Quicksilver had finally managed to get some fitful rest. Visions of Jean, Sentinels, and his father filled his dreams. He wanted to speak to Professor Xavier, yet needed to work through his grief privately. He reflected back on his own life, looking back on what and who he was. Searching for answers and finding only more questions.
Pietro was never one to share his true feelings with others. He knew how people took his poor social skills and abruptness, but the truth was that he was just never quite comfortable enough with himself and his emotions to properly express either. It had cost him in his life, however.
Pietro always felt haunted. He and his twin sister had been raised during early childhood by wandering gypsies. They were not his true parents, and while he had feelings for them, he knew they were not of his blood. After their deaths, the two children had been raised near Wundagore Mountain by a cow-woman named Magda that was a genetically engineered creature made by the High Evolutionary. It was during this time that the mutant abilities of Pietro and Wanda had surfaced, and they learned to use their abilities in the secluded region near Wundagore.Magda had cared well for the children, but was eventually slain by Mordred the evil mystic. Again, the siblings were alone with no true idea of their pasts. Then, the two lost teen-aged siblings had wandered the Earth in search of direction.
It was when he and Wanda were nearly 20 years of age that they had met and joined with Magneto, and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto had praised the two youths and given them preferential treatment over the rest of the Brotherhood. Pietro was happy to be so accepted. Wanda, however, soon began to have misgivings about wiping out homo sapiens to allow homo superior to flourish. They had met, and fought, other mutants that had a more open view about co-existence among humans and mutants. And so, she decided to leave Magneto and his brood. Wanda was the only constant throughout Pietro's young life, so he followed with her.
The two then became heroes. They joined the Mighty Avengers and stayed busy defending the planet against whatever threatened it. Wanda seemed happy, so Pietro stayed and did his part. He had to protect his sister. It was through the Avengers that Wanda had met and married her former husband. An android, the Vision. His sister married a 'thing' that was incapable of emotion. A thing very much like the man that Pietro had grown to become. Cold and seemingly uncaring.
A few short years later, the two had learned of their true relationship to Magneto. It was a shock for both. Reasons, lies, and tragedy surrounded the true story of their lineage...but it was true. Magneto was their father. They tried to love him. He tried to gain their acceptance. In the end, it mattered not. Magneto's hungers outweighed any paternal instincts he may once have had. Both siblings realized that their father would never be able to love them as a parent should. And Pietro felt lost once more.
He married, in an attempt to make his own family. To feel that true bond he had never felt. Beautiful Crystal. An Inhuman. Together they had a child. Born completely human. No special abilities. No ability to save her own life when it mattered. Life had been good for too short a time. The marriage disintegrated after the death of their child.
Ever since, Pietro had been running. As always.
He went down to the Danger Room. He had some things to work out...the only way he knew how.
He ran.