Snow White ▷ Scott Lang

2 - NOT ALONE

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍'𝐓 𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃. It had been one of their longer jobs, not the longest, but incredibly close, and Doc had to be in charge of keeping time and reminding them to go through everything again to make sure they stayed in and secure; security was always tight when bad things were happening.

But when bad things were done by powerful people, they were bound to get sloppy, and, fortunately for them, there were many holes, and while it did take them until three seventeen in the morning to finish, they had been able to get virtually everything.

Snow hadn't slept until well into sunrise, but she would have stayed awake even longer if it hadn't been for Grumpy who had chosen to stay awake and, when talking over certain sections with Snow as they read and wrote their summaries, made an effort to not be rude even though it was clear they were tired, though the post-heist high always made it hard to be in a sour mood, especially if things went well.

"You might wanna go over my grammar, make sure it's all good if you want to send this in early, Snow," Grumpy said around seven in the morning when they finally threw the towel in, unable to stay awake any longer.

"I'm going to send it in the afternoon, I'm just going to make groups and go over my work one last time to make sure revisions will be easy once I wake up. Thank you for staying up, Grumpy, and good work tonight, you did amazing," she explained, unable to help herself as she thought back to how well managed Grumpy was in keeping everything secure.

She could hear them smiling as they replied, "Thanks, Snow. And give yourself some credit, that document you made was really hot."

Snow snorted then, unable to stop her giggling, the sleep deprivation starting to get to her. "Sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to Happy."

Grumpy made a sound that she wasn't even sure had come from them, an indignant laugh that sounded a little too angry to even count as a laugh, but she knew it did all the same. "If you tell anyone I said that, I'll find your house and mess you up, girly, don't test me."

Snow had just laughed and laughed and if she had been in her fully right mind she would've known better than to have, not wanting to alert her stepmother, but she did have a white noise machine and took precautions to make sure she wasn't noticed, so she figured she was fine, and she was.

But that didn't mean she wasn't tired. She had gone to sleep an hour later and had been able to sleep until eleven thirty before her stepmother came knocking on her door, shouting at her to get up, that it was nearly noon and she had to clean the house, as well as more frustrations and complaints about Snow's lazy disposition in general, as well as her ungrateful nature, but those were standard.

Snow, fortunately, woke up just fine, so there weren't any problems when she opened her door and told her stepmother that she would get right to work, the woman telling her that she expected the kitchen to be spotless by the time that she returned later that night, and Snow didn't spend too much time wondering where she was going, but her stepmother had been leaving the house more and more as of late, and while she didn't have any qualms about the time to herself, she couldn't help but be curious as to why.