"He's not coming, is he?" Bucky said sadly, a glass of whiskey in his hands as he leant back against the bar.
ACE, from her holoprojector behind the bar shook her head, "His jet is still on course and it hasn't strayed once. Peter is still a half hour out from the compound." The AI said, subtly double checking herself to make sure he was, in fact on course.
He had promised her though that he'd be there, and she was monitoring everything about the jet so she would know if something was amiss but all sensors in the aircraft were indicating that everything was normal and Peter was still in the cockpit, most likely sleeping.
He's been doing that a lot recently.
Natasha scoffed, bringing her wine glass up to her lips to take a sip before she responded from her place behind the wooden counter, "If he doesn't show up I'll fly over to his lab myself and drag him here. Everyone has suffered long enough, it's time the truth came out before it's too late." She said.
"...He's been getting worse." ACE said after a moment of silence, her holographic face etched with concern as she thought about her maker and his condition.
Natasha gritted her teeth in annoyance at their situation before closing her eyes and exhaling a calming breath.
She needed to be the collected one, she needed to be the one to keep her family together because at the moment, they were falling apart.
The Stark's were all miserable, not knowing that they were missing a child and yet grieving him all the same, May wouldn't speak to anyone who wasn't Happy, Michelle and Ned, who were getting ready for college would sometimes stop by to see how May was doing with no idea why they were doing so and Yelena...
Gosh her baby sister was hurting so much...
She couldn't sleep, she would wake up with horrible nightmares with no idea what she was dreaming about when she woke up and the younger woman barely ever talked anymore to begin with, not even to her.
Her sister had become a shell of who she used to be and Natasha didn't know how to fix it,
She wasn't even sure bringing Peter back would fix it, but right now it was the only thing she could think of to help her whole family.
This mess had all started when Peter had been risen from the dead so if anything could help her family, it would be him.
She just had to find a way to make it so all of them could be happy at the end of this, because the Stark's would most likely understand, so would Peter's friends and aunt.
They had all known him when he was Spider-Man, they know how much he would sacrifice to save a life but Yelena...
Her sister had only known Peter after he had become something...else.
Natasha knew her sister would be far less forgiving towards the young man, she only hoped she would stop and listen before she let her anger out on someone.
Most likely Peter himself.
Because she would. If they somehow found a way to get their memories back, Yelena would be so extremely pissed that Natasha doesn't even know if seeing Peter again would help her more, or hurt her.
But, she wouldn't know for sure unless Peter got his ass to the compound for this party.
"We'll figure out a way to save him," She started off by saying, making the AI and Ex-Hydra soldier turn to look at her, "We have the best minds at the compound right now, I'm sure with all of them together we can come up with something." She said.
Bucky shook his head, "I know you think that Nat, but this is weird space magic and cosmic mind wipes. This isn't just what happened with me, a Infinity stone did this, we may not be able to reverse it with normal means." The man said, reaching behind the bar to lay a gentle hand on Nat's shoulder.
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A Hero's Last Stand...
Fanfiction[BOOK #2 IN RONIN PETER SERIES] There were many ways that Peter thought he'd die since he first put on that mask, all those years ago. From his very first hoodie and goggles he had hand made for Spider-Man, to the one Tony had made for him. He alway...
