Chapter Fourteen

"Mother," Ariana stood by the window and she was surprise to notice that her voice wasn't shaking, but her insides were. Her stomach felt queasy and her heart seemed to stop.

She couldn't believe that she was really looking at her mother, at a woman she had thought dead for so long. Could it be that she was a ghost?

She tightened her hand around her bony, white wrist and instantly felt coldness. She really was alive. "W-What are you doing here?" she desperately wished that she was like Natasha and slept with a gun on her hip every night.

Chianelle ignore the question as she peeked across Ariana's side at Steve's sleeping from. "My who is that? Is that handsome guy your boyfriend?"

Ariana nodded as she gripped the window rails. What was she doing back?

Chianelle looked at Steve's naked torso and then at Ariana's half covered body. "My, you really have grown up Ari."

"Mother, please tell me what are you doing here?" her voice was sharper that she intended.

Chianelle's voice hardened. "Don't you talk back to me!"

Ariana felt herself being pushed back and she hit her back on the closet before landing on the floor. The sound woke Steve up, he sat up and looked at Ariana in alarm. "Ariana, what-" he stared back at Chianelle and then back at Ariana. "Who is she?"

Chianelle looked back at Ariana ignoring Steve and Ariana was grateful for that at least. "Where is your sister?"

"I don't know." she lied, though everyone knew even Ariana herself that she was a terrible liar. "I don't know where she is."

"Liar." Chianelle appeared next to her and approached Ariana until they could hear themselves breathing. "Now I'll ask you again, where is your sister?"

"I told you, I don't know!"

Chianelle let out a low growl and faced Steve, black smoke was coming from her hands before she positioned her hand towards Steve. The black smoke faced Steve and before he could even jump from the bed he ended up being covered in a black cloud of smoke.

Ariana heard him struggling and trying to get out. "Please," she begged. "Let him out. Please."

"Will you tell me where Audriana is?"

Ariana's eyes fell towards one of the knives that had fallen from her closet when she had been thrown into her closet. She dodge towards it as quickly as she could and was prepared to stabbed it in her mother's bony chest.

Whoever this woman was, she was not her mother. This woman was a monster. One who clearly still hated Audriana as she always had. Chianelle managed to grip Ariana's hand before she was able to stab the knife. She tightened her grip on her wrist until the knife fell from her hand.

She saw the black cloud that had covered Steve disappear taking Steve with him. "Steve!" she shouted. "Where did you take him, where?"

Chianelle smirked as she then wrapped her hands around Ariana's neck and tightened her grip on her neck. Not enough to kill her, but to simply make her pass out. After enough struggling she managed to complete her task. Now there was only one other sister.

"Tony?"

"Pepper?"

"Where are we? It's so dark."

"Wait, I have a flashlight."

"Where did you get a flashlight?"

"I got it in a keychain I bought in Vegas."

"I think this is the only time I'm actually grateful by the fact that you went to Vegas."

"There." the flashlight in the keychain was small, but at least Pepper and Tony could see. They were in Tony's second lab where Tony kept his replacement Iron Man suits. "Oh, thank god," he was happy enough that he at least had his suits. "I thought we were in hell."

"Yeah, right." Pepper rolled her eyes. "What was that anyway?"

"I don't know."

"Do you think it was Clint or Natasha?" Pepper mused. "Maybe they were playing a practical joke, you do annoy them a lot."

"Natasha and Clint are smooth, but not that smooth, besides they spent the night in the helicarrier after well, you know the MTV moment with my daughters and Jane picked up Thor for a play date or something. Damn, Jarvis is still down." Tony managed to put the Iron Man suit by himself though he thought it was more fun when the AI did the work. "Be right back?"

"Wait," Pepper looked up alarmed. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to figure out what happened," he said not bothering to turn back. "Stay put."

Tony heard running and cursing in a voice that sounded like Audriana. . .and Loki.

"My magic isn't working," he heard Loki say, sounding frustrated. "What is this black substance?"

"I don't know. . It's holding me back, Loki, I can't get out."

"Shit," Tony cursed under his breath until he reached where Loki and Audriana where. Audriana was wrapped around in a black cloud and had been desperately trying to get out, Loki was attempting to help her, but neither of their magic was working.

"Audriana give me your hand," Tony instructed, he could probably pull her away from the black cloud.

Audriana managed to free one hand as she tried to reach her father's iron hand.

"Come on baby, you're almost there." Tony insisted.

Audriana gritted her teeth and she almost managed to reach Tony's hand when she felt herself being pulled back inside and be surrounded by darkness.

Audriana and Ariana woke up to find themselves tied up to a metal table with wires and shackles tying their wrists and legs. "Damn it," Audriana moved her wrists and arms trying to break free. "Any luck over there? You wouldn't have a knife or a gun handy, would you?"

"No."

"What kind of agent are you?"

"The kind that likes to sleep without worrying if I'm going to end up killing myself. How about your magic?"

"I'm trying." Audriana said frustrated. "It's not working. It's being block somehow."

"Both of you so grown up and you still can't work together," Chianelle mused. "You girls were always so stubborn Thank god there is only going to be one of you."

"What are you talking about?" Audriana snapped.

"Darling, there really is only room for one, the special one," Chianelle pouted. "I'll make this simple, I'm using dark magic to transfer Ariana's soul into Audriana's body. It's such a lucky opportunity that you're twins so you wont miss your appearance at all."

"And what about my soul?" Audriana replied sarcastically.

"Like I told you there is only room for one, darling and you aren't the one."

"You're sick," Audriana spat. "I always knew you were some psycho-"

"You can scream if you really want too." Chianelle said as though she was being generous, interrupting Audriana.

"Don't scream." Ariana called out to her sister.

Audriana nodded. "Wouldn't dream of it."

As soon as the switch was turn on both Audriana and Ariana felt pain trough their entire body, and as much as they tried to hold in their screams they felt from the pain, they heard themselves scream and breaking their promise.

-End of Chapter Fourteen-

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