Chris sat on the mat in the training room, taking a large drink of her water as Shuri sat down beside her.

"How does it feel?" the princess asked her. Chris looked at her. "To be able to have the same name as your dad?" The speedster chuckled.

"It's, uh...it's cool," she said honestly. "I mean, it'll change in like a year anyway, but for now it's cool to be able to share a name with my real dad." Shuri frowned.

"Your real dad?" she asked. "Wasn't Mr. Stark your dad as well?" Chris gritted her teeth.

"He was," she said bitterly. "That was before I learned he had allowed his weapons to bomb Sokovia, which was right next to where I grew up, and hadn't said anything. You don't just keep that from somebody, and then he tried to force me into signing the Accords and labeled me a criminal when I didn't." Shuri nodded. "I don't think I can really call him my dad again after that, especially now that I have Bucky." The princess nodded again and grinned, shoving Chris playfully.

"And soon you'll be Chris Maximoff, eh!" she teased. Chris smiled, face turning red, and shoved her back.

"Oh, shut up." She laughed, and soon the two were quiet. After a while, however, Shuri frowned.

"Are you afraid of death?" she asked the older girl. Chris looked over at her.

"What?" she asked. "Where did that come from?" Shuri shrugged.

"I don't know," she said honestly. "I was just curious. So are you? Afraid to die?" Chris sighed, looking down at her lap.

"No," she said simply. "Why would I be when I've already done it?" Shuri shook her head.

"Were you scared?" Chris chuckled humorlessly.

"Scared? Hell, I was terrified. You don't know what it's like. Going into something knowing you're going to die, that your luck has finally run out, and then being stuck in that place for months, not knowing if you were ever going to get out."

"What was it like?" The speedster stared into nothing, her mind racing back to the limbo she had been stuck in for four months after Ultron killed her.

"It was like...I was trapped. Either in that moment, the moment I died, or my worst fear." She looked up at Shuri. "So, when I first met Pietro, we were taking down a Hydra base in Sokovia. And Wanda's powers allowed her to see our worst fears, but it made us experience them as well."

"What was yours?"

"I was back at Holt's, in the Netherlands, and she was there. She was telling me to come home, and I couldn't use my powers. I turned around, and there was this...person, in the doorway. I couldn't see who it was, but looking back on it now...I think it was Bucky." Shuri frowned. "So when I died...every day, it was the same. I would either experience dying over and over...or I would see that over and over.

"My only guess is that I wasn't in 'heaven' or 'hell.' I was stuck in purgatory. For four months, I was stuck in limbo. It definitely wasn't heaven, and I don't think it was hell because it wasn't just torture or pain. It was personal. And that was worse than any hell I've ever been through.

"People always say that to get rid of your fears, you have to face them. People who are afraid of heights go skydiving or people who are afraid of spiders get one as a pet. And I faced death. So I'm not afraid to die.

"Because I've already done it."