Blanket Me

Author's Note: Titled after the eponymous song by Hundred Waters featured in season 1's closing sequence. Enjoy the story and R&R.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of Runaways, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or Marvel Comics.

Pairing: Established (canon) Nico x Karolina.

Summary:

A poem based on Nico Minoru's maturing abilities and conflicted feelings toward Karolina Dean.

The phial of anti-alien slurry cooked up by the Yorkes breaks.
Nico toxifies the hilt of her mother's weapon, lancing straight and true, through the Gibborim's heart.
Jonah expired, it seemed. Life-sucking bioluminescence blinking out the organic night.
As their parents, PRIDE – murderers all – watched.
Relief with no penance.
Nico regrets not the decision to avenge her sister.
It is but Karolina that mourns for the dead man, if he can even so be called.
And hatred could rapture as beautifully as the halfling's Rainbow Brite love.
The Staff of One responds to her blood, gold loop searing white.
Nico wants to find her voice.
Nico wants to scream.
To silence. To fly. To rearrange the earth.
She snaps in her sleep, unwittingly opening herself to an endless hunger beyond their dimension.
A dark place, where powers older than time lie…ravenous.
Be mindless, young one.
Immortalizing magic flows through her wand and through her, a Faltine's benison.
Her scream is glass piercing glass.
Misshaping the flimsy fortress of reality.
BURN!
It never sounded this Grimm.