Are Those Our Only Two Options?
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“I really don’t think we should trust him…” Howard said.
“No one says we have to,” said a voice from behind them.
Everyone turned to the voice they hadn't heard in two years.
“Peter!” everyone yelled going to hug the older boy.
“Hey guys,” Peter smiled, “Long time no see.”
They took some time to play catch up before diving into the matter at hand.
“How’s Pop?” Peter asked his siblings.
Howard went silent so Peggy took the question, “He’s doing better…I wish I could say the same for Auntie Nat though.”
“Wait what?” Peter addressed Katniss, “Dad didn’t say anything about her getting hurt!”
Katniss unwaveringly told him, “Mom got caught in the same gun fire Uncle Steve did and got shot in the head.”
Peter looked down, “I’m-”
“Don’t be,” Katniss changed the subject, “So I guess you heard everything?”
Peter laughed, “Every word. I’m honored to be a part of one of your ‘Don’t Compare Them to Us’ speeches.”
“Are these our only two options? Either let the remaining Avengers, our family, risk their lives with a hostile unknown while we sit back and watch. Or we go with the Doctor and his girlfriend and die because we’re amateurs?” Peggy scowled.
The group shifted uncomfortably.
Peter looked at Sarna who had been uncharacteristically quiet, “What do you think?”
Sarna frowned. Ze didn’t think ze really had the right to an opinion, ze and hir family were gods with thousands of years lifespans and incredible recovery time. How could ze tell these mortals, hir friends that they should risk their lives to save the planet? Ze could because it’s the right thing to do. Besides all their parents were amateurs back in the day.
“What other choice do we have? Aunt Natasha and Uncle Steven are down, Uncle Tony, Bruce, and Clint are distracted by taking care of them, not to mention Uncle Clint is going blind. Uncle Sam tore his ACL so he will not be of help and my parents are busy with keeping you- know- who locked up and my little brother,” ze said simply, “The only person we could confide in is Uncle James.”
The three Stark-Rogers kids scoffed, “Tell Uncle Bucky? So he can rat us out to Pop?”
“We keep this to ourselves, then? We omit certain truths, sneak around, and try to not get caught?” the child of the God of Mischief smirked, “Oh, Norns yes.”
Peter grinned, “As the only adult here I should be stopping this, but as a superhero myself, let’s do this.”
Katniss sighed, “So we’re going through with this stupidity?”
Peggy put her arm around the blonde and squeezed, “Come on Kat, it’ll be fun! Don’t think I don’t know that you mess around with your dad’s arrows!”
Howard raised an eyebrow at his sister, “And don’t think I don’t know that you’re building a suit of armor in your corner of the lab.”
Peggy flushed about to retort back but no sound would come from her mouth.
“Let us keep that temper for battle, Peg,” Sarna said.
Hir hand, pointed in Peggy’s direction and in the “shut your mouth” gesture, was glowing green. Howard smiled he loved seeing Sarna’s magic at work.
“We’ll go home to check in and then at around 7:30, I’ll pretend I’m taking you guys somewhere to catch up or something,” Peter planned, “Agreed?”
“Agreed.”
“Alright.”
“Sounds good, bro.”
Peggy nodded.