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Chapter 1- the beginning

At the top of a little apartment block in Brooklyn
Is where my small dysfunctional family live
just the three of us. My mother, father and then me, Colletta.
Although the apartments small and somehow over cramped with just the three of us there we make it work mostly because My mother is always in the kitchen, cooking a meal in the small galley-style kitchen whilst shes singing along to a song or even making one up.
She always has a smile spread across her warm face no matter what she is doing but she's always at her most happiest when come she adds spices and seasoning to her marvellous food creations one of the only joys in life that we can afford.
My father on the other hand wastes his days away
watching tv and drinking alcohol
occasionally he will disappear to his building site and then return home to get drunk once again occasionally arguing or making up with my mother during the times when he's somewhat sober.
Im only 6 and as I don't have any siblings it gets boring unless I'm with the boy that lives down stairs, we're best friends ever since I was 2 he would come upstairs after kindergarten or school and take me everywhere and anywhere with him, usually just to the park across the road with his aunt or to their apartment but those few golden hours are enough to satisfy me.
The boy is 8 and is the only thing I have close to a brother So he knows everything about me.
Shortly after I turned 4 he took me to the library. I fell head first into being a bookworm so much so everyday I would wait for him to take me to the library and i read to him in return I listen to his stories about the hero's that protected us and the city.
Today we come back to the block after being at the library,
he walks me up the old chipped concrete stairs to my door and says goodbye just like he always does.
He walks back downstairs to his apartment as I open the door and venture inside to mine.
I drop my brightly coloured bag on the floor, open it up carefully and bring out a book that Peter and I had convinced the little old librarian to let us have for two weeks although not having a library card between us.
I open it wondering what wild adventures
or dark trails it will lead me down,
this is the very first time Ive taken a book home
my family cant afford books or fancy clothes or much of what the other kids had
but I know for the full week that I have this book
my mind will be transported
to far of places like
pirate fighting on their massive ships with their blades clashing together as they swing at one another
Or
flying fairies that would dance with the elf's and pick berries to make meals for their own families much like my mother.
I repeated this everyday
going of to my own little world
my imagination running wild every night
after I got home from being with Peter and telling him about the next part that I had read.
I would then pack it away in the brightly coloured bag from which it had once came from.
On Friday, 6 days after Peter and I had got me the book, I came home and read the book as normal I only had a few pages left so once I had finished them I carefully placed the book in my bag for the last time
I go back to where I usually sit on the floor and let my mind wander off to places of magic and fiction
Making my own story in my mind
but all of that came crashing down when
A loud thud came from within the kitchen
My father shouted from his armchair
"Hulda?"
No answer.
My father shouted again with a sharper and louder tone
"Hulda!"
Still no answer
my father sat up from his slouched position which he rarely leaves for anything other than work.
He bolts to my mothers place of magic,the only place where she could stay
and make her marvellous concoctions And sing her beautiful songs.
He opens the door through his legs I could see my mother on the cold white tiles of the kitchen floor surrounded by her own blood.
She lay there still unmoving
my father rushes in and holds her in his arms.
I had never seen my father like this before he was destroyed I stood there for what felt like seconds
but it was clearly not because soon men with bright colours jackets flooded in with bags
and serious looks upon their faces and shut the door to my mothers haven and shut me out as they did.
I waited
And I waited
And waited
Until the door creeped open and the men leave
I peer in trying to see past my father and the last few legs of the men but there was nothing.
My father emerged looking upset I didn't say anything until he crouched down to my hight and held my small hand in his
"Where's mama?"
I asked oblivious as ever
He looked at me, took a breath
"Your mamas gone, she's gone to a better place"
he paused and tried to hold back the tears congregating at the bottom of his eyes
He stared at me as his emotions over take him
I watch behind him as the men from before walk from behind the door and take my mother out of the home she had made.
I look back at my father as he let the barriers holding back his tears release
he pulled me into a deep hug
that both of us never wanted to leave.
He released me after a while, his cheeks soaking wet in salty water from his red eyes
he wiped my small face full of tears with his thumb as I stood quiet.
Waiting for someone
something
to bring her back to us
To bring her back to me.
But nothing came that night.

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The next morning I didn't want to move
I knew there would be no hot breakfast on the table never mind a cold one
I knew I wouldn't be greeted by a warm hug and a loving gaze
And I knew I wouldn't share a smile with someone over the hot meal and the loving gaze.
That was all in the past now
no one would give me the same warm loving safe feeling that that my wonderful mother had.
I pulled my self out of bed and made my way to the living room and sat.
I started at the walls and then at the rooms contents, the world seemed grey almost as if the colour had went with my mother and her warm nature.
Ten minutes later there was a knock on the door.
It was the boy standing in his planet pyjamas holding vhs tapes and sweets
Assuming I'm ready to go to school and give my show and tell project
"I'm not going to school today, sorry "
I say from the crack in the door
"I know"
I open the door a little confused wondering why he's here then but he doesn't say anything instead he
throw his arms around me and talks about how his aunt had seen the men take her away and that he was sorry that shes gone and his aunt was sorry too.
We both sat on the floor of the dull living room for the full day watching movies and occasionally laughing although its hard to see the funny side of things now.
At some point my father had left but we didn't care the movie ended and my father came home.
He was drunk.
He slouched down in his chair and dozed off
I let Peter out before he could judge him and took myself to bed and that was the way it was for months.
He would get drunk come home and sleep and I would play with Peter and go to school.

One day my father came home with a Woman.
An ugly woman.
My mother had always told me not to call someone that or to judge someone by there looks
But I could tell she was ugly
On the outside and on the inside
She had white dyed hair
big plumped lips that had been plastered with a hot pink and red combination of lipstick
that almost covered up the snarl they seemed to be stuck in.
She wore an animal printed jumpsuit with big black heels and she was just about ,if not more drunk than my father.
My father brought her home everyday until the day she moved in and only then I found out she had a son.
She was horrid.
And so was her son.
I spent most of my time at peters apartment because of that and because I no longer had a retreat as they gave him my bed room.
However one day as I was getting ready to go back to peters my stepmother was angry and screamed at my father
"enough is enough, you either pick me"
she stopped and looked at me and pointed one of her long fake crooked nails, that my father had no doubt payed for with, directly at me
"or you choose your old sad pathetic little family, if you can even call her that"
I looked at my father with a look of calm on my face. My father didn't show his emotions but he would never let me go
if this woman thought she could tear my father and I apart she would be very wro-
"Well you heard the woman. I've got a new family now"
I stood there frozen to the spot
My face plastered with a horrified look as it stared back to his, scrunched up in anger
"GET OUTTA HERE"
She turned her nose up at me spitting as she shouted
"yeah and don't come back"
Her son stood there laughing at me with a snarling tone
I grab my bag and dahs out the door flying down the stairs with now where to go I run into the park I stop to have a quick look but it's big and there's no one here to help so I start moving again
I jog through the park until I came to a bridge the water trickled gently through the pebbles and the birds sing from the trees nearby I turn around and find a simple bench I sit my bag down and then myself looking out across the almost empty park listening to the sounds of the oncoming night.
All I had in this world now was a little bag with a book,some clothes and a Twinkie bar.
The Wingate park slowly turned dark and I laid my head down and turned onto my back to look up at the darkened sky
It started to rain almost like the weather was mocking me, like it was mocking my situation.
I stared up at the sky as the small drops of rain fell on my face and realised that this was my reality,
that this was my destiny,
it hurt.I closed my eyes trying to ignore the pain
"What are you doing?"
I could tell it was someone around my age
but I wasn't in the mood for talking
"Sleeping"
I could hear him rummaging around
"You can't be sleeping if you're talking to me"
I sat up using my elbows and took a long hard look at the boy in front of me
he must of been about 8-9 so about the same age as Peter since it was his birthday soon he had blond hair and blue eyes and he looked kind
But something wasn't right about him

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He smiled at me eyeing me up and down as if he was trying to say something silently or judge me subtly I couldn’t quite tell yet but I was tried and exhausted and quite frankly had bigger things to deal with
"well I'm trying to so...goodbye-“ trying to make him get the hint- sadly he ignored it
He sat down on the bench before I could lay back down.
"Where are your parents?"
He asked with a sense of worry in his voice
I took a quick look around
"Where are yours"
He turns and looks out across the park
I roll my eyes because this is going to turn into a conversation
"My father doesn't want me"
I swing my legs down and sit up straight with a sigh
He turns back to see me looking out over the park aswell
"What about your mother? she must be worried sick about you if you are out at this hour"
I keep staring out refusing to not make eye contact with him in fear I might burst into tears
"She's dead"
There was a long silence as he thought of what to say next
"Do you have other family? Aunts? grandparents?siblings? Something?"
I look out thinking or peter and his aunt may but they're not my real family, they're just the people from downstairs...well not anymore
"No"
I kept my head forward as my breath got heavy and the tears began to multiply
I dipped my head and blinked to get rid of the tears but they kept growing
i closed my eyes tightly so that no tears could get though and tried to keep my breathing steady.
I try to calm my self down but it wasn't working I could feel the lump in my throat grow bigger and bigger but then two arms wrapped around me and forced my head onto the owners shoulder ,the tears retreated and the lump faded away until there was none left.
I try to change the subject back to him
"So? Where are your parents"
"Oh my parents are at home"
"Oh"
My face dropped from the fake smile I had conjured up some how ,the word home made everything hurt  ten times more
He looked at me face until he met my eyes he started for a long time i looked away trying to think of something to say when he took a breath and said
"Come home with me"
My eyes pierced themselves open
"WHAT?!"
"Come with me"
I released him from the hug
I didn't know anything about this boy and yet he was asking me to go with him somewhere
And that's when I remember what my mother told me and already I had broken half of what she had said
"My mother told me not to talk to strangers and to never go with them"
"Your mother was wise but we're all strangers until we become friends "
He was right but still we weren't friends.
"I don't even know your name"
"My name is Thor odinson"
He held out his hand and looked at me
"What's your name?"
"Colletta Jefferson"
I look down to his hand he rolls his eyes and grabs my hand
"Wow wait where are we going? "
He looks at me with a big grin on his face
"To my home"
My eyes widen even more
"What? Where do you even live"
"I live on Asgard"
"Wait where even is that?? And how are we going to get there"
He looked at me with a mischievous look and the smirk grew across his face
"Were going to fly"
I couldn't help it I burst out laughing
"You can't fly that only happens in story books like Peter Pan"
"Yes I can! Hold on to me"
I looked at him he had his arm up waiting for me to take my place under it
"Fine but it won't work"
I held on to him and he held on to me
it was quite late at night now so only be a few people were out like a woman running with a little boy and a few dog walkers
The boy raised his head and shouted into the sky
"Bring us back"
As soon as he said it a cylinder of white appeared around us
the colours began to appear and our feet lifted off the floor
I grabbed on to him tighter in fear of falling as we shot upwards
Soon our feet were back on soiled ground and we were met with a strange man
he has long black hair that he covered with a helmet and bright yellow eyes that were analysing everything about me.
"welcome home my prince"
"Thank you-"
Before Thor could finish his reply an older looking man entered with a young boy who looked about the same age as Thor but had black hair and wore green .
The old man stood tall and proud in his golden clothing with an eyepatch covering one of his eyes.
a woman came rushing in she had long dirty blond hair and a beautiful blue dress
Thor was silent as was I
"Where have you been"
The old man began to question him
but never once looked away from me
although I wasn't looking at him I could feel his eyes burning through my skull
but I didn't dare look at him.
my gaze was fixed to the floor
Thor broke the silence.
"I was on midgar-"
"Why"
"I wanted to go on an adventur-"
"Yes I can't see that boy"
He amplified the word boy he turned his body towards me and stepped closer he was furious
And I was petrified he didn't let Thor finish one sentence and he clearly didn't like the fact he had brought me
I stood there looking at my feet the tightness in my chest grew within seconds I felt like I was suffocating my knees felt numb just before my knees would give in the old man spoke
"What is your name child"
His voice was quiet this time almost gentle
I managed to breathe
"Colletta sir Colletta Jefferson"
I said it loud enough that he could hear me but kept
My gaze fixed to the floor
"Look up "
I did what he said I got a good look at him now golden robes a brown eyepatch and white hair.
He threw his body back to face Thor and shouted at him
"Why have you brought her here"
The tone in his voice changed drastically it's was louder and sharper
I could tell they had all heard it too by the looks on their faces
the woman strides towards me and and l put her two hands on either of my shoulders and said in a calming voice
"come well get you out of those clothes and into something more comfortable"
I nodded my head.
the woman reminded me of my mother kindhearted and the smile, the one that mean pure joy and love radiated of of her face.
"Frig-"
"NO"
the woman snapped the old man off before he could finish she took a few steps before braking the gaze the boy with black hair followed us.
Then the woman took each of us by the hand and walked us along a bridge made up of the same textures as beam that brought us here.
The bridge led up to a village, it was amazing it was like something out of a fairy tail I tried to soak it all in but I couldn't there was simply too much.
once we had walked through the village I saw it,
a magnificent golden palace that sparkled in the sun light,
the woman then took me inside and up stairs to a room where she let me wash
I then got changed into a night dress she had left me beside the dresser it was white and had embroidered flowers the bottom,
it fell just below my knees and was light,
the woman was right this was more comfortable
I emerged from the wash room to see she had sat in a big chair in front of a large fireplace.
She picked up a brush and motioned for me to sit in front of her, she started to brush my hair once I had sat down she brushed it for a while and then tied two parts back.
She stood up and quickly with out I a word I followed she walked me over to the bed and lifted me up and placed me under the covers
She gently shut the door behind her after saying goodnight.
I thought to my self what I had done I had ran away with someone I didn't know well,
been brought in by their family
and most of all I had left Peter.
my mind wandered
why did that man call Thor prince?
Was it just a silly name ?
Who was the other little boy?
Why did the woman shout at the old man?
Why did she give me a dress and allow me to stay?
I had so many questions that I knew I wouldn't get answers to.
Not tonight at least
I shut my eyes and peacefully drifted off to my made up land once more dreaming my problems away until the morning light would come .

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The next morning I woke up
it was quiet and peaceful
I got out of bed and looked around the room, looking at all the patterns on the walls and the pictures I had not payed attention to the night before.
Soon I hear footsteps.
They're  getting closer I quickly run to the bed and pretend to be asleep.
Whoever it was entered the room.
I listened to what they were doing and kept my eyes shut tight. They walked over to the big bay windows and opened the curtains to reveal the bright beams of sunlight that bled through my eye lids
They then made their way to the bed.
They gently sat down so not to destruct the stillness of the mattress and began to speak
"I have two children lady Colletta you're not fooling me"
They pulled down the covers as I turned round to see the sweet lady from the night before
She smiled and stood up
She began staring out of the freshly opened windows out over the glistening city below.
I thought for a moment trying to come up with something to brake the silence between us
"The little boy and Thor are they...?"
She turns around back to face me
"yes those are my sons"
She came back from dazing and walked into a set of open double doors on the far side of the room
I quickly jump out of bed and follow her
"If you would like to see them again you can I know you are particularly fond of Thor"
I entered the biggest wardrobe I had ever seen in my life there were rows upon rows of beautiful silk dresses, racks of shoes and hundreds of clips, pins, belts and buckles anything you could think of was in there She sifted through a rack of the many dresses
"Well I've only talked to Thor"
She let out a slight laugh
"I suppose that's true But before you see them again we need to get you something to wear"
She smiled as she picked a few dresses out and walks back out.Once I was dressed the woman fixed my hair from its matted state.
She took out the small pin that she had put in the night before.
She fixed my hair cautiously as she ties a small portion of it back once again and made her way over to the big vanity near the corner of the room and brought over a small wooden trinket box.
Inside the box were many types of flowers.
I sat on the bed as she weaves the stems of the flowers into the small bit of hair she had previously tied back once she was done she stood up and took my hand and we walked down stairs into a big hall.
Within the big hall, on the big gold throne that took centre stage sat the old man from the night before
and in front of him was Thor and the other boy
their faces light up when they see me
but the old mans face stayed still and firm almost bitter.
The woman joins the man by his side and left me to stand separately from the boys.
I didn't like it
All eyes were on me
And I was alone just like the night before
but this time it felt worse because I knew what this man was like.
Stubborn and impatient.
I clasped my hands behind me and played with my thumbs to try and calm my nerves
I made sure to keep my head up and my gaze on the man
The man began to speak with his formal voice from before
"I am Odin son of Bor and ruler of Asgard"
I thought for a moment taking in what he had said.
Ruler or Asgard?
Was he the king?
He must be and it would make sense why the man called thor prince
The woman from before spoke braking my train of thought
" And I am Frigga Fjorgynndottir"
Frigga gave odin a sharp look as he stood up
"Why are you hear Colletta?"
I thought for a moment
why was I here?
Thor had brought me
but why had I stayed the night?
"Because my dad doesn't want me anymore so I could either come here or live on a bench"
My mother use to tell me little things
Little life lessons
One of those was
-admitting to something makes you feel better-
But It didn't
It hurt
it made me feel humiliated
It stung my throat as I said those words, the words admitting that I had noting left
Frigga could see from my dazed eyes that I was thinking long and hard about why I had left
"Go"
I looked at her confused but then realised she wanted me to leave
so I did I then ran off
And I found a quiet spot on a balcony and sat down in the corner with my back against the wall and looked out across the vast land that was staring back at me.
After a while I had decided why I had left.
I had left home not only because I was told to
but because I wanted to.
I realised how tired I was of my father being drunk and having that woman treat me like a servant
I realised I had came with Thor because I needed a new life and he was the easy way out and that I didn't believe him about him being able to fly because if I got my hopes up and if it hadn't of worked,
I would of still been stuck in Brooklyn relying on Peter.
I missed Peter
I missed seeing him everyday
I missed his smile
And the pointless talks
It had only been a day but disappearing and not telling the only person who had ever really cared for me since my mother passed was really tough
I had known him for almost my full life and it just didn't feel right to go like that
I had simply disappeared with out a word of a trace.
Soon after I had the realisation I heard voices one was Frigga and the other was Thor.
I walked over to the door and ran down the hall to meet with them as they came upstairs.
"Hello..."
All three of them turned round and faced me
"Oh good we found you I'll leave you three then"
Frigga gave a signature warm smiled and walked off
The three of us were left alone with only each other to entertain ourselves
The boy that wore green stared at me as Thor watched him I decided to brake the silence
"Hello-I'm Colletta"
"I know who you are, I am Loki-"
"Hes my brother"
Thor butted in on the conversation
"So what should we do?"
"We could read"
Loki looked for our approval but before I could speak Thor was already having different ideas
"Or we could battle"
Loki was clearly annoyed that he had cut me off from speaking
"Or we could write"
Thor turned round to face his brother
"Or explore"
I couldn't help but giggle With the way these two were, complete opposites.
"Or"
I stood in between them so they would stop bickering
"we could play hide and seek"
"Hide and seek?"
Loki was confused and unimpressed where as Thor was exited but Loki stood waiting for an explanation.
So I gave him one
"Yes, Thor wants and adventure and you want something that will test your brain or at least use it ,the game provides both plus it's fun"
"How does it provide both"
he looked even more puzzled
"Well you have to think fast and on your feet then you also have to seek out a spot if it's too obvious then someone will find you but that is also the adventure"
Lokis confused eyes slowly melted away into a happy squint
"ok let's play”

Days bled into weeks the weeks into a year and a year into two. Everyone was happy and the palace full of joy and laughter from all….all that isn’t odin of course- over the years he had grown cold to me the icy stare always watching over me and my every move, thor and Loki often vouching for me when he accused me of something mainly conspiring against the throne and Asgards people. Frigga was my second mother she loved me like one of her own of course that could never replace my real mother that thought always lingering in my mind however I was now eight I had found out a lot about Asgard and the galaxies both from people and from books I had also found out that Thor was 1011 years old and Loki was 1008 even though they both looked like 15 year olds.it was strange seeing both Loki and thor age faster than I did But I didn't mind I got to train with them and read in Loki's library sometimes.However everyday i would disappear for 10 minutes to go down to see Heimdall so he could send a letter to Peter and so Peter could send a letter back to me.
I enjoyed hearing from Peter and I couldn't wait to see him again one day.
After I had finished my daily letter from Peter I went down to where I could usually find loki , once I had arrived I sat down and started to read
loki wasn't there and I hadn't seen on my way there or Thor for that matter i thought it was strange as they would usually be here or meet me on the way.
Soon enough I heard foot steps but it wasn't Thor and it wasn't loki.
I turned to face the set of double doors at the end of the long hallway and to my surprise found that it was Frigga and Odin entering his study they shut the door but it quickly cracked back open
I ignored what I had saw and went back to reading when Thor and Loki came running in
"Sorry we're late"
Loki was out of breath and so was Thor.
I rolled my eyes at Thor as he started to play around with his hammer.Loki sat down next to me and began to read.
He quickly stopped after a few seconds like he knew something and turned to the slightly cracked open door and said to me
"who went in there?"
I didn't look up from my book
"allfather and mother"
Loki quickly grabbed my arm and dragged me off the bench leaving his book as he did so
"What are you doing!?"
"Come on let's listen"
"What are you? 5?"
"Ssshhh"
He covered my mouth with his hand and I quickly kicked him in the back of the leg
"AH-"
"ShHhH"
I mocked him and laughed as he got up off the floor.
Loki checked that they hadn't heard anything and peered into the room he motioned for me to come over and I pressed my ear up to the crack I closed over my book so I wouldn't get distracted.
Inside we could hear Odin and Frigga having an argument.
"Enough"
I quickly changed from listening by ear to looking through the crack.
She tried to pass what ever they were talking about.
"Well..."
he paused
"what are we going to do she can't stay here it's only a matter of time before she realises who she is"
"It's only a matter of time before she finds out who she is IF SHE IS THAT PERSON"
Frigga sat on a chair with one hand on her forehead leaning on the arm of the chair
"IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT SHE IS FRIGGA"
Frigga flew out of her chair and slammed her hands on to the desk
" I REFUSE TO LET YOU SEND ANOTHER AWAY SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU THINK THEYRE SOMEONE THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN BE AND EVEN IF SHE IS"
she paused to calm her self down, she then stood up straight
"what harm could she do"
Odin looked at her
He was confused and angry
It was like when I first arrived but worse.
"What harm could she do? FRIGGA IF SHE IS HER THEN SHE COULD DO WHATEVER SHE LIKED AND SUCCEED INCLUDING DESTROYING ASGARD"
Frigga walked up to odins face and said in her calm bit fair voice
"you know she would never do that youre just too scared that a child might take your throne"
Odin snapped back at her
"And you are to selfish to realise that she is not your daughter and that she CANNOT STAY HERE UNTIL SHE PROVES THAT SHE IS NOT WHO WE THINK SHE IS OR AT LEAST UNTIL WE KNOW SHE WONT ATTACK ASGARD"
Frigga stood there breathing fast
"WHO YOU THINK SHE IS and you know as well as I do That she would never attack us never mind the people"
"go,I don't wish to talk about this anymore"
Frigga looked at him I had never seen the look she gave him before
"This was your doing and like many times before you took the easy way, now I am TRYING TO SAVE THAT BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL FROM THE DARKNESS OF YOUR DECAYING HEART"
She took her hands off the table
"I just wish you could see the man you have become"
She began to stride towards the door
She was furious
And I was in shock,I was frozen to the spot.
I dropped my book as I tried to think of what to do but I couldn't
But then I felt two arms wrap around me and pull me back, it was Loki he made an illusion of us reading books on the bench but Frigga didn't look she stormed off in the opposite direction.
Loki let me go and let the illusion disappear I stood there in shock
was he talking about me?
Who did he think I was?
What was frigga talking about
, sending people away?
Darkness?!
I wanted to scream as the voices in my head screeched questions over each other until I couldn't focus and my vision was blurry Loki quickly shook my shoulders so I wouldn't get sucked into the rambles of questions flying through my head
"are you ok?"
He asked me
in truth I wasn't I felt sick and dizziness
probably from stress
"Yes-" I picked up my book that I had dropped and went back over to the bench,
But it was fair to say I wasn't in the mood reading,
"Are you ok?" Thor asked me
"yes really you two I'm fine"
the lump in my throat and the tightness around my chest not to mention on top of that the dizziness and the sickening feeling all made me stress more but I couldn't explain that to them.
It was me
he was talking about me
there was no other person it could of been
And who was Frigga talking about
"send another away" he's done it before but with who?
I managed to slip away to my room where I lay down on the bed and tried to calm down, but then I heard a soft knocking on the door.
Frigga entered the room
"Hello little one"
she smiled through her red eyes a soaked pink cheeks,
I walked over to her and she crouched down to my hight, I looked into her eyes and then wrapped my arms around her like she had done many times before for me,she cried more, I let her go and wiped her tears with my small thumb as she put a fake smile on.
Frigga had done so much for me and I had never done anything to deserve it.
She continued to cry as I went back for another hug.
A short while after Frigga stood up and walked me over to the wardrobe and packed some clothes, shoes and clips for my hair into my small bag
she reached for my hand as she took the brightly coloured bag i had arrived with in the other arm.
I don't know what was happening she never spoke a word she only sobbed.
I didn't want to ask because whatever was happening was making her cry.
I took her arm as I walked with her down the stairs the doors to the big hall were closed as we passed by.
People from the village lined the streets as we walked down, people like the baker who I would help make bread with or the artist who would allow me to paint using his supplies.
Friggas freshly dried face soon became wet again seeing all the people we soon made it to the bridge I looked behind me to see where we had just came from
I looked up at the castle doors to see two figures looking around in panic as they spotted us they began to run.
We never stopped walking along the bridge, I could hear cries from behind me but whenever I would go to look Frigga would turn my head back,
We reached hemdale
"I'm going to miss you little one"
Frigga smiled as she put a coat over me and buttoned it up her fingers were wet from clearing the salty water off her face.
"Where am I going?..."
I asked so that I could stay longer with her
"Your going back to Peter"
she smiled as the water grew in her eyes again.
I stood there unable to understanding was she sending me away did I do something?
Did I say something?
I missed Peter but I didn't want to loose Frigga I had finally found my second mother and now she was sending me away and clearly not out of her own choice.
Those thoughts circled my head
They were sending me away,
She was sending me away
No
Odin was sending me away
But why
Why was he sending me back to Midgard.
My thoughts were soon interrupted by the sound of Loki and thor running into a barrier that was blocking them from entering the archway to bifrost.
The tears began to fill my eyes as well as Frigga and lokis.
Frigga turned me towards the the portal I could hear lokis sobs as well as Thor's grunting as he tried to tear through the barrier i slowly looked back at Thor and Loki and then to Frigga.
"Little one...you have wisdom beyond your years...beyond your life time I hope you use it well...and I wish you the best of lucky until we meet again..."
Hemdale turned the sword which activated everything.
Lights appeared and the room started to spin
Frigga handed the bag to me.
Thor's anger had turned to tears and lokis tears had turned to anger, still opposites,
Frigga inched me towards the portal further and further until my feet no longer touched the floor and i was flying through space.
I could hear her franticly crying and screaming as I flew away I could make out muffled noises of lokis shouting until there was only silence and my feet touched back on the ground....

only this wasn't Brooklyn-

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I landed in amongst the rubble of an old apartment block. Walls half demolished and cracked photos on the floor of two men and a girl not much older than me, I walk out of the broken door way and into the street gripping onto my bag.
I liked around until I noticed a resemblance these were apartment blocks or at least the rubble of them. Empty shells of what once was a happy place family photos lined the street chairs and cars fires and water leaks it was like an apocalypse I peered in a couple of the broken doors but nothing no one was here. I had never seen anything like it masses of people gone and their homes reduced to dust.
I started panicking, what if this was Brooklyn, what if one of peters story's about the hero's protecting us didn't work what if evil had won and this is what was left behind. I ran back to the house I had landed beside I found a small space under about 10 steps that use to lead up to the second floor and placed my bag downI curled up onto a ball feeling helpless
there was no one here.
I was alone. I lay under the stairs for hours until it finally started to get dark the quiet of the night was comforting unlike the earth surroundings of the day.
After a short while I drifted off into a deep sleep part of me wishing I was just having a nightmare and I would wake up to frigga comforting me.
I woke up the next morning from the sun beating down on my face I blinked awake coughing only to realise that the air was thick with dust and that's why I couldn't breathe. I stood up and took a look around the rubble. It was different more of the building had collapsed whilst I was asleep...
I bit my tongue and slowly shuffled to the entrance to stick my head out into the street.
Nothing, still no one
Still just the ruins of what once was a family's home I began to shuffle up what use to be a street kicking almost every stone I could of.
Occasionally I would stop in a building and have a look around for things like food or bottles of water.
I did this until it was my way of living I would wake up check to see if anyone had came during the night then set off in the hunt for food in a derelict landscape, Making sure to always be home before it got dark which is as a challenge, some days it would get dark fast and others I would have to sleep as the sun lights beamed through the cracks of the stairs and onto my pale face much like the first night I spent here when I was awakened by the light in my eyes. However I decided to venture off to the middle of the town I took my bag with me I began to walk along the streets littered with so much rubble it was more of a hike than a walk, I had memorised the streets I would take from previous days so it wouldn't take me as long. As I turned the corner of a building fixing my bag I was shocked it see a woman with long brown wavy hair and a man with white dusty hair as I look up from the bag strap.I'm in my own little world staring at them
Thinking.
but I quickly snap out of it.The lady turned around sharply as if she had heard me.She was just as confused to see me as I was to see her.She raised her hand to give a friendly wave but I was already in a state of panic i hadn’t seen people in so long it was surreal I pondered if I should talk as she wondered if she should wave, the man continues to talk to her as the two of us watched each other in disbelief she finally waved which drawer the attention of the man onto me and then I started to run, twisting down streets looking behind me checking if they were following me so far they weren't I listened closely for footsteps every time I stopped to climb over rubble I flew down the streets in a daze engraving the woman in my mind she had a kind smile but at this point it's better not to trust than to be shut out and used by someone again.
Panic.a few moments later I hear them talking complaining to each other about how neither did anything to get me. I ran faster cutting corners jumping rocks and slipping down ally ways I had finally made a fair distance between us listening to them search the broken houses as the pass by them but then I got to jump over a fair sized bit of rubble when I fail and flip over onto the ground dazed and confused I look down at my hand that's now bleeding and then my leg. I don't cry as I limp down the street because I know they'll hear me it's so quiet they probably heard me fall but I keep going running and limping down the streets desperately trying to get back to the stairs I keep looking behind me they're still there I get behind a wall and take a closer look at my knee and realise it's full of rubble little stones and dust are not only in it but surround the wound my hand isn't much better but I wipe the blood with my sleeve and continue to limp through the buildings.
After a while I'm able to run a little faster and faster and faster until I'm a block away from the stairs.
I can see them but the calls and the battering sound of people gunning behind me means no longer safe from them even at the stairs I made it back to the stairs .
tears started to build until they were streams of water flowing down my cheeks .
I picked up my tattered coat and threw it over me
Voices start to talk in the distance until they weren't so distant anymore.
I peered out from under the coat and the stairs to make sure that they hadn't seen where I had went.
I see the two people once again,out in the middle of the street
They were pointing in different directions trying to decide what way I had gone
"None of this would of happened if you had just let me run and get her!"
"Oh yes great idea then scare off the kid and we never find her?!"
"How wouldn't we I would already had her! It's kinda my full pow-"
Just then a part of the building falls startling the man and causes him to look towards the stairs
I sit back hiding against the stairs hoping he hadn't seen me.
Im trying to keep my breathing quiet
So he might just think it was his imagination but there he was standing, leaning on the half broken wall
"Hello"
He spoke with a thick Accent I couldn't tell what type the woman came and kneeled down beside the stairs
"Hello-"
She had the same accent
I sob and sniff trying to clear my nose and I'm blinking hard to clear the tears but they didn't clear they only became worse.
Im terrified
I'm in pain
I don't know these people yet they've followed me to the one place that is safe for me.
I had kept this place a secret for so long but today that secret came to an end as two strangers stood in front of me staring at me in what I have known as home for so long.
She waited for me to talk as the man steps forward but she stops him from walking in front of her .I cry.
I Cry and I cry.
he joined me on the floor by the stairs kneeing down
"Hey it's alright, it's ok, it's ok"
The man tried to calm me down but he realises it's not working he thinks for a moment before looking up and the woman that's now standing beside him
"You're alright we won't hurt you, we just want to make sure you're ok"
She spoke in a soft voice almost airy, she motioned to pick me up and I nod and with that
She kneeled down, placed both of her hands under my arms and lifted me up into a standing hug
"It's alright"
She then stands up still holding me in a hugging position swaying on the spot as she hugs me
Her voice was like magic like all the pain had melted away, all the tears had dissolved
it calmed me down and the panic from before melted away soon after.
The man walked over to the stairs and picked up my bag he looked at me for approval to open it
I nod hesitantly
He opens it to find the dresses Frigga had packed and the other pair of shoes I had wore so much the soul was non existent
the ones I have on aren't much better but I have no other choice but to wear them, not to mention
I hadn't found any that would fit me amoungst the wrecks of this place
"Nothing with a name on it"
The woman looked down at me
"Can you speak"
I nod
She pauses and looks me up and down noticing all my cuts and bruises from the days I have spent here scurrying around
"Do you want to speak?"
She leans her head down as she waits for a reply
I shake my head
I hadn't talked to anyone since I left Asgard
seeing people was nerve racking enough
"Ok, that's ok"
She smiles and nods to reassure me
It works and puts me at somewhat of an ease again because it feels like she understands Why I don't want to speak but she probably doesn't.
She definitely doesn't-
"Would you like to come with us?"
I remembered Thor saying that to me,
I would say no to her but
I don't know where I am or how I'm going to keep going because I haven't been able to find clean water or edible food because everything is either out of date or has been nibbled on by some animal.
I nodded
"Ok once we get back we'll fix that knee ok" she scrunched up her nose as she smiled this time
I smiled as well it felt good to smile after so long.
The lady walked into a big building still holding me  the man followed us in.
We entered a room where a man stood But
This wasn't a man it was some sort of
...machine?

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"You have brought someone..why? How?"
The machine peers half over its shoulder managing to look at us. Judge us.
"We found her we don't know how she got in"
The man from before puts my bag down as he fixes his sleeves all whilst talking to the machine.
the machine glared at me for a moment
"Does she knows who you are"
He turned to face the woman and I
"I don't think so"
The woman looked down at me once again expecting an answer but I only offered her a
Shake of my head to confirm what she had said
"Ok" he paused looking at me once again as the woman just stared back at him
"I need to make an arrangement"
The two of them nodded as he wafted them away to another room off to the side with me in hand.
The woman put me down and then sat on that floor as did the man. I copied them after looking around the dampened dusty room.
I stared at them as the twiddle their thumbs until one of them speaks "I'm Wanda" the lady paused and looked at the man trying to keep the conversation alive but he doesn't say anything " and this is my brother pietro" he looked down finally and have a friendly wave as she says it
"What's your name?" He looked at me waiting for an answer but I still didn't feel like talking mainly because I'm scared if I do talk to them,let them in
they'll leave like the others did or they'll send me away.
I thought about what Odin said in that room with frigga a lot
"Destroy"
I don't know what he was talking about but with destruction comes devastation, all you had to do was look inside one of the ruins outside to see that...and if Odin thought I was capable of that then I'm more than capable of harming someone.
I got up off the floor and grabbed the note book from the table that I had spotted earlier.
I took the pen from the front of the book and wrote my name I poked the man from before he crouched down to me as I show him the book
"Colletta? A pretty name for a pretty girl"
He smiled at me after reading what was on the page
"It is indeed"
She smiled as she looked at the paper
But her smile disappeared fast
"Where are your parents?..."
I took the book off of her and wrote-
"My mother died and my father doesn't want me anymore because he has a new family"
Wandas face filled with sorrow
"I'm sorry...did it happen here..?"
Her face filled with horror as she waited for an answer
I wrote on the paper again
"no it happened in Brooklyn"
She breathed a sigh of relief
I added another sentence which I hoped the answer would be something other than Brooklyn
"where are we"
Wanda looked at the paper confused
"How do yo- this is Slovakia"
I don't want to explain Asgard to her
but what I do know is that solvokia is not Brooklyn a part of me was relieved because now I know it's not Brooklyn I know Peter isn't in one of these buildings
Pietro looked at me just as confused as Wanda
"how old are you??"
I wrote down my birth date and year as it had been that long I might not be six any more
"8th of august 2008...you're 8?"
I sat there shocked I was 8.
It had been two years
I nodded even though I wasn't sure
" I thought she was five " pietro whispered to Wanda "I know she's very small" she turns to face me
"have you had anything to eat today?"
I hadn't had anything to eat in over a week, I shook my head Wanda and pietro then both stood up Wanda grabbed a small white box and pietro grabbed me some food from inside a cupboard.
They both returned to their places on the floor
I sat eating what he had gave me as Wanda cleaned my knee
It stings but I know she has to do it so it wouldn't get infected or get worse.
"How did you get in here..."
She didn't look up
I started to write
"I don't know I think I just wandered in"
Pietro looked at Wanda after reading
"But that's impossible your pow-"
She quickly slapped him
"WHY?! That hurt"
He rubbed his ever reddening face
"Just a bug"
She gave him a wide eyed stare and went back to cleaning my knee.
And for a while everything seemed normal.
Safety was returned after 2 long hard years of blood and sweat to stay alive I had ran into two kind and loving people.The next few days I spent with Wanda and Pietro
We're wonderful they reminded me of sif and Loki and how we would run around asgardian stalls playing games many of which wanda, pietro and I played.we would play hide and seek, cook and draw together but sometimes they would leave so I had to entertain my self and with nothing but a notebook it was difficult, I still hadn't spoke to them so I would carry around the note book with me where every I went.
I found pietro and Wanda after another match of hide and seek we switched roles pietro was now counting as Wanda and I wan to find a place to hide when we heard the robot shout from the other room
"Come! I need to talk to you... ALL of you"
he looked at me  through the doorway when he said "all" I quickly look away from him like pietro had warned.
We made our way into the room where I had first saw him "You two are getting distracted by the child, iv tolerated this behaviour for a week now yet youve done nothing to find her parents"
"We're only keeping her entertained and we have tried we just...don't have many recourses to our disposal to use"
Wanda protested
"Yes but you shouldn't need to babysit her. Do I need to remind you that we destroyed this place and the avengers are still looking for us... this is no place for a child to be "entertained" never mind rest after all she did get through your...barriers"
He gave her a narrowed look which clearly annoyed her
"No you don't need to remind us ultron but the avengers are still looking for us anyway and if they find her and know she's been with us they will take her and-"
Ultron cut her off from giving a second reason and from giving an answer to his third protest.
"I've found someone to take her, he will be here soon so we can go back to focusing on what truly matters-"Pietro steps forward with a angry look on his face
"Who's is taking her? And where?!"
"None of that matters to us just a dear old contact I'm glad to have"
Pietro inched closer to him
"Well she's not going with them"
He stood firm on the ground looking at ultron
"She is and if she doesn't then...I think you know what will happen"
a grin spread across his Metallic face, it makes me feel uncomfortable so I disappear behind wandas arm.
There is a short silence as ultron stares down the pair waiting for one of them to say something but then I feel a large hand on my tiny shoulder
I quickly run to the front of Wanda to escape from the hand I peered around her arm to see a tall man with black hair and an ear piece in one of his ears.
"Ah agent rumlow"
ultron stands up and begins to walk towards him with his hands in the air.
Wanda and pietro quickly turn on their heels to see him, he was already holding my bag that he must of picked up from somewhere in the halllway.
"Ultron..."
He threw my bag to one of the men that has just entered the room, not breaking eye contact with ultron.
" my associates and I have a little something for you"
Ultron quickly grabbed me from Wanda and pushed me towards him.
Wanda tries to grab me but she's too slow
I was now in the hands of Ultron.
The agent looks me up and down and then crouches down to my hight pushing the hair from her face
"Well isn't that precious"
His eyes narrow as he searches through my soul
he stands back up and sighs to ultron
After a nod of heads between ultron and Rumlow
He pickes me up I kicked and squeal
to try and release myself from his grasp.
"Hey hey hey your ok,let's just calm down"
I stop as I look at Wanda who gives a slight nod and then turns to pietro
He walks outside with me when suddenly untron grabs his other shoulder and hands him a small cloth
Rumlow pushes it away and then begins to talk to his partners about a route
When suddenly from behind Rumlows shoulder the cloth is placed over my face and I am yanked from the agents arms
The cloth stayed there for a couple of seconds until I felt too tired to move.
Rumlow and the other man with my bag
get in the helicopter I see Rumlow shaking his head at ultron
im passed once again from the robot to the man and then look over at wanda she's shouting and screaming
Her tears staining her soft pail cheeks as she cries out for pietro to do something
I blink and my eyes won't open I can still hear Wanda shouting at pietro about what ultron has done, it reminds me of Frigga and Loki.
and then...Everything stopped
I couldn't hear,
I couldn't see.
it was an abyss.
Nothingness.

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I wake up in a small cold cell that smells strongly of disinfectant and bleach almost like a hospital but it felt alienated.
it was the first time in two years I had woke up without dust clenching to my throat and choking me to the point of tears.
I have a blanket that had been thrown carelessly over just half of me.Im still in my tattered and blood covered dress but my shoes are missing.
I sit up from the bed and take a quick look around the room
there is a small bin, a desk and a chair in the corner of the room and of course the bed I was in but other than that nothing I look at the only piece of colour in the room, facing the desk I spot my bag over underneath the small plastic chair.
I make my way across the cold concrete floor and reach inside of my bag unzipping it as the cool floor makes my feet go to ice and feel almost numb.
I find my book in amongst the dresses and lift it out.
I turn round to see a man silently watching me from the shadows of his cell across the hallway.
He had the put line long hair and and a wide stance the dark concealed his identity almost wrapping him up.I wave at him and he gives a simple one fringeee waft. I turn back around still holding my bag ignoring the strange man I walk over to my bed once again and sit down covering my feet with the blanket to try and get them warm them back to the point where I can at least feel them I try not to think of the man but as he stares I just can't help it
"Hello my names Colletta- what's yours?"
I hold up the paper with the scribbles handwriting and wait for him to talk back to me
But he doesn't
I think for a moment about how he might be scared of this place or even me.
I walk over to the bars,crouch down, slide the notebook underneath the steel bars and into his cell.
He inches forward on his seat until he can reach it on the floor, he plucks it from the ground and reads the message once again. His arm enters the light coming from between the bars in the hallway,
he makes a grabbing motion with his hand and I throw the pen over.
He writes a short sentence and places the book back on the floor gently and then slides it back along to me. I read the short sentence.
"I'm James"
He moves his chair closer to the bars until he comes out of the shadows and I can see him.
He had long brown hair and cuts on his face
He looked sad although he flashed a quick smile to me. I grab my book and made the same motion he had made, he throws the pen back over to me and I begin to write starting with the most obvious thing I could think of "Why are you sad?"I slide the book back to him. He reads it and let's out a small laugh from his dry throat
"I'm not sad, I'm just tired"
His voice was quiet yet kind,He slid the book back to me. I asked him a few more questions, And he asked some about me.Then Rumlow comes into the room
"Come on"He opens the door to my cell,
I grab my book and my pen on my way out, as I'm waiting for him to finish locking the door to the cell I walk over to James.
I put my hand through the bars of his cell he realised what I mean by it and places his hand on mine I smile at him and take my hand out of the cell.
Rumlow is standing impatiently holding the door waiting for me "Come on kid" I run under his arm holding the door open to a brightly lit room a world away from what that cell hold is
"don't get too attached"
Rumlow sneers at James his face practically touching the bars he waits for a comment or at least nothing thats when he laughs to him left and the man in the cell allowed his head to drop, rumlow then shut the door behind us.I looked at all the computers and their screens as we walked by
I try to get a sense of what this place is but it was all nonsense things about "initiatives" and "starks"
We kept walking until we got to a room I sat down on a small bed beside the man that is already there flicking through a clipboard of notes.
He flips through his paper and then coughs into his dry old hand.
"What is your name"
, I wrote down my name,
"Your age"
I wrote down my age
"Where are you from"
I wrote down Brooklyn
He stopped asking questions and kept looking through the many pieces of paper work occasionally looking at Rumlow over his glasses. He asked me some more questions but never looked at me only at my book, the papers or Rumlow.
Soon he got up out of the room and left.
People rushed in and began taking my blood
After what felt like hours of multiple tests
I was returned to the cell by rumlow.
I walk in to find it had been untouched I sit down on the small plastic chair and Rumlow locks the door behind me, I look over to James cell to find he is gone I assume he's away for tests or something like that but I look at rumlow and point to where he usually resides as if to ask him where he is
Rumlow looks in carefully incase he's tricking him but He isn't there.
All that's there is a small patch of blood like there had been a struggle
He quickly runs over to a large red button incased in a thin glass box he quickly brakes it and runs out the cell room hallway.
I hear loud clicks coming from all the doors including the ones Rumlow had just exited.
There is a lot of noise coming from beyond the doors Including the man the man I had just talked to
"Rumlow, you realise what a find this is?no? We need to act on this soon today or tomorrow if possible, we must finish this on her! "
"I know but we have another problem right now sir"
Screams started to fill my ears .
"Hes in the building"
I heard him clicking on the keyboard
"Rumlow what is the meaning of this?!"
I sat with my back against the wall that was opposite the doors.
"Quickly you fools what was he even doing out of his cell?!"
I heard Rumlow and metal toe boots clatter further away
"None of this would of happened if you had kept an eye on him now we have to deal with captain-"
I couldn't hear Rumlow anymore
And I didn't hear him again until 3 days later.
And he only came to make sure my tests were going well
5 days later I had been taken in for more questions with the same man in the room. I had my blood taken and so many things injected into me I couldn't count I felt dizzy and tired but besides that I was fine
And then after that I had been returned to the concrete box much like a book.
James hasn't come back yet so I sit drawing like I use to do with Wanda and Pietro.
After a little bit of drawing I start to hear more noise coming from beyond the doors
-Probably them fighting over James again-
I think to my self.
People start to scream I can see the shadow of someone getting closer and closer from under neath the door.
I quickly run to the other side of the room so that when they opened the doors they wouldn't see me.
I heard strange noises and peered round the corner
I saw two bright neon red balls of light as the doors began to open pry open I waited a few seconds before looking again-
It was Wanda.
I quickly stand up and make my way towards the bars.
Wanda places her hand through the bars as she dropped to her knees and placed her fingers in my matted hair
"Are you ok?"
She smiles through the happy tears
I nod my head
"Ok,ok, I'm going to get you out of this"
She stands back up releasing my hair from her fingers.
She manipulates her hands and soon the bars glide apart. She drops into a  crouch once more and takes my hands ,both of which are too small to completely fill her palm, before I can walk away from the bars.
"I have a plan but you can't be sacred ok?-"
I look at her confused
How could I be scared of Wanda
"-it going to involve magic, I'm like a witch from one of the story's Pietro told you but I'm a good witch, ok?"
She's talking fast and looking at the doors from which she came She was panickingShe was stressed But why?
That's when is dawned on me
Magic?
Wanda could do magic?
Well it would explain the red eyes and glowing hands
I smile and she smiles back almost like a mutual agreement had taken place
I stood back a little as red sparks take over her hands like gloves and the sparks spread apart.
I cram my book in my back and follow her out of the hall way and out of the building where we were met with a three way war-As Wanda and I walked out of the hole in the side of the wall, probably made by the explosion of Wandas powers,
We see Rumlow and his team of men soaked in sweat and blood fighting against the avengers who they're no match for but quickly pietro joins in.
Pietro is clearly dodging the shots from rumlows side but refusing to help the avengers I'm turned quickly to distract my view of the fight
"Quick go back inside, all of the bad people are out here go and hide..."- she stops looking at me and starts to look through the hole in the wall around the room " oh! behind that desk and well come and get you after all of this,ok?" I quickly nod my head she gives a quick nods and a half smile "right go quick"
she quickly runs out to pietro and activates her powers.I say and watched in aw of all the fighting all the complicated miniature conflicts how they're all working together and how they're all fighting each-other other at the same time.It was like on big dance routine.People moving in from one person to the next and so on.Wanda had her red power source And Pietro had super speed it was exactly like a story he had told me. I'm too busy watching when I hear a quick shout but it's not wanda
"Steve there's a child"
A woman with short ginger hair and a black skin tight suit ran over to where i was crouched behind a desk holding her ear and talking.
"Hey goldie what are you doing under there?"
She smiled at me just like Wanda did when I first met her and Pietro. "Come on you can't stay here you might get hurt and we can't have that now can we"
She picks me up off of the dust filled floor, I hold tightly on to my book, the pen and my bag
"Step away from her"
The woman turns around to see Wanda,
Eyes glowing red and hands prepared to fight turned upright and flickering  "Wanda, this is a child-if she's here you run risk of her getting hurt"Wandas head slowly tilted to the side"Did you not hear what I said- put Colletta down and step away" The woman looked at me"Do you know her"I nod my head
"Listen Wanda it's clear you care for her, and that's why you should allow me to take her away from this blood bath"without a second thought wanda blurts out "Pietro can take her"Her hands throbbed red clearly getting more agitated "Put her down"Pietro ran in behind wanda he's got a couple small cuts on his face but it's not that bad "Wanda let the woman take her I need your help out there and there's no way you could take them all on your own" Wanda pause as her hands slowly returned to being somewhat normal "If something happens to her, you will pay Romanoff" she points to the lady who looks her up and down and then gives a subtly ok before
Wanda turns her back and walks back out of the home in the wall, hands glowing once more flying upwards" Pietro left in a flash,the woman waits until they leave before snapping around to face a small dented door and jogs through it "So your names Colletta?"I nod"I'm Natasha but you can call me Nat."I hold a thumbs up to her as she runs around the outside of the building.We quickly found a tree and sat under it away from all of the fighting.
Noise started to come from nats earpiece"Nat where are you?!"It was a man he sounded distressed as he calls for her"I'm with the kid why?""We could really use some help here if you feel like it" he was very sarcastic which forced Nat to roll her eyes "why? You miss me Steve?" She smiles to herself "you wish romanoff now move it!!" The coms go dead which annoys nat "Yeah right Rodgers I'm on my way"
She rolled her eyes annoyed as she got up of the floor
"Ok you stay here and I'll be back soon ok?"
I nod to her as she runs away back to the fight.
I sat for what felt like house just scratching a stick against the floor It had been ages
I can hear the sounds of guns and people fighting in the distance, when suddenly someone was blasted backwards into a tree.
I drop the stick run over with my notebook in hand as I write
-are you ok?-
It takes them a couple of seconds to answer
"Yeah I'm ok kid, wait yourthat um...god what was it...Casey?...no...Colina..NO! Colletta, hang on"
He speaks into his helmet just like Natasha spoke into her ear piece "Well romanoff ive ment your little friend,she's a cutie can we keep her"
He lyes there the suit he's in starts making noises most likely recalibration from when he hit the tree but I could hear nats voice coming through his head set "Haha very funny"I could hear the sarcasm in her voice It made a large smile spread across my face "Well kid you gonna help an old man up?"
take a hold of his red metal hand and pull him up onto his unsteady feet. Once he stands up he points at me "With strength like that you could become an avenger" he speaks into his helmet once again
"Nat I think you might loose your job to Colletta"
I laugh as he waits for a response "Eh I've got a few years to worry about it then, we all know about your training sessions"A collective laugh came from his helmet "Ok kid Nats gonna come soon and then we'll
see about you ,k?I nod my head through the laughs still radiating from my face He flys off,back into the battlefield I walk over the where he had landed
The tree had been impacted with so much force you can make out the shape of him
After a few minutes both Nat and Wanda emerged from the trees laughing and giggling
"Come on Colletta" Wanda hold out her hand and so does Nat,I take both of the hands as we walk back in a three. We arrive back at the building where I get a good look at who is there There's obviously pietro and the man from before But there is also a man in a blue suit Another with a bow and then one who looked quite normal with his jeans and T-shirt on. Then I saw him coming out from the trees.
It was Bucky
I wrapped my arms around him and my face gleamed out with joy
"I missed you too doll"
He laughs as he wraps his arms around me.
"You know barns and I mean for once I'm actually jealous"The man from before opened up the face of his suit as he said "are we all getting a hug or is that a barns  special?"The team all laughed "Ok enough joking about" Nat picks me up And walks over to the people "That is-"She points to the man in the red suit that makes all the jokes
"Tony"
"That is-" she changes her hand to point towards a shy looking man trying to mask the bow from me it seems with his body with his head down he nods and cuts in "Clint Barton- Hawkeye….” Nat swiftly moves on from Clint seeing hes nervous
"And last- but by no means least-“
she moves on to the second last person
"Steve and then finally" she turns to the last person there’s a slight spark in her eyes when her eyes meet his face and again when she says his name
"-This is Bruce"

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After a while of listening to wanda nat Clint and Bruce talk Bucky,Tony,pietro and I got bored of listening to it talk so we went into the near by trees to play hide and seek. After a few rounds we make our way to the others.conversation quickly turned to where we were going to go and how we are going to get there."Well if you want you can come with us"
Natasha looks over to the rest of the avengers to see Tony walking over in his very loud suit "Hang on, have you completely for got about the fact they tried to kill all of us like half an hour ago?"Nat quickly jumped after he had finished so that no one could speak before her "Yes but they did switch to our side and helped us take down more than half of Rumlows men when you were pounded into a tree"
She raised one eyebrow as he tried to think of something. He raised his arms
"I-they-he-"He sighs and drops them to return to his side "I-" he raises his hand to his nose and strokes it
"Fine, fine I guess...this one..time, you might be a little bit right."He drops his hand back down to his side as Nat smiles in her small victory.
"Don't get use to it Romanoff".Soon a massive air ship came to pick up the team, the maximoff twins and I followed them on board.We all stood in the bridge on the lower deck talking and laughing like we did when we were down in the woods.
"Stark"A loud voice boomed from behind us
Up on the small balcony strides in a tall man with an eye patch and a long black coat
he places both of hands on the railing and leans on it
"What do I look like to you? Do I look like a god damn Uber shares driver?"
Tony turns around and throws both of his arms out
"Fury love of my life, apple to my eye,it's lovely to see you too and might I just add your eye patch is looking extra patchy today"
Fury widens his eye. "Yeah to you too stark,your lucky I actually need your ass or you would be free falling 50000 feet"Tony smirks as Fury scans that room "Whats fire girl and water boy doin here?"He looks at Wanda and pietro
"Fury this is Wanda and pietro maximoff they are now part of the avengers-"Steve looked up to fury "-Well if they want to be"Fury is silent for a moment until his face turns sarcastic "And do I get a say in this""Nope not one"Tony slurped on a blue berry slushy he had got someone to fetch for him
Fury sighs and shakes his head "Ok, but do you mind telling me who the small one is and why she's here?"
Tony turns round and looks at me and then turns back to fury " I don't really know she was kinda part of the "maximoff twin" deal"Nat butted in
"I found her when we were fighting Rumlow and it turned out that Wanda knew her and then we got her to safety and she's here now""Ok romanoff but that doesn't explain why she's here and not with her parents"Nat turns to look at Wanda and pietro they both shake their head, I stand looking at the floor
"Well...none of us really know who or where her parents are..."Fury makes his way down the set of stairs to meet us, his coat wafts as he comes down the stairs as he points to a woman
"Ok Maria-"A woman bolts up straight and waits for instructions "I want addresses,names ,siblings and whatever else you can find on this girl"
"Ok sir”
"Wait wait wait," Wanda walks forward
"Shouldn't we all find out about her so we can understand what she's been through and why she doesn't speak?"
Fury though for a moment
"She doesn't speak? Well then I suppose so... ok everyone if your ass isn't in that meeting room in the next 3 seconds you ain't getting in"
Tony finishes slurping
"Hey can I get another one-"
He looks at me
"Ok another two"
"STARK MOVE NOW"
Fury's voice booms from the other room as tony rolls his eyes and looks back down at me
"So bossy don't you think?"
I laugh as we walk into the large roomWe make our way around a large u shaped table setting until we find some chairs wanda almost automatically pulls the chair out from under the table like she has done for the last how ever long as Nat smiles down at me from the other side I sit up and see Tony sitting down next to Bruce and Steve.
"Ok,where are we going to start or should I say when"
Furry flys around the room sitting down in his chair at the top of the table and then leans back in and folds his arms impatiently as he waits for a reply from Maria or at least someone
"Well we know that her name is Colletta we know shes 8 years old because of Bucky and that's about it"Fury removes his feet from the desk and sits up on the ledge of the chair leaning on his thighs
"You mean to tell me... you have access to the biggest data base in the world and all you can tell me is her name and age"He sighs stroking his brow in frustration. "she stayed in Brooklyn and then met ultron and us" Wanda and pietro shout out as Maria types it in to her tablet"and she was then handed over to Rumlow and met me" Maria keeps typing as Bucky talks "Ok so Colletta doe 8 years old found in active war zones...and was given to hydra by ultron...originally from Brooklyn?"Fury's eyes dart around hoping someone else will say something
"No medical records?"He returned back to his sitting up position,Intrigued"No nothing, no health records, her education says she left when she was 4 and was never seen again until she was....um today-it's like she's been a ghost for 4 years"Everyone's eyes are now on me "Hill is this child a missing persons"
Fury stands with his hands on the desk staring down at his reflection on the glass "There were no reports of missing people from Brooklyn sir or at least none that match her description"Fury begins to get mad "Hill I need to know now is she isn't she? Sightings words of mouth that a 4 YEAR OLD MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED OVER NIGHT?"furys glaring at her getting more and more annoyed"Im looking sir" she shakes as she types in diffrent combinations off identifications The rooms dead silent everyone sharply waiting for something to be said or the tension to be broke."Wait-"Fury grabs the tablet off of Maria as she hurry's off to him looking a bit relieved "Colletta Jefferson age 4 went missing on the 9th of august 2007 the report was filled in by a may Parker ? who is her neighbour, may got worried when she saw Colletta leave her appartment by herself so followed the girl with her nephew but by the time she saw Colletta outside and entering the park to her being downstairs she had disappeared"
The room was smiling partly stunned by what had just came to light but Nat broke the fatal silence
"Colletta... what's your second name"
I pulls up my pad and start writing and show Nat the single word I had sketched out "Jefferson"She looked around the room to see if anyone had a reaction "Anyone know anything about any Jefferson's?..."No one spoke up. Maria typed it in to her tablet and within a few seconds her face was lit up by the tablet and the answers almost like she was holding the holy grail "Ok well I've got some medical records, a...Thomas Jefferson and a Hulda dottir. Thomas is alive and well apart from a drinking obsession but Hulda has died"The tears built up in my eyes Maria read it out like it was nothing I hadn't thought about my mother and father In months.
I didn't want to.He didn't want me and she...she was gone"Are they your parents" Nat asked as she stroked my back I nod shaking the tears around the brim of my burning eyes however Maria starts to talk again "Thomas has been known to have a drinking problem, he has a girlfriend who is in the system she has a son and they all live in...Brooklyn"
It hurt to even hear those words even after all these years
Hearing that he still lived with that vile woman and her son
in our old home
But hearing that he was still drinking
That hurt more
I wipe a tear from my cheek that has escaped my eye
Bucky filled up the gaps of how he had me as I cried into Wanda and Nat. Furry moves on from the sound tears "So we have Colletta Jefferson 8 years of age
Lives in Brooklyn with her mother and father until her mother passed away and then something happened to get her kicked out by presumably her father Then She disappears off of the face of the earth for four years.Comes back meets the twins and ultron in the middle of Slovakia,No one knows how she got there might I add.Ultron then hands her to Rumlow she meets Bucky then Steve saved Bucky but doesn't see her whilst he's in there then you all meet up 5 days later and battle Rumlow"
Furry stands up and gazed across the table looking into everyone's sheepish eyes
"So we need to find out why she wasn't with her family and then why they didn't file a report about her being missing not to mention we need to find out how a 4 year old disappeared and then ended up in Slovakia"I started to write down it would be easier than putting everyone through all the paper work
-my mother died In front of me on our kitchen floor when I was four after that my father started to drink more than he usually did and then the woman came and when she started to spend more time with my dad I started to spend more time with my friend until my dad threw me out- My eyes start to swarm with tears as do Nats as reads what I'm writing down from over my shoulder trying to to interrupt or let loose of her feelings in-front of everyone
- I use to read a lot and I use to love to go to kindergarten. I spent most of my time learning from people or talking to them I also loved to go out with Peter to places and on the way back I would always tell him about what i had read and he would tell me stories about the avengers. Peter is may Parker's nephew-Nat prepared to ask me a question As she tries to compose herself"Was that- was that your"
her voice cracked "Was Peter your friend you stayed with"-yes-She looks over at the paper"Ok"
She holds her breath and then sighs.
She picks up the notebook with the tears still in her eyes her breath thick and heavy
and her voice quivering with sadness.
The room falls silent as Nat read out what I had wrote in the book.Furry moves on with a sense of sadness in his voice "Ok well that's- that's that solved"He stroked his brow trying to come to terms with what Nat had just read "But We need to find out how she got to Slovakia and how she disappeared for 4 years prior to Wanda and pietro makingthemselves known to her"Everyone looked at me as Nat passed me the notebook back. I sat looking at the book as I do the room seemed to get darker and the walls seemed to be shrinking in.I pushed the book away and the room returns to normal.Fury leaned against the back of his chair"Come on kid you need to give us a time line just something that wil-"There was a loud piercing siren sounding from to bridge deck
Fury quickly ran out and everyone else in the room followed him hot on his heels "It's a signal from New York"He adjusts a digital map of New York on the table which also changes the a bigger version on the wall so we can all see.
"Looks like some guys trying to put us under new management, Nat cap Tony Bruce Clint you five go this guy should be easy I'll drop the rest of this Uber share ride off at the tower" Fury leaves the room with the five quickly following him.After Wanda pietro Bucky and I got dropped off at the tower, I quickly turned on the tv "Eh no," Bucky quickly takes the remote and turns it back off acting as a brother figure "You little miss dirty goldie locks need a shower, go now so someone can fix that matted mess" I make my way up stairs and find an empty room that has a bathroom attached to it After my shower Wanda comes in "K so I brought you some choices I've got some of my night dresses and then some T-shirts so you can pick whatever's comfiest"
She smiles as she quickly pairs off some potential outfits and then leaves.After I got dressed I went back down stairs and turned the tv on but the coverage of the fight on the news channel was finished and it was just the reporter talking about how they were transporting the prisoner
"Colletta come and get some juice" pietro shouted from the kitchen I walk into the kitchen a little sad that I missed the fight but then I hear Tony's voice.
"Hey guys,so we might be a little bit longer...the prisoner got kinda got kidnapped"Wanda looks over to pietro as she talks to Tony "Do you need our help""No it's ok...just don't break anything"- you better tell us everything that happens when you get back- I show what I've wrote to Bucky he smiles
"Colletta says you need to tell her everything that happened when you get back"Tony laughs "don't worry I will.bye guys".A few hours go by as we watch shrek Wanda had brushed the knots out of my hair at the beginning of the movie."Hey we're back" Nat comes walking down the stairs Followed by Bruce and Clint "Tony's just getting de-suited" I toddle over to Nat wearing one of wandas baggy tops Nat lifts me up"Guessing you missed me then"She walks over to the couch and sits down as I nod We all sit and wait for TonyShe looks down at my knee"Well that looks soar"Wanda walks over "Yeah she fell when she was running from us I cleaned it but I guess she doesn't have enough vitamin c"Pietro comes over with some more juice as tony comes down stairs "Hey kiddo" he gives me a high five as he walks past to sit on the couch "So I do believe I promised a little someone that I would tell her about a fight?"I nod excitedly As Nat shakes her head Bucky turns the tv off and takes the snack bowls to the kitchen.Tony talks about how they captured the crazy man who was trying to take control of New York and once they were on the plane making their way back,someone flew in the back of the plane and took the prisoner so he had to go and fight the other guy to get him back.It reminded me of the story's Peter would tell me." the crazy guy should be getting in his cell just now as for the other guy I don't know where he went but I offered him a job here" Tony days relaxing" what" Nat spat out her drink as she tried to stop herself from chocking she folded her arms unimpressed"What, he was good, strong and he had powers it makes sense for him to be part of this, I said he could come and join whenever he likes so be prepared" nat holds herself back"Ya sure, come on Colletta time for bed half the teams already in bed not to mention Bucky pietro Steve and Bruce "I wrote down as I walked over -wait are their more people??-"Yes but you will meet them tomorrow they got back from a mission and I guess they went to bed" She picks me up off the couch giving Tony one more glare and walks up stairs with me in her arms.
she carries me into the room I had my shower in just  hours before "this is your room Tony will no doubt ask you if you want to redecorate it tomorrow oh and the remote controls what the windows project so you can have the actual view or I don't know... the sea"She places me on the bed and  tucks me in.It was comfy and warm unlike the cold cell bed that I never got sleep on and whatever sleep I had got would be interrupted by someone asking me questions or taking blood and tests "You can figure that out tomorrow though"She smiles as she holds up her hand I give her a high five as she walks to the door
"Night goldie"She flips the switch and the lights turn off Leaving only the faint glow from the skyline view and the faint traces huddle and busses of the night time rush on the streets far below.my exhausted body quickly falls into a very deep sleep despite my slight worry about what may happen in this new place. Back to my fantasy land

Chapter Text

"Miss Colletta it's time to wake up "
I jump out of my skin as I sit up in bed to see a strange red and silver man standing in the middle of my room

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you"I look around and try to find a clock
"What Can I help you with?"I flip the duvet over and swing my legs around "Ah are you looking for this" he holds up my notebook and my pen I smile and hold out my hand He comes over and hands me the book I pat the bed as to say come and sit down
As he slowly sits down I write -what is your name He looks over my shoulder"Oh I'm Vision" -nice to meet you but what time is it-"Ah it is currently 11:30 am mr stark and miss maximoff told me to come and wake you up as they would like to spend the day with you" He returns my smile as I write -will you come with us?-"Oh I couldn't possibly I haven't been invited I would have to ask miss maximoff or mr stark, they organised the you see"-ok I'll ask them-
"Oh right ok, we'll I will see you down stairs"
Vision exits the room and shuts the door after him
I stand up out of the bed. I fold the duvet back over and then hear a knock on the door."I went out and got these for you"Nat walks in holding some clothes
"And I looked these out for you"Wanda follows her with a bright smile on Both her and Nats face just like they always have when they see me.They sit the piles of clothes on the bed that I had just squared up and show me some of the things they had bought for me. They left me to get washed and dressed.
Once I had went for a quick shower
I picked out a white T-shirt and a dungaree dress and made my way out of my room.
I walked down stairs to see everybody talking and laughing as per usual.
Tony walks towards me "Hey kiddo"  he ruffled my hair as I walk past him and Steve
"Hey goldie glad to see you up and dressed"
Nat says as she grabs something out from the fridge
"Sup dusty"
Pietro runs up to me and gives me a high five
Wanda laughs

"What?"
Wanda turns to him "Why dusty"
She continues to giggle"Well when we found her when...she was dusty"That made Wanda laugh more
"Your just jealous sis"Bruce stood there confused
"We were ment to come up with names?! why did no one tell me!"This made everyone laugh more
"Oh by the way, sparki ended up coming here last night""Wait so is he an avenger now?"Nat turned to him"Well yeah guess so"Bruce jumped on the end of the conversation before Nat could mock him
"Ok and where is he, like where is he now"
" I believe he's with the prisoner he tried to steal yesterday"I walked into the kitchen,grabbed some cereal and started to eat as the rest of them bickered about the new guy.A tall man wearing a red cape walked into the center room, he had his back to me but he had blond hair picking through the helmet he was wearing and walked with a large stride
"Hello misgardians"
I quickly dropped my spoon
It clattered against the bowl but no one payed attention to it. "Misgardians" only asgardians call humans that or at least people from the 9 realms I stood up and began to walk over to him and the others. He turned round laughing at something someone had said but quickly stopped when he saw me"COLLETTA!"

"THOR!"He ran over to me as I did to him
He lifted me up off the floor into a massive hug so tight I could bearly breath but I didn't care
I had one of my best friends back
"HOLD ON" Tony held up his hand but didn't move from his place on the couch

"Did she just speak"
"Yeah she did- wait Colletta you know him?"
Nat answers him whilst looking at me shocked
But to be honest everyone was looking at me in shock"Yes I know him I kinda lived with him for the 4 years I was missing"I tried to play it off with an awkward giggle "Wait wait wait, start from the beginning"Tony said shaking his head trying to think of what Is happening "Well-" I said looking at Thor for approval, Thor nods with the huge grin still on his goofy face"When I was 4 my mother died ,as you all know, and then I spent most of my time at Peter and his aunts may's apartment but I only went there when my dad would bring that woman home" everyone was looking at me hanging on to every word I was saying
"And then one day she made him pick between her and...he chose her so I grabbed my bag and went to the nearby park where Thor met me and took me to Asgard"The team stands there stunned
"Umm what"

Steve quickly stutters in
"Well uh- you- you talked...which is great but you Um went to another palnet"
"Uh yeah popsicle what are you not getting"
"I think what Steve means to say is"
Nat walked over next to Steve
"Why did you go and why did you come back"
I sigh
Im going to have to talk about Frigga
"I left because I had basically nothing left I only had Peter and I still kept in touch with him when I was there, and... I didn't leave Asgard..."
Thor's smile quickly disappeared from his face and instead was filled with pain
The same pain from the last time I saw him on the bridge
"Well uh what do you mean"
Bruce speaks as he fiddles with his glasses

"I didn't leave Asgard by choice ...I was forced to, Thor's father never really liked me so I stayed out of his way reading with Loki,training with Thor and spending time with...Frigga, Thor's mother. And one day loki and I over hear him and Frigga arguing and I was sent away soon after by orders of the king I presume"
"Wait the king why would the king care about something like this"
Bucky sat confused on the couch behind us

"Because Odin is the king and Odin is Thor's father"
I pause trying to keep my breath under control
"So Odin can do anything he wants including throwing a 6 year old onto the streets of Slovakia"
"Wait hang on short stuff, let me get this straight, big fight happens in your home you get kicked out you then run to a park meet this dude fly of with him live with him and his royal family for like two years reading and learning combat for the king to throw you out where you live unknown to anyone for 2 years then meet the twins then get handed off to Rumlow where you then meet Bucky and get saved by Wanda and then come here?"
I smile at the way he puts it in perspective
"Pretty epic life for an 8 year old"
"Right ok glad we cleared that up"
Tony turns around to everyone else in the room
Everyone's still In a state of shock
"WAIT thor where is Loki"
"He's down stairs in the cells by order of mr stark, I will accompany you down come on".
We leave the others to process what I had said I walked closely behind Thor
" I searched for you, you know..."
He sounded sad, heartbroken even
"I searched for you and so did Loki and then he started to get angry"
"Is that why he attacked New York... because of me"
"That wasn't your fault he was only mad he couldn't find you and it wasn't like you could of given us a hint"
I couldn't help but feel guilty
Soon down a long corridor we are met with a set of locked doors they click open and I hear the familiar voice
"Ah brother to what do I owe the pleasure of having two visits from you in a single day?"
Thor walked in and I trailed behind him
"Oh for god sakes don't tell me you brought a little minion to protect you, are you really that scared brother...you pride your self in combat but yet still need someone to help you with a man trapped in a box"He smirks at Thor through the glass
"Actually" I stepped out from behind Thor
I see Loki for the first time in years

He still has his long black hair and still wears green
But in his eyes there is pain And anger
But also shock and horror until-
"I'm not her to protect anyone"
Lokis jaw dropped as his eyes became pools of fresh salty water and instead of all the other emotions his eyes were full of love and relief But then Before a single droplet could leave Everything changes
His full mood His eyes seem to get darker and the room seemed to get colder almost as if his heart was closing its self back off  He looks at Thor
"What kind of sick trick is this"He clenched his fists until his knuckles are white "It's not a trick brother...it's her, they found her and brought her here""Loki-"I walk up to the glass and spoke with a calm voice so not to get him more angry than he already is "Why did you attack New York...truthfully"I kept my eye contact as I waited for his answer Lokis breath shakes as he inhales trying to figure out if this is a trick or not he prepares himself to speak"I was sick and tired of not having you, of not having your wisdom and witty sense of humour...of not seeing you...so I- I thought if I drew enough attention I would get you back"
I turned my back on him he didn't trust me I don't blame him- I could of been anything illusion hologram some sick way of figuring out what he wanted on behalf of fury but part of him told me that...the part that did still trust me or at least the person that was in front of him.
"You thought hurting people would get me back...I saw the news... Loki,you killed 30 innocent people."
I turned back around to see loki looking ashamed
"You think I don't feel bad about it"
"I know you do because that's who you are,loki, that's why I don't understand why you would do such a thing. you say it was out of desperation but I don't believe you, I don't believe you thought hurting and killing people would bring me back...I also don't believe you would hurt and kill those people on purpose....not in my heart anyway "Tears built up in my eyes that's when I felt Thor's hand on my shoulder,he turned me away from loki and his cell as the tear began to flood my face.
I can't believe Loki would hurt innocent people never mind kill them He was always so loving and over protective I need to know the truth because what he just told me Wasn't the truth.

(This small part of the chapter is going to be from Thor's perspective)

I guide Colletta towards the doorway and watch her leave in front of me....watching her, thinking how I'd let father send her away but that shan't happen again I refuses. She drifts off a bit as I'm in thought but she's still there, almost like A mirage or a golden token shining in the sun I snap myself back shaking the feeling as we reach a door that I open for her we leave the room where Loki is situated I can tell she's slightly disappointed or...underwhelmed? I got to walk out a door when his voice beckons me back
"Brother-" I sigh slightly before I see Colletta looking back at me "Go ahead to the others"I tell her with a smile and allowing the door to shut with a split feeling of how I ran down that slope after her all those years ago slipping back into my system but that golden smile shines back at me and gives me the strength to continue.she smiles from the other side of the glass and walks back to the other misgardians back along the long dim corridor. I turn around to see my brother standing head down to the floor I walk back toward him"Yes brother?"He steps back from the glass "You realise how young she is?"He sits down on the edge of his bed"I do brother why do you ask?"I fold my arms as he fumbled about with his bed sheets "I ask because she is ment to have po-"I cut his sentence off"Not this again brother I've had enough of this foolish thought it's becoming an obsessi-"I shake my head during my sentence"NO THOR!" He snapped at me in a fit of rage launching himself from the bed and back onto his feet"SHE IS SUPPOSE TO HAVE POWERS BECAUSE SHE IS-"
i stomp my foot hard on the floor so quiet him before I snap back "ENOUGH... " I take a pause to calm myself to the point where I don't shout at him"this has really gone to your head Loki can't you just be happy that she has returned to us?that she's alive for god sake!"Loki looks down at the cell floor "I am, but she isn't suppose to be...well what she is currently she's suppose to be more"He was much calmer now but I am done with his foolishness for today"Goodbye brother...I don't want to talk about this if it means you become as obsessed as father has with it"I walk out of the doors and along the hallway that Colletta had walked along minutes before.

(Collettas point of view)

I wandered back up the way we came until I found the others hoping I had put Thor at ease and helped ease the tension to dissolve"Hey dusty wanna watch something?"Pietro shakes the remote as he sprawls across the sofa"Sorry lady Colletta cannot she must come with me"Thor strides in slightly annoyed at Loki he must of said something when I left "What where?"Pietro sits up straight being overprotective of the new person showing up just yesterday "We'll back to Asgard of course, Loki has to stand trial there for what he did and for his betraying of Odin"
Pietro Stands up to his feet and in a flash is standing in front of Thor "Listen you're cool and all but she's not going anywhere"Thor laughs "Asgard is her home and she has every right to go there"Pietro continues to tell him why I can't and won't go with him as my mind becomes cluttered with the thought of returning. A sense of dread filled my body when he said to go back, I wanted to go back but what if Frigga didn't want me this time. What if Loki got locked away for good. What if Odin banishes me from Asgard. What if I mess up,I don't even know what I would mess up!I start to panic Thor and pietro notice "dusty?-" I don't answer which worries him so they both look at each other and then crouch down and give me a hug either side "It's ok Colletta" just breathe it's ok..." he doesn't know what else to say but the hug is enough to clear my thoughts. I calmed myself down Thor and pietro stood up still making daggers at each other thankfully,Tony walks in with his usual swagger and laid back attitude "I will need my brother so he can stand trial"Thor walks up to him and follows him closely abandoning me and pietro"Sorry no can do sparks, he's the government's problem now"He says as he eats a blueberry from his hand "Yes but you don't understand the people of Asgard will want a trial for his crimes against the king and the nine realms""Yes and so will the people of earth slparkles so stand down, in case you forgot you are an avenger and you should respect me as your superior, blueberry?-"
Thor's face lit with anger slapping the fruit from his hand"Sir I am a god I will not accept you as a superior to me as you hold no powe-"A loud alarm echoed around us just like the one from the airship
Nat quickly ran past us and into the missions room "It's hydra"She started typing away on a keyboard
"Ok furry says all the team needs to go"Wanda frowns "But what about Colletta" I hear the word hydra and know this is serious "It's ok, I'll be fine" "Yes she can take care of her self "Thor nodded along as he spoke. Everyone runs off to get ready
Nat begins to hand out ear prices and it throws Wanda into panic"Fine,you stay right here but if there's any trouble you call stark straight away and one of us will come straight back"
She runs off to go and gets an ear piece Nat steps out of the room and moments later comes back into the room fully suited up"Ok phone me and if I don't answer just call all of us"Tony walks in suited up clanking around "Hey don't worry pepper is coming over in 5 to look after her, I just called her so you can all relax"A man walked in wearing a silver bird suit
"Never thought I'd see the day tony stark cared about a kid"Bucky walks in after him passing an ear piece to him and he put his in "Never thought I'd see the day tony stark had a kid" Tony puts down the water he's drinking "Oh I'm so hurt by the boatman and the pensioner"He pushed past them out the door behind them after his snarky comment"We'll all I can say is thank god for pepper I don't feel so irresponsible now" Wanda sighed in relief as pietro gives her a reassuring smile "You are not irresponsible"Nat throws Tony's water down the sink and sits the glass beside it"Oh also Colletta that is sam, but guys we really need to go"Sam waves to me before he and the others disappear through the door. I was alone,Again but this time I didn't feel as worried about it because I knew they are coming back to me.I turn on the tv and find some cartoons waiting for the pepper lady Tony said was coming.A short time later Friday interrupts my show that I'm mindlessly watching weary about the new woman showing up"sorry to interrupt, there seems to be someone at the door- identifying as ms Potts"
"Ok let them in Friday thank you" I hear a quick click as Friday deactivated and a few seconds later I hear the sound high heels trotting up the steps and into the room behind me and then suddenly stop
"Oh hello I'm pepper"

I look her up and down she wears a pristine white combination and does the same as me eyeing me "Hi I'm Colletta"I peer further over the back of the cough to take a closer look. She had long ginger hair swept back into a ponytail "Oh ok I've hear so much about you from Tony "I kneel as I lean on the back of the couch. She looks a bit lost as she turns and double guesses herself "So um what do you wanna do?"
She puts her folders down on the kitchen island
I think for a moment as she diggs through her bag
I think for a moment before my stomach growls "We could...order pizza and watch tv?"Pepper pulls out her phone from her bag with a smile on her face and relaxing a bit"Margarita or pepperoni is the real question"She gave me a cheeky grin as she asked me
"Pepperoni,always"She walks over to the couch"Always".
Pepper placed our order and we sat down to pick a movie together "So..."I try to start off the conversation. Everything has been so neutral but trying to think of something was near impossible until "Are you and Tony a thing or?"
Of all the things I choose that
Pepper laughs at first
"Well kinda hes my boyfriend...I think you- can't really tell with Tony"I laughWe turn the tv on after some more talking.The doorbell rang "I'll go get it"
I stand up from the couch and make my way to the stairs and lift "Ok I'll pour some juice" Pepper walks into the kitchen and starts to search through the fridge, I take the lift down to the bottom floor and open the door, I face them expecting to be met with a box,InsteadSomeone hits the side of my face and all I can see is red I focus out of the clear one and see it's one of Rumlows men

The avengers hadn't finished him off but you could tell they had done some damage with the state of his uniforms and how it would of been below par with rumlows standards. The distinctive symbol on the uniform tells me exactly what he is, his rank, his section everything but his name.I grab the wrist that is holding the gun before he could do anything else.
I push his arm behind his back and kick in the back of his knees."Why are you here?"He struggles with my grasp"For you"He grunts as he sharply tugs away from me,I try to think of what to do as he attacks me I manage to grab the gun after dodging most of the blows I manage to grab the gun and yank it off of him I smack him over the head with the gun he had used to hit me.Out cold. I take a closer look at his gun there was a sharp peice of metal attached to the base of it That's what he had attacked me with and why I was bleeding so much, I run back to the lift The blood was all over the floor And me I manage to press the button the wait was agonising until the doors open"Pepper that wasn't pizza" I walk out from the lift as She turns round slowly holding a glass of the juice she had just poured. She walks over to the island focusing on not spilling it "Oh who wa-OH MY GOD"She drops the glass and covers her mouth in shock, She sees my bloody and swollen face "Oh my god are-are you okay? Do I call an ambulance? The police? Well I mean that doesn't really makes sense-"I stare at pepper as she has a freak out, She takes a deep breath "It's ok I'll call Tony" She rushes around the kitchen trying to get a damp cloth"Do you know who did this?"
She wipes the floor with the cloths to soak up the juice "Some hydra guy Rumlow sent him to get me"
Pepper looks up at me and then stands up
"Friday call Tony"

-calling Tony stark-
The ringing fills the empty space until the sound of the battle fills the speakers and then"Uh not a great time right now pepper" pepper rubs her forehead stressed"I don't care Tony colletta has just been attacked by hydra personnel at the front door, OUR front door" Pepper throws the cloth across the room and then grabs another from the kitchen drawer running it quickly under a tap before rushing over to me and dabbing my face with it "Wait what?" His voice filled with terror and concern "What do we do Tony?!Do we leave? How???"Tony goes silent as pepper hangs onto my face constantly dabbing it as blood spews out "NO don't leave just stay in the top floors and we will be back soon ok? I'll shut power off to the lift a-and then it will buy us time- if, if they decide to go for you"Pepper sounds annoyed and worried from what he said."Ok..."
The call quickly ends"Oh Colletta your poor little face"She sat me on the floor with my back to the couch and and tried to dab my face lightly but it just bleed more, She stayed silent as she frantically dabbed away at the wound "I really do feel bad for interrupting this cleaning session but-"
Pepper stands up sharply as she hears a voice.It's Loki Standing with a sceptre

"Loki what are you doing"I questioned him as I peered out from being obstructed by pepper,He could now see me And all the blood, And one thing is for certain he isn't happy about it "Who did that"He wafted the sceptre around in a circle. He ment my face"Oh...some guy" I play it off so he won't be more angry but it didn't work ,Loki looked arguably more mad The maddest I had ever seen him other than when I left asgard he was furious. I could see him gritting his teeth as he tried to stop himself from bursting out into a fit of rage."It's fine Loki....but how are you out of your cell?"im hardly finished"It's not fine!"I ask him in a firm voice "How did you get out of your cell"he shakes his head as if I'm dumb "I'm the god of mischief, need I say more or did you forget?"Pepper sits back down and dabs my eye "don't say that it could be concussion if she did-"
I push pepper away "both of you I'm not confused I know who your are Loki!" Pepper goes back to dabbing "It's ok Tony will be back soon"She whispers in my ear treating Loki as a threat"You wanted to know why I attacked those people Colletta?"I don't say anything I just wait for him to finish "I did it so I would be brought here because I knew This is where you were...a helpful little machine told me...ultron? I believe you know him"
My heart sank and pepper started panicking more as I bleed more. What was Loki talking about he wanted to get to me and the only way he could do that would be to get arrested Not to mention he was working with ultron "Come with me" he holds out his hands as I start to panick again running all the possibilities"Why"I sit trying to keep my breathing under control "So you can come back home" I finally snap"Asgard is NOT my home... if it was Odin wouldn't of thrown me out and hemdale would of helped you look for me despite the orders of that man"Loki threw his arms down"So that's it then...you don't want anything to do with them, you don't want anything to do with me or Thor or mother."His eyes saddened through the layer of rage
"I didn't say that stop putting words in my mouth"
Loki walks to wards me with his sceptre pointed to my face I stand up and move pepper out of the way
"Are you coming with me or not""Loki if I go with you,we will be on the run"I paused"And what will Frigga think then...cant you just wait until they get back"He walks away annoyed"And then what! They lock me back up?"Loki shouted in my face as he snaps back round.I didn't like this version of him
"Please Loki...I'll try and get you out...just please stop shouting"His anger melted away into sadness
"I'm sorry...ok...I didn't mean to shout at you I just I thought if I gave you the opportunity to go back you would jump on it" His eyes dart around his septet avoiding me "Loki I will go back....but not until you get dismissed sentenced if we're lucky you might get sentenced in Asgard"I give a weak smile It hurt to move my face and every time I did it would bleed more I looked over to the mirror on the wall There was a massive cut leading from the top of my head to my cheek.I knew it was bad but not that bad
I walked over to the couch and sat down
Pepper came in with another damp towel that she had prepared while I was talking to Loki.
LShe sat down beside me and I lay my head on her lap She began to dab it once again
"Is there anything I can do"Loki asked sheepishly
"Well-" pepper thought for a moment "you could get some more cloths"
Loki immediately ran off to find them.
After a little while the room began to go a blurry red mess with my blood again "I'm sorry I'm trying to keep it out of your eye but it's not the easiest" she gives an awkward smile before there's a clattering sound "I found some"Loki runs back in with what must of been every facecloth in the avengers tower
Pepper and I giggled and soon the giggling turned into raw laughter "She ment one or two Loki"
He looks down at his mountain of cloths
"Oh"He gives and awkward smile to pepper "Well at least we won't run out"Loki dampens the cloths and brings them out to pepper then he stands watching her."...who did this to you"I sigh as I know what he's going to say"Why do you want to know"
He sees my change and let down his usual killer instinct "So they can find him and turn him to justice"I'm slightly surprised at the sudden change usually it would involve in the persons death or for the person to be made a fool of "A hydra guard" Loki's eyes turn down a notch
"Hydra?" I realise he probably has no clue what I'm talking about and probably thing a three headed what ever attacked me-"When I was sent away I was taken to after ultron and then an organisation called hydra"There was silence once more "Why did ultron tell you where I was"Loki passed another towel to pepper"I don't know he sold the information to someone and then started to give it out for free....to annoy the other client I'm guessing"I sit up from lying down"He sold it to rumlow thats how he knows I'm here and he sent the guy to come and check"
A thunder of foot steps hurtled down the stairs
"COLLETTA ARE YOU OK"Nat came flying down the stairs Followed by Wanda "Oh for the love of god please be ok"The rest followed And then stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Loki"Did you do this to her"Nat quickly whips out her gun and holds it up to his face

"What no I would never hurt her"Nat scoffed
"You killed 80 people in one day I think it's highly likely you would do this to her"Pepper shouted from across the room"He didn't do it, he actually helped with the cloths and...I don't know the point is he didn't hurt her!"Nat looks over to find me lying down on pepper"Oh my god"She puts her gun away and runs over"Bruce a little bit of help here"
Bruce fights his way through the rest of the team followed by Wanda Bucky and pietro"Ok bring her to the lab"Bucky picks me up and pepper walks beside him still tapping my head with the cloth.Once we arrived at the lab Buckley placed me on the bed as Bruce collected his equipment."IM HERE IM HERE"Tony flew in the doors still trying to put a hoodie on, He had clearly just finished getting his suit off"Did you get the guy?"I asked as Bruce picks at my head"What are you on about? The guy who did this?"I look over at him as he pants to try and get his breath back"Well he's down stairs unconscious"
Tony looked shocked"You took a grown ass man down"I laugh a bit"And I'll do it again"Everyone laughed "I bet you will, I'll go get Steve to clean it up" he gives a wink and then leaves the room
"Ok so it's not as bad as it looks I think we can just glue it together and smack some butterfly stitches on it and you should be as good as new"

"Ok-" I'm a bit unsure as He starts to clean my cut
.It stings. He then begins to glue my wound back bit by bit, Tony walks back in when he is almost done gluing my head, He then puts the stitches on.
"Ok and that is you little miss kickass"I jump out of the bed to see Tony back in the room "Thanks Bruce"
Tony takes my hand "You know I've never ever...ever seen someone so calm getting their head glued back together" I scoff a bit "Yeah yeah right"I give him a sarcastic look"What you think I'm joking? Colletta Jefferson how dare you I have never lied once in my entire life and for you to suggest I would lie about your bravery..well I'm appalled at the very nature of your questioning"

I laughed as he did that stupid voice he used for sarcasm or jokes.We walk back in and I'm surprised to see Loki still standing there.

Chapter Text

The rooms warily quiet as Tony looks around for people to give an answer but when he doesn't receive one he voices what he wants to be solved
"Ok what is he still doing in here"
Everyone looks around at each other before looking back at Tony and I "My midguard friends, my brother is going to be trialed at Asgard by my father so he shall soon be returned home!"Tony stops dead in his tracks eyeing Thor up and down as if to say are you for real without another moment to think everyone's struck from their right to talk as Tony lowers his head and holds up his hand
"Whoa there sparki he killed 30 on earth therefor he is going to be sentenced on earth since you know he killed the people....ON EARTH"

Thor fake laughs tipping his head back at Tony mocking him "You really think your cells can hold him He escaped one in here and almost took lady Colletta with him and if it wasn't for me my father wouldn't of known he had killed those people and he would be walking around a Freeman on Asgard as we speak"Tony thought about it as everyone stared at him I could see the cliffs in his brain turning as his patience wore thin "Fine but if your father so much as sways his judgment because for his son, he's straight back here"Thor raises his hand and his hammer to his chest and gives a small bow
"You have my word Man of iron" I let go of Tony's hand and walk over to Thor"Can I come with you...to see Frigga"Thor stands up with a gleaming smile it resembles her in every way the warmth and acceptance that I once received from her as a small child came flooding back to my memory's "Well of course you can Asgard is as much yours as it is mine"
I smile at him but it's quickly swatted by a complaint
"So what are we just gonna let him take her"
Bucky questions the room of people who are all just standing watching Thor and I "No..Thor Colletta can't go with you it's too dangerous you're transporting a criminal through space"

Steve made a good point but then again this criminal was my oldest friend and one of the few people who fully understood me"A criminal that has done nothing to hurt her"Thor protested against him frantically trying to catch the eye of someone who would agree with him"All we're trying to say is....do you really think that's good for Colletta"
Wanda waits for his answer hee face cold as stone as the worry takes over that I might be taken away again and not returned this time

"My friends.....Oh I have a wonderful idea, why don't you all come to Asgard. Yes, yes as my guests of honour for my appointing tomorrow"I walk in front of him slightly annoyed not letting slip that I'm excited for him "Hang on...you're getting appointed?....AND YOU DIDNT TELL ME?!"he looks down at me scared as he nervously laughs it off shrugging "I just did?"He gives another awkward laugh As I roll my eyes smiling at him"Well if were all going we need to pack"Nat began to make her way to the stairs "Oh no need Asgard will provide you with clothing of the finest quality!"Tony looks concerned after all if he had to wear what Thor was wearing, He was going to look stupid,Thor tilts his head back as everyone watched once again to see what he was doing as if he's a crazy person talking to the ceiling "Bring us back"
The bifrost opens ripping apparent the building scorching the floor as Tony's jaw drops to the floor "THATS ITALIAN TILES YOU MORON-"
And we are all lifted off the ground as Tony screams and complains.The team are concerned as they are hurdled through space however thor and Colletta enjoy it relaxing with loki in hand who is secretly happy about this too. We continue to float until We can see the familiar face of hemdale holding the sword that he slowly turns as we enter Asgard

"Lovely to see you again lady Colletta" he looks at me smiling before turning to Thor and Loki "your majesty's" he bows his head in respect still grasping onto the sword"Hi hemdale"I give a small wave as Thor pushes himself to the front of the group
"Ah hemdale these are my new friends, the midgardians" Thor introduces them one by one and then quickly changes the subject excited to show the team off "Oh come you must meet Jane"Thor looks really happy as I try to remember a Jane from my childhood but there's nothing "Who's Jane?"
I think for another moment as he practically bounces around the floor I piece the signs together and my conclusion is that that he's finally found someone so I can't help but get excited "OMG YOU GOT A GIRLFRIEND" which only excited him more
"YES we'll no I'm going to ask her but she will say yes" My exited nature soon turned to a worried look
"Yeah you're hopeful aren't you"I flash a look to Loki who tried not to laugh b it can't help but snicker as Nat grabs hold of him tightly.then they all start to walk along the bridge chatting away and laughing but I stay behindI walk up the steps beside hemdale
"Hemdale...can I ask a favour?""Anythingy m'lady"He keeps looking out towards the bifrost "Do you know where Peter is?"My heart sinks as I ask him I'm scared of the answer No, I'm petrified He lets out a low sigh already knowing I have a million questions swarming my head "I've kept an eye on him yes,why?" I pull out the notebook that I had grown fond of using and carefully took the pen off the front cover clicking it down"Because I want to send him a message....if that's ok with you-"
Hemdale smiles as I start scribbling"Still up to old tricks I see"I write the letter in a hurry and then leave thanking him as I do.I hope there is a reply by tomorrow And that he hasn't forgotten me. I hope for a lot of things....it never goes well.
I catch up with the others out of breath from the long run along the bridge "Nice for you to finally join us" Sam says he too is out of breath from climbing the stairs bucky is of course laughing at him having no problem walking up them.

The group meets at the top of the stairs waiting on each other looking up as the golden for trace before them without a word the glistening golden doors open as the team take it all in I smile at the fact they're amazed when I see a beautiful woman almost floating towards me she stops in tears looking at me, standing in her long beautiful white dress I know all too well its frigga-

I push through the others much to their surprise as they're thrown to one side or the other I run as fast as I can for what feels like miles as I run her stride becomes a hurried walk. She kneels down on the floor opening her arms wide as I clash into them hugging her as tight as humanly possible"Oh little one-" her voice was achingly wonderful to hear through her seeps of happy tears "How I've missed you" She laughed taking the regret in her voice away
"I always told you not to run but I think we can make an acceptation just this once" I join her in laughing through my own tears.We both stand up as the others walk over and I introduce her"Everyone this is queen Frigga...Thor and lokis mother"There is a collections waves and hellos except for Bruce a bit panicked and overwhelmed he bows "Oh you don't have to do that save it for Odin"Frigga laughs as Bruce stands up straight again "o-oh right yes sorry ma'am- I mean mrs- I mean queen-?" I laugh as frigga gives me a worried look "Well it's lovely to have you here" I look around and notice thor and Loki are gone I scan in front of me further down the stairs and side to side but they're gone- as I turn around I see Thor running off one way and Loki being lead off the the dungeons by the guards I turn back round not ruining the moment I tune back into the conversation of how everyone met me. Soon after I hear footsteps behind me and turn around as a voice echos off the golden walls
"Everyone-" Thor entered once again but this time standing next to him was a very beautiful lady who's hair is short and wavy she wears a dark dress with gold lace wrapping around her "-this is Jane foster"
"Hi" she waved shyly to the rest of us she had a funny accent it wasn't asgardian i looked hee up and down quickly realising she was midgardian

"I hope you all enjoy her company as much as I do" he looks around then with a happy grin and then down at me quickly seeing I'm thinking she looks back up at Jane who gives him a quick smile It was clear they liked each other from the way they are looking into each other's eyes "Well we must get ready for tomorrow I'll get some helpers to show you all to your rooms where you will find everything you should need but do feel free to ask if you require anything else"Frigga smiled as the room filled with other people each assigned to one member of the team.I stayed with Frigga not wanting to let go of her again"I ment to ask....what happened to your face?"
We Walked along the hallway at a leisurely pace her shoes gently clacking on the floor as I try my best to avoid the question"Oh nothing just an...accident"
As I kept my head down Unexpectedly She started to laugh"I might be older but I've not lost my senses
...tell me the truth Colletta....remember with age comes wisdom"I smile and roll my eyes playfully remembering how she use to always say that "Ok fine someone attacked me but I'm fine Bruce helped me"I keep it vague. I look up at her she was quiet she kept her head high until we reached my old room
"Ok... I kept everything the same since you left...to be honest I couldn't go in"I smiled at Frigga to give her reassurance as if to say I'm not leaving again"Thank you"I went in as she walked on to finish setting up for tomorrow's coronationI spent some time looking through dresses in the wardrobe
The short gowns that were engraved in my memories were now replaced with much longer extravagant looking dresses clearly placed in there by the helpers in the recent minutes.I spend hours looking through all the dresses and accessories But then I heard a knock on the door quickly running out the closet I shout out"Come in" I walk out to find Sif already standing there, I hadn't spent much time with sif when I was younger unless it was training or with Thor and Loki"Oh hello"She stands there awkwardly
I examen her her face is bruised probably from her fight training she's obsessed with

"I um heard you had returned...Frigga sent me aswell she wants to see you in the um throne room"
"Oh okay..."It was awkward,Really Awkward
Put the stuff on the bed and made my way out of the room she followed me out shutting the heavy door behind her"Well I Um I'll hopefully see you again before you leave"I walk quickly along the hallway in time with sif not wanting to be rude"Yeah..."
I walked towards the throne room and she walked the other way."Oh good little one your here, now everything is in place I was thinkingggg....." she eyes up the order of people "you could go right here!"

She grabs my hand and walks me over to the throne excitedly.She stands me in between the throne and Loki who looks as miserable as ever standing there down the steps and towards the isle the isle stand the avengers"Oh it's perfect, if you could all remember where you are standing that would be splendid for tomorrow"l Everyone nods and heads back to their room except for me of course I make my way to the kitchen in search of something to eat. The old wooden door swings open as I push against it and enter the kitchen making sure no one is in there"I could make you something...."
I jump out my skin as I hear a voice coming from behind me "OH MY-" I turn around quickly seeing Sid's smiling face as it turns to apologetic "-Sorry"
She laughs a little bit unable to hide it "No it's alright"We stand there in silence until I decide to break it in a way I thought I would never"We could make something together"she looks relieved that I've talked"What are you planning?""Pizza it's like bread with tomato sauce and then melted cheese and what ever you like on top"she smiles a bit shocked that I had a plan "Sounds delicious but how do we make it"
I look around the kitchen and grab some ingredients "We start with the dough"

-< an hour later >-
Finishing cleaning up the kitchen from messing around cooking and from the flour fight we had along with cleaning ourselves as we were also covered in flour the pizza was ready. I put it on a plate cutting it up and then sitting down taking a bite"This isn't half bad" I look up at her who's eyes have widened "Half bad?! Lady Colletta this is delicious!"Sif couldn't get enough of it "Well I'm glad you like it"I laugh.I was just glad I had got my pizza even if it wasn't as good as the ones in New York they were good enough to stop my stomach growling.She walks me up to my room where I then say good bye, I get dressed into a dressing gown and jump into the bed It felt weird being back here
In their room. In this bed. With the people who looked after me when I was a child, But it felt good like I was home but then again the avengers were my home too it was almost like relief that everyone was in one place and safe all at the same time with my mind reassured I fell asleep once again into my dreamland.I wake up the next morning. The airs crisp also free of the pollution I've gotten so use to there's a buzz in the air as the birds chirp with the sound of my door closing"Wakey wakey little one, oh it's been so so so long since I've done this!" Frigga walks in bursting with more joy than usual. She slips along throwing my curtains open with a sigh as she's hit with the cool morning air seeping through the gap she then looks around at me picking up the pile of dresses looking through them and then laying one out since i hadn't fully decided on one yesterday "Right- one beautiful dress for a gorgeous princess!" I smile as I look at the dress"It is very pretty-" I yawn and stretch and she walks into the wardrobe talking to herself"Well I believe that these shoes and that head piece should go with that"She walks out with the dress I have chosen and a pair of matching shoes
But in her other hand has a beautiful tiara

"But wait I thought only the royals were allowed to wear tiaras and crowns on Asgard"
She paused looking at me a bit stunned and then gives a warm smile "Colletta Jefferson the only thing that is stopping you from being a royal, is a name. You've had all the proper classes from defence to baking to literature, you are as much of a royal as I am and besides you are a lady of Asgard"
I smile back at her "I suppose you're right""I'm always right-" she gives me a cheeky smile"-Now go and get ready!"She leaves the room and I enter the bathroom I turn on the water and hop in as the thick cloud of steam wash's over the room. I jumped back out soon after with my hair freshly wash along waits the rest of me. I dry myself off and walk back into the room picking up the dress and inspecting it closes all it's fine little details finally coming to light I put the dress on twirling around in it's beauty thinking of all the wonderful things I gathered from this place. Asgard with its natural beauty of the landscape to the light that is the people everyone has a role here and yet I'm still finding mine all that's years later as much as I am a lady of Asgard I'm not a royal and I am not a citizen. I put on the shoes and make my way to the door putting on a brave face before I brace myself realising quickly that I've left the tiara I grab it off the side unit and quickly brush my hair before I open the door and walk along the corridor with it still in my hand. As I walk past a room where the door is left slightly open it erupts with laughter I peer in so not to be seen wondering who could be making all the noise. I I peer in looking around it room i see Sif Frigga nat Jane and Wanda now talking about something I decide to leave not wanting to disturb them but as I turn the door creeks and I turn around to see nat"Oh hey goldie you ok?"I quickly resort to something I know will capture wanda and friggas attention at least "Yeah just wondering if any of you want to help me with my hair"they all look at each other until wanda snaps up the opportunity "I'll help you!"Wanda moves across the bed to make room for me, I sit down and she starts to brush my hair. The conversation continues I don't pay much attention to it thinking to my self for much of it wanda pats me on the shoulders signalling she's she's done "Thank you Wanda" I look around the bed remembering I put the tiara down but it's gone I look up when a small cough comes from frigga I look over and within her hands is the tiara I'm relieved as I walk over to her "Time for your coronation your highness" We all giggle as Frigga puts the tiara on my head I give them a twirl before facing frigga again "Beautiful as always"She looks at me with a tear in her eye"I might go as far as to say you look better with it on"I smile as I try to hold back a laugh "Well we better go and get the boys"Jane stands up dusting off her long floor length red gown making sure it sits right.

Frigga bows her head in acceptance "Yes we must"
She calmly stands up giving a quick bowing nod and then leaves followed by the rest of us "Oh Colletta you come with me you too Jane. Wanda and Nat you can just head down to the throne room!"Nat and Wanda break off from us and go the opposite way as we two follow Frigga"Knowing my son he'll still be asleep"We arrive at the boys room waiting patiently to see if any noise comes from inside the room but there's nothing until frigga is about to knock"BUCKY LEAVE THE TIE ON"it was a very stressed Steve shouting that echoed the halls "I DONT WANT THE DAMN TIE STEVE"buckys voice follows whining like a child"I swear to god if the two of you don't shut up and put the tie on I'm going to strangle you with it"the blunt expression from his voice shows this has been happening all morning"SHUT UP TONY" Steve barks round at him"YEAH SHUT UP" Bucky mumbles after Steve  there's the sound of Rustling I quickly realise it must be Thor with his cape sweeping the floor"Now now mortals today is a day of celebration!""Yes we'll so far all we have to celebrate is Steve and Bucky not being choked by Tony ,Tony being dressed without sunglasses and Clint being out of bed before 1 pm"Jane Frigga and I all try to hold in the laughter that is desperately trying to escape us"Thanks for pointing that out Bruce"Tony said in his bleak voiceI go up and knock on the door,The door openes to reveal bucky wearing a suit and tie"Oh hey doll, we'll be out in a minute"He shuts the door back over quickly"Guys they're here"He tries to whisper " Tony emerged
"H-hi yeah they'll be out in a minute"frigga raises an eye brow but passes with her suspicions "Splendid would you mind taking Colletta with you" he looks down at me and then back at her"Yeah yeah no problem your majesty"He walks over to me as Bucky practically flys out of the room"Sorry" he looks at Frigga"No it's quite alright"Bucky walks over to us we wait for Bruce and Clint and then Thor comes out
"Oh my-"Frigga stands their blank faced Thor emerges from the door facing so that I could see him"Back to the long hair I see" we watch on as he stands with his old flowing blond locks looking proud of himself "Yes I got some magical being to do it they offered after all!"Tony interrupts them "We all-"He points to himself Clint Bruce and Bucky
"-voted against him getting it done"Frigga bursts out laughing just as Steve exits the room

"What is it mother" a wide smile appears across her face "Nothing I just find it's amusing that's all"We leave Frigga and thor to talk before it begins Jane attempts to make small talk "So what do you all...do" "World war 2 veterans"Steve and Bucky look at her as.l she widens her eyes "Dad most of the time"
Clint keeps his focus on the floor with his hands in his pockets"Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist"Tony whips out a pair of his signature sunglasses and Bruce sighs.
"So...so so close to not having those things- but I um work in medical most of the time I'm uh doctor Bruce banner I uh I focus in the field of gamma radiation that's kinda how I got the green guy"
He laughs awkwardly "Oh I'm an astronomer, I've dedicated my life to it and built all my own machinery"Bruce and Jane nerded out behind us until we reached the hall everyone trying to ignore them not understanding. Once there everyone greeted each other as the hall begins to fill up and we take out places that we had planned yesterday I see Loki clenching his fist almost looking nervous "Are you ok?"I whisper to him as I fluff out my dress
"Yes I'm perfectly fine"he sounded angry maybe even upset or jealous I could tell the years we had been apart loki had became different....distant and obsessed with what I can't tell yet wether it's the throne or his brothers life.

I take his hand which he quickly tries to turn away and let got from but I managed to squeeze my hand back into his fist again which relaxes him a little as he loosens his grip and the ceremony begins.

-< after the coronation >-

Thor is appointment as king of Asgard and the nine relms all over them hundreds of thousands of people rejoice I smile still holding Lokis hand but I'm quick to spot odin sitting high and mighty still on his throne with a look that could send the realms into panic. It was worry his face shrunk as his eyes narrow until suddenly he stopped through the celebration he says two words that silence the room despite him not raising his voice  "Frost giants".He stands up fr m his seats as the once celebrating crowd stands frozen in time listening to guidance "Frost giants are here"His voice bounces of the now dimming walls as panicking people run out of the room creating drafts that almost bows the flames out and the rattling of running on the floor as people topple and climb over others attempting to flee

Olden looks upon his people now powerless reduced to a relic of the past wanting to intervene to calm the public down but alas thor was now king "Quick Colletta and Jane you come with me" Frigga grabbed my hand snapping my Vision away from Odin
"it will be better if we split up and If worst comes to worse go to Collettas room and we can all meet there" sif announces it to the others as they all nod along quickly trying to for a plan mean while the People start to flood out of the main doors and back into the city hoping it saves them from the elves "Ok Wanda pietro Bucky you come with me"
Nat turns as they follow nodding and hee and Bucky prepare their weapons of choice soon she walks out the side door with her small group and out of sights from the hall "Ok Tony Bruce Clint were a team. Thor and Loki can pair up and cover the outside" Steve already trying to take charge and he takes his suit jacket off cracking his knuckles as the rest of them prepare walking out the main door way clearing a path through the people using Thor to clear a path through his people.Frigga sighs watching Loki and Thor walk them out the door and then is quickly back to business "Ok come along"
Frigga starts to jog out the another side door looking back at odin she holds onto my hand tight as jane follows being ushered by sif along the halls until we reach a room it's quiet here only the faint screams and roaring of the crowd of the distance can be heard faintly though the thick walls Frigga grabs some armour and a new dress quickly getting shanked before giving armour to Jane to protect her

"Go and put this on and be quick about if!" She lets go as Jane nods putting it on her hands shaking as the then clears her hair off her face. Sif ran in the room from watching for the elves"They're coming this way"Frigga grabbed me dragging me to the other side of the room in my state of shock and worry she sits me behind the bed stroking my hair as she try's to comfort me "You stay here little one ok? Everything's going to be fine" She hops up on the bed grabbing one of the swords hang at the head of the bed in an x formation taking the other one tossing it to Jane as she struggles trying to grab it she then jumps back off walking back over to Jane and sif ordering them about in a calm fashion"Jane go and hide in the bathroom they're here for you and that's the last thing they're going to get....we'll hold them off for as long as we can-" her voice echos with dread what did she mean? Was she going to kill them? Wait until the others arrive...no this was something different something new-Sif pulls her sword from its hold ,wielding it firmly as she takes a few practice swings stretching her neck with a loud crack and then stands waiting along with frigga for the door to become occupied. The sound of pillaging becomes closer in the next few minutes along with the sound of a steady beating in my ears- my heart is racing peering over the mattress looking at the door praying they don't come praying there's enough rooms for them to search so that Thor and Loki or any of them can some to protect us. Yet soon enough a small man appears as the door I watch as his face fills with a sickening grin looking between sig and frigga he walks in as I duck down further the stealing beat picking up pace as I watch him.

He takes a moment to look at the two of them making the correct assumptions about them before he starts to speak his demands for Jane "We know you have the girl....give her to us her and no one will get hurt, give us Jane foster"Sif looked at Frigga who simply turns back around facing the man "Well looks like someone's getting hurt" in a split second frigga attacks the man who deflects hee attacks with some what difficulty's their sword occasionally bitt together producing the sound of war clashing down on the man. it's in this time I have a sudden wave of confusion- how did frigga know the elves were here for Jane- even before they asked to have her I come to the decision that she must be involved with this situation..something the happened before the coronation lead to this moment...I come to this thought fast as I watch the small woman grab the two swords and flick them out of Frigga and Sifs hands as their faces fill with rage they quickly run to their swords as the man grabs another off the wall by the door he swings his sword forcing them back nipping sifs arm as he does forcing her to switch to her left and giving him an advantage Frigga backs the dark elf into a corner of the room quickly furiously as he stumbles over his own feet as he try's to pay attention to sif as she try's to stab him

As the battle seems to be going in our favour the tables turn as a tall beast walks through the door the frigga quickly adjusts hee self to be back to back with sif she starts fighting the beast as sif fights the elf from before it's clear on their faces they're enjoying the fight no matter how difficult their swords clatter together creating a ringing in the air I look over at Jane peering out of the bathroom at them much like I'm doing from the bed side only she looks scared. I watch as she chews her hair switching from looking at the fight to looking at the door for Thor and Loki I start to run through the possibilities through my head thinking of how these things managed to get here let alone into the palace as I'm thinking a third wandered into the room the second of the beasts they were now out numbered as the beasts had the upper hand being taller and stronger I quickly look for something to help to even the battle even a tad of a bit I look around me at the bear floor and then under the bed lifting the quilt...nothing the others too busy to notice anything don't notice as I form my plan crawling round the edge of the room and finally into the bathroom with Jane who's tucked herself away behind the door as I crawl round a harsh whisper catches me "Colletta your going to get hurt go and hide in the cupboard" Jane points to the cupboard as her hands shake out of fear

"No you go and hide I'll take this though"I grab the sword looking it over in all its glory I quickly crawl around and out the bathroom sneaking around the edge of the room until I'm near the three of them I pull back my new found sword and jam it into the elves leg between the muscle and bone that's when I jump up almost like revealing me self where he quickly falls to the ground rolling around in pain.
I pull my sword out sharply trailing it along his torso causing his blood to spill I look at the others too caught up in their own fight to notice me I quickly start to fight the beast with sift when there's a sharp gasp that sound almost like a yelp I look around the room in the direction of Jane to see if they had found her but there was nothing my eyes dart back round to frigga knowing it wasn't sif. There on the floor almost like deja vu I see her on the floor...the cold tiled floor I feel the rage begin to boil in me it takes over as I look down at her.My second mother
lying on the cold dusty floor as her blood pours over her blue dress staining it red through my rage I catch a flash of sadness Frigga had done nothing to deserve this My breath begins to shake as my tears burn down my soft cheeks, Sif was fighting alone not able to stop in fear of ending up in the same situation as friggas in right now I turn back around refusing to let her be hurt I hold my sword in one hand my nails imprinted hard on the other as I try and calm my self but it's Impossible

-< Tony's point of view >-

Striding down the hallway I take my glasses off clearing them of the suffer they had gathered from my pocket all whilst the others looked for the human ice poles. Happy and content I ear the sound of slow jogging and slight heavy breathing knowing it's Bruce I roll my eyes as he starts talking knowing it will be about work "Tony I have to talk to you about something" yup there it is I think to my self as I put the glasses back on with a quick masked eye roll "What's up banner"he smiles as he all's with me now "Well when Colletta had that tussle with that guy I took some blood and I know what you're going to say but hear me out"He pulls out one of the tablets from his jacket coat"I've been trying to figure this out the since I got the results back"He passed me the tablet and showed me a graph I slide my glasses down my nose once I start reading it As I read it I begin to frown I shake my head whilst handing out the tablet for him to take back "What-what is this..what am I look at"he shoves the tablet back to me"That... is Collettas blood and that is her skin cell formation" he points the the different points on the graph made quickly with out the proper labels "Ok this can't be right it's too high for a start and seriously you think I care if she had ab blood...we'll I do because it's one heck of a pain in the neck to find but-"Bruce sighs in frustration cutting me off"Tony that's beside the point I'm talking about the fact that there are little microscopic imperfections in the build up of her blood and her skin cells" I sigh "banner your blabbing-" he takes the tablet back "according to this...she's like a thousand years old if not older maybe like 1 to 1 and a half? and to put that into perspective Thor's what 1,500 ish? So she's like the same age as him!" His concerned face stares at me as I try for the life of me not to burst out laughing "Ok so what your trying to tell me is that the little 8 year old girl that has came into our care is actually 1000-1500 years old....and you expect me to believe that?. Bruce old buddy I think you've officially lost your mind maybe the gammas finally got to you? Let's run a test on that" bruce frowns "you're an ass" I slide my glasses back up my nose "a good looking one?" He walks a head "mildly" I laugh to myself "I'll take that-" I widen my stride to catch up with the others

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The pain in my hands keeps growing blindsided with rage I don't pay much attention to it as I stare at the scene "Colletta your hands.....your eyes"I snap out of my thoughts and turn to face sif as She talks to me my thoughts come back to me as I try to unclench my hands but I can't, I look down at my hands as the burning in them grows I quickly learn that they don't burn from my nails that are now lodged into my palm. The sound of battle stops as they all turn to look at me as I look down at my blood covered hands as they grow a light purple as it mists about my hand I quickly think about Loki and his powers I move my hand and the purple light follows I smile to my self wickedly. After living with the god of mischief for a few years you pick up on a few of his tricks I look up at the almost frozen people smiling still but now at the elves. I let the feeling grow and it produced more of this new found power as I tilt my head side to side the elves clearly thinking of what to do they drop their weapons in surrender as they inch out of the room. I start to feel my self slip away into this power as the hall of light in my hand grows I yank the small  elf back looking him in the eyes for a brief moment making him wish he had never hurt frigga I turn around with force dragging him up and then down into the marble table that sits pride of place in the room his face meets with the table breaking a large chunk off of it I drop him allowing him to roll around on the floor holding his face in agony
I quickly go after one of the bigger beasts who try's to grab me before I get to him failing in the process as I slide across the floor on my knees to avoid him kicking the legs from under him and watching as he falls I get up and throw my self over him grabbing one of the swords they had dropped when suddenly I'm grabbed from behind with out another thought I grab their arm and pulled them over my only to land on the beast I was just about to stab I smirk knowing I got the better of them before I can stab the two of them I hear Jane calling out "Oh my god Colletta!"
Jane grasps her face in horror as I look back around at the two elves looking down at the silver blade now launched through me the pain rushes through my body as I turn to look at the back of me greeted by the tip of the blade I look up knowing the two of them couldn't of done it. The Elve from before stands in front of me slowly stumbling back hitting the wall which he quickly slides down too weak to continue standing. I'm furious I Chanel the pain frustration and my refusal to let them win allowing my power to grow i raise my hand to the place creature as I fly across the room pinning him to the wall with my open hand his pale face starts turning blue after what feels like seconds but is clearly minutes I lean closer to him trying to stop the tears "You're not worth my time you know that-" he nods in agreement clearly terrified of me with no control I stay staring at him not realising I'm slowly twisting his neck I only realise once there's a loud snap and he goes limp I drop him knowing he's dead I'm confused and scared at the fact I didn't have control but I know now that if I stop the others won't be as scared of me I snap around wrapping my lilac mist around the other elves lifting them up into the air by  their necks I start to feel my control slip again but it's too late I can't stop I clash them together causing them to fall unconscious knowing odin will want answers I take a few deep breaths looking salt Jane as I start to full regain control I stop to the floor with the pain that had grown 10 times worse my powers must of been keeping it at bay but there's a new sense of pain a burning. A burning that's coursing through my veils, everything is burning.

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I fall back trying to stay up but it's no use I manage to lye on my side as the world becomes harder to see I can't see anyone or anything other than a wall all I can hear is white noise and the faint sound of frigga which is almost reassuring "Sif.....get Jane out of here" or it was until I hear the weakness in her voice the pain, the regret "my q-queen I'm not leaving you in your hour of need I-" Frigga starts talking before sif can protest anymore "sif....kindly.....that's an order from your queen....your queen in her hour of need-" I can tell she's smiling just from her quick wit sif no longer protests as I hear footsteps leavening the room as they talk echoing down the wall way along with their crying. Then I knew this was serious- I wanted to help frigga I wanted them to be safe but all I could do is lye here feeling paralysed
They're still close as I hear them talking it takes a moment to hear the question over janes crying
"Jane what's wrong?!" It was Thor with his soft comforting voice clearly worried that the frost giants had found her and hurt her. Jane calms a bit as he talks to her eventually her crying becomes a low sob i lye listening to what she has to say all the while trying to move of the jagged marble that I'm on-top off from the shattered table"They-she-Frigga and Sif were fighting them and then Colletta she- and then Frigga- and then she finished them and then she-she"She was in hysterics here once calm sobbing now uncontrollable tears once again "speak Jane speak!!" A very concerned Loki shouts as he panics about his mother meanwhile Thor stands quiet trying to work out what's happened There's silence all but janes crying but something must of clicked into place for Loki remembering hearing my name assuming I got caught up in the battle "COLLETTA!" His thunder of foot steps race down the hallway and into the room sliding down onto his knees next to me turning me to face the other direction but still blocking frigga My eyes are heavy by the time he's there it's hard to stay awake as he talks to me "What happened...tell me what happened! Colletta-"I point over to Frigga weak bearly even able to move my arm He slowly looks over his shoulder caught up in his panic he set aside the fact that frigga may of been hurt in his hypothetical "Mother..."He places me down still looking over at Frigga. He walks over to Frigga and kneels on one knee above her I can hear his sobbing  as his back turned towards me. Friggas clearly not well- Loki never cry's for anyone unless it's serious- in fact I've only seen him cry twice
I see his arm move as He strokes the side off her face "My son..."her voice is slowly loosing its power behind it as I hear more footsteps coming towards the door and Thor runs in from comforting Jane still he takes a look around the room seeing frigga he quickly runs to her leaving me as I listen to their conversation "My sons" Thor's angry as he throws himself down into one of his knees like Loki placing his hammer down as well "Mother who did this"Loki  looks at him annoyed at that's the only thing he wants to know "Algrim he came for Jane he knows I-we protected her"Loki interrupts Thor before he can even speak "We will fix this" friggas voice changed the pain is switched with sorrow knowing whatever she says it won't stop the boys so she just accepts it
"I know you will...but right now you have to help Colletta"I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer they began to shut by themselves only this time i couldn't open them again. A few moments later I feel someone lift me up and lay my head on their lap
"Hey-keep your eyes open"It's Loki but as hard as I try I can't I don't have the strength to fight with them to open againI can only see out a slither of the bottom of my eyes"Colletta keep those eyes open come on"Lokis voice echoed around my head as I hear Thor start to beg"Collette let me see those beautiful eyes please" I manage to half open them somehow feeling sorry about what has happened to them in the last few moments having seen frigga in the state she's in and now me "That's it it's ok, it's going to be ok" It's taking so much out of me to keep them open when suddenly I remember I try to use my powers much to their confusion but finally I lift my arm and it glows a weak lilac Thor goes Pail
I stop holding my arm up letting the power die off and then dart my eye around looking through the small gap only to see Blood everywhere as much as I tried to keep my eyes open i didn't want to see Loki and Thor covered in either line of worse Friggas bloodMy eyes began to close again except this time
They close all the way and I let them giving up
I hear the faint voices of Thor and Loki who are still recovering from me showing my powers "No Colletta they're coming youre going to be ok hold on"Thor pleads once again"Colletta please don't leave me...please I only just got you back I'm sorry please"
Loki pleads this time ripping at my heart but there's nothing I can do. Thor grabs my shoulders and gently shaking me in a last attempt to wake me"
"Please-"His voice shatters through their tears I hear footsteps coming into the room they stop suddenly clearly whoever is there is stunned by the crime scene. The ringing in my ears gets louder and louder
Until it sounds just like white noise. The footsteps resume again this time faster "Colletta oh my god no"Wanda was talking to me She must be shaking her voice seems off "Dusty don't worry we've got you" Pietro voice sounded like nothing I had heard before gone was the laughter and ring in his voice they were now filled with dread and worry"Hey goldie come on your ok..youre ok"
Nat...nat hurt the most hearing her voice break as she try's to hold herself together I start to imagine her face but I stop not wanting to even think about it "I'm here kiddo your gonna be ok" Tony- I could feel him stroking his hand trough my hair he was shaking He didn't know what to do that's the only time he shows weakness when he's totally helpless
He's out of control of what's going to happen and that scares him "You're gonna be ok kiddo you hear me?  Just stay with us...come on kid "They're all here telling me it's going to be alright Whilst the pain over takes my body's will power and determination to stay awake. The ringing becomes a high pitched squeal blocking out whatever they're saying to me.I can no longer hear them Tony's hand wasn't in my hair And I felt like I was weightless The sequel stops and it's deadly quiet They were gone there was no noise no nothing.No. They haven't gone they're still there-I was the one that had left. I take what's left of my strength prying my eyes open only to be blinded but the white light beaming down on me. I blink a few times washing away the haze and realise it's a ceiling i try to move when I greeted with thee sting of fresh pain that aches around my helpless body whinging but as I open my eyes again I'm greeted by Tony's voice he sounds almost unsure as he speak in a quiet calm voice "Hey kiddo" I try to move nice again but nothin just the sting once again I try to sit up think that once that I initial pain is over that's it, it will be over but the most I can move a is a few millimetres up my back not lifting from the bed "Hey, hey don't move ok" he finally comes into view as he strides to my bedside making small talk that I'm not particularly interested in, he starts making small jokes realising I had never seen him like this I don't answer back which only makes the situation more awkward as the usually layed back jokester was anything but that I wait until he stops looking over my bed before talking ignoring almost everything he's just said "What happened..?" I feel my lips cracking as they moved stinging as I talked, more pain to endure, more damage for my body to eventually heal "We....we know that you killed one of the elves and the other two were taken to odin for questioning or something like that" he looks around at something in the room as I look up at him impatiently waiting on him to continue "But uh Frigga was stabbed and so were you" I listen to his worlds as my body soaks up the pain "Are Jane and sif ok?" "they're fine Colletta...."Peppers familiar voice blurts out as Tony stands dazed out thinking about something as I gather the guts to ask my most pressing question "...is Frigga ok" the room fell silent between Tony's drifting and peppers heart practically hitting the floor I could hear her breathing change suddenly before she takes a sharp breath in. Out of no where I sit up I feel no pain my adrenaline running high I turn and look at pepper
Ignoring the others standing dead silent in the room "what happened pepper- what happened to frigga-" Wanda unfolds her arms shaking her head slightly "dusty please don't sit up- you need rest-" I look at her "I don't need rest I need answers wanda-tell me" she looks around the room everyone avoiding eye con with me as I stare wanda down she's slowly caves in "she back on asgard getting medical attention...." With out missing a beat I'm onto my next question "is she going to be alright?" Tony snapping back to the room looks down at me sighing "They don't know kiddo" I sat in silence my head pounding from the pain and my heart aching to keep up with it minutes passed when the silence is shattered but the doctors intruding into the room "Colletta this is-" before tony can finish a stern looking man begins to talk "Im doctor Stephen strange I don't need you to speak for me thank you mr stark" Tony holds up his hands moving away from the bed"Ok keep your scrubs on doc" the doctor walks towards the bed still talking and questioning me. Things that don't make sense that is
"Now before I can decide what exactly what you need help with i need to tell me exactly what you are"
I think for a moment about what he means it plays over and over and over in my head yet I can't make no sense of it was it a test? Testing my memory? Trying to see if I've lost my mind thinking I was some sort of animal? The avengers have fought many races aliens man robots and all the other species of the galaxy did he think I was one of those? "If your trying to ask me what type of inter dimensional being I am then im human" He plucks the clipboard of the end of my bed and fills it with the sheets from the nurses hand who stands back behind him "Yes that would be a good answer, only you're not" he starts reading through the papers before continuing "You see doctor banner gave me some results which showed me your blood build up and your lay out of skin cells and they're anything but human well at least half of them aren't but that's beside my point, so how about we start with how it tells us you're a thousand plus years old not to mention the amount of energy coming off of you is more than normal so unless you have a generator built into you like a machine, you're not human " I scoff at the possibilities and the theories he's plucking out of thin air "listen if I was 1000 years old I would be dead" he flicks through the pages "Exactly but you're not so" He darts his eyes all around me before they focus back on the clipboard"What are you Colletta?" He glares at me as I sigh and slowly start telling his a very bland back story on my hands how they were burning and glowing that lilac colour followed by sif seeing whatever happening with my eyes "Well I don't know exactly what you are you but I will try as best I can to figure you out"He leaves without warning and the others flood back into the small room with out me even noticing they had scurried out of there so not to be in the way. Tony resumes his place walking over to me more relaxed "Oh before I forget yellow eyes gave me this" he pulls out a slightly crumpled bit of paper and hands it to me.It was a reply from Peter once perfectly folded up I flatten out some of the creases caused by Tony's pocket and fold back the flaps. i start reading  -I'm so happy to hear from you again it's been years! What happened? Also yeah I'm fine so is aunt may we moved to back queens just around the corner from my new school I met a guy called ned he's super cool and likes Star Wars too he also goes nuts for the avengers but what about you where do you stay now.
I know you never came back to your dads place I don't blame you but maybe we could meet up sometime, I could bring Ned! I think you will like him And I think aunt may will like to see you too she was happy to see you sent a letter oh and you can bring someone with you too im guessing you've got some new friends so the more the merrier right?Anyway I'll speak to you soon I can't wait to find out what's new with you!-It made me smile uncontrollably It felt so good to hear from him I could almost imagine him actually speaking to me after all that's what I've been yearning for "It's from Peter" I announce from the room that's currently watching my big stupid grin "Oooh Peter" wanda announces in a sing tone voice clearly mocking me "Oh shut up Wanda" We all laugh as I read the letter again I do this for hours just looking at his writing feeling one step closer to him

<- two weeks later->

The days have been painfully slow....physically that is but finally I was allowed to go back to the tower to recover a wave of happiness washed over me not begin cramped in a small smelly room as all of them try and file in to speak to me on the daily it's almost like fresh air having all this space around me. "Hey Tony??" I look up at him sitting on the couch as he walks over "yeah kiddo? What's up?" I smile at his as he chuckled to himself knowing I now want something "Could you....maybe....possibly....find Peter so I can see him again"He stands their eating yet again another handful of blueberries as he stops laughing"No, not a chance your still healing"
He goes back to eating his blueberries trying to walk away "Ugh come on Tony he's my best friend" Thors head pops around the door as he conveniently walks past the door at the wrong moment and hears me "Ouch" I sigh before letting out a frustrated groan"Ugh you know what I mean Thor" Tony finishes his blueberries and dusts off his hands "Fine give me his name like his full name" he stands out in the open space as friday starts up and the screens load around him "Ok his names Peter Parker and he lives in queens"I smile as He rolls his eyes and looks at me "Friday run a search for a Peter Parker queens area" he sits down relaxing letting Friday find him he grabs the tablet off the sofa allowing me to see it as it's lights up with what was on the screens a few people pop up but he quickly passes by them either being too old or too young until he stops "well I'm assuming this dud isn't like 45 so you've got a and b to pick from" I look over the two and they're basically the same there's not pictures to go by but I doubt I would even recognise him now I look at the birthdays and point to b "august 10th that's peters birthday" Tony starts reading further in the file until he puts to tablet bakc down and grabs his jacket from the back of the chair just across the room I stare at him "we'll come on them I don't have all day to be running around your little boyfriend" I roll my eyes and stand up "not my boyfriend-" I walk to the elevator taking us down to the car deck and we both get into one of Tony's cars.
He drives for a while until we stop out side of a school I'm assuming Peters. There's a lot of chatter and kids flooding the area as they walks past the car and I watch as they disperse down the different streets after a few minutes of not seeing him i begging to loose hope as Tony impatient looks in the rearview mirror "are you sure it's this school" he turns to me with a look on his face "you chose this peter this is peters school-" I keeps watching from my wing mirror when I notice him. Teller with thicker brown hair smiling as he carries a bunch of books infront of him he's talking away to another kid I'm guessing that's Ned from what I had been told on the letter he sent back. I gather all the guts I have and step out the car but he keeps walking I sigh as I watch him walk away assuming he hadnt made the same connections I had. I snap out of my stare and turn slightly to go back into the car when I hear a thud I turn to look only to see clumsy peter has dropped his books I laugh to my self when I notice peters actually looking at me, had he actually noticed it was me? Or was he just looking back for someone? A big smile spreads across his face as he starts jumping up and down next to ned hitting him to turn around and look at me "Oh my go- Ned! that's her that's Colletta!" He runs towards be before Ned can have a moment to think. I'm quickly engulfed into a hug as he quickly talks "you're here- you're back..you're old wait I'm old too not the point you're actually here!!!" I smiles as beds I can as Ned walks over joining us a lot calmer than Peter "um....hi I'm Ned" Peter eventually let's go and takes the books off ned that he had politely picked up from peters shocked moment "hi it's nice to meet you I'm colletta" I smile awkwardly as he looks me up and down much to my relief I turn to look at peter just as he goes to talk again however ned cuts him off "sorry I'm staring-" I smile at him "oh no it's ok I know this is random and everything-" he stops me before I can Continue"no no it's not that I just didn't think you were real"I look at him confused "Well Peter did say you were a girl who lived on another planet that had been missing for two years" Peter smiles awkward as I look back at ned "Oh...yeah I can see why you would think that now... but um....I am very much real"I laugh with Ned but it dies down once I heard the car door shut I hesitate to turn around but as I slowly move my head i see Tony walk around the car and lean against the bonnet

I turn back around slightly embarrassed before seeing peters face with his mouths handing by his knees and his eyes peeled open "...you're Tony stark..like actually Tony stark-" he turns to ned who it's stood frozen staring at him "bro- she knows Tony stark-" I laugh awkwardly as I try to think of what to say to the two of them "well um yes....he's um...." I think for a moment realising I don't know what he is to me. He's like a dad to me but he's just a friend "well he's my-" before I can finish Tony stars talking from behind me "I'm her dad" I turn around and look at him grinning on the car as I practically hear the boys jaws drop "sorry what-" my jaw almost joining them  thinking of what could possibly be going through his brain right now to even say that about me but he just smiles "Well kid considering your dad is a total moron it wasn't hard to-" I cut him off as he produces so papers from his pocket "Wait what are you talking about"Tony hands me the papers after trying to straighten them out a bit "I got him to sign them earlier today-" I take a quick glance over them the words adoption gleam out at me as I skim over them I realised what this ment. Tony was my actual father a sudden rush came over me almost as if a million butterflies in my chest lifting me off the ground I quickly crash back down once I open my mouth again "So you're like my actual dad?!!l
He looks at me with a smug teasing grin "Uh yeah ,I just said that I'm pretty sure"I look over at ned and Peter who are both trying to conceal their excitement The three of us burst out squealing from happiness ned mainly joking in after peter and I had started. I look at peter who's genuinely happy for me he knows what this means to me having a dad again someone that will live and take care of me and not put some woman infront of me and him my brain races through everything but every conclusion leads back to the simple fact that I now have Anthony stark as a father quite possibly the best person in the world to be your dad. I smile as I hold the papers tightly realising I can finally answer strange's question -what are you-I am a starkAnd that's all that matters right now in this very moment I now had a family Tony stark and pepper potts Not to mention Nat Wanda pietro Bucky Peter ned and all the others
They are my family.
And the avengers are my home After being enrolled to peters school I met some...colourful characters and made plenty of friends who had many questions but most people who knew me from when I was a child mainly asked how I went missing where I went etc I mainly brushed it off walking off with another group of simply saying that I had to go. I refuse to fuel the rumours going around school despite my popularity the walls echoed with the whispers of my name calling Peter insane for telling everyone I was on another planet of course I didn't want to see him be bullied or teaser or anything but what do I do? Turn around and say we'll actually funny story guys...I am? I don't think so could you imagine if teachers found out the press more to the point I would be ripped apart bullied and teased worse than Peter. Without knowing it time had flew in I was now in my second year of high-school Tony and pepper still fussing over ever little detail home work trips the works just as parents should or from what I had watched on tv that is.

I walk to school opening the gate as a creep in its early the birds still chirping but little known to many this is how my day starts out or at least how it starts most mornings. I go into the deserted still music room looking around at the little amount of light that illuminates it, I open the piano and sit down letting my bag slip off my shoulder and I start to play a melody with the permission of the music teacher I'm allowed to come in and do this when ever I please I choose the mornings when the lights don't buzz from being on and the smell of polish and people haven't yet infected the room. I play for a bit before I stand up throwing my bag back over my shoulder I turn the lights on as the bell goes I walk out the class gently closing the door behind me as I watch the people go by I slip into the flow that goes in the direction of my class I walk in and sit down next to Peter as the teacher grabs our attention and begging is full draining lesson that I could teach better in a matter of minutes, the over complication of simple words or phrases numbed into an hour worth of learning I look around the room when there's a quick knock on the door before it swings open I dart my eyes looking at who's at the door only to find Jim Morita the principal teacher "hello mr maddens sorry to interrupt can I speak to colletta please?" The teacher falls over his own words still stood holding his marker up to the board "well of course principal Morita" he turns round to me tilting his head as if to say leave. I get up and walk out following mr Morita to his office where he sits down at the other side of the table "so colletta-" I sigh and stop him knowing what this conversation is about. The same conversation I have had countless times with him "I'm happy in the class I'm in I don't want to move up and I don't want to move schools thank you-" he sighs partly annoyed "I don't see the point in you being in a class that's clearly far too easy for you...I've got some collage and universities looking at taking you in-" I go blank faced "no thank you" slightly annoyed and stressed out with people barking down his door to get to me "I can't tell you what to do...but-" I stand up grabbing my bag "No buts- Im not leaving this high school until I graduate with the rest of my year-" he nods slightly as he points me to the door "ok just get back to class" I turn and walk out the door and back to class just as he had said I sit back next to peter as he talks to ned and mj I quietly start working away with what's on the board breezing my way along it task by task until I had done all of them I sit staring at the wall feeling empty I thought about the end of the day, Tony had arranged for me to go to Asgard which was hard enough to get him to agree to but I managed to get him to say yes to mj ned and Peter to come along with me I wanted to show them everything what I had been doing who I had been talking to everything asgard has to offer including queen frigga who has survived and pushed through her injuries on thors coronation. Hours later the bell rings ending the day I pick my bag up slinging it over my shoulder waiting for peter to pack up "I'm excited to see this place" he stands up putting his bag on "I can't wait for you to see it" we walk outside with them and wait outside chatting to each other till a car pulls up and the window rolls down "come on Goldie!"  She gonna the horn trying to get us to move faster we all scurry into her car and she starts driving back to the tower partly stuck in traffic but once there we all jump out the car and into the tower. "God this is so cool-" Ned starts looking around the place as Peter try's to stop him before he breaks anything in the avengers presence. Tony walks in bickering at thor as he blankly ignored him smiling as I hug him to which wanda walks in with a bunch of stuff "ok so I got-" I look her up and down " listen you might need it" since when would I need-" I pick up a hat and scarf "winter wear in September-?" She sighs putting the stuff down "fine fine ok you don't need it you're right I-" I stop her "listen I know you're worried but believe me we'll be fine" she cracks a smile "I know you will....now go go go before tony makes you take a suit" I laugh as I wave the others over thor calls up to Hemdale and the bifrost opens. Ned and Peter are freaking out as mj and I look at the unbothered "ok yeah this is pretty cool" Peter looks over at mj "pretty ok? Mj we're flying through space!!" I laugh as we walk out into Asgard "That was so cool" Peter and Ned now freaking out over it "Come on you two" Thor briefly talks to hemdale as do I then we lead the way out and across to the place ned and Peter increasingly impressed as they walk just like I was the first time I arrived here mj still trying to hide her excitement. I take a quick look around the hall and by the time I look back thors cape disappears around the corner as he runs off to find Loki. After not seeing her in the room I turn around to the others and take a deep breath knowing partly what their reactions to her and her reactions to them are going to be "I want you three to meet someone but for god sakes try not to totally embarrass yourself" the both nod a bit scared of how I worded the sentence but I quickly lead them into the palace and throw open the doors to the throne room hopeful she's in there thankfully she is I see her talking to sif when they quickly turn around to see me and the others but ignoring them for now odin sitting like a hawk looking down at me with out an ounce of excitement more of hate and regret that I'm here "Frigga! Sif!" I smile at them as I quickly walk to them not running in offend annoying presence and then hug them excitingly. They eventually let go and I look up at odin mg smile dropping "Odin-" I say with an ounce of spite and then turn around to the others as they sheepishly make their way over to us"Frigga these are my friends peter Ned and Mj" she smiles as I try to subtly warn them this is who I've talked about for nearly every day on Midgard "Peter,Ned, mj.....this is Frigga mother of the gods and queen of Asgard" I widen my eyes to which mj gets the idea however the other two not so much "-thors mother" trying to reinforce their memory of how not to do anything stupid "It's a pleasure to meet you Colletta has told me so much over the years mainly about peter of course" Peter elbows ned forward as I clasp my hand over my face knowing this is going to end badly"I-uh I hi it's nice to meet you....your...queenlyness?" He looks around for vacation but is met with Mj smirking bc and Peter holding the bridge of his nose but I'm too focused on odin watching as his face breaks it's stern mold and raises an eyebrow I think quickly before he starts barking orders around I wave sif over and quickly start speaking again "and this is lady sif shes um...like a soldier" she looks at me "I'm a warrior-" I nod just trying to get one of them to talk quickly. I see ned take a breath of air but quickly and much to my happiness peter steps forward and begins talking "it's nice to meet you-" he looks at me a bit worried as sif nods and then folds her arms eyeing him up and down. I sighed as the relief washes over me before I start to talk again "I'm going to take them to meet Loki if that's ok" frigga smiles "well he's stayed out of trouble so far so he'll be in his room" I walk over to the others and continue to walk away when I realise Mjs still standing behind talking to sif "na na you guys go ahead I'm gonna stay here and learn some stuff from sif if that's ok" we make it to the back of the hall when I hear frigga crying out "but don't be surprised if he overreacts!" I smile to my self knowing what she's talking about quickly brushing it off and then quickly run them along the hall way it takes me a moment to find his room again but soon we're standing at the door and my hand is gently hitting against it so not to disturb his peace when I hear the noise of fumbling coming from the other side I realise he's jumped up from lying in bed and skidded across the room recognising my knock. The door flys open as a michevvious grin spreads across his face "ah so the little whitch returns" I roll my eyes "well I could t exactly leave you to rule my coven could I?"

he swipes me up into a hug and puts me back down after a few moment He turns to see Peter and ned his face starts slowly contorting into a wicked fake smile as he starts interrogating them "and who are these...boys" I move into his line of sighs "don't get the wrong idea they aren't anything like that to me" he longed past me walking up to them as they stand quaking in fear "Theyre just my friends that's Peter and that's Ned" I point to them desperately as he eyes them up like a dog with its dinner "Ah....I see, "

He stands up straight and puts his hands behind his back"could you go and fetch my book I've left it in there on the bed"I give him a look because I know his usual tricks which will most likely end in an accident but I can't tell what his exact plans are just yet Lokis always been unpredictable "I'm not your servant"He doesn't break eye contact with the boys "Please little witch" I roll my eyes and unfold my arms in defeat not realising I had them crossed in the first place "Fineeee..."I cave but only to see what his plans areI walk in to his room and listen to what he is saying through the still open door"Either of you hurt her your as good as dead, I'll gut you like a fish and leave you out to dry do you understand"I grabs the book off the bedAnd bolt towards the door as silence falls after Loki speaks "Do. You. Understand?"Loki repeats himself as I make it back to the door only to see Loki holding a dagger up to net and peters throats

They nod frantically not wanting to feel the blade "Good, I'm glad we have an understa-"I walk out just to make sure this doesn't end in bloodshead "Put the daggers away Loki"I throw the book to him and he catches it His daggers disappearing as he lets go of them "Well I mean what did you expect"He gives me one of his cheeky grins "Oh believe me I expected the overprotective brotherly talk but not the daggers and for the record me being with one of these two is never going to happen"Ned and Peter are still shaking like leaves looking at Loki"Also do you know where Thor is?"Loki rolls his eyes "I believe he's in the library wing with Jane" he says as he flicks through the book"Ok thank you loki"I lead the boys away before they faint or before loki can causes another scene. We run through the long twisting halls until we reach the research wing I open the doors to see Jane and thor sitting at a table with a open book and some scrolls plastered out on the desk as they talk"Hi Jane!"She turns around to see me with Peter and Ned standing behind me "Oh Colletta hi! Your looking well" clearing meaning from the incident "Yes we'll it was two years ago"
I laugh a bit awkwardly "Yes but anywayyyy-who are these two"She winks at me"No thats never gonna-*I sigh giving up* these are my friends-"I emphasised -friends-"this is Peter and this is ned" she raises and eyebrow "Oh so this is the famous Peter parker"She gets up and shakes his hand "I've heard so much about you"She sits back down once she shakes neds hand"So what are you two doing here then?"thor quickly cuts in"She's going to show the misgardian boys around" he says as scoffs grapes down his throat"Oh well that sounds fun"I give a concerned look "Yes I'm sure you will all have a blast"Thor smiles as he chomps on the remainder of his grapes
I can tell it's time to leave as the room fall awkwardly silent "Yeah it will but bc we'll see you later"I shut the doors behind me "Ok well you've met everyone"
We walk slowly down the hall"Can we stay clear of rokie"I laugh As Ned stands playing with his hands nervously when suddenly Lokis voice booms around the hallway "MY NAME IS LOKI YOU FOUL LITTLE MIDGARDING DWELLER" HIS VOICE protects from his room all the way to the other side of the palace"Ss-s-sorry" Ned reply's back small and quiet not like loki would hear it anyway but it made Peter and I laugh as Ned stands there now stroking the back of his neck as his hairs stand on end "Can we move on please..." We all smile and walk on"You can't escape Loki" I laugh as Peter jokes with Ned still shaken up. I take them on a full tour of the palace and Asgard before supper is ready Sif is making pizza in memory of our time together with the help of mj as she sits and eats most of the toppings.We start to walk back into the palace after I had showed them around the village when a loud siren begins to whale.
It was the dark elf sirenOdin had someone stand beside a large horn and if any dark elves were spotted the guard was to blow it which would sent a chain reaction ending In the siren.I begin to run the boys follow my lead"WE HAVE TO GET IN NOW!"I scream back to them over the whaling and panicking of the people around us "what-WHY!"Peter says as tries to keep up with me dragging him behind "THE DARK ELVES ARE COMING, IF NOT THEN THEY'RE ALREADY HERE" Ned runs a head screaming like a lunatic. We run into the palace where frigga MJ and sif are standing impatiently waiting we all immediately run to my room and shut the door I only not notice frigga in her armour holding a sword I shove Ned and Peter under the bed and MJ follows crawling under it I duck behind the bed still out in the open and wait quietly watching sif and frigga stare at the door. Minutes fly by as the air is still waiting to hear foot steps or breathing anything but there's nothing just deafening silence until there's a small creek that soon disappears into the silence once more this prompts frigga to walk towards the door as she grabs the handle rapid footsteps start flying down the corridor and the door quickly flys over taking frigga with it "oh my god are you alright I'm so sorry-" it's Jane shaking as she tries to apologise to a very dazed frigga "i-i fine where what you been??"

"I know you said when Colletta was here the last time this happened for me come here so I did but they followed me and-"Frigga grabbed her hand not letting her finish and shoved her into the closet closing the door quickly "if they followed her we're all in danger"they each prepare and quickly my room door flys open ripped off it's hinges lying on the floor standing in the door way is the elf from the first attackI could feel the familiar burning in my hands but It wasn't lilac anymore it was a strong striking purple"Why do you keep coming here"I bring my hands up like Wanda had taught me and slowly walk out around the side of the bed much to the horror of frigga"Because we want Jane foster she has what is ours" He suddenly turns to frigga clashing his sword against hers quickly I realise they're Asgard sword meaning guards were already dead. Frigga begins to fight back  as I quickly take place fight the other one as sif tries to help I realise my advantage point and fly up I start replying throwing blasts of energy towards him until he drops down I hit him a few more times to make sure he stays there before I look and watch frigga for a moment frozen stiff as I witness the elf from before standing over hee hurt and in pain. My anger grew as did my power
The colour changed once again to a dark purple almost a navy blue it was so dark. I raise him up and drag him behind me flying us above Asgard much to the wonder of the onlookers greave enough to be out during the warning siren i blast him upward further into the sky not paying attention to the people and let him fall for a few moments before using my powers to bring him back to my eye level
"I want you to leave" he scoffs "Never we want Jane foster"My hands turn a deep blue pulsating as he watches "Well you've got me" I punch him away vertically and fly straight towards him clutching my hand around his neck "Leave Asgard and never return or die in vain these are your two options"
He dangles as my magic twists around his neck and body slowly contouring him "I will never stop my fight she has stolen from us" I look over to Frigga and Jane. Jane is crying over Frigga as the boys try to comfort her meanwhile mj is looking over frigga
My heart sank The hole in my chest was replaced with anger With rage and guilt My breath starts to shake as I turn back to him"And you have stolen from me" My hands turn black as the clouds begin to swirl above us as I collect the energy from the air and punch him in chest the last thing I see is the fear on his face I give a menacing smile in retaliation back to him he had struck frigga from this work now I'll return the favour. The burning in my cold hands didn't hurt anymore I had grown numb to it I tightened my grasp around him "I am going to enjoy this more than your minuscule mind could ever imagine" I slowly float around him until I reach the front of him where I let my powers die and he drops to the floor I don't look down or stay long enough to check he's dead confident I had killed him I lower my self back onto the solid ground of the balcony next to Thor the room was a painful stinging silence but nothing could compare to the pain in my heart as I saw friggas body thor clearly trying to distract himself starts talking asking me questions "Colletta what happened" I turn around to face him rather than her body I can tell he's shocked"What are you wearing, why are your hands black, why and how are your eyes black-" I stop him before he asks anything more "My powers" I don't understand how I had changed clothes or why my powers had changed to black all I knew was friggas body is lying on my bedroom floor.I fly up to find Peter Ned mj and Jane they clear away from her My eyes began to flood as I changed back to my normal clothesMy breathing has became shaky once again my nose begins to run
The anger and guilt melt away to pain and regret
I cry over her Jane strokes my back But that does nothing to calm meThor comes flying back and gives me a hug from behindBut that doesn't do anything either This woman who had given me everything since my mother had died was now dead.My second mother died before me and I was too engrossed in my own self to see it. I leave the room along with peter mj and NedI fall to my knees and weep
They each go either side of me and hug me trapping my in between them.Pain. Physical and mental pain,my body was shutting down after my massive power usage and because of what happened to frigga I clench onto them as the tears flow down my bloody cheeks I hear running footsteps coming along the hallway it's Loki"Colletta? What happened"He peel my hands off them and they let go. I manage to stand up and lean against Loki "Colletta what happened??? are you alright are you hurt???"I don't make eye contact with himHow can I tell him our mother had died and I had done nothing Why are your shoes bloody, Colletta?where are you bleeding?"I look down at my shoes through my salty tears to see the reddish stain on my shoes.
It's friggas blood -their blood is on your hands-
A popular saying but this time it's true her blood is on meI take a deep breath and look up into his panicked and worried pupils "The elf's came and they attacked us" he brushed off my analysis "Ok but are you hurt?"I shake my head as my eyes begins to over flow with tears my voice becomes inactive and brakes as I talk"They killed her Loki"I look at him as his expression changed instantly, it made everything worse the pain the silence...everything.I feel sick as I sink lower into his arms unable to hold my self up anymore "WHERE IS HE"He changes into his horns and holds his daggers in either hand

"Dead...on the town square in the middle of the street"His horns and daggers disappear "Did you..."
His anger turned into shock as he stutters through his sentences not wanting to complete them
"Yes"I look up at the ceiling trying to force the tears to return to where they came from Loki let's go of me and ran into my room.I could hear him sobbing
Crying Ive never head him like this Ever.If only I had notice she was struggling I could of helped her, if I had listened then maybe I would of heard them shouting or crying. The each grab and arm and walk to the nearby balcony and sit down on the seats left out After a minute or two i brake the deadly silence
"Did you talk to her?"I wanted to know what she had said, if she had said anything "She um...asked for you but you didn't respond...then she said that she loves you"Peter played with his thumbsShe cried out for me and I had ignored her It felt like my heart was being pulled apart.Like it had been shattered into a septillion pieces. She said she loves me and I ignored her-

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I let years pass by me slipping away as I go through life frozen for months at a time with the guilt of Friggas death and the image of her lying on my room floor forcing me not to return to Asgard since. I had let all past qualities of my self disappear I stay quiet and go though life constantly fighting again these feelings I gave up my powers hoping they disappear as they seem to be the rout of every thing bad that has happened, as soon as these developed everything went south. I coped with my grief most days by drowning my self in working out school research or frying my brain at codes for Tony- hard work for a 14  year old- however with age came more freedom despite the odd nag from Tony about code or not going to uni or even collage. Classes with Peter ned and mj were still the same for me dreary and unpleasant once flash caught you in his view despite me being the youngest in the class flash took a firm liking to me making it very clear- passing me notes I would toss in the bin picking my bag up after class complements that were uncalled for- that kind of thing however my next highlight was quickly approaching- my 15th birthday not to mentions peters 16th I couldn't wait as I skipped down the stair case to find the team suiting up "hey guys"
Bruce bumps into the back of me in a hurry "oh hi sorry- um we've got a mission-" I shake my head to my self "yeah I know Bruce- I helped plan this-" he looks lost not knowing what to say "oh right- yes of course sorry" nat hurries them all waving them on "come on guys we need to go or we're gonna miss this drop" I smile and wave as they run past me I watch as they run out of view and quickly get on my phone texting the group telling them that they're free to come over whenever and just as I put my phone in my pocket there's a rapid thudding on the door downstairs "Friday who is that?"after a few seconds I finally get an answer "sorry miss- I told mr stark and he has allowed me parker into the tower" "wait wait wait peters here?" I sigh panicking, now Tony knows he's here "yes miss" I look at the door way waiting on peter "thank you Friday" seconds later the elevator doors ping open and Peter comes running out huffing and puffing "COLLETTA" i put my hands out to stop him as he crashes into me "who-what the hell is going on- how are you already here???" He tries to explain out of breath in a sorry state "Peter breathe for Christ sake-" he takes a few deep breaths "I-I don't know what's going on I woke up and it happened and I panicked an-" I try and stop him talking but he keeps spewing his words "Peter start talking sense what happened?" He holds out his hands "I stuck to the CEILING" I look at him and then start laughing "I'm sorry you what?" His face goes stern "it's true I really did stick to the ceiling!" I shake my head ok and how did you do that?" Peter walks over to the wall and starts crawling up it on his hands and knees "I don't know how it happened- it just did" amazement is the only way I could describe the own look on my face "see- I just- I thought it would make sense to come here since you know-" I scoff not knowing what to say " Peter- I don't know what to-" I'm cut off by Fridays jingle playing thought the tower "sorry miss- miss mj and mr ned are here-" I nod to Peter to say get down "ok thanks friday! Let them in" Peter drops off the wall just in time for the r thundering of Ned and mj running from the elevator to the living room "hey!"

Days later (the day after collettas birthday)
Peter and I had managed to keep his new powers a secret we had also got him to see Bruce who determined that he somehow got it from a spider bite. That morning I woke up to the full team around me I look at them still half asleep trying to make sense of it  "What are you doing?"A collective breath was taken as they all began "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,happy birthday to Colletta, happy birthday to you"They all clap and cheer pretty proud of themselves I laughed as I got out of bed "Thanks guys but that was yesterday remember-we went out for dinner last night-" they all kind of laugh and look at each other "we know, we just know you and Peter use to celebrate on the 9th since it was between the two of your birthdays so we decided that- why not do that again-" everything kind of clicks for me now "ohhh right ok- makes sense wait how- how did you know-" nat shrugs with a grin "we asked may" steve stands stern as ever arms folded annoyed at something else quickly they start handing me presents much to my surprise "wait you guys got me stuff? I thought dinner was my present" tony takes a moment "no that was just part of it" I nod smiling happy for all of this no fully use to it but it felt nice to have a part of my childhood back the only thing missing now was peter and a movie playing in the back ground as he gossiped about all the people In front of me "that's guys this it really special" I holds some of the bags opening them all eventually getting the typical things you would expect clothes perfume etc until the my came forward with a separate bag I open it up and fine some sort of bracelet "it's for....when you're in trouble" he gives a half smile obviously seeing this as a need for me to have instead of a gift "oh- right ok- thank you-" I smile faintly as vision picks up "why don't we give her some time to get ready?" They all agree and leave as I get out of the bed putting on an outfit deciding as I go along when the red bag catches my eye I shake my head knowing it's stupid but I reach in pulling the bracelet out and putting it on and then run downstairs still taken back by the amount of effort pepper and Tony put into my birthday balloons banners streamers confetti everything you could think of was there when I was younger I would be lucky to get a birthday cake but decorations were never an option my face twists but I quickly snap out of it trying to forget everything going on in my head taking a deep breath as I look at the group everyone's talking except peter who must of just arrived I smile as he returns a worried smirk "hi-" I didn't know what to say was he happy with the shared birthday again or was he worried that he was going to be looked over or something I couldn't tell "hey-" he walks over hugging me I hug him back sighing I stay there for a minute "are the decorations still to much?" I shake my head not really knowing what was effecting me it was just a mix of everything "....it's ok-" Peter stands there still hugging me I stay until it's quiet and my head clears a bit the I stand straight breaking the hug and he shoves a gift gently into my hand "it's not a lot- but it's something sorry" I smile opening the the card from may and Peter then opening the present that was tapped to it inside were two books and a silver book mark "wow- thank you-" I look over the detail on the book mark it's incredible once I stop admiring it I hug him again breaking away quicker this time "I have a surprise for you-" I grab his hand and run him to the lab there's no one in so I quickly put in the code unlocking two panels that slide to the side to reveal a new suit-" on the news they're talking about a "spider man" running around neighbourhoods- I thought it would be better for you to look the part before you get snapped in an old cut up hoodie" he laughs looking at it "wow- was this all you?" I laugh a bit "god no Tony helped and bruce they're the only two that know about your- sticky ness so I asked for your birthday that they make this-" he grabs me in a hug "oh Jesus-" I gasp before I have time to process it and then he lets go "I'll come try that on maybe tomorrow or something? For now let's just go back upstairs" I nod happy that he's pleased. We quickly run upstairs where I find Loki practically tackling him into a hug as he grips firmly onto the box in his hands carful not to damage it "colletta!" He laughs as I climb off and then notice the box it's white and wrapped in god and blue ribbon the way frigga use to wrap up my gifts when she gave me something "w-what is that-" I stutter looking at it "mother- left it for you-" I look at the box as he holds it out to me. I hesitate to take it but once I do I take the ribbon off and then the lid revealing two white daggers with silver I stare at them for a moment and then laugh to myself "why would she-" Loki clearly doesn't know but has a stab at it anyway "I think it's because she knows you'll be able to use her now" I look at him confused "now?" He helps me put the box back together "well you wouldn't give a baby a dagger let alone a midgardian baby" I roll my eyes knowing he's making it up as he goes "I was 8-" *he sits the box to the side "see infant" I laugh a bit and then take a deep breath "please excuse me-" I walk away once loki gestures that it's ok. I stand on the balcony in my room the harsh wind whittling around me but it's tranquil up here until I hear my room door open and then be carefully closed again a few moments later I hear the soft scuffs get closer I know it's loki. He leans on the railing much like me and begins talking "you want that dagger-right-" I sigh "yes I just-I can't-" he pauses for a moment "why-" I look at him thinking he would of understood what I ment "I'm not over her it's hard enough to put it behind me with out seeing her in my room everyday-" Loki stands up "you don't just get over this colletta you need to experience the pain to get over it-" I'm taken back when he says that "Loki my full life has been pain- I am over hydra and ultron and rumlow and here I am still hurting-" he shakes his head "then you're not over it-" he putts the box up to me and let's go I catch it quickly not wanting the dagger to break when it hits the floor and by the time I look up he's gone I look around but he's no where to be seen I sigh and walk back inside placing the box down then I pick up my jacket and walk out. I keep walking leaving the building not that anyone sees but that only means no one will try and stop or question me.I get lost in my own thoughts and find my self back at my biological fathers apartment in what feels like minutes, a bit shocked my mind brought me here....again- I found myself here last year as well.And the year before that...you get the picture It's been 11 years since everything unfolded and here I am every year back at the same place. I walk up to the door and place my hand in the middle I close my eyes and I can now see inside curiosity taking over my better judgment. My dad was drunk sleeping on his old arm chair just how I remember him the woman was fixing her makeup clearly getting ready to go out again tonight still hungover from the night before i decide to look in my old room And I see her son sitting on my old bed when suddenly he grabs something and puts it in his bag and angrily walks towards the front door.
I panic quickly opening my eyes returning to first person and quickly try and think of what to do walking back away from the door as it starts creeping form him opening it I slip my hand back in my pocket and start jogging down the stairs as he walks out the door I hear the door close and his foot steps become quicker I pick up the pace into a hurried walk to appear less suspicious I look behind me and see him running after "HEY! YOU!"
His voice makes me grit my teeth he sounded just like my father clearly spending too much time with him but I don't turn around and I keep quickly walking away keeping my head down as he follows me out the building..."HEY ! ARE YOU IGNORING ME?" I sharply turn my head to face him leaving him slightly surprised, he tries to hide his expression after a brief moment and then he continues to walk closer to me "WHAT-do you want now?" He grabs my arm and runs out the small single door that leads out onto the main street out side the apartment block He continues running dragging me behind him "Ok get your hand off me before you don't have hands"He drags me down the side ally where the bins for the apartments are kept "Believe me I'm not exactly thrilled to be holding on to you-" I stand there blanked faced "Ok 5,4,3-"He lets go quickly and like a child wipes his hand down his jeans like I'm diseased "Oh there we go now-what do you want"I say sarcastically as I fold my arms He scoffs at me before snarling "Why are you here?"I point to the building astonished by the question he's had to audacity to ask me "You know I use to live here right?before you destroyed my life"He huffs and lets out a psychotic chuckle "Yes I do know funny enough but why are you here now"I laugh to myself as his laugh fades from fear of mine. I have to think to myself for a minute Is he for real?I give a fake smile
"Because I have free will and I can go anywhere I want? I thought you would know that because it's quite obvious"He's getting angry at me Which means I'm winning in his child like game "You have the perfect life YOUR TONY STARKS DAUGHTER FOR GOD SAKE so why are you here?! Why would you come back!" I look away trying not to laugh ast how small minded he is"Oh yeah the perfect life of Colletta Jefferson let's see mother dies then she gets kicked out of her house then gets taken in by a royal family who then banish her to an active war zone where She then gets dragged into some ultron plan and THEN gets basically handed off to an active authoritarian-subversive paramilitary organization bent on world domination and once she reaches her new "home" She is used as a labrat in some messed up organisation program until someone comes to save her" I let my angry expression fade and then give a fake smile "Just the "happily ever after story"mothers and fathers all across the globe tell their darling children before they go to sleep"I roll my eyes He quickly turned and throws his hands in his hair out of frustration He points up at the worn out sandstone building "TONY FUCKING STARK IS YOUR DAD...I HAVE THEM!"I put my hands up to my chest And pout "Aww poor brother I feel so bad"I lower my hands "Oh wait no,no I don't because incase you forgot you and your mother came and threw me out of my own home and I remember quite clearly you being happy about it "HOW ARE YOU HERE! WHY ARE YOU HERE, To rub it in my face?!"I hide my confusion He moves to the entrance of the ally and paces side to side "Listen here "brother" I wouldn't stand outside the door if I wanted to rub it in your face,now I'm going to leave because I have quite frankly spent too much time wasting my life on you and the parents that are perfect for you" I walk past him pissed off knowing he doesn't exactly deserve to have them and put my hood up as it begins to rain- His hand reaches out and grabs me before I can stop it I loose my control immediately set off and by the time I realise this it's too late I'm in the sky with my brother hanging off my arm panicking scared for his life he starts clawing onto me with tears in his eyes thinking about his grizzly end to be I stare down at him feeling hollow when suddenly I hear screaming and realise he's slipped off my arm, I quickly realise what I've done panicking I shut off my powers holding my legs and arms tight against my torso so that I fall faster than him. I quickly go plummeting past him and crash back into the ally way lying on my back I only having enough time to make a net from my powers and catch him. Too busy screaming with his eyes close I stand up and gather my self he opens his eyes as my net dissolves “I said don't.touch.me" he rolls over to face me. He’s terrified but something tells me it’s not from that fall I look beside him into an old puddle of water and see my reflection wobbling into it but somethings different….my eyes theyve gone a dark purple...Correction black….Just like what happened to me when Frigga died "Okay okay! Just get away from me freak-"I look at him and sigh as he stands up from the rubbish filled floor "Ok can I go now?"I say sarcastically as I put my hood up once again To protect myself from the rain that's now clattering off of us harder than before he stands there not looking at me and begins to speak again in a softer more understanding voice "Truthfully...why did you come here"I pause and think I don't know why exactly I come here but he won't leave me alone until I tell him "Because he's my birth father and no matter how much of a dead beat disappointment he is” I pause for a second “, he was….my hero.....at some point anyway-" He sighs looking at me "I'm sorry I didn't mean for all of this" I turn back around astonished at what words had just poured out his mouth "It's fine just...don't tell anyone about this.....me coming here and talking to you-" he points to my face "and the full black eyes and flying?" I shake my head "never happened" he nods slowly still putting things together "right ok" I can only pray he won’t tell anyone anything about this. I turn and start walking out of the ally “COLETTA DONT KILL HIM PLEASE!"Peter swings in dressed up in his spidy suit in a panick"I'm not gonna kill him spider boy"I walk past him and leave the alleyway I cross to the street that faces onto the apartment And look at it for hopefully the last time last time but as I look up I see my father now staring down at me drunkenly I stare dead at him My stepmother comes into view and her face drops she looks like she's going to faint or better- have a heart attack when suddenly I hear Peter still apologising to my supposed brother Until he runs out the ally and towards me  I pull my hood further up to cover the sides of my face so no one sees my eyes I turn to enter the gate to the park which I had almost spent the night in many years ago. Once I enter the gate I hear peter running behind me "COLLETTA WAIT"I put my head down and keep walking My arms folded tight against my chest He swings in front of me " what do you wants Peter?" I stop as he barricades me from going any further "Why are you here?? I saw you from my window!"I sigh in anger "Seems like that's the only question people have today"I push past him and begin walking across the small cobblestone bridge "No Colletta why are you here"I snap round to him"I DONT KNOW PETER I ALWAYS END UP HERE!" Peter steps back as I shout at him I feel horrible immediately "No I'm sorry I shouldnt of shouted...I don't know why I come here I think I just come here to...see how they're doing....I looked in and saw him and then I saw her and then that idiot.....every year...but this is the first year my brothers seen me" i babble on overwhelmed with emotion trying to apologise not even fully aware of what’s being said Peter walks up to me and wraps his arms around me I stop talking not knowing what to do “I know...part of you still misses them" I sigh as I push away from hun "It's not that I miss them Peter...its well-it's like….I see what my life would of been like if it wasn't for Thor and Loki and then everyone else " he cuts me off "And you wonder if that is what you're life would of been like or if something would of changed if you stayed with your parents-..."I look back to him and although I can't see his eyes I know they're filled with pain from the cracking in his voice and the tremble of his hand a “I understand” he continues his painful relation to my emotion “Peter I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you think of them" He stays quiet pulling at his glove. Peter always thought about what ifs with his parents….what if he was with them…what if one of them got sick and they never left the house-what if something changed that day and they never left…..this specific thought linked to what I had just said and was what made him think of them but selfishly I start to panic Is he mad at me? Why isn't he saying anything? "No it's fine, it's just when I moved back to queens aunt may told me all about them...and how they died" I hold his hand "Hey, it's ok I know you miss them and I'm sorry I kinda dropped of the face of the earth as soon as you left Brooklyn"He lets out a little chuckle"Yeah you owe me for that one” i roll my eyes as he perks up a bit “Oh don't even pete I've saved your ass more times than you can count" We both laugh as we walk on through the quiet park admiring the scenery but something comes into view and I stop just before we came to the bridge that crosses the pond My jaw hangs open "….what the hell is this.?"Peter looks back not realising I had stopped walking "Peter what is this wh-why is this here"He walks back to me"What are you talking abou-" He sees what I'm talking about “oh um- surprise?” I side eye him unamused

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front of me just beyond the babbling stream and little stone bridge stood an bench. Common for a park however this specific bench happened to be the one I met Thor on and bolted into this bench was a small plaque "Peter tell me what this is-" he stands there taking a deep breath clearly thinking about how to explain this I however take the time to read the plaque....it was a memorial bench it had my name, birthday and when I supposedly died "Colletta-"I cut him off "How many people think I'm dead Peter" he goes sheepish as he answers me "Nearly all of Brooklyn-"My eyes begin to water as I read the fine details. The bench was placed there by may and the people from my nursery not even my own father. My so called family didn't even care What was I expecting they never cared about anything other than drink and having a good time.
There's silence from Peter unt he gathers himself just enough "Colletta I'm sorry I never thought you would see this-" I turn to face him "Who put this here" trying to figure out if they just missed my fathers name off of the bench. Peter walks to my side "After aunt may found out you were gone she worked with the police and found out this was the last place you were seen so she came here and got permission to put the plaque on it" I look back at the bench "so my dad really didn't do anything for this?" Peter shakes his head "only may....the bursary did the funding he refused to give a penny-"The rain grows heavy and soon Peter tells me we have to goI realise that the sun has now set and the street lights have turned on Their faint orange lights dimly lighting our view "I'm sorry Peter lm sure you didn't want to spend the day before your birthday in the pouring rain" I realise how much time must of passed feeling bad about this "It's fine, I don't think you planned on spending your actual birthday in the rain"He wraps his arms around me"Whoa what are you doing?" I try to take his arm off me"Oh you know what I'm doing"A devilish smile appears across his face"Oh god no"I desperately try to release his grip.He swings off holding me tightly "PETER IM GOING TO KILL YOU" He laughs as we swing above the bright lights on the main road and street noises We soon arrive back home I go to the kitchen and grab some water as Peter laughs to him self "it's not funny-" he grabs himself some water "was quiet funny" I throw the rest of my water over him "just text the others to come here I don't know where my phone is" he wipes the water from his face "mhm ok" I go up stairs and Peter follow texting tones and Mj to come. Half an hour later Peter and I are informed that they're here and Friday allows them in "hey guys-" Ned walks in "hey we're everybody?" Pete rand I look at him confused "what do you mean?" He looks at mj "well there's no one down stairs so-" mj looks at me "I don't know- unplanned mission maybe?" I reply to her "why don't you phone mr stark to find out? What if somethings happened??" I sigh knowing it will probably be nothing and grab my phone which I had left carelessly on my bed earlier on in the day. I start phoning him and eventually he answers "heyyy peanut" I shake my head "where are you" there's cackling "um we're just at Clint's house" Peter and Ned look at each other able to hear what he's saying "well um- Clint kinda had a falling out with the group" I shake my head "you're all children I swear to god-" there's a loud bang on the other end of the phone "sorry- yeah I'm ill be home soon he just...threw us out-" I stand there wide eyed "of course he did-" he sighs "ok well bye peanut see you soon" I look at the others and they have the same expression as me "bye dad-" I hang up and grab a jacket from my wardrobe "whoa whoa whoa where are you going" I or the jacket on "Clint's house-" here looks at ned ad mj for back up " you can't just go to his house-" I laugh as I walk to the door "why can't I-" I walk out and down stairs as the others chase me peter screaming for me to stop until he springs over my head and onto the ground in front of me "I know you want to help but you can't just turn up at his house!!" I push past him "either put your suit back on or stay out of my way" he sighs following me as Ned and Mj stay."Ok how are we going to know where he is?" Peter slips along beside me "well I'm assuming Clint's at his house-" I run up the stairs "ok and how do we know where that is??" I open the door to the roof and one of Tony's jets is sitting there waiting "how did you-" I laugh "I have my ways mainly the fact I have access to Friday from my watch" Peter rolls his eyes as I clim in the jet "just get inside spiderboy" he climbs in beside me "....man, it's spider man-" I laughs as I somehow start the jet "ok that works" Peter turns to look at me "wait...what do you mean "that works" do you not know how to fly!??" I scoff "do you?" He calms down a bit "exactly what I thought Peter" I give a quick flash of a smile and then turn back to face the skyscrapers and take off surprisingly easily I pick up the controls quickly, the gps guiding me to the lone house in the vas landscape. I make a rocky landing as Peter holds on tighter to the dash board once we had landed I climb out the jet "come on then-" Peter just glared at me and then hops out and follows me up the steps to the house and I gently knock on the door We wait a few moments until we hear a the door handle being rattled around.To door glides open to reveal a young pregnant woman "Oh I'm hi, can I help you" Peter stands awkwardly no help as usual "Um yes we're looking for Clint" she sticks the top half of her body out the door and points round to the back of the house "He's in the back" I smile "Thanks" I give a wave as I walk away and she shuts the door "This is a bad idea" Peter follows voicing his concerns I block him out and We walk around the side of the house as I roll my eyes I open the latch on the gate "Oh shut up well be fine-"I feel a sharp pain in my hand from the other side of the gate We both stand as my mouth hangs open shocked not knowing what to do the gate flys open with great force so much it begins to drag me along with it "CLINT!"
I dig my feet into the floor trying to stand back up
Clint imeduastly drops his bow and arrow at the other side of the gate Where he is met with me scrambling to my feet trying to stop my hand from being ripped in half "I'm sorry I didn't know it was you"He pushes the back arrow through the hole in he gate as he moves my hand forward so that it doesn't cause more damage I take it in close to my chest giving a hasty look up to him, I have a look down at my hand and In the back of my hand is one of the famous Hawkeye arrows."Well seeing as you shot me with an arrow I think you have to say yes to what I'm going to say"He sighs and folds his armsI sigh and fold my arms mocking him "Will you at least listen to me"He grabs his bow from beside me and walks out of the gate pushing his way through past peter "Well what do you want"We all look at each other and then back at Clint "Well...we want you"He turns around and continues walking into the houseI stand up using my one good hand"I'm not going back...I'm retired"He continues walking back the way we came to get to the garden I run up to him "Clint you can't just retire out of no where-" he scoffs "well I did" He continues to walk "Dad-"Clint stops and turns back to look at the gate We both turn around to look at the same thing he is We see a girl standing with a bow staring back at Clint There's a slightly awkward moment as we look between the two people "You have to do this"He doesn't look at either of us instead he turns around and shouts back to us " come inside"We follow him inside along with the girl She runs up beside me "Hi-"I smile "Hi"She takes a deep breath "I'm a fan"She gives an awkward laugh "Sorry this is going bad isn't it..." I laugh "not at all.....but a fan of what exactly?" We walk up the steps to the front door as she answers "we'll just how....we'll planned out you are how you can keep a bunch of people on track when you're over what? Half their age?" I give a faint smile thinking about the possibility that's the only reason people may like me "thank you-" we walk into the house and I head to the kitchen with Clint his wife grabs the med kit no questions out of the medicine cupboard and Clint starts patching me up "you're gonna need a hospital" I give him a look as if to say not happening Barton "don't look at me that me at you know fine we'll this was going to need proper medical attention eventually-" I sigh as bite down on my tongue and rip the arrow out " WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" Clint starts freaking out trying to stop the bleeding "well I didn't want it in my hand- and I didn't want to go to a hospital" my hand miraculously stops bleeding drawing suspicion from everyone thankfully im cut off by Peter before I can say something about my hand "ok look point is mr Barton sir....we need you to come back" Clint sighs and I grab the bandages from the med kit his wife placed out on the table and bandage up my hand "listen my time there is done I don't need about her decade of destroying my body-" I jump in "so what if we make you a more reserved member- make you more of a.....guy in the van? so to say" he chuckles to himself "I know what you're trying to do -" I smile not knowing what to say "good because I don't even have a clue what I'm doing" he laughs again “you know what fine- fine but I’m not doing anything crazy I’m not jumping off buildings or-“ I cut in “blowing stuff up, jumping off planes or fighting by chance” he slimed shaking his head and walks out of the house I look at the others confused and then follow him

A short time later

Clint lands Tony’s jet this time at the compound he sighs flipping all the switches and what not to power it down and then sighs. A few minutes later we’re all inside the building- the air is tense as eyes start pointing to people then Tony walks in “ah so you’re alive then-“ I say snarky “yup peanut I am-“ I notice he’s holding his ribs hunched over and lightly limping Peter noticed too nudging me slightly “why are you limping” he looks down and then back up “because I was in a fight-“ everyone starts looking at o assuming something bad happened and boy were they right “what kind of fight-“ everyone’s too reserved to ask “alien….we’ll mad titan-“ we all look at each other thinking he’s finally lost it “I’m sorry what” Tony quickly collapses into his chair panting “this guy called thanos- he wants to kill half of us or something I don’t know I didn’t get the fine print I was too busy” Sam shakes his head and looks at bucky “one of the big three I told you man-“ Bucky shakes his head sighing. “Ok….is this him….” I look out the window at the spaceship hovering down onto the grass Peter is far more interested than me “oh- no those are- help-“ he flashes a smile at us all and we know we’re in the long run.

Hours later Peter and I had left knowing it wasn’t as if we were going to be used in this whole plan seeing as we were supposedly “kids” we wander back in to se a bunch of people suited up everyone looks worried or at least a bit hopeful but there’s one person that’s…..just different- I grab Nat who’s passing by me “who is that-“ I point quickly before they can see me “oh….nebula- she’s a guardian ….why?” I look at this girl unable to shake the feeling “her fathers thanos….the one that fought your dad…….thanos took her sister and they don’t know where but….he did” nat sighs and walks off in a rush to get everything done “what’s wrong” Peter asks as I jump forgetting he’s there as I’m lost in my own head “oh- sorry yeah- I don’t know something just feels….off” I look around and see Thor cracking jokes trying to make the others feel at ease but it’s only working to an extent- I wander off to try and clear my mind but by the time I come back I can’t find anyone….they’re all gone- again

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Eventually I find peter “what the hells going on- where’s everyone gone??” He looks at me confused “what do you mean- they’re away on the mission” I sigh “which is? No one exactly tells me anything all I know is there’s a big purple giant that they need to…I don’t know!” He shakes his head quickly trying to defuse the situation “they’re going to stop thanos from collecting all these stones- that kinda control the universe I don’t really know but everything will be fine they’re going back in time to get them before he does” he gives a little smile hoping that everything he said made sense “so…everyone I know has gone back in time and what that’s totally safe-“ he walks over to a big console “we’ll see I’ve to wait- hope they’ve got the stones that is and then I push the buttons and they come flying back safe and sound and we all don’t have to deal with any of this” I look at the console “ok and how do we know- when they’ve got the stones?” He looks up on the wall where there’s a clock “they said to give them ten minutes….” I look at him “ten minutes to save the world- have you lost your mind-“ he shakes his head “no,no time passes quicker or something I don’t know how all this works mr banner made it all make more sense-“ I sigh relaxing a but knowing there’s nothing I can do now that they’ve all left- it’s probably why they all left in he first place….knowing that I would stop them or try and talk them out of it. I mean test trials can always work but it doesn’t mean that this contraption will work this time- there’s always the possibility of it failing and I loose them all….loosing everyone, everything all over again….over and over and over again like a never ending wheel of torture that always somehow lands on something worse than the last time. “Ok so my job in all this?” The look on his face tells me immediately that they never wanted me to be a part of this so they never told him “of course- protect the broken little child” he tisks “you’re not broken they’re jus protecting you from this guy-“ I laugh at him mockingly “yeah and what do you protect Hm? Fragile things- I’m that stupid fragile thing they feel like they need to protect-“ he walks with me away from the console “you’re not broken ok they’re your family and that’s what family does they look out for each other” I shake my head pushing his arm off from around my shoulder “my family’s never done that- Tony and the others maybe but far too much but my real dad and Odin….he wasn’t really a father figure but they just didn’t care- not one bit” h walks in front of me to see my face “right but you’ve always had someone looking out for you- me, may, that frigga lady- and then you had Wanda and Nat you have people” I sigh “I know I do ok I’m not that stupid-“ I’m cut short by a whaling sound and a flashing light “oh no- I left it too long” Peter quickly runs away and back to the console pushing many of the buttons in random orders as I stand in the doorway just watching. Moments later much to my relief the room filled with people once again however I keep my stern face looking at them all as they chatter and gleam with the fact this plan worked until I catch the eye of Nat “don’t give me that look please- I can’t deal with that right now” I scoff “you can’t deal with me being worried with you disappearing” I raise and eye brow as she sighs “no I can’t deal with being digged into over something that has to be done” I shake my head at her “this had to be done but I could of been there to help” she sighs annoyed “well you weren’t….and that’s just that we can’t change it” I roll my eyes and walk over to the others as Nat walks out of the room “is everyone ok??” I look around them all expecting at least one of them to be injured but no everyone seemed fine except “where’s Clint-“ they all look around “he was with Nat-“ Steve steps forward “and me-“ all eyes are on him as everyone waits.”well are you gonna tell us where he is?" Steve shakes his head almost denying to himself what has happened “the soul stone needed a soul for a soul- nebula and I stayed at the bottom incase something went south- Nat came down and Clint didn’t” he looks lost and then walks away needing time I stand there astounded this was my fault-“ I brought him back and killed him- I said he could have A SEAT BACK AND HES DEAD-“ Tony tries to walk over and comfort me “there’s nothing you can do kiddo ok Clint knew what he was doing and that this was Importent-“ I shake my head backing up from Hm “ what was the point nobody knew what happened , no one out there- I bearly knew I FOUND OUT ONCE YOU HAD LEFT- no one will know what happened- no one out there…..he’s died and no one knows why or how-“ bruce cuts in “we know why- that’s what’s important now Laura needs to know-“ he walks off to make the call I stay with the others looking between them all “….I basically lied to him-“ Peter side hugs me rubbing my arm “you couldn’t of known- you can’t just take the full blame” I shake my head “no this is all my stupid fault-“ nebula cuts in “listen all of you- we have the stones that was the mission it’s done” her and some of the others walk out and all I can think about is how cold she is towards the situation but then I suppose she’s experienced it a lot and didn’t know clint they say we did “ok so now what” Tony sighs “well we saved the whave rod before something horrific happened….now we just need to-“ suddenly the alarm starts blazing again everyone that’s left is confused and Tony quickly runs behind the console and pressing buttons “what’s wrong with it?!” I rush over “I don’t really know-“ he looks more and more confused as he presses more and more buttons “are you just randomly pressing buttons-“ he looks up at me and then back down “….kind of- I’ve pressed the ones that should stop it so now- I’m just hoping for the best-“ he keeps reading them until it stops “ok so what was that exactly?” Tony shrugs “no clue but it’s over now-“ the machine starts back up “are you sure-“ tony looks at it confused but thinking he wanders over to it looking briefly at the platform and then thinking again “I have no clue what’s going on with this thing-“ I look at the others “so no one knows why the time hopping machine that could I don’t know blow up or something- was glowing???” They all look at me blank “great-“ I shake my head it’s wanting answers “I know-“ I look around for the voice and finally see who it is “isn’t that the dude you were just away to stop-“ Tony looks stunned “now there’s- 2?” I think for a moment “but current one in our time is useless because he doesn’t have the stones-“ he walk down from the plat form “so we can’t let this one get the stones-“ I sigh as the others run in to the room “why the hell is he back-“ Nat looks at me and I shrug “big portal thing messed up and let him come through? Something along those lines” a few of the others come through now suited back up