Little Situation

Chapter 26

When Steve, Sam, and Bucky strolled into the living room at a semi-early time in the morning, they saw the four kids were still asleep. Steve and Sam didn't quite share Bucky's sentiment on thinking Sarah sleeping on top of Peter was cute. Ignoring the other man's silent protest, Steve walked over and gently shook his daughter's shoulder— the jostling causing Peter to wake up as well. Both of them were too sleepy to process Steve's facial expressions correctly, leaving him in shock at Sarah's next words that were laced with tones of excitement.

"Can we go out for breakfast... oh, good morning Dheaidí. Can we go out for breakfast?" she asked, her head still on Peter's chest but turned to face Steve.

Sam and Bucky snickered watching Steve's stern dad act get thrown off course. For a quick-thinking captain on the battlefield, he wasn't able to easily course correct his plans for parenting.

"Sure."

"Okay, but in an hour after you run. More sleep."

"Sarah, I have to pee," Peter said before Sarah could close her eyes.

She put a finger to his lips.

"No talk, just sleep."

"But..."

"Shhh."

Sarah's eyes flew open as she was suddenly lifted up and placed back on the couch. She forgot Peter and her had roughly the same strength. Steve chuckled as Sarah watched her friend walk away to the bathroom with a look of betrayal.

"Speaking of running, if you want to use the gym again, go for it. We agreed this morning that you can and Tony's letting you back in the lab. Limited plans, nothing Avenger-related."

"Deal! Now I can fix the Roomba."

"You actually made a Roomba?" Sam asked as he grabbed waters from the fridge for the run.

"Mmm hmm, Dad... oh look, the traitor's back."

"My bladder."

Sarah coughed the word traitor as Peter looked at her with an unamused face. He sat back on the couch, this time with a blanket, and the two had no problem laying back down in front of Steve— not reading the room at all. Sam swooped in and pulled him away for the run before he could say anything. When they came back, the four teens were up and looking a little more alive than previously. Ned and MJ were dropped off after breakfast while Peter came back to the compound with them. The rest of the team watched from the sidelines as the two of them did light training in the gym.

It kept going like that until it was the last week of school. Sarah and Peter hadn't tried to go after any villains since homecoming. Sarah would train in the gym in the morning and on the mornings he stopped by Peter would join. The two of them did little things in the lab but didn't once pester Tony if he said something was too classified for them to know. Tony smiled at the series of pictures Pepper showed him that she secretly took of the three of them— it was Sarah and Peter sitting on top of her workstation while Tony sat at the bench playing a game of three way chess. Most of the pictures were of three of them staring intently at the board but Tony's two favorites was one of him and Peter hi-fiving while Sarah had a shocked expression on her face realizing they had been in alliance against her. The other was the three laughing over a dumb joke Sarah told.

"They're taking it surprisingly well," Nat said as they watched from the common room window.

Sarah and Peter chose to run around the compound early in the morning before school. Pietro had been challenging them both for a little while, claiming he was running as slow as he possibly could, but soon had gone back inside with the others. Everyone agreed with Nat's observation. Sam took a sip of his coffee.