i still hate you , pietro maximoff

Part Nine

2015, present day- age eighteen
Age of Ultron

Ashlynn woke up on the cold, hard floor behind bars.

She stood up and walked to the bars. She saw a boy with white hair and a girl with brown hair.

"Who are you?"

"We might as well tell you. You're going be here for a while. I'm Wanda."

Ashlynn gasped and let her Sokovian accent come back. "A-and that makes you Pietro."

Pietro suddenly appears in front of the bars. "And how do you know my name?"

"I'm Ashlynn. Ash, pest, Wanda's former best friend? Any of that ringing a bell?"

"Ashl-" Wanda starts before being cut off by Pietro. "Wanda," he scolds her.

"No Pietro. You do not control me anymore. I won't let you." Wanda looks to Ashlynn. "If I unlock the door so I can come in with you do you promise to stay?"

Ashlynn nods.

Pietro scoffs. "Like she could. I'd catch her before she could make it two steps."

"Shut it, Pietro." Wanda waves her hand and unlocks the door so she can walk up to Ashlynn. "God, Ash I'm so sorry. I didn't want to treat you like I did."

"Then why did you?" Ashlynn asks.

"Pietro told me that if I didn't he would hurt you. He said he had been laying attention when you had your episodes and that he knew what caused them."

"That was a little rude." Ashlynn says trying to only think about the fact that he knows what caused it. She looks to Pietro. "You knew what caused my episodes? I still don't know."

Pietro shook his head. "Silly girl. The first time it happened the other kids were messing with the grass and flowers. The second time, someone kicked a tree. The third time, which was the second time you were hospitalized, there were construction workers out at the playground cutting down a tree. You're connected to nature. When plants near you are harmed you get hurt too. I thought you would've figured it out by now."

"Why do you know all that about me?"

"I bullied you." Pietro shrugs. "It was my job to have things to bully you about. Sorry about that, by the way. The bullying and keeping Wanda from you. I still hate you, but I shouldn't have gone that far."

Wanting to change the conversation, Wanda turned to Ashlynn. "Ash, why do you help Tony Stark?"

"Why wouldn't I? He's an Avenger and he saves the world."

The twins both looked at her in shock. Pietro spoke up first. "Do you not know what he did?"

Ashlynn shook her head no.

This time, Wanda spoke. "What happened to your adoptive parents, Lucy and Xavier? Still alive?"

Ashlynn responded using words this time. "No, they died in the explosion. Why do you ask?"

"Because," the female twin started, "Tony Stark made the bombs that caused that explosion."

"W-what?" Ashlynn's voice faltered. "I- I trusted him. My dad trusts him."

"Your dad?" Pietro wonders.

"I was re-adopted by the time I awoke in the hospital after the explosion. I've been living with him, his wife, and their two children for the past eight years."

"Lucky." Wanda says quietly but still loud enough both of them could hear her. "I wish we had that."

"You can, if you come with me." Ashlynn told them. "Clint and Laura would be more than willing if I told them you were from my childhood."

"No." Pietro shook his head. "We must get revenge on Tony Stark."

"Can't we just talk to him about it though? I know for a fact that he originally made his weapons to help people but then bad guys stole his weapons and used them to do bad things."

"If he didn't want bombs used for bad things he shouldn't have made bombs," Wanda said.

"I agree. Trust me, I do. I'm sure we can talk this out with him." Ashlynn said. "Look, Wanda, I've missed you. A lot. And I know loosing your parents was tough on the both of you. Loosing Lucy and Xavier took a huge toll on me too. No one that young should have to go through something like that. But it wasn't entirely Tony's fault. He didn't know what was being done with the bombs until it was too late for him to stop it. It's ire if he could go back in time and stop it, he would."

"I want to believe you, Ash, I really do. But I don't know that I can." Wanda sighed.

"How about this, we go to the Avengers tower together. I tell them who you are and what happened. I tell them that the same explosion that killed Lucy and Xavier killed your parents as well. Then I let them know that we now know it was S.T.A.R.K. bombs that caused the explosion. I am sure that he will apologize. If he doesn't, we get out of there as soon as possible. I have a safe place only my family knows about that we can go to if he doesn't apologize and you still need revenge."

"Okay." Wanda nods and looks to Pietro for approval.

"Only because Wanda trusts you. And I want to move on from this point in my life."

"Okay then. I guess I should tell you how to get there."

A/N: I'm changing the story quite a bit, but this is how I want it to go. I'm sorry if you have a problem with it, this just fits the way my story works.