Chapter Fifteen - Age Helps In Many Ways

Just after 30 seconds of my message, I received one back: "What did you do?" I was going to respond, but at that moment, I received a call from him.

- "What trouble did you get into now?"

- "It's not that serious," - I thought about it. - "I swear."

- "Why do I feel like I don't believe you?" - While he was talking to me, I heard words in the background: "Scalpel", "Doctor Strange, what is the next step?"

- "Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange, you called me while you were doing surgery, really? Please tell me it's not an emergency."

- "I could do it with my eyes closed." - The machine began to be heard in the background; the vital signs were beginning to decompensate.

- "Save the damn patient and call me later, I won't continue talking to you."

- "That doesn't leave me very calm."

- "I'll send you a photo in an hour."

- "Why a photo?"

- "You'll know when you see it."

I cut him, he had to continue with the surgery. Plus, he probably had me on speakerphone; I couldn't say anything in front of who knows who. I shook my shoulders and sighed, letting out a scream when I noticed that Fury was entering "my house."

- "What did you just do? Why was the "S.O.S", that was very...?" – I turned to look at him.

- "Hello…" - I looked at Nick, and when he saw me, he immediately pointed a gun at me. - "Hey! Don't shoot me, I'm innocent, I surrender." – I raise my hands.

- "Elizabeth?" – Lowers the gun. – "What the hell happened to you?"

- "Language sir."

- "But how?"

- "Problems with the experiment," - I blurted out. - "I didn't expect it; I thought it would work for me."

- "What was your experiment about?" – I look at myself.

- "I wanted to travel back in time, but it seems that time came to me."

- "Every day, I see that you are crazier," – He sighs – "and damn smart."

- "I know, I'm the best…"

- "But this was not, in fact, it was stupid. Take your things, we're leaving."

- "What!! Why? Where to?"

- "To the facilities, look at you," - I look at myself. - "You are going to take tests to find out about your state of health."

- "Sure." - I took my things, and I put my stuffed animal inside the backpack. - "I'm sorry for worrying you so much, Mr. Father."

He looked at me and without speaking to me, then he walked out the door. I started following him, I wasn't going to get into more trouble. When I got into the car I noticed something, it was bigger. She had grown. How tall would she be? I expected to be tall in this life. I've waited for it with all my being.

We arrived, and I was guided directly to the "infirmary." They did a million tests, they checked all my signs exactly. Everything was normal, everything was good, everything was correct.

When I left, I went to Nick's office. I will surely be punished until 2018. Why until that year? Because he would disappear that year, it made sense. And I wish he would forget everything during the 5 years that he became dust, because otherwise, the punishment would begin again in 2023.

- "How come you always get into trouble?"

- "Believe me, sir, I have been asking myself that question for 4 years" – References? Where?

- "Well, your studies are completely normal." - Sigh. - "Do you know how to get back to normal?" -

- "Well, I think I should try to make a few improvements to my "Pym particle replicas" because they are not very similar to the real thing. But I'm afraid that... if they find out about this, they will kill me. Maybe it would be easier to order some, but Pym hates SHIELD because of a problem with Stark, so…"

- "You talk a lot, too much." - He thought a little and continued, - "So how long will you take with that?"

- "Why so many questions? Do you prefer me to be 10 years old? Well, it doesn't matter," - I crossed my arms. - "I think it would take me a few months to do everything again... after the explosion, I have very little left of my experiment."

- "I understand, so after a few months, I suppose you will return to your correct age?"

- "Yes, well, maybe I'll stay like this for a while." - I looked at it. - "I think it would be very useful for other things."

- "Whatever you say." - He put his hand on his face.

- "So... how are you doing with the Ten Rings? Have you already sent Coulson to ask how Stark managed to escape? Wait, you sent it in May. We are in November, they should send him to make another appointment for the dinner that will be held in charity for the firefighters. It will be held on the 16th of this month."

- "Very well, we will do it." - What a good advisor I am, right? - "What do you plan to do when you are 14 years old?"

- "Well, I'll wait until they let me try my internship. I want to be a doctor completely," - I said, making quotes with my hands - "looking older will help, I guess."

- "14 years is still very little, you know that, right?"

- "Yes, but it's something."

- "And how will you explain your new age? You haven't thought about that, right?"

- "I'll invent something... I'm leaving."

- "You are taller." - A smile appeared on her face. - "You will no longer be able to accompany on missions being the "pretty girl who is not suspected." The change is notable, you will have a new workout for your height. Tomorrow, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton."

- "It must be a lie." – 'This is a joke, right? Or is it revenge?' – "I don't think some of your best agents should train me; they must be very busy... everyone here must be. Let's leave the training for a few minutes…"

- "Tomorrow."

- "Okay, it was a pleasure talking to you." - I rolled my eyes

I left Fury alone and walked to find a new "room" since the other one had exploded. I would stay here if tomorrow I started a new training session. I sighed and looked at my phone, took a photo, and sent it to Stephen. I received a call two hours later.

- "Elizabeth, why did you send me an edited photo? Do you want to conquer me by looking older?" – He started laughing.

- "Nope, that's not it... did you finish the surgery?"

- "Yes, recently."

- "Good, I'll be there in a few minutes. I'm close." - 'I wasn't, but I'd get there quickly anyway.'

- "Okay, Miss Elizabeth."

- "Bye."

I arrived at the agency's dining room and took out an apple and a chocolate. With everything in hand, I headed to an "empty" room and made a portal to get to the hospital. Maybe she should tell the doctor while he is sitting. What if he went into cardiac arrest? She would kill the doc before he faced Dormammu.

She entered the hospital and looked for her friend... if you could call it that way. She found him with his typical arrogant smile outside the operating room. He approached slowly and sat nearby. I called him, and he responded very quickly.

- "Hey, how did the operation go?"

- "I am the best; you know it went perfectly."

- "That doesn't answer my question, doctor."

- "Well, it turned out excellent. Have you arrived yet?"

- "Yes." – He got up from his seat.

- "I'm going to the entrance, don't wait. Where are you?" - Strange asked.

- "Close, very close." - He stopped walking when he was almost in front of me.

- "Are you seeing me?"

- "Yeah."

- "What a psychopath." - He started to laugh. - "Anyway," - He started to walk around, searching with his eyes. - "Where have you gone? I don't see you anywhere."

- "Hey!" - I shouted. 'I guess I won't tell him while he's sitting.' - "I'm in front of you."

- "But what…"

He looked at me, and his eyes widened. When we were face to face, his hand touched my face. I looked at him strangely. What's wrong with him? He grabbed my hand and took me to his "office," so to speak, a much more private place.

- "Is that really you?"

- "No, I'm Lucifer, and I came to take you," - I mocked - "Of course it's me."

- "You had surgery and didn't tell me?" - I started laughing

- "Do you think surgery would have healed so quickly? And I thought you were a great doctor."

- "Well, this is very strange," - He turned around as if thinking about what had happened. - "I thought you had edited a photograph. How did this happen?"

- "Problems with my experiment," – ​​I raised my shoulders. – "Maybe I didn't think through the time travel thing." -

- "Don't tell me... how do you plan to solve this?" -

- "Why does everyone ask me when I will return to my correct age? Do I look very ugly?" – 'I didn't know, I hadn't looked at me... in fact, I had only put on some clothes that they gave me when I left the infirmary. How would Fury have seen me?' – "If I am, tell me straight, Strange."

- "No, you're not... It's just strange." - I raised my eyebrow, looking at him - "For some reason, your Partial Heterochromia is more marked in your eyes. Plus, you're taller, and you don't look like a baby anymore."

- "Well, it will take me a while to return to my "age"; my options disappeared in an explosion." - I sighed, - "but I will take advantage of this to do my internship. What do you say? Do you want to have a new student? I will be very useful." – I winked at him.

- "Of course, you brat, I'll be able to see your "great abilities" that you say you possess. But what is that explosion?"

- "Nothing important. Then, I will come to work at the hospital tomorrow. It was a pleasure doing business with you, Mr. Strange."

- "Same thing, Miss Williams."

We said goodbye, and I returned to SHIELD. The next few days would be exhausting, with new training and a new life routine. There were a few days left before Stark finished with the "Mark III," and he must have already realized the problem with the ice on the previous one.

It wouldn't be long before he went to Gulmira and decided that he would start a battle against "the Ten Rings"; besides that, not many more interesting things happened. Well, there was the fact that Prince T'Challa of Wakanda would take on the mantle of the "Black Panther", but there was nothing she could do in that situation.

The two agents began to train me. Luckily for me, they used to go out on missions quite often, and I could continue with my "medical life." She should be the only intern who doesn't spend so much time in the hospital, but whenever they needed her, she didn't hesitate to go.

Stark's duel had already occurred in Los Angeles, and she had helped her father finish "the Avengers Initiative." Unfortunately for Nick, Tony would reject him the night he had come to visit him. That same day, Fury and Coulson would talk, and the director would tell him that they needed Natasha. Everything would follow the chronological order she was used to.

It began in 2010. In January, it was her birthday, and it was celebrated in "discrete" mode, which meant that only nearby agents knew about it. She remembered the faces they all had when they saw her when she was 4 years old, she only had to say that it was a failed experiment. She had only told Fury and Strange that she had tried to travel through time... Why? Because they would not be at the time when it was decided to do the "time heist" if Romanoff found out, or any other agent would be problematic for the future.

She couldn't help but laugh when Hill asked her if she was going to be 11 or 15. And honestly, it was an excellent question. How old was she? The age her body showed or the age that coincided with the years since her birth. Would I never be 11? She couldn't just go back to that age when her plan was to continue working at the hospital, and if that happened, she assumed that when the time came for her to be her age, she would be quite old, and she wouldn't go back to 11.

She got a few gifts from her friends, but to her shame, she decided she wouldn't be able to see some of them because of her change. From now on, she would only be in SHIELD and the hospital. She told her teachers and Clary that from now on, she would be at her "internship" at the hospital and would no longer be able to walk around her house, but that she would send them messages when she could. She did the same with almost everyone she knew, telling some that she would be very busy and others that she would go on a trip for a while. Goodbye, everyone, apart from those who were there for their birthday and the doctor. At least for a few months. According to her calculations, she had until May for "the problems" to begin.

During the next 5 months, I dedicated myself completely to the hospital and the new training. I watched the commercials on television for the Stark expo in May, where the opening ceremony would take place. Potts had invited her and she had decided to accept, not only because she always wanted to see all that, but because apparently it would be "undercover", at least that day, after all in a week Natasha would enter the company as she remembered.

When the day came, I talked to Pepper so she wouldn't be scared when she saw me. She had given me a sort of "VIP pass" so at least I would find her faster. How do you dress for an opening ceremony? I didn't know, so I just opted ​​to go "casual" . What is that? A pair of jeans and a T-shirt, what else?

- "Hello, how are you, Miss Potts?" - I asked her, and her face of surprise was enormous

- "Are you... Elizabeth? What happened to you?"

- "Yes, well... a problem with an experiment." – Stark had arrived at her side.

- "What kind of experiment does this make you?" – She saw Tony. – "Oh, Tony, meet Miss Elizabeth."

- "Elizabeth? I thought you said she was a little girl. Clearly, this girl has more than the brat I thought she would be." – But to be so nice, it's good that it would change a little over the years... but it would only be a little. I sighed

- "The pleasure is mine too, Mr. Stark." – Maybe it was better to be smaller, for some reason the "brat" bothered me. – "Elizabeth Williams." -

- "How old are you?" – He asked without taking into account what I said.

- "It depends, you could say that I am 11 years old," - I looked him directly in the eyes - but I could also be 15; I don't know clearly."

- "Well, could you explain to me how it happened?" - Said Potts. - "Until a few months ago, you were 10 years old. What experiment did you do?"

- "A very secret one that no one can find out about." - I winked at the woman. - "But I ended up with 4 more years in my life."

- "Do you know how to get back?"

- "No, well…" - I thought about it. - "Maybe I would know if my room hadn't exploded when I was in the first part." – I moved my shoulders, dismissing it. – "I lost almost everything necessary, but I wasn't going to stay without continuing, so I just did it. It will take me a little while to get everything."

- "Wow, I would like to hear more."

- "You hide a lot of things, it's interesting." - Stark shook my hand. - "I hope that at some point you want to work on something together." – He showed me his cell phone where there was information about the titles he owned, there wasn't much information besides that.

I had deleted almost all of SHIELD, and I had deleted other things when I learned how to hack.

– "A few months ago, you were very cute, you know that?"

- "Yes," - 'Did you know that, Rogers?' – "I have been told." – I smiled and continued talking about unimportant things with the next "Mrs. Stark". When I finished, I left to check out the expo a little.

When I returned to the base, I went straight to the director.

- "You must send Natasha to watch Stark next week." - I blurted out as soon as I entered.

- "I already had it in mind." - He didn't even look at me. - "Will something interesting happen? Why now?"

- "You'll know in a few days." - He snorted - "They will soon appoint Virginia Potts as CEO of Stark Industries. From that day on your life will start to get busier and become more interesting."

- "Good." - I look up - "Do you need anything else?"

- "How are you doing with Banner?"

- "It's a bit difficult to find, but I'll do it."

- "Ross will go look for him in a few days, and you will lose track of him again. I can tell you where he will be going next."

- "It would take away the fun." - He seemed to be thinking. - "A long time ago, I stopped asking how you know some things, but I think it would be interesting to find out one day."

- "It's magic," I answered. - "the magic of friendship. First, you must have friends, and then you will know."

- "I doubt that's it," - He looks down at the papers. - "I have friends."

- "If that's true, name someone who does not fear or respect you and someone who does not want to kill you, not counting some agents. You don't have much more... than me." - I said it to see if he would be upset, but I didn't receive anything - "Well, I'll go home, I'll be there while Romanoff enters Stark Industries. I don't want to cause suspicion."

- "Good"

- "Goodbye." - Honestly it wasn't for that reason, I was escaping from the training I had lately. I thought about what I had talked about with Fury – "If you want it to be fun to catch Dr. Banner, I'll make it more fun for you, Nick." – I whispered and went home.

When I got home, I sent a message to Foster: "New Mexico will get interesting in a few days." At the end of the month, Loki would complete his plan, and Odin would banish Thor to earth. Everything was following the order it should follow.

I was granted my medical license and rejected the idea of ​​working with Strange at the hospital. He didn't seem entirely happy, but I managed to convince him in a few moments. He congratulated me for accomplishing everything so quickly and gave me some earrings with the symbol of the staff of Aesculapius.

- "I hope that in a few years you will accept my proposal." - He noted. - "I am the best; working with me would be the best thing that could happen to you."

- "Don't say it like you don't know, Stephen, I've been working with you since last year. I know exactly how you are." – I got up from my seat. – "I will visit you soon, I hope to see news about you saying that you are the best neurosurgeon on the planet. - I take my things. - "Maybe I'll reconsider. For now, I'll take a vacation and try not to exploit another experiment. See you, Doctor."

- "Well, we'll see you, Miss Elizabeth." – He said goodbye to me. – "When they say that about me, maybe I won't accept you on my team anymore. I will be in great demand."

- "We'll see."

The following days, I managed to get everything necessary for the palladium poisoning that Stark would suffer; when I did, I went to visit my father. And I gave him everything, It came with a note attached with a "do not use until necessary"

- "What is this supposed to be?" - He asked

- "You will know soon, when necessary, just as the note says."

- "How will I know when it is necessary?"

- "Like I said, you'll know Fury. I'll be gone for a few days, you'll hear from me again in June or July. I will make an excellent entry, believe me."

- "May I ask, where are you going? Or why now?"

- "You can do it, but you will not have an answer. But I can tell you that Earth will be pretty big," – 'and sexy in a way.' – "visitor. Goodbye, Dad."

I went to New Mexico and rented a room. I had money from my jobs, I had never asked Nick for money. Maybe I should try it and see if he gets angry. I visited the three scientists and helped them in what they were doing. There was very little left for the new Avenger to appear. I wasn't going to miss Thor being run over. It was one of the best scenes. The Asgardians' faces were amusing.

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