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Seventeen, powerless, sarcastic, and dangerously intelligent, Derek has spent his entire life being passed from one foster home to another while trying very hard not to become anyone's problem. Unfortunately, being a teenage genius with an uncanny ability to uncover secrets makes him exactly the kind of person HYDRA wants to get their hands on. So when S.H.I.E.L.D. finds him, they decide there's only one place Derek can possibly be safe: with the Avengers. There’s just one problem—the Avengers are barely holding themselves together. Still dealing with the aftermath of the Sokovia Accords, old friendships are fractured, trust nonexistent, and Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes have enough problems of their own. The last thing they need is a hyperactive teenage boy dropped into their lives. But Derek doesn't need powers to prove he belongs. He becomes their brains, their unofficial therapist, their resident menace, and—whether they realize it or not—the glue holding the team together. And somewhere between solving mysteries, breaking rules, getting himself into ridiculous amounts of danger, and driving every Avenger completely insane, Derek discovers something he never thought he'd have: a family. Because Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes don't care that Derek isn't their biological son. He's their son. And they'll burn the world down before they let anyone take him away.