Crimson - A Marvel Fanfic

She was never supposed to be anything more than ordinary.

In the 1940s, she is just another young woman trying to make herself useful in a world at war-steady hands, a sharp mind, and a quiet sense that she was meant for something more, even if she couldn't name it yet.

Then Howard Stark finds her.

What begins as a controlled experiment-an offshoot of the same research that would one day create Captain America-becomes something else entirely when an accident turns theory into something alive. Something unstable. Something that doesn't belong in the human body.

Crimson threads of energy begin to weave beneath her skin.

She becomes a secret. A prototype. A risk no one fully understands.

She fights in a war that will never record her name-and when everything goes wrong, she disappears with it.

Decades later, she wakes in a world that has already moved on.

The war is different. The heroes are different. The man she knew is gone-and what's left behind doesn't remember her.