Captured

chapter twenty-two

You didn't get much sleep last night. Clint had stayed with you the whole night, and now he was still sleeping on the couch while you were looking at your horrible eye bags from the mirror. You had cried a long time before you had fell asleep in Clint's arms, or that was the last thing you remembered.

Gosh you felt so embarrassed right now.

It didn't take a long time from Clint to wake up either, he sat up and looked extremely tired like you. 
You walked over him and sat down on the couch.
"You look horrible." Clint chuckled a little. You rolled your eyes and gave a little laugh as well. He was just trying to cheer you up after all.
"But seriously, how are you feeling?" he added, more seriously this time. You looked down at the floor, thinking should you just be honest with him or not.
"Little better, I guess.." you said, being unsure about your feelings as well.
"Would you like to tell me now what the hell happened yesterday?" Clint asked, little carefully so he wouldn't offend you.

Then you realized that you hadn't told him anything from last night, and now he clearly wanted an explanation.
"We just got into a huge fight, that's all." you lied, you really didn't want to tell him about Loki, not yet.
"But you said that you had hurted him? What did you do?" he asked with worried look on his face.

You needed to make an excuse, because you really weren't going to tell him about Loki.
"I... I just said rude things I shouldn't had. And I think I might had overreacted a bit yesterday, sorry." you lied again. Or technically you didn't, you really had said things you shouldn't had.
"Doesn't sound like you, overreacting I mean. You sure have an ability to say some rude things, though." Clint replied little amused. But you weren't on the mood of joking right now, so you just looked down at the floor.
"I think you should talk to him, it can't be anything that bad, that it doesn't clear out with talking." Clint added and placed his hand on your shoulder.

He probably wouldn't think that if he just knew...

"Yeah probably." you replied and gave him a hint of smile.
But Clint still kept staring at you, like he was waiting for you to say or do something. You raised your eyebrows as you looked at him with questioning look on your face.
"Go talk to him." he said like it had to be obvious to you.
"Now?" you hesitated, but Clint just nodded.
"It's better to talk it through now than later." he added and nodded towards the door. You sighed as you gave up and stood up. Maybe he was right, maybe it really was better to talk to him now.
"Want me to come with you?" Clint asked before you could left, but you just shook your head.
"No, I need to do this myself." you replied and then headed outside to talk to Peter.

You knocked on his door, but soon you noticed that it was already open. You walked in and looked around you, but didn't see anyone.
"Peter?" you asked for him, but no one answered.
Then you turned around to go look for him from somewhere else, but you stopped as you saw your father standing on the doorway.
"Looking for Peter?" he asked, and you nodded.
"Have you seen him?" you asked in hope that he would tell you where Peter was.
"Actually yes, he left like a few hours ago." Tony replied, he looked at you little suspiciously.
"He did?... Where?" you were stunned. Had you hurted him that bad that he had to move away?

"Back to his aunt for awhile. He also said that he won't come back any time soon, but he wished me to keep this room for him, for now." Tony explained as he walked around the room. You sighed in relief, Peter hadn't move away permanently.
"I thought you knew. Did something happen between you two?" he asked as he turned to look back at you.
"No, we're good. I just forgot." you lied again. Tony looked like he was wondering should he believe you or not.

/I should call Peter/ you read your father's mind.
You couldn't help it, you really had to know what he was thinking and you were glad you did.
"No don't call him." you replied which made him look at you confused first, but then little frustrated.
"Get yourself out of my mind, got it?" Tony murmured little angrily.
"And I will, as long as you promise to keep your hands out of my relationship." you suggested while you glared at him. Tony sighed and rolled his eyes.
"I don't take orders from you, young lady." he growled. He didn't like at all when you had that attitude.
"But fine, I won't stick my nose into it, until it looks like I should." he added, which made you satisfied.
"Good." you blurted and started to walk out of Peter's room, but then Tony stopped you.
"I got a message from your school. They're moving you all into a temporary building and your studying starts next week." he told you.
Fantastic, just what you needed the most right now. Earlier starting school, yay.

You sighed heavily and then left without replying, back to your room.

*

Evening came fast as you were trying to focus on your undone homework from past two weeks. And it was really hard, because you couldn't stop thinking about Peter. He hadn't said anything about his leaving to you. You really had pissed him off and hurted him, badly. For your luck he hadn't told anyone what happened between you and Loki, yet. You hoped that it would stay in that way.

One good thing was that your parents weren't that mad at you about the Asgard anymore. Thor had managed to convince your father that the trip there was necessary, and next time it wouldn't happen without his permission.

You closed your books, you've had enough
from school for this evening. You still had plenty of nights to spend with your books later anyway.
After you had cleaned up your desk from your school stuff, you headed to the kitchen to grab something to eat.
On your way down, the elevator stopped and Thor stepped in. He was heading to the same direction as you.
"How ya doing little mind reader?" he greeted you after he had pressed the button which led you to the kitchen, again.
"Fine.." you sighed and looked away, that didn't convince him. You weren't close with Thor, but he did care about you.
"Doesn't sound like it." he replied and turned to look at you.
"I'm fine, really. I'm just little tired of that all homework I gotta do before returning back into school." you explained and turned to look at him. But then suddenly Thor gave a look at your arm.
"You got your stitches removed." he said and pointed at your arm.
"Oh yeah, Bruce removed them earlier today." you replied and gave a smile at him. You were glad that he noticed your arm, so he could stop asking why you had sounded little off.

Your arm had finally healed after what that crazy guard had done to you. It left a pretty huge scar in it, but you didn't mind at all. It was now one of your battle scars, which you actually didn't have any before that one.

"I'm glad you're better, and I'm sorry again for my brother, Loki..." Thor said, but you interrupted him before he could keep blaming himself any more than that.
"Hey, you need to stop that already. It's not your fault." you tried to convince him, you wanted him to know that it was only his brother's fault, not his.
"Oh and by the way, have you tried to track him lately? Any results?" you changed the subject before he could felt more bad about himself. 
"Yeah actually I had, but I haven't found him yet. Not even a single clue, but don't worry, I won't stop before I found him." he replied confidently.

Then suddenly the elevator's doors slid open and you two entered to the kitchen. Clint was there already, eating a sandwich which he had made for himself. You and Thor bought grabbed yourselves cups for a coffee and Clint poured you some. You sat down across from him and Thor came next to you.
"I heard your school starts next week." Clint said after you had sat down.
"Already? Wow, this tower is full of gossips." you laughed as you stole Clint's other sandwich.
"And Stark puts you in there? Wouldn't it be too dangerous for you? My brother is still out there." Thor joined to your conversation.
"You guys can't be serious! I'm totally safe and I don't need people to babysit me. I'm an avenger for god's sake!" you whined and rolled your eyes.
"Yes you are and still got kidnapped by Loki." Clint teased you while he tried to grab his sandwich back.
"Oh shut up.." you mumbled your mouth full of bread while Thor and Clint laughed at you.