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The Maximoff twins didn't often break promises, which is why they were currently in a small town located in England - where Pietro and Five were considering living.

They travelled around the streets, pointing things out and explaining them to their young companion. They were making jokes and sometimes they would just walk in silence, Pietro holding onto Five's small hand the whole time.

They were walking down a relatively empty street when Five started jumping up and down with a large smile.
"Look, look! Can we go in there? Please?" She asked, using the hand that wasn't in Pietro's to point to a shop across the road. The twins both turned their gaze to the shop.

It was an ice cream parlour named "Molly's Ice Cream" and it had a small cone with ice cream as a small logo.

Wanda smiled widely and nodded, looking over at her twin who smiled just as wide as her. They both nodded, looking both ways before crossing the road and entering the small shop.

"Hello! My name is Jack, how may I help you today?" The man behind the counter asked, and they could see through the glass. A dozen different flavours of ice cream could be seen, different colours and toppings.

Five grinned wildly, and proceeded to look up at Pietro, making him look down in question. She pointed to all the ice creams, and then shrugged.

"Uhh, we'll have... three two-scoop cones. Please." Pietro added, and they all gazed down at the flavours.

"Can I have... Cookies and cream and rocky road on mine, please?" Wanda asked, making the worker - Jack - nod his head and begin scooping the cookies and cream into a cone.

"I'm not sure." Five told Pietro with a small frown on her face. She furrowed her eyebrows as she looked over all the flavours again.

"Well, I always have fudge and vanilla flavour on mine. But you can choose whatever you want, okay?" Pietro told her, smiling reassuringly. He knew that she still wasn't used to being able to choose things. She never got to when she was at the Hydra base.

"Could I maybe have, um, that green one there?" She asked him, pointing to the mint chocolate chip ice cream. Pietro nodded, and she grinned before seeing another one that she might like. "Wait... what about that one? Uh..." she bit her nails as she looked at the pink coloured ice cream.

"Strawberry?" Pietro asked her, and she nodded. "You could have one of each, you know."

"I can?" At Pietro's nod, she grinned and looked up at Jack. "Please can I have the green one and the pink one?"

He raised an eyebrow, making Pietro stifle a laugh. "She'll have mint choc chip and strawberry, please." Wanda told him, and he nodded, scooping the green and pink ice cream. He passed the large cone to her when he had finished. She smiled happily.

"I'll have fudge and just regular vanilla." Jack nodded once more, and Five tugged on Pietro's sleeve and showed him her large scoops of ice cream happily. Then his attention was stolen by Jack, who passed him his own cone.

"Thank you!" Wanda called out after they had paid - using the bank card Tony had provided them. Five ate her ice cream happily, and the twins laughed at how much she had already gotten over her face. There was some on her nose, and chin. Then there was a small bit of pink ice cream dripping from her cheek as it melted.

The three person family found a bench to sit on outside, near a park with a few kids playing around. They laughed at Five's ice cream covered face, grinning when she swatted away their hands when they tried to wipe the ice cream off. She licked the ice cream from her chin - with much difficulty.

Pietro had gotten some fudge ice cream on his nose, which they both made fun of him for. When the two noticed Five's gaze locked on the park, they decided to let her play for a while.

When they had finished their cones, Pietro took Five's hand again and entered the park. She ran around excitedly, Pietro having to drop her hand so he wouldn't have to use his speed.

Wanda showed Five to the swing, and told her to sit down. "Hold on tightly, okay?" Five nodded, gripping the chains on the side of the seat. Confusion was clear on her face, but she listened to the Maximoff twin anyway.

Soon enough, Wanda began pushing her on the swing, making her go relatively high before she swung back down. She was pretty much screaming as she kept going higher. She giggled and smiled before she had to get off, Wanda's arms getting quite tired.

She climbed up towards the slide, but found another girl sitting at the top.
"Oh! Hi." Five greeted the chubby brunette girl. She was adorable and had warm brown eyes.

"Hello! I'm Tilly." She smiled at Five, making her quite nervous. She'd always known herself as Five - for as long as she could remember - but she had been told that it wasn't her real name. She had a name, just like Wanda, Pietro, everyone.

"I'm, um, I'm Ava Katie Maximoff!" She told Tilly, grinning.

"I like your orange hair," Tilly said, placing down the book she had in her hands. She reached out to touch it, and Five didn't even flinch.
"Can I braid it?"

After a bit of consideration, Five agreed, not even noticing Wanda and Pietro smiling from afar.
"Sure."

She turned around, and the little girl braided her hair into two separate plaits. Five felt down them, smiling widely and thanking Tilly.
"I'm eleven! How old are you?" Tilly asked soon enough, and Five - well, Ava - responded confidently.

"I'm ten, but I'm turning eleven soon!" She smiled, and not long later, she had to leave.

"Little one," Pietro said from the bottom of the slide, making Five look over. "I'm sorry, but we have to go now." Five then noticed the darkening sky, and said goodbye to her new friend.

And as they got in the Quinjet - piloted by Tony's new AI system, Friday - they all agreed that the day had been successful. Pietro and Five really loved it in the small town, and decided that maybe this could be home.

Just maybe.

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THATS THE END

Details about the sequel are in the next chapter (even though it's not actually a proper chapter)