Chapter 2
Agatha, Tommy and Billy were in a beautiful place, it was like they were in outer space itself, they could see all the planets, but the one that stood out the most was that one, Pluto, Pietro's favorite, they heard a soft voice humming a song, Tommy recognized a few lyrics, his mother Wanda always sang them to him when he had nightmares.
The soft glow of a solitary star illuminated them, that was Wanda's mental space, which singularly seemed divided, as if it were not the mental space of a single person. Apart from the soft humming, children's laughter could be heard, happy and carefree, ignorant of the tragedies that would happen, next to the trio passed the silhouettes of two children, they understood that those were the twins, when they were still children, the three quickly noticed that the side that seemed more abandoned but that showed signs of having been bright before, now duller, but not forgotten, that was Pietro's side, Wanda and Pietro having been twins shared a space in each other's mentality.
"Oh sweet sun" Tommy whispered, his voice so low, that was his only memory of the hex his mother softly singing the song, which would normally be in Russian, but she sometimes sang it to him in English, her voice always soft.
"Uh?"
"That was the name of the song, originally from our family, passed down from generation to generation, mama sang it to us in the hex."
"You remember when we were in the hex..?"
"No, mama singing 'Oh sweet sun' for us is the only thing I remember about the hex"
As the three of them walked closer to the center, they felt a tug, instinctively they closed their eyes, when they opened them they noticed they were now in the middle of a memory.
Two children ran through the streets of the neglected neighborhood of Sokovia, laughing, kicking rocks with dazzling smiles, the boy was tall, fast, with blue eyes and black hair with white streaks, he ran much faster than the girl, who was smaller in stature than him, with green eyes and dark brown hair.
"Пьетро" (Pietro)
"Да, сестренка?" (yes little Sister?)
" Я голоден, пойдем домой? Мама, наверное, приготовила Папришку." (I'm hungry, let's go home? Mom must have prepared Paprishk)
Wanda and Pietro ran to the ramshackle apartment where they lived.
Wanda and Pietro were lying in a bed, the sound of bullets hitting something or someone could be heard, the twins were no strangers to the war their country was going through, every time the sounds were too loud their mother would sing them a song, it wasn't 'о, сладкое солнце' (oh sweet sun), no, it was Bayu Bayushki, that lullaby scared Wanda, but Pietro loved it, so she didn't say anything, but when her parents had to start working even harder to be able to pay for the place where they lived, they made up for their lack of presence to sing Bayu Bayushki with a music box that played the song.
Wanda and Pietro were under the rubble, they could see the bodies of their parents, which had not been blown up by the bomb, it was only a matter of time before the bomb with that engraved mark 'Stark Industries' explode, only the sound of the music box made her even more desperate, Wanda swore that she was going to destroy it when she got out from under the rubble (or well, if the bomb didn't explode), she swore she would hear a woman's voice and the soft lullaby of the nearness of death (oh, if only she had known at that moment that that twelfth lullaby was from literal death, Rio). Two days later they were pulled out of the rubble by rescuers, they were sent to an orphanage due to the death of their parents.
They didn't even know how long they had been on the streets, (we're just kids, why is the world like this? It's all his fault) One day, a man approached them, calling himself 'Doctor List', and he offered them a way to protect their country (damn lies, they only became laboratory rats, weapons for a purpose greater than themselves), they we're experimented by HYDRA.
Wanda sobbed, she could be in the dark, it was fun for the guards to break her little by little, to mistreat her psychologically, physically and...carnally, she hated them, many times she thought about killing them, torturing them so slowly. She heard the soft knocks on the wall next to her, it was Pietro (if only she had known how they would end, oh, all the Maximoffs ended in tragedy, she hoped her children would not end up like that)
He's dead, Pietro is dead, his twin is dead, they both knew it would happen at some point, but they believed they would have more time, that fate would take pity on them at least for once (oh, how wrong they were), it was so fast, Wanda only felt the ghostly sensation of bullets passing through her, and the last thought of her brother «Мне бы хотелось, чтобы у нас было больше времени, прости, сестренка, теперь ты навсегда останешься самой старшей, ты помнишь песню, не так ли? Милое солнышко, я надеюсь быть с тобой каждый раз, когда звезды купают твою лицо, и солнце окрашивает твою кожу своим теплом». ("I wish we had more time, I'm sorry little sister, now you'll be the oldest forever, you remember the song right? The sweet sun, I hope to be with you every time the stars bathe your face and the sun paints your skin with its warmth") and suddenly she felt an emptiness inside her, the sensation of a burning permanently burned his soul, she had lost him, she felt his magic ringing throughout his body and then her vision turned a scarlet color.
Pietro is gone, it's all they fault.