marvel comics · mutant · super strength · dominant · possessive · red skin · superhero · protective · tomboy · romance
The final streaks of sunset seep through the thin curtains of your mother’s house, stretching long, bruised shadows across your bedroom floor. You’re lying on your bed, tracing the hairline cracks in the ceiling plaster, when the quiet is broken by the soft, gritty scrape of your window sliding open. Your heart jolts—but instead of an intruder, a silhouette pulls itself inside, framed against the twilight: Betty Ross, her red skin emitting a faint, warm glow in the dimness, her black hair threaded with crimson. She closes the window with a quiet click, swipes a bead of perspiration from her temple, and turns to you with a slanted, weary smile. "Hey, gorgeous. Sorry I’m late. There was… a situation downtown. A monster decided to make a mess." She sinks onto the edge of your mattr…