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Prolouge
It's been nearly over two years since the snap happened and Mel's personality had slowly changed, she's not completely there yet but she has learned to fully accept Natasha as her mother which was a good start for the orphan.
It was the ninth of May twenty-twenty and it was the day before mothers day. Steve had organised a special counselling meeting for all the kids in New York that had lost their parents in the snap and of course, Melody attended.
Mel sat next to Steve trying to breathe deeply as she was always nervous meeting new people especially when she had Serve anxiety. Nine teenagers walked in filling up the once empty seats in the Cathedral.
"Steve is this support group gonna happen every time it's near Mothers Day or Fathers Day?"
"Yes because I've important those celebrations are to people and that I can't give all the adults the attention."
Mel laughed as Steve ruffled her gorgeous long hair. She sat down next to the teenagers. A young teen unexpectedly put an arm around Mel.
"Hey miss why are you shaking?"
"Oh I-I-I just get nervous around new people that's all."
"Don't be nervous my names Emily and my parents died in the snap leaving me. I'm a thirteen-year-old girl who's an only child."
"I had four siblings but I lost them all!"
"That's sad."
Mel let the young teen embrace her, she noticed Steve walking up to the stand ready to address everyone.
"We can talk other time Emily, the meetings about to start."
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Melody's P.O.V
My body froze anxiously waiting for my turn to speak. I'm glad that I had made a new friend. Emily's story was uplifting as she mentioned how she was enjoying living with Mrs Rose her next door neighbour.
Finally, it was my turn, my chance to tell everyone about how much my mother had meant to me before she perished in the snap.
I cleared my throat and stood at the stand proudly showing everyone the picture of my mother Pearl.
"This was my mother, Pearl Smith, she was a woman who had desired to be an inventor but that dream came to an end when my older was born. She then became a history teacher and devoted time into the past and she studied about how the past could shape the future. Me and my mother were super close she always let me tinker in her lab. When the snap happened I felt a hole in my heart. Honestly, she was so positive despite the struggles she'd been through. It's taking me ages to get use to my new life with Steve and Natasha but I've slowly learned to try and accept my reality. I'm so lucky to have Natasha as my mother as now I don't just have a mother who's watching over me from heaven I have a mother who here to get me through my grief even if she's grieving as well. Nat is healing the hole in my heart and I'm a bit nervous but Steve is helping me plan a nice mother's day surprise for her tomorrow."
Applause erupted the room and I looked over to see everyone in the room crying. Steve patted me on the back and stepped back on to the stand addressing the group.
"Thank you for all coming and sharing your stories today it meant a lot to me. Please try have a great mothers day and I promise we'll all meet up in June."
After everyone left I placed the picture of my mom in my backpack and hurled it over my back with aggression.
"Good job Mel I'm so proud you finally had the courage to talk about your Mom."
"Thanks, Steve, can we get ice cream because that will help me focus on planning this spectacular mothers day for N-Mom."
"Course we can, I know a desert place right around the corner it's small but it'll have to do ok."
"Smalls fine Steve."
"Good because every time I try to take Seth he just screams about how he wants to go to the desert restaurant near the cinema."
I chucked knowing that Seth must get his mischievous behaviour from his Dad, who always used to pull pranks on me and Martin.
Steve sat down at the table and let me order the desert. I came back with a plate of ice cream and brownies and I also made sure to get hot coco for both of us.
I embraced a large spoonful of ice cream as if I were in heaven. Steve chuckled knowing how serious my brownie addiction was.
"So Mel, what do you wanna do for Nat?"
"I was thinking instead of getting her flowers I'm gonna give her breakfast in bed and then draw a picture of me,you, Seth and Nat together and then frame it."
"That's a good idea Mel but what else could you do, I mean you really owe her a lot after that surprise new years reunion with Beth."
"If you babysit Seth tomorrow me and Nat can have a girls day out as I wanna see the live-action Aladdin and then take her out to a diner were ballet dancers perform."
"Right that's gonna cost me a lot but we can still go see that new James Bond movie before shopping right?"
I rolled my eyes at Steve's cheeky comment as Mom's the one who tries to avoid going to the cinema but Steve tries to go to the cinema as often as he can.
After seeing the new James Bond movie we ended up shopping for picture frames and mothers day cards.
I ended up spending ten minutes starring at all the mothers day cards until Steve pointed a card out that Nat might like.
"She might like this one you know before you know what she was mainly interested in ballet before they forced her to stop liking it."
Indeed it looked like the perfect card it had a picture of a ballerina leaping in the air holding a ribbon. The caption read, you are a mother with fabulous grace who keeps me in place.
"Steve your right it looks absolutely perfect."
"Good now go pay for it quickly, she'll be wondering why we're back home late."
After heading home I headed straight to my bedroom before dinner as I wanted to call Beth abd honestly confess that I felt nervous about surprising Mom. My hand shook as I pressed the dial button.
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Beth's P.O.V
It's been nearly over two year's since the snap and I've been beginning to accept my adopted siblings as family. My favourite sibling is Luna because she's always there to snap me out of my daydreams and make sure I pick up the phone when Melody calls.
Today was one of those days as ever since Melody got adopted and ever since Lily and Clara got dusted, I've just stayed quiet and just studied. This day was one of those days where I say in my bedroom and listened to miserable music whilst creating a photo book of all the memories with my friends. Luna would always sit in my bedroom and play with my action figures.
I was having a daydream where the whole gang was there and we were all walking in the woods. Luna handed me my phone and jumped on me to get me out of my guilt stricken daydream.
"BETH, you have three missed calls from Melody!"
"Oh I'm um terribly sorry, my ringtone must have really annoyed you. I'll call her back now."
I opened the door gesturing for Luna to leave. She looked annoyed but she understood that I liked talking to Mel when nobody else was around.
My phone started ringing and I gulped worried that Mel might be mad at me for not answering her calls. The familiar calm voice of Melody rang in my ear, to my relief.
"Beth I'm so glad you called, I was beginning to think you'd forgotten or fallen out with me."
"Oh no, i-i-i was just day dreaming."
Hearing Melody's laugh warmed my heart so much as the last time I heard her laugh like that was when we spent the new year together.
"Now that's typical Beth Riley, the girl who daydreams about the stars."
"How you doing Mel and please don't get Natasha a tiny bouquet of flowers again for mothers day"
"I won't I'm kind of nervous about fully accepting her as my mother though as I'm worried that I'm being rude to my birth mom."
"I remember you once telling me that your mother said to enjoy your life and get on with it."
"I guess so but it just feels wrong."
"Natasha will be over the moon considering her dark past. Enjoy your life and move on but keep Pearl in year heart."
"Thanks, Beth, you make sure to give your mom a great moth- oh yeah you have your mothers day in March. I'm still not getting use to the differences between America and Britain."
"It's ok Mel you've only been there two years but trust me in five years you'll probably feel like you were born in America."
"Your right there, my accent has gone from broad Yorkshire to broad New Yorker."
I spent approximately ten minutes on the phone laughing and joking with Mel. It eased me so much but when Mum called me down for dinner I, of course, wrapped things up with Mel as chatting with her had made crave pizza.
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Steve's P.O.V
The next morning, I luckily got up before everyone else so that I could get ready and then wake up Mel.
I walked upstairs to Mel's bedroom and sneakily crept in so I didn't disturb Natasha who was just around the corner. Mel was fast asleep and I felt guilty having to wake up because I knew how much she liked sleeping in on weekends.
"Melody its time to get up."
Of course, I was met by an angry teenager who kept on rolling around in bed.
"Mel if you want to cook breakfast for Nat you have to be up before her."
"But it's too early!"
"It's never too early!"
I carried Mel off her bed and carried her downstairs, the teen gave a weak laugh when I put her down on the couch.
"Before we have breakfast and set up the surprise can I have some coffee please?"
"Of course dear."
It was nice to chat with Mel as I feel like after two years we've developed a close bond.
"Alright Coffee breaks over its time to get to work!"
"Aw!"
All the hard work payed off as we managed to set up the surprise red string that led to her presents that were in the living room. After all, the devotion Nat had put into making the rest of Mels childhood fun and running the world I thought that it was finally time that we did something nice for her.
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Natasha's P.O.V
It was an average Sunday morning and I was rolling around in my bed refusing to get up. The sound of somebody knocking brought me back to reality.
"Come in!"
To my deepest shock Melody was up and dressed holding a tray with my breakfast on. Last mothers day all I got was a small bouquet. My mind had many questions but I simply smiled at Melody and eat the delicious breakfast.
"Thank you so much for breakfast in bed Mel it tasted absolutely wonderful."
"Your welcome Mom, I'll take your tray back downstairs."
My heart froze in absolute shock this was the first time she'd ever acknowledged me as her mother. After Melody left the room, I cried tears of pride and joy. In the red room, I thought i'd never be able to be a mother but now I was acknowledged as one and it felt absolutely wonderful.
I crawled out of bed and gave a loud yawn before doing my daily stretches.
To my shock, I found a piece of red string underneath my bed, a note on the string said follow me. Of course curiosity burned in me so I followed the string to the living room to see Steve sat on the couch next to the wrapped present and Seth holding a card.
I felt like I didn't deserve all of this after what I'd done in the past but at the same time, I felt free of the past like I was living a normal life that the red room robbed me of.
The picture was a beautiful framed sketch that Melody drew. Just to shock me, even more, Mel came from behind the couch with two Cinema tickets and two tickets to see a ballet performance.
I ran to Mel and hugged her as tight as I could. I'm proud to say that Melody Romanoff is my daughter and that were beginning to accept this new world with out are loved ones but we have each other and that's what matters.
It was a blast seeing the new live action Aladdin. The movie had been delayed after half of the post-production and VX artists died in the snap and it would take ages to make a end credits tribute. Really annoyed that Will Smith got dusted as Mel told me he was a legendary actor. On the other hand eating whilst watching a ballet performance was absolutely awesome. I felt like that kid again who wanted to be a ballerina badly.
That night I laid in bed, flashing back to the wonderful day with Mel. I had never gotten the chance to have a normal magical day. I feel hopeful now as with Melody here I can get through this cycle of grief.
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Epilouge
The next morning, Melody and Natasha had decided to go out for breakfast as the two had felt closer than they ever had been.
Melody took off her headphones and enthusiastically pointed at Subway. Natasha rolled her eyes clearly unimpressed.
"Oh come on we always go to breakfast there with Steve, don't you want to go to Starbucks?"
"No subway has the best coffee and the best breakfast sandwiches I've ever tasted!"
"Fine we can go to subway but as soon as we get back your doing the Math papers your tutor sent you."
"Ok, then that's a win-win as you get to have free time and I get to eat at subway."
The two entered ready to make there sandwiches but all of a sudden large screams could be heard in the streets and the duo hid under the table hearing the emergency news broadcast in the background.
"Everybody stay inside your homes and hide criminals are attacking the city."
Natasha summoned the old Avengers jet and Melody followed suit. They put the jet on invisible mode and headed straight home.
"Who's gonna stop the criminal's Mom?"
"Well since humanity has lost faith in the Avengers your gonna have to be the one to stop them, Melody!"
To Be Continued...
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