(AN- I AM SO SORRY FOR THIS CHAPTER IN ADVANCE 😭 I literally sobbed while writing it)
~~~Linda's pov~~~
Aunt Jemma was right. Seeing my parents again brought me the closure I needed, and I know I would have absolutely regretted it if I hadn't.
I smiled to myself as I thought about my dad. He was exactly as I remembered him. Well, almost exactly. He wasn't as tall as I remember him being when I was five years old. But I guess that's to be expected.
I was so caught up in my happy thoughts that I accidentally bumped into someone running in the opposite direction.
"Sorry, sir. I didn't see you there." I apologized, not seeing the man's face yet.
"That's okay. I'm just in a bit of a rush..." He trailed off when he saw who I was. "Linda?"
That's when I recognized him.
"Hey, Deke." I smiled. "It's good to-"
"You're alive!" His eyes were wide with shock as he pulled me into a bone-crushing hug.
"Oof!" The air was knocked out of me as he tightened the embrace. I tilted my head as I answered, reciprocating the hug. "I think so. I mean, sometimes I feel a little dead inside-"
"I thought I'd never see you again." He cut me off. "Voss said he killed you... How are you even here?" His voice shook as he spoke.
I didn't know how much Voss told him...
After a moment, I came up with an excuse. "He said he did what?" I scoffed. "He stabbed me, yeah. But it wasn't fatal, like at all. Shoved me in a storage closet and left me to bleed out. I snuck back into the Lighthouse when it docked in the docking bay."
It's a good thing my dad was the God of Lies, or else I probably wouldn't have been able to sell that.
"Seriously? You were in the Zephyr that whole time?!" He pulled away, his eyes wide.
I nodded, but I still felt horrible lying to him.
He didn't know I had magic. He didn't know who my parents were. Therefore, there was no way for me to explain that I had cast an illusion duplicate of myself to spy on Voss. Not rationally, anyway.
"Alright, that aside, I owe you a serious apology. Linda, I am so sorry for what I said that day. I had no right." He shook his head.
"It's okay, Deke. You were upset."
Another lie. What he said still pissed me off to this very day.
I had forgiven him, sure. That didn't mean that I wasn't still mad.
"It wasn't okay. I have spent every day for the past six years kicking myself for what I did and how we left things." His words were genuine, and I could tell he was really sorry.
"Damn it, Deke! Don't ruin my 'I told you so' moment!" I hit his chest playfully with a sad laugh.
Seriously, though. I've been waiting for this moment for six years.
"I know, I know. The prophecy was true all along, and I was an idiot for not believing you."
Yes, yes you were.
"So, I take it you met them?" I tried to act clueless, even though I knew for a fact he had.
"Yeah, they're a colorful bunch. And you could have warned me that half those people have abilities!"
I rolled my eyes. "I did! You never listened! Daisy is Quake, Yo-Yo has super speed, Catherine has magic, and Loki is-"
"A god! A literal god from Norse mythology! And if I remember correctly, you said they'd all be agents of Shield. Two of them were Avengers!"
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