That-Sokovian-Bastard // Avengers (& other) Imagines

The Panda - Pietro Maximoff x Reader

Words: 1156
Pairing: Pietro Maximoff x Reader
Featuring: Tony Stark, Wanda Maximoff, John The Panda
Warnings: swearing, kissing, pandas
Requested by jadyn
Summary: After a really stressful day, Pietro wants to help by granting you your wish.
Author's Note: another civilian x avenger! But this time, Y/N lives in the facility because reasons revealed in the fic. I love pandas. (I named the panda John because of a joke I have on my Tumblr!)

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The lights were making your eyes bulge out of your head. The silence was driving you insane. The work was getting harder by the minute. All you wanted to do was scream, but you knew you couldn't. It was late in the Avengers facility, and everyone would kill you if you woke them up.

People would call your friends' lives crazy, and they are; they're Avengers. They save the world all the time, and it's incredible what they can do. But when someone isn't attacking, they get breaks. Sometimes, you really wish you could have a break from your life, and everything would be so much easier.

Being close friends with Tony Stark allowed you to live in the Avengers facility, as you monitor the comms on most missions to make sure everything is going to plan. You also check over a lot of Tony's work since he can be so busy being Tony Stark.

But looking over Tony's work wasn't bad. You would visit him almost daily as a child as your parents worked closely with him, and you spent a lot of time watching and learning from Tony. You knew how his mind worked by now, and when your parents were killed in an attack on Stark Industries, Tony felt he needed to help his dear friends—only making for a closer friendship with you.

These thoughts of your past circling around your head distracted you from all your work. You promised Tony you would check over his work from the past few days, and you promised your boss, Jamie, you would have everything they asked by a certain deadline. By now, you were talking to yourself louder than you thought, and the person next door was worried about you.

"Hey, you're still awake?" Pietro walked into your room, not knocking before entering.

"Hey, Pietro," You smiled, your eyes slowly falling shut, then you forced yourself to stay awake by opening your eyes at lightning speed.

Pietro sat on the edge of your bed as you watched tiredly. "You should really get some sleep; you've been up for so many hours straight," Pietro sighed as he sifted through some of your papers.

"I can't!" You argued, snatching the papers from him.

"Why not?" Pietro groaned.

"Because I promised Tony! And if I don't do what my boss asked me, I could lose my job! I don't want to lose my job; I can't! I have so much work to do in so much little time, and I just want a panda!" You erupted, realizing how much was actually piled up on your shoulders.

"A panda?" Pietro raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"They're fluffy... they would be perfect for a hug," You sighed and threw the papers you were holding onto the floor.

Pietro scooped up the rest of the papers around you and put them into a pile out of the way. "Listen, if you go to sleep right now, I'll get you a panda."

Your eyes went wide, and your mouth dropped. "Really?"

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"Where's Pietro?" Wanda ran into the kitchen, where everyone was gathered nearby.

Everyone mumbled that they did not know or care where he was. He could be halfway across the world, for all they knew; he moves kind of fast.

You shrugged with tired eyes as you slowly ate your breakfast, looking at your phone. You didn't have to go to work until later in the day, so at least you had some time to relax before-

"Hello?" You picked up your phone when you saw your boss calling.

"What the hell, (Y/N)?" Jamie sounded angry, almost yelling at you.

"What?" You asked, scared of what they would say.

"I never got the email from you this morning! You never sent me your work! I need it for my presentation in ten minutes!" Jamie shouted, sounding more stressed than usual. You mentally screamed at yourself and went running off to your room.

"I'll send it to you right now! I'm sorry, it was a busy night, and it must have just slipped my mind- A PANDA?" You shouted when you got to your room, only to find the cuddly and adorable animal sitting on the floor.

"What? Never mind, I don't care, just send me your work, and you can keep your damn job!" And Jamie hung up.

You threw your phone on your bed and sat in front of the panda slowly. He was smiling and looking around the new environment. You held your hand out to the bear, seeing if he would react.

But you had no self-control; you began to pet the bear. And only a few seconds later, your still sleep-deprived self started crying because he was so fluffy. "Do you like him?" The Sokovian male asked from your door.

"I love him!" You gasped, looking back at Pietro. "Can I call you John?" You whispered to the panda.

"John?" Pietro asked.

"Don't judge me; I'm tired," You grumbled, not looking away from the peaceful animal. Pietro set a bucket down next to you, which was food for your new panda named John. You held out a stick of bamboo for John to grab, which he greatly enjoyed.

Tony walked past your room, quickly stopping after a peek inside. "What the hell is a wild animal doing in my facility?" Tony shouted, scaring both you and John.

"I brought him here for them," Pietro quickly explained, still looking at you with a huge smile. He was very happy to see you happy, and he was even more glad that the reason your smile was so big was because of him and what he did for you.

You stood up but didn't walk away from the panda. "I've been so stressed lately that I just needed something to get rid of it! That stress reliever was a fluffy ass panda, and shit, I still have to send that email," You walked over to your computer and pressed a few buttons, clicking send. "And pandas are just so cute and fluffy and soft and most of the time peaceful, don't make them mad. But John here, he's my new best friend, and I can't believe Pietro did this! I could kiss him! Like a lot, because damn, he's really good looking and kissing him would be great and this is the perfect time to kiss him because I'm so happy-"

"You ramble a lot when you're tired," Pietro interrupted.

"I know," You told him and walked forward to kiss him. Grabbing his face and bringing it to touch yours slowly, his arm snaked around your waist, and both of you were satisfied with how this happened. There had been a lot of flirting over the past few months, and it was clear that this was something you both wanted to become a thing, but neither of you made a move. You have never been happier that you did.

"You had to pick him? The one person here that I don't like? I can't believe you, I thought I taught you better-"

"Tony, shut up; he got me a fucking panda."