Irrational

Chapter 41 - Now or Never

Once you watch the ship disappear into the blue sky. You start to feel your chest tighten, your mind racing, you were trembling. Not enough for anyone to notice – yet, but enough for you to know it was happening… again.

The same attack you had on top of the Empire State Building with Strange was happening all over again, you turned around frantically and saw the looks on the boy’s faces, they were just as startled, confused, and scared.

“Y-Yo-You have to go back and look over that data again. May-Maybe you and Bruce missed something Tony, maybe there was a warning, there must have been something pinging in that compound when they came into the atmosphere” you stutter out, barely making it understandable from the fear.

“Peter, get May out of town, we don’t know if they’ll come back, you’ve lost enough. In fact, go with her. You stay out of this. Pi-Pietro y-you need to” then you feel your legs go weak, your vision blurred, and you felt sick.

You stumbled backwards and shook your head, composing yourself.

Turning back to Tony “we need to go, and we need to go now. We need to figure out what he wants with that stone in the Agamotto and what we are really up against” you were a blubbering, trembling mess at this point.

You try to walk back to the compound but feel someone pull you back. You were turned around and was facing Tony, he steadied you by holding onto your shoulders and looking you square in the eyes.

“Get your ass into that Sanctum. Your head and heart are in there, so get the rest of you in there before you completely lose it” Tony was very rarely assertive and serious with you, but this time.

He meant it.

“He’s right Y/N, go. We will sort this, and we will call you both if and when we need you. Go make sure he’s okay” Pietro says gently behind you.

“Wh-what are you guys talking about?” You try and act oblivious – although with the state you were in, it was entirely possible you weren’t actually comprehending what they were saying.

“You love him Y/N, we know it. You know it. Now go tell him” Peter finally speaks up.

You nearly give yourself whiplash, darting your head in Peter’s direction. Going wide eyed, you slowly turn back to Tony narrowing your eyes at him.

“He didn’t tell us. We didn’t need to be told. You both might not have said it out loud, but you already go to hell and back for eachother, without even thinking or even realising.” Pietro explains, carefully.

“Meaning?” you wriggle out of Tony’s grip, stepping backwards to get them all in your eyeline.

“Meaning, the feelings are there. Mutually, so go do something about it and calm your worries about him. You can stop denying it now, he stepped in front of you the second you were in danger. You barricaded him and got a portal to get him out of there when he was vulnerable. Do you know who I’d do that for?” Tony quizzes, with obvious intent.

You roll your eyes and cross your arms “We all know you’re going to tell me, so spit it out”

“Pepper, without a second thought. I know everyone else can defend themselves. I’d still check on you all, like I did today, but I didn’t need to cover you, because like my instinct is to protect Pepper, his was to protect you…” Tony explains carefully.

Tony once again grabs you by your shoulders and turns you in the direction of the Sanctum and pushes you, you go to turn around & they all shout “GO!” in unison. You reluctantly follow their orders and head to the Sanctum.

You walk through the grand mahogany doors and see Wong stood at the top of the white marbled stairs, surrounded with dust, dirt and leaves that was blew in from the street thanks to the “children of Thanos”.

“Where is he, Wong?” you ask in fear.