Chapter One
Death Becomes Her
I was dead, it was the only thing that I was sure about. Did I have any regrets, sure, but who didn't. Should've been nicer, should've been braver, should've been happier, I spent too much time being sad, and angry. Simply existing rather than actually living and doing what I wished. I was petty and spiteful at times, but loyal to a fault. I lived a normal life, I had a loving yet slightly trauma filled family. I never questioned what would happen after I died, though I hoped it wasn't eternal damnation. I must have gotten lucky, because I woke in a new life, one that I had always hoped to be a part of, with the memories of not only my previous life, but those of the woman I had been reborn as.
Late 1969
When I woke, I knew that something was different, I was different. I shut my eyes tightly, going over what I knew, what I remembered, my mind was jumbled and messy, to many things trying to push their way through. I was a little girl born in nineteen-twenty one,to Howard Stark Sr, I had an older brother also named Howard. We grew up in New York, my father a very rich man, living off of his inheritance. My brother was a genius in his own right, and began his own company to build weapons and engineer products for the world. While he did this I went to school to become a nurse, much to my father's disappointment, he had hopes and aspirations for me to marry a rich man with no personality,and become a rich socialite. Then there was the war, and secret meetings for my brother, I saw the birth of Captain America, even gave him his penicillin shot, and then I was shipped off along with the rest of the SSR to the front lines. I met James Barnes, a cocky, and giant flirt of a sergeant, with the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen. We fell in love, and then he fell. I left, I found him, I also found the next twenty years of blood, sweat, and pain. They experimented on me, a Klaus Schmidt, found my DNA fascinating, so they injected me with random blood samples. I was later informed by Schmidt that it was blood from other enhanced beings. When I came into contact with them I was given the same abilities, my own blood took everything that could destroy me and made me stronger, I was the only survivor of these experiments, so they took my memories. While they had taken my memories, I still found my way back to James, I also found a young woman, Natalia, she was an amazing student, learning all she could to be an assassin, but she didn't belong in the dark, she was light. She found a way out, I was proud, even if it did cost me James again. Here I was, laying on a cold bed after finding James frozen, our relationship having been brought out and acknowledged, so they punished us, he was wiped and put away and I was disciplined.
No nineteen-ninety four was when I was born, I had a blended family, with my mother and step-father. I had three sisters and one brother. I grew up in California, in the Valley. I never graduated high school, I dropped out, but I worked my way up into a manager's position at a bakery. I spent my days watching Marvel, DC, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and reading as many books as I could. I found I had a knack for picking up languages, so I learned as many as I could. I moved out of California when I was twenty-six, I never married or had kids, but I spoiled my nieces and nephews. And then my life ended and I died.
So who was I, was it the thirty something modern woman, or was I the currently forty-eight woman who barely looked older than twenty-six. Maybe I was both, I was given all the information on this new world I found myself in, and the tools to help me remember and change what I could. I knew what I had to do, I opened my eyes.