ELOISE POV—
'EXPLAIN!? You want to explain to us what happened. ELOISE! You fucking destroyed the room; you could have seriously hurt yourself,' bellowed dad. I flinched and took a few steps backward.
'Howard, please calm down a bit. Ellie, honey—'
A few tears leaked from my eyes. Dad never shouted at me before. He looks too angry.
'SHUT UP AMANDA!! Just keep quiet! Eloise, just because I love you too much and give you so much freedom that I ignore whatever mistakes you make, that doesn't mean you would do whatever you want. Now, answer me or—'
Dad couldn't complete his sentence. He stopped the moment he saw me sobbing. I was crying miserably. It seems dad's shouting really affected me.
'I am s-sorry...d-dad,' I sobbed. He sighed and then took me in his arms.
'No, I am sorry Eloise, I should have never shouted at you. I... I am just worried about you. I don't know what I will do if something happens to you,' said dad.
Mom said, 'Yes, Ellie. Your dad and me were too worried you. Are you ok? You aren't hurt anywhere, right?'
I shook my head to indicate that I wasn't hurt. Mom took breathe of relief.
'Now, tell us what you were doing? Tell us the truth and don't even think about lying,' said Mom.
'Mom, I—'
'Truth!' exclaimed mom.
I wiped my eyes and took a good look at both of them. Should I tell them the truth? But they won't believe it. I mean nobody would believe it anyway.
I looked at them and saw that they were pointedly looking at me. After thinking for some time, I decided to come clean before them.
I said, 'Listen to me mom and dad, what I am going to say now, won't make sense at all. You would think I have mad or something but I swear, it's the truth. So, please hear me out with open mind.'
Both mom and dad nodded their heads signalling me to tell what I want to say.
'Do you believe in reincarnation?' I asked.
'Honestly, I don't know but why did you ask this question Ellie?' said dad. Mom agreed with him as well.
I closed my eyes and made up my mind. I said, 'I asked you both because reincarnation is real. This is my second life. I reincarnated in this world which is a part of Marvel. Marvel or Marvel Universe is a fictional work which was started by Martin Goodman. It then went on and on, creating multiple comics, movies and TV shows.'
I opened my eyes and saw them intently listening to me. Then, I told them about the rest of the things like about the OG Howard, about Tony or Arno, deaths of Howard and Maria, my knowledge on Tesseract and all the important things.
'So, you are basically saying that your dad married Maria Collins Carbonell and I don't exist,' said mom.
I nodded. Given their lack of reaction, I asked, 'Why are you so calm? You should be surprised given all I said. Why are you accepting it just like that?'
'Oh! Trust me Ellie, both me and your father are very much surprised. But this would explain your unusual behaviour,' I was looking at mom in shock when I heard that from her, 'and your maturity. You see Ellie, the moment you were born, your eyes were like an adult who has already seen the world. Back then, we thought it's our delusion but when you started to grow, you were showing the signs of an adult. It was like you are a mini adult. An adult trapped in a child's body. Though I and your father could have never thought it was much bigger than that.'
Dad asked, 'Why didn't you tell us Ellie?'
'I thought you wouldn't believe me and besides that who would even want a damaged adult in a child's body as their offspring,' I cried. Dad crouched down and took me in his arms.
'Listen Ellie, whatever has happened before and I mean, I am talking about your first life. One thing was, is and will forever be true that you are daughter...,' started dad.
'...and we will always love you. No matter what you do, may it right or wrong, it doesn't matter,' finished mom.
I hugged them both tightly. For the first time after time my reincarnation, I am feeling relieved.
'Now, I never thought my OG self would have married Maria and I would have had a son. I don't even want a son and also not certainly Maria,' joked Dad wiping my tears.
Mom looked at dad and asked, 'Howard, had you ever liked Maria?'
Dad gave mom a disgusted look. He said, 'No!! Not at all! I don't like her. In fact, I hate her.'
Listening to them told me one thing that Maria does exist. I asked, 'Could you both tell me about Maria?'
Mom made a disgusted face and said, 'I don't know what to even say about her. Maria was a vile woman and she was obsessed with your father. Honestly, she was a madwoman. She got M.I.A. and after a few months S.H.I.E.L.D. declared her dead.'
So, either Maria is dead or she betrayed the S.H.I.E.L.D. but she was obsessed with dad. That's a noteworthy thing.
'Ellie, you told us that you were doing some kind of magical stuff. If I remember it correctly, then it was summoning. So, where's the thing you summoned or whatever you call it?' asked dad.
'Well, it was nice that you all resolved things between you three. I remember the saying— all well that ends well. Don't you agree? Hello, father and mother of my master.'
'Liam!! Where were you? All of this mess is your fault,' I yelled.
'I was right here. You all couldn't see me because I made myself invisible. Also, how's that my fault? You were the one who summoned me and you didn't say anything about to restore your mirror. I showed you generosity—'
'Shut up! You are my familiar, you will do whatever I said you to do,' I shouted.
Before things could escalate, mom intervened between us. She said, 'Calm down you two. There's no need to fight.'
Dad said, 'Yeah, don't fight, you two. Ellie, so you summoned...a cat?' I could he was trying not to sound sarcastic.
'Hey! I am not a cat. I am—'
I interrupted him by saying, 'Yes, he is a cat and his name is Liam.' Liam gave me an offended look and pouted. Wow, even cats can pout.
After some conversation between the four of us, we reached to some conclusions. Those were: —
1— Don't ever lie and always tell the truth.
2— Attempt any sort of magic with the supervision of Liam or mom and dad.
3— I can use the lab of my dad. Yay! I can finally use the lab. Though, dad will be there to supervise me until I get old enough. Probably for him, it would never. Argh, he will never leave me alone in there.
4— To include mom and dad in whatever I do.
5— As Liam is my familiar, they told me to take care of him. Liam protested but eventually agreed.
Overall, today was a roller-coaster of emotions and adrenalin-pumping event for me. Not only, I got a familiar of my own but also lessened the burden on my heart.