𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐴𝑈 ♡𝐷𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑂𝑛𝑒

The four girls were all sitting at a table in a café. Pepper had a pink lemonade and was sipping the beverage while Maria downed her ice water. Natasha quietly ate her cookie while Wanda nibbled her muffin.

The girls had been there for a twenty minutes, they didn't really say a word they all just ordered some snacks or drinks and chilled. Wanda was in deep thought. How could someone be that broken yet so full of life? Wanda couldn't understand.

Natasha has spent years hiding emotions from people, of course growing up in a demonic dance school didn't help either. She quickly caught onto the lies and fake emotions that Nala portrayed. Hurt, anger, sadness, and many more depressing emotions caught the red head's eye. What the fuck kind of pain did she go through? Natasha was angered that she was hurting so bad.

Maria hadn't even spoken a word to the poor girl but she could immediately see the pain in the young girl's eyes. And the whole thing didn't make since to the spy, how did Nala get hit by the car if Nick has his headlights on and it was pitch black? The spy had gotten many calls from different agents about the unknown power outage. Some agents thought that a new threat was coming, so she sent some people out there to check it out so the agents would become less paranoid. Of the lights were out and the car lights were on, how didn't Nala see the car? This wasn't adding up.

Pepper was called from a meeting that she and the girls needed to talk. Pepper hurried her meeting along and had to finish some paper work before she could rush down from her office and get to the girls. Usually the girls don't hold a girl talk until the end of the day. So for Natasha to call her during a meeting to talk meant that something important happened.

The moment of silence is disturbed, "Does anyone want to tell me what is going on?" Pepper wanted to know why the girls were so on edge. Could it be from the boys' new soulmate? As much as Pepper is ready to meet her, the poor girl is driving them crazy.

"It's about Nala, she recently woke up from the coma and she has been acting weird." Wanda hesitated with her words.

"Weird? Wanda you don't even know her? What do you mean weird." Pepper was calm but on edge.

"Well when I pushed the wheelchair to her I tuned into her thoughts." Noticing the disappointing gazes from the rest she quickly defended herself. "But I had a good reason. She seamed. . ."

"Depressed." Natasha finished for her. A sad moment of silence fills the air, with the exception of the other customers chatting and dishes clinging together.

"Yeah. Depressed."

"Maybe all she needs is a friend. Maybe she needs someone to vent to other than a bunch of males who seemingly make her uncomfortable." Maria noted as she took a sip.

"Uncomfortable around her mates?" Pepper questioned in disbelief.

"Well if you were comfortable you wouldn't tense up around males everywhere you go." Maria noted for the red head CEO.

"When I was changing her, I saw some things. That shouldn't be there. I think she was abused. More than physical."

"Oh God." Pepper placed her glass down and covered her mouth. No one should have to go through that.

"We've got to help her." Wanda said quietly.

"Helping her wouldn't be by going into her mind and losing her trust Wanda." Natasha scolded as she glared at the young girl.

"Something felt off! I didn't want her to hurt herself." Wanda felt bad for going into the young girl's mind. But she really needed to make sure she was alright.

"And don't scold me Natasha, your the one who told us about the scars!" Natasha glared.

"That's not the same-"

"Girls come on." Pepper looked at the two of them. "We really shouldn't fight over this right now." The two girls looked away. "It sounds like Nala just really needs some love at the moment. And not just romantic."

"I agree. Let's invite her to dinner tomorrow, get to know her." Maria spoke as she took a bite from Natasha's cookie. Natasha glared.

"I would love to but I have a very important meeting in France Wednesday. I'm leaving tomorrow to make it on time." Pepper also took a piece of the cookie while Natasha averted her glare to the red head CEO.

"Let's do it on Saturday. I heard it's going to be a very nice day too." Wanda smirked at the agent who was giving her best friends death glares because they were stealing her food.

"Alright. Mission make Nala our friend is in action! Let's go!" Pepper stood up along with the girls. They talked and shopped around for a bit until they all went on their separate ways. They all had to go to work, three of them had a mission and the other one had to figure out Tony's schedule so that's he could add a new meeting in as soon as possible.