Worth It

Sixteen

I wake up to someone shaking me.

"Jesus! What?!" I look to see who the culprit was and see Pietro standing over me.

"I thought you were dead!" He yells at me.

"Shhhhh! You're too loud I have a headache. And I was but I can't die, remember?" I remind him.

"That. Doesn't. Mean. You're. Allowed. To. Shoot. Yourself. In. The. Head." He hits me with each word.

"Ow! I'm fine, I'm not dead."

"But what if one day you are?" His tone softens and I look at him. "What if one day you do die? Then what? You're the only way I can talk to my sister and I'm not ready to loose that." I can tell he's on the verge of tears.

"I'm sorry." I tell him "I won't do it again, I promise. I just wanted the nightmares to stop." He hugs me and I melt into his arms.

"You're too young to die." He says. "Trust me." He smiles at me.

"Excuse me, Miss (L/N)" FRIDAY says "mr. Stark requests your presence in the common room. He says it's an emergency." Pietro and I look at each other and we both go to the elevator. We exit and walk towards where everyone else is sitting. As I'm walking, Pietro speeds up and trips me. I fall face first onto the hard ground and he doubles over in laughter.

"Asshole!" I yell at him before kicking him in the side and going to sit on the couch. I rub my head and plop down, Pietro sits on the ground next to me. Natasha, Clint, Bruce, and Sam look at me utterly confused.

"What just happened?" Clint asks.

"I believe (Y/N) was just tripped by her ghost friend." Bucky says. Pietro and Wanda laugh.

"It's not funny! He knows that I have a headache today!" I punch him in the bicep and he winces before laughing again.

"Wait," Sam starts "you have a ghost friend?"

"Yep." I say, popping the p.

"Raise your hand if you knew about this." Sam orders. Tony, Steve, Bucky, Wanda, Vision, and Pietro raise their hands.

"How did we not know about this?" Natasha asks.

"I don't know." I shrug. "You didn't put yourself in a situation where you had to know about him."

"Him? Does he have a name." Bruce asks.

"Pietro." I say. Everyone who didn't previously know this information looks shocked.

"So, your ghost friend is Wanda's dead brother?" Bruce asks.

"Yeah." I responded nonchalantly.

"Ok, perfectly normal for you to be friends with a dead person." Bruce says.

"Ahem!" Tony draws all attention to himself "now, for the reason we're all here. It has come to my attention that (Y/N) living here may or may not be illegal since we have no legal claim to her and we basically kidnapped her."

"You literally kidnapped me." I remind him.

"Whatever, water under the bridge." Tony says "so, we need to figure out what we're gonna do before social services come and take you back to foster care."

"That can't happen." I say "foster care is the worst situation I've ever been in. I can't go back."

"What do you suggest we do?" Steve asks me.