Heartbeat (Natasha x Wanda + One)

Fourteen

Allie

Ten hours.

Ten hours into mama's fifteen hour surgery and I'm sitting in the hospital conference room with Rio and Agatha, waiting on Amanda Carter, the cps officer who gave my mom a heart attack.

I'd opted to leave Natasha and Wanda out of this part. Honestly I think I scared Natasha, but I'd deal with that later.

My fingers tap the conference room table in annoyance. Amanda Carter was late. Granted it was nearly eleven at night, but when a Stark sends for you, it's typically best not to keep them waiting.

Especially one that has every intention of blackmailing you.

Rio reaches over and puts her hand on mine, stopping the tapping. "Relax," she says softly. "She'll be here and everything will go as planned."

"And if it doesn't," Agatha says teasingly from my other side. "We can bury her in paperwork for the next fifty years."

"If it doesn't go according to plan, I go to jail," I remind her.

Agatha waves a hand at me, "oh like we'd let that happen."

"Yeah," Rio agrees. "Megan would kill us if she woke up to find you in jail. Of course, she'll probably kill all of us when she finds out what we did."

"Technically," I grin. "You guys didn't do anything. I'm the one that did the hacking and I'm the one blackmailing this sad excuse of a cps officer."

"So you found something then?" Agatha asks excitedly.

I nod, "don't I always?"

Agatha laughs, "that you do kid. We should hire you for our investigation division. Don't you think, babe?"

"We both know that we'd never be able to use what she finds," Rio answers with her own chuckle. "We are lawyers, we are supposed to uphold the law not break it."

"You can just pay me off books," I joke. Not that I had any intention of working for them and they knew it. Looking at the clock I sigh, where is this lady?

Just when I'm about to have MONDAY call her, the conference room door opens and in walks Amanda Carter, flushed and out of breath. She shuts the door behind her and drops her purse on the far end of the table, "sorry I'm late. All the elevators were closed so I had to walk up the six flights of stairs to get.." she trailed off as she finally notices New York's two best lawyers sitting on either side of me.

"Do sit down," I say with a fake sweetness. "Depending on how this goes, we might be here a while."

She hesitantly takes a seat, "where's Miss Stark? I was under the impression that I was meeting with her tonight."

"I'm right here," I answer. Smiling at her confusion I continue, "Megan couldn't be here tonight. She's currently in surgery due to a heart attack that you gave her." Leaning forward on the table, my smile disappeared and I say almost threateningly, "so now you get to deal with me. And I'm not nearly as nice as my mother."

Her brows furrow in disbelief and she grabs her purse, "well unfortunately for you, I only deal with the adults of a case." She stands up, "thank you for wasting mine and your time, good night."