SANGUINE. 🩸

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder? — Richard Silken

"ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT'S ME, ELLIE," she would call out to the sky— or rather, to the pale plaster of her bedroom ceiling— every night before bed. "WHY, WHY, WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE JUST MADE ME NORMAL?"

This plea had become a recurring refrain, a whispered mantra in the prayers Eloise Earnshaw now found herself offering to the heavens. Yes, Ellie was praying. She was desperate, craving even the smallest taste of normalcy in her anything-but-normal life.

Between the bruising battles of sophomore year, academic decathlon, her mother coming out of her so-called retirement from anything Avenger-related, and, of course, the sharp, relentless ache of growing up and becoming a woman, Ellie felt she was barely holding herself together. She was stumbling, wading knee-deep through a world that seemed ready to cut her down at every turn.

And just when she thought things couldn't bleed her any further, her body betrayed her, too. Crimson arrived in a flash— a reminder of everything she was supposed to carry. She felt like she was hemorrhaging her sanity, little by little.

It was as if the universe was bent on proving that the life coursing through her veins came with a cost. That normalcy was something that she would never truly know. And Ellie Earnshaw could never seem to catch a break. Poor girl.

LOLA TUNG ྐ✚ ELOISE JANE EARNSHAW
Bloody Mary

Constance Earnshaw  /  Jessica Henwick
Peter Parker  /  Tom Holland
James 'Bucky' Barnes  /  Sebastian Stan

Kendra Saunders   /   Jaz Sinclair
Rachel Pike   /   Janelle Monáe
Cameron Toomes   /   Keith Powers

SANGUINE | i. heads will roll, yeah yeah yeahs, ii. there is a light that never goes out, the smiths, iii. what's up?, 4 non blondes, iv. ode to my family, the cranberries, v. bloody mary, lady gaga, vi. i can't handle change, roar, vii. wake me up when september ends, green day viii. don't speak, no doubt, ix. apple, charli xcx, x. keep their heads ringin', dr. dre, xi. dreams, the cranberries, xii. chiquitita, abba, xiii. brutal, olivia rodrigo, xiv. dark red, steve lacy, xv. if i fell, the beatles, xvi. there she goes, the la's, xvii. cinnamon girl, lana del rey, xviii. taking what's not yours, tv girl, xix. why did it have to be me, abba, xx. vienna, billy joel

DISCLAIMER. I do not own the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I only own Ellie and Connie Earnshaw, my other original characters, and my plotlines. This book will have mentions to blood, violence, swearing, sexual references, and death.

DEDICATIONS. To croucify , you're an absolute angel. Thank you for always listening. Also to -saturnlove aurunium captainsmarveI , poedamerongf , -goldcigo <3

NOTE. I've revised this fic one too many times to count. This is the final iteration. I swear

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