Divided |2|

nineteen

Victoria jogged through an underpass with Steve as they reach a private runway. She could see their chopper, as well as tiny figures,flying towards them.

"He's not gonna just let us take it, Steve."

As she came her sentence, and electro-disabler was shot onto the helicopter and the pair come to a stop. Steve glanced at Victoria before looking up.

"I know."

Tony and Rhodey land beside each other and the playboy quipped, "Wow it's so weird how you run into people at the airport," his suit uncovered his face as he looked at Rhodey. "Don't you think that's weird?"

"Definitely weird."

"Nice to know our little game of hide-and-seek had come to an end."

Tony opened his mouth to speak but Steve cut him off. "Hear me out, Tony. That doctor—the psychiatrist—he's behind all of this."

Victoria spotted movement to her peripheral right and as quick as she had turned, she had an arrow nocked – pointed at her target. T'Challa leaped over a truck, in his usual catty attire, and rose gracefully.

Swear being a royal comes with natural, blessed grace.

"Captain."

"Your highness."

"Yeah, I'm here too!" Steve sent her a baffled look and she raised her hands up in defence. "Just saying."

T'Challa tilted his head to the side as Victoria waved her bow, lowering it. The tilt was a silent greeting, but she was still not happy with that.

"Words work too, you know—"

"—Anyway," Tony walked around Rhodey while speaking. "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?"

Victoria sent an incredulous look to Tony. "Interrupting me, now are we? Damn Tony, easing your conscious sure came at a price—"

"—Could you shut your goddamn mouth for five minutes, Tori? Thanks."

Victoria pouted, cursing Sam silently in her head. Her mood was lightened when her speedster appeared beside Tony. He smirked at her and sent a small wink. Steve ignored them and spoke directly to Tony.

"You're after the wrong guy."

"Your judgment is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday."

"Just as your weapons killed innocent people not too long ago, Tony." He sent a pained look to Victoria and she glared at him. "What? Nothing to say, Tony? Nothing about how you didn't have control of them? Well, we didn't have control of Bucky's psycho assassin-side."

"And there are five more super soldiers just like him." Tony turned his gaze to Steve again and Victoria moved her's to Pietro. He shook his head at her slightly, telling her to calm down. "I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't."

"Steve..." They turned to find Natasha stalking silently from behind them and Victoria frowned at her Aunt. "You know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?"

"All right, I've run out of patience," Tony cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled out. "Underoos!"

Steve's shield was stolen and replaced by something that bound his hands together. Victoria shot her already-nocked arrow at the newcomer. They reflected it using Steve's shield and Victoria set her jaw.

"Dirty move, Tony. Dirty move."

"Woah! Did you see that Mr. Stark? I blocked an arrow from Virago using Captain America's shield!"

"Nice job, kid."

"Thanks. Well, I could've stuck the landing a little better. It's just the new suit—" he cut himself and waved his hand. "Well, it's nothing, Mr. Stark. It's—It's perfect. Thank you."

"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation."

"Okay. Cap... Captain, Virago—"

"—Nice kid, Tony. Where'd you find him? Rent-A-Teen.com—"

"—Big fan, I'm Spider-Man."

"Yeah, we'll talk about it later. Just—"

"Hey, everyone."

"—Good job."

Victoria turned to Pietro who held the same bemused smile that she did before mouthing, "This is boring." She nodded before she was pulled back into reality by Steve.

"You've been busy."

Tony turned back to Steve and practically spat out his words. "And you've been a complete idiot. Dragging in Clint. Rescuing Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave – a safe place. I'm trying to keep—I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."

"You did that when you signed."

Victoria let out a short snort and turned to Steve. "Nice timing, Cap!"

"Alright, We're done. You're gonna turn Barnes over and you're gonna come with us, now. Because it's us! Or a squad of J-SOC guys with no compunction about being impolite." Steve looked at Victoria with a concerned expression. "Come on."

"We found it." Sam's voice echoed in their earpieces. "Their Quinjet's in hanger five, north runway."

"Your cue, dad."

Steve held his hands up and Clint shot the web off. Victoria turned to her Captain as he spoke. "Alright, Lang."

"Hey, guys, something—"

Scott grew to normal size again and kicked the Spider-Man away before jogging back to the pair.

"Whoa. What—What the hell was that?"

"Looks like we've been busy too."

Scott handed the shield back to Steve. "I believe this is yours, Captain America."

"Oh, great." Tony flew up and turned to where her father and Wanda were. Pietro tensed up and looked in the same direction before running off to them. Victoria nocked an arrow. "Alright, there's two on the parking deck. One of them's Maximoff, I'm gonna grab her. Rhodey, you want to take Cap?"

"Got two in the terminal, Wilson and Barnes."

"Barnes is mine!"

T'Challa started to run to the terminals before Victoria fired an electro-arrow at him. "Oh no you don't!"

He carried on running but Steve threw his shield into his back, momentarily stopping him. Victoria nocked another arrow and pointed it at the cat again.

"Move, Captain. I won't ask a second time."

"Okay, I'm really starting to feel invisible to you now, T'Challa."

"Move."

"Yeah, on a scale of one-to-ten, I'm gonna go with a no."

She managed to finish her sentence before she was whisked away by a certain speedster.

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a/n

Quick little update because I couldn't sleep last night.

So I'm getting really excited for what's to come in terms of marvel books. I have three that I'm dying to write. Obviously, one for Steve and one for Bucky. And one for a certain nerd that we all adore.

Question: Do any of you like witches? If so, why? If not, why not?

Please vote and comment! xx