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elisaphoenix13 · 4 years

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Trigger The Light (Ch.2)

A full week passed and Tony still hadn't figured out how to use the Quantum Realm to travel through time, but he also hadn't given up yet. Since he was constantly working on that in the lab, Quill ended up spending time with the girls and Scott. At the moment, he was swimming in the lake with Cassie and Diana, and every once in a while throwing the little girl out into the water. Scott wasn't swimming with them but he was still watching from one of the lawn chairs he was stretched out on. It was a step up from the pacing he did at first when he tried to think of any ideas to help Tony with the time heist idea.

Quill and Scott weren't exactly awkward around each other, but they did kind of circle each other with uncertainty. The pirate because he knew he was attracted to the younger man, but he could only assume that Scott was tiptoeing around him because Quill was a little intimidating. He was a big guy after all. But Tony and the girls always looked at them with a smirk like they knew something they didn't and it made Quill squirm.

"Uncle Quill! Can you throw me again?" Diana yells from the dock.

"Just a second kiddo!" He swims over to the wooden dock and lifts himself out of the water, barely catching the blush on Scott's face as he did. He chalked it up to the heat though. "One more time. I'm getting hungry so I bet you are too."

"Yup!"

Diana reaches up once Quill gets to his feet and he scoops her up and throws her into the water. The little girl giggles until she hits the water, disappearing for a few short moments until her water wings bring her back to the surface. As she swims back to the dock with a smile, Quill looks further out to look for Cassie and when he doesn't see her, he looks back toward Scott and then the house. The teen would have said if she was going inside, and when he didn't see her with Scott, his heart plummeted.

"Dia, did Cassie go inside?" He asks hopefully.

"No?"

That was all Quill needed to dive back into the lake. It didn't take him long to find the girl, and from what he could see, she was still conscious. Cassie wasn't stuck on anything, but she did seem to be struggling to get back to the surface, so Quill swims over and wraps one of his arms around her waist and takes them back to the surface. They both gasp for air once they break to the surface, and Quill swims back to the dock where both Diana and Scott are waiting. Scott pulls Cassie onto the wooden landing and wraps her in a towel as Quill pulls himself back up and helps her dry off.

"Are you okay? What happened?" The younger man asks her worriedly and she nods at his first question.

"I got a cramp. It was sudden and I was already under before I could ask for help."

Scott sighs. "Thankfully Quill was paying attention." He helps Cassie to her feet and hands Quill his own towel. "Thanks for helping her."

Quill only nods and dries himself off as they make their way back into the house, and he and the girls change into dry clothes as Scott starts lunch. When the pirate joins the younger thief in the kitchen, he looks around the kitchen as Scott puts sandwiches together.

"Need any help?"

"If you think you can handle a knife, you can cut up some fruit."

Quill huffs. "Oh haha. One time."

Scott smirks and Quill squashes the feeling of butterflies he gets at the sight as he squeezes behind the younger to grab a knife. He grabs some fruit from the fridge and the bowl on the counter and starts cutting up an apple when he notices Scott glancing at him. Quill ignores the first couple of times, but when the short looks continued he got curious.

"What?"

Scott startles and blushes at being caught. "I'm uh...just curious. How old are you?"

"Forty-three. Why do you ask?"

"You don't look it."

Quill snorts. "Maybe my celestial genes have something to do with that."

"Your what now?" Scott gives the older man his full attention.

"I'm only half human. The other half is celestial. Like a god." Quill shrugs. "A powerless one anyway. I used to have powers until…" He throws apple slices onto the plates. "Nevermind. It's a long story."

"You can't just say that and then not tell me the story!" Scott protests.

"Maybe I'll tell you later if you're still curious."

Scott stares up at him for a little while longer, but accepts Quill's offer and goes back to making sandwiches for everyone as the other man fills the plates with fruit. Once Quill finishes he walks into the garage and knocks on the door frame to get Tony's attention when he finds the engineer staring at a holographic model. When they first arrived at the cabin five years ago, Quill quickly learned not to startle Tony when he was invested in a project...or at least keep a few feet away when getting his attention. The first and last time Quill did that, Tony reacted by throwing whatever tool happened to be in his hand. Which was unfortunately a wrench and did not feel good when it connected with the pirate's forehead.

"Hey. We made lunch. Take a break."

Tony looks up at Quill and then back to the hologram. "You and Thumbelina having fun flirting?"

"Wh-what?!" Quill sputters and Tony dismisses the hologram and raises an eyebrow at him.

"Please. Anyone with eyeballs can see that you have a thing for Lang, and I definitely have eyeballs."

"You've been holed up in here for the past week! You're obviously misinterpreting-" Quill grunts in annoyance when Tony pushes past him. "Rude."

"Sorry. I just don't want to listen to your denial...and the girls are the one who noticed first." Tony says as Quill follows him back to the kitchen until he stops and turns to look at the taller man. "Just one thing."

Quill sighs and decides against arguing the truth. "Are you seriously going to give me the shovel talk?"

"Sort of, actually. Scott feels...unlucky when it comes to relationships. He's had a crush on...Stephen…" Tony nearly chokes on the sorcerer's name. "...since he moved into the tower but he knew that wasn't going anywhere and he didn't try anything so we let it go. He has gone through a failed marriage, something with another woman was apparently misread...he's been heartbroken twice--three times if you count Stephen--" The engineer trails off and Quill folds his arms.

"Tony, what's your point?"

"Don't pursue him unless you're serious about it. The Avengers are a dysfunctional family, but he's still part of it and I don't want to see him get hurt again. He's lonely Quill...and you're the first person that's made him actually happy in all the time I've known him." Tony exhales and runs his hand through his hair as he turns and makes his way into the kitchen.

Quill just stood in the hallway though. He knew the Avengers were a family, but to see Tony actually worry about the happiness of one of them like this threw him for a loop. Of course Quill had no intention of hurting Scott, but he was still processing the feelings he had for him in the first place. Feelings that probably weren't even reciprocated. He had to think of Cassie too. She meant a lot to Quill, but if she didn't want him going after her father, he would have to back off. To just stay friends with Scott.

They really were friends too. He and Scott might have their little circling dance, but they still laughed at movies together. Scott teased him about the knife incident, Quill pushed him into the lake on three occasions, and they listened to similar music. In the short span of a week this and more happened, and every bit of it had Quill falling harder and faster.

No one had ever made him feel this way.

"Uncle Quill! Me and Cassie are going to eat your sandwiches!" Diana yells from the kitchen and he rushes into the room and grabs his plate of food just before the little girl swipes his fruit.

"Nice try." Quill pops a blackberry into his mouth. "I gotta eat too." He passes by Cassie and gently pats her shoulder as he sits at the table. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Thank you for helping me." She says with a small smile.

"Anytime."

After lunch, Dia and Cassie help Tony clean up and the other two men relax on the couch after turning on another movie. Scott glances over at Quill when the clinking of his necklaces draw his attention, and he reaches over to hold the charms in his hand and give them a closer look.

"Where did you get these?" Scott asks.

"Oh, Rocket sometimes brings back scrap for Tony to mess with. Cassie and Dia got a hold of some of it and with Tony's help, they made these necklaces for me for my birthday last year." Quill offers the younger a bottle of beer, and Scott accepts it after dropping the charms.

"Now that I think about it, you wear them all the time, don't you?"

"Pretty much."

Except for when he slept, showered, or went swimming. When the girls presented the necklaces to him, he genuinely loved them. They were even more special because they came from the girls who were very important to him, and the sole reason he stayed on Earth instead of going back out to space with Rocket and Nebula. The charms were also proof that Quill was special to them too and he cherished it.

As soon as their movie was done, Diana flew into the living room and begged Quill to turn on a Disney movie, and he did after some complaining. No heat was held in his words though and she knew it because she just rolled her eyes at him as he turned on her requested movie. He, Scott, and Tony had televisions in their own rooms for times like this, so he let them know he was going up to his room to watch his own movies, grabbed a bag of Skittles from the kitchen, and went into his room. Tony would probably sit with the girls for a little while before getting back to work on the time travel theory, and Scott...well Quill wasn't sure.

Five minutes into his new movie, the side of his face was assaulted by a package of cookies, and Quill looks toward his bedroom door from his reclined position on his bed. He raises an eyebrow when he finds Scott standing in the doorway and then looks back at the tv as he throws a handful of candy into his mouth. He was pushing down the flutter of excitement he got as well, but no one needed to know that. It made him feel like a high schooler and didn't need Tony and Scott to tease him about it.

"If I watch Finding Nemo one more time, I won't be responsible for anything that happens." Scott finally says and Quill furrows his brows.

"The girls don't watch it that much."

"Yeah, well Harley and Peter did."

"I'm watching trashy comedy if you prefer that." Quill offers as an invitation and the younger doesn't waste any time in joining the pirate on his bed. "Shoes off you barbarian."

"I'm getting to that asshole." Scott snarks and kicks his boots off before sitting against the headboard. "What's trashy comedy?"

"Stepbrothers."

Scott smirks and grabs the package of cookies he threw at Quill earlier as well as the man's bag of candy. "You'll ruin your dinner if you eat all of this."

"Look here you brat!" Quill sits up just enough to take his candy back and pushes Scott off the bed who lands on the ground with a thump and an 'oof'. "Don't take my candy."

Scott winces and rubs his lower back. "Ugh. I think I bruised my tailbone."

"I'll do more than that." Quill mumbles under his breath.

"What?" Scott asks as he climbs back onto the bed with his cookies.

"What? Nothing. Watch the movie, weirdo." The pirate deflects.

"Oh shit." Scott murmurs and the older man looks over at him.

"Hey, I didn't actually mean-"

"I forgot my juice."

Quill snorts.

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