Okay, picture this.

Cap is chasing Johnny with a butter knife through the Baxter Building with Sue on his tail threatening to murder cap if he lays a hand on Johnny. Me holding onto my stomach as I laugh my tear streaked face off as Tony dances the Macarena in his Iron Man suit while Reed keeps giving me and Tony the devil cat eye.

How did we end up in this moment, you ask?

Well, the situation is not as complicated as you'd think...

Flashback!

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"It's so not fair!" I yell at Johnny in my kitchen, several days after Tony's visit.

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it!" Johnny counters.

"No! You can change this situation! You just choose not to!" I shot back.

"Please be reasonable!" he begged with a pleading expression.

"Tough coconuts!" I holler.

Johnny sighed, defeated.

"Fine, I'll do it" he huffed.

I squeal delightedly as I jump up and down and clap my hands repeatedly.

"Thank you!" I run across the kitchen and fiercely hug him.

"But I won't like it," he grumbled as he wrapped one arm around my waist.

"I don't care, as long as I get what I want" I reply.

"Gimme 15mins while I go get the ice cream" Johnny says, pointing towards the door to leave.

Oh wait, what did you think we were actually arguing about? The space mission thingy?

"Make it 10, you can fly for God's sake" I counter as I folded my arms.

"I'm trying not to attract much attention to myself," Johnny reasons.

"Says the guy who just wanted us to go out to the movies and then go on a rollercoaster" I grin.

"12mins" he says, and closes the door behind him.

I walk up to the door, put my hands on my hips and wait. Right on cue Johnny reopens the door, like a man who forgot something, and looks down at me. His clear blue eyes land on my mind and he grins at finding me waiting at the door, like I'd just read his mind.

"Alittle something to remember me by?" he asked.

I just nodded and leaned up to kiss him. He responded immediately and presses down harder on my lips, making me momentarily forget where I was. We pull apart and I question why we'd done that when the kiss was so sweet and perfect.

"You know what?" Johnny smirked. "Make it 8–no–5 minutes" and he rams the door shut.

I smile to myself.

Who would have ever though me and Johnny could not only be civil to each other, but lovey dovey?

After ALL that has happened?

Life really really has a funny way of turning out.

I sigh dejectedly as I make my way towards the living room couch. Logan has been momentarily AWOL so the house tended to get lonely. Although I feel Logan's absence is even better cause I wasn't ready to flaunt what me and Johnny had.

What did we both have anyway?

I think for the first time in my existence, both my heart and my head are in total confusion. My head keeps trying to reason out why Reed would do what he did with someone like Tony, why would he make such a big (and in my opinion, damaging) decision over my life? And a part of my brain felt like it knew the answer but it was locked away so tightly behind and impenetrable door, not if a hoard of rapid Deadpool, Captain America and Thor fans could budge it.

Not only that, but my brain was also stumped by Tony actions in separating me from any and everyone. Why was he taking such precautions in my life, and in such a harsh way? Reed never bothered about what I was doing, one way or another.

Come to think about it...why did my parents ever even place me in Reed's custody to begin with? In which instance, state or scenario would they ever have had a chance to meet!?

Then I remember my flash back of young Reed with an old man next to a limo, the old man, as Johnny claims, being present at my birthday.

Things just don't add up.

And to confuse my brain even further, my whole relationship with Johnny left him more baffled than ever. My heart can seem to cope with that and accept it, but whenever I think of Kevin she convinces herself that she can handle it, but that was a gross flat out lie.

My heart was a loyal b*tch, she knew she could never willingly leave Kevin without solid reason, and even then some! But she knew she had stronger, bigger feelings for Johnny and she has no way of processing that.

Between thoughts of Reed and Tony and thoughts of Kevin and Johnny, my body was a flat out battlefield.

Although the thoughts of Reed and my parents seemed to outweigh everything and could provide a reasonable distraction from the horrific chaos that is my existence.

"I BRING BOUNTIFUL LOOT!" Johnny kicks open the door and charges in holding to plastic bags of ice cream.

I look at the clock.

"That was two minutes!"

"I know! I'm that good," he says cockily as he flops down on the couch next to me. He puts one bag on the center table of the living room and passes the other one to me.

"Iiiiiice creeeeeeam!" I snatch it from him and rub it lovingly.

"You like sugar and ice cream alittle too much" Johnny says to me with a slightly worried expression.

"Which self respecting girl in her right mind, who isn't lactose intolerant, does not worship ice cream?" I did not even wait to go get a spoon I dip my hand in it and begin shoving it down my throat.

"I also have chocolate chip cookies" he says, pulling that out as well.

"I LOVE YOU!" I jump him.

He goes absolutely, completely, ramrod still.

I didn't notice it as I had the cookies in hand ripping it open and tossing afew down my throat after the ice cream.

"What did you say?" he asked quietly.

"Huh?" I had three cookies in my mouth and I was trying to shove two more to make five. Okay, maybe I do have a slight problem with sugar.

He looked me dead straight in the eye, and my previous words came back and hit my like a truck driven by a baby demon cupid.

I stiffen.

And then choked.

5 minutes passed as I manage to breathe normally. Johnny runs to the kitchen and gets me water, thank God, I'd've though he was going to get me a glass of milk as a cruel joke.

I gulp down the water and breathe in deeply.

I everything inside me settled slowly...then I felt my stomach tighten and my heart drop. What did I just say to Johnny?

I look over at him, eyes wide. He just looks at me silently and waits. I could deny saying it and claim it was due to the excitement of the sugar he'd brought, which it had been.

But this was the second time I've says those 3 words to him. Those 3 little words that help or hurt someone.

I search the living room for divine inspiration but got nothing, I desperately look back at Johnny. Unsure of myself or what to say, I feel tears brim my eyes for no apparent reasons. Why the hell did I want to cry? What for? I open my mouth without a single clue what to say when-

"I love you too"

BSKWU!!

That's the sound of my mind blowing and my sense of reality turning into a hexadecimal kaleidoscope. I have no idea what I just said.

I continue to look at him as my vision began to blur and my heart learnt how to be a one man drumming band. I could've jumped, I could've screamed, I could've kissed him till we both couldn't breathe.

Instead, I lift up my right hand and held it to his. He did the same with his left and just barely connected his finger tips to mine. My hand was freezing cold from fishing out tubs of ice cream, and his was slightly warm from being out in the sun and probably flying around.

It truly felt like old times, when he was fire and I was ice.

I look up at him, and offer a simple smile. He returns the same.

And that was it, that's all we needed. We'd been through so much that that was simply enough for the both of us.

ZIKP!

And suddenly we were no longer in my house. We were in the Baxter Building on the floor in front of the kitchen.

"What the-?" it wasn't me or Johnny who said that, we looked over and found Susan holding a bowl of something that looked kinda like a dipping bowl for salsa.

I was more shocked then her, I look back at Johnny and instantly recoil my hand. Whatever was happening Thank God we weren't kissing when it happened!

Johnny just stood up calmly and brushed off his shirt. He looked pissed.

"REED!" he yelled so loudly I felt the atmosphere shake and sizzle with heat.

"What's going on?" Susan questioned.

I get up from the floor too and look meekly away. I hadn't been in this place since I left, and it didn't feel so good to be here right now. I wasn't ready, I wasn't emotionally or mentally prepared.

Reed comes out a corner with his holographic tablet and a pair of goggles on.

"It seems or calculations are abit off, the subject ended up in a location slightly off target"

"I told you we should have carried the 2 instead of dividing the Y" Tony says next, walking right next to Reed completely metal suited up.

"Oh, hey Victoria" Reed just gives me the briefest of nods. I respond to him with a meek wave, not even giving him the courtesy of a verbal response.

"Wait a minute, what are you doing here" Tony does a double take on me.

"Did you just use me as a human guinea pig for your teleportation device again?" Johnny growls fiercefully at Reed, get close to his face and stabbing him in the chest with his forefinger.

"Guinea pig is a much too insulting term, Johnny" Reed corrects him. "Human Test Subject is much more accurate"

Johnny looked at Reed so intensely it was like he was trying to shot and melt him down with heat vision.

"Reed!" Susan cried. "I thought we were in agreement, no more experimentations on my brother!"

"Well technically, I didn't carry out this experiment" Reed says in that annoying tone of his that makes him seem so smart. "Tony, over here, did"

"Were you touching her?" Tony fired at Johnny next.

Tony must've said that sentence wrong cause the implications made heat rise to my cheeks. Instead of a verbal reply Johnny pins Tony with an 'Are-you-crazy-to-be-asking-that-kind-of-question' look.

"Do not even deny it!" Tony counters, "The teleportation device only transports organic matter, so if you were sitting on a chair or in a car it wouldn't take those things with you.

"However, if you were touching another organic lifeform it would teleport that person with you"

"Wait" I interjected. "So that means only our bodies should be here. Not our clothes."

"Yes," Reed sounded disappointed, fixing his goggles on his forehead and looking more closely at his tablet. "We're working on that"

I squeak to myself and hold my clothes closer to my body.

"Would you poindexter's keep it down?" Ben yelled from in front of the TV. "The game is on!"

"The game is always on" I teased him as I walked over.

"Vick?" he sounded confused.

By far my second favorite person, after Johnny Storm of course, is Ben in the FF. despite everything about him and how he turned out, he was a big and loveable guy, and I realized how little I got to see him.

Ben and I began catching up as Reed, Susan and Johnny got in a heated debate, arguing about how we could've ended up on the other side of the wall and plummeted to our doom. Reed countered by telling them they should be grateful he even did his calculations well or else we'd have ended up in Russia.

It really, really did feel like old times.

"Is no one else slightly curious at the fact as to why Johnny was touching Vick that resulted in her being here!?" Tony interrupted.

"Meh," Susan shrugged a shoulder. She walked up to me and ruffled my hair fiercely, "We kinda missed having her around"

"Hahahah" I laughed and shoved her hand away playfully.

"What are you even doing here" Johnny shot at Tony viciously. "Unlike you, we want her here"

Tony looks over at Johnny, despite being in his suit, you could just about make out a hint of mischief in his movements.

"There's a reason why I teleported you here" he says mysteriously.

"Can someone hand me something from the kitchen please?" Susan pleaded, ignoring the men completely "There's something chunky in this dip and I want to slice it up"

"I'll do it" I offered sweetly. I ran to the kitchen to help.

"Didn't you say you had a visitor coming to meet us here?" I hear Reed ask Tony.

"Oh, he should be here in 3...2...1-"

I search through the drawers of the kitchen I knew so well just as the elevator door dings open.

"JONATHAN LOWELL SPENCER STORM!!" I hear the yell so loud I had to consciously prevent myself from wetting my pants. Without looking at what I was doing I pull the first utensil out of the drawer and ran out the kitchen.

"What's going on!?" I asked worriedly. It was at that moment I noticed I was holding a butter knife. How I'd reached for it I'll never know.

The person at the door was Captain America, he looked...volatile. There was this mad, almost homicidal glint in his eyes, his breathing was off the charts and his muscles seemed to be throbbing.

"Hey Cap" Tony says calmly to him while I inched away in fear. "You got my message?"

"WHERE IS HE!?" Cap roared. He turned his eyes to Tony and in the process found Johnny.

Without even sparing me a glance, Cap reaches over and plucks the butter knife out of my hand and races towards Johnny with his weapon aimed at his face.

"AHH!" Johnny bolts from his spot and runs through the living room, "What is happening right now!?" he cries in surprise as he runs for his life.

"What did Johnny do now?" Susan asked Tony boredly.

"Oh? Remember that lovely young lady whom he's been seeing?" Tony said as civilly as possible. "Well, I did wonder to her last name. So I did some digging around"

Digging? I fought to remember what Bridgette's last name was.

"Bridgette Rogers just so coincidentally happens to be Steve's cousin 4th removed. Or for those of you who won't understand" Tony looks pointedly at me and Ben. "He's her great-great grandfather's cousin"

"YOU BASTARD!" Cap yells with all but foam coming out his mouth.

Oh waw, he must really be mad if he'd outright curse like that.

"WAIT! DUDE! HEAR ME OUT!" Johnny was jumping over Ben's head to avoid Cap's deadly stabbing skills.

Everyone knew how harmless a butter knife could be, but even if it was a ping pong ball Cap would find a way to turn it into a deadly weapon. So I don't blame Johnny for his mad dash around the apartment.

I was just starting to giggle at the scene unfolding before me when I hear Tony say;

"Infact, that's one of the last inventions I plan to make before shutting down Stark Industries" the face plate of his suit opens, "A machine that reunites lost siblings or family. It scans the subject and reads how far back two individuals might be related. It will really benefit police department's looking for missing persons for I intend to add a feature where the machine, once it finishes scanning you, can trace the nearest location of any blood relative"

"Waw, that's seriously amazing Tony" Susan placed her bowl on a side table and clapped for him. "Is that how Cap found out? Your machine told him?"

"No, I just did that on my own" then Tony's eyes follow Cap and Johnny's cat and mouse chase. "I love to see Johnny suffer," then he has the gall to laugh. "They look like the road runner and Wile E. Coyote, even the knife fits into the scenario perfectly"

I felt the switch on my temper click on.

Without even thinking I grab Susan's bowl of dip and toss it in Tony's face. He screams and yells in pain, but best of all the contents of the bowl entered his suit and was short-circuiting everything.

"Oh my God!" I shrieked out laughing.

Tony's suit was actually doing the fucking chicken dance! Now the suit would suddenly lunge to one side in an awkward angle, then to another.

"Now he's doing the Egyptian!" Tears were streaming down my face, and I was trying my best to stand.

"WAIT! PLEASE CAP! BE RESONABLE!" Johnny ran around a fidgeting Tony, trying to keep the malfunctioning suit between them.

"I'M SURE YOU TAINTED HER!" Cap roars, "YOU BESMIRCHED HER INNOCENCE!!"

"Besmirched?" Susan repeated, not being able to contain her rampant giggles. Reed just rolls his eyes at everyone, puts back on his goggles and goes back to intently monitoring his holograms while he goes to sit next to Ben.

"Could you keep it down? The final half is under way!" Ben bellows increasing the volume of the screen.

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Flashback over!

"I DID NOT SLEEP WITH HER! I SWEAR!" Johnny's frightened scream pleaded with Cap.

"LIAR!"

I was on the floor trying my best not to completely shit my pants, when I noticed, ever so discreetly, Reed eyeing both me and Tony. It wasn't a jealous eye more like a...cautious one. Something was on his mind and he was calculating various forms of outcome. I instantly look away before he catches me.

That little moment had me questioning everything again...but all that leaves my head when I see Tony's arm lash out and connect to Cap's beautiful face sending him flying back and indenting him into the TV.

I can hear a hundred fan girls scream in abject pain and horror right now.

"Steve! I am so sorry!" Tony counters. Also afraid of what a rabid Captain America could do.

"AH! NO!!!" Ben was on his knees in tears. "Why the TV!? She did nothing to deserve this!" he held his head as if in mourning. "She did nothing to you, nothing I say!!"

"Okay, break it up you guys" Susan had finally seen enough and steps forth to intervene.

"Not until I have his blood!" Cap hollers and jumps for Johnny throat. He sounded like a freaking vampire.

"I SHALL AVENGE THEE!" Ben lunges towards Tony.

I lay on my back and looked up at the ceiling. No matter what I said or felt, this place would always be home. And it made my heart swell to know that now I had two homes. This place would never change, not after a million years.

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Author's Note

I have no idea if this chapter is even good or not. It's just like the Chapter "Confusion", I have no idea what I'm doing or writing but I'm hoping it all turns out good.

Sorry I've been MIA for about a week but I started reading some books (Actually four books) and by the time I was done I felt bad cause I realized I left y'all hanging!

Also, thanks for all of you who are Reading My Masked Assassin, I've been seeing you guys vote and comment and it makes me smile to know that even if I finish this book we'll still be together in another!

So! What'd ya all think about the Cap scene, I've had that scenario in my head since "Several Surprises" but I think it fits better with everything happening right now.

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