𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖗-
The human mind is really the scariest thing of all.
There was once a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
Avengers book
Peter Parker x reader
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It had only been a few weeks since Sokovia. Wanda was doing better- healing, smiling again, especially with Vision around. I didn't need to be a mind reader to see the way they looked at each other. But me? I wasn't healing.
I'd never had a home before. Not a real one. Not one filled with warmth, or laughter, or people who actually cared if I came back. For a hundred and six years, I'd only known pain. Cold rooms. Orders barked at me. Experiments that left my blood burning. Now the world was quiet- and I didn't know how to live in quiet.
Everyone kept calling me a hero. But heroes didn't have blood on their hands. Heroes didn't wake up hearing screams in their head. They didn't kill innocent people. I did.
Pietro's death had cracked something open inside me. Maybe because it reminded me of him. Alexander. Both of them dying the same way- in my arms, with me powerless to stop it.
I sat in one of the compounds many living rooms, staring at nothing. The silence was deafening. Then, without even realizing it, I started to hum.
My voice wavered, soft, almost childlike. The rest came out on instinct- every word a memory, every note a ghost.
"When you are King, dilly dilly, I shall be Queen...."
By the time I finished, I was smiling. Then flashes of memory pass by- and my smile dropped once again.
"That's a old song"
I turned, startled, to see Steve standing behind me. His voice gentle, curious. "Didn't think anyone remembered that song" he said, sitting across from me. "Where'd you learn it?" He asks
"My brother used to sing it to me" I said quietly.
"You had a brother?" He asked
"Yeah." I looked down at my necklace, twisting it between my fingers. "Three years older. His name was Alexander" I said
Steve nodded toward the chain. "That his?" He asks
"Yeah. He never took it off. When he died, I thought I'd wear it for him" I said
His eyes softened. "How did he die?" He asks
I froze. My throat closed. Steve caught it instantly. "You don't have to tell me" he said
"No, it's okay." I swallowed hard. "He was in Hydra with me. He died on a mission" I said
A pause. Then, quietly- "Elizabeth....can I ask you a question?" He says
"You technically just did" I said, a half-smile tugging at my lips- trying to lighten the mood.
He chuckled. "Fair. But I mean- What happened to you? How'd you end up there?" He asks
