My Little Light || Natasha Romanoff x Oc daughter oneshots

Goodbye Julia Belle (pt.4)

Age: 16
Word count: 2210
Summary: Things have been great with Julia Belle ... until they weren't. Is Alena gonna be strong enough to make a decision she'd been dreading?

Alena sat in her room, music cranked up all the way and knees pulled up to her chest. She was weighing all the possible outcomes of the decision she was about to make. Break up with Julia Belle or not?

Both outcomes weren't exactly great. If she stayed with Julia Belle, she would forever question her feelings for Peter and end up resenting the relationship she was in, but if she did the thing her mind told her to do, break up with the 17 year old, her heart would shatter and she wouldn't know how to move on.

Either way, someone was gonna get hurt. If she was honest, Alena just wished to have the ability to read someone's mind in that very situation. If only she knew for sure how Peter felt, if only she knew how she felt.

There was no 'right' choice, just the easy one and the one which would finally give her peace of mind.

Before she could overthink her situation further, her mother's head popped into her room. Natasha had a worried expression on her face. She knew, whenever she could hear her daughter's music from all the way to the kitchen, that there was something wrong.

Alena turned down the music before meeting her Mom's eye.

,,Did you need something?"

She asked, her baby blue eyes wide and lips curled into a frown. The 15 year old was torn between wanting to tell Nat everything and just handling it on her own.

Natasha shook her head and promptly closed the door after slipping into the room. Seconds later, she sat next to her daughter on the floor, leaning against the wall.

The older redhead put a gentle arm around the younger ones shoulder, pulling her into her embrace. Alena leaned into the hug, staring at the closed door opposite them.

,,I dunno what to do"

She admitted, her gaze still fixated straight ahead. The 15 year old knew that if she disfocused, she'd be crying into her mother's shoulder in 5 seconds.

,,Dyou want advice or do you just need me to listen?"

Natasha asked. If there was one thing she'd learned from raising her child for the past 15 years, she noticed that the redhead didn't always want her advice or a solution to the problem, but rather just someone who listened to her complain or cry.

Alena shrugged. For the first time, she didnt know whether or not she needed an outside opinion, because the matter was so personal and close to her heart. She was scared that if she let her mother give her opinion, she'd feel like the choice she made wasn't her own anymore.

On the other hand, she didnt know what to do, so a second opinion wouldn't be all too bad. Especially with the whole Peter situation, it would be better if someone who looked at them from the outside told her what it looked like they were.

,,Both? Listen first without interruption and then give me advice"

Alena finally found a way to put it. She'd decided that she needed an outside opinion, even though it might not be what she wanted to hear.

Natasha nodded, giving her the sign to go ahead. She was ready to give the emotional support her daughter needed.

The 15 year old took a deep breath, getting her thoughts in order, before she began:

,,So, Julia, you've met her, and I have been together for around 6 months now, and last week I introduced her to the gang. MJ and Ned were so sweet and I felt like they really liked her, but Peter was just weird. And then, Julia called me by my nickname, you know, Light, and he just lost it. He stormed out of the room, but before he did he gave me that look"