𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 - 𝗮𝗼𝘂

𝐈. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲

𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗸𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗮. Soldiers outside fighting for their country, everything mostly on fire from the bombing, people screaming and bullets shooting.

13 year old Sage, looking out of her window, wondering how and why their city turned into this mess. She was so focused and lost in it she didn't even realize Pietro was sneaking up on her. 

"THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!" Pietro screamed behind Sage. She squealed and flinched by fear. She turned around quickly only to see her brother on the floor dying of laughter. 

He was so red he might aswell be playing the role of a tomato. Sage scrunched up her face in annoyance while her brother was still trying to catch his breath.

Sage rolled her eyes and said, "Pietro that's not something to joke about!" 

After Pietro finally caught his breath, he got up from the ground and wiped his tears of laughter, saying, "But you gotta admit it was funny." 

Sage scoffed as her brother cleared his throat, "Didn't mama tell you to stop looking at the window before you see something that might stain your life forever?" Pietro said.

"I.. just wanted to see when papa was coming home." She started off speaking.

Now Pietro rolled his eyes, he took Sage by the hand and pulls her to the other side of the room and said, "You're a terrible liar." 

Just when Sage was about to respond, she heard "Papa!" from her older sister Wanda. 

Sage and Pietro's faces lit up once they've heard the call that they have been waiting for, when they knew that their father was home, safe. They both ran out and hugged their father tight. 

Their father chuckles, as they all let go. "I got a little something for you guys on the way home!" 

The three siblings squeal in excitement, while their father was pulling stuff out of his bag. He gave Pietro an action figure, and Wanda a book to read.

Sage looks confused as her father didn't pull out anything else, "Where's mine?" She said with a sad accent that blended in with her Sokovian one. 

Her father puts a smile on his face and says, "I planned yours beforehand, close your eyes." 

Her mom comes in and puts her hand over Sage's eyes, she heard shuffling and screeching of an object. It felt circular to her, then she heard her father's voice again. "It's all set, let her open 'em!" 

Just right after he said, her mother took her hands off Sage's eyes chuckling to herself. Sage looks at her dad with the most joyful look on her face as she sees her favorite show in his hands.

𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘝𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘺𝘬𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸! The DVD Read. Sage almost jumped up and down of excitement. She grabbed the DVD and put's it in the tv's dvd holder.

Pietro groaned and said "What's your obsession with sitcoms? It's always one after the other!"

Her mother chuckled at her son's annoyance just like any other brother "Pietro, play nice and sit down." her mother said.

Pietro scoffed, as everyone including him sat down as the show started to fade into the tv screen.

Sage looks back at her parents from the floor, who are on the couch, with the most happiest look. Her mom blows her a kiss and smiles at her.

Sage's smile grew even brighter. She turns around and gets back to watching the show.

They were all so into it that she didn't hear a bomb heading strait towards her home.

It hit the house from the back which made Sage fall forward and loose consciousness. 

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Sage woke up to ringing in her ears and someone faintly calling her name. The ringing stopped, then the voice got more clear and then she recognized it. "Sage! Sage, get up! We have to hide!"

Pietro was shaking Sage as hard as he could, trying to wake her up. As soon as her eyes opened, Pietro dragged her to their room and put her under the bed.

Sage looks around and asks, "Where's Wanda?"

"I'm right here." Wanda said moving up next to Sage. Sage immediately holds her hand tight, and does the same to Pietro. He returns the gesture and says "Everything's gonna be okay. Just stay quiet."

Sage was so scared she was having a hard time breathing also because of the smoke, she tried to stay as quiet as she can. She cuddled closer to her siblings as they do the same trying to protect the youngest.

Then suddenly, there was a big rumble in the house. They duck their heads into one another waiting for the explosion.

Except, nothing happened. They all look up and hear beeping, and see that another bomb has hit the place again.

Once it caught their eyes they frantically hold eachother waiting for it to go off. Sage shakingly looks up and sees a big bold word. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗸.

Her eyes almost pop out her head as she puts her head back down, still waiting for the explosion to come. Bricks around them were falling and dust flying all throughout the air.

Everytime it budges they all think simultaneously, "It's gonna explode any second now."

They waited for two days under the bed without moving a muscle hopelessly for the bomb to kill them. But nothing happened, soldiers found them and put them in a shelter where they lived most of their time, grieving and waiting every day for revenge.

And to their surprise, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱.