[Zhongyingmei] At the end of time

Annie suddenly woke up from the dream, she tried to recall but she couldn't remember what was in the dream that scared her into a cold sweat just now.

She sat up and glanced at the wall clock on the wall through the faint moonlight.

Two in the morning.

John on the bed next to him was fast asleep, Annie quietly put on her slippers and walked out of the room.

She stood at the door of her parents' bedroom and hesitated for a moment. She knew that her parents had been working very hard recently, her mother always left early and returned late lately, and her father had just finished a two-week business trip.

She opened the door secretly, and moved to the bed cautiously. Bucky sat up from the bed vigilantly and asked, "What's the matter, honey?"

Anne whispered, "I just had a nightmare."

Luna turned over, as if she had just woken up, and muttered, "What happened?"

Annie walked to the bed, and Bucky hugged her to the bed: "Then do you want to sleep with us?"

Annie Tuan in Bucky's arms: "I want to hear my mother tell stories."

Bucky persuaded her patiently: "Mom will go out to work early tomorrow morning, can Dad tell you a story?"

Annie buried her head in Bucky's arms and said in a muffled voice, "But father's storytelling is not as fun as mother's storytelling."

Luna couldn't help laughing, and Bucky rubbed Annie's hair helplessly.

Luna sat up and leaned into Bucky's arms: "What nightmare did you have?"

Annie shook her head: "I can't remember, I'm just scared."

Luna asked, "Have you been having nightmares lately?"

Annie nodded slightly: "Yes, mother knows?"

Luna raised her eyes and looked at Bucky, both of them understood clearly.

She explained to Annie slowly: "You may be about to awaken your mutant ability, don't be afraid, you and I, Grandpa Charles, will help you when the time comes."

Annie was a little excited: "So I'm a mutant?"

Luna explained: "Everything is uncertain until the ability is awakened. Do you want to be a mutant?"

"Of course," Anne said without hesitation, "I hope my ability is the same as that of my grandfather, with claws and automatic healing, that would be so cool."

Luna didn't speak, but there were some slight emotions in her heart.

It turns out that becoming a mutant can also become something worth looking forward to.

Bucky felt Luna's emotions, and whispered to Annie: "Grandpa's ability is to heal automatically, and the claws are injected later, so grandpa suffered a lot of injuries."

Annie kissed Luna on the cheek: "Then I don't want grandpa's ability, then I want...Uncle Pietro's ability, if I can run fast, I won't lose to John next time I play tennis , maybe you can beat Dad."

Luna smiled and said, "Baby, you are so sweet because you inherited it from your father."

Annie said in a muffled voice, "How sweet is Dad?"

Luna and Bucky laughed at the same time. Luna wanted to explain that Bucky was very sweet at first, but life was too bitter, but in the end they didn't explain these things. They will always understand these things in the struggle with life of.

Bucky held his daughter in one arm and his wife in the other. Suddenly his arms tightened, and Annie looked at him suspiciously.

Bucky imitated Annie and kissed Luna on the side of Luna's face: "I'll go down and meet our unexpected guest."

Luna closed her eyes and felt it for a while, then suddenly smiled again: "Take Annie down."

Bucky was stunned for two seconds, and then asked, "Yes... you're here?"

Luna moved away from Bucky's arms, and said while arranging Bucky's hair: "It should be that time in Bucharest, so many years have passed, but it seems like yesterday when I recall it."

Bucky gnawed on Luna's lips: "Then I'm going down."

As he said that, he got up and put on his home clothes, and picked up Annie again: "Let's go, let's go meet our mother when I was young."

Bucky saw a dark figure standing in the darkness on the stairs, he turned on the light in the living room on the first floor, the girl turned and looked at Bucky vigilantly.

At that moment, Bucky seemed to have returned to Bucharest ten years ago. He couldn't see the way forward, and there was no light. go forward.

"Hi, Luna," Bucky said, "This is New York ten years from now, your home."

The girl's eyes were sunken, and it looked like she hadn't slept well for a long time. She glanced past Bucky and lingered on Annie for a long time.

Annie was not afraid of strangers, and said childishly, "Are you the mother from the past?"

The girl raised her lips: "It should be, what's your name?"

Annie said loudly: "My name is Annie, and my mother said it was my grandma's name."

The girl stared at Annie closely: "Hi, Annie...Nice to meet you."

Bucky said to the girl, "Is hot milk okay?"

The girl seemed to have just come back to her senses, and looked at Bucky: "Okay... thank you."

Bucky skillfully held Annie in one hand, and poured milk into the pot with the other hand on fire. He tilted his head and asked Annie softly, "Do you want to drink?"

Annie nodded: "Yes."

Bucky said, "Then make three cups, one for Annie, one for the current mother, and one for the old mother, okay?"

Annie 'giggled': "I have many mothers."

Bucky turned his head to look at the girl, her eyebrows were curved, and the inadvertent tenderness in her eyes was something Bucky was all too familiar with.

The girl said while drinking milk from the cup, "I... isn't she here?"

Bucky looked at the girl's beard and said with a smile, "She was upstairs, but it seemed that the two of you couldn't meet, so she didn't come down to see you."

"She asked me to tell you that everything will be fine, please don't give up."

Annie lay on Bucky's shoulder to drink milk. After hearing this, she turned to Bucky and stared at him without saying a word.

Seeing Annie's reaction, the girl also smiled: "Didn't she ask you to tell me this sentence?"

Bucky took the empty glass from the girl's hand: "She didn't say anything, maybe because she knew I would encourage you."

The girl raised her eyes to look upstairs, and smiled inexplicably. Bucky hugged Annie upwards, without disturbing the communication between the two that he didn't understand.

The girl said to Bucky, "Thank you very much, I'm probably going back soon, you... I mean my boyfriend, he's still sleeping."

Bucky asked, "Is there anything else you want to know? About the future?"

The girl smiled and shook her head: "I hate spoilers the most. Besides, I already know the most important things."

She stood there tenderly but firmly, smiling at Bucky, and Bucky found that the sense of wandering and restlessness she had just appeared downstairs had almost disappeared.

Bucky also laughed: "Friendly reminder, your boyfriend is actually not asleep."

He sent Annie, who had fallen asleep without knowing when, back to her own little bed, and returned to the master bedroom, only to see Luna lying on the bed as if she had fallen asleep.

Bucky put his hand on her waist, leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Just now I was in telepathy with myself, and now I'm asleep?"

Luna turned over and got into his arms: "A lot of emotions?"

Bucky handed her the milk: "I know why you had to bet with Wanda and others that your first child was a girl."

Luna bit his shoulder hard: "You're ashamed to mention it. At that time, you didn't listen to me and insisted on betting against me. In the end, all the money I lost went to you."

Bucky hugged her a little tighter, was silent for a while, and said, "You at that time really made people feel distressed."

Luna smiled: "Has it been ten years? At that time, you were really calm, and you slept in the same bed with me for so long, and nothing happened."

Bucky lowered his head and rubbed her cheek. After going through so many things together and being married for so many years, Luna still didn't understand him. She struggled vigilantly: "I'm going to get up for work in three hours. There seems to be something wrong with me, I have to take a look, don't..."

Bucky pulled her back: "Three hours, isn't that just right? Don't sleep. I'm not the same person I used to be."

There is no such thing as sitting still, but when the memory suddenly came back at that time, my heart was full of disgust for the blood-stained opponent, how dare I make a move.At that time, she was alone and sleepless every night, and there was no desire in her heart, only her distress for her and the loss of the way forward.It was as if when he closed his eyes, those dark experiences kept pulling him down, while she held him up with the hope that she never seemed to lose.

Now he finally understands that the source of hope that she has never lacked in those years is actually himself.

One night three days later, Annie's ability exploded for the first time, but she didn't make any big scenes, she just...disappeared.

John asked Luna vaguely, "Mom? Why is my sister missing?"

Luna smiled and touched his head: "This is probably Annie's ability. Grandpa Charles said just now that he couldn't find Annie's brain waves, which means that Annie's ability may be the same as mine. She may be in another time dimension."

Ten minutes later, Annie reappeared out of thin air, still wearing the pajamas she had disappeared from.

Bucky pulled her in front of him: "Is there something uncomfortable?"

With a tired but excited expression on her face, Annie broke away from Bucky's hand and threw herself into Luna's arms: "Mom! You must not guess who I just saw!"

Luna squatted down, and Annie whispered in her ear, "I saw grandma."

Luna froze in place, she stumbled and said, "You... How old was she when you saw her?"

Annie had never seen such an ugly expression on Luna, and said honestly: "16 or 7 years old, she is in the second year of high school. I told her that I was her future granddaughter, and she believed it easily. She said to see My appearance must be related to her by blood."

"She is still so willing to trust others..." Luna murmured, "Did you say anything else?"

Annie nodded: "I said my mother's name is Luna, she has the same abilities as me, and she looks exactly like Grandma Annie."

"She was very happy and said that she might see you before giving birth to you."

As if struck by lightning, Luna took Annie's hand and trembled slightly. Seeing this, Bucky knelt down beside her on one knee, wrapped her around her, and said to John and Annie, "You two go to bed first, I will stay with mom for a while .”

Before leaving, Annie asked timidly, "Is mom upset because of what I said?"

Luna shook her head: "Why, mom just misses your grandma."

After John and Annie left, Luna leaned against Bucky's arms as if she had lost all her strength: "I laughed at her stupidly before, and she dared to hide in a hotel when I met a stranger. It turned out that she...recognized I."

"She knew I was her daughter, so she took us in without asking anything, and said that she would name her daughter Luna in the future. She knew everything."

Bucky hugged her tightly: "She's a great person."

Luna nodded, and a tear fell on the back of Bucky's hand: "I know."

"I just found out too late."