A/N: First things first, the title of this story is by the Backstreet Boys of the same title name. Second, the Title chapter is by Gabrielle Aplin of the same song as I felt the lyrics fit for these two characters. Lastly, I've had this vision of what happened at the end of the first episode of The Brave, I just wasn't expecting to add on another chapter until the mid-season Finale. My character is also a character that I'm developing for a new story, however, that will be a Steve/OC pairing but it's nowhere near finish so I won't be posting that anytime soon. So, please enjoy and let me know what you guys think about this.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters, they belong to their respective owners. I only own my own character
Chapter One: Start Of Time
Wanda 'Scarlet Witch' Maximoff laughed as she plopped down on the towel that was spread out, using her telekinesis to get the water off of her. Selene 'Echo' Quill merely rolls her eyes at her friend, moving from laying on her stomach to a sitting position, stretching out her arms above her, tilting her head back to the warmth of the afternoon sun. The two mutants have decided to take a little vacation after a bit of altercation with a few Avengers members–and her brother, who had decided to visit her out of the blue. They didn't tell anyone where they were going and they had made sure that FRIDAY promised–as well as asking Pepper Potts to have FRIDAY swear–was not going to say a word to anyone about where they had gone.
Selene had picked Karatas, Turkey having loved the city and country when she had visited while she had a few jobs here and there in the country and once in that city. Wanda was loving it as well, loving the all-around warm weather rather than the cold months from her home country or that of New York. She had always felt that she was too pale for her own good and loved that she was now bronzing like her fellow friend and sometimes Avenger teammate.
"That very nice looking man keeps looking over at you." Wanda teased as she applied more sunscreen to her now golden skin.
"Don't start, Wanda," she warned, leaning back on her hands, her own golden-bronze skin shining with sweat.
Wanda hummed in amusement, looking at the man with a grin, despite that he wasn't interested in her. "He's American, in the military–loves kids and his name is Captain Adam Michael Dalton."
"Stop reading his mind!" Selene told her friend with a glare.
Wanda laughs, shoving her hands into her red hair to put it up, "Loosen up! We are far away from any danger! What could possibly go wrong?!"
The older woman groans, looking at the younger girl, "You just jinxed us!"
Wanda was about to retort when they heard a dog start to bark and a noise that did not belong on the beach. Both women turned and saw a speeding truck just as the man, Adam, started yelling at his group about the kids and that everyone needed to run. Both women got up to their feet as both tourists, locals, and the few American military men and women that were on the beach started to follow the instructions from Adam. Their instinct of what they are about to do and adrenaline rushing through their veins had them react quickly and without any consequences of what they were about to do.
Just as the truck entered the area everyone was at, it exploded, however, Wanda was able to contain the blast like she had done with Crossbones in Lagos. She was struggling as the blast is larger than it was with Crossbones, the woman bending her knees slightly from the pressure of holding on. Selene moved her right hand in front of the vehicle and a wide antique mirror appeared, showing the darkness and twinkling of faraway stars of outer space, the only safe place that she could think of. All those that have been running had stopped, watching the scene before them with wonder and some fear.
"Through the mirror, Scar!" Selene told the younger woman, struggling to hold the wider mirror open herself as she had to bring up her other hand.
With a cry, Wanda threw the bomb into space, dropping her shield from the explosion. The blast continued on regular time and Selene closed the mirror before the blast or particles can come through, both women panting as they thought of what they had just done. The two women start to laugh breathlessly, seeming to think that they cannot get a break from saving people from the bad guys–even when the bad guys were just regular people with no special powers or aliens.
"Hey!" Adam yelled, bringing the women to the present.
"Run!" Selene whispered in panic as she snapped up her head at the man.
The two ran as fast as they can, Wanda using her telekinesis to gather their things. "Stop! I just want to talk!" Adam yelled at them.
Selene looked back and noticed he was gaining on them, "Shit!" turning back around, she threw her hand out and an antique mirror to their hotel room appeared. "Go! Go!"
Wanda ran through first and Selene had just done so when a strong hand took hold of her left wrist. Immediately she threw up her right hand, mirrors appearing in all directions to cover both Wanda and their room should he recognize it, as well as making sure that none of the mirrors showed her face. They were both panting heavily, Selene easily knowing that the man was not about to let her go anytime soon.
"Scar, go! I'll meet up with you!"
"Are you sure?" her voice echoed and was distorted by the mirrors, "I can make him let you go."
Selene felt his hand tensed, "Go, I got this."
With a tensed silence, a door finally closed after the other woman. "Why don't you just close the portal?" Adam questioned curiously, stopping his team from coming closer.
"I don't doubt that you value your arm and need it as much as the next person." Selene can feel the pause he took as he realized her meaning, "You said you wanted to talk, what do you want?"
Adam was quiet, trying to see her face but not able to see anything, "Thank you for saving us, even when you didn't need to."
"You mean because there are people who hate us?" Selene accused, "Yeah, well, we're not the bad guys here. We were just on vacation and we saw innocent people in danger, we did what we always do."
Adam frowned, knowing that there was one or maybe even two of his team members that didn't like the mutants–no, they despised the mutants if their weapons pointing at the woman that had saved their lives. So, Adam did the one thing the woman did not expect–he let her wrist go. Selene can feel the ripple in her powers that meant the man had moved his arm back to his side of the mirror, meaning she can close the portal.
So, why didn't she?
Instead, the woman summoned mirrors to surround the man and make the ones surrounding the room disappear. They both could hear his teammates crying out for him with concern, Adam telling them to calm down and to stand down. Selene takes a deep breath before she turns around and faces the curious man. She lets him roam his eyes over her very normal features, no doubt not expecting her to be so normal while other mutants have some distinctive features that seem to be out of this world.
"I didn't mean to cause you or your friend any alarm. I really do thank you for saving us and all those people–even when they are afraid of you."
Selene shakes her head, "We're used to it, even when Scar is an Avenger." she regards him for a bit before pushing her arm out of the mirror, her hand in a fist, "Should you ever require an escape, Captain Adam Michael Dalton, all you have to do is say my name into the mirror."
She opened her hand for Adam to see a miniature antique mirror–the same as the one she was talking to him through–with a small opening at the very top. He quickly took off his dog tags and opening the chain before taking hold of the mirror, the woman returning her arm to her side of the mirror. He slid the mirror into the chain and watched it fit right behind his tags, some unknown emotion making him feel like some sort of teenager.
"What is your name?" he asked, looking up at the woman.
"Echo," she regards him a bit more, smiling softly when he frowned at her. "It's Selene Quill, but they call me Echo–which is a long story."
"I'll love to hear it one day," Adam said quickly with a grin.
Selene rolls her eyes, "Maybe one day. Until then, have a good day, Captain Dalton."
"Wait, can I at least have your number?" Adam asked before she can disappear.
Selene raises an eyebrow at him, surprised by the question as she figured he didn't want anything to do with her once he found out that she was mutant. However, she can see the sincere and genuine curiosity of wanting to get to know her and figured that, perhaps, he still liked her despite what she was. With a smile–not a grin or a smirk, but a genuine smile–Selene gives him a curt nod, her aquamarine colored eyes twinkling with mischief that seemed to give Adam a thrill by the mere look.
"Check your mirror, it'll disappear after an hour," she tells him with a nod to his mini-mirror.
With that, the main mirror disappeared–along with the woman–and all the other mirrors surrounding him. His teammates rushed towards him, their weapons down but at the ready as they looked around for the mirrors to pop up again, all of them immediately asking questions at the same time. The questions didn't really irritate as much as the way how one of them had said the word mutant. He's never had a problem with the mutants, hell he's even served with some of them in the army when he first started and considered them as brothers even to this day.
"You okay?"
"What the hell happened?"
"Why did you want to talk to them?"
"What did that mutant do to you?"
Adam sighs, turning to his teammates, frowning towards Sergeant Joseph J. 'McG' McGuire who was the one that had made the comment of the mutant. "I wanted to thank them for saving not only our asses, but the kids, the tourists, and our fellow brothers and sisters as well." the other man frowns with a bit of shame, but still not liking the situation or the fact that a mutant had saved them. "Look, let's just get the hell out of here and find out who the hell had tried to kill everyone in broad daylight!"
The group of four watch their leader walk away, mixed emotions of what had just happened surrounding them before following after him. They quickly put their guns away, knowing that if police found out that they took their weapons out of their base that they were going to be in big trouble. Not to mention get America in hot water. One thing the four other members of that small group knew for sure, their leader had some sort of connection with the mutant and some of them didn't know how to feel about it or did not like it one bit. They didn't get to where they were in just sheer luck, no, they were observant of everything around them, which was needed for that group.
Further away from prying eyes of his teammates, Adam pulled out his dog tags to look down at the mirror and grinned. Written across the glass was a phone number and knew that he needed to program it into his phone as soon as possible as he wanted to talk with the unique woman somehow. He may have never dated a mutant before, but there was a first time for everything and he definitely wanted to get to know Selene Quill.
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Selene sighs as she and Wanda returned back to the Avenger's and the cold of New York, falling on to Wanda's bed, face down. Wanda chuckles as she sits next to her, watching her friend with a knowing look, although she was not able to see her at that moment. Wanda may not know what had gone on between her friend and the American man, but after Selene had found her and seemed unusually quiet, she knew that something had happened and couldn't but to gloat. After all, she did let her friend know that he liked her and was very interested in getting to know her.
"So…did you get his number?"
Selene laughed, knowing very well that's not what she wanted to ask her. "No," she rolled over to see her friend about to protest, "But he has mine."
Wanda squealed before laughing, hitting her with a pillow she took, "You are very cruel to tease me like that!"
"I couldn't help it, I'm sorry." she said, biting her lower lip to keep from smiling, "I also gave him a miniature mirror in case he needed help getting out of a sticky situation."
Wanda's eyebrows rose, "Really!? You never give those out except to friends or your brother!"
"I had a feeling that he might need it one day," the older woman tells her friend before she shakes her head and stands up from the bed with a stretch. "I'm going to go before anyone knows I'm here."
"You mean before Tony knows you're here," Wanda states with a look at her friend.
Selene laughs, grabbing her bag and opening a portal to her home. "I'll let you know if he texts me."
Wanda shakes her head at her friend but didn't comment as she walks through the mirror. She gives her a small smile and a wave before the mirror disappears and seeing an amused Steve standing in the doorway. Wanda merely grins, standing up from her own bed and going over to her friend and leader, hugging him as he hugged her back. Despite what many may think, the two were only friends–possibly a brother and sister type relationship–and nothing more. Both Avengers was okay with that.
Steve just shakes his head, "If I had her powers, I would get away from Tony as much as possible too!" Wanda laughs, pulling away from the other man, "I'm just glad you're both back, safe and nothing bad happened on your mini vacation."
Wanda flinches at that, making Steve frown, "Actually, there was a bit of an incident."
"What happened?" Steve asked, crossing his arms.
Wanda sighs and told him all that happened, to leaving when Selene told her. The whole time Steve sighs and paces around her room, taking it all in and analyzing the information, wondering if he needed Tony or Natasha, or even Maria, to try and contain what had happened. Once Wanda goes silent, Steve turns to her and sees that she was looking down, almost as though she felt that she had done something terrible and was now about to be punished.
"I'll have someone watch the footage, but if no one had their phones or camera out to record what happened, just mouth of word," he gives her a nod, which Wanda sighs in relief. "But if there was video leaked of the two of you…"
"I know," Wanda tells him softly. "We're grounded."
Steve scoffs at the word but gives her a curt nod, "Of sorts. Get some rest, and welcome home."
Smiling, Wanda watches as Steve walks out of her room before turning to her bag that held clothes for the few days they were in Turkey. "At least something good came out of this trip for one of us," she whispered with a smile. "They are good for each other, I know."