I step out of the van as we arrive at the farm. The house is big and white with a grey roof. I can see tons of windows, this place has so many rooms!
"Race you" Henry says, sprinting off before I can agree. I roll my eyes but chase after him, Henry grins as he reaches the house. "I won."
"I was like half a second behind you and you cheated, I won" I argue, Henry shakes his head. Charles unlocks the door and we all head inside. I pause as I notice a name on the door. Raven. My mother's last name was Raven, I glance at Charles who gives me a small, hesitant nod.
My mouth goes dry, Estella's family owns this farm. Peter glances at the door and his eyes widen as he puts it together, he says something quietly to Ned who looks surprised and glances at me. I continue into the house and see a fireplace and a large television; I think Charles has changed some things since he decided to take us here.
"There's four bedrooms, so what if MJ and Storm share, Milo and Henry share, and I'll share with Ned?" Peter suggests.
"Sounds good, c'mon Storm, let's go pick our room" MJ says, tugging my arm, I follow her upstairs. One of the rooms has a double bed, so we'll leave that for Charles. MJ heads into the furthest one down the hall and she gasps.
"Storm, the view is amazing" MJ says, I head over to the window and nod in agreement, we can see all the surrounding land and the sky.
"You can take the window bed if you want it" I decide, not really caring where I sleep. I go over to the white desk, I open one of the drawers and see a notebook in it, it's a black notebook covered with white flowers, I open it and see a name. Estella Raven. My heart flickers, is this mum's diary? I don't open up any more pages and close the book, I don't think I'm prepared for what the pages could contain.
"Charles said your mum looked just like you" MJ says hesitantly, walking over to me and placing her hand on my shoulder. "I think this was her room."
I walk over to the wardrobe and open it, it's empty. My heart flickers again as I see a gold chain at the bottom of the wardrobe, I pick it up and see a small gold circle attached to the chain. One side has a raven on it and the other side has Estella written on it.
"That's beautiful, you should wear it" MJ says, she places the necklace around my neck and does it up.
"Thank you" I say, glancing at MJ. This might end up being the only thing I ever have that belonged to mum; I don't want to take it off.
My mind flickers to Estella, I wonder how she ended up sleeping with Charles, a mutant, and working for S.H.I.E.L.D at the same time, she must have known there was a small chance of it ending well. Charles isn't Mystique or Magneto, but he hasn't made any attempts to join S.H.I.E.L.D or the avengers over the years either, not until he met me. I think part of it was Charles was focused on trying to rescue innocent mutants and stop them from ending up how I did rather than focusing on stopping Magneto and Mystique, I can't blame him for that, the three have history together.
"I'm going to grab blankets in case it gets cold in the night" MJ decides and heads out of the room. It could be cold since we're kind of in the middle of nowhere, I don't really get cold though.
"Hey" Henry says walking into my room. His eyes glance at my necklace and he smiles softly as he sees Estella written on it. Henry hands me a present and I open it, I see a yellow-gold crusted bracelet with a small badger. I glance at Henry's wrist and see a red bracelet with a lion. His is almost like a piece of string. I think the bracelets are connected. "They'll let us know if the other is in danger."
"I love it" I say, losing Henry is one of my biggest fears, losing Ashton and Scarlett was hard enough, I don't think I could live with myself if something happened to Henry, and I wasn't able to save him. I love that Henry knows me well enough to know how scared I am of losing him.
"Are you still looking into what happened to Ash?" I ask Henry. Henry doesn't meet my eyes and my heart sinks slightly, he knows, doesn't he?
"Someone sent an assassin after him, they call her Deathbird" Henry answers uneasily, I blink in surprise. Who would send an assassin after Ashton? Oh, right. Magneto. My heart aches slightly, if Ashton had just stayed at Stark towers, he'd probably be alive right now. He should still be alive, him and Scarlett should be arguing all the time, I should be hanging out with Ashton while Scarlett and Henry sneak off to be romantic, I should be with Scarlett.
"Mystique told me about her, she said she was dangerous" I say quietly, Mystique also mentioned she was a mutant who betrayed everyone by joining the avengers, but that obviously wasn't true. I don't bother asking who sent the assassin, I think we both know.
"Who's she coming after next?" Peter asks, causing Henry and I to jump out of our skins. Peter laughs at our reaction but his smile quickly fades. "What do you know about Deathbird?"
*Author's Note* My girl cannot catch a break.
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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...
