Peter's sister, Nova II NovaVerse 1

Nova

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to," I sign to Tony. I can't believe I did this. What kind of monster am I? I just make everything worse. Killer was right. I am dangerous, a freak. Tony looks stressed and angry at me. I wonder what he's found to do to me.

He waves his hand away from my apology before the rest of the Avengers come into the med bay. I cough up a bit more blood into a cup Bruce passed to me. All the Avengers have a face of mixed emotions on them. Nat looks sympathetic, Bruce is cautious and confused, Clint look almost as Serious as Steve, who is crossing his arms. I don't know where Thor is. I wish he was here he could always light up a room. Peter was sent out a little while ago. I get into a large coughing fit and half the cup is already filled with the blood. It's not a new sight for me, so I ignore it as Bruce places IV's in my arm and what might be preparing a blood transfusion? I must have coughed up a lot.

"What happened? What made you do this?" Steve signs to me. He raises his eyebrow as he signs this before crossing his arms again. I look down in guilt. "I don't know," I sign truthfully. I just woke up to a city destroyed and a nosebleed and headache to suggest it was all me. It just happened. "Did you do this?" He asks me. I think for a moment, knowing it was me. But what would they do to me after? Would they send me back to my universe? Would they hurt me? Whatever it is, they'll find out it's me. So I nod. My heart is thumping in my chest, and I try to keep my breathing in line. "If it was you, how did you do it? Was it on purpose?" He signs. "It wasn't on purpose, I promise! I don't know how." They have to believe me. I really don't know what more I can do.

They talk for a little, and then Wanda steps up. Clint stands beside her. "They don't know if you're telling the truth. Wanda is going to search your memories a little to see what's going on. It'll be fine kid." Clint signs to me. Wanda steps closer to me, and I scoot away from her on the bed. I'm dangerous. I could hurt her again. And I don't want to remember. But her magic quickly reaches my head, and I don't have a choice anymore. I remember.

***Flashback 1***
Nova runs through the grass with a stab wound she clutches. It has been Cain who had done this to her, and Cain she was running away from. She couldn't keep doing this. Couldn't keep letting him hurt her. She was done. So, she ran.

She didn't even care that Cain had a gun, and he was determined to hit her. And so, he did. It got her in the leg, the arm, and the shoulder.
"Ya can't run if you're shot, girlie," he has said to her as he pushed Nova against a tree. But she couldn't hear this with her shredded ears. If they worked, she would be able to hear the anxious thumping of her heart every moment of her life. Cain took a glass shard in his poker and started to cut. She screamed in pain, but it wouldn't do anything.
'Why can't my power work against him?' She thought, not for the first time. This night she would almost die of blood loss, but it was just another Tuesday for her.
***Flashback 2 (her nightmare)***
Cain is after her again. It's pitch black, and she runs through the void. Killer throws knives and shoots bullets, writes in her skin, and uses an iron on her skin. She screams and continues to run into the void. She thinks the pain she feels is from Cain, but she doesn't know that she was using her power in the waking world as defense. She runs to a light, and ends up in a house in her universe which looks familiar. But they're bodies on the ground. Familiar faces, laying in a pool of their blood. HYDRA agents surround her. This is almost like reliving a memory, except this isn't something she remembers. But that doesn't stop her from shaking the people, trying to wake them up. But they won't.

'I did this, didn't I?' She thought. Her body ached more as in the real world she was destroying a city.

It was too much. She woke up.
***All flashbacks end***

I snap out of it as she pulls away her magic. There are tears streaming down both of our faces, and everyone else looks sympathetic. "You'll practice more with doctor Strange in the future. I'll make something that will wake you up if you're about to use your power while you sleep," Tony says and walks off. Steve follows close behind while everyone else comforts me as I cough blood and try to forget.

I just want to forget.