Run to You|Pietro Maximoff

Chapter Seventeen

Ira gently nudged Pietro's arm. He stirred in his sleep, rolling over and falling still again. She nudged his arm again, this time whispering "Pietro." Still nothing. So she shook him awake.

Pietro frowned as he sat up. "Is there a reason you felt the need to wake me up at," he glanced over at the clock, "Nine fourteen?"

Ira shrugged. "I just thought that it would be a nice relaxing day, with no missions or training."

"A nice relaxing day entails me sleeping in till two," Pietro stated. She rolled her eyes in defeat.

"Okay, go back to sleep or something. It's fine." She left the room, and Pietro curled up under the blankets for a few more minutes, before sighing and getting out of bed. He got dressed, and sped down to the living room, where he found Ira talking to Steve.

"Okay," She was saying, but it sounded disappointed. She noticed him, and walked over to him. "So, it turns out that I have a mission today. I guess the relaxing day will have to wait." She sighed.

Pietro felt sympathetic for her, and he put his arm around her. She cuddled closer to him, before placing a quick kiss on his lips and going to change for the mission. He watched after her, ideas whirring in his mind. He smiled, thinking of the perfect way to cheer her up.
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Ira disarmed the last guard and sent him skidding across the floor, crashing in a heap near the wall. "All done here," she said, pressing the comms device in her ear, before leaving to join Clint in the lab.

When she got there, she found him standing at a computer, downloading every file onto a flash drive. Ever since Wanda had been captured and the Avengers had learned that HYDRA had continued their illegal human experimentation, they had been going after every base they could find on the file, in the hopes of finding out how many people had been experimented on, and if there were any that were successful. So far, they only knew of one who could maybe still be alive, but the possibility of other Enhanced HYDRA soldiers looked over them like a dark cloud.

Currently, Clint, Steve, and Ira were taking a small base in Connecticut. Ira and Steve were supposed to take out the guards, and distract the others, giving Clint a chance to download all their files, and it had worked beautifully. Clint removed the flash drive and placed it in his pocket. "Let's go," He said to her, and she nodded. They ran to join Steve in his efforts to hold back the guards.

But when they arrived, they found him standing in an empty courtyard surrounded by either unconscious or dead soldiers. "Are we done?" He asked them, and they nodded. "Great, head to the jet," Steve told them. They ran to the nearby Quinjet, which was cloaked in a copse of trees.

Clint sat in the pilot's seat, while Steve and Ira sat in the back. "Hey," Steve asked her, noticing her glum expression. "Are you okay?"

Ira nodded and smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes. She broke, and shook her head. "It's just, I'm kind of tired of the missions, and the training and the constant danger. I mean, I had to go through so much to get here. My mother dying, the experimentation, Sokovia. Everything has led to this. And so far, it kind of sucks. Everything I've been working for, the gold at the end of the rainbow, is just an overwhelming feeling of 'I wish that I was normal'." Steve looked at her, but said nothing, simply letting her continue.

"I wish that I didn't have these powers. I wish that Sokovia never happened, that my mother didn't die, and that I could grow up as an ordinary kid with an ordinary childhood. But I can't." Ira finished her rant, and looked at Steve for advice.