Beautiful Ruins

Chapter 66

 "Start talking or I'll call the police or the avengers, just start talking" Flash says as soon as we enter his bedroom. He cannot call the avengers, Steve and Natasha will murder me if they find out what happened tonight. He shuts the door and sits down the edge of his bed. I sigh and sit down on his brown couch, I must tell Flash at least some of the truth, he knows I have powers. The car ride was both of us sitting silently, I was trying to come up with what to say but I still have no clue.

"I'm a mutant, I can control air, fire, earth, and water and I can breathe underwater" I say, Flash raises his eyebrows but doesn't say anything. "I don't know who those men were or what they wanted with me, I wish I did."

"So, you're not Peter's cousin? Did you meet him through the Stark internship?" Flash asks, thank God Peter told me he was doing an internship with Tony, otherwise Flash could start wondering if Peter has powers.

I glance at Flash's x-box. "We're not cousins, no. I'm Tony Stark's daughter, I didn't know until three months ago, I grew up with the x-men, they lied to all of us and made us believe that everybody wanted mutants dead, that we had to take over if we wanted to survive." I really hope Flash won't tell anyone, hopefully if I tell him the full story, he'll realise it could put him in danger too if he told people my real identity.

Flash glances at me, looking confused and shocked. "I'm sorry I put you in danger, I didn't think that would happen" I say, I didn't think about the fact that if any mutant saw me with Flash and it got reported back to Magneto that Flash could be captured and used as bait.

"Aren't the x-men looking for you? They let you leave?" Flash asks, his eyes narrowing slightly. "Are you on a mission?" I was on a mission, but I failed and then I found my parents.

Magneto probably wants me to find me now that he's realised his brainwashing didn't cause me to kill all the avengers, but I also don't think that I'm one of his top priorities right now. He's going to be needing more powerful mutants now that Scarlett, Ashton, and Mystique are dead. Henry was starting to believe I didn't kill Scarlett so who knows where he is right now.

"I was sent to kill iron man, I failed, and I was captured. When I woke up, I was told I was the daughter of black widow and iron man, and I found out the truth about the x-men. The x-men have tried to kill me, and they killed my friend" I say, my mind flickering back to Scarlett. Would I be in any of this mess if she was still here? "Maybe two of my friends." I'm sure the x-men killed Ashton; I think they found him.

Henry is my only childhood friend left and we're not even friends anymore. I truly never thought the four of us would grow apart, my heart sinks as I realise Henry might not even know that Ashton's dead. They were more than best friends, they were brothers. Henry deserves to know what happened. "Flash, if you tell people, you'll be putting your own life at risk."

"I'm not going to tell anyone" Flash says, he stands up and comes and sits down next to me. He grabs my hand; I glance at him. I can't imagine he wants to be with me now that he knows some of the truth.

"I've done terrible things, Flash, things that I didn't know I was doing but it's still on me. I'm not the type of person you want to date" I tell him, when normal people say they've done horrible things they mean that they lied about something or were mean, but I bombed a building. "I've killed people, I bombed a building when I was eight."

"That was you?" Flash asks, letting go of my hand. I look away so I don't have to see the look of disgust that I know I deserve. The look that reminds me I'm a monster and I'll always be a monster, I'm not a hero.

"I didn't know, but yes. I placed the bomb down" I reply, still looking away from Flash. Flash places his hand under my chin and turns my head so that I'm looking at him.

"You were eight and you didn't know, you're not a terrible person" Flash says gently, I wish I could believe it when people say that.

I believed all the x-men because they raised me, I was taught to blindly follow orders instead of making my own choices. I really was the perfect solider, never failing my missions and never questioning the orders I was given. Loyalty was deeply ingrained in me as well; I couldn't completely stop caring about Scarlett no matter how hard I tried.

"How are you a mutant if your parents aren't?" Flash asks. I guess genetically I'm not a mutant since I got my powers through being experimented on, but for all purposes I am a mutant.

"I was experimented on when I was a baby and I got my powers" I inform Flash, my mind flickers to baby me, I only kept my innocence for a short while, from the second I could walk I had weapons thrown into my hand. I trained for hours every day, Mystique was determined that I master every weapon in existence and master my powers.

"I still want to be with you, Storm, I don't care that you're a mutant. I like you" Flash says, it's sweet of him to say but I don't want to put his life at risk, what if something happens to him? He hasn't been trained and he doesn't have powers. "I won't tell anyone your secret."

"What if the x-men come after you?" I ask Flash.

"I don't care about that, I just care about you" Flash says, kissing me. I can't believe he still wants to be with me despite everything he just found out, not to mention we were attacked hardly an hour ago.

"Can I tell Tony what happened?" I ask, Tony won't be thrilled about me telling Flash about my past and powers, but the avengers should know what happened tonight, those men could've been working for the x-men.

"Sure, my driver can take you home. Can I call you tomorrow?" Flash asks, standing up.

"Yes" I answer, I give Flash a hug and he kisses me once more. I smile as I walk out of his room, though it quickly fades when I realise, I must tell the avengers and Peter about what happened tonight.