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Destinations

(Third person pov)

During the time Peter, Ned, and MJ had gone with their school science nerd team thing to Washington or something, Nova spent her time looking everywhere for Sage.

Peter didn't know this of course, Nova told him she was going on a solo mission and she couldn't go to Washington.

She put up maps in her rooms, pin pointing places to go check out and crossing out places she already did.

The maps were probably most important thing to her right now and she carried them, along with all her information like latest and last sightings or literally anything she could find, in her bag which she brought with her everywhere.

Everywhere.

Aunt May had gone to the shop to get ingredients for dinner, so Nova had the apartment to herself.

Nova was currently concentrating on one of the maps in Peter's room, waiting for him to get back. So concentrated that she didn't hear the door creak open and ended up screaming when Peter picked her up from behind by her waist, his laughter in her ear.

When Peter eventually put Nova down after a few spins, she hit him and then hugged him, glad he was back. Although Peter still laughed either way.

"What was that you were looking at?", Peter asked Nova once he stopped laughing.

"Oh nothing", Nova waved her hand in dismissively as she stuffed the map back in her bag.

"Okay?", Peter chuckled.

"I'm just gonna go to the bathroom but when I come back I wanna hear all about the the trip", Nova told Peter as she walked out of the room.

"Yeah, of course", Peter smiled.

Peter watched Nova walk away but when he turned back around he knocked over her bag, the contents spilling out. Including all her maps and information.

"Shit", Peter whispered to himself as he bent down to pick everything back up and put it in the bag.

He put about half of the paper back in the bag when something he picked up caught his eye.

A picture of Sage in black and white. Multiple, actually.

Some with Pietro and then some with Nova, mostly when they were younger before Hydra and then others after S.H.I.E.L.D rescued them from Hydra.

Now that Peter thinks about it, Nova never actually told him anything about the time she was in Hydra. But he didn't want to push her on the subject because it was obvious it was a sensitive topic.

Anything featuring Sage seemed to be a sensitive topic nowadays to Nova.

Peter started to look at the other stuff from Nova's bag like old newspapers from when they first went on the run, to the large amount of maps. Some left plain while other had exes and circles on them telling Nova where she had already looked and where she should go next to look for her sister.

"Hey, Peter, I was wondering if- are you going through all my stuff?", Nova asked as she stood in the doorway of Peter's room.

"You told me you were on a mission", Peter said.

"I was, but I never said it was for Tony or the Avengers", Nova told him. "This was my own mission, for me and my sake."

"To find your sister? Who is on the run with her boyfriend- do you know how crazy that sounds!", Peter raised his voice.

"Why are you making such a big deal out of nothing?", Nova raised her voice slightly as well.

"Nothing? Out of nothing? This isn't nothing Nova!", Peter began to yell. "Your risking your life and you don't even care! And for what?"

Nova rolled her eyes as she put her stuff back in her bag while Peter continued.

"Oh yeah that's right, for your sister and her speedy, cocky, muscular, fast...", Peter trailed off and Nova turned around with a raised eyebrow.

"Mhm", Nova hummed, unamused. "So you're jealous?"

"What? No!", Peter scoffed.

"It kinda sounds like you are", Nova mocked him.

"Well I'm not!", Peter said defensively.

"Sure", Nova said.

"I'm not!", Peter repeated, but Nova just gave him a blank look and raised her eyebrow with crossed arms.

Peter rolled his eyes and turned around and started unpacking a few clothes from his bag. While Peter was turned around, Nova decided to read his mind to find out what he's feeling. Unfortunately for Nova though, Peter felt her doing it and lifted his head, turning back around to face her again.

"Hey, don't do that", Peter told her.

"So you are jealous?", Nova asked confusedly, eyebrows furrowed.

"You're jealous of my sisters boyfriend? What, do you have a thing for my sister? Is that it, Peter?", she shouted at the same time as Peter shouted, "You can't do that! And no, of course I don't have a thing for your sister!"

"Then why are you so jealous and intimidated by him? Hm?", Nova yelled.

Peter opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Nova shook her head and picked up her bag, making her way towards the door.

"Nova!", Peter shouted after her making Nova turn back around to him with a glare and her eyes glowing.

"What?", she glared.

"I'm just worried about you", he sighed.

"Well don't", Nova said simply.

"I can't help it!", Peter told her.

"And I can't help but miss my sister", Nova shot back. "Deal with it."

"Is Sage being gone the reason you have nightmares?", Peter asked Nova.

"No!", she said almost straight away. "And I don't have nightmares, it was just that one time."

"I'm not stupid, Nova, I can hear you every night", Peter told her.

"Could've fooled me", Nova muttered to herself.

"The point is that I don't want you to get hurt", Peter said.

There was a moment, a split second, where Nova's face softened and all she wanted to do was run up to Peter and wrap her arms around him and sob and cry into his soft jumper. But as soon as it came, it was gone and Nova's face hardened once more.

"I can take care of myself, besides, Sage would never hurt me", she said, a,ready doubting her own words.

"She's a criminal, Nova! She's dangerous!", Peter started to raise his voice again.

"Dangerous?", Nova laughed maliciously, absolutely fuming. "Sage wouldn't hurt a fly."

"Yeah sorry, I forgot", said Peter. "You were the one who almost killed multiple lives and it was Sage who saved everyone, as usual."

Nova stopped glaring at Peter and her eyes started to water, but Peter kept going.

"The only person you ever save and protect is Sage and you didn't do a very good job of that even when she was here", Peter continued. "One day Sage isn't gonna be here, then what? Huh?"

Once Peter saw Nova's eyes were filled with tears, he immediately regretted everything he said.

"Nova, I'm-"

"Fuck you, Peter", she said, glaring at him.

Tears slipped from Nova's eyes as she turned around and left the room, using her powers to slam the door.

Once Peter heard the echoing slam of his bedroom door, he sighed and closed his eyes and rubbed his face. He knew he messed up.