Run to You|Pietro Maximoff

Chapter Thirteen

Morning sunlight streamed through the window, waking Ira from her slumber. She stretched and rolled over, looking beside her. "Strange," she whispered. Pietro was already up. It was odd, seeing as how he always slept late.

She sat up, and looked around. The closet was open, and some of Pietro's stuff was missing. A sinking feeling filled her stomach, and she rushed out of bed, rapidly throwing on a shirt and pants.

She ran out into the kitchen, her bare feet slapping the tile as she hurried past. "Slow down!" Clint advised from the table. "Where are you going?"

"Have you seen Pietro?" She asked him. He shook his head.

"I thought he was with you."

Ira ran out of the room towards the monitor room. She sat down at one of the computers. "FRIDAY, show me the footage from last night. Give me anything that has Pietro in it." She said, and a video started playing. It showed a darkened video of Pietro entering the hallway outside his bedroom, holding a backpack filled with supplies. It continued to show him grabbing food from the kitchen, and finally exiting the front door.

The video stopped, and Ira slammed her hands on the desktop in frustration. "That idiot," She muttered.

"What is it?" Natasha asked her, entering the room.

"It's Pietro," Ira told her. "He went after Wanda."
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Pietro pulled down the hood of his jacket, shivering from the brisk wind blowing in. The jagged mountain peaks provided some cover, but not enough to stop the chills spreading up and down his flesh.

He peered over a short incline to see the HYDRA base rise from the horizon. Its foreboding concrete walls making him even more anxious about Wanda's state of being. A large, red, HYDRA symbol was placed directly in the middle of the building. "Inconspicuous," he muttered sarcastically.

He narrowed his eyes at the base, knowing Wanda was confined somewhere in these walls. He could feel it.

Saving his speed for the fight that was coming, Pietro took a breath, and began walking toward the base.
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Ira frantically paced the living room floor. "We have to find another high-level HYDRA operative. We have to capture them, and find Wanda and Pietro..."

"Ira, calm down," Steve assured her. "We'll find them. Tony's already found another agent."

Ira's head snapped toward him. "Really? Who?" Steve led her to the briefing room, where Tony was furiously typing on a computer. When he saw them, he smiled and presented a photo on the computer.

It showed a middle-aged man with dark black hair, and blue eyes. He had a certain confidence about him, as if he knew exactly what he wanted, and exactly how to get it. Everything about him reeked of arrogance and cunning, and Ira could immediately tell that his man would not be easy to capture.

Steve called the others in, and he and Tony began explaining exactly what they had to do. "This is Agent Nicholas Vixe. He is a high-level HYDRA operative, and we have to capture him. We will use his fingerprint to gain entry to wherever they're holding Wanda, and find Pietro along the way."

"We don't even know where they're holding her?" Sam asked. "Isn't that a little risky if we bust in without a plan?"

Steve sighed, and wearily ran a hand through his blonde hair. "Yeah," He said quietly. "But we don't have any other options. We have to leave soon." From there, Tony took over.