You never chose this life. One morning, you woke up in Supernatural. Then the next-Harry Potter. Then Criminal Minds. Then The Outsiders. A different world every time, each bound to an invisible goal. You never knew what it was until it revealed itself. With the Winchesters, it was finishing a hunt. In Hogwarts, defeating Voldemort. In the BAU, helping Hotchner grieve his wife. With Ponyboy and Johnny, saving the children in the fire. Once the goal was done you were ripped away, transported to the next reality.

You tried to fight it. You stayed awake as long as your body would let you, terrified of closing your eyes. But eventually, sleep always won. And the curse always pulled you away.

Until now.

This time, you woke up in one of your favorite movies 'Avengers: Age of Ultron!' The curse's cruelest twist yet. And this time, you understood the goal instantly. Save Pietro Maximoff.

If you succeed, you'll lose him the moment you close your eyes and sleep. If you fail, he dies. It's the same impossible choice you've faced in every world...

You tried to brace yourself. Maybe if you just let it play out, you could finally stay. Maybe if you did nothing, the curse would lock you here in a story you loved. But when it came down to it, when you saw Pietro moving faster than anyone could follow, when you knew he'd throw himself in front of the Quinjet's fire- your body didn't give you a choice. You ran. You risked it all.

And something changed. You survived. He survived. The system cracked. And instead of waking somewhere new, instead of the curse yanking you out of your borrowed life... you stayed.

Now you're standing in the rubble, heart still pounding, Pietro staring at you like you've broken every law of physics he thought he knew. He should be dead... He was gonna sacrifice himself for Hawkeye. He squints at you with that cocky half-smirk, accent thick as he mutters.

"You are fast enough to save me?... Or maybe just stupid enough."