emmylou | natasha romanoff

sixty.

2024
Outer Banks, North Carolina

"Okay Elena, what do you have for show and tell this week?"

Elena steps up to the front of the classroom, hands held behind her back and a smile on her lips, "As you all know a really bad guy named Thanos came to earth and he wiped out half of the people using rocks called Infinity Stones. Last year, my moms and the Avengers time traveled to get the rocks from the past and defeat Thanos once and for all!"

Elena holds up a shiny orange object and everyone in the class awes at the sight of it, "This is the Soul Stone. In order to get it someone had to die, so my mommies fought really hard, and in the end, my Mommy won but she's so awesome that she got it without dying because she's worthy!"

"You're telling me that's an actual Soul Stone?" her teacher asks, and Elena gives her a nod.

"My Uncle Steve took them back to the past, but because there's no one to watch it on Vormir anymore, my Mommy gets to keep it."

"And do your moms know that you brought it to school for show and tell?"

Elena opens her mouth to give the answer that they had no idea that she'd taken it, but then she realized that might get her in trouble, so she decided that she was going to ignore her teacher's question.

"Does anyone have any questions?" Elena asks her classmates, and several hands fly up in the air.

"Your mom that's Black Widow got the stone, right?" one of her classmates asks.

"Actually, it was my mom that's a doctor," Elena says, and several jaws drop.

"Dr. Allen?" someone asks, "She got the Infinity Stone?"

"No way!" someone else shouts, "She's a doctor."

"Yeah, your other mom's an Avenger."

"Yeah well my Mommy can lift Thor's hammer and my Mama can't, so I guess being a doctor is cooler than being an Avenger?" Elena says confused as she came to the conclusion, "Wait that can't be right."

Elena looks over at her teacher who was currently on the phone with the principal, "Ms. Anderson can I go talk to my sister? I'm having too many thoughts and she's good with those."

Ms. Anderson hangs up the phone, "Of course Elena, why don't the two of you meet in Mrs. Evans's office?"

"Okay!" Elena says as she looks back at her classmates, "That concludes my presentation. Would you guys like to touch it?"

"Yes!"

"No," Ms. Anderson says as she stands from her desk and everyone in the class looks over at her, "Elena has to go talk to her sister. Maybe you guys can touch it at recess?"

"Yeah!" Elena exclaims.

Ms. Anderson heads down the hall toward the second-grade classrooms and pokes her head inside the one that held Diana Allen-Romanoff. Her teacher, Ms. Bell looked over at the door and as did all of the students in the classroom.

"Ms. Bell," Ms. Anderson says, "Can I have a moment with you in the hallway?"

"Sure," Ms. Bell says. She looks at her students, "Everyone keep reading and I'll be right back."

Ms. Bell closes the door behind her as she looks at the kindergarten teacher, "What's going on?"

"Elena brought an Infinity Stone to school."

"She brought a what?" the other teacher asks confused.

"An Infinity Stone!" Ms. Anderson exclaims, "It's what Thanos used to wipe out half the population! It's what the Avengers used to bring them back!"