I groan as my eyes open, feeling a sharp pain at the back of my head. "Storm, what the hell happened?" Peter asks, he's knelt beside me, his eyes are full of concern and confusion. "Are you okay?" I sit up, I can feel the pain in my head lessening, thank God for my enhanced healing.
"I'm fine, Clover attacked me, she wants to-"
"Kill Steve, we know, she tried and failed but she escaped. What did she tell you?" Peter interrupts me, I'm not surprised Clover failed, she is a skilled fighter, but Steve is enhanced and an avenger, he's fought very powerful people and he's still standing.
"She knew her parents, she didn't grow up alone. They were on a bridge that the avengers, well mainly Steve, destroyed so that x-men couldn't break into some building. Clover's parents died because of the bridge being destroyed, she blamed Steve" I answer, figuring Peter's smart enough to put the rest together. I have no idea where Clover will go now that she's escaped, she claimed she didn't have a home and moved around frequently. Even if I could find Clover, would I do it? She was probably lying when she said she did love me, she just wanted me to help her kill Steve.
"C'mon, Tony needs to know" Peter says standing up. I follow Peter out of the room and see Steve, Tony, Natasha, Bruce, Thor, Clint, and Fury heading towards us. I blink. Are they here to accuse me of helping Clover?
"Steve is the reason Clover's parents are dead, she wanted Storm to-"
"We know, Peter, we've seen the cameras" Natasha interrupts Peter. She glances at me; I don't say anything. "Let's all sit down and discuss this further." I follow Natasha despite the fact I'd rather be anywhere else. We head into some kind of conference room; it has a long table in the centre of the room and several brown chairs around the table. I sit down next to Peter. Tony sits down on my other side.
"Are you okay?" Tony asks me quietly; I nod even though I'm not. I don't want to discuss Clover right now. Everyone is going to ask me questions and I'm going to be faced with the hard revelation that I never knew Clover at all, the girl I loved might not have even been real.
"So, Storm, do you have any idea where Clover could be now?" Natasha asks, I glance at her and realise there's anger in her eyes, so much anger. Clover tried to kill the man she loves, of course she's furious. I glance at Steve; he has a cut on the left side of his face, but it doesn't appear to be bothering him.
"No" I answer truthfully, glancing at Natasha. She pushes a strand of red hair out of her face, her eyes narrow as she looks at me, trying to figure out if I'm telling the truth or not. I look away from her, my mind flickers to Clover. Was any of it real? Clover was so caring, so protective towards me, was it all just an act to get to Steve?
"Would you tell us if you knew?" Fury asks, I don't bother looking at him. Fury still freaks me out, he's, like, the greatest spy the world has ever known, he can probably tell what I'm thinking just by looking at my facial expression.
I consider his question, would I? I love Clover, it might've been fake for her, but it was real to me. If the avengers found Clover, they'd arrest her and throw her in a cell, I'm not sure if I could watch my parents lock up the girl I love.
"Does it matter? I don't know" I answer Fury's question.
"Yes, it matters to me if you're in love with somebody who poses a serious threat to the team" Fury replies calmly. I roll my eyes, tired of all the avengers being so calm and annoying about everything, am I the only person who cares that Clover is missing? I glance at Fury's eyepatch, a part of me wanting to lunge across the table and rip it off, but I know my anger isn't directed towards him, it's not even directed towards Steve.
"Considering she failed to kill Steve, I don't think she's really a serious threat" I reply, Peter laughs slightly beside me and immediately looks down at the ground when Fury and Tony glance at him. I was being serious, Clover couldn't beat Steve in a fight, so it's not like she'd be powerful enough to kill all the avengers or pose a major threat.
"She hacked into our systems; did you know she could hack?" Natasha asks me, I nod wordlessly, knowing this will make me look bad. Clover did mention that she'd hacked into the x-men system, but I had no reason to believe she'd hack into the systems here, I thought she loved me.
Natasha closes her eyes and sighs slightly, obviously hoping I had answered that differently. "You didn't think to tell any of us?"
"No, I didn't. I trusted Clover" I answer, my tone slightly defensive. "Besides, who cares what she did or where she is now? She tried and failed to kill Steve, we need to focus on the x-men who are succeeding at killing people and turning kids into weapons!"
"We are focusing on that, but Clover needs to face justice for what she did" Clint says, I glance at the archer. Obviously, Clover shouldn't have tried to kill Steve, but she didn't succeed. Something tells me she's too smart to come back and try again.
"Nobody got hurt, we should just leave Clover alone" I say, causing everyone to stare at me. I glance at Peter who looks apprehensive, he glances at me and then glances at Tony.
"Storm, c'mon, you can't really just say what she did is fine because she didn't succeed" Peter says uncomfortably. I glance at Tony, he agreed to not try and take Scarlett from the x-men headquarters because I asked him to once before, will he agree to not go after Clover?
"Storm, if we try to find Clover, are you going to get in the way?" Tony asks me seriously; I look away from him. Would I stop the avengers from arresting Clover? I'm still processing all my feelings, so I really don't know. "Storm, look at me." I turn and look at Tony.
"No, Tony, that's enough. Storm, Clover tried to kill someone, and she could've killed you. She's not your friend, she doesn't love you, she never did, and you need to accept this because she is dangerous and a threat" Natasha snaps at me, her eyes full of anger. I should've realised how angry she'd be, if someone had tried to kill Clover yesterday, I'd be the same way.
"She's not a threat to the avengers! Just to Steve and she already failed when she tried to kill him, so what's the big deal?" I say, my voice rising slightly. I am aware that I'm acting irrationally and that Clover failing to kill Steve doesn't make it ok, but Clover is one girl.
"The big deal is she could go running to Magneto and give her information that you leaked" Clint says, why is the archer getting involved? Clover hating Steve and wanting him dead doesn't make her an ally to the x-men.
"She's not going to go running to Magneto, she's-"
"Enough, Storm, go to your room" Natasha interrupts me before I can finish. "Go to your room now and don't think you'll be leaving this place anytime soon."
"Seriously? I'm just-"
"Storm, go to your room now or I will drag you there yourself" Natasha snaps. I roll my eyes and stand up; I walk out of the room and head up the stairs. I walk into my room, and I pause as I see pictures on my desk, I forgot I printed out pictures that I was planning to put up, I see one of Clover kissing me on the cheek. Tears spring into my eyes and I rip it in half, throwing the stupid photo into my bin.
*Author's Note* Natasha protecting her man as she should.
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Beautiful Ruins
Azione"Maybe there was a fleeting moment where I wanted to be a hero and believed I could be one, but the truth is I'm not, I won't ever be. My past does define me, it made me a villain" - Storm. Fifteen-year-old Storm is the daughter of Black Widow and I...
