The Fire Over My Eyes

Chp 6 - Grew up too fast

(Bold – the memory

Italics – thoughts outside of the memory

Italics and bold – Leo narrating his memories

Underline – subtitles

'Bold, italics and with the quotation marks – Leo's thoughts inside the memory).

Natasha's POV

I was around 8 when my life started to take a turn for the worse...

How bad could it be? I asked myself as I looked at the screen in concern, he just a child for God's sake!

One teacher at school I hated the most. I was amazing at math I love the subject and she hated me for how good I was at it. One day she took her hatred too far...

"Leo Valdez! See me after class!" Screamed the ugly toad in front of me – or as other people know her Mrs. Ren – why someone married her I have no idea

"Ha! She does look like a toad!" chuckled Loki as his eyes held a look of malice, Nick looked at the screen with an empty stare,

I snorted out a laugh and Steve looked downright horrified, at the resemblance of the two things.

The bell rang and everyone exited the class, except for Leo and the teacher.

"Now, Leo I know you love math and you are very good at it but you need to let other people have a chance at answering some questions..." said Mrs. Ren with a sickly sweet voice but her eyes held a look of deep burning hatred.

"I'm sorry-." Leo began but was cut off by a sharp slap to the face.

Multiple sharp intakes of breaths were taken in along with many glares at the lady on the screen.

He looked up in shock and brought his hand to his stinging cheek. The toad glared at the small boy in front of her. "Did I say you could speak?! You Useless child?!"

Leo gulped and looked down in shame, "ANSWER ME!" Screamed the ugly woman as she raised he hand to strike the child again, when a knock on the door cut her off.

She flung her head to the door and then turned to Leo again, "Tell anyone about this and your life will be over sooner than expected." She pointed a crooked finger at the boy who just nodded glumly.

"Come in..." replied the woman as the screen turned black yet again.

I feel so powerless... I thought as I waited for the next memory to play.

"Who would do such a thing to a child...?" muttered Steve as he ran a hand through his hair in frustration.

"There are some vile creatures in this world mortal." Replied Thor to Steve's rhetorical question.

The next memory was of Leo sitting down at a table drawing what looked like a car engine. Metal hitting metal was heard in the corner as a voice rang out,

"Leo could you pass me that screwdriver that I left on the table over there?!"

Leo's head snapped up and his eyes trailed over to the Philip head screwdriver on the end of the table. He reached over to it and hopped off of his chair to give it to his mother.

"Here you go, mum." Little Leo said as he pasted the screwdriver to his mum, who was under a car. She smiled a sweet smile and took it from the grinning child.

"Thank you so much, Mijo (son)." She said as she ruffled his hair, she frowned and held up his chin, "Are you okay? Your cheek is a bit swollen."

Leo's eyes widened as he shook his head, "N-no I'm fine mum."

I looked sadly at the screen, Oh god.

Esperanza frowned as she looked at her son with a disbelieving look, she hummed and the smiled at her son.

"W-well I'm going to go do my homework." Rushed out Leo as he walked back to the table.

"Why didn't he tell her?" Asked Loki with his head tilted as the screen dimed,

"Well I guess fear is a powerful thing in a child's mind," replied Bucky with a glare pointed at Tony – who was touching Steve's shoulder.

"I mean if I were him I would be shit scared," said Bruce in a calm and sort of monotone voice.

"Yea, it's sort of like how Flash- Wait never mind." Corrected Peter quickly.

Tony glared at him and was about to ask him what he said when the next memory started to play.

"Come on Mijo (son), I need to lock up!" Esperanza called out as she grabbed a bag full of her stuff, "Dammit... One second Leo, stay here I forgot my keys."

Leo nodded and sat down on one of the seats, the door to the room his mum just went in slammed shut and she started knocking on the door.

"L-Leo? Did you close the door?" She asked in a nervous tone, as she jingled the doorhandle trying to open it.

"N-no I didn't touch anything. I-is everything okay?" Asked Leo with wide eyes, before Esperanza could respond a dark cloud of smoke appeared in front of Leo.

The smoke turned in to a woman, she had perfect features and pretty clothes,

"Hello little demigod..." she spoke with a sleep coated voice, her eyes were closed and she seemed to be asleep.

"W-who are you?!" Asked the child frightened, and confused,

"L-Leo is someone out there?!" called his mum as she banged on the door with her fist.

"You can save her... All you have to do is use your gift." She mused with a sly smirk, Leo shook his head and squeezed his eyes shut.

"Oh god, this is going to be bad," Said Tony as he covered Peter's eyes. We all focused on the screen with a sense of dread filling every single one of us,

This angered the woman and she raised her hand reaching out to grab Leo, out of fear Leo put up his hands and fire started to spew out of it. The lady's smirk widened and she disappeared into a puff of black smoke.

"L-Leo?! Are you o-okay?" coughed out his mother,

Leo looked around in panic, "I-I can't stop it! I-I'm really trying!" he said in a panicky and scared tone of voice.

"No," whispered Clint with a look of sadness, already guessing what was about to happen,

"Leo!" screamed him mother as the roof started to fall,

"I-I'm sorry Mamá (mom)!" Leo cried out as he started to stagger and fall to the ground, and the screen faded into nothingness,

The whole room was silent, Pietro had his face hidden in Clint's chest who wore a solemn expression on his face, Steve winced as did Peter and Thor. I saw Bruce take a few calming breaths and closed his eyes. Nick looked as blank ass ever, as did Bucky.

Tony stared at the screen fuming with rage,

"He knew a God! And none of them did shit about this?!"

Loki looked at Tony, "Everything happens for a reason, mortal, try to remember that..." Despite his words, Loki seemed just as angry as Tony.

I stared at the screen in utter defeat...

He was so young and he had to go through that!?

(A/N: Hey peoples thank you for being so patient with me. I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in the next chapter, bye bi-)