Tattered Wings

Adoption

1 month later

With her bag packed and ready to go, Max quickly wrote a note to Tony and Steve, thanking them for letting her stay, but that she had to leave. Pulling her bag on her shoulders, Max checked her clock and acknowledged it was 1am and knew everyone would be asleep. The only exception, maybe,  would be Tony, but he was probably in his lab working on something. She tip-toed out of her room and took the quickest route that would lead her to the elevators. Unforunately, this route meant that she had to go through the kitchen and there was a chance that Tony had come out of his lab to get coffee. But it was only a chance. She was about to walk through the kitchen when Tony stepped out of no-where, blocking her escape route.

"Going somewhere?"

"Yes" Max tried to push past him, but he just held out his hand and stopped her.

"Where are you going?" Tony asked, crossing his arms.

"I don't know. On the run, like i have been most of my life. Now if you'll excuse me" she tried to push past him again, but for the second time, Tony stopped her.

"I can't let you do that. I won't let you go on the run. You've only just started talking again, and i won't let you roll back down the hill you've climbed so high on."

"That isn't for you to decide."

"It is now. I won't let you go on the run again. You've done enough running."

"Well, what else am i supposed to do?"

"Stay here."

"I can't do that to you and Steve. You've got enough on your plate with the Avengers and everything, without adding me into the equation."

"Me and Steve have been talking most of the night about how much we want you to stay."

"You have?"

"Yeah. You've grown on us kid. We can't let you go now. And we came up with a solution. I say we, it was actually Steves idea. I just agreed to it. But you have to agree to it aswell."

"And what solution would that be?"

"You stay here and let me and Steve adopt you."

Max looked blankly at him for a minute, processing his offer. "You want to adopt me?"

"We both do, but you have to agree to it first, and you don't have to change your last name if you don't want to."

Max considered her options. Turn down the offer and leave, living her life forever alone and miserable or accept the offer and and live the rest of her life with a family of three guys that she had grown to love in the month she had stayed with them.

"Okay"

"Okay for what?"

"Okay, I'll let you and Steve adopt me, as long as i can keep my name the same. I don't want to change it."

"That's fine. I'll go tell Steve. He'll be so happy." Tony quickly hugged Max and pulled her away from the kitchen door. "Go back to your room so i don't have to worry about you escaping."

"Fine. Goodnight Tony."

"Night Max."