Her Assistant | Natasha Romanoff

28. Pietro Maximoff

Pietro POV
In my world, everything was grey. From my earliest memories, people and places were all grey. I didn't even know that other colours existed. I never knew I had a sister.

We were told to fight and protect our country but the reason was never told to us.

Despite my training being completely focused on techniques to kill people, I was awarded the mission to watch and protect the Red Witch. And in case of emergency... I would have to kill her.

You could only imagine my frustration when I'm not able to use what I thought I was good at, what I have been training for my whole life just to babysit a lady. She's constantly irritating, annoying and on top of me and I know nothing of being an assistant.

It was until I found out her birth certificate by chance that I realised she was my sister. We had the same birth date and I realised we were twins. I have been kept away from this fact for so long and my sister was next to me all these time?

I finally felt the desire to protect some and discovered the bright colours of the world.

So... Wanda...

"Pietro!" My sister's crying face came into sight and I realised I got on the train with them and had left the station long ago.

Reader POV
"Get a hold of yourself!" Miss Romanoff shouted at Wanda.

"You said it yourself, it's your duty as the Red Witch to protect your villagers, isn't it? He's the only one left. In the external world, there is no magic or miracles. You have to save him. With your own hands!" Miss Romanoff shoved the glowing red knife into Wanda's hand.

Wanda turned and looked at Pietro with the knife shakily in her hands. "Pietro, if you die now... I will never forgive you."

Under the circumstances, there wasn't any pain medication to give to Pietro and he had to endure the entire process and feeling all the pain until he passed out.

"He stopped bleeding. If he can get proper care... he will probably be fine." I told Wanda as she finally finished bandaging him up who also passed out after a tiring day.

"We can't take him to a hospital. Give us a place to hide, Strange." Miss Romanoff told him. I've never seen this guy before but Miss Romanoff seems to be very comfortable with him.

"I was surprised that you ordered me to pick him up, Miss Romanoff." I said after preparing a seat for her.

"In the external world there are monsters worse than werewolves. She'll need someone to look after her. Plus, she's my insurance. To avoid that someone tries to kill me because I know too much."

Behind the scenes, people from Hydra went to Germany to check the casualties and to scan the area to see if there's anything they could use.

After a much needed rest during a long journey, we have finally reached Strange's mansion where he was able to provide us with some shelter. His house is almost as big as the mansion that Miss Romanoff has at the edge of New York. Germany sure has a bigger plot space.

His housekeeper helped Bucky to bring Pietro to a spare room where he could rest along with Wanda.

It was very late by the time we reached Strange's place so everyone went to have a shower to wash off the dirt and grime and quickly went to sleep.

However, this doesn't mean it was time to slack. My job continues the next day until Miss Romanoff gives me a break. I got up and made coffee for Miss Romanoff before waking her up. Strange gave Pietro a brief check through and said that he should be able to move tomorrow.

I could tell Pietro had something to say as he looked at me and I gave him a small smile to encourage him to continue. "Y/N... wasn't it? Why did you save me?"

"Miss Romanoff ordered me to." I replied.

"It was quite irresponsible of you to try and leave some stranger to take care of your sister, as if your job is already over." Miss Romanoff crossed her arms in front of her and said.

Wanda and Pietro were too guilty to say anything. "Wanda, I-"

"You don't need to say it." Wanda interrupted him. "I'm the one who betrayed you first." She took a deep breath before explaining. "I accepted Natasha's proposal to see the outside world and tried to leave that forest. I was about to abandon you all, losing to my own greed. Yet.. you protected me..." She sighed. "I won't deny that I'm angry because you deceived me. But... I also did something bad to you..."

"So.." Wanda held Pietro's hand. "It's a draw. From now on, stay with me. We'll see the outside world together, Piet."

Miss Romanoff clapped her hands to gain their attention. "Now that that's over..." I sighed, shaking my head. She should have given some more time for the siblings instead of jumping straight into business.

After planning what's going to happen after we arrive in New York, Strange's housekeeper prepared lunch for all of us.

The most important priority on the list was getting Pietro to learn English. Speaking German in America is going to raise a lot of suspicion especially for those around Miss Romanoff.

"Thank you for your help, Strange." Miss Romanoff said as she stood at the door front and the rest were getting in the limousine that Strange had gotten for us to get to the airport.

"Jeez, keep me out of your trouble next time." He complained.

"Next time? So it's okay to come again then?" Miss Romanoff teased.

"Ugh, don't come." He shooed us away. "Oi, Romanoff. You made it out alive this time. Be careful."

"Yeah, you too."

As we arrived at the airport, I went to check the plane along with the Captain but Miss Romanoff leant against the stairs of the private jet even though the rest of them had already boarded the plane.

"Something you need Miss Romanoff?"

"Just call me Natasha, Miss Romanoff is too long." She said randomly before heading up. I stood there in shock for a moment before the Captain patted my shoulders.

 5 years... and she wants me to change now?

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When we arrived in New York, Pietro and Wanda were amazed by all the high rises and buildings made out of glass, a stark contrast to what they have been seeing in their village. The industrialisation they have never seen before

"This is... New York..."

"Shh... speaking German here will be suspicious. From now on, please speak in English." I told them and Wanda was very excited about the change as she has been speaking to us in English and has no problem doing so. However, Pietro needed a bit more help and motivation in his learning process.

Whenever Miss Romanoff- or rather Natasha, told Wanda off for doing something wrong, Pietro would stand up for her and stare at me talking in German, telling me that Wanda was feeling sad.

"By all means, complain to me in english. That way, I will actually listen to you." He would go off flipping through his dictionary trying to find the words in English.

Posted on 28 Feb 2023

Last day of the month! And another essay to submit...