Earth

It was a SHIELD agent who happened to be the first human who stumbled upon Rose Waters.

She had emerged from one of the thick forests that occupied South America, her eyes wild and full of a deep lust for power. She was dressed in the same rags that she had worn to her solo mission, which was practically falling apart at the seams. Her hair was wild and messy, full of brilliant blond clumps, dirt and sticks. The Tesseract wasn't in her hands but, instead, hidden on the remains of a planet that Rose Waters had stumbled upon years ago. A planet that was long ago destroyed by Galactus himself.

The only thing that was still Rose Waters about Rose Waters was her highlighter blue eyes, which lit so brightly that it seemed like they would glow in the dark. To the SHIELD agent, it looked as if she had spent the past four years living in the forest as opposed to two hours.

"Are you alright?" The SHIELD agent questioned. He had been stationed there to patrol the area and protect scientists who had detected some radioactive activity that had happened earlier that morning. The man had rushed up to Rose Waters, his gun laid heavily in his hands as Rose Waters only rolled her eyes and continued her way down the path. Even the humans on Earth were boring.

"Excuse me, Miss." The SHIELD agent then grabbed Rose Waters' arm to allow her to shoot him the dirtiest look in the world. She looked lethal, dangerous, but her sunken cheeks and hollowed eyes showed that she was still nothing more than a girl. A teenager at the most. "But you really shouldn't be here."

"Yeah, I shouldn't." Rose Waters hissed back before she snapped her arm away from him. "Touch me one more time and I'll kill you."

"I'm sorry, Miss, but the last time thing kind of thing happened, a God literally fell from the sky." He replied as Rose Waters continued to walk away. "So I'm required to interview everyone and anyone who enters or leaves this area." But his words only fell on deaf ears as Rose Waters continued to make her way towards wherever the hell she wanted to go.

Which forced the SHIELD agent to make the greatest mistake of his life by grabbing the girl's arm once more.

Before he had the chance to breathe, a dagger had punctured his bullet-proof vest and had made home in his chest, right into his heart as Rose Waters easily pulled out the dagger and allowed him to fall to the ground before a bullet grazed her arm from a nearby, scared SHIELD agent. With gritted teeth, Rose Waters teleported behind the man and stabbed him before continuing her massacre onto anyone else who dared come into her way.

By the time she was done, she had successfully taken down a total of 22 agents, all of whom now lay dead on the floor, each one not having the slightest of ideas onto how in the world a mere girl had managed to move places so quickly. Rose Waters could tell that more were surly to come, judging from the blaring radios that rang from their body suits, so she quickly raided each soldier of their food rations and disappeared back into the forest.

She didn't blame herself for her small massacre. After all, the man shouldn't have provoked her to begin with.


Rose Waters had traveled for barely a day when she finally reached a big city. She had fully eaten all food rations that she had stolen from the fallen SHIELD agents and was starving for something new, which she found in the appearance of a food cart.

A man said something to her in a foreign language before he spotted the dried blood that still lied on the girl's hands and clothes and ran away, leaving her to help herself with the delicious food that occupied his cart along with the money that lay in a locked metal box, which she easily store with a jab of her fist only for her to encounter a few cops... who obviously stood no chance against her.

After the murder of the police officers, Rose Waters ran into an alleyway and teleported herself to the top of a building before she let out a deep cry from the back of her throat. She knew that what she was doing was bad, wrong even by Thanos' standards. He didn't raise a robber. He raised a strong, independent, fierce young lady who was suppose to stand by his side no matter what. A murderer, but not a robber.

The top of the building held some laundry that flapped in the wind, so Rose Waters stripped of her torn, blood stained outfit and dressed inside baggy jeans five sizes too big and a strangely small black shirt that still hung off of weird places on her body. She then teleported away to another rooftop when the sound of police sirens flooded her ears.


It took Rose Waters a solid week before she caught word of a man named Tony Stark.

He had arrived on the news because he was discussing some charities that he was going to be donating to and she had spotted him from the strange TV screens that hid behind mere glass. For the past few days, she had been sleeping in the streets, eating what she could and not speaking a word. The sight of Tony Stark caught her eye because... because she had remembered him.

He was the man who helped defeat Loki and the Chitauri. He was the man who could encase himself in a box of armor. He was Iron Man.

And... and if he could do that then maybe he might just stand a chance against Thanos.

For a brief moment, a spark of duty appeared in Rose Water's heart. She had to warn him, she just had to. She needed to.

She had caused so much harm in her life. She had destroyed so many homes, killed so many worlds, took away so many lives that she owed it to this planet to spread at least some... some awareness.

She had to. All she did when she came to Earth was kill.

She needed, just for once in her life, to save.


It only took Rose Waters a day to arrive to New York City, where she easily blended in among the masses of other homeless teens who aimlessly wandered the streets.

She wandered around for the signature Stark Industries Tower when she had stumbled upon someone else who was just as super, but not quite the same person she was searching for.

"Watch out!" A loud voice boomed before she was immediately swung off her feet and put to another piece of the ground as a giant brick wall where she used to be walking by collapsed. She was 'saved' by someone in a red and blue costume who immediately swung away, his eyes looking for bigger fish to fry. Like the criminals who were currently robbing the bank.

"I can save myself!" Rose Waters shouted, her hands clenched, but her words were only ignored as Spider-Man took down a few men who were leaving the bank with bags of cash in their hands. At his obliviousness to her comment, Rose Waters narrowed her eyes. She was the daughter of Thanos, she was listened to. She was feared.

The last person to ignore her was decapitated shortly after and she wouldn't take that kind of disrespect from some stupid boy in a spider costume.

"Excuse me!" Rose Waters screamed when she spotted a man who was fleeing into a large white van with a bag of cash in his hand. Before she even had another thought, she threw a dagger into one of the wheels, and teleported it back into her hand as she continued to make her way towards the strangely dressed boy who widened his eyes at the girl stalking towards him and danger that surrounded her. The ten guys who were robbing the bank were all armed and wouldn't hesitate to take her hostage, how in the world was he going to get out of this one-

Without another word stated, Rose Waters grabbed a man by the collar and punched him in the head so that he immediately fell before she got to work on everyone else, but never once did she break eye contact with Peter Parker who struggled to continue to make work of everyone else, who she easily helped take down. However, right as Rose Waters opened her mouth to give the boy a talking to, Spiderman noticed that the van, despite it's broken tire, was beginning to take off and began to sling after it when Rose Waters grabbed his wrist and threw another dagger to the other tire, forcing it to fall apart and crash into a nearby lamppost.

"What the-" Spiderman stated as Rose Waters took a step towards him.

"I don't need saving." Rose Waters hissed.

She didn't know why she hated it so much that the boy had helped her, but she could only assume that it was because Thanos would've had her head if he knew that... that she needed help. Especially from a human.

"Well that's obvious." SpiderMan replied before he swung away.

Rose Waters thought about breaking his little string just to toy with his mind, but, at the last second, decided against it.

She had already caused enough pain today, judging by the ten men sprawling on the ground in pain.


After another week, Rose Waters found herself standing a good three miles from the Avengers compound, close enough that her eagle eye vision could easily make out the front door that she could teleport herself to. Close enough that she could even see Tony Stark hovering near a window making what seemed like an important phone call or something. This wasn't her first time near the compound, in fact, she's been encircling the building for the past week, thinking time after time again to tell Iron Man the situation he would soon find himself in.

She would replay the moment again and again inside of her head, each time always going to the worst case scenario: That Iron Man just wouldn't believe her and would lock her in jail the moment that he would realize the amount of lives she took in her short period of time on Earth.

Rose Waters' didn't know why she always thought about the worst kind of situation happening, though, she could only imagine that it was because she desperately wanted a reason to not walk up to the billionaire and voice her story. That she wanted to find any reason, no matter how small, to not blurt out the trouble that the man was soon going to face.

But each and every time she tried to do such a thing, the only thought that would echo in her mind that by going to him, at least that would clear her consciousness. That that meant she would've tried to stop a multi-trillion-upon trillion-person massacre. That she at least tried to stop Thanos.

That day, Rose Waters finally made up her mind: She was going to tell Tony Stark about Thanos, even if it would kill her.

But the moment she took a step towards the building, she almost fell to her knees at a voice that attacked her mind.

"Rose Waters, what do you think you're doing?"

Rose Waters' entire body began to shaky violently as her eyes slowly moved to connect to those of Thanos, who leaned casually against a tree as if his every action wasn't ripping Rose Waters apart. As if his very presence wasn't burning her to the core. As if he wasn't killing with with every second he stared at his child.

"Yo-You found me." Rose Waters whispered and immediately sunk to the ground, her knees brought up to her face. Suddenly, she was no longer Rose Waters. Suddenly, her pride, her strength, her arrogance, were all stripped away from her leaving Rose Waters as nothing more than the mere mortal, human girl that she arrived in. Thanos had taken that all away without even striking a punch. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Father, please-"

"Rose Waters, I asked you a question, what are you doing?"

"I-I wanted to trick him!" Tears flooded Rose's eyes as she let out a hacking sob. She didn't just feel scared, she felt like a genuinely horrible person for betraying someone she held so dear to her heart. She felt like a monster. "Please, Thanos, please believe me, I know he has the Mind stone and I-"

"I." He paused and stood straight up as Rose Waters looked up at him through the thick river of tears that flooded her eyes.

"Didn't."

Rose couldn't breathe.

"Raise."

Rose Waters covered her ears and rocked back and forth, her eyes not daring to blink.

"A"

Rose Waters finally screamed.

"Liar."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry my Lord!" Rose Waters screamed and crawled to Thanos' feet, her face scrunched in pure pain at the deed she was about to commit. She was going to betray him, him. Her Lord, her savior, her everything. Thanos was everything because Rose Waters could never live a life without him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

She whispered those words hundreds of times over, her eyes shut as tightly as a safe until her voice became hoarse and unrecognizable. She whispered those words until her mind forgot who she was, what she was doing, and where she was. Until all her mind knew was of guilt, pure and utter guilt for Thanos.

Several hours later, Rose Waters snapped awake, seeming to have grown unconscious after all of the mumbling. Half of her face was smeared with dirt and tears and the other half was red and blotchy. She looked around for any sign of Thanos but quickly ran upon the realization that he was never there.

Thanos was never on Earth. Her mind crafted him. He was a figment of her imagination.

She was safe to tell Tony Stark everything.

But he was still painted so vividly in her mind. If he could control her without even meaning to, then... then he would murder her the moment that she tried to actually tell Stark... and he was still her everything.

She didn't want to disappoint him. She never did.


Happy Good Friday everyone!

Hope you guys liked this chapter, and don't worry, the 'present' timeline will continue next chapter lol!

I would love to know your guys' thoughts on Thanos and Rose Water's relationship! I tried to make it as realistic as one probably would be and I used a lot of inspiration from Gamora to craft it. *small spoiler* but when Gamora 'stabbed' Thanos in the weird reality thing he made and when she started crying... well, that was really what gave me this whole idea for Rose Waters.

Anyways, thanks as always for reading this far!

~Emily :)