Your Life With The Maximoffs. C: (A Quicksilver/X-Men Fanfiction)

Chapter One - Meeting Magda

The year is 1973. Everyone was listening to Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and Heart. The fashion was crop-tops, bell-bottoms, and platform shoes. You didn't get this fashion trend at all, you basically were into the rock scene, not the hippie scene. You usually wore black skinnies, a band tee, and sneakers. Today, your mom had broken her promise as to not smoke pot anymore and so, you were sick of her and how addicted she was to it. She had made you a promise and you just didn't want to watch her do that crap anymore. So you decided to move out and attempt to get a place of your own. You were only 17 at the time, but you had been saving up for this kind of thing for a long time and since you got a job at the record store, you were saving even more. 

"Hope, you come back here, now!" Your mom yelled, very angrily. You were basically running down the stairs, with your stuff in hand. She had betrayed you for the last time. "Hope, if you do this, I'll call the cops!" She yelled at you.

You didn't listen to her. You were hailing a cab, with a backpack, two small blue suitcases, and your purse. She grabbed your arm and you warned her in a serious tone of voice, "Don't." And you shook her hand off. She shook her head in disappointment at you, while you climbed into the taxi cab. You just didn't care about her anymore. You were fed up. 

"Where to?" The taxi-cab driver asked you and started the car. "Somewhere other than this neighborhood." You told him and he nodded. You didn't even look back at your mom. She probably was going to go back inside that crappy apartment and smoke some more. You weren't sad, you were just so angry at her. Maybe later on in life she'll realize what she did and make it up to you, but right now, you didn't care. 

The taxi-cab driver led you to another apartment complex that looked like it was in a safer neighborhood and it looked better, too. You handed him a twenty and he yelled at you, while you starting going up the stairs to your new place, "Hey Kid!" So you retreated back to him. 

"Here. Take this." He said and gave you all of his tips for the day. "You're gonna need it." 

Your eyes welled up with appreciative tears and you said, "Oh my god, are you sure? This is... This means so much! Thank you so much!" And you managed to hug him through the window. He waved and smiled at you while he drove away. You did the same and picked up your stuff and walked inside. 

The inside was really plain, but polished at the same time. A receptionist was at the desk. You read her plaque and it said 'Magda Maximoff' Magda had blonde hair, blue eyes, and she looked about in her mid 30s. Magda looked up at you and said, "Hi, I'm Magda Maximoff. And you are?" She asked you, shaking your hand. You realized that she had a pretty strong grip.

"Hi, I'm Hope Hill." You said back to her, with an easy smile.

"May I help you?" She asked you, with a smile. 

At first you just kinda stood there awkwardly but you managed to say, "Uhh, yeah. I'd like to rent a place. Who do I talk to about that?" 

Magda looked at you curiously and said, "Okay, uhm, he should be back in about thirty minutes. Can I offer you a drink?" She had a mini fridge behind her desk. 

You looked at her blankly for a second and asked her "What do you have?"

She turned her rolling chair around to the mini fridge and opened it. "Diet Coke, Coke, Pepsi, Sweet Tea, Mountain Dew, and Coffee. Does anything interest you?" She asked and smiled at you again.

"Mountain Dew?" You asked and Magna nodded and gave the can to you. 

"Uhm, I don't mean to sound nosy or anything, but why are you here by yourself? I mean, usually we don't have a lot of teens looking for their own place. Did something happen?" Magda asked you, sounding genuinely concerned.

You put your hand behind your neck and shrugged and explained to her, "Well I made my mom promise me she wouldn't smoke pot again and she broke it. She's so addicted to it that she just doesn't think right anymore and I don't want to deal with her stupid decisions anymore, so I moved out just like 15 minutes ago. I don't really have that many friends and I know that none of them would let me stay with them so I figured it was the time to get my own place. I've basically been raising myself for the past 10 years because my dad committed suicide when I was seven. She got addicted on pot when she was 20 and now she's 37. So she's been doing it since I was born. So I decided to save up to live on my own since I was like 14 because I figured that I'd have to. So then I got a job at the record store and I've been saving up more. So yeah. Kinda sucks but I figured I could afford the rent for this place. So it would be cool if I could get a place here because it's closer to my job and I could switch schools." 

Magda kinda sat there, trying to take in everything you just told her. "Whoa. That's pretty serious. So you seem like a cool girl. I'm gonna make you an offer.... How would you like to live with me?" Magda asked you, curiously with a smile.

You stared at her in disbelief. "Wh... What?" You asked her, shocked at what she just offered you.

"How about you come and live with me? Well, it won't just be with me, I have a set of twins about your age and a little girl that is six. But they're all pretty nice and I think you would be a good addition to our home. I mean, I know you don't have anywhere to go and I don't really want you to spend all your time working and money paying for this place. So I figured you could live with us. Are you comfortable with that? I mean, I know you just met me and you probably think I'm really strange for offering, but I just want you to have a good, safe place to live." She explained and grinned at you. 

You could not believe what she had just offered you. Goodness, she wants me to live with her and her family? 

You grinned back at her and said, "I'd be honored to."

Magna smiled and said, "Great! I'm going to be off in like 15 minutes so if you could wait until then, I'd be happy to take you to my house." 

You nodded okay and you couldn't wait to meet her kids and see your new home! You wondered what would happen if/when she figured out that you were a mutant....