I must learn about this world, about….existing in this world." He told her in a rather formal tone of voice, they really needed to work on that with him and letting him know it's okay to be casual and informal if he wants to be.
"Oh, it's fine. I'm pretty boring while I'm stuck up in that room. I read and watch TV for the most part." Norah responded to Vision, who made her a bit nervous and unsure of how to act around.
"Still," Vision said as he looked at her intently, sincerity in his eyes. "I truly am sorry for not visiting, I should have. I hope you can forgive me." He said to her as the elevator began to move once again.
"It's fine, promise." Norah said to him and leaned back into Pietro who had his hands resting on either side of her hips. "Wanda," Norah said as she looked at her newly made friend. "We're still on for girl's night, right?" she asked hopefully, a look of excitement on her face.
Immediately Wanda responded with an excited nod, her hair flying into her face a bit. "Yes! Nothing can make me cancel this girls night you tell me about, I cannot wait. We will watch movies and eat many junk foods?" she questioned. "That is what Natasha told me they do."
At that Norah grinned, "Yes, and sweets and cheesy/funny movies and romantic movies and really anything we want to watch." She told her, it's been so long since she's been able to have a girl's night and the ones during university didn't really count since the girls she would hang out with would usually all be studying.
"This is our stop moj mali bik." Pietro whispered into her ear before he pulled her out of the elevator and waved good bye to Wanda and Vision and then continued leading Norah down the hall back towards where her room in the Medical Wing was located at.
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Norah and Pietro were now back in her medical room with Doctor Cho who sighed heavily when she saw Norah and gave her a pointed look for the fact that she had escaped or rather left her room when no one was around to stop her – though she could always Blink away if she really wanted to leave. And now Cho was checking over Norah's wounds making sure they were healing within the right time frame, if they didn't look like they were making any progress that was when they would need to worry but from the looks of things Norah's wounds were healing quite nicely and would only have minor pain and muscle soreness for the next three to six weeks depending.
"All right Pietro," Cho said to the Sokovian who had turned around when Cho had to undress Norah a bit to get a better look at her wounds. "You can turn back around now." She said to him.
Pietro turned around and leant up against the wall of the room and looked at Norah with a smirk and waggled his eyebrows at her to which she responded with a challenging look and winked at him before she turned and looked at Cho.
"So," Norah said while looking at Cho expectantly. "What's the verdict? Tell me I can go back to being in my own room and not be stuck in here all the time anymore." she said in a desperate fashion, hoping against hope that Cho would agree to let her wander around the tower instead of being confined to this room here in the Medical Wing, though truthfully Norah would escape again if she told her she couldn't leave yet.
Cho took the clipboard that was attached to Norah's bed before taking a seat in a chair that was beside the bed, "I ordered you to stay in bed for a good reason you realize – to give you time to heal. Especially the wound in your lung, if we had not put you into a medically induced a coma you would have been in an incredible amount of pain." She said to her seriously and then flipped through a few pages on the clipboard and then looked back up at Norah. "I will say that I prefer you to stay in here a day or two longer but I can tell from today that that would probably not be happening so please, take it easy at least. And if you are going to be wandering around the tower aimlessly please bring someone with you, just in case."
"I won't, I promise." Norah agreed to quickly, she was finally free with the permission from the doctor.
"Now I want to do a few motion exercises just to be certain that you aren't losing motion in your muscles and that they are able to move like they should." Cho said to Norah whose shoulders slumped a bit at having to stay in the Medical Wing longer than anticipated but agreed to it nonetheless, what's a little while longer compared to the five days she had already been there.
So slowly Cho worked Norah's leg that had been shot and went through a few different motions with it, then did a few breathing exercises to make sure the wound in lung had healed and then listened to it as Norah did a few breathing exercises and then did a few more that worked her body as a whole as well and finally after that Cho had told Norah to be careful but that she was free and didn't need to stay in the Medical Wing any longer.
"Thanks!" Norah said happily and jumped off of the bed that Cho had her laying on and ten basically danced over to Pietro, grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the medical wing quite forcefully earning an amused chuckle from the silver/blonde haired man.
As Norah continued on dragging Pietro down the hall, fully intending on getting out of the Medical Wing as fast as was humanly possible Pietro suddenly stopped her, "Wait, Norah." He said and looked down into her confused face before he cupped her face with both of his hands and leaned down a few inches and kissed her softly. "I am happy you are free."
"Me too," Norah said with a soft half-smile on her face. "Now," she said looking at him with a look of pure determination. "Let's get the fuck out of here before they start moving my belongings from my room down to the one here." She said and moved to tug him after her but he stood still.
"Where is it that you wish to go?" Pietro asked her.
Norah pursed her lips for a moment and tapped her finger against her chin before she replied, "To the kitchen/common room." She answered definitively.
When Norah had said that Pietro smirked widely at her for a moment but before she had a chance to back away from him or ask what he was smirking about she was suddenly swept up into Pietro's arms and he was zipping his way throughout the halls of the tower and through the stairwells until they had finally arrived in the middle of the common room/kitchen level within thirty seconds or less of her telling Pietro that was where she wanted to go.
Norah grinned widely, "God, that never gets old. I love doing that." She said to him before she leaned up while still in his arms and kissed the underside of his scruffy jaw and then jumped out of his arms and all but pranced her way over to the kitchen – a very nice sized kitchen too – and began to make herself a cup of tea which is something that she felt like she hasn't had in years.
Sure, Natasha makes a pretty good cup of tea and makes it damn close to how Norah likes it but it's not the same as Norah herself making it, she had a system of how she made it and a there was a science to how much cream to how much sugar she put in her tea to make it absolutely perfect. The others had made fun of her once in a while for how serious she felt about tea but she knew it was all in fun, she was passionate about tea and she was okay with that.
"What are you doing?" Pietro asked as he leaned his elbows on the kitchen island and watched Norah walk around the kitchen and fill up a kettle before setting it on the stove and waiting for it to boil.
Norah glanced back at Pietro as she reached up to one of the cupboards and grabbed two cups from the top, a shelf which she barely could reach with her fingertips but she made it work. "Making tea. Do you want some?" she questioned as she turned towards him and set the mugs down on the kitchen island in front of her.
"Tea?" Pietro questioned. "You are making tea?" he asked.
At that Norah nodded her head, "Yes Pietro, I am making tea. Would you like some." She said to him slowly, as if he had suddenly lost a few brain cells.
"I do not think I have ever had tea, is it like coffee?" Pietro questioned with curiosity.
When he said that Norah gasped loudly, as if he had just told her that the sky was green and the ocean purple. "How…just….what." she gave a rather dramatic sigh and shook her head before looking him straight in the eye. "I'm going to be introducing you and your sister to a lot of new things, aren't I?" she asked.
"Yes, I do think so." Pietro answered in amusement at her exasperation. "You will make me this…tea of yours?" he asked.
Norah just smiled and nodded at him and then proceeded to make tea for the both of them once the tea kettle had boiled and went through the motions of putting cream and sugar in the tea and not too much for Pietro since he apparently doesn't like his drinks too sweet and actually prefers to have his coffee with just cream and no sugar. That little fact made Norah shake her head and call him a heathen, in a loving fashion of course. Handing Pietro his tea, Irish Breakfast Tea which was Norah's favorite, the two headed into the living room portion which was only about ten feet away from the kitchen but of course, Pietro being Pietro he sped over to the living room with his super human speed and stretched out his taller form along the couch which was only a bit longer than a loveseat, his back being propped up by a pillow that was lying behind him.
"And where am I supposed to sit, hmm?" Norah questioned and silently applauded Pietro for seizing the opportunity. "The floor?"
At that Pietro shook his head, "No, you will not need to sit on floor, you sit here with me." He said and patted his lap invitingly. "I will not do anything you do not ask of me." He said to her flirtatiously and waggled his eyebrows at her once again.
Norah let a small giggle out, "And how can I say no to that face." She said and set her tea cup down on the coffee table that was in front of the couch and then proceeded to make her way into Pietro's lap, her feet stretched out in front of her and resting on the coffee table that probably cost at least six hundred dollars and was now being used as a makeshift foot rest – Pepper would be appalled.
The two ended up turning on some random TV show for background noise – something on the History channel which plays more reality TV than history anymore – and ignored it for the most part and instead paid attention to one and another and had decided on playing a game of sorts, 20 questions to get to know one and another better. As childish as the game sounded it was a great way to get to know one and another better.
"What's your favorite color?" Norah asked as she sipped at her tea and looked into Pietro's blue colored eyes.
"Blue." Pietro answered as he ran his fingers slowly up and down Norah's sweater covered arm.
"What is your favorite color?" Pietro responded.
At that Norah narrowed her eyes at him, "You can't reuse a question, that's not how this game works." She told him sternly to which Pietro just smiled innocently at her. "But, my favorite color is either turquoise or teal I love them both." She answered and then bit her lip while deep in thought, trying to think of the perfect question to ask Pietro. "What is your favorite food?" she asked. "Like favorite meal of all time and dessert." She added.
Pietro smiled fondly and played with the ends of Norah's curly hair, "There is dish back home called Đuveč, it is baked in oven with many vegetables, herbs and spices and meal. My mother and father, when we could afford it, would buy lamb and make this dish for my sister and I. Wada liked dish too but not as much as me, I savored every bite I got of it, took as long as could to finish it. I liked it very much but have not had in years, Wanda and I have not had stable home or much money to have it." He said with a frown on his face, hating that though he was supposed to protect and provide for his sister that he had barely been able to do so.
"What about the dessert? What's your favorite dessert?" Norah asked as she leaned into Pietro a bit more.
"It would definitely be Knedle, it is how you say….dumpling, yes, it is like dumpling. Is made from potato dough and is filled with fruit and sugar and is dropped into boiling water until they float then they are coated with sugar on top. Veoma ukusna." He said to her and then took a sip of the tea that Norah had made for him, it was…different then he was expecting and personally he preferred coffee but he would drink this tea of Norah's if there was nothing else around. "What is your favorite animal?" he questioned.
"Otter." Norah said without a moment's hesitation.
At that Pietro looked at Norah with a raised brow, "An otter?" he questioned. "Not a dog or a cat or a horse but an otter?"
Norah nodded, "Yes an otter, I freaking love those damn adorable animals. I could watch them for hours and not get bored; watching them eating fish, swimming in water playing with one and another. I love them so freaking much." She told him with an excitable look on her face at the thought of otters. "And don't even get me started on baby otters, they're so fluffy."
"You are definitely not like the other girls, are you moj mali bik?" Pietro questioned with a smile as he nuzzled the side of her neck.
"Mmm," Norah hummed. "I try not to be. It gets boring then." She replied, shrugging her shoulders a bit and closed her eyes when she felt Pietro lightly kiss where her shoulder and neck met and make his way up the length of her neck until he reached her jaw. "H..hey, stop distracting me. We're supposed to be asking one and another questions." She told him and very reluctantly pulled away from him.
Pietro gave a small whine and rested his forehead against her neck for a few moments, disappointed that she had stopped him but relented to what she said and stopped distracting her as she had said. "Yes Norah, I'm sorry that my kissing is distracting you that you are unable to form a question." He sassed to her.
Norah stuck her tongue out at him and then pinched him playfully in the thigh, "Shush you." She said to him. "What were your parent's names?" she asked softly, knowing that this was a sore subject for Pietro who had lost his parent's at such an early age because Tony decided to deal weapons with whoever was willing to pay the price.
For a moment Pietro closed his eyes sadly, not a day goes by that he doesn't think of his parents and the life he and Wanda could have had if they hadn't of died, if they hadn't of been killed by weapons created and dealt by Tony Stark. He now understands what Tony Stark had done and knew that it was not completely the mad geniuses fault, that Tony didn't really pay attention to who he was dealing his weapons to nor did he know what those people were going to be using those weapons for and Pietro has forgiven the man but he will always remember whose weapons it had been that had killed his parents and that had ultimately changed his and Wanda's life.
"My mother's name was Malina and she looks very much like Wanda; thin, dark hair, dark eyes. My mother would do anything for me and Wanda, she helped others in neighborhood and once in a while would invite families over to eat with us even though we were poor as well but she cared and wanted them to know that there were people who cared about them." He said and smiled at remembering his mother who he missed so desperately. "My father's name was Luka, he also had dark hair which I had had before experiments, he was tall and for many years I thought he was strongest man in world. He taught me that no matter what I must always make sure to take care of Wanda, to protect her even when she does not want it. They had to work a lot to keep a roof over our heads and to keep us fed, we rarely had new clothes and some make care about those things Wanda and I didn't. Other kids make fun at school, call us names but we never cared. We had each other and our family was together, we were poor but we were happy while being poor. They did all they could to make sure we were happy and we had nights for just family time, we play games, read books, listen to the radio or TV. I miss them." He ended.
Hearing that Norah gave a sad smile and wished that she could bring his parents back, it sounded as if they were great people who had done whatever they had to to make sure that Wanda and Pietro had what they needed. "They sound wonderful." Norah said to him.
"Yes they were." Pietro said to her and then shook his head and cleared his throat from the sad and depressing thoughts that were trying to make their way into his mind. "Tell me of favorite trip of yours that you took." Pietro said to her as he looked up into her dark eyes.
At that Norah had to think for a moment and of course Pietro not being able to help himself had to take the opportunity to lightly run his fingertips up and down Norah's spine, he couldn't help but tease her and try and distract her while she was thinking. In fact, Pietro would much rather forget this whole ask one and another questions to get to know one and another business and instead just lay out on the couch and make out like the young twenty-some year olds they were but Norah wanted to do this so he was going along with it for her benefit.
"It was when I had been living in Sweden," Norah began to say as Pietro's hand slowly slipped underneath the band of her shirt and began tracing designs along her back which made her give a small sigh but she really wasn't all that annoyed. "My roommate of the time and I…" she stopped a moment and breathed in sharply as Pietro began to kiss along her neck once again. "We…uh," Norah attempted to say but had lost her train of thought and forgot what she had been explaining to Pietro.
Pietro sat up a bit more and leaned towards Norah and began to place soft kisses along her neck at a slow pace, one of his hands resting on the opposite side of her neck and gently caressing her skin with the pad of his thumb as he slowly kissed higher and higher on her neck. Breaking away from the kisses he was bestowing upon her neck Pietro ran his nose along the column of her neck, deeply inhaling her scent which seemed to be a mix of earthy smells, something possibly tropical and woman and god did Pietro love it.
"Don't stop because of me moj mali bik," Pietro said in a distracted tone as he leaned down a bit and placed a feather light kiss on Norah's bottom lip and looked at her with his piercing blue colored eyes, amusement showing in them. "Continue, please." He said to her, a smirk on his lips.
"Oh shut up and kiss me." Norah growled at Pietro as she shifted her legs around until she was straddling Pietro's waist rather than sitting on his lap like she had been previously and cupped Pietro's face and pulled him down towards hers for a kiss.
Playing twenty questions could wait, she and Pietro had all the time in the world to get to know one and another and quite honestly Norah would much rather be making out with Pietro on the couch in the living room rather than asking questions. That's what dating was all about anyways – getting to know one and another.
Pietro chuckled into the kiss, "So…" he pressed another kiss to her lips and playfully bit at her bottom lip pulling it out a bit before releasing it. "Demanding." He said and moved his lips from her rather red and plump ones to just under her chin.
As Pietro made his way along her jaw line, Norah wrapped one arm across Pietro's back and moved the other until it was between them and slowly slipped it underneath the front of his shirt and lightly traced her nails over his lower stomach and gave a smirk when she felt the muscles jump underneath her touch – payback for earlier. Closing her eyes at the feeling of Pietro's lips moving along her jaw and closer to her ear, Norah let out a shuddering breath and realized that it truly has been a good long time since she has had a boyfriend or even had a guy to do things like this with, either that or Pietro was very, very skilled that he was able to have her reacting so easily to just kisses and simple touches. Giving a small moan, Norah arched her head back to give Pietro more access and then she moved her hand that was under his shirt and slowly inched her hand further up his torso, playing with the small amount of hair that was near his belly button and then feeling his abs which were not obvious six packs or anything like that but were definitely toned and she was more than happy to run her fingers along them and feel the muscles and warm skin that laid there.
Grasping onto the hair that was at the back of Pietro's head and pulling his lips away from her neck, Norah removed the hand that had snaked itself underneath his shirt and slowly glided it up his shirt until she settled it against his shoulder to use to steady herself and then surged forward and pressed her lips against Pietro's. Norah simply couldn't get enough of Pietro…or his lips, she loved being able to taste his lips, of being able to feel his lips pressed tightly against hers and she loved being able to kiss him and feel him gasp when she would kiss him or move her body in a certain way. She loved it all. Deepening the kiss that she was getting lost in, Norah couldn't help but use both of her hands to grasp onto Pietro's silver/blonde colored hair and pull him closer to her and press her chest as tightly against his as humanly possible and still making it possible for the two of them to breathe easily. Meanwhile one of Pietro's arms were wrapped around Norah's waist with his hand pressed at the small of her back keeping her pressed close to him and the other was in her curly hair, making sure that their lips stayed sealed to one and another as they shared a few heated and passionate kisses.
"Ugh!" A voice interrupted the two from their making out session. "You guys, there's innocent eyes watching. Keep it PG will you."
Looking behind her from where she was straddling Pietro, Norah grinned when she saw Clint standing there beside Natasha who was smirking at her and with Steve who was looking away from where Norah and Pietro were with a red color on his cheeks. "Clint!" she said excitedly, making her way clumsily off of Pietro and onto her own feet so she could go to Clint.
"I think you two just scarred Steve for life." Clint joked as Norah made her way over to him and threw her arms around his shoulders in a hug which he quickly returned. "It's good to see you kid, sorry I couldn't stay until you woke up." He said with an apologetic smile.
Norah gave a shrug of her shoulders, she understood why Clint couldn't stay for the eleven days it took for her to wake up – he had his two kids and very pregnant wife to worry about. He did manage to call her once he got news of her waking up though and had talked to her for a while after that which had led to Laura and Clint's daughter wanting to talk to her and wishing her a speedy recovery which was really unexpected but nice, especially from Clint's daughter who was completely adorable.
"It's fine," Norah said as she released him from her hug and waved his apology off. "I mean if I could have, I would have skipped over that whole unconscious thing but apparently not in the cards." She joked to him.
Clint smiled down at her, "Good to see that you still have your sense of humor." He said and then looked over at Pietro and nodded at him. "Speedy, you been taking care of her and making sure she hasn't been making too much trouble for the medical staff."
At that Pietro stood up and then suddenly appeared next to Norah, "I try but she is stubborn like bull, not easy task." He said to her.
"Yeah, I've heard that before." Clint said and then looked at Norah with amusement. "In fact I think I heard something about a certain someone escaping from the Medical Wing earlier today. Is that right?" he asked as he raised a brow at Norah.
In response to that Norah gave a sheepish smile and gave a shrug, "Well, you know I can't help myself sometimes and well, I was bored and had nothing to do so I figured I would go on a small adventure." She told him simply and then gave a pointed look over to Steve who still had a bit of a blush on his face at catching Norah and Pietro making out on the couch in the rather large living room. "Some people just overreacted a tad bit."
Norah understood everyone being protective of her and feeling like they had to do some things for her and honestly, she totally was loving it for the first day but after the second and third day went by and they were still trying to wait on her hand and food – something she definitely didn't let happen all that often – well, it was starting to get on her nerves and making her want to inflict violence upon the whole bunch of them. Thor she couldn't really hurt he was a Norse god and all, Wanda had her cool voodoo magic red energy things so there was no point in Norah attempting to hurt her, Natasha was an assassin enough said right there, but Tony and Pietro were possible one's she could have hurt if she got frustrated enough. Hopefully now that she was officially out of the Medical Wing everyone would lay off a bit and stop treating her like she was made of glass.
"So, Steve," Norah said from her seat beside Pietro on the couch that they had previously been making out on; she, Pietro, Steve, Clint and Natasha were all sitting around in the living room talking and chatting a bit until someone gave in and decided to start making dinner for everyone that lived in the tower. "How was the mission with Sam? Was Bucky there?" she asked curiously, looking at him and hoping against hope that he had managed to at least talk to Bucky if nothing else.
At that Steve gave a heavy sigh and ran his hands through his blonde hair that was still styled very 1940's, "Bucky….he was there, me and Sam scouted out the area first and the few places that our contact said that they had seen Bucky. On the fourth day of being there I finally managed to see him and I followed him, but I guess he saw me and didn't want to talk or isn't all there yet or just is afraid or something but before I even had a chance to say anything to him he ran off into one of the alleys." He said and paused a moment, a downcast expression spreading across his face making him look a lot older than he was supposed to physically be. "Sam and I of course ran down the alley to chase after him and to try and talk to him, to tell him that we just wanted to help and wanted to bring him back with us to people who wanted to help him but he was gone. No trace, no sign, nothing to hint where he may have gone."
"Oh, Steve." Norah said to her friend sympathetically, her gaze softening. "I'm sorry. I know how hard you've been trying to find him."
"We looked in the surrounding areas and some of the homeless shelters asking about him and even soup kitchens but…well, we didn't get anything that was really worth looking into." Steve said and clenched his fist angrily, all he wanted to do was find his best friend and help him, to show him that no matter what he did and what was done to him that he still accepted him and that there are still good and accepting people in the world.
Norah leaned further into Pietro and took the last sip of her mostly cold tea, "Well, like I've said before." She said to him. "If you want my help in finding him I am more than willing to help you Steve." She said to him. "Once Cho okay's me of course." She added once she saw the look he, Natasha, Clint and Pietro had sent her when she offered to help him.
"I'll keep that in mind." Steve said noncommittal.
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After everyone had dinner in the kitchen, Thor loudly congratulating Norah on being released from her healing quarters, both Norah and Wanda had made their way up to Norah's bedroom that was definitely not located in the Medical Wing any longer so that they could get their girls night started. Pietro attempted to follow them but Wanda had noticed – a twin thing she said – and had used her powers against him and blocked him from following after them and told him that this was time for her and Norah to bond and have a girls night which meant no males allowed and to stay away unless he wanted to face an irate girlfriend and twin. Once Pietro looked between the faces of both Norah and Wanda he had sighed in resignation and turned back around and headed downstairs to hang out with the others since it was obvious Norah and Wanda weren't about to let him join in on their night.
At the moment Norah and Wanda were laying on their stomachs, their heads at the foot of the bed with a spread of junk food in front of them and watching Doctor Who on her big screen TV that was mounted across from her bed. Norah figured that being the great friend that she was that she would introduce Wanda to British TV shows and hopefully have her become nearly as obsessed with them as she was – eventually she'd move on to Sherlock and Torchwood.
"But, why is he using police box?" Wanda asked curiously as she grabbed a handful of M&M's and ate a few at a time. "I do not understand."
Norah gave a shrug of the shoulders, "I don't think anyone knows why, and if they do and there is an episode explaining why the police Box is the TARDIS I haven't seen it." She told her while eating a twizzler.
So far, she and Wanda have watched about two episodes of Doctor Who and Wanda was hooked from the start. Norah started her off with the David Tennant doctor since he was more popular than the doctor before him though Norah was rather fond of the Matt Smith doctor as well, especially the Van Gogh episode.
"So did you and my brother have fun, once you were done getting checked out by Cho?" Wanda asked with a smirk on her face, amused at how heated and physical Norah and Pietro's relationship was already, she had heard that they were caught making out in the living room as well.
When Wanda said that Norah turned and looked at her friend with a sideways glance, "Are we really talking about your brother? About me and your brother?" she questioned, a brown raised at Wanda curiously.
"It is not like I want exact details," Wanda defended and pulled a disgusted face at the thought of Norah telling her every single detail of her and Pietro's relationship and what else they may be doing in the future. "But is girl's night not about talking about boys? Clothes? And…things like that. I do not know what we are supposed to do other than watch movies and eat junk food, I've never had chance to do this." She said to her honestly, a bit embarrassed at the sort of experiences she never had the chance to do.
What Norah would rather not do is talk about Pietro with his sister, it was weird and made her feel all awkward and Norah felt as if she would get to talking and then end up talking about something that involves Pietro that Wanda would have rather not ever known about….like the feeling of his abs or of how he felt under her when he got excited. Things like that.
"Well considering that I'm dating your brother I think it would be weird for me to talk about him, at least certain stuff. Besides, all we did was make out a bit and hang out and talk, doing the whole getting to know one and another better thing." Norah said to Wanda with a half shrug as she took a sip of her water. "He did end up distracting me from that by kissing me. The fiend." She said, a fond smile on her face as she said that and thought about Pietro.
Wanda shook her head, "Males." She said, a light tone in her voice. "So, if we are not talking about boys, what else do we talk about?" she asked her.
Norah looked at Wanda a bit sadly, feeling bad that she's never really had a chance to have a girls night before and wondered what kind of friends she had growing up if she didn't have girls night. She's here to rectify that though. "Well I like clothes but I don't think spending the whole night talking about them is all that exciting, music is something I like but I think we need to listen to music together and introduce you to some music that I have on my iTunes before we talk music. But we can talk about anything really; life, friends, family, venting about anything and everything. You know, stuff." She said to her.
"You know I have never had many friends," Wanda said off hand to Norah. "And not many close friends, it has always just Pietro and I. He is not best at being friends with girls, he does not say right thing all of time." She said with a wry smile on her face.
"Just like most men." Norah added making the two give a giggle at that. "Well even though we were kinda fighting on opposite sides, I'm glad we met. And you have Natasha, Vision, Thor and all of the others and I'd love to introduce you to some of my friends from my Mutant school. I can't be your only close friend." She said and knocked her shoulder against Wanda's who smiled at her.
"I would very much like that." Wanda said to her as she popped a circular candy into her mouth and then immediately scrunched up her face at the taste. "What is this? It is so sour!"
Norah laughed, "War Head, one of the best sour candies ever made." She replied.
For a few hours after that they watched more episodes of Doctor Who, Wanda asking questions and commenting on the parts she liked and Norah responding in kind and talking about the parts she liked and the characters that she thought were terrifying or really well written in the show. They talked about anything and everything that came to mind, about Wanda's life living in Sokovia before and after her parents had died, they talked about Norah living at the Mansion and going to school with other Mutants and how she finally felt accepted and well, everything really.
"Your family is arriving soon, aren't they?" Wanda asked Norah, it was about three a.m. at the moment and they were still watching episodes of Doctor Who and have been for at least four or five hours now.
Norah looked down at her plate of junk food somberly for a moment and gave a small nod of affirmation at what Wanda asked, "Yeah, should be here mid-afternoon to early evening." She said with a tone of trepidation, she still had mixed feelings about seeing her family again….mainly her birth father.
Wanda looked over at Norah curiously, when she had messed with Norah's mind back at the shipyard she ended up finding things out about her that Norah probably had not told any other living soul before. The bad things that had happened to her, the negative things that she had thought about herself and her body when she was a teenager, about why she didn't date much when she was a teenager and why she had only ended up dating one boy while going to school at Xavier's and she knew every single detail of what had happened to Norah in St. Louis…that experience she didn't wish upon anyone, least of all Norah who had such an intense, protective, loyal personality that seemed to draw people in without even realizing it. Wanda had found out about Norah's family, about the sort of father she had had and had found out that Norah's father and Wanda's father were vastly different people and that Norah had grown up fifteen years with a father who didn't really care about her or her sister. She also knew about the drinking and the drugs that Norah's father had done and dealt in – some people didn't deserve to be parents.
"You do not wish for them to come?" Wanda questioned curiously, wanting to know what Norah thought about this.
At that Norah rolled over and flopped onto her back and looked up at the curtains that were above her and that covered her canopy bed. "I do…for the most part. I mainly want to see my sister again, I want to see her and meet her family. I want to tell her how much I missed her, how much I missed talking to her about whatever came to mind like music and books, movies, actors we found attractive, how annoying our mother was at times, places we wanted to visit and everything and anything in-between." She said with a soft smile on her face, remembering the sort of sisterly bond she and her sister used to have. "My ma, well I'm not sure about her. I want to see her and tell her how much she hurt me, how much I missed her and hated her for what she said and for what she thought of me being a Mutant. I miss my mother, she was always my biggest supporter and sure we would argue but that's with any parent that has a teenager. They argue once in a while. But I just didn't want to see my birth father, I have a father already. Tony, Tony is my father and I really don't want to see Tom whatsoever. He's done nothing for me in my life and was barely there for the last few years before I ran away so I really wished he wasn't coming here to see me, I doubt if he even wants to see me."
"I'm sorry." Wanda said to her as she sat up into a cross legged position and soothingly ran her hand over Norah's forehead and moved some stray hairs out of her way. "What you need to concentrate on is seeing your sister and her family, they are the ones you wish to see most, yes?" she questioned to which Norah nodded at. "Then concentrate on seeing them again, see your mother and talk with her. I am not saying to forgive for what she said to you when you were fifteen; she hurt you and said hurtful things. You should not have to accept an apology but you can listen to her, see if she change. Yes?" she said with an encouraging nod of the head. "As for your birth father, I do not think you should talk to him if you do not want to. He has done nothing for you to owe it to him, if you want to stay away and not talk that is your right but it may be good to confront him. To come to terms so to say and let him know what you truly think and to tell him that you do not wish to have contact if that is what you want." Wanda said.
Hearing that made Norah shake her head, "You sound like Pietro. He said the same thing to me basically." She told her.
"Don't you say that!" Wanda said while feigning a gasp and then ending up laughing.
The two settled down after that and barely watched fifteen to twenty minutes into another episode before they both ended up falling asleep next to one and another on Norah's bed – a sign of a successful girls night.
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Thank you for reading and reviewing! I really loved this chapter and hope you all loved it just as much!