I slowly awoke. I opened my eyes to see that I was in a sort of hospital room. I also noticed that I was still in wolf form. What happened? Why was I here? I tried to move, but it caused pain to flare up in left front paw and the rest of my body ached. I looked at my paw and saw bandages. Then I remembered Hydra and the fight last night. Was that last night? I smelled the bandages, no I had probably been out for a bit longer.
JARVIS sounded through the room: "Ah Accalia, it is good to see that you are awake. Shall I inform the avengers that you have awakened?" I answered: "JARVIS, I take it you fought off the virus? And yes you can let them know that I am awake." I moved a little to lie in a more comfortable position, although my body protested, when I thought about the man from Hydra. He said that he knew that the avengers were gone. How could he know that? And why did he come if he knew that they were gone? The most logical explanation that came to me was that it was pretty easy to see the avengers leave, because they flew in a jet and there are enough things worth stealing here, so that must be why they came. Still it didn't make sense that he knew so much about me. I was pulled out of my thoughts when the door opened.
All the avengers piled in, faces quickly changing from worry to relieve when they saw me awake. I inwardly shrugged, I would think about that later and turned my attention to the avengers. Natasha was the first to speak: "It's good to see you awake Accalia, you gave us quite the scare." I noticed that I was still wolf and quickly changed to human, then asked: "How long was I out and what happened?" "You were out for two days Accalia" Clint spoke up "as to what happened, we were hoping you could tell us." Tony continued: "We heard from JARVIS that people were breaking into the tower. When we came back we saw you falling unconscious to the ground with two gunshots in you left arm… well paw. I wanted to check the surveillance cams, but JARVIS was offline due to some virus so there was no footage."
I decided to sit up to answer and then kind of regretted it when it hurt my whole body. While Steve helped me sit up Bruce popped up at my side and looked very worried. "I know you were shot twice, but even that shouldn't hurt this much." "Well I was tasered too, so that might be it." I answered. YOU WERE WHAT?! They shouted. I then told them what happened from the moment they had been gone. I felt myself getting tired, so I slowly laid down again. "How did your mission go actually?" I asked, suddenly remembering that they had gone to a Hydra base.
"Well we went there, but the base itself was nearly empty. There were a few Hydra agents, but nothing other than that, no plans, no computers with information, just a few agents guarding an empty base." Thor said "It was a good thing though, when JARVIS contacted us we were already done with the base, so we could immediately come here. If we would have been any later things would be lot different." I nodded in agreement and then my eyes started to droop and before anyone could say anything else I fell asleep once again.
I woke up again, this time to the sound of talking. I opened my eyes to see Bruce talking to Natasha. I stretched and winced, I had already forgotten my wounds. Natasha noticed that I was awake and smiled at me: "How are you feeling Accalia?" "Better than before thank you" I answered. Bruce looked at Natasha for a second, hesitated and then said: "Accalia, the whole team would like to talk to you about something, is it alright if I call them in? He asked. "Yeah go right ahead" I said while wondering what this could be about. One by one the avengers piled in. After everyone had entered Bruce spoke up: "Accalia, when you were asleep after having woken up, I checked over your injuries again. When you were a wolf I could only take care of the gunshots, because no other injuries were visible and I am no vet. So when you fell asleep as human I checked you over for other injuries and there were no new ones, …however there were a lot of old ones. Your body is littered with scars." He told me. "What happened Accalia?" Tony asked me in a sad voice, "who did this to you?"
I hesitated for a few seconds thinking whether I should tell them or not. I looked at them. They all seemed really sad and worried about the scars. And then I realized that they had become my real and only family and I had made my decision. I was gonna tell them the truth and as much of the truth as they wanted to know! No more secrets, these were people that I could trust with my life and that cared for me. They had already proved that. I then spoke up: "Well the story of my scars is a long one and not a happy one, so maybe we should continue this in the living room, so you can all sit down and relax a bit more." They nodded in agreement and started walking towards the elevator. I was about to get off the table and follow them when I felt two hands pick me up. I looked up to see Steve smiling at me.
I raised my eyebrows at him, "I was shot in my arm you know, not my legs." He however, didn't let me down but started walking. "I know that, but you were tasered and your body is still tired so I'm carrying you." I grumbled a "fine". We took the elevator up and then he put me down next to Clint on one of the couches in the living room. He himself sat down besides Tony and Bruce on another couch, while Thor and Natasha each took a chair. They all looked expectantly at me.
I took a deep breath, nestled myself a bit more in Clint's side and started talking: "I guess the easiest way to explain my scars is to tell you my life story" I said. They nodded but remained silent otherwise, clearly not wanting to interrupt me, so I continued. "As I told you already I was born in the Netherlands. My parents were professional scientists who worked for the government. My birth was an accident, they hadn't planned for me, but they accepted me. However, because my parents were such amazing scientists they wanted to take it a step further, to really do something that they would be remembered for. So as the years passed they started to experiment more, and the more they experimented the less legal the experiments became. When I was five, my parents were fired, because the experiments had gone way too far. My parents were outraged. They became alcoholics and set their own lab up to keep experimenting. However, everything that they made had to be tested on humans, animals can't give you an accurate enough result.
They would give me an injection every two months and would write the effects down. Sometimes I got really ill, sometimes nothing happened, but the drugs never worked the way they wanted. This continued for half a year until the police had come too close. My parents then decided to move to America, because they would have a lot more freedom there and could do whatever they wanted. A day after we had arrived in America, my parents deleted every bit of information about me, so that I practically didn't exist anymore and they could do whatever they wanted with me. They deleted everything by hacking in the government where they had worked and from then on I didn't exist anymore in the eyes of the government. After that they set up a new lab in America and started experimenting on me more.
However, as the years passed and no results were booked, they became angrier. The first year that I was in America I would hide in my room whenever they were drunk. They would shout at each other and then pass out. However, my parents really loved each other so they didn't want to shout at each other anymore. That was when they seemed to realize that they could also take their anger out on me. Whenever they felt like it, they didn't even have to be drunk, they would find me and either hit me and shout insults or stab me with a knife or hurt me with whatever they could find at that moment. And that is how I ended up with all these scars." I finished and I looked at them. Their faces were all so full of anger, I had never seen them so angry before, even Steve looked like he could kill and Bruce was looking a little green.
Thor was the first to speak up: "How could parents be so heartless?"
"I'm gonna kill em" Tony spat, and the others all agreed. Nat looked at me, "where do they live?" I shook my head. "Accalia" Clint said, "those people aren't your parents they are monsters and they should be punished for what they did, so please tell us where we can find them." "They were already punished, and it's all my fault." I said in a small voice while a tear slipped down my face. Bruce kneeled in front of me. "What happened Accalia?" He wiped the tear away and Clint put his arm around me. "We're here for you kid, you did nothing wrong, please tell us what happened Accalia." Clint said.
"It happened a while after I had turned fifteen. I was down in the lab, because my parents wanted to inject me again, I usually let it happen, it was easier that way, less beating, but that night I was still ill from the injection they gave me two days before that day, so I rebelled against them. In the commotion I fell against a shelf and a lot of fluids came crashing down, an explosion happened and everything went black. I woke up a few hours later and was able to make my way out of the rubble with some difficulty and since then I am able to turn into a wolf. But my parents never made it out of the rubble. I killed them." I finished with barely a whisper. "Oh Accalia" Nat said. Bruce was still in front of me, "look at me" he said. He waited until I looked up at him. "None of that was your fault. Your parents should never have injected you or even hurt you for that matter. Your parent's death wasn't your fault, you were trying to protect yourself and it was an accident." Thor piped in "If they treated you like that Accalia then they weren't really your parents." Tony got up and kneeled next to Bruce "Yeah from now on we're gonna be your family and show you what a family should be like." "You mean that?" I asked. "Of course I do" Tony said, "we all do", everyone nodded in agreement. I hugged Tony, "thank you so much" "Of course kid" he said and hugged me back. I then curled up at Clint's side and fell asleep.
When I woke up I felt that I was being carried. I moved a little to see Clint's face and looked at him questioningly. He chuckled softly and said: "You fell asleep so I thought it best to put you to bed." I nodded in agreement and let myself be carried. There Clint put me in bed and left after fondly ruffling my hair and wishing me a goodnight. I wished him the same and asked JARVIS, "could you play Look through my eyes from Phil Collins for me JARVIS?" "Of course Accalia" came the answer from the ceiling. "Thank you, good night JARVIS" I said, followed by a big yawn. "Good night Accalia" JARVIS said. And to the sound of the music I fell into a deep sleep, overjoyed to finally have a real family.
There are things in life you learn
And oh in time you'll see
It's out there somewhere
It's all waiting
If you keep believing
So don't run
Don't hide
It will be alright
You'll see
Trust me
I'll be there watching over you
Just take a look through my eyes
There's a better place somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
(There's a better place)
If you look through my eyes
There will be times on this journey
All you'll see is darkness
But out there somewhere
Daylight finds you
If you keep believing
So don't run
Don't hide
It will be alright
You'll see
Trust me
I'll be there watching over you
Just take a look through my eyes
there's better place somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
(There's a better place)
If you look through my eyes
All the things that you can change
There's a meaning in everything
And you will find all you need
There's so much to understand
Take a look (take a look) through my eyes
there's a better place somewhere out there
Just take a look (take a look) through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
(You'll be amazed if you just take a look)
Look through my eyes there's a better place somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
If you look through my eyes
Just take a look through my eyes
If you look through my eyes
Take a look through my eyes
I am so sorry my readers, it has been forever since I updated and I know it. I was really busy lately, but now I have a lot of free time, so I should be able to update faster now, but I really can't promise anything. Every day is different. Anyway here the long awaited next chapter. As usual enjoy!
