Solivagant - To Wander Alone.
Ivy has been wondering alone for a long time. Ever since she escaped the lab in 1979 when there was a massacre. She always felt bad about leaving her sister there but she couldn't find her before she left and feared sh...
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Interlude:
Ivy woke up crying out but she started to settle down when she felt someone's hand on her arm. She knew exactly who it was.
"Henry!" She shouted in excitement. Her four year old self not realising that she should be a little more quiet.
Henry, or 001, was sitting beside her on her bed. He had woken her from a nightmare but that had instantly gone from Ivy's mind when she heard his voice.
"Hi, darling. How are we this morning?" He asks her with a sweet smile on his face.
"Good." She says, a large smile painting her face and it doesn't seem to be leaving any time soon.
"Really? Because when I came in you were tossing and turning." He says.
"Oh, yeah. I just had a bad dream." She says, her mood dampening.
"What happened?"
"You were gone." She says.
Her speech was a lot better when she was younger because she had Henry. However, as she grew up her speech started to get worse around everyone else but she could talk normally with Henry. She has known him her whole life but with everyone else her anxiety creeps up and she struggles to get her words out. Especially with Papa.
"I'm never leaving you, okay? I'll always be right here." He tells her, tapping her heart.
She starts to smile a little again but starts laughing loudly when he starts to tickle her sides, missing her beaming smile she had when he first woke her.
"Hen...Henry! Sto-- hahaha! Henry!" She shouts through her laughter.
Seeing her smile made Henry happy. He loved her like a daughter and he basically had to raise her like a daughter. She was one of the only things in this world that brought him pure joy. Not even his Black Widow spiders could match up to his Ivy.
Henry stops when he sees Ivy's face going red, not wanting her to suffocate through her own laughter. She calms down and they both have large smiles on their faces.
"What are we doing today?" She asks.
"We're going to have breakfast." He says, getting off the bed and holding his hand out for her to take.
"Yay!" She says, jumping off the bed and taking her hand.
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Later on that same day, Ivy was in the rainbow room with Henry.
When they were anywhere but her room or his she had to call him Peter. She didn't like it. She had always known him as Henry so she doesn't like him having to hide behind another name because of Papa. But she knew that if she messed up Henry would be getting hurt and she didn't want him hurt. He was her friend.
