Breaking The Unbroken

Chapter 77

Lyric's POV

I sat at the kitchen table, the papers practically glaring at me in the faint glow of the night light.

Those papers held the chemical blueprint to the same poison that mom injected me with in my other life. Why does dad have it?

When the light turned on, I looked up to see dad standing in the doorway.

"What do you have there?" He asked.

"How long have you been Hydra, dad?" I sniffled.

"H-Hydra?! Lyric, what are you talking about?" I stood up, sending the chair screeching across the floor and shoved the papers at his chest.

"Don't play dumb! These are the chemical blueprints of a poison Hydra has! How could you, dad!?" I screeched. Dad picked up the papers and looked at them before looking at me.

"Lyric, Hydra can't possibly have this poison. I've had the notes for years, but this biological weapon was asked for by Mr. Stark just a week ago. How do you even know Hydra has this?" He frowned. That's when it hit me.

Dad isn't Hydra, Hydra took his ideas. In this world, he was never taken by them so they don't have any of his plans. I could feel my energy deflate as I sank back in the chair.

I miss Papa and Daddy. I miss Iris, Junior, and Natalia.

This isn't what I wanted, not when I remember what I had.

"Lyric, what's been going on with you, kiddo? You're not the same little girl that made cookies with me last month." Dad said, sitting next to me. I looked up at him, tears threatening to fall from my eyes.

"I thought this is what I wanted. I-I thought I could just leave my old life behind and get the life I always wanted, but everything is wrong! And I feel horrible for wanting to go back to a world where most everyone I love is dead, but I don't know how to live here! This is the first time I've had you and all I can think about is life without you. I can't stay here, but how can I go back and leave you and everyone else?" I cried, dropping my head into his chest.

"Sunshine, you're not making much sense." Dad sighed, wrapping me in his arms. I looked at him, wiping my eyes.

"Dad, what if, hypothetically, there was a world where you were kidnapped by Hydra, killed, and Hydra trained me to be a weapon for about 6 years before Captain America and the Winter Soldier adopted me? And in that world, I grew up, fell in love, had kids, yet so many bad things happened? Should I go back to the world with the bad things, or stay here?" I asked. Dad blinked before looking at me closely.

"Sweetheart, when did you start using drugs?" He asked.

"Dad! Please just answer my hypothetical question." I begged.

"Okay, in the other world I'm dead, so I can imagine how hard that choice has got to be. But you have kids there?"

"Yes, three. Iris and Junior are twins and then Natalia is the youngest."

"Why did you leave them?"

"Their father...he got in a bad accident. He's brain dead."

"And you thought you could just escape that?"

"I hoped so..." Dad shook his head and wiped away any tears on my face.

"I would say I didn't raise you like this, but in that world, I didn't get a chance to raise you. Lyric, bad things happen and when they do, we don't run away, we fix the problems or move on. I would tell you to get back any way possible, you're life isn't done over there. Your kids need you." He said. I nodded and hugged him tightly.