Fire Starter

Chapter Nine: Protecting Peter

        ****TW FOR SELF-HARM AND MENTIONS OF ABUSE****

It was now late-April, two and a half weeks since Aiden had made her new plan. She found herself close to Peter, it was too close for her comfort, but she couldn't stop herself. That was the one part of her plan that wasn't going to plan; the plan was to save him, not to get closer to him. There was just something about him that kept drawing her to him; something that scared her considering that she knew everything about him. It was weird and it scared her What was it him that made her do this? But there was a new blessing that was a problem at the same time; she and Peter were now science partners. They'd been assigned to be partners the previous week; which was a relief to be as far away from Flash as she possibly could be from the boy. But one thing that had made the situation worse was the fact that it was a project that was a home project. Killian had found out about it rather quickly and wanted her to bring Peter to the warehouse, but she couldn't do that She wouldn't do that. She made the excuse that his aunt was extremely protective and found herself convincing Peter to do the project where he lived. She knew Killian wouldn't be able to find her easily at the moment; she'd easily corrupted the tracking device in her phone with her powers, it was something that she knew she wasn't supposed to do and if she ever got caught doing it, there would be serious consequences but she did it nevertheless. She wondered why he didn't put a tracker in the silver bracelets that he made her wear everywhere; she had a feeling it was because it was constantly on her body that her powers and temperature corrupted it and made it useless. The GPS in her phone currently said that they were doing their project in some random apartment complex that she knew didn't exist anymore-which she wasn't. Right now, she was in the back of a black Cadillac, sitting next to Peter, while a man named Happy drove them to where the brunet lived. Peter seemed really excited to have her over, saying that she was the first person he'd gotten to bring over other than Ned. She gave him a forced smile Peter, you have no idea who you're bringing home she thought to herself. She quickly realized that despite what his name said, Happy wasn't actually all that Happy; he was actually rather grumpy. When they pulled up to the compound, she realized how massive it was. Even though it was clearly only one story, it sprawled out across the space in front of her. The size of it reminded her of the mansion in Florida, the thought made her shiver as she looked at it. She made sure she stuck to Peter, following him closely until they made it to the kitchen. Peter promptly dropped his backpack on a stool that was in front of a large counter that was in the center of the room and walked over to the fridge.

He pulled it open and grabbed a bag of grapes, "You hungry Cru?" he asked, shaking the large bag at her as he dumped them into a bowl that he'd pulled out of a cabinet.

Aiden shook her head at him, she was too nauseous to eat; she could hear someone approaching them, she forced herself to stay rooted in place until they came closer.

She heard the sound of the person approaching stop as she watched Peter pop a grape in his mouth, "Hey Pete." a woman greeted.

Aiden spun around quickly, she immediately recognized that woman in front of her. It was Natasha Romanoff; someone she looked up to. The woman in front of her had done the one thing she'd never been able to do; she escaped...Even though she was blonde at the moment and not a redhead like all the photos she'd seen of her had shown, she still looked relatively the same. She was a couple of inches taller than she was; she could see that she was incredibly fit and that she was carrying at least one weapon by the way she was standing. Her arms were crossed slightly as she looked up at the brunet.

Peter grinned brightly and ran around the counter, giving the blonde a tight hug; he almost lifted her off the ground, "Hi Aunt Tasha." he chirped.