I sit on the floor on my cell, the cold floor is hard and uncomfortable, but I have no desire to get up and move to the single bed in the other corner of the room. I've probably been in here for two hours, nobody has come down.
I sigh as I hear footsteps if it's Steve I might actually cry. I glance at the door and roll my eyes as Tony appears. After he said he was disappointed, he didn't say anything else, I got the message. The avengers are done with me, I'm going to spend the rest of my life in this stupid cell and Zed will go back to killing mutants because he's a psycho.
"Here to officially disown me?" I ask, laughing slightly at the thought. Tony thinking I'm his daughter, finding out I'm not, then saying he still views as me as a daughter, and then disowning me would be a full circle of events. Tony raises an eyebrow, maybe Clover's death was the last straw and I'm going insane because I actually just find this funny.
"You can be upset with someone because of their actions and still love them, you do know that, right?" Tony asks gently, he sits down next to me, so I get up, moving across to sit on my bed. I don't want Tony or Charles coming anywhere near me.
"If I tell you to leave, will you?" I ask, glaring at Tony. I ignore what Tony said, adults only love children if they can use them for things.
"We both know you would never forgive yourself if you killed that boy today" Tony says calmly, standing up but not coming over to me. I decide the best course of action is to simply ignore Tony, if he's ignored for long enough he will leave.
"I get it, I wanted to kill Bucky when I first found out he killed my-"
"Bucky was being controlled by hydra, our situations are not the same" I snap, still refusing to make eye contact with Tony. If Zed was being controlled, I would understand Tony and Charles stopping me, but he wasn't. He chose to try and kill me and then killed Clover.
I sigh as Peter appears at the door, I am not in the mood for Peter to lecture me about how I made the wrong choice, and I should've just arrested Zed, I didn't want justice for Clover, I wanted revenge. I still want revenge.
"I lost my aunt, I know how much it hurts" Peter says gently, I look away from him. I hear Peter sigh softly. "You wouldn't have gone through with killing Zed, I know you."
"He deserves death" I say quietly, so quietly I'm not sure if Peter or Tony will even hear what I said. I stare at the white wall, refusing to look at anyone. I need to find a way to escape so I can finish what I started. "He's not even killing mutants because his family died, he's just evil."
"You don't know him, you can't go around deciding who deserves to live and who deserves to die, you're not god" Peter replies, I close my eyes. Why is everyone acting like Zed is just some random guy, he killed Clover!
"I can when the said person killed Clover! She was your friend too" I remind Peter harshly; he shouldn't have gone to Tony. "If you cared about her, you wouldn't have told Tony where I'd gone." Am I being unreasonable? Possibly. Do I care? No.
"I'll come back when you're calmer" Peter decides, turning and walking away. That was a smart decision, I'm not in the mood to agree with anything anyone says. Zed needs to pay for what he did to Clover; he needs to be punished the right way. "I know you wouldn't have killed him." Peter's already said this, he's wrong. When I get out of here, I will kill Zed.
I groan as I see Steve appearing, the only thing that could make this day any worse would be if Natasha or Fury decide to rock up. I shouldn't be surprised Steve is here, he's always getting involved in every situation regardless of if it's about him.
"She needs time, Tony" Steve says, I raise an eyebrow, I haven't seen the two interact much since Tony found out Steve and Natasha lied about me, Tony's body is stiff as he glances at Steve, I can tell he hasn't completely forgiven Steve, not yet.
"She's my kid" Tony snaps, usually this would make me feel happy, but it doesn't. Nothing will make me feel happy until Zed is dead.
"I know, but she needs to be alone right now" Steve replies. Tony sighs heavily but walks past Steve and outside the cell, I don't bother trying to escape, even if I did there is no way I'd be able to escape Stark towers.
"I understand how you're feeling, what you and Clover had was really special, a once in a lifetime thing, it was obvious you both cared for each other deeply" Steve says before walking away. If Steve understood he'd let me kill Zed, he would understand why I need to, and he'd realise it's what Zed deserves.
*Author's Note* I love Peter and Storm's friendship so much.
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Beautiful Ruins
Action"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...
