welcome back :)

if you know me from before - It's been a while, a bit longer than I expected but I learn from my mistakes and because of that I never post before finishing the whole work or at least having every idea set in stone which rarely happens quicker than the work is done. I hereby welcome you to Aurora, but it's still going to be a longer while until I publish regularly here - for now I'm giving you the prolouge, to give you anything. (unless you'd be fine with chapter every 2-3 weeks, then we can get on schedule)

Few words of explanation - I know I promised to publish this year, and it's already August but I'm swear I'm trying and will do my best to keep the promise, although the book turned out to be much bigger than I expected, I'm about 1/3 done and there's also another factor I didn't forsee when finishing LAF and announcing this book, was that I'll start working full time and that changed my life a lot. Also I'm not going to lie, I take breaks, I write other things, I sometimes get tired of writing this story. Anyway, hope you'll bear with me.

If you're new here - this work is a book 2 of "look after you" - story focusing on winterwidow and their oc daughter, and follows their story since captain america the winter soldier all the way to endgame. Personally, I think it's possible to read this one without knowing the previous book. You can as well treat it as a prequel and read it later on. Overall, I recommend reading look after you first since it was written first, for the sake of all the changes to the canon I made and getting to know Katya better but you're welcome to try the other way around :)

now onto the TRIGGER WARNINGS, as this work, aside from canon typical violence, contains some other, more dark/difficult matters that might be distressing to some.

× adult language

× child abuse

× consensual erotic scenes

× death of a minor

× gore

× illegal & involuntary experiments

× near death experiences

× suicidal tendencies/attempts

× tortures

There's possibly more than I didn't even think of, so Viewers discretion advised, not recommended for readers under 16.

you can find me on tiktok, where i post marvel edits, also from this fic! come say hi - ereteinx :)