Infinite (buckynat/winterwidow)

The Maximoffs

Natalia woke up leaning back on James' chest. They sat in the gathering area.

His arm was wrapped around her waist protectively and he surveyed their surroundings cautiously.

He sensed her movement and looked down. "Наталья," he said softly, gently caressing her cheek. "You're awake."

Natalia hummed and nuzzled her head against his chest. "How long was I out?"

"Not long. Here, you should drink some hot coffee."

Natalia raised a brow. "Poisoned, I assume?"

James smirked. "Naturally."

He helped her to sit up before lifting the cup to her lips and letting her drink the beverage.

"Лучше?" (Better)

"Hm."

"I know that they did. I threatened the truth out of Clint," James whispered in Russian, an undertone of fury in his voice. "I am going to kill that agent. I am going to kill all of them."

Natalia shook her head. "It's fine."

"Вы знаете, что это не." (You know it's not)

She didn't have an answer to that.

They didn't seem to care that the Avengers were watching them.

"She must have a traumatic past," Steve said. "You saw how she reacted. We all saw how she reacted. They went too far."

Just then, an agent came scurrying in. "Sir, there are two people outside. We have identified them as the Maximoff twins. They're looking for Barnes and Romanova."

"Just get rid of them," Fury mumbled from the corner of the room.

"We can't," Maria replied as she strode into the room. "He's got increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis. Her thing is neuroelectric interfacing, telekinesis and mental manipulation."

Steve have her a puzzled look. Maria sighed. "He's fast and she's weird."

Maria barely finished her sentence before the wall blasted open. The Maximoff twins had arrived.

The female Maximoff twin had red magic glowing around her hands, which she used to blast at the Avengers.

Her twin brother went to James and Natalia.

"Hey."

Natalia nodded. "Pietro. James and I told the two of you to run and live somewhere else. You shouldn't have come back."

"You saved us and gave us a home. We're not leaving you. The both of you."

"My thoughts exactly," the other twin shouted over the chaos.

"Wanda, be careful," Natalia said as she and James got up.

Natalia grabbed Wanda and dashed to the exit, crashing the doors open. James and Pietro follows them behind.

Agents arrived before the four of them could leave the headquarters and surrounded them.

Wanda tilted her head, her eyes glowing red. The agents dropped their guns, damaging them beyond repair.

"What the......" Clint said breathlessly.

"Let us go," Wanda demanded in a thick Sokovian accent.

"Not after you infiltrated our headquarters," Fury said.

"If you didn't have a mission to kill them, we wouldn't have had to," Pietro protested.

"These two are threats. It was the right call."

"They are only threats because you're afraid of them."

Tony flew in front of them in his suit of armour.

"Stark," Wanda seethed.

"Tony, no. I'll handle this," Steve said firmly. "We'll drop our weapons first. Then you promise to release control over these people's minds. We'll all go inside peacefully and have a chat."

He dropped his shield and Tony deactivated his suit. Clint also put down his weapons.

Wanda was about to release her control over the agents when Natalia stopped her.

"The iron person has a taser behind his back," Natalia announced, nodding at Stark. "Other than the Captain and bird man, everyone else is still armed. Agent 63 has a knife in his boot, which he can conveniently reach subtly. Drop your weapons first or your agents will have no choice but to jump off into the sea."

Everyone else dropped their weapons. James nodded and Wanda knocked the agents out before releasing her control on them.

"Are we seriously going to head back in for a chat?" Pietro whispered.

"Try to gain their trust. Then we can escape more easily," James whispered back, but in Hungarian.

Steve led everyone else back in before turning to look at the group of four.

Wanda shrugged and held Natalia's hand, guiding her back in.

Pietro groaned in disbelief and followed them with James in tow.