Pt. 6

A day after she disappeared into thin air I’ve been looking for her.
I sigh as my sister yells at me, “Pietro, calm down alright it’s been 5 days. There is no signs of her. Even SHIELD with what for resources can’t find her.”
I look down at my hands as I sigh “I also am technically a deadman in the public eyes so I’m not sure what to do.”
I fall down too my knees as I start rubbing my eyes.
My sister, Wanda, bends down as she asks me, “Pietro, when was the last time you slept?”
I shrug my shoulders as I look at my sister, “I’m not sure,” I answer feeling of dizziness washed over me.
“Pietro, have you been looking for her this whole time with any sleep?” I hear a loud voice shout. I know enough to know that it wasn’t my sister.
I look up too see an angry and tired Barton, aka Hawkeye.
I smile as I look up feeling a bit loopy as the feeling of dizziness and being tired starts taking over.

How long I was asleep I’m not entirely sure, but when I start open my eyes I go too move my hands too feel I’m restricted. I look over to see that I’m tied to the hospital bed.
“Is that really necessary?”
I hear a chuckle as I look over at the door too see Barton standing there with his arms crossed, “Well they said you fainted from exhaustion and also from malnutrition. Pietro, what the heck? What would she say if she heard you were doing this?”
I shrug as I look at him.
“Pietro, what’s really wrong? You’d search for her we all know that, but I wouldn’t think you’d search like this. What happened between the 2 of them?”
“We had a fight,” I answer, “We fought and she told me to go stay with my sister. I don’t want to do that. I want to be with her not with Wanda wherever she’s staying.”
I watch as the older man sighs as he plops down onto a chair, “Listen it might be a little much too say this, but she wouldn’t make herself this scarce if she had much of a choice. She’d just tell you to get out and if you wouldn’t she’d make you that is all.”
I sigh as I nod my head, “I just think that if it was something else I don’t want the last time we spoke was us fighting. I had so much i wanted to say to her, but all in all she was saying I’d be better off without her.”
Barton chuckles as he sits down as he looks at me, “That girl has always been like that. When she starts becoming happy she starts to push them away telling them to leave afraid that they’ll get hurt. It’s from all the foster homes she was in and also losing her parents at such a young age.”
“Foster homes… She never told me much about those though she would talk about her parents and what she knew about them.”
“Well it’s good she opens up too you like that, but it’s probably cause she didn’t want you to feel pity for her.”
“Pity? I’d never pity her. I’d feel sad for her, but that’s all.”
“Too her that would be just the same as pity. She’s never been too good at dealing with her emotions since she was a kid, but she’s always been a bright girl.”
I sigh as I look down at my hands as I ask, “How do you know so much about her?”
“Well I knew her a while back when she was about 12 for a couple months and now I’ve spent almost the last 2 years looking after the 2 of you.”
“Wow, it’s been about 2 years since I was sent off to her place?”
“Well to tell the truth they were just going to put you in a hospital, the one she works at, but she was against it since she wouldn’t be able to look after you all that well. They’d assign a specific doctor too you and the likeliness of it being her is very low. So she asked Fury to let you stay at your place and off the books so too say. Fury had no problem with it since she technically doesn’t exist in the eyes of SHIELD. It was a better case for her and safer for you.”
I nod my head as I look at the door to see a woman with long brown hair holding a baby as she walks in she looks at Barton and asks, “No news of her.”
Barton nods his head as he looks at her and from the look in his eyes she must be his wife.
“Oh…” she says looking at me shocked, “You must be Pietro. Thank you for saving my husband. I’m glad you were there. Ohhh… This is our son Nathaniel Pietro.”
I smile as she shows me an adorable baby and I can’t help, but to say, “He’s cute… Are you sure this guy’s the dad?”
She laughs as she nods her head, “Of course he’s the father.”
I shrug as I look at them and at how happy they seem together. I’m a bit jealous of this.
“Don’t worry about Jace. She’ll show up soon. She has a knack of disappearing though it might be her… Nevermind. She’ll show up soon. I’m gonna go get you a few things. I’ll be back in a lil bit. If you’d like my wife can stay with the kids.”
I look at the kids in the room and I can’t help but the feeling that I have a deep connection to the though it’s the first time I met them.
I smile, “yeah, let them stay here. I’d like the non building company.”
His wife laughs, “I bet. Sweety just  go get his things and come right back alright. The kids and I will be happy to stay here.”
I look at his wife, “So you and Hawkeye huh.”
“Yeah, I love my husband and what he’s done for this world, but I’m glad he’s staying out of that now. Though since you woke up he’s been entering in that part of the world again. Though i think it’s cause Jace had saved his life. Though after that she started to go by anything but her real first name, which I found funny when we first met. Can I ask you something Pietro?”
“Sure.”
“Do you have your memories back?”
I nod my head as I look her straight in the eye.
“Why did you save my husband?”
“I’m not sure really. i just simply moved thinking his life would be better than mine. Plus he had a child in his arms.”
“Did you know about us?”
I simply shrug not entirely sure what I was really thinking of when it was then.
One of the kids the oldest boy looks at me as he smiles at me. I’m confused until he comes to sit on the bed.
“Do you know any games?”
It’s kind of adorable in a way. I nod my head as I start to play simple games with the young boy and the sister joins in after a while.

I’m not sure how long I’m in the room with the Barton family until I hear someone shouting. I freeze when i hear the voice and I can’t help but to sit up and start pulling stuff off and out of my arms and such. I make my way out of the room to see Jace standing there yelling at Barton and a doctor.
“I told you I’m fine. Now let me go back home.”
“Are you kidding me you coughed up a lot of blood,” the doctor screams at her.
“I told you I’m fine,” she yells as she swipes his hand off her arm and she looks up too see me.
The look on her face only says that she’s completely shocked by seeing me up and moving. Her face is horribly pale and she has dark circles under her eyes. I can tell she’s in pain, but I’m not sure what else to do, but stare at her.  Soon I move quickly, well what a human would run, as I wrap my arms around her tightly as if I’m afraid she’ll disappear.
“Pietro, thank goodness you’re alright,” I hear her sigh out.
Soon I feel her go limp in my arms and the slow breathing of a sleeping beauty in my arms. I sigh as I pull her into my arms princess style.
“She’s gotten lighter again,” I mumble as I carry her too my room and set her down on the bed as I sit down on the visitor's chair next to the bed.
The doctor starts yelling at me and I sigh, but I feel an annoyed aura coming from where the bed I had set Jace on.
“Dr. Jang, you need to shut up or else I’m gonna make your internship here a living hell,” Jace yells out in a tired voice, “Pietro, I’m stealing your bed.”
Then she’s passed out in a deep sleep once again. I chuckle as I lean back in the chair and a nurse comes in sighing.
“Alright, Mr. Maximoff we at least to hook you up too your IV so you can get your fluids.”
I sigh as I stick my arm out so she can stick the needle back into my arm. I sigh again as I lean back too see Jace’s tired face looking over at me even in her sleep. I smile as I look away from her and notice that the Barton family had made their exit while i was a bit in my own world. I shrug as look Jace over as if i’m checking if anything is out of place. I notice there’s a few marks on her wrists that looks like she was restrained by something. She has a few bruises forming on her arms, neck, and legs. No wonder the doctors freaked out. If I wasn’t just excited about seeing her again I probably would have taken notice of them when I saw her.
I worry about her, but that’s all i can do. She doesn’t want to be with me though i think she feels the same for me as I feel for her. At least that’s what I believe.
I sigh as I look up too see my sister glaring at jace.
“Wanda, what are you doing?”
“What’s so great about her? She’s weak and she’s frail.”
“That maybe true, but she’s also strong in many ways.”
“Pietro, i just dont’ want too see you get hurt. I wouldn’t be able too deal with it.”
“What are you talking about? Why would I get hurt again?”
My sister freezes up as she looks at me and shrugs her shoulders after a long silent pause, “I’m not sure. I just don’t want that to happen.”