CLINT BARTON blinked - and he saw Natasha!

Actually, it took longer. The Red Skull took the stone and flew without a comment away. Yelena got angry, but Clint held her away, she took him down, so Carol had to help and calmed her on russian.

Nobody asked how she could speak that language.

Clint almost started to cry as the Red Skull didn't seem to return.

He closed his eyes and fell on the knees, as he heard a soft voice. "hey, look at me. missed me?"

He opened his eyes and for a second he saw Natasha. Then she was covered with yelena. She was wearing the exact same clothes that she wore when she died.

Yelena and Natasha talked silently on Russian while they hugged. Nat kissed Yelenas Cheek, then she looked at Clint.

"Hey, my friend."

"Nat ..." Clint broke into tears and Natasha hugged him tight. They buried their faces in each other's shoulder.

The two Avengers stayed like that for a lang, long moment.

Natasha kissed Clint's cheek and helped him up.

"we may go back?" all nodded, until the red Skull appeared out of nowhere.

"where's my pizza?"

Natasha looked confused, but Yelena bursted into laugher.

Back in the Avengers Basement, Natasha went trough a big round of hugs. everyone loved her and missed her.

"where's he?", Natasha asked after hugging Bruce really tight. Their love story may had ended, but they loved each other platonically.

Scott, who stood akwardly behind them, signed to the room beside them.She walked in.

MJ and Ned sat next to the bed, MJ held Peters hand. Pepper walked straight to Natasha and the two women hugged tightly.

"welcome back." Pepper almost cried. "he's gonna survive. but we don't know when he's gonna wake."

Natasha nodded and gave Pepper a small smile, before she walked to the teenagers. She had never met Peters friends before.

MJ had been crying, she held her tears back. "you're tough", Natasha complimented the girl. "Peter has a very brave girl." She nodded in neds direction.

Then she looked at Peter. He was sleeping. A big white bandage covered his deep wound, he looked peaceful but vulnerable.

Natasha sat down on the bed.

"hey, little spider", she whispered. "i'm here. everything is fine."

she hadn't much to say. she just wanted to see his face, make sure he's okay.

"are you staying with him, or do you want to help the Avengers?"

"I'm staying", MJ said. "imma watch over him, you can go, Ned."

Ned wanted say something, but MJ pushed him away. "just go", she said, "isn't that what you've always dreamed of? Go, go!"

Slowly, Ned went outside. Natasha stayed with Peter and MJ for some minutes, then she followed the boy.

On the way back from Vormir, Clint had told her everything, especially about their plan.

"Who's next?", she asked, as she sat down on the large sofa.

Dr Strange and Wanda were the only ones standing. "Pietro and Tony", she answered with her sokovian accent.

"you have the bodies?"

"not excatly." Dr Strange opened a portal. "Pietro is buried in Sokovia. Tony's ashes are in his grave. you can work with that?"

Wanda touched her red headpiece. Her eyes started to glow.

"you might wanna take a step back", she said, while she already started to glow, magic covering her whole body and everything around her.

Clint held Natashas Hand. He wanted to meet Pietro Maximoff again so bad. He had missed the stupid-decision-making boy so damn hard.

Wanda--, no, not Wanda, the Scarlet Witch, screamed loud, red magic exploding, she flew into the air, you could see two human shapes forming. There was so much power in the air that Stephen shielded the other Avengers with magic.

It all lasted only some minutes until the Scarlet Witch flew down and landed, all the red magic returning into her body.

"I didn't see that coming."