Escapism
Chapter 4
escapism
The next morning when emilie woke up she heard a commotion in the lounge. There was a note on her door as she went by it
‘Don't come down to the communal floor until 10 please’
Emilie asked FRIDAY what time it was
“It is currently 8:05 would you like me to inform them of your awakening?”
She shook her head and looked around the room.
She saw a huge bed, a desk with a bunch of papers on it, a white dresser, a door to the bathroom, a gray shag rug and a bunch of star wars posters. She looked around more and went to the desk.
On the desk there were pictures of tony and peter, the avengers and a women with peter.
She shrugged it of and kept looking.
She looked down at the papers to see a bunch of equations and numbers.
There were ALOT of equations.
She found a booklet that was empty and she started to write down calculations of her own. She felt pretty confident that she had done them correctly and she kept going.
Then the door swings open and in comes peter who is confused.
Emilie looks up at peter and he walks over to the desk. He looks down at the papers and sighs.
“Emilie, if you are going to stay in my room, could you at least NOT touch my stuff.”
Oh that made sense. She was in peter's room. Then she looked down at the paper and blushed red.
“S-sorry i didn't know.” peter sighed and showed her to her room. It was across the hall near wanda and pietros room.
“There now um… don't go back into my room. Okay?”
emilie slowly nodded and turned to her room. It was the exact same size as peter's room, but it felt very spacious.
There was a white shag carpet, a bed with white covers and pillows with black and white designs all over them, a white closet and a desk.
Above the desk there were pictures of her and loki on asgard. Her and wanda eating a pie in the air and her old family.
God she loved all of the photos. Above the photos were strings of fairy lights. She was looking around the room when she saw it.
The vent.
She used her magic to open the vent and she flew up into the vent. She closed it behind her and began to crawl through the vents. She couldn't see so she crawled towards where the loud arguing was coming from.
She made herself start floating off the bottom of the vent so they couldn't hear her.
When she finally looked down and saw it she saw Tony, Steve, Natasha, Clint, Bruce and bucky on a couch while a bald man will an eye patch was talking and pointing at the screen. She knew what they were talking about now
They were talking about her.
The bald man started
“She is a danger to the public, just because she can control the shards doesn't mean she doesnt want to hurt you.”
Then she heard bucky start.
“But she seemed scared more than anything. She wouldn't really hurt us i dont think.”
Well it may be a facade. You can never be too sure. Keeping her in this house is a danger.”
Emilie looked down in disbelief. She wouldn't hurt any of them. She would only if she was under control or for self defense. But apparently that's is not enough for the bald man to understand.
Then peter walked in and she winced when she saw him looking annoyed.
“Ugh, Emilie just tried to solve my entire review book. She got every single question wrong and she wrote them in pen! I'm gonna have to get a new one from the teacher and do it all night!”
tony put his had on peters shoulder
“Well what are you saying we do fury. Lock her up where she can't hurt us?” that was tony
“No, she would stay in SHIELDs testing facility, where she wouldn't hurt anyone.”
Emilie saw natasha and bruce wince. She didn't know why.
“But she is our sister. She would never-” wanda spoke
“Hurt you? Well what about the fight? Or your..”
“Fury! Don't bring it up. We get the idea. She is a danger in this house i know. But aren't the rest of us?” this time it was clint.
“Well you all are stable. She is not. For all we know she could be depressed or have anger issues. She could take it out on any of you at any moment.”
Everybody stood there with stares that could make the most serious man afraid
Then this fury guy sighed.
“Let her come in for testing for a week at least. But i don't get it. She hurt you all. she isn't worth it anyways.”
Everyone nodded to Emilie’s surprise,
she felt like she going to cry. But then instead she crawled back to her room.
As soon as she got there she curled up in a corner of the room.
Finally she let the floodgates open to all of her emotions.
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For what felt like eons of unshed tears fell.
She was never aloud to show and emotions at HYDRA and on asgard. she only cried when she was alone. So after 8 years of no crying, it felt very weird.
But she didn't care
Nobody really did.
She thought of everytime she had killed someone, and i came back to her parents. When they had died.
No when she had killed them.
She kept crying for what seemed like hours.
She didn't care anymore. She had to get out. She was a dangerous thing.
A monster.
Then she got an idea.
She grabbed a jacket and a scarf and opened the window. She looked down
She was at least 50 floors off the ground. Perfect
She went to the desk and wrote 3 notes
The first note was to wanda and pietro.
To wanda and pietro,
Thank you for never giving up on me.
I know when i got scared you guys would comfort me. And even though i ruined your birthday you guys still mourned for me.
I'm sorry i caused so much sadness for you. Don't worry though
It's better this way.
-Emilie
The second was the rest of the avengers
To everyone,
Thank you for letting me stay in you home and taking me away from HYDRA
I will be grateful for that for as long as i live.
Tony, thank you for letting me play on peters piano and letting me stay in your house, even when you didn't want me too.
Steve and bucky, thank you for greeting me and telling me it will be alright.
Natasha and clint, thank you for starting the food fight. I hope no one was harmed in all the fun
Bruce, thank you for the conversation we had during dinner about the powers we have. (I'm sorry that i wasted your time.)
Peter, thank you for letting me stay in your room. I'm so sorry that i ruined the booklet. If i didn't touch it maybe you wouldn't have to get a new one. Im sorry. (everything i touch gets ruined)
Sam, thank you for the chance to have fun. I hadn't had fun in a long time. Thank you.
It's better if i leave. Don't come looking. Please
I'm sorry if i ever caused you any trouble. You won't have to deal with it any more
-Emilie
The last letter was to loki and thor
To loki and thor
Thank you for the time spent on asgard. Even if it wasn’t earth it was still home to me.
Thank you for every dinner we had even though i wasn't a royal.
Thor, thank you for teaching me how to throw, it did me well as an assassin.
Thank you for bringing me to frigga and odin to sing for them, it changed my life.
Loki, thank you for always being there for me even from the start when i ran away from
you. Thank you for helping me every time i had a nightmare.
Thank you for showing me around asgard, it was quite magnifigse.
Thank you for singing to me and helping to control my powers.
You were like a father to me. And i hope that things will get better.
Thank you both for everything you have done for me.
I'm sorry for everything as well. Sorry when i left and never returned. Sorry i caused so much death, a speck of dirt is more worthwhile than me
Its better like this.
Don't come for me, please.
I love you both
-Emilie
She pulled the scarf over her face and jumped out the window. Nobody saw her falling and then flying through the city. Nobody made a report of a body going underneath a bridge.
She flew to a little corner under a bridge and stayed there.
There now i can't hurt anyone. She thought
She curled up into herself and began to cry.
She was finally alone again.
Without thinking about it she started singing again.
I guess I'll have to face
That in this awful place
I shouldn't show a trace of doubt
But pulled against the grain
I feel a little pain
That I would rather do without
I'd rather be
Free-ee-ee, free-ee-ee, free
I'd rather be
Free-ee-ee, free-ee-ee, free
Free-ee-ee, free-ee-ee, free
From here
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After the meeting peter went back into emily's room to check on her.
He was still really annoyed. She had ruined something he was working on.
He didn't want to act up though so he complained to tony about it. He wanted to say something to her but when he got to her room she was nowhere to be found.
He looked around the halls and then found the notes.
“FRIDAY, where is emilie?”
“Emilie is not currently in the building.”
“oh...SHit!”
He started to freak out. He ran back to the common room. He saw steve sitting on the couch.
“S-Steve?”
“Yes pete?”
“E..Emilie.”
He couldn't speak, he was having a panic attack.
He handed the steve the notes and started the breathing thing he was taught by bruce
In 4...hold 7...out 8… repeat.
After he was calm enough they read the one to the avengers. They both got really worried. Steve did some sort of hand signal and then FRIDAY's mission alarm went off.
In 3 minutes everyone was downstairs. And in 5 minutes almost everyone had read the notes. Wanda and pietro were crying. Loki was cursing himself and thor was more worried than ever.
Then set up a search party for her. Everyone looked from FRIDAYs memory to around manhattan. It was getting dark and peter said he would go on patrol while looking or her
Everyone agreed and they waited until after dinner to to so.
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Peter hoped from building to building and alley to alley looking for her. He stopped 3 muggings and helped an old lady cross the streat. He swung up to a tower to see someting going on near a bridge. He jumped over immediatly.
When he got there he saw someone dangling over the side of the bridge and some people holding a bungey rope. He quickly understood what was going on. He told the poeople at the top to hold on as tight as they could. They abblidge and tried to pull up the rope a bit.
He pushed the button on his wrist and a bit of web spat out. He then started to slid down it upside down. When he got there the person was terrified. Peter grab his hand and looked around. Thats when he saw it.
Under the bridge was a person sleeping. They had long brunette hair and a maroon jacket on. They were curled up against the wall and shivering.
Then suddenly the person woke up and made ey contact with peter.
He could see tears streaming down her face.
Emilie.
He quickly brought the person up and then raced down on some web. But when he got there she was walking towards the edge.
“Emilie! Please step away from the edge its me!” she looked at him with new tears streaming down her face. She walked forwards a bit.
“What do you mean? Please i-im sorry!” she stopped dead in her tracks at the edge. Peter took off the mask and started to walk towards her. She stooed still while he did this.
“Im so sorry i said that emilie. Please…. Wanda will be heart broken.” emilie looked up and then collapsed to the ground crying.
“I-im not worth it.” peter rushed towards her and sat beside her.
“Im sorry i sh-should be locked away. I dont deserve love.”
Peter was stunned. Of coarse she heard. She wouldnt leave just like that.
“No, thats not true. We all wanted you to stay. Fury was talking about locking you away forever. But thats not what we wanted. Please come back to the tower.” she tried to speak but she couldnt. Peter then picked her up and placed her on his back
She fell asleep about halfway to the compound. That was good. But Peter knew that once she woke up everyone would be mad.
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When Peter came through the door holding emilie Loki smiled and asked to hold her. She was still asleep but everyone was trying to tell her to get up. Finally Loki snapped
“Everyone! She is a deep sleeper. The only thing you will do to her is give her a nightmare!”
As if on cue she started to stir in her sleep.
Steve was anxious the entire time.
She was just like Bucky but smaller.
When Bucky was coming out of assassin mode Steve would try to hug him. Whenever Bucky forgot Steve would hug him. Maybe it would work on emilie too.
“Can I hold her?” Everyone looked at him with puzzled looks. No, Everyone but Bucky. Loki passed emilie into Steve’s arms.
Loki was right, she looked very young when she was asleep.
Steve brought her to her room and placed her in the bed.
As he placed her down she woke up.
“S..Steve?” Then she fell right back asleep.
Steve left the room and walked back to everyone else with a smile on his face.
“So, for one i don’t want her to go in for testing and I hope anybody else who is somewhat sane can agree.” Everyone nodded collectively.
“Well fury wants reassurance that she is safe to be around.”
Everyone nodded again.
Then peter got an idea
“Isn’t t’challa and Shuri coming to the tower in a couple days, maybe Shuri could do something.”
“Great idea underoos.” Then tony rubbed his hair.
Everyone then went to there rooms to finally end the long day.
Emilie was going to have a long day tomorrow