Brooklyn Baby ✧ Steve Rogers

✧ Prologue ✧

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Jessica Lynne Martin was not her sister.

Yes, they shared the same features and book smarts, but their personalities were anything but similar.

The elder red-head, Jessica, was very introverted, kept quiet for the most part and only had a few friends. The younger twin by twelve minutes, Lydia, was popular, loved by everyone more- even the Martin twins' parents- and loved the spot light.

Jessica hated living under her younger sister's shadow- which is why whenever she could get away, she would. In fact, for this reason, Jessica hadn't lived under the Martin household since she was sixteen.

She lived next door to her best friend, Steve Rogers.

However, Jessica practically lived in the park behind her house, feeling as though it was her safe place and that the trees whispers from the wind seemed to calm her down.

Her love for nature and everything in it is what prompted her to become a green witch- something not accepted for the time. Jessica found herself working with the elements more than she already had been, forming what she could only call a deeper connection to all things green, the local land spirits, and herself.

Being in nature is where she could be herself, something she had to hide ninety-nine percent of the time, even sometimes in front of her two best friends she had met at the mere age of thirteen.

Jessica had been born with something many Martin's had before her. The ability to manipulate the elements along with being a banshee which allowed her to have a connection to the supernatural.

The Martin family kept the secrets just that. A secret.

The elder would teach the new child with abilities how to control it, your emotions being the key to sudden outbursts resulting in things such as violent earthquakes.

No one was allowed to know, it being told generation after generation that it was something only the elders who possessed the powers discussed. Which is why when Jessica's eyes glowed a bright green at the age of four when she suddenly revived a dead flower, Lydia was instantly intrigued.

Their grandmother, the previous elder of the family possessing these powers, told her she had imagined things and that nothing was happening to her older sister. Something Jessica knew wasn't true.

The lie was inevitably the start of the Martin twins demise.

Jessica loved her sister to death and would do anything to protect her, which meant that she had to leave her behind as soon as she could. The banshee was scared of the power she possessed, the glow of her hands and eyes and she didn't want Lydia scared of her.

She practically hated herself- knowing she was a monster that could cause chaos and mass destruction to all around her.

The only people who truly helped her not feel this way were two boys. Steve Rogers and James Buchanan Barnes, also known as Bucky.

The two best friends quickly took the girl under their wing, Bucky seeing the girl as a sister and Steve...

Well the boy didn't know where he stood with Jessica.

Steven Grant Rogers had been in love with Jessica since their sophomore year of high school when he found her under a tree, nose pressed into a book until she heard him walking toward her. Her warm smile made him fall.

Literally.

And when Jessica hurried over, sun illuminated behind her creating a glow around her, Steve was in love.

However, he didn't understand what he had been feeling and with that decided to not show it.

But he couldn't stop his heart from fluttering every time he heard Jessica genuinely laugh or smile, something that were both quite uncommon.

She was his Brooklyn Baby, the nickname that both Bucky and himself deemed for the red-headed witch. And with time, he would be her hero.

He just didn't know it yet.

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AN: A little side note is that Jessica's eyes glow different colors depending on what element she uses. Earth is green, water is blue, fire is red and air is a grey color.

Here's a visual: