Ms. Marvel & Nova in "Don't Panic! No, not yet!"

Chapter 2

Don't Panic, No Not Yet ch. 2

Disclaimers: The usual. Refer to the disclaimer in chapter 1. I don't own these things, this is fanfiction.

Ms. Marvel

Okay, so maybe Nova couldn't recognize her smile beneath a giant fake Hulk statue and the excited jumpiness of his sister. It was actually pretty endearing the way he acted patiently as the little girl dragged him across the room. Admittedly, Kamala's ears perked up when she heard the name "Ms. Marvel" come out of the excited chatter. Who was she kidding? She couldn't help listening in and she swore it took a lot of will power not to embiggen her ear too since Sam was insistent on hushing his voice down to a whisper. This was all very overwhelming and too funny and weird a happening that she had instinctively started texting Spidey furiously just so she could rant and freak out with someone. Mike had wanted to take more pictures and wasn't like Bruno had a surplus of lies to cover for how Kamala was acting so he went with her. They'd had a little eye conversation – argument – where she just kept pointing her pupils to follow Sam's retreating figure. Meaning she'll continue following him and Bruno kept narrowing his eyes – bad idea. But she followed Sam anyway because, duh, the kid mentioned Ms. Marvel!

Her text to Spidey was quick and to the point.

OMG! I decided to go the fieldtrip to the Avengers exhibit. Cuz Captain Marvel. And guess what! Nova's here!

The little girl and Sam started approaching the picture of Nova where he was covering Ms. Marvel in the shot. She pointed at the picture and was shouting despite Sam's efforts to calm her. Kamala ducked behind a pillar.

Spidey replied.

What??? You two went to the Avengers Exhibit without me?

She was about to text a 'no' with an explanation in response but Spidey added in another text.

Wait...are you two on a date?

Kamala felt like pushing her head way back and away from her phone, not minding if it crushed the pillar she was leaning on, at the sight of such text. But she didn't. That could break the foundation of this place.

NO! Dude! Don't even go there! I just saw him in the crowd with a little girl. He's probably babysitting. I'm freakin' because I'm not exactly Ms. Marvel right now.

Kamala added the emoticon that looked like "The Scream" three times. He replied after a minute.

So who are you now?

She shook her head.

Nice try.

She added a smiley emoticon that had its tongue out.

Anyway, the little girl he's with is a fan of Ms. Marvel and is absolutely cute!

She added a smiley face emoticon and didn't mention that she was still actually eavesdropping on their conversation. She expected the girl to say more nice thigs about Ms. Marvel when she complained Nova was covering her in the shot. What she ended up hearing after that almost choked her with her own quick intake of air as the girl said she "shipped" Ms. Marvel and Nova. And here Kamala had been thinking that she had a cute little fan and it was all very flattering, smiling to herself, crouching like an idiot behind the pillar. The kid thought she was awesome. It almost reminded her of how she thought Captain Marvel was awesome and it was like a cycle of awesomeness being passed down. But then you would expect a record scratch in real life at the thought that she also put Ms. Marvel and Nova in the same sentence as "they'd be really cute together".

Kamala cringed. This was almost as horrifying as the time she came upon a love triangle fanfic of her, Spidey and Nova. It was all so wrong and they totally didn't get it. She felt the strong urge to explain or defend herself. She demanded justice for the awkwardness she'd had to endure. How can anyone ship the two of them? What's worse was how affected she was with the way Sam reacted to the little girl's suggestion. It was hard not to glance at his direction, but his back was turned to her.