May your heart remain breakable
But never by the same hand twice

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   I'm sitting on the edge of the building, eating sandwich and looking through the tracker I put on her, it was in Greenwich Village when I lost track of her, two hours after she appeared in Hong Kong, London, and now, Kathmandu, Nepal.

   "Maybe our tiny tracker is bugged?" I asked Karen, swinging my legs, underneath me was busy New York city at night.

   "That is not possible Peter."

   "Then what is it...? What kind of technology could do this? Mr. Stark would just get on his luxury jet.... Cap doesn't know how to use his phone.... Thor also can't, at least not with his mjolnir. Can Wanda Maximoff teleport?"

   "Not on my record."

   "What about the rabbit she pulled out of her hat?"

   "There's a video on YouTube of how to do that, do you want to see it?"

   "Sure." She then showed me the video. "But it involves table..." I said. "He snuck the rabbit in when he put the hat down on the table, but she was standing."

   I stood up and put my mask back on, and put all the junk into a plastic bag. I than jumped off the building, made my way down to reach the surface, threw the plastic bag into the bin, and started walking.

   "How come nobody noticed her until this show? It's like she was invisible before." I said as a girl noticed me on the sidewalk. She asked me for a selfie. "Sure!" I said, making a peace sign for the picture.

   "Do you want me to make a report to Tony Stark? Perhaps he could help with your questions." Karen asked me as I continued walking.

   "Nah." I ran and climbed up my apartment. "I better find some solid evidence first, I made him proud with the whole Vulture thing, I better not let him down now."

   When I climbed inside the room through the window May was there in my room.

   "We have doors." She said.

   "Evening May!" I jumped inside the room, taking my mask off.

   "I don't understand why would you sneak in when I already know about your particular hobby. Just use the front door Peter." she looked so annoyed of me.

   "I can't risk anyone seeing me enter the apartment, they'll know I live here, May, you're not going to believe this--"

   "You have money for our rent?"

   "Ugh...No?"

   "Because I don't either, and today was a complete disaster. Can you believe someone hit and ran our car? And the insurance won't pay for it, you know why?"

   "I don't know... Why...?"

   "BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE INSURANCE."

   May rubbed her head and sat down slowly on the couch, keys and wallet on the table. I have come to realized how ridiculous I was, when my aunt was here trying to deal with the whole family. I sat next to her.

   "Hey." I patted her shoulder. "Is there a way I can help you? I could do some part time job..."

   "No, it's okay, Peter." She said and put her hand on mine. "I'll take care of it. You're still young, enjoy your time here, okay? You already have so much to take care of."

   "How bad is the car? Can you still drive it?" I asked softly, putting my head on her shoulder.

   "Yes. But it's going to look awful until I can find money to fix it."

   "Or a time machine... reverse it back good as new..." I muttered. A time machine could be a great thing.

   Not just the car, but Ben.

   My parents.

   Family.

   Wonder if the strangely mysterious Strange could also do that?

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   "Dad, can I please read The book of Cagliostro?" Little Strange said with her head tilted to the side, she was sitting on the couch, a blanket wrapped around her.

   "For the four time this week. It's a no." Doctor Stephen Strange at his table, his eyes stared at his books. The father and the daughter Strange was in Sanctum Sanctorum in New York.

   "That's not fair. Why can you read that but I can't." She pouted, then she patted her rabbit, (Rabbit/Name)'s head that was on her lap, the same white rabbit she used in her school show.

   "Because the book of cagliostro, is a study of time, and you don't want to mess with time."

   "I just wanna learn more."

   "You have school."

   "Not that kind of learning, I want to be better, like you."

   "Everything you want to learn, I'll teach you all of them, just not about time, never about time. Have you read on astral projection yet? That's the basic."

   "I finished it long way ago." She rolled her eyes, then, she removed her spirit from her body and popped up with her astral body behind her father's back. "Boo!" Her real body was on the couch, fainted.

   "Wow. So scary." He said in the most boring tone ever.

   "Ugh. Fine." She rolled her eyes and moved her soul back to her body, she woke up and fed the rabbit some carrots.

   "How was school today?" He asked.

   "People was surprised I exist." She replied.

   "But you did win the showcase, right?"

   "Oh, people were crazy about it. It was just simple tricks." She shrugged.

   "Well, you're famous now. I'm happy for you."

   "I didn't even want to perform, but they said if I don't my club will be shut down. So I had to let people see me."

   "Why did you caste a spell so nobody notice you anyway?"

   "I hate people."

   "You are people."

   "Exactly." (Y/n) smiled.

   He put his book away and walked closer, his cloak got itself off of Doctor Strange's shoulder and stayed there when he sat next to her. "Do we need to talk?"

   "No. Why?"

   "Well. First, you don't have any friends."

   "Coming from you, haha." She scoffed, but he looked at her intensely. "Hey. I can have friends if I want to, okay? I just prefer not to."

   "You're scared to lose them again."

   "No. I'm not."

   "(Y/n). I know why you've been obsessed with the learning of time and what can we do with it, but trust me, you can't mess with it. You could not manipulate space-time and get someone back."

   "..." She stood silent.

   "He's gone. And I would do anything to get him back for you if that can cheer you up, but I can't. We do not temper with natural law, they cause consequences."

   She avoided to look at her father in the eyes, her rabbit was still sleeping soundly on her lab, the room was quiet until she finally said. "You don't know that." It was almost a whisper.

   "You have to let him go." His voice was cold although his heart was kind, his grey eyes stared at her face, watching the look of a hurt person. "Promise me you won't try."

   "Yeah. Okay." She lied then held the rabbit up in the palm of her hand. "C'mon, (R/n). Let's get to bed." When she stood up her floating cloak, the twin of the one Doctor Strange has but a smaller flied at her and placed itself on her shoulder, she walked out of the room and Stephen yelled after her.

   "GET YOURSELF A FRIEND."

   "I HAVE MY RABBIT AND NETFLIX, WHO NEED FRIENDS?" She yelled back.

   (Y/n) Strange walked up the wooden stairs, her cloak was red and long, it touched the floor, under it she was wearing dark blue outfit, around her waist tied with crimson rope that define her rank as a apprentice in a group of master of mystic arts, and a boot that made gentle sounds when she took a step.

   She reached her room in the New York Sanctum Sanctorum, her bedroom was unlike the usual teenager's, all walls was bookshelf filled up with books about magic, her bedroom was just a comfortable piece of mattress. At one corner was a rabbit house, she put her rabbit inside, patted its head and for the first time into the story, she smiled from her heart. "You did well today at the showcase." She told it.

   The rabbit sniffed her hand then it ran back in her little home for another round of sleep.

   'I should sleep too' she thought. School would still happen tomorrow and it would make her depressed just like all the other days before. She took her bath and just stood there in the middle of the room, she look at the nightstand.

   She could go to bed, then perform astral projection and use her soul to watch the whole season of some random TV Show in netflix for the whole night, when she wakes up her body will be fully rested but her soul will filled with leftover emotions from that show, and tonight she didn't want that.

   She changed her mind, grabbed her sling ring and, closing her eyes, made a gateway, in just 3 second later she was in Hong Kong.

   Her destination was Wong. She needed to see him. She might be able to convince him to teach her about time if she suggested him some Beyonce songs.

   He wasn't there, she made another portal to London, he wasn't there neither, she made her last portal to Kama-Taj. She found him finally in the middle of the night in the library

   "Wong." She called out, he looked at her and his eyes widened.

   "(Y/n)? What are you doing here?"

   "I came to see you." She smiled, and put a book down on the table. "I read this one already."

   "Is Strange here, too?" He looked around.

   "No... I snuck out."

   "Again?" He signed like he knew her well. "You are pushing yourself too hard to fix your lungs... Just like your father, he was for his hands... Which book do you want?"

   "The book of Caglio---"

   "It's a no from me."

   "Jesus, calm down Simon Cowell." She groaned.

   "Your father and I already discussed about this. You are allowed to be a master of mystic arts and learn all kind of art, but one thing, time. Do not mess with time. Its teaching are for above a master of your skill level." He put his arms on his waist like an angry mum.

   "I just want to read it, I wouldn't do anything with "time"." She said with finger air quotes.

   "No. No way."

   "Yonce's new album is soooo lit, have you heard it?"

   "Those tricks won't work on me anymore."

   "How about Madonna? Just Madonna like just Wong." You asked.

   "No!" He shouted aggressively, then, asked back. "Who's Madonna?"

   "You know, Bitch I'm Madonna? QUEEN. You're gonna love her songs, and I'll tell you all about her if you would just... let me have a quick look of the book." She stared at him with a smile.

   "..." He stared back.

   "..." She stared back also. Please work. Please work. Please work. She repeated in her mind.

   "Fine. Just for tonight." He said. "And under my watch."

   "Yes! You're the best!"

   She spent the whole night in the library with Wong, reading The book of Cagliostro, it was all very exciting and challenging, when her sleepiness crept up she fell asleep on the couch then projected her Astral body out and continued the book, Wong said it could be very dangerous if her soul couldn't find it's way back to the body, but (Y/n), as persistent as the bigger version of her, didn't care.

   "Wong. Some pages were torn out." She told him.

   "Oh. You know. Kaecilius. Dormammu."

   "I mean, dad mentioned him but not all the details." She shrugged, then she continued reading, all spells and charms of this book require something, a green glowing stone.

   "Wong."

   "What?" He took of his earphone, a little annoyed, the little sounds came out of, he was listening to like a virgin.

   "What is an eye of Agamotto?" She asked him.

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