Phantom || Peter Parker

14

Rolling her eyes for the tenth time, Avalon crossed her arms over her chest, looking back at Steve, who had been leaning back against a table. They were all back in the palace of Wakanda, a few days after Everett Ross left, Steve decided to "interrogate" her, wanting to know why she needed to be hidden so bad, besides the fact that she was a former HYDRA assassin, and frankly, they were all curious. Bucky stood behind his daughter, his arms crossed over his chest as well, looking at his best friend. He gets why Steve needed to know these things, but he also knew that Avalon may not want to relive those memories,

"Why did you need to be hidden?" Steve asked again

"How many times are you going to ask?" Avalon countered

"How many times are you going to avoid the question?" He asked

"I'm not avoiding the question, I just don't feel like answering" she snipped

"We need to know" he said

"You don't need to know" she replied "you want to know. There's a huge difference"

Steve clenched his jaw in agitation, clearly over Avalon's attitude, but he had to hold back because of Bucky, not knowing what his best friend would do if he were to snap at his daughter. And he knew that Avalon was Bucky's daughter, mostly because if the DNA test he had them do, which earned a punch in the arm from Bucky in return for not believing them. Wanda knew Avalon was telling the truth, and she even refused going through her mind like Steve had wanted, because she saved Pietro, Wanda feels like she owes Avalon, same for Clint and Pietro as well, Avalon saved their lives when she was eleven. Bucky uncrossed his arms from his chest, placing his metal hand on her shoulder, which caused Avalon to look down at it, feeling the coolness of the metal against her exposed skin, then looking up at his eyes, ones that almost matched hers.

It was almost as if they were having a silent conversation, Avalon shaking her head slightly, not wanting to just share what she worked hard to get, especially with what she basically had to do to get said information. Bucky quirked an eyebrow slightly, only to where she could see, but she shook her head once more, keeping her arms crossed over her chest.

"Malyshka" Bucky said softly

"No, papa" Avalon replied

"Why?" He asked

". . You don't know what I had to do . " She whispered "to get it all . . ."

"What you may have done means nothing here" T'Challa said suddenly, causing Avalon to look at him

Avalon let out a small sigh through her nose, briefly looking down at the floor, not wanting to look at anyone at the moment, closing her eyes,

". . I have information" Avalon answered

"What kind of information?" Steve asked

Bucky gave her shoulder a small squeeze, Avalon opening her eyes and looking at the people in from of her,

"I have everything on everyone that is or was associated with SHIELD or HYDRA" Avalon said, then looking at Steve "every little detail, down to your preferred brand of toothpaste. And no, I'm not going to be giving you anything. I'm the one who obtained that information, and I'm not just going to hand it over like nothing"

"Prove it" Clint said

"I'll show you" Avalon replied, looking at Steve, then T'Challa "but it stays with me at all times"

"Understood" T'Challa replied with a nod

~•~

Standing in front of one of the many monitors in the lab, Avalon looked at the blank screen, T'Challa, Shuri, Peter, Bucky and the rest of the Avengers standing behind her, waiting to see what she has. Bringing her right arm up to look at her blue dragon bracelet, she pressed her thumb and index finger on the first two blue gems, which were it's eyes, causing the rest of the blue gems to flash green twice, allowing her to remove the head of the dragon, which turned into a flash drive. They watched as she plugged it into the monitor, moving the keyboard closer to her, allowing her fingers to type on the keys,