The Bright Side
A/N *m/m, slash, Evietro *
It had not been his day. He tried ,he really did. .Auntie O always said "try looking on the brighter side of things"........well...there was none. Evan tried recapping his day in search of this "brighter side"
1) He overslept and missed a ride w/ Scott and Jean. So he skate boarded to school
2) It was rain, no... not just raining, THUNDERING (you would think having a weather witch as an Aunt this wouldn't happen to you)
3) Skateboard..........wheel..........BROKE
4) Then h.. "Pietro?"
Evan looked questioning at the pale gypsy holding the dark blue umbrella over his head.
"Bad day" it was more a statement .
Evan just nodded his head.
"Well... Lance, Fred and Todd have detention for 2 more hours ..so if you want to get out of the rain your welcomed to come in." Pietro tilted his head, motioning to the house just down the block.
Evan was suspicious ,for a moment before he saw the warmth in those sky blue eyes , showing him it wasn't Quicksilver or Pietro asking it was Pie the best friend he thought he has lost so long ago.
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20 minutes later Evan and Pietro sat watching TV in the BoM livingroom. Evan had changed into a pair of black basketball shorts and a white wife beater that belonged to Pietro, his school clothes hanging up to dry in the kitchen. He had all ready call the mansion say he would wait out the rain at a friends house.
He wanted to ask Pietro an important question that had burned in his mind for years ...\
"Why...?" Evan asked as Pietro got up to get a snack from the kitchen.
"You where getting wet and"
"No. I meant...why did you..."
Pietro turned and looked at Evan questioning. He was surprised when a pair soft chocolate eyes met his with a look of strong determination and... he shuttered.... pain.
" Why did you turn your back on me.... why did you ...betray me, Pie?"
Pietro froze not at the question , he had expected Evan to ask it sooner or later over the years. No
it was the use of his old nickname Evan had given him, it had always carried affection and.......it still did. Pietro sat back down on couch ,eyes still locked with Evan. It was time.
" I was scared..... for you .I knew dear old DAD was coming to get me soon ,since I got my powers. "Pietro's voice became detached "back in Romania he.. Before he sent me here
he told me I was going to be a mutant.... and that humans...were scum...to enforce that he killed them all of the . In the village were we lived ...the called it a freak fire..but he did it ...use his power to keep them locked in their houses while they slept ......and burned"
By now, tears were streaming from his eyes their voices screaming in his ears images of children he played with since he was a baby clawing at the doors as they burned to death flash through.
"I didn't want to have to watch you die . I care for you too much to lose you like that..............but I guess I've already lost y.."
Pietro never finished his sentence. Evan pulled Pietro to him ,clinging to him like a lifesaver.
"You'll never lose me Pie."
At those words Pietro broke down. He let out all the pain he had buried in himself. He wasn't scared anymore, he could let it ,he had his 'Van.
