warning: nightmares, needles, blood, depression mentions and some suicidal thoughts. 

(3rd Person POV)

October 8th 3:30 pm

"Wait what do you mean surgery?"

"Who's coming?"

Eliza and Peter were both very confused as to why Dr. Banner all of a sudden needed to get the bullet out of Eliza's body. It had been there for a week now, and honestly, she had forgotten about it.

"Daniel Porter. He's coming here right now and he's going to try to take you with him, along with the bullet. He sent us a message, saying that he killed your mom for taking him away from you, also he needed that bullet for making more weapons, so we need to destroy it." Bruce said.

"That doesn't make any sense," Eliza pointed out. "Also, who's we?"

"I suppose you would like to introduce me to this fine young lady Banner?" a voice questioned.

Bruce turned around and the teenagers looked over his shoulder.

A man with greasy long black hair, handcuffs, and a ridiculous outfit on stood in the living room doorway, with a smug smile on his face.

"Shut up brother," Thor said, walking into the room. It looked like he had gotten a haircut in his time away, because his usual golden brown locks were cut short. He also had an eye missing, so he kind of looked as if a pirate and an angel had a baby.

Loki ignored his comment, "I would appreciate it if you could get me out of these handcuffs."

Thor rolled his eyes and grumbled a few profanities. He walked over and released him.

Loki cracked his knuckles and rolled his neck back, smiling grimly. "So good to be back," he said slowly, making eye contact with Eliza.

"Loki Laufeyson, Prince of Asgard, Son of Odin." he introduced himself.

"Eliza P-porter. Princess of nothing. Daughter of... um I don't h-have any parents," Eliza said and Peter snorted. She elbowed him in the ribcage.

"Well you do have one, and he's coming here to get you. So let's go!" Bruce yelled, running off to the hospital wing.

"Wow, real subtle." Peter sighed and Eliza put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him, then walked off in the direction Bruce went.

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"Ok Eliza, I'm gonna put this in your arm," Bruce said, "then I need you you to count back from 15, you should pass out before then." She nodded. "So go change into this hospital gown, while we get the room ready." She nodded again and left to go to the bathroom. Loki came into the room, along with Wanda.

"Wanda, you will be the one to extract the bullet, and Loki," he turned to the god, "you need to manipulate her mind into thinking that she's not going to die." 

Loki rolled his eyes, "She seems just fine to me. Why the sudden urge?"

"Because we found a recording of Anne Porter in our SHIELD files," Bruce said. "She said that he was getting into dangerous weapon dealings, and reported him to the police. He was in prison for a while, but then he escaped so she made the video in case he came to get her for putting him away." 

"Clever woman, I must say." Loki said.

Eliza came back into the room, with her hair up and hospital gown on. She laid on the observation table and raised an eyebrow at the group of people. Helen Cho came in the room and started to put some gloves on.

"Um, okay. Let's get this bullet outta me!" Eliza said enthusiastically. Bruce shook his head in disbelief.

"Alright someone needs to guard the door, I would suggest Cap doing that-"

"What about Peter?" Eliza asked.

"What about him," Bruce sighed.

"Can he come in here?"

"No, the only people aloud in this room during the procedure are you four." he said, gesturing to the group.

Eliza started to panic a little, but only internally. She calmed down when she saw a hand waving outside of the hospital window. There stood Peter, waving like a maniac, trying to get her attention. She smiled a little and he grinned back.

She exhaled and turned back to the other four, more relaxed knowing that her best friend was right outside to watch over her.

Steve got into position outside the door while the rest of the Avengers suited up, getting ready to fight what was on its way.

Bruce put the sharp point of the needle into her forearm's vain, inserting the anesthesia. She started to count back from 15 in her head, and Peter watched outside the room through the window. 

Eliza passed out and her breathing became more even. Dr. Cho started to get her tools ready to start the procedure, and Bruce left the room to watch next to Peter. Loki walked over, sat in the chair next to her, and used his telekinesis powers to go into her brain. With the amount of anxiety Eliza experienced, it was necessary to ensure that she was doing okay.

While Wanda and Dr. Cho worked on extracting the bullet, Loki was working on manipulating her brain. What Loki was seeing was also projected onto a monitor, used as a precautionary measure to make sure he wasn't doing anything he wasn't supposed to. Personally, he though it was a violation of this young girls privacy, but nobody else cared.

The operation was going well, until Eliza's body started to shake violently.

"What's happening?" Dr. Cho yelled, trying to figure out what to do.

"Sh-she's going into a d-dark place," Loki said, trying to keep her under control.

On the monitor, it showed Eliza's brain, and what she was thinking about. It was showing memories. Her eyes were moving underneath her eyelids, signaling that she was dreaming, and this was the dream.

Peter, Bruce, and Steve watched the monitor with horror on their faces. They hadn't known that this was the thing keeping her from sleeping, and causing her depression. Eliza however was deep under the anesthesia, and just thought this was a normal day.

She was experiencing her mom dying again, right in front of her eyes. Her body was laying on the floor, a bullet hole with a red liquid trail down the side of her temple. She ran towards her, but then fell down into the dark pit. Inside of the pit was a mirror, showing Spiderwoman's mask, half torn, revealing her own frightened face.

Crack.

She punched the mirror with her fist, making a crack right down her reflection.

She jolted awake, with tears running down her face. She rubbed her eyes and ran a hand through her hair. Next she got up and went to the kitchen, to make herself some coffee.

She sighed and leaned against the counter, next to the refrigerator. Taking a sip of her coffee, she turned around and put it back down, putting two hands against the counter to stretch. She looked back up and saw the knife block.

She reached out for one of them and debated for a minute, holding it in her hand and just staring.

Loki could read her thoughts, and they were not good. Wanda gasped.

"This is just a vision right?" she asked shakily.

Loki looked up at her. "This is from last week."

"Change it."

"What?"

"I said change it. Change the memory. Make her think of something better instead," Wanda said.

Peter watched the monitor in anticipation. He still couldn't believe that Eliza even thought for a second about hurting herself, because she was perfect in his eyes.

Loki sighed and searched her brain for some of her happiest memories.

A little boy entered the room saying, "Aunt May is someone here?"

"Yes! Peter, this is Eliza," May said.

Eliza and Peter waved at each other shyly before Eliza noticed the Iron Man action figure in his hands. She let go of her mom's hand and ran over to him.

"You like Iron Man?" she asked. Peter nodded eagerly.

"Yeah he's my favorite superhero! Someday I wanna be like him," he said.

Peter blushed a little as Steve and Bruce looked at him with amusement. 

She smiled back and said, "I really like Black Widow."

"Do you wanna see my room? I have a Black Widow action figure in there too," he asked. Eliza responded, "Sure!" They headed over to his room and she saw Star Wars posters on his walls. She gasped and said, "I LOVE STAR WARS!" "ME TOO!" 

The memory faded into grey, then showed another one.

It was a Friday night, and Peter and Eliza were having a Star Wars marathon in a fort that they built together. They were about half way through The Empire Strikes Back, when they both were yawning a lot.

Eliza's eyes started to close and Peter looked at her face, her glasses were lopsided on her face. He courteously took the glasses off her face and folded them up to put them on his nightstand.

"Hey Eli?"

"What?" she said groggily.

"Will you marry me?"

Her eyes fluttered open, she looked at him and sighed.

"Ok Peter but not right now, I'm too tired." He smiled widely, revealing his missing two front teeth. Then they both fell asleep.

Dr. Cho, Wanda, Loki, Bruce, and Steve all stared all Peter with their mouths wide open. His face heated up like an oven.

"W-what?" he asked innocently.

"Did you seriously propose to her?" Wanda giggled. There was a minute of silence.

"Ok I was eight years old-" Everyone laughed at him and he felt the tips of his ears grow hot.

"SIMP!!" Steve screamed, pointing at Peter. He looked at him confused.

"How do you even know that word?"

"Bucky told me. It means that you totally had a crush on her," Steve said.

"No it means Squirrels In My Pants," Peter said, then chuckled to himself. Eliza would have laughed at that. But she was knocked out. Right, Eliza.

The electrocardiogram started to beep really loud and fast, which meant her heart rate was raising to a dangerous level. 

Dr. Cho finally got the bullet out as carefully as she could. As soon as it was out, Wanda used her powers to destroy the chitauri bullet, and it exploded into a bunch of purple crystals, then faded away.

Everyone heard a blast from further into the house, and immediately got into fighting mode. Cap put his helmet on and him and Wanda ran towards where the fight was. Before anyone could continue, Thor came running into the room to make sure Loki wouldn't escape. Dr. Cho grabbed Loki's wrist first.

"Thank you. I mean it," she said gratefully. He nodded and Thor yanked his wrist back, putting them in the handcuffs.

"Hey guys. Um, can you get me out of this IV?" Eliza asked. They all stared at her. Peter ran into the room with his Spiderman suit on. "Oh hey Pete, I had the weirdest dream. Do you remember in second grade when you-"

Peter ripped his mask off and crushed her in a hug.

"Do you guys know what's going on?" she whispered to the others.

Loki said, "You my friend, are extraordinary. We saw inside your brain." Bruce slapped him in the arm.

Eliza raised her eyebrows and blinked. "You saw inside what now?"

"We saw inside your brain," Loki repeated. "It's a pretty weird place by the way. A lot of this young man over here," he pointed to Peter. "Also this kid that said, quote, 'i won't hesitate bitch'. Don't really know what that means."

Peter laughed, but Eliza stayed silent. If Peter was watching, he could have seen some of the things that she thought of, including him. As if Loki knew what she was thinking, he winked at her and mouthed, 'I know.' Eliza shook her head slowly and he nodded. She sighed in relief, knowing that he wasn't going to tell anyone.

"I'm sorry, but I've got to say it. Going inside my brain without my permission is a complete violation of my privacy," she said to Bruce.

"Yeah, well it was necessary." he said, then clapped his hands together. "You guys have got to get out there."

'Oh right, the fight.' Peter thought. 'hehe that rhymed.'

Peter put his mask back on and ran to the fight. Thor took Loki away and into a holding container that was further in the building. Eliza was a little dizzy from the surgery, but stood up to go get her new suit.

She walked slowly to her room and put on the suit.

"Good afternoon Eliza," Andy's voice filled her ears.

"Hey Andy. We've got to go fight, can you tell me where it is?" she asked.

"Left corridor, they're heading outside."

She made sure her web shooters were intact and suit in place, then ran outside. She came upon the sight of Iron Man trying to fly above the gang and drop missiles on them, Captain America fighting her supposed father, and Wanda using her magic to knock out most of the gang.

Peter was going against three men at once, and se could see he was struggling. She ran over to help fight with him. She punched one of them in the throat and he fell back, giving her the opportunity to kick him in the nuts. I guess her training paid off.

Although, Peter was still having a hard time.

"Friday, can you do me a favor and unlock Seventeen A?" Tony asked.

"Sure thing," Friday said. 

Tony watched from above as the skylight to his lab opened and a capsule flew from across the grounds. A little disk erupted from it and attached to Peter's back. The nanoparticles spread across his body, creating an iron suit.

Peter gasped, "mR. sTaRk iT sMeLLs LiKe a nEw cAR in hEre!!"

"Happy trials kid," Tony said, then flew off to continue the fight. Eliza looked up from beating up the guy and saw his new suit.

"Woah! What the hell is that?! It looks so cool," she yelled.

"I know right!" he squealed.

Captain America threw a punch at Daniel, but he ducked it, going around behind him and kicking his back. Cap turned around, one hand grabbing his wrist, and the other his shoulder. He lifted his knee up quickly, which came into Daniel's elbow and bended it upwards. He screamed out and fell to the ground, all of his previous intentions of hurting the man subsided, and he only focused on his own pain. 

Peter, Eliza, Wanda, Bucky, Clint, and Tony finished beating up Daniel's men, and walked over to the two. Cap stood with one foot on the man's chest.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"To take her," he pointed towards Eliza and Peter stepped in front of her.Cap stepped on his arm, causing immense pain.

"Why." he said sternly.

"BECAUSE," Daniel screamed. "I was getting into some trouble when she was a baby, Anne found out and called the police on me." He sighed, "She took me away from her. So when I got out, I killed her. Then I guess she knocked me out, because the police caught me, but I escaped. I need that bullet."

"You talk too much," Tony said.

"The bullet was destroyed," Wanda cut in. Daniel's face went pale. He didn't have any other weapons, that was the last of them. He needed the bullet to make copies, and then more weapons, then more money.

"I'm gonna kill him," Bucky said, stalking over to the man. Eliza stepped in.

"N-no. Don't kill him," she said. They all looked at her with shock on their faces. Even Daniel, he thought for sure that he was going to die.

"Why?" Bucky grumbled.

Eliza crept closer to her father, studying his face. It was completely silent, until she broke the silence by stepping on his face.

"Take him to the police, I can go to court," she said. They thought for a minute, it would probably work, he had escaped from the hands of the police, but that was before he was in jail. The other time, he was just released. If Eliza went to testify, he would definitely stay put in prison.

"Okay-" Tony started. He was cut off by Eliza falling to the ground.

"It's fine, continue. It's just the anesthesia, feeling a little woozy," she said. 

"Alright, Peter bring her inside, we got this." Tony said.

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

Peter picked his best friend up bridal style, and brought her into the compound. He set her down on her bed, and kissed her forehead. He started to took off his suit and changed into regular clothes. He was about to leave and go back to the others, when he heard a whimper.

"Peter, can you stay with me?"

"I-uh. Yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah. I-I can stay with you," he said. She smiled a held out her arms for him to hug. He laughed and hugged her, then slid down a little so his head was in her lap.

Butterflies erupted in his stomach when he felt her start to play with his curly brown hairs on the back of his head. He sighed and squeezed her tightly, not letting her go. He didn't know what he would have done if Daniel had taken her from him.