"I couldn't give you up."
"...I know."
As the daughter of Black Widow, Nyla-Rose is used to the craziness that has become her life. When sudden truths are revealed and she's finally ready to take a break from everything, an intergalactic sociopath s...
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"Give me a call if you need anything, huh?"
"Yeah, I know. I'm not exactly a kid anymore."
"I beg to differ," Tony's voice was teasing, but Nyla-Rose knew he meant it.
"Big by the way, me and Pep are going out tonight. You'll be fine, won't you? No guys allowed especially that Dean boy of yours."
"Tony," Nyla moved the phone from her left shoulder to her right as she moved around the kitchen, "his name is Tobias. How you got Dean is beyond me."
"Maybe because I couldn't possibly care more than I'm supposed to. Which is zilch." A muffled sound of protest and an angry snap later, Pepper was on the phone. "Don't listen to him, sweetie."
"I tend not to," Nyla chuckled, "I thought you guys would be home for lunch."
"Your brother wanted to be productive this afternoon. We'll be home in half an hour and Tobi's absolutely welcome to come over."
"No he—"
Nyla giggled as Pepper quickly hung up, leaving her to her own company and blocking out the last of Tony's useless protests against her best friend.
Truthfully, without Tobias, she didn't think she would have both her feet firmly on the ground. He'd been such a huge help in making sure she didn't go nuts by the revelation of which her mother had hid from her all her life. Nyla's heart squeezed, leaving her breathless for the smallest moment.
It hurt to think about Natasha. The young woman had been so overcome with emotion that day and she'd fled Tony's office, stumbling around the Compound for what seemed like an eternity before Pietro discovered her crying in the garage.
Tony had nothing to say to Natasha and she didn't know if he ever would, but she explained more of the situation before leaving with Sam.
The Starks kept Nyla-Rose a secret from Tony, not because they wanted to, but because they felt that to have a full measure of protection for a child they hadn't been expecting, she'd have to be invisible to the world. They'd falsified a work trip when Maria began to show and soon after, left the child of which they'd named Sefina Stark to the Wilheim's. The village that Tori and Klaus Wilhelm resided in had been burned to the ground and half of it's residents slaughtered in the search for the baby girl. Natasha, assigned to keep tabs on the couple, made it only after they'd been murdered by the HYDRA soldiers that stormed the village and proceeded to kill every single one of them before being captured while on the run.
She had been dubbed the Angel of Death that night because the people of Cochem believed that the mystery woman was the source of destruction, the leader of the shadows that had slipped through the night and killed people in their sleep for the Lost Child.
