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There are some things you survive. And there are some things that survive you. Y/N never expected to become a hero. At fifteen, she was just a girl from Mystic Falls who survived the car accident that killed both of her parents. Her aunt moved back to town to raise her and her younger brother, and for a little while, Y/N thought maybe losing her parents would be the worst thing life could ever do to her. She was wrong. After her sixteenth birthday, strange things began happening. Objects moved when she was angry. Lights flickered when she was frightened. She could feel something inside her that she couldn’t explain—a power that had been sleeping in her blood for generations. Her family had secrets. Her mother had been a witch. Her grandmother had been a witch. And the women in Y/N’s family had carried the same ancient bloodline for generations. With nothing but old family journals, spellbooks, and a half-understood family tree, Y/N taught herself magic. She learned what she could control, what she couldn’t, and what she should never attempt. For the first time since losing her parents, she wasn’t alone. She had her aunt, her little brother, and two best friends who knew her secret and never looked at her differently because of it. Then HYDRA found her. They weren’t interested in turning her into something. They wanted to find out what she already was. Unlike mutants or enhanced individuals whose abilities could potentially be replicated, Y/N’s power was something HYDRA couldn’t manufacture. It was ancient, natural, and impossible to reproduce. So they tried to control it. When Y/N refused, HYDRA took everything from her. Her best friends were killed. Her aunt was killed. Her little brother was killed. Everyone who had ever made her feel safe was ripped away from her until there was nothing left for her to lose. Or so they thought. Y/N was seventeen when HYDRA took her. For nearly two years, she was imprisoned, tortured, experimented on, conditioned, drugg