Part IV

Chapter 5:

A Choice to Make

"According to Wanda, Vision is not letting her leave." Pietro huffed taking a seat next to his mother.

Evyn raised an eyebrow at that, and turned to her son. "What brought this on? Does she want to visit?"

"Well, Vision tried to make Paprikash. The spice he used wasn't paprika, so she offered to leave to buy more but he won't allow her. Well more like Stark won't." Pietro sighed leaning his head against the sofa.

"Did she say why they won't allow her?" Evyn hummed scanning through photos of the explosion.

"To prevent some public incident." Pietro groaned, "She has a good amount of control, they don't need to worry about a public incident."

Evyn frowned zooming into a photo. "She does have control. When are you going to talk to her next?"

"Soon. I just don't want to leave her alone." Pietro sighed. "Can we go get her?"

"Vision won't make it easy." Evyn stated sending the photo off in an e-mail. "For now, we wait to hear what happens."

Pietro frowned and leaned over to look at the laptop screen. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing's adding up." Evyn stated looking through the photos of the bomber and the photo of the Winter Soldier. "They say he did it...but something isn't adding up."

Pietro blinked staring at his mother in confusion.

Evyn look at her son. "They placed blame on a man who vanished. A man who doesn't really look like this."

"Mom?"

Evyn stood up placing her laptop on the table. "Nope! Nope! I am not getting involved!"

Pietro watch his mother as she made her way to her small study, a small smile forming on his lips. He turned his head to the laptop and set up the video call.

Evyn closed her eyes leaning against the wall of her study with files open up showing pictures of a red symbol of a sword with one wing and a pair of horns. She turned her head when the phone rang. Walking out of the study, she makes her way to the phone, noting that her son is not on the couch and picked up.

"Evyn."

A pause. The half-devil chuckled. "I see, so Cap is gathering people to help out huh? Count me out."

Another pause.

"Well, I things go bad you need someone to, oh I don't know. Break you out?"

A pause then a chuckle.

"Where are you now?" Evyn look down listening. "I see. Well, when you get her, call me so that I can talk to her and explain why I'm not there."

Another pause.

"When you catch up with Cap, call me. I need to tell him my part in this play." She walk towards her study to look at the symbol. "Don't worry. If my plan does need to happen, I'll break you and her out."

A pause.

"Others? I'll think about that." Evyn raised an eyebrow at the sound of the door opening. "I'll leave you to it. Good luck." She ended the phone call and yelled. "Pietro! Did you buy pizza again?!"

"….No."

Evyn hummed and walked out of the study to see her son at the kitchen counter. "You know. My threat still stands."

"I know." Pietro nodded.

The half-devil narrowed her eyes, and walked back to her study, phone in hand.

"Who were you talking to?" Pietro asked.

"Telemarketer!" Evyn responded back.

The phone began to ring, and Evyn quickly picked up. "Evyn."

"Mami? Clint told me you're not coming." Wanda stated.

Evyn chuckled. "Yeah, well. Someone has to do the getaway when things go bad."

"You can do that?"

"Don't sound so surprised." Evyn huffed. "It'll be hell to pay, but I'm sure I can pull it off."

"Okay…"

"Honey, listen. I'll be there when you are down, same with your brother." Evyn said softly. "I love you."

"I love you too mami."

Evyn smiled and ended the phone call. "Time to wait for Cap."

A few hours later, the phone rang again. Evyn picked up. "Evyn."

"Clint said you have something important?"

Evyn smirked. "Yeah. Listen Cap. If and when things go south, call me."

"What do you mean, go south?"

"Arrested." Evyn bluntly stated. "Call me, and I'll meet up with you. With a gift."

"Gift?"

"Yeah. To make things easier, so that we don't waste time. Just say 'Jackpot' when you need me." Evyn explained.

"How do you know things will go south?"

"I don't. Neither do you." Evyn stated. "But you have my baby girl with you. You better take care of her."

"She's your daughter. I know she can handle herself, but we will. We'll keep her as safe as we can."

"Good. Now go, good luck."

"Thanks."

Evyn ended the phone call and let out a sigh, walking out of the study, only to find an empty pizza box on the kitchen counter. The half-devil frowned. "Pietro!"

Short chapter, sorry.

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