Falling for a Maximoff

Chapter 60: The mission

Pov y/n

We walk through the forest and I follow the others who seem to know the way. Tony is already completely in his suit and I can hear him talk to Friday over the coms. He's hacking into the system right now.

Mom walks next to him, tugging on her thigh holder and getting the gun out. She looks good in her suit and I barely get to see her in it in real life. Walking here, surrounded by the Avengers makes me feel powerful and strong and as if I'm part of them.

Apart from Tony's talking, it's quiet around us and we make our way through the forest. When we arrive at a big, tall fence, we come to a stop. Behind it, a few meters away, there's a big building which I assume is the Red Room.

An anxious feeling rises up inside me and I try to take a deep breath and calm myself down. I'm safe. I'm not here to go back in there and nothing will happen. We will destroy it now, nothing to be afraid of.

As the silent humming of the fence stops, Tony gives us a thumbs up and quickly cuts a hole for us to crawl through. Now we're back on Red Room territory.
My eyes scan the field around us, everything seems calm and safe for now.

Tony, Thor and Steve walk towards the building. Mom quickly comes to hug me.
"Be safe and do what the others tell you. No hero behavior, do what you must and then go back to the jet, there will be an agent waiting for you." She says, her voice filled with worry but still stern.

"I will behave and be good mom, I promise. Now go, go save them." I agree and nod towards the building. She smiles and presses a short kiss onto my hair before running to the boys.

I watch after her until I feel a soft nudge against my shoulder and look at Wanda, she smiles at me.
"Let's go do our job." She says and hands me a metal cutter. I nod and we go back to the fence, starting to cut the hole bigger. When there are a lot of women and girls about to get out of here, we don't have the time for them to individually crawl through this. So, we cut the wires and bend them away.

I shortly glance back at Clint and the others, their attention fully on the building, ready to fight if a widow comes outside. Silence falls over us as they wait and we cut open the fence more and more. I look over to Wanda every once in a while to make sure she's still there and okay. I know I probably won't really be able to protect her if it comes to worse but I still want to know she's okay.

She catches me one time and smiles back before continuing her work.
As we work, we get further apart, each working on different ends of the hole.

Suddenly a loud siren rings through the woods and I drop the cutter and jump slightly. I quickly turn towards the building and my eyes find the source of the noise. It's a speaker kind of thing on top of the building. Well, I suppose they noticed the intruders.

I try to ignore the loud sound and go back to my work, now working faster due to the adrenaline that's pulsing through my veins. I almost prick myself on the fence and take a deep breath, being unconcentrated right now isn't good, so I channel my concentration back to my work and continue to be quick but not uncareful. I have no idea how big Tony wants this hole to be but it seems big enough to me.

Before I can turn around to look at Wanda, a noise catches my attention and I whip around to the building.
"Shit." I whisper when the doors swing open and a bunch of women step outside, guns in their hands and a determined expression on their faces. Well, I guess this was it with peaceful working.

"Wanda!" Clint shouts over to her and she turns around, noticing the growing danger. Her job now is to get into their heads. I bite the inside of my cheek when I watch her step a little closer but still out of reach.