Avenger's AOU~ Oblivion. { Quicksilver Fanfic }

Chapter 18: Milestones

"It really was amazing," I whispered, thumbing the ends of my hair. I leaned back in the sand so my hair was sprawled out across my little section of beach.

Pietro nodded. "Brings out this other side in you, you never knew was there..."

A sudden feeling leapt into my stomach as if someone hit me with a soft racket. I shivered slightly and wrapped my arms around me. The temperature was dropping steadily into the cool springtime evening. The stars began sparkling again as the lights from the deceased firework show faded into the sea.

"I wish everything could be like this all the time." I said quietly, wondering immediately what I had even meant.

"Minus the fact that H.Y.D.R.A has both your friend and my sister." Pietro followed up.

I mentally hit myself. "Yeah, of course." I muttered. I looked down at my pale hands. "And the fact that H.Y.D.R.A just messes up everything."

"Not everything."

"For me, that is."

I tried not to bring anything up that will make Pietro fade away from me again. I had no idea how touchy the subject was with Wanda and H.Y.D.R.A.

I heard a rustle in the sand behind us and I turned around half expecting someone to be watching us. No one was there. I turned back to the sea and Pietro was now hold something in his hands.

I squinted into the darkness and recognized the silver designs of my lantern from the festival.

"How-" I started my hand sliding to my bag where I kept it.

Pietro hinted a smile. His bleached hair fell into his eyes as he bent over the lantern fidgeting with it. I drew in closer trying to see what he was doing. As soon as I got close he held it out to me and pushed it into my cold hands.

I frowned. "You make no sense."

Pietro laughed and leaned back into the sand, holding his weight up by his elbows. "Try it."

"Try what?" I mumbled still staring at the lantern. It really was the simplest little thing, but it was still beautiful.

Instead of answering, Pietro pointed to the sky in the west where he said the city was. A single silver glow lifted into the sky. I peered towards the land trying to make it out as a star or something. Then one after another began to slowly lift high into the night dotting the sea with little white foams.

I glanced back down at the lantern in my hands. I smiled. "A floating lantern." I said comically. "Like in the movies. But do we have anything to light it with?"

Pietro frowned as a light manner stretched into his cheeks and crinkles frowned around his mouth. "Not we." He whispered. He grabbed one of my hands and slid it under the clasp of the bottom of the light. "You."

I raised an eyebrow and waved a hand in the air dramatically. "Magically?"

"Sort of."

I frowned and dropped my hand. "I told you, I don't know how to channel anything or whatever."

"Not yet," Pietro grabbed my hand and slid his legs over so he was sitting in front of me, one of my hands in his and the lantern in the other. "What helps you channel them when you've down it before?"

I still stared at him wide eyes, shocked at our close proximity. "Um... I don't know."

Pietro chuckled, squeezing my hand gently. "Yes you do."

He looked down and opened my palm in his. I followed his gaze as he pressed his index finger into my hand. I blushed as he wrapped his hand around mine. Something inside me struggled to burst through my body but I managed to contain it. This boy confuses me so much.