Chapter 2
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Wade and Happy took turns pacing back and forth while they waited on news..
May came rushing in followed by Pepper, Morgan and Bruce..
"Tell me she's okay." May begged Happy with her eyes red and puffy and tears still clinging in the corners..
"We don't know anything yet.."" Happy told her. "They have her in surgery.. Wade saved her life.."
May tackle hugged Wade with a profusely sobbed out "Thank You "
"I just wish I had gotten back to New York sooner.." Wade replied feeling like he somehow could have done something more..
May hugged him a little tighter but didn't say anything then she let him go and threw herself into Happy's arms instead with "I'm so glad you're here.."
Pepper sat on one side of May with Happy sitting on the other side of May.. Morgan sat on her mom's other side while Bruce.. Actually sat next to Wade..
"Tell me.." Bruce commanded his skin tinged green..
"They're all dead big guy.. Can't kill 'em again no matter how green you turn.."
Bruce took a few deep breaths and the green ripples under his skin faded...
"I thought you had that under control.. That you and Hulk were in a balance of acceptance and all that.."
"We are.. We do have it under control.. But.. Hulk loves Penny just as much as I do.. He wants something he can rip apart.. So do I.. Hulk and I might have reached a balance where he has my mind and I have his strength but when we both want to lose our shit and go savage..." Bruce shrugged..
"I get it.. I'm the one that killed them all and I still want to rip the fuckers to shreds.. Oops.. Sorry.. Little ears.." Wade apologetically covered his mouth as he looked at Pepper and Morgan..
"It's okay.. Mommy said she hopes someone rips their dicks off.." Morgan replied..
Wade, Bruce, Happy and May snorted a laugh which turned into splutters of laughter while Pepper gave a tentative chagrined smile..
"Oh... This is what Penny would want.. Right here.. For us to try to be as normal as possible.. For us to still be able to laugh.. She won't want to wake up to us being all awkward.. " May told them as she wiped the tears of laughter from her face..
"Yeah.. She'll hate us all if we try to handle her like she's fragile.." Wade agreed then snapped his mouth shut suddenly feeling like he was under scrutiny or like he wasn't welcomed..
"Sweetie... Of course you're welcomed here.. You're family too.." May told him which meant he had accidentally said some of that out loud. May just smiled at him..
Doctor Cho came out through the swinging doors..
"Penny's out of surgery.. She lost a lot of blood and her healing factor isn't kicking in the way it should so we had to do a few transfusions to.."
"Wait.. What's wrong with her healing factor?" May asked..
"It looks like Penny came down with a cold.." Cho told them..
Everyone winced.. Those were words they all always dreaded when it came to Penny because they all knew it messed with her powers and that even just a tiny cold could legitimately kill her or be the reason she died where everything else had tried and failed to take her out..
"But she is okay .. Right?.." Morgan asked sounding upset and afraid..
Doctor Cho nodded "I won't lie.. It was a thin line of touch and go for a little while.. Penny flatlined twice while we had her in surgery.. But we got her back.. Both times.. Since her healing factor isn't kicking in she still has bruises and and lacerations all over her body and she needs help breathing because her ribs were broken in several places there is also some swelling in her brain.. We're having to keep her intubated and in a medically induced coma for now and try to fight off that cold she has... If we can get her cold to go away then her healing factor might be able to finally kick in and fix the rest.. For now we just gotta wait for her body to heal as much as it possibly can the old fashioned way.."
Morgan tucked her face into her mom's side..
"She's alive and she's fighting.. That's the most important thing.." May stated and everyone nodded in agreement.. "When can we see her?" May asked.
"With her having a cold her immune system can't take much more.. I'd like to give her a few hours on some strong broad spectrum antibiotics especially since her immune system weaker and way more at risk right after being in surgery .. I'd like to wait a whole day if possible before allowing visitors to give her immune system a chance to fight off this cold.."
"Okay.." May said with a nod.. "We'll all go home get some sleep, eat something, shower.. All that stuff we need to do to take care of ourselves because that's what Penny would be hassling us all to do if she was awake right now.. Then we all meet back here tomorrow.. Wade that means you too.."
Wade nodded and everyone dispersed.. Except Cho who went back to work.. And Wade..
Wade didn't leave..