❝You're Tony Stark, y'know? Girls tripped over themselves to be with you before you became Iron Man. Now, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm not exactly popular, or hot. Girls never looked my way unless it was to copy geometry homework off me. She...
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When she woke, everything was different.
As her vision slowly came back to her, her entire body felt like lead. She blinked, eyes adjusting to the light. Her head was pounding, her stomach felt rotten, the smallest of movements made her want to vomit. Even so, Nora forced herself to stand. She wobbled for a few moments, trying to regain her balance and also fighting the urge to fall back into unconsciousness. She shook her head, trying to fill in what had happened before she had collapsed. She remembered Captain Rogers and the quinjet, her powers turning the tower to dust, and Spider-Man calling her Nora.
Her eyes widened immensely. Spider-Man knew her name. How did he know her name?
Nora groaned, crouching down as she massaged her temples. She shouldn't have exerted that much power, not when she wasn't in one hundred control of her powers. She could've easily lost control and done more damage than she would've been prepared for. When she felt she could open her eyes again and stand, she found she was the only one on the field. She knew when she went down the Giant Man was still trying to fend off Spider-Man, Iron Man and War Machine, and now there was no one in the air, no giant in their way. As she frowned, she heard someone scream over the comm., making her wince in pain. "Where is Mercy?"
Oh god, she was so screwed. The quinjet was gone, Captain Rogers must've escaped, which meant she technically betrayed her team. Tony was going to kill her.
"I-I'm here." she croaked out, throat suddenly dry. "I'm near hangar five."
She didn't even notice Wanda limp over to her, Vision being her crutch as her head was also scrambled. Vision looked, she couldn't place the emotion, could he even feel emotion? It was something akin to worry anyway, like he knew he had done something wrong, but what went wrong, he wasn't sure. "What's going on?" she asked them.
"You let him go." Wanda said, although it was more like she was trying to get it through her own head. "You let the captain go."
Vision nodded. "That may have been a mistake, Ms. Mercy."
Nora rolled her eyes, like that wasn't already something she was thinking. She felt tired, cranky and worst of all, hostile, she didn't want to have to deal with how Spider-Man knew her name, or Tony's impending freak out directed her way. She just wanted to go home where she could sleep this off and forget all about this day. The day Spider-Man called her Nora. "I did. So, when can I expect Tony's bitch fit?"
Vision frowned, glancing at Wanda before sighing. "Oh my dear, Tony giving out to you is the least of your worries."
At his words, the sounds of helicopters and trucks floated into her eardrums. It was then that she noticed many of Captain Rogers team either detained or hurt. Nora's frown turned to pity as she looked at all the destruction around them. "God." she muttered to herself. "What a shit show."
No one laughed, Nora didn't think she would've either.
Moments later, the flying figure of Iron Man came flying through the air, someone in his arms. For a second, Nora's heart lurched, what if it was Spider-Man? However, when he set down, the person he was carrying was too tall, and not in a suit. He laid the person down as gently as possible, as Nora ran over to him. Tony glanced up at her, seething with rage, but knew now was not the time when his best friend who critically injured. "Heartbeat?" Nora asked, seemingly getting the atmosphere between them. Business talk, short and sweet, this was top priority.
