[Comprehensive British and American] SpiderGirl

After entering December, the temperature dropped rapidly, and a few snowfalls covered most of the city.

Petra has always been afraid of the cold, and she doesn’t want to go out in the weather after snow. Even if she wears a warm spider suit inside, she still feels very insecure. Plush jacket, put on the hood of the jumpsuit, and put Terry in his arms as a hand warmer.

Animals are generally better at keeping warm, but Terry is a pitbull...he has less hair!He could only shrink under his coat and shiver.

Then, Petra set off for the Avengers' new base outside the city.

Tony felt something was wrong when he saw a ball of fur swaying outside, put down the teacup in his hand, and asked Friday to open the automatic sensor window.He stared at the hair ball hanging upside down outside, and asked after a while, "Has your battle suit expired?"

"No, but it feels better..." Petra said, showing Terry half of his head, "He's cold too."

She dangled slowly while sticking to the spider silk, and there was a pair of plush hood hanging down——Tony took a closer look, yes, it was dog ears, so cute.

Tony moved away from the window, and Petra let go of the spider web and jumped in. The glass window was quickly closed, and the warm air in the room made Bit stick out her tongue comfortably in her arms.

After several months of being "in the cold" with each other, Tony did not expect that she would take the initiative to come to the door. After drinking a sip of hot tea, he felt in a good mood.

"At this time, don't you go shopping with your aunt?"

"Oh, she's married." Petra replied succinctly, with a troubled look on her face, and added after a moment of hesitation, "Let me not disturb their shopping."

"...understandable."

The so-called Parker's luck means that when she is around, she will definitely meet robbers or prison escapers. How can women who want to enjoy shopping bear it?

Tony felt something, and couldn't help but pat her on the head... the dog ears on the hat on her head.

"Then I wanted to make Terry a dress." Petra straightened her hood and continued, "But I'm not very good at sewing, so I came to find—"

Having said that, she looked around subconsciously, the living room was empty, and there was no one there.

"Wanda?" Tony asked.

"Oh, she said that Vision knows this well," Petra said immediately.

"Unfortunately," Tony said, "they're out for a snowball fight."

"..."

Really childlike.

Tony took it very seriously: "You have to understand, after all, he is just... How old is he? Sorry, I can't remember clearly."

As he spoke, he patted the back of the sofa beside him, motioning for him to come and sit down.

"any drinks?"

It just fell in the early morning, and the ground was covered with a layer, which was swept to the side of the road, enough to build a few snowmen, and now the sky outside the window began to snow again.It was still bright when we went out, but now it has been covered with a layer of gray fog, giving people the illusion that it will be dinner time soon.

In fact, it didn't affect walking, not to mention that Petra was wearing a hat, but as soon as Tony showed the meaning of "stay and play for a while", she accepted it without hesitation.

"There's milk, black tea, coffee—" Tony turned his head and looked at the big refrigerator in the corner, recalling it.

"I want a Coke," Petra said immediately.

Tony opened the refrigerator and whistled: "There is still red wine."

In the past, Petra might have looked forward to it, but since she choked on the very low-alcohol champagne, she lost any interest in alcoholic beverages, and said dryly.

"I want a Coke." She insisted.

"No more." Tony glanced up and down, and announced, "There are too many children, and the stock is gone."

"Then I want ice cream." Petra raised her hand.

"..." Tony looked sideways, who felt cold just now?

So he poured her a glass of apple juice.

The juice was cold, but there was enough heating in the room. Petra held the glass and didn't feel cold at all.She couldn't help but looked at the quiet living room again: "Is everyone not there?"

It's impossible for everyone to go to have a snowball fight, right?

"Oh, Christmas, Barton took people to go shopping." Tony said indifferently, "I actually suggested that they take out last year's Christmas tree and recycle it-it's not easy to do it by hand! They didn't like it, and wanted to do it again. Pick a new one. So our Captain Rogers took a gang to the northern woods..."

Petra stood in awe: amazing.

Setting up a Christmas tree requires on-site inspections and careful selection... The Avengers really have nothing to do, right?

Looking at Tony's leisurely appearance, it is indeed very different from a few months ago.Does their current state count as early retirement?

She was wandering, noticing Terry crawling out from under her coat, arching gently at her legs, seeming to be salivating at the apple juice in her hand.

"No, no." She said seriously, "You can only drink water."

Terry groaned in disappointment, and lay down again.

"Where's the milk?" Tony asked.

"Just give him a little..."

"It's already very experienced." He boasted.

Petra nodded solemnly: "Since you have decided to raise him, you must be responsible for him."

The TV program Tony turned on happened to be visiting the farm. Terry moved his ears, raised his upper body and stared at the flock of sheep on the screen, his eyes rolled around, and Petra's attention was distracted by him for a moment. Then, he heard Tony says-

"Speaking of responsibility, they also advised me to be responsible to you."

"...Huh?" She was startled and turned around quickly.

"At the beginning, everyone thought I was crazy." Tony shrugged, his tone was relaxed, "I actually want to recruit a 14-year-old—"

"Fifteen." Petra breathed a sigh of relief and did not forget to correct her.

"I mean at that time." He waved his hand casually, as if a little impatient, "Don't interrupt, listen to me."

"Oh……"

"No matter how much, they are minors anyway. The Avengers is not a nursery school. If you encounter an accident at some point, who will bear the consequences?" Tony sighed, "Of course it is me. But if... for example— —too much, you're dead? I can't afford it."

"Ok, I know."

"You know now?" He immediately raised his eyebrows.

"I've always..." She defended herself in a low voice, but she didn't feel very confident, so she said again, "Anyway, it's different now."

"That's right. Everyone recognizes you now." Tony's tone became brisk. "During this period, you have done a good job. I mean, your 'internship period' should be over."

Then he was silent for a while.

This place of pause is very special, Petra felt a little uneasy for no reason, took a breath in her heart, and waited for the next step with bated breath.

"But I think," Tony mused, and said slowly, "I still think that the choice should be left to you. It's up to you to make the decision—Petty, are you willing to stay?"

He raised his hand, extended his arm and pointed backwards, sweeping about ninety degrees: "Here, the home of the Avengers."

……

There was nearly three seconds of silence, and no one spoke.

Eyes wide open.

"Do you have to embarrass me like this?" Tony asked impatiently.

"Ah—oh." Petra was still unresponsive, and nodded slowly, indicating that her ears had received the message, and after a while——"Ah!"

What a reaction!

Tony sighed: "...you think about it slowly."

"No, I—meaning, live in as a true Avenger?" Petra's tongue was tied.

Tony was patient. After listening to her, he nodded, "Of course."

"if--"

"You can also refuse." Tony explained calmly, "As an independent superhero, do what you like and want to do. You don't need to be commanded, taught or even controlled by anyone."

Petra was confused for a second: "The Avengers will still be controlled?"

He waved his hand casually: "There will always be big figures like S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United Nations who want to intervene. Don't you know that some people have been making a lot of noise recently?"

She shook her head.

"It's not a serious matter." Tony was quiet for a while before continuing, but it could be seen that he was not in a very happy mood about this matter, but he didn't take it very seriously. "Let them do what they want, I don't care."

"Then don't worry about it." Petra said seriously.Out of instinct, she sensibly didn't ask what it was, and wrote it down and planned to go back and investigate.

Terry barked a few times, and she scratched his chin reassuringly.

Tony looked at her dog with interest and said, "You can think about it slowly and reply to me later, it doesn't matter. Whether you want to be an Avenger or a good neighbor in New York—"

a pause.

"Of course, I won't show my inclination. You don't have to worry about being interfered with by me." Tony spread his hands and smiled.

For some reason, this exciting proposal sounded less exciting to Petra than it had been a few months ago.

After the initial surprise and excitement, she found that she calmed down quickly, but the instructions of her brain were not very clear, and she didn't know what was disturbing her, which made her lose the direction of her choice.

Tony didn't say anything, he had been carefully observing the changes in her demeanor, and seemed to have noticed something, and added in a timely manner: "In addition to the above two, would you like to go back to school and work on a job you are interested in after graduation, or Any other activities are not a problem."

"Can I not go to school?" She was even more surprised.

Tony immediately vetoed: "I mean full-time school."

"Oh……"

After the answer, there was another period of blank staring.

"Is it so difficult?" Tony was puzzled.

Petra shook her head, looking at him.

"No, but..."

"What?" he asked immediately.

"Is there nothing else?" Petra asked, her left and right hands pressed against Terry's stomach lightly touched their index fingers.

After an eerie silence, Tony looked away.

"I think it would make a nice Christmas present if you would stay."