"ich schreib dir wieder nächstes jahr, dann bin ich vier jahre älter als du warst"
- kummer, "26"
translation:
"I'll write to you again next year, then I'll be four years older than you were"
↳ sechsundzwanzig
"evi, can you hear me?"
"i don't think she's waking up, mr stark"
evi sat up suddenly. she was laying on the ground, next to the entryway of the office
"what happened?" she asked, holding her hand flat against her throbbing head
"you tripped" answered tony
"and you hurt your head" peter mumbled, pointing at a bit of blood on her forehead, "it looked really bad"
"how long was i out for?" she asked, standing up with peters help
"half an hour atleast" tony answered
"none of it was real" evi said, the disappointment evident in her voice
"what are you talking about?" tony sounded utterly confused
"my brother- he was.." evi interrupted herself and shook her head "don't worry about it, sorry for this" she concluded tiredly, walking out of the room. peter and tony shared a confused look, not knowing what to do
"i'll talk to her" said peter, while he followed evi through the ship, into another room, where, to his surprise, a couch was standing
he sat down beside her, while she hid her face in her hands, seemingly crying.
"you shouldn't have followed me" she whispered
"i wanted to"
"listen, peter" evi sighed, looking up from her hands "you don't want to get involved with my shit, alright? you really don't want to, believe me"
"what are you talking about?" peter laughed "it's not like you're some illness"
"i've - i've made mistakes in the past, hurt a lot of people and did things i could never change. i don't want another person on that list, another person that will feel the cause of my actions"
"evi" peter said softly "it's too late for that already, you won't get rid of me anymore"
evi laughed, humoured by the boys never ending optimism. "i like you, spider-boy"
"i like you too" peter turned all red and sunk his head in embarrassment
evi took his hand as if to show him that it was alright.
"i'm sorry about earlier" she started again after a few seconds of silence "i should've been a bit nicer"
"you mean when i said that you'd normally be nineteen now?"
"yes, that" she laughed humourlessly "it sounds stupid now that i think about that"
"i bet it doesn't" peter assured
"it's just... my brother" she finally explained "he was nineteen when he died and just hearing someone say out loud that i would technically be as old as him now, it just- it was too much"
peter nodded understandingly
"i had barely time to cope, i literally just came back, so it's hard to grasp. i haven't gotten the chance to adjust to life without him, so it hits a lot harder.. especially if it's been so long for everybody else" she paused and looked him in the eye
"and then when you said that, it made me think about in a few years, if everything goes well now i mean, i'll one day turn twenty or twenty-one or anything really, and i'll be older than my big brother.. that just feels...wrong i guess"
"i'm sorry about all that, just know that you can always talk to me, about anything, really. i'll be there if you need me" he promised, squeezing her hand in assurance.
"thank you, peter" evi said "after all that happened i felt like nothing really mattered anymore, nothing means anything, you know? but this means a lot"
"i really want that. you and me, i want it to mean a lot, okay? i'll try my best to make it matter"
she almost had to cry at that. at his words and at that beautiful, beautiful boy
aside from steve and maybe her sister, peter parker was probably the only real friend evi maximoff ever had
he nodded while standing up "then i'll now where to find you" he pointing behind him, "i have to go search for mister stark now"
"yeah, i think i'll sleep a bit" evi cracked a smile "i did hit my head pretty hard"
"that's true" peter nodded "but i'm glad you're okay, a little okay"
"yeah, a little" she smiled watching him leave. she layed down, the couch was quite comfortable for an alien spaceship, but they had to relaxe too, she guessed
she drifted off to sleep fastly, but it wasn't a dreamless sleep.
evi was standing in a room full of mirrors, again. she had been here before, when she time traveled unintentionally to 2018.
she wasn't alone this time
a dark figure was standing across from her, she grew nervous as the person came closer.
he was just a few feet away when she could finally see his face. all of her nervousness vanished instantly
"pietro" she breathed, stepping forward and embracing her brother
"where are we?"
"it's called the mirror dimension" her brother explained "but you shouldn't be here"
"why shouldn't it?" evi asked astonished
"it's the place between life and death, like a barricade in form of a room.. it's not healthy to come here, you made it out of here before, evi, you just made it out of here. why do you come back?"
"i've never been here" she said, but just as she did, all memories suddenly flooded back into her head.
she saw herself sitting on the floor, crying. banging on the mirrors, calling for wanda, pleading to get her out.
"i made it out of here? when i came back to life?"
pietro nodded. he still seemed concerned.
"you're here, that means you can make it out too" she suddenly realised, grabbing at his hands
he ignored what she said. "you should go back, evi. it's not safe. i don't know what will happen to you, but it gets more dangerous the longer you stay"
she sunk her head, finally realising what was going on.
"i'm just dreaming this"
"it still happens"
"but- but a dream is not reality"
"for some people it is. people like you"
evi looked around them, at all the mirrors in that room, it didn't feel like a dream, but that didn't particularly mean it was real either.
"i can't be sure this isn't a dream, i want this to be real, so you might just be a part of my imagination that tries to get me thinking it is. i would give anything to see you again, anything at all, but it's not possible"
"evi you have to go back, and if you do i'll prove it to you, prove that this is really happening and not just inside your head"
"how?" she asked, holding her breath
"you'll see, but you have to wake up now, do that for me please"
when evi woke up she could feel the lingering feeling of a kiss to her forehead, and a little note in her hand
'good girl' was written on it
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