The Insomniac// Avengers Fanfiction

Chapter 21

Tony POV

I was a little bit shocked that Y/N finished the test so quickly. My guess is that some of the questions were too hard so she skipped a bunch of them.

I continued walking to the lab to talk to Banner. I found him grading the test with a confused look on his face. I walked beside him and looked over his shoulder to all her answers.

"Why so confused Greeny" I ask

"I've graded the first and second page. And so far she's gotten everything right. You didn't even get them all correct."

"WHAT!" I say picking up what Bruce has graded. "Well there's still time for her to get something wrong. Keep going"

Bruce takes the test back and spends the next 15 minutes marking it. She got Every. Single. Question. Right. Except for like 5 but seriously what. There were about 150 questions, most multiple choice but whatever.

She has an IQ of like 220. This girl is a literal genius. Like a genius genius. I guess Bruce must have been thinking the same thing because he looked at me with a pure look of shock.

"She's a genius. Like she's smarter than you." Bruce said

"Hey don't say that" I say

"Let's go tell her" He says as he starts to walk off

"No no we can do that later its fine" I say pulling him back

"You're right, tell her at lunch. Tell everyone the good news at the same time" He says walking off

I was going to say how much of a terrible idea that was but he was already gone with the test in hand. Probably to go to the med bay.

--------------------Time Skip------------------

Y/N POV

Loki came into the library a couple hours ago so we were just chilling in here together. He was reading some Shakespeare books while I was almost done reading the last book in the "abandon" series.

Nat came up at around 12:30 and didn't say anything even though I knew she was there. She just stood in the doorway watching.

"You gonna come in or just stare at me like a creep" I say turning to face her

"Oh sorry I was just about to come in. Steve wants to tell you that lunch is ready. Also Bruce says that he and Tony have some news." She says as she comes in.

"Alright I'm coming"

I get up and put my bookmark in the book on my page. I put the book on the chair I was sitting on, making a mental note to come back after lunch and finish it.

We walked down the hall to the elevator. Loki wasn't behind us since he didn't need to eat as often as humans did. The ride down the elevator was filled with light conversation. Nothing much, just book talk. When we got down to the kitchen there was yelling and laughing and people running around.

I walked in behind Nat and noticed that Tony wasn't as loud and obnoxious as before. More mad and brooding. I wonder why.

"Hey Y/N come take a seat" Wanda called me over to sit in between her and Pietro.

Steve had made a very large amount of grilled cheese sandwiches and had given us all a bowl of soup to eat with it. Everyone was seated but before we could eat Bruce said something.

"Alright. As you all know I called you here to give you some great news." He started "This morning Y/N did an IQ test. At the request of Tony." He said pointing over to him.

Tony was sitting there slightly grumbling and looking down. Probably planning a murder or something with how grim his face looked.

"Well I have tallied the results and Y/N has the IQ of... 220 POINTS."

There were a couple moments where everyone was just processing what he had just said. Then the entire room erupted into noise. Vision was happy to have someone smarter to 'converse' with as he put it. Thor seemed somewhat confused by what an IQ was but after Steve explained it to him he was happy. Wanda, Nat and everybody else were mostly happy and/or making fun of Tony. My IQ was apparently 186 so like almost 40 less than mine.

Tony looked very bothered by this information but as lunch went on he seemed more and more ok with this information. That was good because I didn't want him to be mad at me again.

After lunch I went back to the library. I finished the book quickly and went to go find Natasha. I guess she was also looking for me because I found her about to knock on my bedroom door.

"Hey Nat" I say from behind her

"Oh hey I was just about to come talk to you" Nat replies, turning around

"What about"

"Well I wanted to talk about the memory I saw the other day." She said signaling to the door.

You walked in and sat on the bed. She sat beside you on the bed and turned so that you were facing each other. You closed the door and locked it while soundproofing the walls. Nobody needs to hear this conversation.

"What do you want to know?" I ask

"Who was the girl you were reading to?"

I took a deep breath and started to explain. " That little girl was my little.... Sister."

Nat took a deep intake of breath "Was?" she asked

"She uh. She died a couple months after that memory." I say feeling tears well up in my eyes. She died over a decade ago and it still hurt so much.

"How did she die. If you don't mind me asking" Nat says taking hold of one of my hands.

"She got sick.... Really sick. She was still young and the environment wasn't good for her. She was born premature by almost 2 months. She was always getting sick but it was worse this time." I could feel the tears running down my face but continued anyway. "I tried my very hardest to save her. My parents didn't want me there but I refused to leave her side. If I had, she would have died much earlier with the neglect she would have gotten from them.

I didn't have the proper things to care for her. My parents wouldn't move her to a better room or even to the doctor to see what was wrong. She was only 5 and I was 8. It crushed me and after that I kind of just didn't care anymore. She meant the world to me and I couldn't save her.

It was a couple weeks after that that My powers turned out successful. My mind and body just didn't care anymore what happened to me and just wanted to stop so we could be with her again.

That memory was one of the last happy ones I had with her. She became sick a couple weeks after and died about a month later. On March 27th 2001 Just a couple of days after her birthday on march 23rd

We were together that night and I was reading to her. Since she was premature and most of the years that she should have been learning those skills were spent in pain, I helped as much as I could. Now that I reflect on it, I think she may have had dyslexia. She had always had trouble with reading and writing and since I was advanced I helped her a lot with it."

By the time I finished talking I had tears running down my face and onto my shirt. Nat pulled me into a hug despite my wet shirt and was rubbing my back as I cried. She was murmuring sweet nothings into my ears while I sobbed onto her shoulder.

Nat POV

I was listening to everything Y/N told me and decided that if they had not died in a fire. I would have tortured her parents until they were on the brink of death. Just to bring them back and torture them. Over and over and over again.

She was crying, basically sobbing when I pulled her into my chest. I murmured sweet nothings into her ear as I rubbed circles on her back. She seemed to calm down while I was doing this and was only sniffling quietly after about 10 minutes. I pulled her back to sitting in front of me.

"I'm sorry I don't know what came over me" She said

"No, don't apologize, it's ok to cry when someone you love dies." I reply

She just nodded her head while moving away from me. I think she realized how close we were as she moved to rest on the headboard.

"You didn't have to tell me that and I'm glad you trust me enough to do so" I say

Weird ending but whatever.

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