(time lapse)

Months have passed since Jax's death and things are finally starting to feel normal again.

These days I spend a lot of time in the lab with Peter and Tony. Tony even said I may be able to join on a mission with the two sometime. Peter and I have become closer over the weeks, finding we actually have more in common than we thought. I spent my first few holidays without Jax this year, which I have to admit was hard, Tony even invited Jax's foster parents over for a few.

" ALERT: unidentified individual is requesting access"

" I'll get it" I say running to the door before someone else bets me to it.

Opening the door Peter is standing there, " Hey, how's it going" he says as I let him in.

" Same old, same old I guess" I reply, shutting the door.

We both get into the elevator, I push the button for the residential floor and watch as the doors close.

" Tony, Peter's here!" I yell as I step out of the elevator.

Peter goes into the living rooms and makes himself comfortable on the coach. I walk over to the door leading down to Tony's lab, opening it to see if he's down there. When no sound is heard I close it, figuring he's not down there.

I turn around to look back to Peter when instead standing in front of me is Tony.

" Looking for me?" He says with a grin.

"Psh, not anymore" I say, walking around him "just letting you know I've got company over" I continue as I walk over to the kitchen to make a bowl of popcorn.

" And who may this be?" Tony asks playing cuoi.

" Hey Mr. Stark" Peter yells from on the couch, throwing his hand up in an attempt to wave.

Tony scoffs "Look don't keep him up too late, I'll need him for tomorrow" he says in his best serious voice to me.

" Yeah, yeah okay." I reply half mindedly as I read the directions for the popcorn.

Tony disappears down in his lab, leaving just me and Peter. Tonight we planned to have a movie night, we did this occasionally where on of us would go to the others and bring a movie. It was already almost seven and both of us had already had dinner.

" So what lame movie ya bring over this time Parker?" I yell from the kitchen.

"I bring over Star Wars ONCE and now every movie I bring is considered 'lame'?" He says in an exaggerated tone.

The microwave beeps and the popcorn is down, I bring it into the living room and sit on the couch next to Peter.

" So the movie, what is it?" I ask again.

Peter hands me the disc, "Jaws" is what the disc reads.

"Interesting choice" I say hesitantly.

" What? whats wrong with jaws?" Peter asks offended.

" No ,no, nothing, you just don't seem like the..."Jaws" type I guess" I reply, trying to get a reaction out of him.

"Just put the movie on, Stark" He scoffs, knowing how I feel about being called my last name.

" I don't know, I don't like take orders from people, wanna try again?" I say smirking.

Peter reaches across me to try to grab the disc away, I try to push him off, yelling and laughing.

"Fine if you won't put it in, I will" Peter says, still trying to get the disc.

" No, stop, get off me" I say between laughing.

Soon I drop the movie on the floor and it's just become Peter holding me down jokingly and me trying to pry him off. Pillows are flying from me trying to use my powers to hit him with them,"Hey that's cheating! you can't use your powers" he pouts still managing to hold me down. Now I can barely breath from all the laughter, " Truce, truce" I yell squirming under his grip, he lets go and we are left panting on the couch.

" You actually wanna put on the movie now?" Peter asks looking to me.

"Good idea." I say, standing up and putting the disc inside the DVD player.

Once the credits start playing I sit back down and pull the blanket from the back of the couch and lay it on top of us, grabbing the popcorn and placing it between us as well. Soon the opening scene starts and everything goes quiet.

After about an hour into the movie I look over to Peter who is still contently watching the movie. His side is leaning against my shoulder and his legs are stretched across the rest of the couch. He notices me staring and gives me a small smile before returning back to watching the movie.

"I've missed this" I say, breaking the silence and getting Peter's attention.

"Missed what?" He asks confused.

" This; normal...feeling - like everything is back to normal again." I respond

"Me too, but it's weird, this "new" normal." Peter says

My mind goes straight to Jax. A "normal" that Jax isn't a part of anymore. A normal that will never even get to involve Jax ever again.

I watch as Peter watches the movie, I wonder what he thinks about this new normal, if he thinks about the old normal as much as I do. I don't mind this new normal, a normal where I have Peter and Tony and the rest of the team that I get to be surrounded by. But a part of me wishes I could go back to the old normal, where Jax was here. Though even if I could go back, I wouldn't belong there anymore and I'm still trying to figure out if that a good thing or a bad thing.

"Everything okay?" Peter asks turning to me, noticing my distractedness.

" Yeah it will be."