Captain Marvel: My Mother (BOOK I)

Chapter 4

" But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children."

- 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (ESV) -

(The Next Day, Rouen, France, 8:00 AM)

A brunette woman named Karena Lesproux walked around the hallway. She was wearing a dark streamlined jumpsuit without any holsters or a belt around it. She saw a group of mutants chattering along with Allen. She got surprised to see him.

" Allen? " the woman widened her eyes. " Is that you? "

" Hey, Karena. It's been too long since we last worked together not since 682, " he smiled at her.

" You know, mon amie, this friend of ours may look like 682, but he saved me from those evil Kree soldiers. "

" Good that you're alive and I will thank him for that too when he wakes up, " he answered and noticed Karena's temporary leg cast. " So how did you end up fighting the Kree?"

" It's a very challenging one that happened three weeks ago, " she replied. " I threw bombs at them on the streets of Rouen as they started firing me, but I managed to dodge when they shot me on the leg. "

Karena managed to take some little steps which she had trouble walking normally. Allen slightly smiled and saw her. She was about to stumble when he carefully took her hand. The French lady mercenary blushed and looked at him. She never felt that concern from him since her early years from her job.

" At least, you're walking again, " he smiled. " We lost too many people. I don't wanna lose anyone close to me. "

" Oui, " Karena smiled back. " It will never happen again. "

" I've been dealing with other stuff managed to get Carol Danvers to join us too."

" Madame Danvers? " his friend raised her voice. " Is she here?! "

" Yes, she's Captain Marvel and looking for that lizard boy who saved you. "

" Oh, that Monsieur! Yes, he took me here. She's with you? "

" She's with the boy, right now. I guess she was staying with him all night when we found him. She got mistaken him as 682. "

" Oh, me too, but he told me that there is a community of refugees and displaced people. " Karena answered and turned to a group of Inhumans talking around the hallway.

Allen also noticed some mutants, exiled Kree people, and other mixed beings eating on a long dining table. There were half-Lizard and Faunus children running and kicking an old soccer ball at the garden. Then, there were elderly people talking about the glorious years with some younger ones. Karena and her male friend were pleased to see a refugee community inside this hidden mansion away from their enemies.

" I wish they could still live this way after the war, " Allen thought and turned to his friend. " I wonder how long this place can be kept hidden. Sometimes, we should be fighting and not hiding from these threats. "

" That is why the Inhumans, mutants, and their other comrades are here to protect each other, " the brunette answered. " That is what I like about them. "

" Well good to have them on our side. Have you had trouble with our former partners from the company or that been silent since our departure from them?"

" Oui, they are good people. No wonder why those evil blue men and the lizards like to kill them. "

" Well what Carol has planned might change that soon. "