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"targets acquired."
"good, send tranquil darts, they will be too difficult to control without civilian attention."
"got it boss."
darts were soon found in the neck's of four unconscious kids.
—
cell 13
wanda was the first to wake, soon after, yelena.
"where are we?" yelena's accent thick with an unreadable expression as she scanned the room.
"could be hydra, cant tell from here." wanda replied shortly.
they stayed close to each other in silence in the dark and musty cell till peter came to.
he shot straight up looking around the room.
"lena? wanda? what's going on?"
"we got kidnapped." wanda supplies for him
"oh that sucks."
yelena snorts at that as peter scoots closer to the older girls.
kate woke when the cell door was opened.
the guard walked in and grabbed peter, he left the cell so quick no one had a chance to even stand.
in the cell kate began to feel panic setting. she was shocked when yelena put a comforting arm around her.
"he will be okay katie."
kate didn't even reject the nickname.
what felt like several hours had passed before peter returned. he didn't utter a word, he just curled up in wanda's lap and latched onto her.
wanda murmured soft words of reassurance to him, holding him tightly as well.
kate runs her fingers through his hair and yelena kisses his forehead.
—
the next day yelena was taken out. their captors knock them all out, to minimalize their window for attacking and/or escaping.
she comes back looking a little better than peter, but not by much.
she only allows peter to give her a lasting hug before resting her head on kate's shoulder.
—
the day after that. kate and wanda wake up to see both yelena and peter gone.
the other two do not return.
on the second day of peter and yelena not returning kate began to pace back and fourth, angrily chewing at her thumb nail.
"kate." wanda called to the girl, she got ignored.
"kate come here." nope no response.
"kate!"
"what!"
"come here, we need to make a plan and you pacing every second isn't going to help us find pete or lena."
wanda could see a single tear fall down the younger's face. the 15 year-old looked as if she was holding back niagara falls from being let loose.
"come here," wanda opened her arms, "we will get out of here."
kate let herself be held by wanda, comforted by the words the older spoke.
"thank you wanda."
—
it was the sixth day. peter was put back in the cell and wanda was taken out. it was obvious peter had sustained multiple injuries, some that his healing abilities couldn't automatically fix.
kate did her best to reassure him that everything would be okay but she didn't even believe herself.
—
two more days and yelena is traded in for kate. now peter was trying to care for his oldest sister figure.
"lena?"
"hey little pytor"
"you're hurt." he said dumbly, seeing yelena wince as she moved.
"yes i am peter-tingle, so are you."
"we'll get out, they will come for us."
"of course little peter."
—
another two day pass before the oldest and youngest try to break out.
try- they tried, they failed.
—
one more day passes
wanda is returned
—
another day, kate is back
—
two more days pass.
"we won't get out."
"little katie, don't say that."
"this place is a fortress, we cant get out. we are knocked unconscious every time they take us out to experiment on us!"
peter curled into wanda a little further.
wanda and peter were the two that got taken out the most in total.
it seemed as if their captors were trying to replicate their powers and implant them to the other two.
"i want to go home." kate softly whispered, yelena had finally caved and allowed kate to lay on her.
"i know katie, we're gonna try."
wanda and yelena lay their heads against each other's, holding the younger kids.
—
it had been around a month and the scientists in this lab-like place had begun giving kate and yelena injections.
this would cause kate's eyes to glow a deep scarlet red and she would gain an intense migraine.
yelena would become like a super adhesive, anyone or anything she touched would be glued to her, her senses had also been dialed up giving her intense sensory overloads.
the two that already had powers tried their best to help them through the pain, though they couldn't do much but stay silent until the results of the injections wore off.
———————
the next time the kids wake up they are in the back of a truck. the four kids lay huddled in the back of the u-haul. all of them were practically on top of each other, reluctant to even think of leaving the pile of safety.
after a few hours the truck stopped.
yelena picked kate up off of her lap as she went to stand up in front of the group, wanda next to her. kate and peter stand as well but the older ones push them back further.
the back of the truck opened up.
behind the truck were three guards. before they had the chance to gas the kids again yelena launched forward.
after her was wanda, then kate and peter.
soon enough the three guards were either unconscious or dead on the ground.
"wanda, yelena, peter, are you okay?" peter and wanda nod.
"i'm fine kate bishop, are you alright?"
"yeah." she said letting out a little breathe.
"where do we go now?" peter asked, as the four surveyed their surroundings they realized they were indeed in the middle of nowhere.
—
kate and peter where in the back seat of the u-haul. wanda was in the passenger seat trying to find a good song to play as yelena drove.
peter fell asleep pretty quickly with kate following soon after.
"are you tired magic hands?"
wanda chuckled, "extremely, you?"
"obviously."
wanda and yelena held eye contact for a quick moment, sharing a wordless conversation.
"keep them safe"
wanda looked back on her sleeping siblings.
"i love this becoming a weird little family."
"i do too yelena."
the u-haul finally entered a town, yelena drove through it till she saw a convince store. she pulled into the parking lot, grabbed some lose change from the truck, and got out. she told wanda to stay with the younger kids and walked into the store.
"hi," she said as she approached a register, "do you have any maps or could you tell me how to get upstate of new york?"
"uhh- thatz 'bout 55 mile west from 'ere."
"alright thank you very much." yelena said quickly, getting out of there and back to the parking lot as fast as she could. bad vibes.
once she and wanda figured out which way that had to go the two left the truck to break into another car, they then transferred both peter and kate into the back of the minivan.
———————
once in new york they hit the god awful tragic and yelena was about to just start walking. after another 15 minutes of sitting in traffic they began to move again. peter and kate were still passed out asleep.
they finally got out of the city, now around 2 miles from the compound, when their minivan ran out of gas.
"lovely." yelena muttered.
"okay, are we carrying the infants or are we waking them up."
"depends on how heavy they are, we could probably make it with them." yelena states as she opens the door on peters side. wanda does the same with kate as they both experimentally lift the two.
wanda looked disappointed, "she's so light, she shouldn't be this light." kate stirred in her arms slightly.
"so is he," yelena inhales sharply, "we're out now, we will get them better, and ourselves too."
wanda nods wordlessly as the two walk down the dirt road, that eventually leads to the avengers compound, carrying two teenagers like overgrown kolas.
after 15 minutes of walking, 10 minutes of resting, and 15 minutes of walking again they finally have a straight shot to the tower.
yelena could feel peter's breathing pattern change as wanda and her continued to walk.
"lena?" he said, lifting his head up off her shoulder.
"hey peter-tingle, look up ahead."
yelena could see peter begin to smile.
"we're home?"
"we're home." wanda reassured.
yelena let peter down, and they all continue walking. peter carried kate for the rest of the way to let yelena and wanda both have a break.
as soon as yelena opened the gate to the compound there was a immediately feeling of relief. the gate closed behind them and friday alerted the avengers of their appearance.
the front doors opened and out ran several people.
as they got closer it was clear who they were.
natasha romanoff, clint barton, tony stark, and vision.
—
wanda ran towards vision.
"VIS!" she called out.
she jumped up into his arms, wrapping him in a hug.
he sunk to the ground, a hand on the back of her head as he looked into her eyes.
—
yelena stood frozen.
"yelena!" natasha yelled towards her sister.
natasha was in arms length now. yelena snapped out of her trance and jumping towards her sister.
"detka, sweet girl." natasha squeezed her so tightly she was wincing slightly but held on to her sister just as tight, "malyshka, oh my god."
"im okay natashka."
—
clint and tony ran up to peter.
"peter! peter is kate okay?" clint asked anxiously.
"she's just asleep." he passed kate into clints arms and tony immediately engulfed the boy in his arms.
he pulled away to examine him before hugging him again.
"pete, thank god, i cant believe you're okay. i'm so sorry kid."
"it wasn't your fault mr. stark."
tony chuckled at the name, peter was legally his kid and he still calls tony 'mr. stark'
"kid."
peter laughs lightly, he turns around to check on his friends. yelena and wanda were fine but kate seemed to be freaking out in her sleep as clint tried to wake her.
"yelena, wanda!" peter called eyes locked on kate.
yelena and wanda came running as soon as peter called, quickly departing from their people to see the problem.
yelena cursed at the situation.
"give her to me." wanda stated. she scooped up kate, who was still shaking, from barton's grasp.
"she was fine sleeping for like three hours, why all the sudden?"
"i don't know, just help me wake her up."
wanda sat on the ground with kate in her arms, yelena sat next to her, carding through the girls hair. peter stood close to the trio in case he was needed.
wanda began shaking kate's shoulder roughly as yelena brushed the girls eyebrow with her thumbs.
kate woke up gasping for air, she immediately saw wanda, latching onto her as yelena rubbed her back.
"deep breaths katie, c'mon you got this, deep breaths." yelena said, pressing her lips to the girl's hairline.
"where are we? what's happening?"
"we're home, we're at the compound, we just got back, you had been sleeping on the way here." wanda said gently, slowly informing her of what was happening.
kate nodded and slowly let go of wanda. instead she leaned against yelena's side.
kate looked around their surroundings, mesmerized by the sight of their home compound. kate next saw clint. her smile widened. she clambered off yelena and ran to hug her father-figure.
"oh my god kid. you scared me so bad."
"i'm pretty good at that."
"yeah, you really are, laura is inside, she'll be so happy to see you i doubt she will let go of you."
true to his word laura held kate for at least 8 minutes before letting go once.