[Okay. So has anyone seen Jessica Jones? Simpson totally looks like Captain America. I was just like-- what. What is that. And Mockingjay pt. 2? Oh my god, Prim, no.]

Pietro's fast. He knows it and uses his speed to save people. But, sometimes, he's not fast enough. And tries to get faster every time a life is lost on a mission. He pushes himself until he's out of breath and (Y/n) forces him to rest.

"I do not want people die just because I am not fast enough," Pietro says angrily, hands shaking as he balls them. (Y/n) gently uncurls his fingers and lace them with hers.

"I know, Pietro. But sometimes, it can't be helped,"

He lets out a huff through his nose right as the vans lurch to a stop.

And then guns go off, bullets pelleting the walls.

"What's going on!" (Y/n) shouts, and the driver replies with a shrill scream before he gets a bullet to the head.

"An ambush," Pietro mutters, and she nods. "I will run us to the Tower, yes?"

"No. We need to stay. I'll fight while you call for backup," (Y/n) moves to slide the van doors open, but Pietro grabs her wrist and gives her a stern look.

"No. We will fight together, then I will call backup,"

She rolls her eyes, not arguing and opens the doors. They immediately leap action, knocking the ambushers(who they find out to be HYDRA. No surprise) out and tossing their guns into a pile by the van.

"So, turns out we don't need that backup, huh?" (Y/n) asks, brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes. It's snowing lightly, and snowflakes are resting on her eyelashes and Pietro really wants to kiss her right now.

"No, we do not,"

Pietro grins, and she does too, but then there's a bullet whizzing by his ear and he watches as it slowly descends towards (Y/n).

Maybe if he'd of trained harder he would've been fast enough to stop the bullet. To stop (Y/n) from hitting the snow, dead, the bullet lodged between her eyes.

But he wasn't and he gets there right as the breath leaves your body, the small grin still on her lips as Pietro's knees buckle, doesn't even feel the cold as they touch the ground, and he screams.

But he can't hear himself over the blood rushing in his ears, over the red tinting his vision, over the paralyzingly anger rushing through him.

He looks up and spots the shooter in the trees, huffing as he stands and runs up the tree faster than the man can blink.
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They knew something had gone wrong when Pietro and (Y/n) never made it back to the tower. When no one responded to comms.

So Steve and Natasha track them down, discovering two HYDRA vans and the one Pietro and (Y/n) had been riding in all covered in thick layers of snow like they had been abandoned.

They find (Y/n) in the van, lips purple and red pooling under her head. They don't find Pietro.