A raised eyebrow from him. "I'm not so sure that I buy that." Peter said. "You sure you don't want me to take a look at it?" He asked. "If it's out of place I could probably put it back in place."

“Yes— I am.” He replied, before grimacing in pain that stopped him from continuing. Instinctively, he took his hand to his shoulder, feeling yet another wave of pain in that area. He had definitely landed badly on his shoulder. “I mean… I'm mostly fine, I guess. Only my shoulder is hurting a little bit, but I'll survive.”

"Hypothetically." She said. She wasn't going to deny because it was at least partly true. "I'm not sure. That is beyond my scope, but I'm sure that the Winter Soldier is different."

"Yes I do suppose so." Melina said. "Did you only come to see me to ask me about that?"

"So what they used on me and Yelena, i assume." That made sense.

"And I'm guessing since HYDRA was involved, the Winter Soldier was too..." Her da didn't like to talk about that part of his life. And the thought of what happened to him made her sick.

"... The Winter Soldier, who is my da. So, my family is impacted."

"The way you make the family sound once they realize they can't get in to see her they will probably try that phone contact." Maverick said. "But I imagine if I ask she'd be okay with me just keeping an eye on it." He knew he had a bit of an aura about him that was part of being a half-blood. "You can just put what we talked about. Which includes just keeping her family from taking her anywhere she doesn't want to go." He didn't use force unless he had to, but it wasn't usually deadly.

"I... I don't know. I was hoping there wouldn't be a need to track her phone. I mean, that's the point, isn't it? If they see you, they won't try to drag her out, right?" Theo asked, suddenly more flustered about that. He hadn't even thought about the chance of them getting past a body guard. He looked through the papers. "Can I ask what other people usually put down? We've never done this before."

Somewhere out there in the DC multiverse, there’s a world where Battinson’s parents didn’t die, and he became the Lance Stroll of Formula One racing. Wayne Enterprises has an F1 team, Thomas brought Bruce to races when he was young, they indulged his love of cars until he was winning kart races at 8. He BEGGED to help design the race cars, ended up making a great car, and now Wayne has turned from a midfield team to nearly top three.

You’d think everyone hates Bruce because he’s a nepo baby, but he’s just so nice and smiley (like Lance lol) that everyone loves him anyway. His dad is the team’s chairman and pretty hands-on just like Lawrence Stroll. Fans call Bruce the F1 Princess as a joke since he’s already the Prince of Gotham, but then it sticks, and now everyone makes edits of him with tiaras on every time he makes it to the podium. He doesn’t get it, but he’s not going to complain either. His fans are just silly. (He blushes so much when anyone calls him princess to his face, though. Fight me.)

Bruce still insists on everything being black because it’s his favorite color. It was already mostly black before he joined, but now it’s even blacker. His suit is all black. The car is all black. The helmet is all black. He loves it. He looks just like the dark, regal old money rich boy you’d imagine until he’s smiling and talking about racing. (Imagine a meme with two cars next to each other, one being WE’s. It says: “Bruce’s Car v. Bruce’s Personality.” The other one is covered in glitter obv.) One time, a little girl gives him a tiara that she painted black herself and asks him to wear it if he wins. (He does win. He puts it on at the podium. He’s embarrassed the entire time. The champagne rubs some of the black away. It’s a treasured memory and sits right on top in his trophy case.)

His fellow drivers call him Brucie to tease him. He’s a bit awkward during interviews, but that just makes him endearing. He’s also tall for an F1 driver (nepo baby core) so there’s always jokes about him towering over everyone. One time, he came second to Lewis Hamilton, but you could still see he was visibly standing taller on the podium, and people would not stop making jokes about it. (It was mostly his hair, but you know how Twitter is.) Speaking of hair, it will NOT stay flat. He looks insane every time he takes his helmet off. He could be sweating for hours in there but when he takes the thing off, he looks like he’s through in a tornado. (Again, memes.) He knows so much about car mechanics, even for a driver, and will regularly start talking to other drivers or the press about the tiniest of parts in the engine or break system, unaware that everyone is completely lost. (Also memes about that.)

When he’s 23, he suffers a pretty bad crash. It knocks him out for about twenty seconds, and his mom and dad are ready to pull him completely from the sport, but he refuses to stop, and despite missing a few races to recover—his dad’s still a doctor—he ends up winning the next race and gets to stay.

During his F1 career, it’s pretty much guaranteed that he’ll get fastest laps, but he only gets podium like 40–50% of the time. There’s always drama that apparently Wayne Enterprises is trying to become top three, but they insist that they’re not as competitive. They will always have respect for every team, and it shows. They never join in on protests. They always wish the other teams luck, and they genuinely congratulate the winners. Bruce is always the first to hug the winner :)

Before Bruce joined, the Wayne team was always a midfield team, and they were perfectly comfortable with it. WE had good-looking cars, they designed good-looking cars, and they sold good-looking cars, and F1 was just a way of promoting that. Thomas loved watching the races, and he was happy to see them get podium a few times per season, and that was it.

Until Bruce became their lead driver, and he wanted to really earn his seat, and he wanted to get podium, and he wanted to design a faster car, and he wanted to win, and Thomas Wayne couldn’t say no to his son, and suddenly Wayne Enterprises was inching closer and closer to the front of the grid. Now, they’re still not The Best, but they’re a team that future drivers look up to.

During a season of DTS, Bruce is 27. Netflix films the Wayne episode when there’s a fatal crash in F2, and Bruce was nearby when it happened. He ends up crying on camera for ten minutes. They had to cut almost all of it, but we get the most gut-wrenching confessional about how after he heard the news, in that moment, he didn’t want to be an F1 driver. He admits that if he hadn’t become a driver, he was going to become a doctor like his father, and he wonders if he could have saved the driver’s life if he did that instead. “What am I really doing if I can’t help others? I could have been anything…Maybe being a driver was selfish. Maybe I don’t belong on the track anymore.”

He’s visibly distraught during the moment of silence on the day of the race, but Bruce decided to continue because he wants to make the fans and spectators happy. (That’s his job, anyway. That’s what he does.) Despite getting pole position the previous day, he doesn’t get fastest lap or make it to the podium, but he still gets fourth. He has a long talk with his father away from cameras and calls his mom. The future’s uncertain for a few days until Bruce comes back to training. To finish the episode, he says he’s going to continue driving, even if he might need a bit of time to get his confidence back, and he pledges to one day make the safest F1 car ever seen. Even if it’s part of the risk of being a driver, he doesn’t want to see any more drivers losing their lives to the sport they love.

When he’s around 35 or 40, he retires from Formula One so he can inherit Wayne Enterprises, and he takes his father’s place as chairman of the team. Since he has the time now, he holds up on his promise to make an even safer car—the designs inspiring safer car designs for other teams as well—and they pick out two incredible drivers who end up finally (FINALLY) moving Wayne Enterprises into one of the top three teams. They win the world championship twice in a row before falling back a bit and only winning it every couple of years, but they’re nonetheless fierce competitors. Bruce still has a ton of kids, some of which like F1 just like he does, but he is the only Wayne to become a Formula One driver.

I just think Battinson would love driving for F1 :)

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"Right can't see her beat up." Peter said. "Do you know where the rest of my crew are?" He asked.

"Mostly the ribs." He would much rather take care of himself, but he knew better then to turn down any help because he imagined it could certainly be worse.

"You can brief General Organa after we patch you up." Allea said she hadn't been at the crash site but had heard from others just how bad it was.

Something wasn't adding up.

"Where's the pain at?"

A nod from him at the sound of Pietro's voice. "Yeah." He said. "Trying to figure out exactly how much to make." He said. "But then again I can always make more." Billy mused as he put one packet into the microwave. "Any luck on the movie?"

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Pietro did try his best to always be where he needed to be, whether that was in work or at home with the other. After a moment or two of waiting for him, he peered round into the kitchen, watching Billy as he made the popcorn. "Everything ok in here handsome?" He asked, not wanting to step in if the other was almost done with what he had been doing.

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"No because that's just exhausting." Billy said. "Mostly." He said A nod from him. "Yes I know all of that." He said. It was a good thing that the two of them got along and that Pietro made him happy. It was reassuring that he made Pietro happy.

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"And we don't want to be doing that now do we?" Pietro teased softly, chuckling to himself when Billy mentioned that the look would get him whatever he wanted. "Within reason I guess," he whispered, "but you know that I love you..." Smiling into the kiss, he added, "you make me smile."

"Steve I wouldn't be here with you if I wasn't okay with being seen with you." Billy said. "I think considering the atmosphere we probably shouldn't hold hands in public." Neil already beat him enough. "But alone yes I don't mind."

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"I just meant in general, are you ok with being seen with me?" Steve asked, "I mean.. we don't have to hold hands or anything if you don't feel comfortable with that. I'm ok just us walking together and when we're alone, holding hands and stuff."

"Yes I am aware what you ended up being." Billy said. "I don't think that's going to change their perception of me, and let's be honest I would much rather not tell them what I've been through." He said. Even Max who lived with him didn't know the full extent of what Neil did. "Yeah I trust you."

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"Well, maybe seeing as I'm here, I could help try and change it. I mean, the kids kinda hated me at first for being a douche... now I'm apparently their babysitter," Steve teased slightly, watching Billy for a moment, "it doesn't hurt to try right?" As he let go of Billy's hand gently, he shook his head. "I'm not. And I won't regret this, trust me on that one."

"Of course it's not easy catching me." Loki said. He knew who he was, and he didn't expect some variant of him to not be as crafty as he was. "You know eventually they're going to want results." There was only so long he thought he could pull it off so he was certainly curious how Mobius planned to get around that.

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"We will yeah, but we just have to tell them that the variant isn't an easy catch," Mobius replied, a slight sigh leaving his lips. It was the truth after all, they had been trying to track down the other Loki for quite some time by now and no one had been successful so far. "We won't do that.."

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"I at least have that going for me." Pietro was smart enough to know when he wasn't going to win a fight with Wanda. "I think that's what they do, but not like I know a lot it." It wasn't like there was any pregnant Avengers around to begin with. So the two were kind of flying by themselves. "I think there's some places close that you might like."

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"I'm glad to hear that," Wanda teased, a small nudge to his arm following. She knew that while he might believe that he was right, he wasn't going to argue with her. "I like that. Though I should say we might not want to wander far. Little baby here does enjoy using my bladder as a trampoline at times."