Finding Home

Chapter 7

Peyton walked into the room where they had been holding Loki, now it was just an empty box, blood on the walls. Tony was standing there, an empty look in his eyes.

"He was a good man," she said quietly. Tony nodded. They stood there in silence for several minutes before Steve walked in.

"Was he married?" he asked.

"No. There was a uh...cellist, I think." Tony replied.

"I'm sorry. He seemed like a good man." Steve said. Peyton didn't want to talk about this or hear this. She knew what was going to happen, she knew it would all be okay, she couldn't watch other people grieve. She slipped out of the room.

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The Avengers were all suited up and ready to go. Peyton wished, as they landed the quinjet and began to fight the chitauri flying through the skies, that she could help, but she couldn't. She had to stay to the side, maybe help evacuate people but she couldn't participate in this fight and she knew it.

Hours went by as she stuck to the shadows. She needed to get to Stark tower. As soon as this was all over, she needed to get that tesseract. Suddenly her father was shooting towards the big black hole in the sky with a missle. She forgot about that part. She had seen it on the news, he came out okay but it was still terrifying to watch and that was on TV, now she was about to see the real thing.

It wasn't long after he went through that all the chitauri shook before falling to the ground unmoving. She stepped out and over to the rest of the Avengers.

"Where have you been?" Cap asked. She ignored him, walking forward as she looked at the sky. Cap turned to Natasha who was waiting to close the portal.

"Close it." he said. Natasha pulled the scepter causing the portal to close but Tony fell out before it shut. She watched as the red and gold figure hurtled towards them.

"Son of a gun." Cap said.

"He's not slowing down." Thor prepared Mjolnir for flight but he didn't need to, Hulk caught Tony and put him on the ground, ripping his helmet off. Peyton ran over and fell to her knees by her father's side. He looked dead. Peyton knew that he wasn't but watching him disappear into space and then fall from the sky and then look lifeless was terrifying. Everyone stood around and the Hulk let out an angry cry. Tony jolted awake and Peyton let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding.

"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?" he asked. Peyton let out a wet laugh.

"We won." Steve said.

"Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it." he said.

"We're not finished yet." Thor said, looking towards the tower.

"Then Shawarma after."

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When the Avengers all went to Loki, Peyton ran towards the portal. She took the Tesseract in her hands. This was the iffy part of her plan. She didn't know what the effect of destroying this stone so early would be, but with her research, there was a good chance they'd be fine. She closed her eyes let her mind stretch to the stone. She could feel it's presence, it's energy radiating inside of her.

"May?" Peyton opened her eyes to see the Avengers plus a captive Loki all staring at her.

"What are you doing?" Thor asked. She took a step back.

"What I have to do. For you." she replied.

"You can't destroy it, it's impossible." Loki said.

"Watch me." she closed her eyes again and willed the cube to fold in on itself, to disintegrate in her hands much like she had watched her brother do. Within moments, she felt it dissolve in her hands.

"What did you do?!" Thor stepped forward angrily. She sighed.

"I guess it's time to tell you all while I'm here," she flicked a glance at Loki, "once you're finished dealing with him, I'll explain."

Okay so I just realized this is the last chapter I finished and that is honestly so uncool to just leave it like this, I have most of chapter 8 written so I will finish that one and publish so you guys aren't hanging for eternity so while this will be it for a probably a few days, I will not leave it here, even if I have to publish an unfinished chapter.