Pain Is Power

32: Spaceships and Unicorns

NATASHA'S POV

Amelia has been the worst person to leave with this week. Her dad was meant to be back on Thursday he's a week late. And she's been the most stressed I've ever seen her, a true stroppy teenager. She's on her phone all the time trying to contact him on the computers in the Lab don't even get me started on the way she's been talking to me if we hadn't called a truce I would have exploded approximately three days ago when she told me to fuck off in front of everyone in the kitchen. 

"Amelia it's going to be okay." "Don't tell me it's going to be okay you don't know that. No one can find him. No one! And we're here acting like that's okay and they're coming back and leaving him. So DON'T TELL ME IT'LL BE OKAY!" She snapped at Peppa, I was just walking past the lab toward the medical to restock the go-bag. Peppa looked shocked. I unlocked the lab door and went in. "Amelia, I think you need to take a breath," Peppa told her in the calmest tone she could produce. She listened taking a breath. "Natasha Romanoff has entered the lab." Damn you Friday. I cursed to myself. Amelia wiped her face dry quickly, turned in her chair to the computer and began typing away. 

Peppa turned to me at the door with a defeated look on her face before shaking her head. I tilted my head at least wanting to try with her. "I'm going out." She announced standing up. "Sweetheart." "Peppa, please. I'm going to Piper, that's it. 40-minute drive to speak to my sister about my father who could quite possibly be dead on an alien planet a billion miles away alone." "Friday secure the room." "securing the room Mrs Stark." 

"You're not in the right frame of mind to leave the compound right now." "But Peter can? He's just as upset as me but he can leave? Why?" She pushed. "Why does he get to leave and everyone else does except me? Yelena even has privileges now but nope Amelia has to sit and wait and let things break and go wrong because what? Because everyone thinks I'm a crazy person?" "Amelia that's not it at all." I stayed quiet, keeping my thoughts quiet so they didn't overwhelm her, she was more sensitive when she got worked up like this and it only frustrated her more. "Then why am I the one stuck here when everyone else is out working." "You're working." "No, I'm not! I'm sitting at a desk trying to pick up a location on a suit that is probably broken and destroyed!" She shouted. "Friday run location on Tony Stark Suit 302." "Location can not be found on Suit 302 Ironman." "I need to know where they went." "I can't do that." "Why?" I questioned her. "Because you watched Clint when we escaped Dreykov, you can fly the quint-jet and I'm not letting you go all superhero-like your dad and get yourself killed!" She snapped. "He's dead?" She asked bluntly. 

"You think my dads dead. Is that why you gave the orders for the rest of them to come home? Because you've given up on him?" "Amelia. I didn't mean it like, you've never left earth." "Because I'm human no human should leave earth it's not how it works! But if my dad is out there then I'm going. So where the hell has he gone." It was silent. 

"Fine. I'll figure it out myself." She brushed past me. "Where are you going, Amelia?" "To HQ to find my dad!" "This is going to be interesting." "Please. Stop her." "You want me to die?" I asked. "Just stop her." 

I dumbed the medical go bag and ran down the hall to catch up with her. She was already on the drive pulling out in her car. This girl moves fast. I pull the door and open it. "Amelia think about this." I was jogging beside her car as she drove. "Leave me alone. I've had enough." "I know. I know it's been hard. But we need a plan, you can't go storming in there." "I have a plan. I'm going to get the information I want by asking nicely if that doesn't work we go to plan B." I climbed in the car, she was going to HQ whether I liked it or not I might as well join her. "And Plan B is?" "I have 6 infinity stones in my chest and I'm not afraid to use them not one little bit." "Amelia... I don't think." "Natasha my dad could be dead somewhere out there or he could be alive and alone. I need to know which so I can fix it."