Magda's Story: Part 3
The following months were no better than that lunch. Every time that I saw the real Erik, I would do something, or something would happen that would drive him away. I should have left, but I couldn't. I knew that he needed help, and I was the only one who knew about it.
So it was up to me.
But how do you go about saving someone from himself? I had no idea, but that never stopped me before.
Heck, even here in this prison he keeps me in, god help me, I still want to fix him. But I know now, that I can't do it alone, the last time I tried, I was thrown in here. I need help, and to get that, I need to get out of here.
It has been so long since I have been outside; I think I am starting to forget what it was like. Just to be outside, with nothing but the trees, grass and sky around me. I would love to be out there again.
Who am I kidding? I would love to be anywhere but here, even if I was confined to the castle, at least I'd be able to pretty much come and go as I pleased, just like I used to.
***Flashback***
"I am so bored." Magda complained to the empty corridor, stretching her arms above her head and moving towards the foyer. She was about to head to the kitchen to get something to eat for the baby with the seemingly bottomless pit of a stomach, which was growing inside of her, when she heard the main doors creak open.
'Probably the wind' she thought, which is why she got such a shock when she saw a blue skinned woman carrying a bundle of rags enter the room.
"Um, can I help you?" Magda asked. The blue woman looked up from the blob in her arms. She looked exhausted, and on closer inspection Magda could see dirt and leaves in her bright red hair.
"I'm looking for Erik Lensherr. He does live here, doesn't he?" she said, sounding as tired as she looked.
"Yes, can I ask why you need to see him?"
"Something happened where I used to live and we need a place to stay for a bit. I used to work with Erik." Magda nodded before something odd struck her.
"We?" As if on cue, the rag bundle decided to babble incoherently. Magda walked over to look at the baby. She was a little startled to see it was blue, but regarding the mother again, it really made sense. "Well, it should be fine that you stay, Miss..."
"Darkholme, Raven Darkholme."
"Raven. Erik is through the corridor behind me, third door on the right." Raven nodded and hurried off.
"Aww cute baby," Magda muttered to herself. In another weird coincidence, just as she said that, her stomach rumbled. "Alright, alright, I'm going. You know you could hurry up and come out and then people would be fawning over you and you wouldn't have to rely on me all the time for food." She paused as if expecting an answer. None came, so she sighed and headed off to the kitchen.
After eating an embarrassing mount of food, Magda began to feel guilty and decided to go for a walk. She didn't bother to tell Erik where she was going, or to leave a note; she doubted that he would be looking for her. He just didn't seem to care anymore.
Magda actually doubted that he knew she even still lived in the same castle as him anymore; he ate and slept in his lab, so she hardly ever saw him.
After walking for around ten minutes, her legs and back decided that they'd had enough, so she lay back on the grass and stared up at the sky.
"Hey, look baby, there's a cloud shaped like a duck. Oh and there's another that looks like a sheep. And there's another sheep. And another. And another. And ..."
ZZZZZZZZZ
An unknown amount of time later, her peaceful sleep was interrupted.
"Excuse me miss, are you okay?" A mystery female asked, sounding rather worried. Magda rubbed her eyes and yawned.
"Yes I'm fine, I must have fallen asleep, it is such a nice day out here." The mystery voice, which also had a cloaked body and tall frame to go with it, straightened up and moved away a bit.
"Oh, I'm very sorry, I thought that...well, you are in the middle of the forest, alone, in a night gown and I thought you were...unconscious" The cloaked figure backed away slowly, eyes to the ground. Magda smiled brightly.
"It's nice to know that there are people out there that are still looking out for me. Thank-you, I appreciate it."
The figure jerked in shock and stopped backing away. "You're welcome." Magda struggled to rise from the ground; the figure moved forward and helped her up.
"Gee thanks, you'd think I'd be used to this by now but I guess not. I could swear I wasn't this big with the last one. It's a real bother too, this nightgown is the only thing I have that even comes close to fitting anymore." Magda said pointing to her protruding stomach. The other lady regarded Magda for a moment, hesitant, before speaking.
"I know it's none of my business but don't you think you should be taking it easy this close to its birth?" Magda cocked her head to one side and grinned.
"It's ok I appreciate your concern but I don't think I can stay in bed for the next three months. I can hardly stay inside the castle during the day, let alone a bed."
"You're only 6 months along?" At Magda's nod, the other lady thought for a moment, the let out an understanding 'oh'. "You're having twins then?"
Magda froze. "Ahhh..."
"You're having two babies. It would make since if you're only 6 months along and that big."
"Ahhh..."
The other lady smiled, unseen under her cloak. "I take it that you hadn't considered the possibility?"
The question seemed to snap Magda out of her haze. "Two? You really think so?"
The hood nodded.
"Maybe I just put on weight and most of this is fat."
The other lady looked at Magda's stick figure arms and shook her head. Magda's face started to lose color and the cloaked figure reached out, ready to catch her.
"I'm fine," She said, sounding totally unconvincing coupled with the off-in- the-distance stare and the gaping mouth. The figure giggled, amused.
"Still, I think I'd better take you home, even the possibility is quite a shock I'm sure. Where do you live?" Magda vaguely pointed towards the looming castle on the hill. The figure froze for a second, before regaining her composure and steering the stunned pregnant woman up the hill. After a few minutes of walking in silence Magda was still stewing over the possibility of two babies.
"Exactly how certain are you I'm going to have twins?" She asked
The cloak lady was momentarily startled, as she had gotten used to the silence, then answered. "Extremely certain, it's what I do."
"You walk around the woods estimating how many children people are going to have?" A laugh came out from underneath the hood.
"No, I deliver babies. I mostly do animals these days, but I've done a fair share of humans too. Trust me, you'd better start making adjustments for two children."
So that's what she did. The next two weeks after her meeting with the mystery lady, she re-planned the baby's room to accommodate two cribs and two sets of toys, with not a drop of pink or blue in sight.
'I should have asked that lady whether she thought the babies were going to be boys or girls. Actually now I really wish I had asked her her name' Magda thought. She had hoped that the Raven lady would stay a bit longer, so she would have someone to talk to, but about three days after she arrived, she disappeared. Erik said she left, but she hadn't mentioned anything about leaving when Magda had talked to her the day before.
Strange.
***End Flashback***
I later found out that Raven was an international terrorist. However I couldn't find any mention of her having a baby anywhere.
Speaking of having a baby...
The mysterious figure was right. I had two. I'm lucky in that I don't remember most of it, I was out walking, then there was pain, and then darkness. The next thing I remember I was in the mystery lady's hut, whose name was Bova, and there were two little red wrinkly things in bundles next to the bed.
Along with Erik.
She said that she had sent someone to tell him where I was after it was all over.
It was this day that keeps me going. Because of it, I know that the man he used to be is still in there. In the following years I caught him doing this and, although the occasions were rare, as I didn't want to risk being seen, they gave me hope.
He was watching them sleep, and smiling.
Yes, smiling, not smirking or evilly grinning, but smiling.
That has to mean something right? Well it does to me, so I won't give up. So long as the man I love is still trapped by the entity I've come to know as Magneto, the cold and distant man bent on the domination of mutant-kind.
The same man who, through secret nightly experiments, gave me my unique 'gift' to manipulate my own molecules and through physical contact, the molecules of others.
The man who took my children away from me, and told them god knows what.
The man who made sure my 'powers' couldn't break through this cell, so close to the ones I love, and yet so far at times.
Magneto is my captor and my enemy, not Erik; he's as much a victim in this as I am.
I just hope someone else will notice it and help bring back the man I love.
AN:
Well that should be the last chapter covering Magda's memories, I was going to go further, but I'm going to try and get back to Pietro and Wanda now. Sorry for all you out there who got bored of Pie and Wanda's mummy (Heck I did and I'm writing it! (See my story 'Hell on earth' for what I did to avoid writing more Magda chapters)), I didn't mean for her to take over the story, I just needed some things to be explained and couldn't think of a better way to do it.
The good news is, I have a copy of 'Speed and Spyke' now so I should be able to catch Pie up to Wanda's section of the story, but sadly no 'Day of Reckoning' copy yet (Yes even though I started this between seeing 'Hex factor' and 'Day of reckoning', my stupid continuity muse in my brain made me fit it in).
Thanks go out to all my reviews and loyal readers, and I'm so sorry for making you all wait, but this story now has an ending written all up, all I gotta do is get there!!
And special thanks go out to Nari for proof reading this for me, without her, my website would be rather bare and this story would be confusing. Go read her stories they're really good! (Pen name: Nari1)
Okay enough from me, 'Till next time!
The following months were no better than that lunch. Every time that I saw the real Erik, I would do something, or something would happen that would drive him away. I should have left, but I couldn't. I knew that he needed help, and I was the only one who knew about it.
So it was up to me.
But how do you go about saving someone from himself? I had no idea, but that never stopped me before.
Heck, even here in this prison he keeps me in, god help me, I still want to fix him. But I know now, that I can't do it alone, the last time I tried, I was thrown in here. I need help, and to get that, I need to get out of here.
It has been so long since I have been outside; I think I am starting to forget what it was like. Just to be outside, with nothing but the trees, grass and sky around me. I would love to be out there again.
Who am I kidding? I would love to be anywhere but here, even if I was confined to the castle, at least I'd be able to pretty much come and go as I pleased, just like I used to.
***Flashback***
"I am so bored." Magda complained to the empty corridor, stretching her arms above her head and moving towards the foyer. She was about to head to the kitchen to get something to eat for the baby with the seemingly bottomless pit of a stomach, which was growing inside of her, when she heard the main doors creak open.
'Probably the wind' she thought, which is why she got such a shock when she saw a blue skinned woman carrying a bundle of rags enter the room.
"Um, can I help you?" Magda asked. The blue woman looked up from the blob in her arms. She looked exhausted, and on closer inspection Magda could see dirt and leaves in her bright red hair.
"I'm looking for Erik Lensherr. He does live here, doesn't he?" she said, sounding as tired as she looked.
"Yes, can I ask why you need to see him?"
"Something happened where I used to live and we need a place to stay for a bit. I used to work with Erik." Magda nodded before something odd struck her.
"We?" As if on cue, the rag bundle decided to babble incoherently. Magda walked over to look at the baby. She was a little startled to see it was blue, but regarding the mother again, it really made sense. "Well, it should be fine that you stay, Miss..."
"Darkholme, Raven Darkholme."
"Raven. Erik is through the corridor behind me, third door on the right." Raven nodded and hurried off.
"Aww cute baby," Magda muttered to herself. In another weird coincidence, just as she said that, her stomach rumbled. "Alright, alright, I'm going. You know you could hurry up and come out and then people would be fawning over you and you wouldn't have to rely on me all the time for food." She paused as if expecting an answer. None came, so she sighed and headed off to the kitchen.
After eating an embarrassing mount of food, Magda began to feel guilty and decided to go for a walk. She didn't bother to tell Erik where she was going, or to leave a note; she doubted that he would be looking for her. He just didn't seem to care anymore.
Magda actually doubted that he knew she even still lived in the same castle as him anymore; he ate and slept in his lab, so she hardly ever saw him.
After walking for around ten minutes, her legs and back decided that they'd had enough, so she lay back on the grass and stared up at the sky.
"Hey, look baby, there's a cloud shaped like a duck. Oh and there's another that looks like a sheep. And there's another sheep. And another. And another. And ..."
ZZZZZZZZZ
An unknown amount of time later, her peaceful sleep was interrupted.
"Excuse me miss, are you okay?" A mystery female asked, sounding rather worried. Magda rubbed her eyes and yawned.
"Yes I'm fine, I must have fallen asleep, it is such a nice day out here." The mystery voice, which also had a cloaked body and tall frame to go with it, straightened up and moved away a bit.
"Oh, I'm very sorry, I thought that...well, you are in the middle of the forest, alone, in a night gown and I thought you were...unconscious" The cloaked figure backed away slowly, eyes to the ground. Magda smiled brightly.
"It's nice to know that there are people out there that are still looking out for me. Thank-you, I appreciate it."
The figure jerked in shock and stopped backing away. "You're welcome." Magda struggled to rise from the ground; the figure moved forward and helped her up.
"Gee thanks, you'd think I'd be used to this by now but I guess not. I could swear I wasn't this big with the last one. It's a real bother too, this nightgown is the only thing I have that even comes close to fitting anymore." Magda said pointing to her protruding stomach. The other lady regarded Magda for a moment, hesitant, before speaking.
"I know it's none of my business but don't you think you should be taking it easy this close to its birth?" Magda cocked her head to one side and grinned.
"It's ok I appreciate your concern but I don't think I can stay in bed for the next three months. I can hardly stay inside the castle during the day, let alone a bed."
"You're only 6 months along?" At Magda's nod, the other lady thought for a moment, the let out an understanding 'oh'. "You're having twins then?"
Magda froze. "Ahhh..."
"You're having two babies. It would make since if you're only 6 months along and that big."
"Ahhh..."
The other lady smiled, unseen under her cloak. "I take it that you hadn't considered the possibility?"
The question seemed to snap Magda out of her haze. "Two? You really think so?"
The hood nodded.
"Maybe I just put on weight and most of this is fat."
The other lady looked at Magda's stick figure arms and shook her head. Magda's face started to lose color and the cloaked figure reached out, ready to catch her.
"I'm fine," She said, sounding totally unconvincing coupled with the off-in- the-distance stare and the gaping mouth. The figure giggled, amused.
"Still, I think I'd better take you home, even the possibility is quite a shock I'm sure. Where do you live?" Magda vaguely pointed towards the looming castle on the hill. The figure froze for a second, before regaining her composure and steering the stunned pregnant woman up the hill. After a few minutes of walking in silence Magda was still stewing over the possibility of two babies.
"Exactly how certain are you I'm going to have twins?" She asked
The cloak lady was momentarily startled, as she had gotten used to the silence, then answered. "Extremely certain, it's what I do."
"You walk around the woods estimating how many children people are going to have?" A laugh came out from underneath the hood.
"No, I deliver babies. I mostly do animals these days, but I've done a fair share of humans too. Trust me, you'd better start making adjustments for two children."
So that's what she did. The next two weeks after her meeting with the mystery lady, she re-planned the baby's room to accommodate two cribs and two sets of toys, with not a drop of pink or blue in sight.
'I should have asked that lady whether she thought the babies were going to be boys or girls. Actually now I really wish I had asked her her name' Magda thought. She had hoped that the Raven lady would stay a bit longer, so she would have someone to talk to, but about three days after she arrived, she disappeared. Erik said she left, but she hadn't mentioned anything about leaving when Magda had talked to her the day before.
Strange.
***End Flashback***
I later found out that Raven was an international terrorist. However I couldn't find any mention of her having a baby anywhere.
Speaking of having a baby...
The mysterious figure was right. I had two. I'm lucky in that I don't remember most of it, I was out walking, then there was pain, and then darkness. The next thing I remember I was in the mystery lady's hut, whose name was Bova, and there were two little red wrinkly things in bundles next to the bed.
Along with Erik.
She said that she had sent someone to tell him where I was after it was all over.
It was this day that keeps me going. Because of it, I know that the man he used to be is still in there. In the following years I caught him doing this and, although the occasions were rare, as I didn't want to risk being seen, they gave me hope.
He was watching them sleep, and smiling.
Yes, smiling, not smirking or evilly grinning, but smiling.
That has to mean something right? Well it does to me, so I won't give up. So long as the man I love is still trapped by the entity I've come to know as Magneto, the cold and distant man bent on the domination of mutant-kind.
The same man who, through secret nightly experiments, gave me my unique 'gift' to manipulate my own molecules and through physical contact, the molecules of others.
The man who took my children away from me, and told them god knows what.
The man who made sure my 'powers' couldn't break through this cell, so close to the ones I love, and yet so far at times.
Magneto is my captor and my enemy, not Erik; he's as much a victim in this as I am.
I just hope someone else will notice it and help bring back the man I love.
AN:
Well that should be the last chapter covering Magda's memories, I was going to go further, but I'm going to try and get back to Pietro and Wanda now. Sorry for all you out there who got bored of Pie and Wanda's mummy (Heck I did and I'm writing it! (See my story 'Hell on earth' for what I did to avoid writing more Magda chapters)), I didn't mean for her to take over the story, I just needed some things to be explained and couldn't think of a better way to do it.
The good news is, I have a copy of 'Speed and Spyke' now so I should be able to catch Pie up to Wanda's section of the story, but sadly no 'Day of Reckoning' copy yet (Yes even though I started this between seeing 'Hex factor' and 'Day of reckoning', my stupid continuity muse in my brain made me fit it in).
Thanks go out to all my reviews and loyal readers, and I'm so sorry for making you all wait, but this story now has an ending written all up, all I gotta do is get there!!
And special thanks go out to Nari for proof reading this for me, without her, my website would be rather bare and this story would be confusing. Go read her stories they're really good! (Pen name: Nari1)
Okay enough from me, 'Till next time!