Wow two days in a row, shocking I know! For context, in the main story, this would be set right after the battle of New York. More notes at the end, enjoy!

The bracelet must have decided I'd had a rough enough day as I landed on the ground in an almost gentle fashion. Even then it was still hard enough to hurt my arm. Wincing I looked to see if I had busted my stiches, only to see that it looked much better than it had when I woke up in the SHIELD facility. Surprising, but for once a good one.

Knowing the next step was to figure out where and more importantly, when I was, I began to look around. To my shock I realized I was still in New York, the smell of the city and sounds of impatient taxi drivers was unmistakable. Now for the when, I needed to know how far I had gone and seeing that the sky was getting dusky I knew I needed to hurry.

Hoping to all things I still had my phone in my pocket, I dug around and beamed when I found it there. Without hesitation I called Tony, wondering how long it had been since he had seen me.

Before it could even ring once he picked up, laughing as he did.

"You sure weren't kidding about it not taking long this time."

Confused but glad to hear him sound so happy I smiled and replied, "No idea what you mean but good I guess? Ah I was wondering if you could come get me, I think I'm in-" stepping out of the alleyway I saw a flier on a telephone pole for the best sandwiches in Queens "- Ah I think I'm somewhere in Queens."

There was a pause before he answered, but I could hear the soft ping of his holoscreens.

"I see you, good thing I've got a you that has the tracker in the phone I made you. By the way, which you is this? Code word?"

Trying to think of a good one to describe this last jump I pursed my lips as I wandered a bit further out of the alley.

"Hmm," I paused, glancing around to try and figure out if the invasion had already happened.

Looking around I spotted a flyer on a telephone pole reading: Chitauri aren't gone, the battle of New York was just the start! Build your safe houses now before it's too late!

At least it's not further back than that, hopefully not too much time has passed.

"Ah, battle of New York. I was just with Steve on the way to the tower when I jumped."

I heard a noise; he was probably in his workshop tinkering with something.

"Oh, wow okay. Really?"

Feeling the phone pulse, I knew he wanted to switch to video and I couldn't stop my grin as his face came up.

"Hey T, how long has it been for you?"

He just looked at me for a second before he smiled back and said, "For me, less than five minutes, you just left. We all went out to dinner to celeb…ah to eat at this new place Peps wanted to try."

I got the feeling he was in my shoes for once, knowing something I didn't and knowing he had to keep it to himself. It was also really weird hearing him talk about me and know that it wasn't me, but I was glad it hadn't been a long time. The fear of leaving Tony alone for a long time was always there in the back of my head.

"Oh well that's great then, hope you aren't sick of me yet. I could really use a good night's sleep and for sure a change of clothes, it's been a long couple of days for me."

Looking me, his eyes growing more serious he frowned.

"I bet it has, you never really get a break, do you?"

I paused, hearing a strange noise behind me. Almost like a whip sound but not quite, shrugging it off I said, "No, but then things wouldn't be as exciting. When do you think you can pick me up, also can you bring a car I really do-"

I was in the middle of telling Tony that I was sick of heights and didn't want to fly when a red blur wrapped around my middle and jerked me into the air. Terror shot through me as I saw the ground get further away and felt my phone grabbed from my hands.

"It's okay, I've got her Mr. Stark. See you later bye!"

"Kid wait," Tony started, but the call was ended before he finished.

I couldn't place the chipper voice but feeling the wind whip around us I didn't really care as the fear of heights kicked in.

"OHMYGOSH AHHHHHHH," I screamed, now clinging to the unknown person hoping to all things he wouldn't drop me.

Panicking, I started having trouble breathing, and almost immediately the air stilled, and I felt a thud as we landed somewhere.

"Hey are you, I didn't mean to, oh gosh I'm so stupid!"

The words almost blended together he was talking so fast, though that might have been more due to my own heart racing and everything seeming faster than it should be. Detaching myself from my kidnapper as fast as I could I scrambled back.

Only to feel myself falling again, but this time with no one holding on. Before I could even scream, I felt an arm hook around me, pulling me close. We were on a rooftop and I had just backed off it. Finally getting a good look at who had grabbed me, I was met with a very odd-looking mask that had large white eyes and covered his entire face. It looked like a really weird morph suit, with a…spider on the chest? Who the hell was this guy?

"Seriously Anna I am so sorry! Are you okay? Mr. Stark is going to kill me! I didn't mean to scare you I swear." And he knew my name, more and more red alerts piling up.

"W-who are you," I demanded, shoving his arm off of me as I moved to the middle of the roof. Still very shaken up and slightly afraid of what this person would do next, I moved behind one of the air ducts on the roof as I tried to slow my racing heartbeat.

He froze, the strange mechanized eyes narrowing as he looked at me.

"What…c'mon Stripes, this isn't funny. Karen found your cell frequency and I was just so excited, I wasn't thinking okay. I'm sorry," he said, words almost blurring together from how fast he spoke.

Stripes? What on earth was that about?

He was young, I could tell that much. He almost reminded me of Tony when he was a teenager, something that started to put me at ease. But not so much that I came closer, everything he'd said so far only gave me more questions, as it became clear he wasn't going to hurt me.

"Whoa, slow down. I don't have a clue what you are talking about," I said, still wary of him despite the non-threatening posture he had adopted.

"You're…you're scared of me," he said, his voice cracking.

Ah a teenager then, he couldn't be older than sixteen if he was that at all.

Only just stepping out from the metal duct, I hesitated before saying, "Well, I've recently acquired a fear of heights and you did sort of grab me with no warning and fly into the air. Or swing, whatever it was you were doing."

At that his entire body seemed to droop and I almost felt bad for him.

He seemed at a complete loss but before he could say anything else, the loud clunk of metal startled both of us as Tony landed on the roof. Relief washed over me as I saw the red and gold suit and even more as the face plate opened and I saw Tony.

Exiting his armor, he grinned at me, "There's my favorite sister!"

I rolled my eyes, momentarily forgetting about the spider boy as I darted over to him and threw my arms around him as I said, "I'm your only sister I thought? Gosh even though I just saw you an hour ago, I feel like it's been ages," I said, suddenly wondering how long it had been. "Ah T, what year is it? How long have I been gone?"

"The invasion was almost nine years ago, but you've popped in pretty regularly. Although like I said, you told me it wouldn't be long this time." He glanced at my bracelet and smiled, amusement in his eyes, "It's driving Shield crazy, apparently every time you pop up there's a huge energy spike on their systems. They code named you Anomaly, they shot down my suggestion of Time Nanny which is just too bad, you could have been the Terminator's nicer cousin or something. I should give Cameron a call about that, we could get it licensed."

Smiling at Tony's rambling, I thought my future self, it was very odd to contemplate a future me having been here when I wasn't that person yet, if I thought about it for too long it would give me a headache. Rolling my eyes, I licked my thumb and rubbed a bit of grease off his face like I used to do, grinning as he scowled at me.

"You came straight from your workshop didn't you," I asked, pausing to take whiff of him and wrinkling up my nose as I did. "You smell like sweat and engine grease."

Smirking wickedly, he wrapped me in a hug as he said, "I guess I just missed you that much I couldn't wait."

Before I could shove him off and demand he take a shower immediately, we both turned at the sound of shuffling feet. Oh right.

Tony looked at the boy and sighed, "Remember what I told you kid? A while back when we talked about how ah, unusual my sister could be?"

The eyes on his suit got bigger, it was surprisingly expressive for a mask.

"You mean…" he trailed off and I got the feeling he was really disappointed. I must know him but just haven't met him yet, I wish this would stop happening. First with Steve and now this spider kid. I hated letting people down.

Tony nodded, "Yep, 'fraid so. One hell of a first impression, you really pull out the stops kid."

If someone could look mortified wearing a mask he did, I narrowed my eyes at Tony, knowing he thought this was funny.

"That's not very nice! I'm sure he," I paused, deciding to ignore Tony for the moment and focus on the yet to be named hero, "you, didn't mean to scare me. I'm Anna, but I guess you already knew that."

He seemed to relax when I smiled at him, I was starting to feel bad for how this must be for him.

"Yeah, yeah, I ah, I do know that I mean."

I couldn't stop the amused smile as he babbled, it was adorable. Definitely an awkward teenager, I was sure of it.

"So you must be…Spider-boy," I asked.

He was incredibly expressive with his movements and straightened, almost trying to look bigger.

"Ah it's…it's Spider-man actually," he said, trying very hard to cover the crack in his voice.

Spider-Man? I think not, but why burst his bubble. Smiling I said, "Of course, my mistake. Nice to meet you then, sorry about the freak out. I've had more than enough of my share of heights over the last few days."

Glancing to Tony – who still had an amused smile on his face – he stepped closer, looking at me intently.

"So ah, you really just came from the Chitauri invasion? And you don't know me at all yet?"

There was a mix of interest and disappointment in his voice, but it turned to curiosity as he said, "You do look different, lighter almost."

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Tony tense up, as if he were worried about what Spider-Man might say next.

I couldn't tell if that was a good thing or not, but it did cause me to wonder what version of myself he knew, what she had been through.

Before I could ask what he meant by lighter, a police car blared past us on the street below, the lights flashing as it rounded the corner. Darting to the edge of the rooftop Spider-Man

"Well that's my cue to go," he said, glancing at us over his shoulder. "Ah, I'll see you later Mr. Stark, you too Anna."

I realized now that the strange sound I had heard in the alleyway was coming from him. A thin silver rope…web shot out from his wrist as he jumped from the side of the building, swinging after the police car.

And I thought my return to the Big Apple couldn't get any stranger.

Turning to Tony, I asked, "Are you going to fill me in on any of this?"

Feigning a look of innocence, he said, "What about Underoos or how you look like a hot mess? Because I love you and all, but Sis you really ought to try something other than the windswept action hero look. It suits me a lot better than you."

Rolling my eyes, I smacked his arm.

"Very funny," I said, "Now can we please go home?"

Chuckling he nodded, "Yeah, of course, we can."

Sighing because I knew he would have to fly us off the roof, something I had hoped to avoid I glanced at the roofs edge nervously. Noticing he raised a brow in question.

"You good?"

"Well I had sorta hoped to not go flying through the air again today," I said, not looking forward to the fear of being in the air again.

"Poor kid, I guarantee he is going to beat himself up over that. He kinda worships you, scratch that, he definitely does. I put money on his face being as red as that suit."

A look of horror crossed my face.

"Really?! Oh gosh I feel awful now! He just scared me so badly and I…"

Cutting me off Tony said, "Hey don't do that, first time he met you, you made a joke about bad first impressions that no one got. Guess this is what it was about, the kid will recover I promise. Now if you can handle me getting us down, I've got a car waiting."

Sagging in relief both at his assurances and the prospect of a smooth ground level ride home I nodded.

Before he stepped back into his suit, he dropped the playful smile and put a hand on my arm, suddenly serious.

"I get it you know, no flying unless you want to," he said, eyes much heavier than I remember them being.

"Thanks, I just…it was terrifying. Everyone else can either fly or protect themselves," I paused, searching his face for a moment, seeing the ravaged skyline flash behind him for a split second. "I felt completely powerless to do anything to stop what was happening."

Tony sighed and ran a hand through his messy hair.

"Yeah, it sucks," he said, understanding and uneasiness in his tone. Deciding to drop it for now, I smiled at him as I reached up to fix his hair.

I suddenly realized that I hadn't gotten quality time with Tony in such a long time, I was almost jealous of myself, or my future self.

He just chuckled as the haunted look left his face.

Closing my eyes as Tony grabbed me and flew us down, I decided that I was going to have a few normal days if it was the last thing I did. And seeing as there was proof that it wouldn't be, dammit all I was going to have a normal couple of days with my brother!

Feeling my feet touch the ground I opened my eyes and raised by brows in surprise as I watched Tony's suit melt away back into his arc reactor.

Well that's new.

Shaking my head, knowing I should never be surprised at his innovation I smiled as I spotted his car. Unmistakably the flashiest one on the street.

"I really appreciate this, I guess I'm just really wanting some normal instead of all the craziness you know?"

He laughed as we got in the car.

"God yes, I could really be on board with that. Not that it ever lasts long," he said, rolling his eyes as we started to head back to the tower.

Glancing over at him, I smiled and said, "Well I am sorely in need of some quality time with my favorite hero."

Snorting he said, "Like you're going to have to ask him twice. He's going to be thrilled to-"

Interrupting him I said, "I was talking about you Tony." Now watching him curiously, I went on, "Who did you think I meant?"

Eyes growing wide for a spilt second, he said, "Of course you meant me, like anyone else could be your favorite hero."

Suspicious now, knowing there was something he wasn't telling me I decided to let it go for the moment. I would try to get it out of him later.

"Right…so who all is at the tower? It would be nice to spend a few days without any explosions."

Zipping through traffic Tony seemed to calm down as he said, "It's a fairly full house at the moment, not sure how long everyone will stick around but I have a feeling they'll want see you."

Looking out the window, it was comforting to see the streets in order and not littered with rubble.

"I thought you said they all just saw me," I asked.

Tony glanced over at me and sighed.

"You have to understand it's been a while since any of us have seen you so…"

Narrowing my eyes in concern I put my hand on his shoulder.

"So, what? Is something wrong?"

He shook his head as he said, "No! No, it's just…what I'm trying to say is you're so young! I mean dammit all, for someone so straightforward you are the most confusing person in the world, you know that? Even when you tell me exactly what I need to know it still manages to be cryptic."

Worried that he was mad at me I started to interject but before I could say anything, he went on, a softness in his eyes as he looked back at the road.

"You know, I always thought you had the secrets of the universe in your back pocket as a kid, turns out I'm destined to always be right about everything," he said with a playful smirk.

Fairly certain he wasn't upset I said, "Why don't you start from the beginning and tell me what you can."

"Yeah okay, I can do that," he said, taking a turn off that I knew didn't lead back to the tower. "Let's take a drive."

Apparently, whatever I would eventually tell Tony about not letting me know anything, he had really taken it to heart. So, he didn't end up telling me much at all, the only thing I knew for certain was that I wanted a drink and a strong one.

After everything that had happened with Loki and the tesseract, I just wanted to have one night of not being in danger or having to worry about someone.

By the time we got back to the tower my head was spinning. Tony had tried his best to simplify it all, but even though he couldn't really tell me much it was more than enough to give me a headache.

Pulling into the garage under the tower, I blew out a long breath trying to wrap my head around everything. It all made a confusing amount of sense, why I had those strange dreams, the odd déjà vu, and the sense when something wasn't right.

Undoing his seat belt, Tony reached over and patted my arm.

"That was a lot to take in, you look like you need to lie down sis."

Looking at him, I shook my head, "No, I need a drink is what I need."

Snorting he got out of the car, motioning for me to follow as he said, "I've got you covered there, y'know I don't think I've ever seen you drunk. That needs to change right now, let's get upstairs and then you can pick your preferred flavor of hangover."

I just shook my head.

"I'm not so sure about that but I can't say it wouldn't be nice to just forget about everything for just one night," pausing I looked at him and smiled sadly. "I feel so out of place all the time, like there are things I should know. Looking at you now…I wonder if I even know you anymore."

Shaking his head as we got in the elevator he said, "Stop that right now, you're the one person I know best, in fact, I probably know you better than you know you at this point." Leaning against the wall he went on, "I've figured out quite a bit about that bracelet of yours over the years, Bruce and I work on it off and on all the time. Even got Thor to try and get some info out of his asshole of a brother, not that he was very helpful at all."

I snorted at the scowl on his face at the mention of Loki, I couldn't really blame him after having just lived through the chaos of the invasion.

"You're all out of order Lisey, there's things I know that you don't and then there are times when it's the other way around," he said, smiling at me sadly. "Future you…well she, ah there's so much you haven't been through yet and no one wants to lie to you, but you've made it pretty clear not to tell you too much about the future. So for now just try to relax."

I just nodded, too tired to argue with him.

"So ah, what's the deal with Spiderboy? I felt like I kicked a puppy when I didn't recognize him, are you going to fill me in any there," I asked as the elevator stopped.

Tony smiled and shook his head as he said, "Oh I have a feeling you'll be seeing him again very soon. The kid isn't going to be able to stay away, puppy is an apt description seeing as he follows you around like one."

"Do I know him, like without the brightly colors onesie?"

He just laughed and shook his head.

"Some things have to be lived as you like to say."

Okay, so as I was writing this I decided that as much as I love this it's not what I want to do with Peter in the rewrite. I spent a lot of time with Spidey in the original draft of TTAD and I want to do the same this time around so I'm going to tackle my own take on an origin story with the MCU version of Spiderman. We don't get much more than hints at how it happened and I have some ideas that I want to explore so while some of this might end up in the main story the part with Peter will not. But I also wanted to give ya'll an idea what I'm working on and hint at where I'm going to take things by sharing this little deleted chapter. I am definitely working on the main story and I'm hopeful that I can edit it the entire thing over the summer and start updating chapters again soon. As always thanks so much for all of your amazing support, it means the world to me. Feel free to message me anytime!