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May. 24th, 2006 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semihero_pietroI had thought we were going to die.
Wanda and I were teenagers. Our parents had died awhile back, and I was taking care of her. We lived in a tiny shack, and while Wanda kept house, I went out and stole the food we needed.
One day, the area we were in caught on fire. I picked up Wanda and tried to escape, but we heard cries coming from a nearby shack. There was a child stuck inside.
Neither of us felt right running away while a child suffered, so we both went to save the kid. However, we had to use our powers.
IN doing so, the townspeople saw us, and instead of thanking us for saving the child, decided to turn their anger at us, calling Wanda a witch and blaming the fire on her.
They probably would have killed us too, but that was when he appeared, forcing the humans to stop their attack on us.
Magneto.
He came and saved our lives, offering us a place with him in his Brotherhood of Mutants. Since he had saved our lives, we felt it was only right to go with him, and it was only later that we realized the mistake we had made.
However, meeting Magneto and going with him to the United States was probably the encounter that changed both mine and my sister's lives forever. If he hadn't found us then, we would probably have either been killed, or lived as fugatives in our mother country for years longer.
So while I can't say that I love my father, even though he did this before we know of our family bond, his rescuing us started was the moment in which our lives changed the most.
Wanda and I were teenagers. Our parents had died awhile back, and I was taking care of her. We lived in a tiny shack, and while Wanda kept house, I went out and stole the food we needed.
One day, the area we were in caught on fire. I picked up Wanda and tried to escape, but we heard cries coming from a nearby shack. There was a child stuck inside.
Neither of us felt right running away while a child suffered, so we both went to save the kid. However, we had to use our powers.
IN doing so, the townspeople saw us, and instead of thanking us for saving the child, decided to turn their anger at us, calling Wanda a witch and blaming the fire on her.
They probably would have killed us too, but that was when he appeared, forcing the humans to stop their attack on us.
Magneto.
He came and saved our lives, offering us a place with him in his Brotherhood of Mutants. Since he had saved our lives, we felt it was only right to go with him, and it was only later that we realized the mistake we had made.
However, meeting Magneto and going with him to the United States was probably the encounter that changed both mine and my sister's lives forever. If he hadn't found us then, we would probably have either been killed, or lived as fugatives in our mother country for years longer.
So while I can't say that I love my father, even though he did this before we know of our family bond, his rescuing us started was the moment in which our lives changed the most.
