Marvel: I am Jean's Apprentice.

Chapter seven:

I spent most of our birthday in the bedroom reading. It was kind of sucky but not the worst birthday ever. Time seemed to go fast luckily. Soon it was getting dark outside and the maron tried to get me to come down to sit with everyone but because Pietro wasn't back I refused. I was too worried about him.

Finally he was back and it was late and the alarm was going off that bombs might be incoming. Seeing his face, he was hurt. His nose looked broken and he had cuts across his arms and chest. I then rushed over to Pietro before taking his shirt off and grabbed a small medical box from downstairs and started to clean him up.

"What in the hell happened to you?" I said angrily and started to clean up the wounds.

"Um the guys were with me as we were stealing stuff but they left me behind. I still managed to get this though." Replied Pietro as he pulled something out of his pocket.

He then smiled at me. "Please stop risking yourself. If I ever lost you I would be alone in this world and I wouldn't be able to handle it." I said as tears ran down face.

Pietro just looked at me before wiping the tears away. "I'm sorry bro, I didn't know you felt that way. I never meant to leave you like that. I shouldn't have left you today." Replied Pietro.

I then squeezed his shoulder as I finished cleaning up his wounds. "How are you feeling?" I said.

"I feel like shit." Replied Pietro.

"Well we don't have any pain killers." I said before standing up.

Pietro then struggled to stand up, before grabbing my shoulder.

"Come on eat up and let's head out. I wanna show you some stuff. You will love it." Replied Pietro.

I just gave him a unsure glance but nibbled on the bread roll. After that we headed out and he led me to a forested area and it was beautiful.

"When did you find this?" I said.

"A few weeks ago, I knew that you would like it." Replied Pietro.

"Thanks big brother." I said before looking at everything.

"No problem little brother, I'm glad that you like it." Replied Pietro.

After a while I calmed down and sat down next to my brother and hugged him. "Can we stay here, just for tonight... Remember what it was like before everything happened." I said.

Pietro just nodded at me before we both dozed off.

We suddenly woke up to a loud explosion that sounded like it wasn't far away. We then rushed out of the forested area and all the way to the orphanage only to find rubble and dead bodies. I then fell to my knees and tears ran down my face. This was so much worse than I could ever imagine.

I felt my arms attempting to pull me up as shouting sounds echoed around me but I couldn't stop looking at the burning orphanage.

"Bro! Bro! Come on! Listen to me! We have to get out of here now! They will probably take us both to the war effort if we don't get out of here! We are old enough now! We have to go!" Said Pietro.

I allowed him to pull me up and we ran. They had no idea that we wasn't in the orphanage so now we no longer lived in the same system. We was going to get out of there and we were going to survive.