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A/N: Yay another chapter, I was going to add a bit more to it but I'll save it for the next chapter and plus, I'm tired. Sorry people. Enjoy!

Chapter thirty-one

She was running, running as fast as she could away from Ultron and his metal robot army who was trying to kill her. She looked around frantically for signs of her friends and family but there was no sign of them anywhere, so instead Norah kept on running as if her life depended on it which it might. She could feel blood on her bare feet, seeping between her toes, she felt blood on her hands but instead of looking at them she kept on running, kept on pushing herself to run faster and faster. Behind her she heard the clanking noises of Ultron coming after her, he could have jumped and/or flown to where she was but he wanted to torture her, to mess with her mind by letting her think that she had a head start when really she had no chance whatsoever.

"Tony! Pietro! Natasha!" Norah yelled out into the familiar Sokovian woods that she was surrounded by. "Please!" she screamed desperately, hoping against hope that one of them would hear her pleas and come to her rescue, that they could come and help her.

"No one is here to help you." Ultron cackled from behind her, making Norah push herself just that much harder.

Behind her there was the sound of gun shots, blood curdling screams and instead of looking behind her to see what going on, to see who was making those noises Norah blocked them from her mind and continued on running and doing her damndest to put as much distance between herself and Ultron as she possibly could. Norah didn't want to die, especially like this. Running. If she was going to die she'd rather die fighting for her life instead of running away scared out of her mind.

Norah turned her head for a moment to see how far ahead of Ultron she was but she didn't see him behind her any longer but she could still hear him chasing her, so she turned back around to watch where she was running but when she did she stopped stock still. There in front of her were Wanda, Pietro, Steve, Natasha and Clint, severely injured and her mother, sister and Tony were laying on the ground dead.

"No, no, no, no, no." Norah said with wide eyes as she ran over towards her mother, sister and Tony and patted at their faces desperately, hoping and praying that they were just unconscious and not dead. "C'mon, please, please don't be dead. Please." She begged them as she hugged her mother and sister to her and then moved to Tony and hit him upside the head, hoping it would wake him up from his 'sleep' that she was pretending he was in. "Tony, no, please Tony wake up, wake up. You need to wake up…okay, you need to be alive. I can't. I just-" she said cutting herself off and pressing her forehead against Tony's as tears made their way down her face.

"Norah, you could have saved them, saved us." Clint said from over by the others. "You didn't try hard enough, you've never been good enough." He said to her.

At that Norah got up and rushed over towards them, "What?! No, I did save you. I saved you Clint and Pietro." She said to him.

"If you saved us why are we like this?" Pietro questioned as he gestured to his side where a big chunk was missing and blood was streaming out steadily, something he definitely would not have survived.

"Yes Norah-" Natasha began but before she was able to say much of anything Norah turned tail and ran away from her dead family and from her horribly injured friends who were accusing her of not saving them.

Norah ran and ran and then ran some more, she couldn't take it and couldn't comprehend what was going on. She needed to get as far away as humanly possible, she tried to use her Blinking but no matter how hard she tried nothing happened. She didn't Blink to another place, it's like suddenly her power was turned off.

Ducking under some tree's Norah continued running and swung herself over a rather large fallen tree but once she had done that she came face to face with someone who was ten times worse than Ultron in her book. The man who had hurt her in St. Louis when she was fifteen.

"Hello Norah, would you like-"

And with a large gasp Norah sat straight up and woke from the nightmare that she had just been having, filled with things she would rather not have to think about or remember. Blinking her eyes a few times, Norah reached over towards her night stand and took out a pair of glasses and slid them onto her face before she pulled her knees up to her chest, settled her elbows on top of them and grasped at her hair. She really did need to take care of these nightmares that she kept on having but Norah knew that meant talking about them and she would rather not talk about them or talk about what has happened to her in her past, she just wanted to forget about the things that have happened to her. Especially the incident in St. Louis.

"Jesus Christ, don't think about him Norah. Do not. He cannot rule your every thought; he cannot rule your life or scare you anymore." Norah said to herself, referring to the man who had assaulted her in St. Louis.

Norah would rather take on one hundred Ultron's rather than that man who had attacked her in St. Louis. It's been quite a few years since that had happened but it still affected her, it was still in the back of her mind no matter how much she tried to forget about it and it will always be a part of her and her life experiences.

Shaking her head to try and shake the memories away, Norah gave a great big sigh and pushed the covers off of her green colored yoga pants clad legs and grabbed a black zip up hoodie that was thrown over a chair and then slowly made her way out of her bedroom and to the closest elevator. After that hellish nightmare there was no way that she was going to be going back to sleep for a while, though she wasn't fond of being up at three am in the morning but Norah figured she could attempt to get a nap in later on in the day.

So seeing as it was way too early for most people to be awake at this time of morning Norah made her way to the common room/kitchen area, maybe a cup of tea, some food and a bit of late night TV will make her feel better and help her keep her mind off of the nightmare that she had. As the elevator that shew as on stopped and the doors opened, Norah walked out of it and saw that there was light streaming into the hallway from the common room, meaning someone else was awake and Norah would bet anything that it was more than likely Tony. Tony's mind worked 24/7 and mixed with his mad genius tendencies and his somewhat insomnia made it so that he was up at really weird and unusual hours.

"You know," Norah said making Tony jump from his spot on the couch, nearly dropping the tablet that was in his hands. "Pepper is going to kick your ass one of these days, taking short naps in your labs and in the living room does not count as sleep Tony." She pointed out to him as she walked past the couch he was on and towards the kitchen so that she could make herself some tea to drink, opting for a mixed blend of herbal and black tea.

Tony looked at Norah and shook his head at her, "How are you able to do that without your power, seriously kid. I'm not that young anymore, make some noise when you come into a room or something." He said to her as he peered over the back of the couch and watched her.

Hearing that Norah gave a devilish smirk, "You know I can't help myself." She responded before turning her back to him and taking out the things she needed for her tea while waiting for her tea kettle to boil.

Watching Norah from the awkward position he turned his head in Tony looked at her in concern, she had bags underneath her eyes, she looked dead tired yet was awake at three something in the morning and was continuously rapping her fingers against the counter which were signs that something was definitely wrong with her. He's known Norah long enough to know when she was plain old tired – he remembered the numerous late night study sessions – and when there was something seriously wrong with her like there was right now and he could only assume that Norah was awake right now because of a nightmare.

What Norah needed to do was talk to someone again like she used to do, before he had met her, she's made off hand comments about going to a therapist for a while after she arrived at Xavier's but hasn't said much else otherwise. Tony wasn't one to talk about his feelings really especially therapist but Norah needed it, hell most of the Avengers would do good talking to a therapist.

"Norah," Tony said as Norah approached the couch he was on and sat beside him as she took a sip of the tea she made for herself. "You should be sleeping; only crazy mad geniuses like me are up at this ungodly hour." He said and gently nudged her. "Go and get some sleep." He said to her.

At that Norah shook her head, "No, I'm fine." She said stubbornly and looked at his tablet and saw a few tabs open, one that looked like some sort of mathematical algorithm and the other looked like a search for wherever Bruce may be. "I don't want to sleep right now, I had a nightmare and I just need to be up for a while." She admitted to him tightly.

"Norah you can't keep everything in." Tony said to her, sounding very parental at the moment, it was mildly terrifying when he did that once in a while. "You need to talk about the things that are going up in this weird mind of yours," he said as he lightly tapped her on the side of the head. "You need to get stuff out so that you don't keep on having nightmares. You went through a lot, you nearly died and that's not something you can just brush off." He said to her.

Norah huffed at that and took a rather big gulp of her tea before she stretched out on the couch and laid her head against one of Tony's jean clad thighs, using it as a makeshift pillow so to say. "I know." She said somberly. "I know I do but right now, right at this exact moment isn't the time Tony." She said as she looked up at him pleadingly and silently begged him to change the subject, to talk about anything else but what they were at the moment.

"All right." Tony conceded and gently patted Norah's curly hair. "We don't have to talk about that." He said to her gently, lovingly caressing her cheek before returning his hand back to her hair. "How about we talk about how I talked to your sad excuse of a father." He said, a smirk on his face.

Hearing that Norah turned her head and looked at Tony with wide eyes, a slow smile spreading across her face at that. "No. No way. Don't tell me I missed the confrontation!" she exclaimed, a disappointed look on her face at missing her chosen father and her birth father facing off with one and another.

Tony grinned back at her, "'Fraid so kid. Sorry. I would have waited but you were doing the whole reuniting with your mother and sister thing, figured it'd be kinda rude to interrupt that. Or so says Pepper. And Steve. And Clint. Everyone really." He said with a sigh.

"What happened, did he act like an ass to you, did he drink all of your alcohol up? Come on, tell me the juicy details!" Norah said, acting way too excited about Tony talking to her birth father.

She may or may not be hoping that they got into a fight, depending on how drunk her birth father was Tony would have been able to take him and have him on his ass in two seconds flat.

Tony shook his head at Norah, "He did drink from my alcohol collection and didn't even ask first, rude." He said with a playful roll of his eyes and crossing his arms, sounding very much like a teenage girl which was more than likely what he was aiming for. "He was not happy at not being able to see you but me, Thor and Steve didn't let him go and follow your mother and sister. I tried to contain myself and be nice like Pepper asked me to but I can only do so much, I may have went off on him and told him what I thought of him and maybe called him your sperm donor rather than your father and said that I was your father as far as you were concerned."

When he said that Norah looked up at Tony and gave a soft smile; she did love hearing him refer to himself as her father and the fact that he defended her and kept her 'father' from following after her mother and sister made it just that much better. Tony's the best as far as she cared.

After that Norah kept her head on Tony's thigh and watched some bad TV for a while whilst Tony read things on his tablet and tapped at the screen continuously and mumbled to himself about some sort of science and math stuff, none of which Norah understood so she just blocked him out.

"Norah," Tony said as he looked down at her once again and saw her blinking her eyes, trying to stay awake. "I think you should get some sleep now Blinker. Don't you think." He suggested.

"Then read to me, whatever you are mumbling about on your tablet. Read that to me." Norah said as she stayed where she was. "I'm sure I'll be put to sleep within moments. It sounds boring from what I've heard so far." She teased to him to which Tony repaid her by pinching her side making her squeal a bit.

Nonetheless Tony began to read the science and math shit, as Norah liked to lovingly call it, talking about a new invention he was doing research for and considering creating. But just as Norah had said, the science and math talk had put her to sleep almost instantly which made Tony smile a bit and then return to his tablet to do a bit more research and work out some equation's to try once he was in the developing part of the invention.

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It was a few hours later when Tony suddenly blinked his eyes open (he swore that he only closed them for a moment) and smelt the strong scent of his Costa Rican coffee, and not the cheap shit either. Blearily closing and opening his eyes a few time to adjust to the brightness of the light that was shining in through the large floor to ceiling windows, he cracked his neck before looking down at his lap where Norah was still sound asleep and then gave as tart when he saw Norah's mother sitting at the other end of the couch. She was just sitting there quietly, two cups in hand while staring at him and Norah intently. A bit creepy, even for his tastes.

"Uh, hi." Tony said a bit awkwardly as he slowly sat up somewhat straighter, something that was a bit complicating considering Norah was using him as a pillow.

"Hi." Cheri said with an unreadable expression on her face and then handed him a cup of coffee before taking her own in her hands. "I made coffee, hope you don't mind." She said to him before she looked down at Norah with a gentle yet pained expression on her face.

Tony took a sip of his coffee and nodded at Cheri, "Thanks," he told her and then sat in awkward silence for a while.

This was a weird situation for Tony to be in, usually he could be quite charming and could B.S. his way through a conversation he didn't really want to have if he wanted to but this was different. This was Norah's mother that he was dealing with at the moment, the woman who was the birth mother of his adopted daughter and he didn't have a damn clue what to say or what to do really. It was weird, awkward and uncomfortable all rolled into one. This was the first time that Tony has really talked to the woman, he had called Norah's older sister when he had decided to let her family know about Norah's injuries and when he had invited them to New York to see Norah again after being separated from her for however many years it's been. So, yeah, this was an all-around weird situation for Tony to be in at the moment.

"Thank you." Cheri said suddenly to Tony, breaking him out of his thoughts about how weird and odd the situation was at the moment. "Thank you, Tony, for taking my daughter in when you didn't have to. Thank you for accepting her as she was, Mutant and all. Thank you for caring for her and….and loving her like a parent even though you didn't have to." She said as she looked down at her sleeping daughter's face with a soft smile before looking up at Tony.

At that Tony gave a flippant shrug, he may like being the center of attention but not in this sort of context. "With her sarcastic attitude it was hard to not like the kid and to take her in, I've never really wanted kids but when Norah unexpectedly came along, well, I made an exception for her. She's a damn hellion at times but she keeps me on my toes and can give as good as she gets." He said with an amused smirk on his face as he turned from Cheri and instead looked down at Norah as he moved some of her wild curls out of her face. "She made me realize that I was missing something. Having a kid in your life is an amazing experience, I'm not planning on having kids whatsoever, Norah is enough for me to tell the truth. But she made me see things differently; she relied and depended on me, trusted me like no one else and when things were going bad she would come to me. I've never really experienced something like that before." He said with a small smile on his face. "I really do love her like she's my own."

Seeing Tony Stark look at her daughter in such a loving and fatherly way hurt Cheri's heart, it wasn't because she was jealous or anything like that, because she wasn't. In fact, she was more than glad that her daughter had a father figure in her life, even if it was a few years late. It hurt because Cheri wished to god that Norah could have had a father figure from the start – both her and Niki – instead she got Tom who barely remembered that he had kids, let alone did anything with them that would be considered parental. Tom had acted like a father was supposed to at one point in time, for the first ten or so years of being a father which Niki got to experience but sadly Norah did not. A few years after Norah was born things with Tom's alcoholism started to go downhill and he never was the same again. It's sad to think that it took almost twenty years for Norah to find someone who treated her like a father was supposed to.

"She's not the same Norah anymore." Cheri said offhand, a wistful look playing across her face. "She was quiet, shy for the most part, and barely spoke her mind then unless she was being particularly stubborn." She said with a small laugh.

Tony wanted to say something, anything to comfort the woman who created the fierce person that Norah was but he didn't have any clue how to go about doing that. He couldn't refute what she was saying to try and make her feel better; Norah was definitely not the same person she was when Cheri had last seen her. Norah was no longer a fifteen year old girl stuck in the goth phase of her teenage years, she wasn't the shy and introverted person that she had been back then and she wasn't the sort of person that would take shit from anyone. Be it Fury, Tony, Ultron or her family.

Cheri gave a heavy sigh at how much she had missed out on because of a simple-minded view that she had held, "I was wrong. I know that now, I knew that five years ago, hell I knew that only a year or two after Norah had ran away. There's nothing wrong with Mutants or being a Mutant. It's something a person can't change about themselves so who am I to judge. It's the same as hating someone based on the color of their skin or their religious views and I did just that to Norah when she was only fifteen years old because of things I saw in the news." She said and pursed her lips together, hating herself for what she did to her youngest daughter and for the fact that in a roundabout way she broke her family a part. "I missed out on so much because I decided Mutants were bad."

Tony took a sip of his coffee and looked at Cheri and wondered how it ended up that he was the one that shew as pouring her heart to, he understood that she felt bad about how she acted and that she hated herself for missing out on almost eight years of her daughter's life but why, why god was he the one that she decided to tell all of her inner feelings to. He loved Norah obviously, he loved her so much that he called her birth family and invited them to New York but he was definitely not on the level of having a heart to heart with them. He hasn't even known them a day yet and the only one he's really had a conversation with before now was Tom and that was not exactly to most pleasant of conversations, there was a lot of yelling and insults involved. But because he loved and cared for Norah (and because Pepper would kill him), Tony sat there and listened to Cheri and did his best to attempt to comfort/make her feel better. He definitely was not trained to deal with this sort of shit from random people.

"I missed out on her growing up and becoming a wonderful woman from what I can tell so far, I missed out on her graduating from high school early, from graduating from college with two degrees. I never got to see her go on her first date, her first break up or any of those things and it was all because I was stupid and judgmental when I found out about Norah's powers. God, it hurts so much to realize that I don't know my own daughter. I am a horrible mother, Niki tried to convince me otherwise but what parent makes their daughter feel as if the only choice they have is to run away? What parent lets their child feel unloved and hated?" she asked rhetorically.

Tony rubbed at his face, it was too damn early for these sort of conversations. "Look, I don't know you so I can't really say much on you being or not being a horrible mother. I kinda hated you for a while when Norah told me about how she ended up being on her own before she ended up at Xavier's. I won't lie, it's not really my thing. I'm more so of being brutally honest and insulting someone straight to their face type." He said with a nonchalant shrug of his shoulders, it was the truth and who was he to start lying about the sort of person he was now. It's a tad late for that. "Once I got to know Norah, like really got to know her it made me angry at you for what you said and for what you thought of her. Yeah, she's a bit different but everyone's a bit different – Mutants and Humans alike. I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that you, as her mother, wanted to fix her of being a 'Mutant', that you basically wanted her to be experimented on by a doctor just so that she wouldn't have her powers anymore." He said and then paused for a moment.

Tony needed a moment to gather his thoughts before he continued on his little tirade.

"I dug into Norah's past, found everything I could on you, on your husband, on Norah herself and on your sad excuse of an ex-husband. I found all the gritty details about your lives to try and explain why you would do that to your own daughter but for the life of me nothing explained what you did. Not one thing." Tony said with a disappointed shake of his head and then turned to look at Cheri intently, trying to dissect her with his eyes. "When I met her I could tell she's been through a bit, that she wasn't exactly an innocent twenty year old kid who was trying their hand at being an adult. Norah is an amazing girl….woman, she's fierce, strong, independent, stubborn as a mule, loyal and speaks her mind. I only hope that you take the chance that's been given to you and get to know Norah, Mutant and all."

It was hard for Cheri to hear all of that, to hear that Norah had been through something that affected her so much that Tony was able to see it within moments of meeting her. It also didn't surprise Cheri when Tony admitted that he had hated her when he had first heard the story of how Norah ended up by herself without any family to call on, if Cheri was in his shoes she would be feeling the exact same thing. Cheri had no excuse for how she had reacted to finding out that Norah was a Mutant, but she would do her damndest to make up for her mistake.

"I plan on it." Cheri told him determinedly as she looked him straight in the eye, a dead serious look on her face when she spoke those words to him.

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This was the day that Norah has been waiting for since she woke up from her medically induced a coma, the day that she would be told whether or not if she could use her powers freely once again or if she needed to wait two more weeks before doing so. Cho had flown back in from Seoul to do the checkup, at the rather annoying insistence of Tony who said that Norah deserved only the best and Cho was the best. Norah wanted to use her powers weeks ago but the others had banned her from it and had kept a close watch on her to insure that she didn't break the order placed on her of not using them until she was medically cleared. Something which Norah pouted about quite obviously in front of everyone, just to make sure they knew how annoyed and put out she felt about the current predicament.

"Norah calm down." Cheri said from a chair in the medical room that Cho had led Norah, Niki and her mother to so that Norah could get her injuries checked out and will hopefully be given a clean bill of health. "Pacing around won't make her come back here any faster." She said to her youngest daughter with an amused smile on her face.

At that Norah rocked back and forth on her feet impatiently, "I am calm." She said unconvincingly and crossed her arms under her chest, hating that she had to wait for Cho to come back before finding out if she could take up her old routine once again and be able to use her powers again, she hated not being able to use her powers.

"Sure you are," Niki said with a raised brow. "About as calm as a cat covered in catnip." She said to her sarcastically.

In response to that Norah made a face at her older sister and stuck her tongue out at her, "Oh, ha, ha. Aren't you hilarious." She said to her with a half-hearted snide remark.

Niki stuck her tongue back out at Norah, "Nughhh."

Looking between her daughter's Cheri shook her head, really, she swore that she had attempted to raise them to be polite young ladies rather than the childish twenty-something and thirty-something that they two of them were acting like at the moment. She was positive that she didn't teach them to stick their tongue's out at one and another childishly either, that was definitely not one of her teachings.

Thankfully before either Niki or Norah could continue bantering with one and another the door to the Medical room opened and in walked Cho who was holding a clipboard and an odd looking device in her hand, smiling she set her things down on a table before she greeted Norah and her family.

"Hello Norah, how are you doing? You're looking much better than a few weeks ago." Cho said as she went over to the sink in the room and washed her hands and put gloves on so that she could do an exam of Norah's heling injuries that were hopefully, at this point, all healed up.

"I'm good, I'm doing real good." Norah responded as she watched Cho go through the motions of getting ready for looking her over. "Ready to get off of the 'no using powers' restriction though." She said to her pointedly, a slight frown on her face.

At that Cho gave a small laugh at that, "I am sure you are, it has been almost a month since the incident happened." She said to her and then looked to Cheri and Niki. "I am to assume that you are the family members that Tony had called when Norah was injured. Her mother and sister?" she questioned curiously.

Cheri nodded at that, "I'm Cheri, and this is my oldest Niki." She said introducing herself and her daughter to the Korean doctor. "You're the one who saved my daughter?" she questioned while looking at Cho as if she was some sort of heavenly creature who had been sent down to Earth to save her daughter for some greater good.

At that Cho gave a humbled laugh, "I'm not exactly the one who saved her, there were three doctors who had worked on her before myself and my team got our hands on her. Considering the distressing circumstances that they were in at the time, they did a beautiful job saving her life. If there hadn't been a medical team onsite your daughter most definitely would have bled out and died." She said in a serious tone of voice as she looked at Cheri and then at Norah. "I do hope that you don't plan on jumping in front of anymore jets that are shooting at you."

"As long as they aren't aimed at my friends I won't." Norah responded cheekily.

"Norah!" Cheri admonished unbelievably.

Cho shared a look of understanding with Cheri and then turned to Norah once again, "I'd prefer it Norah, if you refrained from doing that again. Please. I don't think Tony could take another situation like that." She told her.

Giving a sigh, Norah nodded her head and saluted Cho. "I promise to do my best to not to do so again, if at all possible." She said dully.

Looking at Norah, Cho shook her head and figured that was the closest she was going to get to Norah promising to not put herself in danger again. After all, Norah was like family to the Avengers and would sacrifice herself if it meant that they lived, as the whole fight against Ultron proved.

"Ready to see what the verdict is?" Cho asked.

Nodded, Norah hopped up onto the medical bed and looked at Cho expectantly. "Ready when you are Doc." She said, a wide and hopeful grin on her face.

So with that said Cho went through the motions of looking over each wound that Norah had acquired from the fight against Ultron in Sokovia; the two gunshot wounds to her side, the one in her thigh, the one that was close to her neck area and then the most dangerous one that she had sustained which had been the one that went directly through her lung. It was the lung injury that had given the doctors the most problems during surgery and after, which is one of the reasons that they had put her into a medically induced a coma so that it could give her some time to heal without being in immense amounts of pain every time she breathed.

To tell the truth Cho had been surprised that Norah had survived her injuries long enough for the medical team onboard of the Hellicarrier to get to work on her and fix her up to the best of their ability, if not for Norah's pure stubbornness and the quick work of the medical team Cho had no doubt that Norah would not be standing there with them today.

"So?" Norah asked once Cho had finished using the handheld scan on her body to check on her internal damage that the gunshot wounds had caused her. "Please, please, please, please tell me I am free to use my powers like usual. It's killing me to not use them." She said to her dramatically, making a puppy dog face at her and everything.

Not being able to use your powers for almost a month was hell on a Mutant, especially for a Mutant like Norah who has used her powers every single day since she had found out about them. Not being able to Blink from one place to another or go into the training room to work out and use her molecular combustion power was rubbing Norah's skin the wrong way and made her feel…unnatural. There were times, small instances in the past when Norah had wished and hoped to be normal but those were the times when she had difficulty controlling her more volatile power. She hasn't thought like that in many years and now that she's experienced being 'normal' for the first time since she was six or seven years old, well Norah has to say that she wasn't all that fond of it and would rather be able to use her powers whenever she wanted rather than not.

"Well Norah you are healing up quite nicely, far better than I expected when I had first seen your injuries." Cho told her honestly as she took her gloves off and tapped on the tablet she was using and pulling up the scans that she had taken of Norah's injuries. "I think for the most part you are healed up," she said which gained a 'Yes!' from Norah, but Cho ignored that and continued with what she had been saying. "Notice, I said the most part. I know you really want to use your powers again but I'm asking you to give it at least one more week before doing so." She said to her apologetically.

That was the biggest disappointment Norah has felt in a long while, "Oh come on, really?!" she exclaimed, none too happy with what Cho was saying. "A week? I've got to wait another week, really? I've barely been able to contain my impatience over the last what, three or four weeks, I can't take another week." She complained with slumped shoulders, a look of defeat on her face. "What difference will a week make?"

Seeing the utter agony and dread on her younger sister's face Niki couldn't help but snicker a bit, she couldn't even begin to comprehend what her sister was going through with not being able to use her powers for such a long time but seeing her act like a petulant five year old child who was told no to having a cookie before dinner was hilarious. It was nice to see her sister still had her playful tendencies, especially after the serious talk that they had the day before.

"A week can make all the difference Eleanorah." Cheri said to her daughter. "So please, for your mother's sake. Can you try and last one more week without using your powers so we are for certain that you are all healed up." She pleaded with her.

Cho nodded her agreement, "Yes, it would be best to wait another week Norah. I'm sorry, I know that's not exactly what you wanted to hear but it would be best." She stated simply, giving a small shrug of her shoulders.

Pouting, Norah crossed her arms and gave a great big sigh and conceded to what Cho and her mother were asking of her. "Fine, one more week and that's it. I'm not waiting any longer than that."

Giving a laugh Cho nodded her agreement to what Norah was saying, "All right, I promise one more week and you'll be free to do as you did before you were injured." She said affirmed to her.

"I'll hold you to that." Norah uttered unhappily.

"I'd expect nothing less from you Norah." Cho replied in amusement.

While Norah was not completely free to do as she wanted, she was definitely close to being able to use her powers again and that was something she was more than excited about doing once again. That also meant that she would be having to take up training once again with Natasha and the others, but it also meant that she could train with Pietro and she could only imagine how interesting it would be with his speed and her ability to Blink from place to place.

The possibilities.

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