Chapter 2

They got home an hour later, signed the paperwork to make them official soulmates, and then went to the living room. They did their college work, and they officially graduated from high school as well. Though they were still finishing off the year at Midtown. It was November sixth, and tomorrow was Christina and Peter's birthday. Christina was sore and tired Damian was as well, an unfortunate downside of not having nearly enough contact that day. They would be official soulmates at twelve o'clock. Everyone came into the living room at five, and they started a movie marathon. They had snacks, chicken wings, and Pizza for dinner. They stayed up til midnight and once it was they congratulated Damian and Christina and everyone else went to bed. Under normal circumstances Damian would have gone to his room on the avengers floor, but one, Christina was asleep and two, they were officially soulmates and technically married now. Damian fell asleep with his soulmate in his arms. Pepper woke up at four a.m and went to get a drink. When she saw the two asleep on the couch she asked FRIDAY to take a picture.

"Already done and sent to you." The AI replied fondly. Pepper went back to sleep after that, and no one else woke up for two more hours. Damian and Peter woke up at around the same time. When Peter came into the living room he started a conversation with Damian because Christina was still asleep and Damian couldn't move until she woke up. They still had school today seeing as it was a Tuesday and they couldn't really skip.

"So, you married my sister, nice now you're officially my brother. I'm happy for you two you're moving up here into her room right." Peter said.

"Yeah I am. I'm happy too, but it doesn't really change very much. Which is good. I don't think we're ready for anything else yet." Damian replied. Holding Christina in his arms all night was amazing, and he was glad he could do that every night from now on.

"Yeah I know. Kari and I are thinking of doing the same thing once she turns eighteen as well." Peter said. A little while later Tony came into the living room.

"Morning boys, is she awake yet?"

"No, she's not awake yet. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be here for a little bit longer." Damian answered.

"I could wake her up, but I would rather her not be mad."

"Dami, I'm already awake." Christina said, waking up in time to hear him say that.

"Morning sweetheart." Her dad said.

"Morning Dad morning Peter, happy birthday." Christina replied, still sleepy. She slowly took in her surroundings as she woke up.

"Morning Chrissy, happy birthday." Peter replied, getting up to hug her. She hugged him back from where she was contentedly sitting on Damian's lap. She got up a little bit later and went to change in their room. Her mom had already had Damian's stuff moved in. She got a long sleeved shirt, one of Damian's hoodies, and a pair of dark washed jeans. She used her superspeed to change so she wasn't cold. Damian changed after her in their bathroom. When he was done changing he walked up behind her and hugged her.

"Happy birthday beautiful." He said.

She turned around and kissed him. That led into three more kisses, and then they walked into the living room. The twins were wished happy birthday again from multiple people, and then they went to school. Chemistry was first again and Flash teased more than usual with the tour approaching. The teachers who liked them and knew about the soulmate bond wished them congratulations. The day was less horrible than the other day. Christina was tired all she wanted to do was go home and sleep while Damian held her. They had celebrated her and Peter's birthday yesterday, so their actual birthday was free for them to do other things. She almost fell asleep in English, and gym class was in the actual gym this time. They had to do the rope climb today. Christina just decided.

"Whatever they already know I'm fit, so I'm just going to climb the dumb thing." So she climbed the rope, reached the top, rang the bell, and climbed back down in a minute and thirty seconds. Damian did the same as well as Peter and Kari. When it was Flash's turn he got halfway up the rope and chickened out. Then he stalked over to them going on about how they cheated. The rest of the day Flash sulked, and it just was so pathetic no one paid attention. When school ended Damian drove the four of them home. Christina took his hand, and dragged him to their room. He chuckled and laid down next to her pulling her to him, and put her head on his collarbone mark. He also put his hand on her collarbone mark. They were both asleep in seconds. When they woke up they were well rested, and it was six o'clock at night. Pepper came into their room and told them supper was ready. It was lasagna and Bucky had made it. The whole team was over for dinner and there was a fair amount of teasing from Bucky and Natasha. Who had done the same exact thing at their age. Dinner went well. Peter, Damian, and Christina went out on patrol that evening. They stopped several muggings, robberies, and small-time villains. Then they went back home. The next day was much the same except they had their fair share of meetings, and scolded a military General who was trying to get them to manufacture weapons, again. Thursday was a trainwreck. Flash was an idiot. He thought that he could say things about their family, as well as how MJ should date him instead of Peter, and that Christina, Peter, Damian, and MJ were lying and how he would expose them. They also knew the avengers were going to downright embarrass them. Damian realized very quickly that if he didn't get Christina away, and distract her and himself things would get very bad. So like any good soulmate. He led her away to the lounge room, and kissed her.

"If your plan was to distract me it worked. Officially distracted." She said,

"Well that's good. MJ should be rescuing your brother right about now, but we have a meeting today, remember." Damian replied, as he pulled out his phone.

"Adrian pull up the meeting call and tell them that the other two CEOs should arrive soon." Damian said.

"Done and done Mini Boss 2 and Mini Boss Lady." Adrian replied. Peter and MJ walked in ten seconds later, and the meeting began. The meeting was with PR about Damian and Christina's soulmate bond, and them being officially married even though they didn't really act like it. They ran through endless situations and what ifs, and it was giving Christina a headache.

"Enough guys! I get it you want us to be prepared, but first of all nothing has really changed. Second, we are still teenagers and we are Christians. So some of the things you have suggested aren't even happening til we are nineteen at the earliest! Lastly I am disappointed that you think that we would even consider getting divorced! Did you not think about what that would do to us? We are married in the eyes of God and the law no one else matters. If they find out who cares! Yes it would give the press a field day, but we have lawyers for that. So I believe that ends this meeting. For those of you who didn't say those rude things. I'm not mad at you." She said sternly ending the call. Peter and MJ/Kari made themselves scarce, and headed to the cafeteria giving the other two time alone.

"I want to throttle those jerks. You did good though Ari." Damian said, putting his hand on her sleeved wrist, and frowning at the lack of contact to her skin. He rolled her sleeved up and then put his hand there again. The contact was better, and he was able to calm Christina down. Seriously what is it with these people she had a panic attack the other day she doesn't need this right now. Damian thought. If they kept it up they were going to get a piece of his mind, and maybe a tongue lashing from Pepper. They had already been at this school once before and graduated at fifteen. They were back because Leia was getting bullied and that was not ok. No one knew who they were at school. All the people knew were their real first names and their fake last names. To everyone else they were Christina Parker and Damian West. Not Christina Obadia-Stark and Damian Obadia-Stark. Damian was still mad in any case, and unfortunately he couldn't just go to the Gym, and spar Peter or Christina at the moment. So he settled for hugging Christina, and placing his hand over the mark on her shoulder. Christina was a bit worried about him, and with good reason it seemed. Leia was in Florida at the moment along with Morgan, so they didn't have to deal with this. When she thought he had calmed down enough. She took his hand and led him to the cafeteria. They would definitely be sparing each other later.

"Hey guys," Damian said once he could see Peter and MJ. Peter picked up on the underlying anger at the PR department, and raised an eyebrow at Christina. Later, she mouthed back. They had made it to the hour mark with their bond the day before. They got their lunch and Damian got his com and called Anakin.

"Hey mini-me, what's up?" Anakin asked, once he accepted the call.

"PR jerks, they made some comments about Christina that got under my skin, and I've tried to let them go but I can't. I don't want to kill them, maybe fire them though." Damian replied, to his adopted big brother.

"Oh boy, well you should tell Pepper about that. Congratulations by the way. You really are so much like me it's scary." Anakin replied, completely serious.

"I will be back on earth tomorrow. Hopefully by then you've been able to spar someone and calm down."

"Ok thanks bro I needed that." Damian replied, hanging up the call.