Ch 48 : Hello Felicia.

"What the hell is happening here?" Nick exclaimed as soon as he saw what Steve and Logan were doing while he was gone.

They seemed to be fighting, Steve seemed to be at a disadvantage but Logan was not having it easy either.

"We're playing poker, what else does it look like?" Logan asked his grandson rhetorically.

"What are you using to bet? I doubt the Captain has any money." Nick asked him as he walked over to them in the living room.

"Candy." Was Logan's simple and straightforward answer, Nick almost face palmed with all his hands.

"Anyway, I finished what I had to do, I'll let you two get caught up but after that I should take Cap back to S.H.I.E.L.D, they still have your shield after all." Nick said the last bit to Steve who nodded his head to Nick.

Leaving Steve and Logan to continue their game of poker, Nick started wondering around the school/mansion to see just what he could get up to while he waited.

...

Nick ended up right back where he started after saying hello to a few people like his little brother/cousin?; watching Steve and Logan talk and gamble with candy as money.

"Alright let's go, I've gotten bored of this place." Nick said to them as he grabbed Steve and teleported away.

Logan just sat surprised for a second before he leaned over to where Steve was sitting and took all the candy's that the captain had managed to amass.

...

"Where. The. Hell. Is. Stark?!" Fury shouted as he burst into the room that Nick woke up in before, Coulson coming right after him.

"Sir, he took the Captain as well, I have the our surveillance system working right now trying to find him but not much luck so far." He told Fury after he checked a message on his phone.

"Don't bother, I'm right here." Nick said to them both as he walking into the room, Steve following after him.

"Stark! Where the hell have you been?!" Fury shouted right into Nick's face.

Nick's face was blank as he stared down at Fury, "I was letting the captain meet my grandpa, they're old friends, while they were playing poker I saved the world from a mad man planning to take it over with man eating parasites." He said, completely serious, with no signs that he was lying.

Venoms head suddenly popped out of Nick's body, "Who are you calling a parasite?!" He shouted angrily at Nick as everyone else looked on with surprise.

"Fine, man eating symbiotes then, happy?" Nick asked Venom who nodded with a wide smile that showed off his needle thin teeth that were covered in his saliva, he then returned back into Nick's body.

"Who was the mad man?" Fury asked, the only one that seemed to be used to Nicks surprises and was more concerned over who he had let out of his sight.

"Carlton Drake, from the Life Foundation, he went mad with power, it's a shame really... when the weak get a small taste of power they think they're god." Nick said to Fury, giving him a look at the same time, "Let that be a lesson to you Fury." He said before he teleported away, leaving Steve with them this time.

Everyone was left in silence after he teleported away, letting his words settle in.

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"Hello Felicia." Nick said as he walked into his bedroom where she was sat on the bed, she seemed to be waiting for him with Ghost in his original form beside her, laying on the floor where she was stoking him, she looked like she was just doing it in habit as she had a dazed look on her face but Ghost seemed to be enjoying it regardless if his chuffs where anything to go off.

When Nick spoke it shocked Felicia out of her daze, making her turn to him, she had a soft smile on her face, Nick wasn't sure of what to make of it.

"Hey-" Nick started but was quickly silenced by Felicia sealing his lips with her own in a fiery passion.

"What was that for?" Nick asked with some happiness clearly coming through his tone, happy that it seemed that Felicia was starting to forgive him for his foolishness.

"I can't stay mad at you forever and I realised that you are always getting stronger and more powerful, it was inevitable that you would have gotten farther and farther away from me as you did so I want you to help me get stronger as well, so you won't be able to leave me behind." She explained to Nick.

"I would have never left you behind, it's a wide world and an even wider array of mysteries to discover and explore, I want to do that with you... you and Death." Nick said looking over to the side, seemingly at nothing.

But they both knew that there was actually someone standing right there, invisible to almost everyone besides those that were close to dying and someone like Nick, who had a special third eye that let him see her.

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