When lightning always strikes, you know she's not far behind.
Kidnapped at a young age and recused seven years later, Avalyn Stark is forced to try to navigate a new world far from what she remembered. With threats around every corner, she was nev...
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Pietro Maximoff and Avalyn Stark shared a lot of values.
They both had baggage that weight them down, the same way they had joyous moments that kept them going. Since meeting, there had been electricity between them that was impossible to ignore, not matter how long Avalyn spent trying to do so.
Then again, everyone had something that broke them.
Avaly just hoped this wouldn't break them.
"No one can know that I know where you are," Avalyn warned as she stood in front of Pietro. "They plan on arresting you all."
"I know," Pietro admitted. "Will you? Arrest us?"
Avalyn hadn't actually believed that she'd get to see Pietro. He was siding with Wanda, as Avalyn knew he'd do, and that meant they were against each other for the time being. It was a meeting they weren't supposed to have, hidden in the stairwell of a multi-story carpark.
"No," Avalyn whispered. "I couldn't. You know that I couldn't but I have to look like I'm trying because if I don't, they'll arrest me too and...I can't..."
Her mind flickered to her HYDRA cell and Pietro, who recognised the look, wrapped his arms around her. As Avalyn looked up at him with tired eyes, she leaned forward and pressed a soft kiss to his lips. A sweet gesture that ended with each speedster running in the opposite directions.
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"You can still go home."
"You know I can't. What home is it if my family is fighting."
"Ava—" Florence began.
"Don't," Avalyn interrupted. "Don't talk to me like a child. Just...let's go."
Florence didn't say anything else as the two of them joined Tony — Avalyn had taken hold of her mother's arm and sped the both of them there as Tony and Rhodey flew in.
Steve, in his uniform, strode through an underpass and then jogged onto a private runway, heading for a grounded helicopter. An electro-disabler slammed onto the chopper, and Steve looked up to see Iron Man and War Machine descending."Wow, it's so weird how you run into people at the airport," said Tony. "Don't you think that's weird?"
