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Amara Maria Stark had never really been in love.

But she had been loved by everyone surrounding her.

Amara was a smart, confident and happy soul who always attracted the likes of others around her. She was what people call likeable, everything about her was likeable, like the way her hair was dark brown but a light red in the sun or how her blazing green eyes could pierce a soul or even just how she walked so confidently.

To everyone else Amara was like the sun, a bright yellow ball of happiness but to Amara she was the stars, lost but always trying to find her way back home.

However she didn't always feel like that though but in the rare moments she didn't she was always with them, the Avengers. To Steve she was like the daughter he never had and he was always around to talk to her about anything she needed, he was also like her second father she knew that if she ever needed anything she could always count on him (except if she wanted the last donut with red and blue sprinkles).

Then there was Natasha, Tash for Amara and no-one but Amara. She was like her older sister, her mentor. She was also like her teacher, she was constantly teaching her how to defend herself or what to say or do in certain situations. Natasha was like her idol, someone she wanted to grow up to be just like. She would always comfort Amara whenever she had a nightmare and always lull her back to sleep, she was always there and whether Natasha knew that or not it didn't matter.

For Clint and Bruce; Amara was always there for them. For Bruce to talk about his newest science problem or experiment and for Clint to talk to her about his family. If she wasn't with Natasha, Steve or Tony she was with them. Either helping Bruce in the lab or helping Clint with target practice.

Then there were her best friends; Kaleya, Elias, River, Emmaline, Eloise, Akira and Asher. They were practically her rocks, each one of them she could go to about certain things. Like River she could go to her if she wanted to be stronger, Kaleya was always there to defend her against anyone no questions asked (and you don't know how often she needed that), Emmaline was always there to help with her school work (mostly science), Eloise kept her in schedule and helped her stay organised, and Akira always was able to get them into a good party (always). Then there were the boys, they were all practically her brothers; I mean wouldn't they be they all grew up together. Elias always let Amara get the first say in her suit's because he knew how much she loved to control the little things, and Asher is never unable to make her laugh. To her those people were her life and the 4 years without them, for her were torture.

Finally there's Tony or as she calls him, dad. He is her biggest mentor, someone who's always there for her when she needs him no matter if he's on a mission or in a meeting he would always be there for her. There were obviously things she couldn't tell him like how she lost her virginity to some varsity jock (better now than never) or how she had her nightmares, but those things never mattered much with their relationship.

"They probably just stopped for food, you know how they are." Akira tried to reassure the worried redhead girl.

Currently the group of 6, were waiting in the living room for the adults. They had gone out on a mission to retrieve the tesseract from Strucker, but so far there had been nothing. No communication from their end, despite the endless tries from the teens' end. So now Amara Stark was pacing around the living room whilst the others were trying to reassure her, but they weren't doing such a good job at it.

"You know, they love to eat, they probably just went out in celebration." Kaleya tried to help Akira reassure her, but the duo were getting nowhere as the red head continued to pace around ignoring the two.

Amara was terrified, she knew she should've fought harder when she argued with her dad about the mission. She knew there were dangers and yet she still let him leave. She was worried about what Strucker would do to him if he caught him, memories of her past started to flash in her head.

There was no way Amara would let anyone else get hurt, but she couldn't do anything. She just had to wait.

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30 minutes had passed, and now Amara was finally seated, but by now the others were starting to worry.

"Why don't we just go and ask Maria" Amara asked but she already knew the answer. Everytime it was the same, " you know we can't, she would just wave us off, she still looks at us as kids" Emmaline answered.

"I know", she huffed out in defeat.

"We should play a game," Asher interrupted the silence. "And what is this game you no doubt have in mind?" Leya asked curiously.

"I was thinking, monopoly but we could play strip poker if that's what you're into, darling," Asher replied with a smug tone, winking at Leya.

Amara began laughing at the deep red blush that covered her best friend's face in a matter of seconds.

"Ooo, someones blushing"She teased her, whilst bumping her side.

"No, just red from anger" Leya answered, before grabbing a pillow and smacking Asher across his face.

"Oh, you're so on." Asher stated before grabbing another pillow and hitting Kaleya.

Soon enough, everyone had a pillow in their hand hitting each other, the only noise was the delightful sound of laughter throughout the group.

"Don't mean to interrupt." a teasing voice says breaking the group apart.

"Dad!" Amara replies, rushing up to hug him. Before pausing and smacking him across the chest.

"What was that for!?" Tony exclaimed, looking at his daughter with a mocking expression. "That was for leaving me so worried, I seriously thought something happened!" Amara replied in a serious tone, before breaking her act and hugging her father again.

He's alright, he's okay and so is everyone else. The knowledge finally sinks in as they break away from the hug, and she walks towards Akira.

"See I told you, everything was fine", "yeah, I guess you were", the two girls exchanging smiles before hugging each other.

"Okay well everyone, go wash up, all of you stink and then meet at the lounge room for a debrief." Steve orders before we all rush into our rooms.

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"Hey, you ready?" The three girls ask Amara as she opens her door. "Uh yeah lets go" she replies before closing her door and walking with her best friends.

"Ok, so what do you guys think, should I go for it or is he a bit-", "ew, no, pass" the group quickly answers her.

"But he has a dog," Amara tries to reason with them, about the fisher guy on her screen.

"I don't even know why you signed up for that app anyway, don't you have a blonde hottie waiting for you, wherever he is?" Akira asks Amara, flashing her a devilish smile.

"No, he's not waiting for me and besides we probably will never see each other again." she answers truthfully.

At least sort of, the truth is yes, they will probably never see each other again and he probably won't even remember her, but there is a slight chance that he might.

"Whatever you say," Akira says, finishing the conversation as they reach the lounge room, where they discover the others were already waiting for them.

"Ladies, would you mind taking a seat?" Steve asks in a serious tone, making the girls rush to sit down on the empty couch.

"Thank you, so as we know we retrieved the tesseract, but I can't say without any complications. Those two twins, do you have the information?" Steve asks Maria, who hands him what looks like a file.

"Their names are Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, both gained powers while under- " Steve continues but whatever else he says blurs, as the only thing I can focus on is the name, that name.

There's no way, after all these years, he's this close. No there has to be a misunderstanding, but that last name.

"Did you say, Maximoff?" Amara asks, her voice shaking slightly. "Yeah, why?" He answers.

But before Amara could say anything back, black dots start to cloud her vision before everything goes black.

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A/N

Hii, I'm so happy to have finally released Chapter 1, this hasbeen rewritten so many times, but I think I'm finally happy with it!

Let me know what you think!

-xoxo Cc!