Adopted by the Widow

Chapter 5

I woke up later on from my nap. I left the medbay - I swear I probably didn't need to go there in the first place - and roamed the halls of the tower for a while. I mainly just hyperventilated while still trying to process what happened. So what if I was related to Wanda? What would happen? Would she adopt me instead? Would Nat no longer be my mum? I hoped that wouldn't happen. I stood with my head against the marbled wall until someone tapped me on the back. I spun around with a shock. "Peter!" I exclaimed. "How are you?"
"Hey Daniela! I'm good, thanks. How about you? I heard you were in the medbay."
"Oh, yeah, heh... I just passed out, that's all."
"Damn."
"Yeah. Anyways, I have to go now. I'll text you later so we can sort out something for going out!"
"Oh, okay. Bye!"
"Bye!" As I walked away my heart gave a little flutter. Did I have a crush on him? I know I'm going on a date with him, but... nevermind. I walked to my bedroom and stared out of the massive windows overlooking New York, then flopped onto my bed. So much had happened in the space of twenty four hours that I thought my head was about to explode. I just needed to scroll on TikTok and FaceTime Kate. And that's what I did, except something new was viral on tiktok. I opened it up and the first video: "Adopted Avenger Related to Wanda Maximoff"
"What?" I thought to myself silently. Who thought I was related to Wanda, and how do they know...? I kept scrolling, and yet again, it said the same thing. I was confused and scared, and immediately ran out of my room. I saw Tony standing out there, facing the other way, probably looking at his phone. I ran over, not exactly shouting, but raising my voice. "Tony!"
He turned around with a shock. "Daniela! You scared me there. Don't do that!"
"Sorry Tony, but this is really important." I said, hyperventilating for about the third time that day. "Is everything okay?" He said suddenly panicked. "Did something happen to Morgan?"
"No, no. Morgan's fine, but I'm not! There's things going around online saying I'm related to Wanda, and I'm really scared!"
"Wait, what? You're related to Wanda?"
"No, Tony!" I said, annoyed. "Of course not! Well, at least I don't think so... but that's not the point! Can you do your speech thingy and say that I'm not related to her?"
"Daniela, I can't lie to the whole of New York-"
"Yes, you can, Tony! Please! I'm really scared!"
"Daniela, I'm sorry, but-"
"Hey, what's happening?" said Peter, doing a short jog over to where we were. "Stark, listen to me. This is private information that Daniela doesn't want shared around the whole of New York! You need to respect people's privacy, so, you know, do her a favour and do one of your speech thingys."
"Alright, fine. But in the future, you kids don't boss me around with anything else."
"I'm not sure about that, but thanks!" I said. As I turned around to walk off, I dragged Peter by his hand to follow me. I dragged him around a corner that was just out of Tony's earshot.
"Hey, thanks for back there." I said to him, gazing into his dark brown eyes, my hand against his chest. "No problem, it's-" He stopped what he was saying as I leaned in and kissed him.