Forever

2

Within a month of Bree's last concert, she's managed to back away from social media and keep her life a bit more private than her entire life. Even with this improvement, she's still getting too much attention for her mind to handle the best it should.

That's what her family is there for, even if they don't know it yet.

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At around ten o'clock in the morning, Tony walks into his dark lab and calls for Friday to turn on the lights.

"Boo." Bree quietly puts her hands out a bit from her spot behind a desk in front of him.

His eyes go wide in sudden fright before a bright smile slowing stretched across his face.

"Hi." She chuckles sweetly with tears in her eyes.

"What the fuck?" He starts coming for her.

She giggles excitedly while hurrying out from behind the desk. She throws her arms around his neck for a tight hug with crying smiles from both.

"Bree, what?" He chuckles while setting his hand on the back of her head and she laughs with a sniffle.

"I miss home."

"Oh, thank God." He sighs. "We need you back, child."

"Well, good, 'cause I'm not leaving."

They hold close for a minute longer before separating and heading out the door with his arm over her shoulders. They get to the elevator and tell Friday to take them to the common floor.

She stands right in front of the doors with her hands excitedly pulled together behind her back. Once the doors open, she jumps out with a loud clap, making all jump as they quickly look over.

"Hi!" She smiles.

"Oh, my God!" Half of them shout with smiles.

Pepper quickly jumps up and goes running for her to pull each other into a tight and somewhat forceful hug, knocking Bree back a step.

"Oh, my God." Pepper cries, making her laugh.

"Hi, momma." She chuckles.

"Yeah, okay, momma, my turn." Nat urges her away.

They laugh a bit more and Pepper finally lets her go, only for Nat to grab her next. Then it's Steve, Bucky, Sam, Clint, and Bruce. When she gets to Peter, she makes eye-contact with Pietro and waves a bit with a grin. He does the same with a smile and she and Peter let go.

She decides to go for Pietro next and hugs around his neck while he hugs her waist.

"Hi." She whispers.

"Hi." He smiles a bit.

"How're you?"

"Good, now." He smirks and she chuckles.

"Happy to make your day better."

They let go with grins and she goes to Wanda.

"He's so pretty." She whispers and gets lightly hit in the back in return with smiles from both.

She finishes the greetings before finally sitting down between Pepper and Tony with a sigh and smile.

"When did you get here?" Tony asks.

"About an hour ago. I dropped a few bags of in my living room and then more stuff with Happy and Rhodeys help before going to wait in your lab for about twenty minutes."

"I'm honestly not surprised Happy and Rhodey knew." He nods. "Where'd they go?"

"Happy went back to work and I'm sure Rhodey did too. I don't know." She shrugs.

"Oh." Sam claps. "Question." He points.

"Yeah?" She smiles.

"Tired of California?" He raises a brow.

"Yes." She nods with a small smile and they nod victoriously. "I was hoping you guys catch on to that. It was the song I made sure not to post or hint at anywhere so it could be a surprise to you guys."

"Which would make it a surprise to everyone else that you're moving back here because no one, but close friends know this, I'm guessing?" Pepper asks.

"Right." She nods.

"Have you figured out how you wanna put your stuff yet?" Nat asks.

"Yeah, I did that in LA." She chuckles with wide eyes and they smile. "I have a drawing, a crappy drawing, of the layout of my floor so I can figure out where I want everything to go."

"How crappy?" Sam smirks.

"Pretty crappy." She nods with squinted eyes.

"Can we see?" Thor smiles.

"You can when you help me move my shit." She grins smugly and they roll their eyes. "Walked right into that one, Bitches. Hold the fuck up." She puts her hand up in realization.

"We missing something?" Bucky chuckles.

"As a matter of fact..." She turns to her mother. "Yes. We are." She looks at Tony. "Morgan?" She shakes her head with a shrug.

"Oh, I forgot." His eyes get wide and he sets his face in his hand with a chuckle.

"Wow." She nods. "Is she here?"

"No, she will be tomorrow." Pepper chuckles.

"Alright, good." She nods and turns forward. "Good."

-

Some hours later, Bree has truly forced some of them to help, mostly the giant muscle piles and the witch that doesn't even have to move, to put her large stuff how she wants it.

Now, it's bedtime and Bree is back on her old floor and her old bedroom. After a hot shower, she puts on underwear and a hoodie before turning off the light and crawling into bed with a sigh. She lays on the right side, on her back, and stares at the ceiling with a tornado of thoughts swirling through her mind, keeping her up for hours until she finally gives in to the exhaustion.