I knock on the door of Natasha's room, hoping she's not in there. I fiddle with the strings on my pink hoodie, this conversation will either go well or terribly.
"Come in" Natasha's voice calls out; I close my eyes but open the door. My palms are sweaty, Natasha sees me and smiles at me, though it doesn't meet her eyes. "Sit down" Natasha says, gesturing at a cream-coloured chair in the corner. I sit down, I fiddle with my hands as Natasha sits down opposite me.
"I'm sorry" I say, I think Tony, MJ, Ned, and Peter helped me realise how irrational I was acting, MJ's bluntness also helped me realise that Clover doesn't care about me.
"For what?" Natasha asks, she isn't the type to forgive easily, she wants to make sure I know why I need to apologise.
"For everything. Inviting Clover to stay here, for how I acted yesterday, for being difficult" I say, glancing at Natasha. I probably owe Steve an apology too, but I also don't think he really cares that much about what I say or do.
Natasha stands up and walks over to her desk in the room, she pulls something out. I raise an eyebrow; it looks like a sheet of paper. Natasha comes back over and sits down, wordlessly handing me the sheet of paper. It's the DNA results. I can't describe how I felt the moment I found out Tony and Natasha were my birth parents, nobody thinks one day they'll find out that their supposed enemy is actually their parent.
"From the minute we discovered you were our daughter; I had no idea how to act. Tony always thought he'd be a terrible parent, but he was amazing with you from the first minute, I wasn't. Your time with the x-men just reminded me a little too much of the red room and I struggled with that" Natasha admits, I'm still not used to seeing her vulnerable. She is a closed book and only small pieces of her have been revealed to me. It made sense when Steve said I reminded her too much of herself, specifically parts she wanted to forget.
"I don't think you're a terrible parent and I don't think it's fair to judge yourself as a mother on this situation. I was already fifteen and was raised by the enemy, obviously all three of us were going to struggle with the dynamics of that" I say, Tony and Natasha were just as blindsided as I was, none of us had even thought about this happening.
"I'm sorry about Clover, I should've got a background check, or something done. I'm supposed to keep you safe and yet I've let you go into so many dangerous situations" Natasha replies, everyone is sorry about Clover, I appreciate it, but it doesn't mean anything. "We are going to arrest Clover, are you going to get in the way?"
"Can I be the one to bring her in? I swear I won't let her manipulate me again" I say, I started this situation so I should be the one to end it. I think I could arrest Clover; my head is clearer now and I'm not just sad, I'm angry too.
"Absolutely not. You're too close to the situation, I've seen this happen before and it never ends well for either side" Natasha says firmly. I wasn't expecting a yes, but I had to at least ask before my parents go out and risk their lives to fix my mistakes.
"I'm sorry" I say. I don't want to make everyone's lives harder but it's all I do. I fucked up the avengers' chance of arresting Mystique at the train station, I screwed up getting the cure, and I let Clover into our lives. If Clover had killed Steve, his death would have been partly my fault.
"Clover isn't your fault, people much older and wiser than you have been manipulated into bringing enemies inside S.H.I.E.L.D" Natasha replies. Yeah, but I started off as an enemy, I have to work harder to prove myself. I should've questioned Clover more when she said she'd been sneaking in and out of the x-men building, nobody gets in or out of there without being detected.
"What the hell do I do now?" I ask, glancing at Natasha. Am I supposed to go to school and pretend Clover never existed? I want to help bring down the x-men, but I have no idea how I'd even achieve that.
"Storm, there's something else you need to know. It wasn't just Clover that tried to kill Steve" Natasha says, my heart drops. Did Clover manage to get someone in the building? I glance at Natasha. "Ashton helped and escaped with her." My heart sinks, not Ashton. I genuinely believed Ashton had switched to our side.
"I think there is something you and Peter can do if you want to help" Natasha says, obviously trying to get my mind off the fact Ashton and Clover are together somewhere. "But first I want you to go to school and spend time with your friends. Peter has mentioned a party this Friday, I want you to go." The last party I went to ended with me chasing Scarlett. At least there's no friends left to betray me anymore. I don't know or care where Henry is and I know that MJ, Peter, and Ned would never betray me, I trust them with my life.
"Okay" I say, nodding in agreement. Natasha smiles and stands up; I quickly wipe away the single tear that rolls down my cheek.
*Author's Note* I love Storm and Natasha's relationship.
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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...
