I took the subway like every morning. I was slowly getting used to my new routine here in Seoul. I work for doctor Helen Cho in her laboratory. It's not really a job because I don't get payed, but the enterprise offered me a little apartment and they are in charge of the food and everything. I honestly just go there for sleeping, as I spend most of my day in the lab. I have been helping her now for like five months in her most ambitious project, based on synthetic tissue technology. I honestly don't know nothing about science, but what she's interested about my special abilities.
Today felt like the trip to the subway was specially boring so I put my sunglasses on to distract myself. I focused on the passenger who was in front of me, a middle-aged man reading a newspaper. Suddenly a white halo started surrounding him, starting from the heart and spreading to the rest of his body. It was not very intense and it had a yellow glow, which usually meant that he was not very healthy or was sick. That was one of my special abilities. I could see the life, or the quality of it by this halo. I just had to focus my attention in one person and I could see it. I'm able to do it since I was a child and still now that I'm 21 years old don't know where does it come from. I just can do it. Apparently when I do it my iris tends to get white, that's why I have to wear sunglasses. I analyzed the rest of the people in the wagon. There was a lady with a little baby in her arms and his light was the most shiny of all. Normally the younger the person is, the whiter and shinier is their light. The halo felt like a mirror of the heart.
I was getting near to my stop, so I got up and walked towards the doors. I stepped outside taking my sunglasses of as it was a rather cloudy day. I had to walk for about 15 minutes until getting to the laboratory. I started my way as I put my headphones and played random music from my phone. Helen called me the day before to inform me about the progresses on what she calls the Cradle. Apparently it was ready to use after months of tests and failures. My unique task in the project was checking if the tissue it created or re-growed added to the skin tissue of the subject successfully and if something went wrong be there to heal any imperfections. Yes, that was my other special ability. I can heal wounds, broken bones, bruises, cuts, whatever. I actually can heal myself without even wanting, it just heals, I cannot really control that part, which has got me into some trouble in the past. It obviously requires a lot of my energy, but I can take the energy from other people if I feel weak just by touching them.
As I was getting closer to the lab I saw a truck of the enterprise rushing outside the building, but I didn't gave much thought about it. When I got closer to the entrance I saw that the doors were opened, which was very out of the ordinary. I took of my headphones and walked inside. Normally there was much more activity by this time in the morning, so I stopped at the hallway and hesitated. The lights were on but I couldn't see a soul. Maybe everyone had a day off. But Helen called me yesterday so excited about the Cradle and asked me to come today, so I seriously doubted that she had forgotten. I decided to keep walking towards the Cradle room. I turned right in the main corridor and I saw the doors of the Cradle room wide open. I could see the inside of the room and it seemed chaotic. Documents in the floor, a light smoke fog...What happened? I rushed inside and in the moment I stepped in I was paralyzed at my sight.
-First of all, this fan fiction is inspired by The Avengers AOU. I've had added a new character that is supposed to represent the reader, Ayla, so you can imagine her as you wish. It is supposed to be a Pietro x reader fic, but I want to go deeper and give backstory to the new character so it might start a little slow. And yep, enjoy.