To Get Back Up
Penny swung from flag pole and street lights making her way home, it'd been four days since she'd gone to Matt's apartment breaking from Kilgrave's control. They were now trying to find and hopefully stop the man from harming more people, while they gathered information Penny went back out as Spider and, almost more importantly, called her parents to let them know that yes she was okay no they didn't need to start a search party to find her.
But it was time for her to go home and hope that no one is awake at this time so she could come up with good excuse for the time being. She touched down on the roof pulling her mask down from her mouth and throwing her hood back. She walked to the door on the roof, she had all her parents pass-codes for this door in case she got locked out. She swung it open and found the stairs, like most buildings they were made with fire in mind than with security. So hopefully F.R.I.D.A.Y didn't find her as quickly.
She came into the common room so close to her room she could practically taste it. She didn't expect two of her parents to be waiting for her there, Father and Papa C were lounging on the couch, both looking up at her as she entered the room. Father was the first to speak, his voice calm on the surface but Penny knew her parents well enough to know this wasn't just a friendly chat. "You're home late, Little Warrior."
She rubbed the back of her neck acutely aware of the fact that she was still in her Spider uniform, there was no way around the truth this time, at least some of it. One look at her Papa and she knew she couldn't hide Kilgrave's control of her. Her Papa had suffered the loss of his freedom to mind control just as she had, how could she lie about it to him?
"Does this have anything to do with you being Spider?" Clint asked with the finality of a person who knew the answer. "Or more with the weeks you were missing." She stood frozen eye's on the ground at her feet, taking a deep breath as her Papa softly placed his hands on her shoulders. "What happened Pen?"
With just that words poured out from her lips unable to stop them, everything she could confess she did. Her relationship with Matt, Spider and Kilgrave, the haze he induced in her mind and what he made her do. Halfway through her papa hugged her close to him. Finally she stopped talking, and took a moment to collect herself her papa laid a soft kiss on the crown of her head. "I'm going to go to bed. We're going to search more for him tomorrow." She muttered into his chest, he nodded letting her go she walked towards her father who wrapped her in a hug, before letting her go to her room.
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The two watched their daughter walk away, it was all Clint could do to not run out into the night looking for this bastard. He leaned into Thor's gentle touch, they all knew mind control was a touchy subject for Clint and to be faced with it happing to their daughter was a blow to the archer.
"Clint we need to tell the others, they need to know about this." Thor embraced his youngest lover and steered him towards the elevator the rest of their lovers were waiting for them the next floor down in the living room, not wanting to overwhelm Penny by having them all there at once.
Steve was the first to rush to them as they entered, noticing the black clouds in Clint's eyes. "Clint?" The archer passed him moving to the center of the couches Nat reached out and took his right hand as Tony took the other hand.
"We already knew she was spider but, it gets worse." The two pulled him onto the couch between them, Bruce was leaning on the back of the couch as he took a long breath. "She encountered a mind controller and he used her to get back at Daredevil and Jessica Jones. He ..." Steve got closer to the others seeing that they needed comfort all having dealt with being helpless on a high level before, Thor picking up the story as he walked towards Bruce.
"Kilegrave, the mind controller, had Penny lay with a man named Frank Castle." Thor's tone left no doubt that he would make this Kilgrave pay for harming his little warrior, and looking to his lovers he saw no less anger in them. In fact Clint and Natasha's hands were griping each others hands so tight that he was surprised that their fingers weren't broken, Thor was relived Clint and Steve weren't holding hands, the super-solider might in the moment forget his own strength.
Tony looked like he was going to be sick, and no one would hold it against him, the engineer's hand stayed in Clint's but pulled Steve to his side the two had always been able to hold each other in place when they just wanted to run. Steve was caught between holding back tears and holding the urge to punch something. While Bruce was obviously fighting against releasing the Hulk, knowing that it would not help the situation at this point, thought it more than likely felt just as angered the green giant was fond of Penny. Thor laced his fingers with Bruce's and with Steve's, allowing the group to be connected in a moment of grief, letting this be felt before it can transform into more productive anger that they would use to hunt down this man and make him pay for hurting their daughter and make him suffer for it.
Yes, Thor thought with finality Kilgrave with suffer immensely for this.