Secrets of the Heart

Refuge

⚠️ !Trigger Warning! ⚠️

Giselle POV

"YOU DESERVE TO DIE!! YOU BRAT! I HAVE RISKED EVERYTHING FOR YOU, FOR THIS FAMILY. AND WHAT DO YOU DO IN RETURN? YOU DISRESPECT ME!!!!", My father shouted.

I smelt the alcohol on his breath. It was a wretched stench.

He punched me across the face and my lip started to bleed.

Then he proceeded to grab me by my shirt and ram me into the wall. I was barely conscious as he wrapped his hands around my neck and started to squeeze as tight as he could.

I felt the life draining from my body as I lost consciousness.

Third Person POV

Giselle fell to the ground unconscious, and her Father chuckled.

"Weak.", He said.

Then Giselle's mother walked into the house.

"I'm home. GISELLE GET DOWN HERE! COOK DINNER!", She shouted with a smug look on her face. Her look fell from smugness to exciment when she saw Giselle on the ground unconscious.

"Is she dead?", She asked with a hopeful look.

"Sadly no. But almost. Let's finish the job, shall we?", Her father asked with a crooked smile.

"I thought you'd never ask.", Giselle's mother smiled.

They proceeded to beat her unconscious body.

Giselle woke two hours later in intense pain. Her parents were no where to be found and she walked to the bathroom.

She found that several of her ribs were broken, along with her nose, and her arm. Blood and bruises littered her body. She frowned at her appearance and started to cry.

Eventually, she pulled herself together and focused on getting out of there. So she packed all of her essential items into a suitcase and ran to the Maximoff's house.

She knocked on the door and a cheery Mrs. Maximoff opened the door. Her cheery mood drastically changed to a worried one.

She gasped and pulled Giselle into the apartment, barking orders.

"Pietro! Get some warm rags. Wanda, get some sheets and the bed made!", She shouted.

The confused twins walked into the room to ask why, but they quickly rushed off to do as their mother asked upon seeing their friend's state.

After she was settled, Giselle was bombarded with questions and concern from her two best friends.

"Are you okay?"

"Who did this?"

"I'm going to kill them."

The twins rambled over each other.

"Guys. I'm okay. They were just upset. But I can't go back there, ever again. Can I- can I stay here for a while?", I asked skittishly.

"Of course you can!", They exclaimed at the same time.

"Thanks guys.", I said.

Several weeks later

Giselle, Wanda and Pietro were headed to the store to get more food. Giselle's injuries and mostly healed, aside from small aches in her ribs and a black eye.

The trio arrived at the store with no problems, however they did run into trouble on the way home. River's parents.

They were watching the trio. The trio were standing in a line and her parents were doing the same directly across from them.

Pietro pushed Giselle behind him, as he glared at the adults.

"Oh. Your still here. I thought you'd be dead by now.", Her mother exclaimed.

"The state you were in.", She mumbled.

Tears started to flow from in Giselle's eyes and she held onto Pietro's shoulder from behind.

"Shut up. You don't get to talk to her!", Pietro shouted at them.

Wanda walked over to Giselle and comforted her.

Pietro and the parents were now having a stare down.

Eventually, Giselle's parents gave in and looked away. Pietro smirked at his victory.

"What? You scared of a ten year old?", He asked cockily as the adults fled.

He watched them disappear before he ran over and hugged Giselle tightly.

"They can't get you. They can't hurt you. I want let them. I won't let them touch you, never again.", He said to her and she nodded.

Wanda also helped console her.

Then the trio raced home for a T.V night.

An hour later

Giselle, Pietro, Wanda and the twins parents were watching T.V. When suddenly, a shell hit and caused a huge explosion. Pietro grabbed Giselle and Wanda and rolled under the bed they were near.

They couldn't find their parents in the rubble and they knew they were gone.

Pietro held Giselle close to prevent movement. Wanda was talking to herself.

Suddenly, another shell hit and landed three feet from their faces. But it didn't go off.

The trio held their breath as to not make it go off but it still didn't go off.

They waited for two days for the shell to go off but nothing happened.

The trio looked to the shell one more time before they attempted to get out from under the bed.

One word was painted on the side..... Stark.

They quickly ran off and found themselves volunteering for Strucker's experiments.

What happened next was a very long process.