Starks Apprentice

Chapter 19

“Did I ever tell you that you look great in red?” Peter shot me a smile as he pulled his suit on.

“I think we’re long overdue a holiday once we get out of here, I was thinking Hawaii”

“That sounds nice, surrounded by the ocean and a sleeping volcano” he snorted at my pessimism, shaking his head.

“you’ll love it”

“I just want to get out of this shithole”

He wrapped his arms around me, kissing the top of my head.

“I know baby, I know”

“you two ready?”

We let out a joint sigh before he put on his mask, not that his identity mattered anymore but at least Karen could help him.

He pressed one last kiss to my knuckles before he pulled it down over his face, the two of us joining the others.

“Let’s get the hell out of here, uh?”

Tony patted Steve’s shoulder who rolled his eyes playfully, strapping his shield to his arm.

“Everyone stay close” he instructed and we made out way out.

Between all of us we got outside pretty quickly, a lot of the agents were already dead or running around.

Peter kept close to me the whole time, both of us working to keep each other safe.

“Watch out!” someone yelled, and Bucky tackled me and Peter to the ground, protecting us as and rubble poured down around us.

Grenade.

“Thank you”

“don’t thank me yet, we’ve got a long way to go” we got to our feet.

“Jarvis where the hell are you?”

“Arrival is imminent ma’am”

I shot at a solider aiming at Nat, seeing him fall to the ground with a grimace before a familiar beam of energy joined the fight.

Now we had two iron man suits.

Fuck yeah.

“Hulk!” Peter yelled, pointing to the tank as he webbed people left and right.

The green giant roared, smashing it to pieces and the team ran into the forest, Jarvis keeping our backs clear.

“How far out are we?!”

“Two minutes!” I shouted back, legs burning from the constant sprinting, not daring to look behind me.

The jet was in sight with the engine running and everybody hurried inside, Nat calling out to Hulk who shrunk to reveal a stumbling Bruce.

Once everyone was inside Jarvis began working on getting us moving with the help of Tony and Clint.

I let out the breath I was holding once we were in the air, letting my shoulders relax.

There were a few minutes of silence as we waited for the sound of the missile alarm but thankfully nothing.

Steve worked on letting Fury know what had happened with Tony, seeing as they were in charge of the different missions and could tell him exactly what happened whilst the others and I talked about how we ended up here.

I was just glad that the night ended up with Peter curled up next to me, head rested on my stomach as I brushed my fingers through his hair. I shut my eyes, trying to detox my mind.

“You okay?” he kissed my exposed skin softly, rubbing circles into waist.

I hummed, eyebrows creasing slightly. “I know what you’re thinking”

“I didn’t know you knew how to mind read”

He grazed his nails over my skin, and I felt goosebumps follow.

“Alexandrite” his voice made me sigh, opening my eyes to meet his.

“I can’t help it. Today was just…crazy” he gave a humourless laugh.

“I know, you were amazing. You realise that you saved out asses today? Bucky especially. I don’t know how things would have turned out if they had finished what they started.”

“Don’t remind me” I muttered softly, letting him kiss away the frown on my face.

“you’re a hero now”

“Don’t call me that” his eyes studied me sympathetically, giving a sad smile.

“Sometimes I wish you could see yourself the way I do” my lips curved upwards, bringing his lips to mine.

“sap” I teased which earned me an eyeroll.

“It can only go up from here”