Natasha Pov.
I go and search for Harry everywhere. It's like the Earth ate him!He is planning something, but he also convinced the team he is just a poor little boy. The card with the sad kid always work. Madame B learned me also to use it when i was younger. No one thought a crying little girl could cut their throat or steal from pockets.
I go to search on the roof because i literally i searched for Harry everywhere. Even in all the bathrooms in the Tower.
I saw a green thing flying landing there. If i didn't fight aliens, i would think that i drink something that made my hallucinate. That thing gets his mask of and-omg he is so ugly! Oh, wait, that's Harry. I hide and take a photo. I sent it directly to Peter.
Let's have some fun with this lier. I enter inside and i tell Jarvis to look all the outside entries. How Peter used to say? Lier, lier, pants on fire? Well, i guess now it's :Lier, lier, freeze on....I'm not good at rhymes.
No one messes with my family. All of them.
I sit on the couch watching TV with the others. I look at my phone. No messages from Peter. Maybe he went to sleep.
"Tasha, are you alright?" Clint asks me.
"Yes. Why?"
"Its 8pm.You usually go to your room and talk with the texter."
"And i decided to spend my precious time with you. Your welcome."
"I will go to check on Harry." Pepper said.
This would be fun. I wonder what face will Tony do when he will see that his best friend son is a troublemaker. I continue to look at the TV. Suddenly, the channel changed and i see news about a burning building. I hope no one was hurt. I remember how my parents died in a fire like that long ago.
"Harry is not in his room!" Pepper said, worry filling her words.
"Jarvis, unlock the vents and all the outside entries." I said and all the team looked at me like i was crazy.
"You locked him on the roof?" Tony said with a father tone. I get that Osborn was his best friend and Tony knows how is to lose your parents, but... he is not ready for fatherhood.
"Next time when he sneaks out of the house in a green suit, he better think at the possibility to... be locked by outside ."
"Green suit?" Clint said confused.
"I know. That was so autumn fashion. He doesn't look good in it." I say to Clint, while Tony went after his adopted problem.
One minute later, I see an angry Tony Stark, holding a very guilty Harry by his shoulder.
"What were you thinking!" Tony said.
Let's see how you play the sad poor kid now!
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark! B-but i saw Spider-Man trying to set a building on fire and i thought i could be like you, so i made myself a suit. I tried to protect my friend Peter Parker from Spiderman because that was his building, but the spider was too fast."
No! He played the <<I want to be like you>>card! Wait-Peter Parker?Tell me that is another Peter Parker and not MY Peter Parker. Oh, shit! Peteer! I have to call him.
Ok, Osborn Jr., You won this round. I try to go to my room without looking suspicious.
"Hey, Nat, were are you going?"Steve asked.
" In my room? "
To avoud any more comments... i have to do it.
" Want to join, soldier? "i smirk and i could see Steve blushing, like everyone else.
Mission accomplished.
I go in my room and look everything. I call Peter. Please answer. After the
3rd ring, he finally picked up.
"
Mom. "
My heart crushed when i heard his broken voice and not his usual full of life tone.
"I know, солнечный свет (sunshine)... I heard from the news. Are you alright? Are you at a hospital? If you don't want to feel alone i can climb on a window and enter in your hospital room...if you want."
"No, I'm not hurt, but.... i have to run."
"Why?"
"My aunt died, mom.... i have to run... now i have no home and i can't leave in an orphanage."
"Maybe... you don't have to."
"I'm a minor... they will come after me."
"What if you.... come to stay at the Tower. I'm sure Tony have plenty of rooms... and if not.. i can share."
"Mom, i know you are an agent but asking Mr. Stark or staying with you... i don't want to be a burden."
"You are not. You are my son. And beside... Harry is still with the Avengers.You know what they say:Keep your enemies close. I'm sorry to say this..... i don't know if you saw the photo i send you.... Harry is the green Santa helper. And also he is evil. He is playing the Avengers on his fingers. They think he is a poor child.... ughh"
"HE IS THE GREEN GOBLIN!? "
"That's his name? For an evil genius, he needs more inspiration. What do you say? Come live with me. Where are you ? I can come to pick you up."
"Mom, I'm sorry, but i can't stay with the Avengers because... i am on Spiderman side and i cant live with someone that is against something that i stand for."
"I am also on his side. And we can help him. Together. Like mother and son!"
"I would love to.... but i have to dissappear. I love you mom. Take care."
NO! NO! NO!
He hung up!
No way i let the kid alone at night, on a cold night to sleep on a bench in the park. I go out of my room and try to heck his location, but he is a tech genius. It would be hard, so i will do it the old fashioned way. I don't know how or when i get in the living room, until i ran into someone and fall on the floor. I quickly get up.
"Going somewhere, Agent Romanoff?" Fury said.
"Yes, I'm kinda busy, soooo-" i try to go to the elevator, but Maria puts herself in my way.
"Natasha, the Council decided Spider-Man is a threat and want the Avengers to take him down." Fury continued.He looks just as me. He knows that i don't approve with my team.
"And? Didn't we decided that the Council makes ass decisions and it's ok to ignore them?"
I know Stark and Osborn Jr are powerful people in the eyes of the Council and that influenced their decision.
"Not this one. I know you and him are close, so i want to bring you in."
"No."
"Excuse me?!" Fury sounded insulted that i didn't follow his order.
"You heard me."
"Natasha -" Steve wanted to calm the storm that was coming.
"No, i will not help you to put a hero behind bars."
"Hero? He killed Norman Osborn!" Fury said.
"And? I killed 653 people before Clint brought me here... and look at me now!" i point my hand at me like i was the best result they got.
"That's an order, agent."
I hate his all-businesses tone.
"Sir, with all respect... you are an idiot for expecting ME to arrest one of the best heroes this neighborhood, this city, ever had. When we are fighting aliens, he is helping an old lady find her cat and... this small things are important! Not only the big picture matters. He is the person who gives hope to the people we don't see that are struggling and to the little boys that want to live in a better place and help their neighbors. "
I thought about Peter in this part. Spiderman was important for his neighborhood.
" Natasha, if you don't arrest him or help your team that means you are helping a criminal and i have to arrest you. So, don't disrespect your order and do as i say. You know i care about you, but as director... "
Well, nothing lasts forever.
I take a knife from my belt and everyone takes a step back, Fury slightly rising his palms up. I cut my SHIELD and Avengers emblem from my suit.
" Natasha?"Maria asks confused.
" When I got out of the Red Room... when Clint saved me from that darkness, I promised myself that i will never follow a order without asking questions or that i think it's wrong. I promised myself that I will never kill an innocent person even if that was my order. So... "I put the emblems in Fury's palm." If this means to be an Avenger and an agent of SHIELD, i don't want to be that anymore. "I could feel the tears im my eyes. I look at the faces of my favourite persons and i can't believe I'm doing this. It's the end of an era. I wipe my tears and turn to leave. I see that all of them are frozen, until Clint's speaks.
" NATASHA, wait-don't throw away all you worked for-"
"I will do that if i believe in this wrong cause. You are still my family."
Before the elevator's doors close, i look at Harry.
"You didn't won the battle, Harry. But I'm sure you won one place next to your father in hell!"
And then the doors close.
Guess now i am homeless just like Peter. And alone.... again.
I can't take the bike because it's Avenger's property. I shot my Widow Line and serch in the city for my boy. I go at the building that burned today. I hate to see what remained from it. It remembers of my own house. Before I was taken by the Red Room. I will not let something to happen to Peter that will change in a bad way his life too. New York is a dangerous place at night. I get closer to the remainings and start to dig for some clues.
I turn to leave when i step on a broken frame. I rise the picure up and clean it from shards. A smiling boy with 2 old people. Wait-that boy looks familiar. It's the boy who gave me the flower. Poor kid! He also looked happy.
Wait-brown hair, brown eyes, same building... what are the chances for him to be my Peter?
Maybe it's just the tiredness speaking.
How can i find Peter? There was just a dead lead...
Wait-who knows that neighborhood better than anyone?
Please, Spider-Man be there.
I go to our Web. I can't believe i said that name. I enter and i see Spiderman sleeping on the couch. I hope he was sleeping. His suit looked awful. What was left of it. I take no chances and wake him up to see if his alive. Not if. He must be alive.
I shake him and i get a punch in my nose. Not the nose again! Now i understand why Clint doesn't like to wake me up.
I don't have time to check on my, for sure, broken nose, when i see another punch coming. I catch his fist with my hand and put my legs on his neck, making him fall on the floor.
"I didn't come here to fight!"
We both got up from the floor now.
"Wait-you are not here to arrest me for the Avengers ?"
It hurts a little to see that he didn't trusted me, but like how he looked, i could see he had a hard day.
"No. I need your help with a personal problem. But i think you need my help more." i point as his bleeding cuts and ripped costume.
"It's nothing. My power almost healed them."
Yeah, nothing, JUST THE FACT THAT YOUR SUIT IS SOAKED WITH YOUR BLOOD!
"Sit!" I say and go to take the first adi kit.
"I'm fine-"
"SIT!" I say and i see his eyes roll since one lens is broken.
"Your such a mom." i hear him mumble under his breath. I think of Peter right now. He asked me to help him with cuts, wounds, bullet wounds, a black eye... And this are the only one i know about.
"I'm not a mom mom.I just want to help you to don't die because now you are on my close friends list. And the SHIELD therapist always tells me that fine means i am not fine. I am actually Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional. And this is why he always gets a book in the face every session. "
" I guess you are his favorite pacient. "
" Actually, yes. Clint usually shots arrows at him and jumps on the couch. At least, i listen... and ignore. "
I clean his wounds and i see that he is uncomfortable that I ripped some parts of his suit and i could saw his skin.
" Your not the first i helped with the wounds. Steve blushes more than you."
"How do you -"
"You look uncomfortable.I am a spy. I observe things. The fight with the Goblin...are you alright? "
"Physical or emotional?"
"Both."
"Let's just say that's the worst day of my life! I lost everything! T-the building is, i mean-was my home... and now it's all ashes. And my only family is g-gone."
I don't like him crying. I like my silly, full of jokes spider.
Peter's Pov
I'm surprised when the Black Widow, no, Natasha hugged me. And them all the effects of the day came and i cry on her shoulder. I think i did that for hours, because i stop only when i feel like i can't cry anymore because i have no tears left. I get my head up from her shoulder and i see that i probably soaked her uniform with my tears.
"I'm sor-"
"Don't be. It's okay. I know how is that everything you have to be taken by a fire." she said with a sad smile and then she looked at her hands. We stood like that on the couch for the next 20 minutes. Then she brokes the silence, still looking at her hands in her lap.
"I was 3 when that happened, but i remember the moment clear like it happened yesterday, no matter how much I was brainwashed. My house was burning, and i ran outside to escape from the flames. They were so tall, i couldn't even see my house anymore. It was just a big flame. My bare legs were slightly burned, but i ignored the pain and started calling for my parents. Then some soldiers grab me from behind and throw me in a truck. I still called my parents. When the doors of the truck opened, i was shoved outside by the soldiers. In front of me was my future home for 13 years,the Red Room. "
I see that she was stuck in the memory and slightly shaking. I pull her in a hug and now she is the surprised one. Her wide eyes look at me and i see she is holding tears.
" Come on, now it's your turn to be an emotional mess... and i have a nice injured shoulder to cry on!" i try to lighten the mood. She just hugs me. But after a few minutes i feel her shaking stronger than before and i realized she was crying. That's doesn't last long. She wipes her tears and smiles at me.
" Glad that your sense of humor is back. I started to worry."
"Nothing could take away my humor. And im serious. I survived public school while being bullied."
"You, bullied?"
"I currently got beaten up by a guy in an elf suit."
"Well, he is pretty manipulative. Me and...the boy i need to find are.. um.. were investigating about him. He is a kid named Harry Osborn."
"Why are the Avengers not helping you?Couldn't they-"
"They are to blind. A kid who just lost his parents and his killer is free... It's a touching story... and let's not forget that the Avengers have some minus points in the parents department."
"But you don't believe him?"
"Ha-ha-ha, I'm trained to read people. I know when someone is acting."
"But if the Avengers like him... and you don't...?"
"I'm no longer an Avenger."
"WHAT!... Wait-you are on my side?"
You never have to many families, i guess.
"Always.... spider brother."
He gets up from the couch and jumps up and down.
"You said it!"
I can't believe i made him this happy. He was crying just... 6hours ago. Wow. Time flies. I guess, tomorrow we will find a way how to save all my families.
YOU ARE READING
The wrong number that saved me
Hayran KurguPeter Parker was hurt during a mission and accidentally text the wrong number. Natasha Romanoff was sleeping, when an unknown number text her and ask for help. What would that lead to? SECOND BOOK:The right number that reunited us
