Second Chapter – Alone Again?
The sun
was setting disappearing behind the ocean, an orange glow colored the
white walls of my room and I could hear some birds singing from the
tree in front of my window. I was sitting cross-legged on my bed and
I was playing a melanchonic melody with my guitar.
It had
already been 50 days since I was in the past with my soulmate and I
was feeling lonely. I missed Steve so much, just one day with him
wasn’t enought for me, but everything I tried to travel back in
time again had failed and I was stuck in my present. A present where
my soulmate was dead.
Chloe
and Rachel had tried to help me in every way possible, but if I
couldn’t do something about it with the power to control time that
I have, what could they do? Obviously, I didn’t say anything to
them. I was greatful for their support, but sometime it wasn’t
enough.
My
Stark phone buzzed near my left knee and I put aside my guitar to
grasp it. There was a message from my blue-headed best friend.
-How
are you feeling now?
Today
we had spent the morning together and we had lunch at our favourite
McDonald’s while Rachel was helping her mother cooking for
Christmas that was in four days, but I was my usual moody self for
every second of our outing and she had tried to cheer me up without
success. I left her in the early hours of the afternoon because I
didn’t want to drag her into my spiral of depression and she had
let me go even if she wasn’t sure that leaving me alone was a good
idea.
-Better.-
Just a word because I didn’t
want to lie again.
-You
are lying.- She
could read me even throught
my message.
-How
can you tell?
-I
know you.
-Ok,
I am not, but what can I do? He is my soulmate and he lives in
another time! I just want...
-I
don’t know what to say, sweety. I can’t even begin to imagine
what it would be like If I had met Rachel and than I had to leave her
without knowing if or when I would see her again.
-It’s
terrible, Chloe and you two are the only one with whom I can speak
about it.
-Is
your father giving you a hard time?
-He
is worried about me and he knows I lie to him everytime he asks about
it.
-It’s
normal, he is your father after all and he loves you.
-I
suppose so. He has always been an amazing father even though I know
that a lot of peaple didn’t believed that he could be one and he
tried to keep the imagine of an easy going father for the press but
speaking with him about this kind of things has never been easy,
usually Pepper is the one that talked to me about them, so why did he
changed so much in the last month?
-I
don’t know, but you have to agree that he has changed a lot in the
last three years.
-Yeah,
since… I started to write when
the door of my room opened and my father appeard from the hallway.
“Sweety, Pepper says that dinner is ready, are you coming down?”
he asked leaning againt the door jamb.
“Yes, I’ll be down in a minute dad.” I said smiling at him and
waiting for him to leave before answering Chloe one last time.
-I
have to go, dinner’s ready and dad is already giving me strange
looks.
I hopped down my bed and put my guitar against the wardrobe while
checking again my phone to see the last message of my friend.
-Alright,
I’ll see you tomorrow. Enjoy your dinner and try to talk with your
father.
Another thing Chloe and Rachel were insistent about was the fact that
I should have told my father about my power. Before my special time
travel, we didn’t see the problem in keeping it a secret from my
family, Pepper included, but now they thought that if they knew maybe
they could help more.
I disagree and I won’t change my mind anytime soon. My father
already has a grudge against my soulmate even if he tries to hide it
from me and this episode would only give him one more reason to hate
the man his father idolized so much.
While reaching my door, my eyes caught sight of the one photo I had
of Steve, of that day we spent together in the ‘40s. I donn’t
know how I gained it, somehow my camera took a picture of that
moment, but I was happy to have it.
I took the photo in my hand and I run my fingers on his sweet face
feeling my heart beat faster and my mark burning lightly.
Setting aside the picture again, I went to the kitchen where I found
my father helping Pepper in putting food on the table or so I thought
because as always in reality he was fooling around and his girlfriend
was trying to control him, she was probably the only one who could.
“If you don’t put away that suit Tony, there won’t be any
dessert for you.” said Pepper while cutting some tomatoes at the
kitchen counter. I could see one of the Iron Man suit
remote-controlled trying to bring a bowl full of pasta to the table
while my father was leaning against the fridge playing with his
phone.
“Oh, come one Pep, he is useful.” he replied without moving his
eyes from the screen.
“Yeah, a lot more than you, but it’s you that has to eat so you
have to help or… no dessert.”
“Ok ok.” He immediately said pocketing his phone, giving the suit
the order to go to the lab and starting to help his girlfriend.
I smiled at that scene, it was normal behavior in our house,
sometimes one could think that we were a normal family and I didn’t
want to changing anything causing a problem. I could deal with my
time traveling problem alone.
We were eating when my father said that we were going to spend
christmas in New York.
“But Dad, I was hoping to spend Boxing Day with Chloe and Rachel.”
“I know sugar, but I have work to attend to in New York and I don’t
want to stay away from you during the holiday.” He stopped and I
could see the doubt in his eyes: “Or you would prefere to be
alone?”
“What? No!” I exlaimed surprised: “I love you Dad and Christmas
is important. I just didn’t expect to travel this year.”
“I know, but...” he hesitated looking at Pepper who chose to stay
silent: “You haven’t been yourself in the last month. I don’t
know what’s wrong with you, you don’t want to talk about itand I
won’t push you, but I thought that a change in scenery could help.”
I smile at his concerne: “I’m sorry daddy, I didn’t want to
worry you.”
“We know Maxime.” Pepper said taking my hand giving it a gentle
squeeze and doing the same with my father’s one: “But we worry,
it’s your father job and I love you so much that I can’t help
it.”
“I know Pepper and I love you too.” I said sincerely: “But I
promise that if I will be really in trouble I will talk to you.”
“That’s all we can ask.” my father said leaning against the
back of his chair with his hands behind his head: “Oh and you can
ask your friends if they want to come to New York for New Year Eve.”
“Really?” I asked suddenly very exited.
“Of course, sweety.” said Pepper getting up with some empty
plates: “Your father has organized another party and we are sure
that you don’t want to come.”
“No, I went that one two years ago and it was enoght for me.”
“Oh come one!” exlaimed my father: “It was a one time thing, it
won’t happen again!”
“Sure, honey.” said the blond woman patting his shoulder as if he
was a kid.
“I am serious!” he cried irritated.
“Of course dad, we know.” I laughted getting up to help his
girlfriend ignoring his childish behaviour. Life with Tony Stark
won’t ever be boring.
***
It was Christmas Eve and I was in my room in the tower of New York. I
was bored to death because, exept for a day out with Pepper, I had
stayed in the tower moving between the lounge area and the training
floor every single day. There were a lot of activities to do insiede,
but it became boring after two days.
I wanted to go outside and take picture of the city, I always thought
that New York in Christmas season was one of the most beautiful
cities in all country, but my father asked me to stay inside after he
had to deal with some problem with the press. So that afternoon I was
stuck in my room while waiting for my crazy family to come back so we
could all eat their Christmas dinner.
My phone buzzed from the desk while I was taking boring picture
around the room. So I put down the camera to answer the call from
Rachel who asked: “How’s New York treating you?”
“Horrible, I am bored to death.” I answered sitting on my bed
with a sigh.
“You should try to escape your golden prison!” I heard Chloe cry
from the other side of the line.
“Do not listen to her, please.” said her girlfriend and I could
imagine the hard look that she probably gave the blue headed girl.
“Don’t worry, I am not crazy like her.” I laughted with the
possible scene clear in my mind: “I won’t worry my father so much
after what happened.”
“Yeah, we read the article. I don’t blame him for wanting you
inside all the time.”
“He is always the one making trouble and I have to suffer the
consequences.”
“Well, your father has always been the kid in your family.” she
supplied and I couldn’t deny it.
“So true.”
“You were born old!” cried again Chloe and I rolled my eyes at
her old joke. For her, I wasn’t crazy enoght so I was an old soul
inside a young body and she reminded me of her opinion everytime she
had the chance.
“But you wouldn’t change him for anything in the world.”
“Yeah, he is my father and I love him for how he is even if...” I
replied stopping when something caught my eyes.
“Max? Max, are you alright?” I heard Rachel asking with a worried
voice.
“Yes, it’s just...” I started saying getting up from my bed and
reaching for my camera. “It can’t be...”
“What? What are you talking about?”
“My camera...” I said watching as the lens sparkled on its own
just as it had happened in the park nearly one month and a half ago.
“What? Is acting up again? Max, I don’t understend what are
you....” said Rachel worried and I could hear Chloe asking her
girlfriend what was wrong, but I totally ignored them and put the
lens before my eyes with my heart beating fast in my chest…
I felt myself falling and I knew that I was about to see my soulmate
again.
***
Hi! I want to say that I did some little changes in the
previou chapter if you want to check them out, but I didn’t changed
anything of the plot. I just added somethings to clear the narration. I intend to update at least once a week, so I
can work better on each chapter.
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