[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

When Alex woke up, he found himself lying on the bed, covered with a thin blanket.

The faint starlight outside the window told her that it was already night.

She slept almost all afternoon.

I forgot when I fell asleep, but I just remembered that after hearing her talk about that "dream", Uncle Bucky held her in his arms and patted her on the back gently.

Obviously she didn't speak or do anything else, but it made her feel as if she was being coaxed and comforted - and she was indeed being coaxed.

Those things have been suppressed in her heart for too long, not only in the past half a year after recovering her memory, but even longer, when she was still that illithid, it was backlogged in her heart.

The potential of human beings is indeed infinite. Inhuman monsters seal up the pain and despair that can overwhelm their own souls in the depths of their hearts, and continue their illithid life as if nothing had happened. Even after returning to the ground, they never let go .

But people's heart is so fragile, just seeing the embrace that can cry unrestrainedly, the once impeccable seal completely disintegrated, and the darkness that had been blocked for so long and almost rotted her heart spread out, oppressing her. It's almost hard to breathe.

But when these things are said, what you get in return is not contempt and unbelief and guard, but a comforting embrace and the warmth of a sleeping baby. Those darkness, pain, despair, and the spiritual sludge that can drive a person crazy instantly, Like a shadow in the sun, it disappeared quickly.

The room she lived in was not big, and the bedroom door was not closed. If she raised her upper body, she could see the back of the man who was busy in the kitchen at a glance, but Alex did not sit up, but turned over.

Even without sitting up and closing her eyes, she can guess what it is:

The smell in the air tells her that the thawed chicken wings are quietly enjoying the delicious process in the exclusive special barbecue sauce given by the owner of the Chinese restaurant; It will be more delicious if the skin is browned; eating only meat is not good for children's health, and we have to add some vegetables, so there is also the smell of tomatoes being cut and scattered in the kitchen, and the sound of broccoli scalding. , the green pepper was cut...

hmmmm? ? ?

Alex rolled and jumped up on a carp: "Uncle Bucky, I don't want to eat green peppers!!!"

In the kitchen, listening to the extraordinarily energetic voice, Bucky, who was frying steak with his back to the door, let go of his worries, raised the corners of his lips, and showed a silent and gentle smile.

He put the steak on the plate, and when he turned around holding the plate, he had already put on a serious face, only a little smile leaked from his eyes.

"That's not okay, you've eaten enough meat, now you need to eat more vegetables to grow taller."

"Green peppers are not vegetables!"

"It's on the Vegetables Book—your Christmas gift this year will be the Vegetables Book."

"Hey..."

The little girl whimpered very cutely, her blue-purple eyes were tearful and full of accusations, and Bucky couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth when he saw it.

"Go wash your face and eat."

"Ok!"

After Hogwarts settled the matter, considering that it would not be easy for young wizards from Muggle families to return to school, the report cards for this semester were all sent back by owls.

——Although there is no final exam, but there are still regular grades...

Alex happily showed her all o (outstandg, outstanding) results to her uncle Bucky, and asked with great hope: "Can you grant me a wish?"

Bucky readily agreed. If the child does well in the exam, the adults will of course have to reward him: "Of course, except that I don't want to eat green peppers, oh, and celery."

"..."

The little girl with silver curly hair dropped the report card and ran away angrily.

Tony, who was watching the whole process, laughed and pounded on the sofa: "Are you a five-year-old Alex?"

The Winter Soldier silently watched the 22-year-old boy ignorantly toss and sag a part of his sofa, and then said abruptly: "You are the same, Tony. Given your picky eaters and age, your A serving of green peppers would be twice as much as Alex."

The laughter disappeared abruptly as if it was stuck in the throat.

Tony glared over.

The silver-haired little girl turned her anger into joy: it was probably because she saw someone suffering with her, and she regained her psychological balance.

So Tony's muzzle was turned towards Alex again.

The two older children whose mental age had dropped to five years old were in a mess.

Sirius and Harry lived upstairs, but because of the reappearance of Voldemort, they did not return to the Muggle community this summer vacation, but lived in the old house of Sirius’ family—Harry also wrote to Eric Si, invited her to go with him, but Alex looked at Tony, who pretended not to pay attention to this side, but secretly pricked up his ears, and wrote a letter to decline.

I made an appointment with Tony to go to the United States during the summer vacation.

Pretending to be passing by, he secretly read the reply letter written by Alex, and made sure that she was not going to release his pigeons, so Tony took the coffee and walked away happily.

Alex spent this summer vacation in the United Kingdom except for the first half of June, and spent the entire July in the United States.

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, she left all the things related to the wizarding world at home in London, and went to Tony's house with only a change of clothes and a few books she was reading. Tony, who was curious about the existence of the wizarding world, asked about her When I was doing my homework, the little girl who also belonged to Xueba replied calmly: "I have finished it!"

Then Tony took Alex to play crazy.

For more than half a month, Alex even forgot about the Mage Tower, and never opened it once.

Because there is Tony who always attracts her attention, and Howard Stark who is confused by the two "big kids", one big and one small, and Ma who laughs and watches them mess up. Leah and the housekeeper, Jarvis, it took Alex a few days to notice that Uncle Bucky was gone.

"He has a task to do." Howard said such a sentence, and then no matter how much Alex pestered him, he refused to utter another word.

Alex, who failed to find out anything from Howard, went back to the pink princess room depressedly, sulking at himself with the giant puppet bear that Maria gave her.

"There's nothing to worry about, he's so powerful, he'll be fine." Tony was lying on a recliner beside him, still fiddling with his circuit board.

"But Uncle Bucky never left me at home for so long before!" The little girl with silver curly hair said unhappily, "He will definitely take me with me when he goes out!"

Tony rolled his eyes: "That's because no one could take care of you before. Now that I take care of you, he can travel far away with peace of mind."

Alex let go of the puppet bear, and raised his finger to Tony: "You?" Then gestured to himself, "Take care of me? Honey, are you sure you didn't mistake the guest of honor?"

"...Don't think I'm afraid of you just because you're a witch!"

The two guys who were both high IQs when they were separated, and fell to the kindergarten level when they got together, immediately clung together again.

Until Alex accidentally rolled over from the bed.

The great pain came, and her face turned pale all of a sudden.

Tony immediately realized that something was wrong, and immediately pressed the alarm bell beside the bed—this was used to call the butler Jarvis urgently in case of illness or other matters.

Jarvis came soon, and when he saw the girl lying on the ground and couldn't get up, his face changed, but it was better than Tony who was next to him and didn't know if he could touch Alex.

He signaled Tony not to go over and try to pick up the girl: "I'll call the doctor right away!"

The family doctor who served Stark's family was resident at home, and arrived quickly. After a simple examination, he suggested sending him to the hospital: only in the hospital were there enough instruments for a more in-depth examination.

"It's okay, it's just a little bruise, I'll replace the carpet with a thicker one later!" Maria lovingly touched Alex who was lying on the hospital bed.

The doctor said that she fell off the bed and hit a bone, so it was very painful. In addition, the shocking large purple bruise on her back made Maria dare not let her lie down, but let her lie down. The reason for her lying down.

"After two days, when the bruises on your back are gone, you can lie down. You don't have to work so hard on your stomach." Maria patiently comforted the little girl who couldn't sleep well because she was lying on her stomach.

When she finally fell asleep, Maria went out and carefully closed the door of the ward.

Howard and Tony were waiting outside. The family of three arrived in the attending doctor's office. Howard said, "Now tell us, what's going on?"

Just the fight between two children, it should be impossible to get such a large and terrible bruise on Alex's body, and the pain that made her unable to get up for a long time.

——Because the person who slept was a child, considering Alex’s height, the princess bed in the princess-style room Maria arranged for Alex was also short, and the floor was covered with thick wool Carpet, even if Alex rolled off the bed, he wouldn't suffer any collision injuries.

After being sent to the hospital, the hospital gave Alex a comprehensive examination, but still could not explain what happened to the terrible bruise on her body.

"We don't know the reason yet, but we have noticed one thing from the hospitalization for the past few days..." the attending physician said, handing over two photos.

The photo of the bruise on Alex's back was taken by the nurse. Maria looked at it and frowned: "This was taken on the same day?"

"No, ma'am, on the contrary, these are the photos when she was first admitted to the hospital three days ago and the photos taken by the nurse this morning." The attending physician said, "The bruises on her back don't show any signs of dissipating."

It is summer now, the blood circulation of the human body is accelerated, and the bruises will not dissipate very slowly, but the bruises on Alex's body dissipate more slowly than those who had bruises in winter.

It can even be said that there is no sign of dissipating.

"Not only that, when the nurse helped change her clothes, she also found a bruise on her arm that was similar to being tightly held." The attending physician said, and handed over a photo of her forearm .

Tony looked at it for a while, and gradually remembered something: "That day... when I was playing with her, I grabbed her arm, but God testifies that I didn't use much strength!"

"I believe, Mr. Stark." The attending physician said, "The results of the blood test done during admission came out today, and they are not very good."

The results of the blood test made the faces of the Stark family change.

The attending physician paused for a moment before saying, "Although we haven't found out the reason, but... Miss Barnes' physical condition is very bad, we can be sure of that."