FWD Two Weeks.

It’s been two weeks since Pietro woke up and I officially move onto the compound. I’ve spent most of my time unpacking and doing stuff with my space. But once the Avengers left, I took a quick shower and got changed before heading down to the lab hidden under the compound where Pietro was hiding along with a few SHIELD agents and a couple scientists that I’ve befriended over the years.

“Hey Doctor Stark,” my assistant, Maggie, says as I walk into my office. I take off my leather jacket and drape it over my office chair as I log onto my computer. “Mister Stark stopped by to tell you good luck on today’s field tests.”

“That’s weird.” I state to her as I go through my email. Most of them are applications for the nurses and lab techs I’m hiring to help me out here on the compound. “I’m surprised he didn’t stay.”

“He’s vacationing with Miss Potts.” She informs me. “He’s leaving Doctor Banner in charge of worrying and checking up on you.”

I just roll my eyes before exiting my office and heading towards the room Pietro has been calling his own. As I walk in, I notice the speedster wearing nothing but a towel around his waist. I can feel my cheeks heat up which causes a smirk to appear on Pietro’s lips.

“We’re ready when you are,” I manage to say as I advert my eyes from his body. “Today’s the day we find out if you are stable and healthy enough to be reunited with Wanda. I’ll be outside waiting. My assistant will come and get you.” I quickly leave the room earning a chuckle from Pietro.

**

“So do you think he’ll be ready?” Clint asks me as we wait outside for Pietro. “Because everyone is getting highly suspicious of you being here and not being around us.”

“Lab work and everything like that tells me he’s fine,” I tell him. “Once I see him in action, I’ll be able to give you an actual answer.”

“Be honest with me, do you think he’s going to be alright?” Clint asks, seriousness seeping in his voice. “I need to know, he sacrificed himself for me and a kid. I’m the reason he died.”

“Would you rather it be you?” I question. “You have kids and a wife, Barton.”

“Yea but he’s just a kid.” He counters.

“Both of us know what it’s like to grow up without parents,” I remind him. “Would you want your kids to grow up without their father?”

“So you’re saying it was better him than me?”

“Both suck but I wouldn’t risk experimenting on you,” I tell him. “You and I both know T.A.H.I.T.I and how horribly wrong it went. Pietro is different.”

“Strucker experimented on him so you thought he could take it,” Clint muses.

“Keep telling yourself that,” I let out a humorless chuckle. “Pietro and Wanda aren’t experiments. They were born this way. Strucker just brought out that mutation in their genes.”

“Are you sure?”

“Which one of us is a doctor?” I ask, rolling my eyes. “I’m sure I can tell the difference. Plus I’ve studied mutant DNA, I can tell the differences between that and experimental work.”

“So what are we going to do with them? Send them off to Professor X and his school of gifted youngsters?”

“Keep them here where we can keep a close eye on them,” I state. “I want to observe them more, especially Pietro.”

“Don’t tell me you have the hots for that quick bastard.” Clint chuckles just as my assistant walks up to us with Pietro. I walk over to the table and pick up a radar gun used to clock speeds. I turn back to Clint with a smirk on my face,

“Let the fun begin.”

Notes

Maddie

Sorry I had to put the fact that the Twins are mutants. Ok maybe I'm not sorry. Watch this!