Your POV
I open my eyes too see the face of my brother that I haven't seen in over 7 years. I haven't seen him since we escaped that hell hole of our last foster home.
"Chase, what the hell? Why did you kidnap me?"
"I can't let you stay with that idiot of a Sokovian. You had promised that you'd be with me forever. Stop this nonsense and start using your death powers. If you keep healing people you'll die."
I hit him hard in the stomach, "You were the one that ran away. Now you show up with powers a bit like mine and hatred towards everything that I love. I want to help people and if I'll die cause of it you can just fuck off. Chase, this is my choice."
"Then I'll just have to lock you up."
Before I can say more he tosses me too the side and I'm tied up in ropes in matter of seconds.
"Great. You know I can escape these."
"You're not the only person who can invent things so easily. Like that cute little bracelet that is imeristating pain medication to you on a regular basis."
"How did you?"
"I know everything that you'd been doing since I have the power to manipulate time and space."
"Though it's hard on your body as well. Not like mine but it still causes harm to your body."
"True, but I'll still live a longer life. Sis, kill someone and you'll take their life force."
"I will not kill people too prolong my life. I did that for long enough to heal wounds that I've received in the past."
"You only did that while you were on the run killing murders and rapists their better things you can do with such power," my brother says to me, almost pleading for me to do something like that again.
I feel tears form in my eyes as I simply answer, "I'd rather die than to do so again. Brother, do you know how many people I have killed cause I decided to be justice?"
"No, I lost count."
"I have killed 30 people all too prolong my life. I know I only have about a year or so left and I'm willing to accept that."
"If you keep working at the hospital it'll only quicken your death."
"I know that. You can't keep me locked up until I start to deteriorate until I am nothing but an empty shell. I'll go through something like ms and alzheimer's. At least this is what I believe will happen to me in the end. While I drown in my lungs having strokes and heart attacks."
"You want to die like that?" he screams in my face while he makes me stand up. I feel him shake my shoulders while he yells it again.
I simply let him yell at me until I feel pain course through my body, "Did you just take my bracelet!"
"Yes, too make you understand how serious this is. That bracelet makes it so you can't feel pain, if you can feel it then you will realize what's waiting when this stops working."
I feel my anger start coursing through me, "Chase, you're lucky that I can't kill you."
"Yeah, well whatever you say."
It's sad that this is what goes on in life, especially when it deals with my brother and myself, I will not do anything about it. If this was a year ago I might have killed my brother even though… he's my brother. I guess I just lost that anger and everything else in my life. Not I just live day by day not caring what happens as long as I make a difference in people's lives. It's weird to say that, but that's what I think.
"Sis, you can't do this too me. You can't die like that. What would I do without you?"
I gasp in pain once again as I whisper out, "Cause death and destruction much like you've always done. You will just do more of the harm to humans then you freaking should."
"Now are we a hypocrite," my brother says in a teasing voice.
"I know in a way I am. I have done much harm in my wild era, but I have accepted what I have done and I am repenting for it. I will let myself die saving lives then trying to prolong my life killing more and more people."
My brother looks at me in disgust, "You will take someones life and you will live."
"No, Chase. I will not live. I will not take a life. I have accepted my death the moment I decided to save lives. You are not the only forteller in this world. We are twins and I can do just that as well as using my powers of life and death."
"Jace, look at yourself. The wounds you got from that Sokovian woman aren't even healing. You are still bleeding aren't you. Your healing process has slowed down."
I look at my brother and I nod my head and only feel pain, "I'm not healing properly. I'm going to die from blood lose if this keeps happening. I need too either clot the blood or cauterize it quickly."
My brother doesn't seem too want to move but when he grabs my arms and squeeze them the only thing I can say is I felt pain, but also a rush of life force telling me I'm healin through him.
"There you're healed and I still have a long time to live compared to you. I have centuries while you only seem to have a month or 2. This is if you're lucky. Sis, you don't have long straighten out your thoughts and join me."
I feel disgusted that my brother had stolen a bit of my gift to take many lives for fun too lengthen his life and all of it is on me. I had created the machine that could transfer a small amount of abilities too people in hope that I could do so too help save people. In the end it ended over 40 lives and helped my twin brother who was sickly before he had done this live for years to come.
"Chase, why don't you stop. You have enough life. Why are you doing this?"
He keeps a hold of my arms squeezing even harder as shouts, "Cause what am I too do once I no longer have you? I can't lose you, Jace. You are all I have left. You are all that I am. Without you there is no point to life."
"Chase, that is not life. It's a hell hole that you created. You just want me so you can get a hold of my powers once again. To earn a living killing and gaining more time as you do so."
He glares at me and I simply look away wondering where I can find Pietro… I can't believe I've gone all this time without thinking of him. I feel guilty even though I don't have a right or a need to feel so.
"You're thinking of him. That Sokovian again aren't you. He stole you away from me. I've had you by my side for over 20 years and soon you grow a conscience when he shows up in Seoul when you had."
I had the right mind too beat some sense into my brother, but I know it wouldn't work very well.
"Chase, you are an imbecile aren't you? You think that this is all about you. It isn't. We were given this gift for a reason. We can see paths that people will take perfectly and clearly. We can heal/give life or take it away. We are here to save these people from themselves and if we focus hard we can save this world so it wouldn't end until the sun becomes an issue."
My brother laughs as he looks at me, "Do you think that will truly work on humans. It's not in their nature."
I look at my brother annoyed, "Are you kidding me? We're human. believe it or not we're human."
"Only a small part sister," he's silent for a while before he repeats, "only a small part."
"What do you mean?"
He shrugs his shoulders as he walks around with a knife in his hand. When the fuck did he get that? Did he steal someone else's gifts?
He seems to notice where my line of sight is, "Oh this a little skill I picked up after awhile. Wonder, what you can do sis. Could you live forever or will you die?"
I give him a look of disgust as I look at him, "Just die already Chase."
I look at the knife and at how appealing that going into my heart seems to be. I want too die. I want too die for what I've done too this world. A flash goes through my mind and I see Pietro holding onto my dead body crying. The very thought hurts my chest and a feeling of wanting to live goes through me. The will to leave wherever I am alive too see Pietro at least once lies within my heart.
"Stop thinking of that Slovakian," my brother shouts as he kicks me hard in the stomach sending me flying.
When i hit the wall I gasp in pain that makes the pain I'm already in quadriple.
"Do you have any idea what I have gone through for you? I went to find the truth about ourselves and I find out that we're not really human. We're part of a much different race."
I sigh as I roll too my back which took too much movement and energy.
I sigh as I look over at Chase, "From what I've talked too Coulson about we're possibly inhumans or some kind of other mutation that is hidden in the human gene pool. So what did you do? How would you know huh brother?"
"I did my research tracked people from all over the world and soon i met a woman named Raina and she was a lot of help."
I sigh as I tilt my head and feel only pain, but I won't let my brother see it, "Wow, good for you. Maybe she'll love you when no one but yourself can."
"I can't she died a while back killed by who was in charge of the inhumans at the time."
I sigh as I stare at my younger twin brother, "Look I don't care whatever you have to say. Let me go and let me go back home."
"Fine, but think of what I said sister. You can save people's lives, but you are not allowed to use your powers no matter what."
I sigh as I close my eyes and I find myself in my bed and feel that I'm untied.
I sigh as I lift my head a bit too simply drop it. I sigh as I look at my hand too see that there's a small letter there. I sigh as I remember how childish and conniving my twin can be. I sigh as I curl up only feeling pain.
I look at my wrist as I shout in anger, "That fucking brat took my bracelet. He fucking kept it."
I pull myself out of the bed and open my closet. I sigh as I pull out simple black clothing then I push the hangers away to show the back wall of the closet. I look around as I open the little compartment that has my hidden stash of painkillers. I take a mouthful but I still feel only pain. I look at the pill bottle and sigh as I place it back in the wall.
"That should keep some of the pain away for a small while, but I need to make a new bracelet. I can't believe I never tried to make more than 1."
I sigh as I hit my head against the wall, "The materials are expensive and hard to find. Ugh and I'd rather not call up Tony Stark too see if he'll let me buy them through him.
I sigh as I lean back against the wall remembering that I had visited Dr. Cho to help me complete the design for the bracelet. Did I leave any of the plans for it there?
I sigh as I email Dr. cho about it even though it's almost been 2 years since then. I really don't have much time do I. I sigh as I look at myself in the mirror that I have on the closet door.
"Shit, how am I supposed to go to work looking like I'm about to die?"
I hit my head against the wall as I pull out my phone to call my boss.
"What will I tell him? 'Hey boss I need time off cause I look like I'm gonna die.'"
I groan as I run my hands over my face and I hear someone open my front door. I speak from my room too see Barton walk inside.
"What are you doing in my home?"
"Came to pick up a few things for Pietro," he answers like it's nothing.
"Pietro, what about him?"
"He's in the hospital," he answers.
"What? What happened?"
"I'm not sure he just collapsed. He freaked out a couple days ago saying you disappeared out of no where."
"A couple days ago… I've been gone a few days."
"No, Galatea you've been gone a week. He was searching for you until he collapsed."
"Why are you getting his things now?"
"Well they couldn't get a hold of me and Scarlet Witch didn't want to try to break into your guys' place… Plus she's a little ticked at him and yelling at him whenever he's awake."
I frown as I walk too Pietro's room pack up a only 2 pairs of clothing and shoes along with only a few other things. I sigh as I look the desk I had placed in there too see a letter. My frown deepens these emotions blocking out the pain. I pick it up too see that it's addressed to me.
I grab it as I walk over to Barton with the simple backpack, "Come on."
As I slip into my car that Barton must have been using. While he's busy mumbling about the type of traffic there is today I look at the letter in my hands.
I slowly open it as I read it I feel tears fall from my eyes and I know that this isn't a letter that is existent but something in the future that will happen.
Barton looks at my shoulder as he looks at it confused, "Why are you crying looking at a blank sheet of paper?"
"It's nothing."
I look at the letter again as I read it in my mind, 'Jace, I'm sorry that I don't get too say goodbye to you. The doctors tell me that you might not live for much longer. There's a way to save you using your powers and whether you like it or not I'm going to use it too save your life using the life that you had given me. I thought that maybe you getting worse was all a dream, but I was wrong. I guess I can't have a normalish life with the woman I love. I'm sorry for doing this and you might hate me, but whatever you do don't use let this go to waste. I love you more than I care for my own life. I simply ask that you don't let the life I have (will) give you go to waste. Live like I'm with you. Love, Pietro Maximoff, a man deeply in love with you and can not picture a life without you."
I close my eyes letting tears fall from them as I crumple up the paper and toss it out the window.
Barton looks at me as he asks, "A vision or something. I know it comes with you reading minds and such."
I simply nod my head letting the sadness overtake my heart too hide myself from all the pain that I'm in.
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