Monstrous (Avengers Fanfic)

Chapter 12

Previously:

His eyes ran over her wings,silver hair and purple eyes, filling with tears when he saw the golden pendant. She still wore it. "My shining light."

Her eyes widened.

"James."

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It happened faster than anyone could perceive, even Logan with enhanced senses.

Lila's wings flared behind her and she pushed, the air current created propelling her forward.

She didn't know whether to scream and hit him, or cry and jump into his arms. He answered her thoughts, opening his arms just as she collided with him, wrapping around her like the softest blanket in the world.

Her forward momentum had shoved them both backwards but not pushed them over thanks to Clint's quick reflexes. Lila unconsciously lifted her shimmering wings and wrapped them around both of them, a titanium shield against the world around them. Behind her flooding lids, her eyes flickered blue and yellow.

All was silent, no-one dared ruin the moment, despite the smell of their confusion permeating the air and reaching Lila's sense.

"My shining light." Clint sobbed.

That broke the trance like state she was in. Jumping back, she shocked the occupants of the room by snarling animalistically at Clint, eyes bleeding into scarlett.

As several people in the room moved to intercept what was sure to be the beginning of a bloodbath, Clint held up his hand to them. "Don't," his glance pleaded. They relented.

"Lux?" It was tentative and almost beyond the hearing of most of the people witnessing.

"You promised. When those monsters came and took me, you promised you'd find me! You promised and I believed you!" It had started quiet but slowly got louder and more...dangerous.

"I tried." Those who knew him knew of his temper and expected yelling, but no. He just sounded...broken.

"For years, I tried. I trained and became deadly in my own right so that when I found you, nothing could stop me from getting you back." The room seemed to become colder and they all shivered at the steel in his voice and fire in his eyes.

"The van, the men, none of it was marked. There was no way to track you, or them. But I never gave up or lost hope. I joined SHIELD, hoping I could use their resources to find you. The people that took you, they were government protected, but I found a list of places where they might be keeping you, only..." He stopped to breath deeply. He was drowning.

"About a year ago, I pinpointed exactly which of the facilities you were in, I even left in the middle of a mission because I couldn't wait any longer."

Natasha frowned, thinking back; then suddenly it dawned on her.

Budapest.

Suddenly she felt bad for badgering Clint for months about leaving her cold turkey on a mission. Oops.

Clint choked on his words. "The facility was like a bomb site when I got there, it had been burnt to the ground. I thought - I thought you were dead."

The glowing crimson faded into the glorious violet that had haunted his dreams for most of his life. Oh how he loved that colour.

"You finally founded me just after I escaped and razed that hellish place to the ground." She realised.

Appeased, Lila jumped back into Clint's arms relishing her brother's calming presence that she had missed so much it hurt. Her hand curled around her pendant that he had given her after saving months of his pocket money and all the money he earned from his daily paper route job. It use to be all she had of him, but now she had him back.

He gently caressed her long silver hair, soft as satin and her wings, and to him more beautiful than all the diamonds in the world. "They are just as beautiful as the day you grew them and came running to me, crying because they hurt."

She tearfully smiled up at him, noting with a backwards part of her mind that he was still tall than her. "And you are still the only one who has never treated me differently because of them."

The Avengers and the X-men had waited long enough, - honestly, Steve was surprised that Tony had been able to keep quiet for so long - they wanted answers.

"So... Hawky, care to tell us what the hell is going on?!"

Never mind.

"Avengers, X-men, meet Lila Rosanna, my baby sister."

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Aren't I making up for the long wait? These past couple of days, I seem to have had a reprieve from my writer's block so, rapid fire updates! I hope this makes you oh so wonderful readers happy!

Au revoir, mes amis!

-The Doctor's Companion