Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel Comics or any of its characters. Marvel Worldwide Inc., also known as Marvel Comics is a publishing house created in 1939, its first name was Timely Publications and most of its characters belong to the superhero genre. Marvel Comics is responsible for the creation of fictional characters such as the Avengers, Deadpool, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, the X-Men and the Inhumans.

Civil War II is a comic series created by Marvel Comics, it's the sequel to Civil War I and its plot is about a new Inhuman named Ulysses who can see the future and this Inhuman is the center of attention of some Avengers like Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) who wants to use Ulysses' new powers to prevent crimes before they are committed, which is opposed to what Iron Man (Anthony Stark) thinks that it's the correct thing to do: prove that someone is truly a criminal before sending a citizen to jail. Wanda sides with Ms. Marvel and Pietro with Iron Man, after both siblings saw each other after a long time, they end up having a big fight because of their ideological differences in the matter and Wanda tells her brother that he's a sociopath and that she never wants to see him again.

Mephisto is a demon that's part of the Marvel Universe, he's an extra-dimensional demon whose origin is still unknown but he rules a fiery pocket dimension that he calls the "Hell" or "Hades". The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) took two pieces from Mephisto's soul to create her own children since Vision was an android and therefore, he couldn't sire kids. In the original plot from the comics, Mephisto just takes back the stolen pieces that belonged to his soul, Agatha Harkness casts a spell to make Wanda forget that she ever had kids and Mephisto just gets lost and never comes back to Wanda's life again but in this story... things will be much different and Pietro and Wanda will have to fight to stay together and not to let Mephisto trick them or fulfill his promise of revenge against them both. Let's now begin with the story.

War and Revenge


"Do you realize that I don't need you to keep babysitting me as if I were still the same weakling and insecure child you grew up with, right? I'm my own person and I don't need you to come here and tell me what to do or who to side with. I'm tired Pietro and I don't know if you've ever realized that part of the reasons I'm like this is because of things you encouraged me to do." Wanda, who was sipping off her tea at 4:30 pm while being seated in front of her dinner table and reading one of her favorite novels, was talking with her twin about the most important and controversial subject that had almost all of the Avengers upset, nervous, worried and on edge because of how serious it was and how much it was dividing them more and more. She didn't trust Stark, she didn't think that it was a good idea to fight for his cause or even something that should be considered an option, not when you had the chance to take a step ahead and prevent a tragedy. Besides, she was kind of tired of Pietro always telling her what to do as if she were a kid, she's now a full grown up woman, an independent heroine, an Avenger and she didn't need to be told what to think, what or who to support and if her twin couldn't get it through his thick skull, she'd make him.

"But Wanda... your powers could help us to stop a war even before it starts, before more blood is spilled, we don't need to fight against each other when we are supposed to be an united team, people out there need us to be strong, confident but mostly, they need us to be united and not divided by some crazy bitch who claims to have the universal solution to eliminate crime from society just because some guy absorbed Terrigen Mist and now has powers to see the future... a future that nobody is sure about." Pietro, who was standing in the balcony, tried vainly to reason with his stubborn sister, who refused to see reason and thought that supporting a woman who was clearly abusing of her authority was a good idea, he understood that she didn't trust Stark but supporting Danvers will only bring more deaths upon them and more innocent blood spilled and more importantly, Danvers was causing the Avengers to fight each other. He didn't like at all the idea of his beloved sister supporting someone who was creating such a massive disaster. He had to convince her to join Stark, to join him.

"When we were younger, you encouraged me to say "no more mutants" and now what? "No more fighting"? "No more dying"? I spent many years of my life jumping at the sound of your voice and doing whatever you suggested me to do and it's me who paid the price for all your bad ideas and suggestions. I'm not okay after all I've done because of your "advices", even if I don't always show it, sometimes my emotions are a total mess, so big that I feel that I can't always handle it. There are nights I can't sleep at all due to the nightmares that haunt and plague my dreams, nightmares that are more like horrible memories of everything I lost: Vision, my children, our father and the whole House of Magnus shit and I'm not even talking about the "No more mutants" crap. That last has been so far the worst. Look Pietro... I... I love you, ok? You will always have my love but... I can't just keep warping the reality with my powers every fucking time you want the "easy out" solution just because you think it's easy, that with a "no more war" things will go back to normal but..."

Wanda was suddenly interrupted and her brother appearing all of the sudden right in front of her made Wanda loosen her grip on her cup of tea, causing the delicate and beautifully painted cup to fall to the ground and shatter to pieces. She was taken by surprise and it quickly turned into anger at being interrupted and not being allowed to defend her position and she didn't know why it still surprised her that Pietro interrupted every time he didn't get his way. It has always been that way, he was arrogant and used to thinking that what he said and thought was always the best... except that now Wanda could see it clear.

"But what?! Are you seriously bringing this up now, Wanda?! Do you really think that now is the time to think about the past and not about the terrible future that this Captain Marvel Avenger is creating?! I know that the woman has good intentions and believe me, stopping criminals from committing crimes sounds like an amazing idea but it's also an idea that we are not sure it could actually work. There has to be another way, we can't just let a crazed Avenger tear us apart and start a bloody war that she won't probably be able to stop if she so chooses. We need to stay together! We are the Avengers! We cannot fail! We cannot afford to allow someone to spill..." and then, Pietro was surprised to feel his sister's hand slapping him in the face just when he was getting lost in the emotions he was feeling while he was giving Wanda his speech. She was standing now in front of him, looking at him with a look that could make the Devil himself pee in his pants. If looks could kill, Pietro was sure as hell that he would be dead by now. Just when he recovered from the impression of seeing his twin so mad at him for the first time, she interrupted him.

"Don't you dare to say what I know you're going to say, Pietro! Don't you dare to come here with your hypocrisy and think that you're better and in a higher position than the rest because you're not! All these years I listened to what you had to say as if I was some defenseless and weakling brat who couldn't fend for herself, guess what Pietro: I AM MY OWN PERSON NOW AND I DON'T NEED YOU OR ANYONE ELSE TO COME TO MY OWN HOUSE TO BOSS ME AROUND AND TELL ME WHO THE HELL DESERVES MY SUPPORT AND WHO DOESN'T! I care about you Pietro and I know that you never meant any harm to me but... you did harm me, more than I ever told you and I stopped myself from telling you how much it all has affected me because I didn't want you to think that you... that you were partially at fault for what happened and you cannot begin to imagine how it felt for me to have such a heavy burden on my shoulders during all these years." Pietro was at a loss of words to express how he felt, how much it meant to him that his sister was, unintentionally, calling him a... a monster. He knew that he wasn't perfect, he was very aware of his arrogance and how much it sometimes affected others, how much some people disliked him because of that, he wasn't an idiot and he always knew that Wanda was probably the only person in his life who was patient enough to put up with his shit and he loved her more than anything because of that, because not even his ex-wife Crystal and his daughter Luna were able to put up with all his flaws. He didn't know what the hell would he do without her and it seems like Wanda is serious this time. After a pregnant pause and after he wiped out a tear that threatened to fall down his cheek, he finally had the guts to speak.

"Wow, I... I never imagined that it was like that for you Wanda, I'm sorry, so sorry that if I could take it all back for you, I would and you know but this time is different, I'm not asking you to use your powers to make things easy for me, I'm asking you to use your powers because I'm really worried about this, I really don't want more unnecessary blood to be spilled, I know that I've fucked things up royally countless of times in the past but that's where this all belongs... it belongs to the past and... I... I don't want to dwell on it anymore. Please, Wanda just promise me that you'll at least think about this, that you will consider my offer. Please... I care about you more than I would ever admit out loud."

She never wanted to punch Pietro so hard in the face before as she does want it right now, she wanted so badly to hate him to the core for making her feel that... that... that she didn't resent him the way she has resented him during all these years. She has been mad at her twin brother because of all the things he's done to her, for all those so called "advices" that he gave to her just to realize that those advices only led to horrible things that could have been easily prevented had she been strong, independent and confident enough to look for a solution by herself and without him. It was the cold and hard truth that not even she wanted to fully accept, because that would mean that they would be better off without the other and... as mad as she could be at Pietro, she couldn't easily ignore the decades they spent together, all those years ago when they were like the oxygen the other needed to breathe and keep moving on. He was undoubtedly her other half and she'd be damned if she ever let herself hate him but it doesn't mean that she had to keep her mouth shut instead of standing up to him to show him that she didn't need to be looked after as if she were a child anymore.


She had enough and she didn't want this fight to escalate to a level where things could get worse and worse and... where they need to finally get the hell away from the other for who knows how long. "What are you sorry for, Pietro?! Are you sorry for coming to my own house and trying to force your views upon me or for everything you have ever done to me?! There are a lot of things you should feel sorry for, you don't imagine Pietro how much I have suffered because of the decisions you made me make and it's not something you can get rid of easily, it's a scar that will always be there, it doesn't matter how much I try to heal those wounds, many of them still keep bleeding and sometimes... I don't know how to make it all stop, how to forget everything, you know? Sometimes, I wish to go to sleep one night and wake up the next morning to find that absolutely everything you and I fucked up is now fixed, that all we ever wanted is still there waiting for us to go for what we always dreamed of, that we could be like we used to be long before everything went to hell. I know that you feel sorry and that you never meant to fuck me up the way you did but... have you ever heard a saying that says "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"? Because that quote can be applied to you, it's exactly what you have done Pietro."

Wanda felt as if she was being stabbed right through her heart, it hurt more than she imagined initially to muster the courage she needed to tell Pietro what she wanted him to know. They were twins for God's sake! They were born together and they've been together for who knows how long, it was heartbreaking how much they needed this and how painful it was for the both of them to tell the truth to the other in the face, especially when the truth is as cold and hard as every metal Magneto could control. The tears were threatening to fall down Wanda's cheek and she obviously wore a teary look in her face but this was needed and Pietro needed to grow up once and for all, he couldn't keep pretending that everything was the same as before. Things have changed in their lives and so have them. She felt her legs trembling and she wasn't sure for how long she could keep her facade of a strong and tough girl. She needed this to be over as soon as possible.

"Listen Pietro, I don't want to extend this for longer than necessary, it won't do any good to you or me but this is the truth and we can't keep pretending that everything can be the same as it used to be. I don't expect you to understand because it's more than obvious that you will never understand my position or what I stand for, I just expect you to be civilized and mature enough to leave me alone to make my own decisions without you giving me any of your "good" advices about how should I make things. We have seen how well your advices have worked and how brilliant are your ideas. Don't take any of this as a personal offense but it's the cold and hard truth you have to live with. You can't expect me to live up to your decisions and ideas for all my life because I have wasted many years of it doing such a thing. If you have nothing else to say about this subject, I suggest that you either change the topic or just leave my house before things go sour."

Pietro wanted to say something, anything to convince his sister of his position. Was Wanda that naive to think that an "easy" solution like the one Ulysses and Danvers are proposing is going to be achieved? If there was something Pietro learnt the hard way, it was that "easy" solutions were as good as selling your soul to the Devil himself. It always ended up in a massive disaster and most of the time, those solutions backfired horribly in everyone's faces when people are least prepared to deal with the consequences for those decisions.

Karma always came back to bite your ass like a bitch and he didn't want Wanda to go through any of that, she was right about him suggesting things in the past that were not good and that backfired in their faces when they were least prepared for them but those harsh experiences have taught him that sometimes, it was better to fix a problem long before it turns into a real problem and he couldn't understand how someone as smart as Wanda was unable to see it. "Wanda, I know that I have failed to be a good or even a decent brother, I know that I should have never asked you to do those things that I made you do but... this is different, I swear that I'm not looking forward to use you as some magical weapon to clean up my mess. I'm committed to help as many people as possible and after spending so many years seeing how a war could affect others, I just don't want more people dying. Wanda, you're way smarter than you think you are and I know you don't want to kill others unless you're left with no other option. Don't you see that this whole "predicting the future" shit is going to lead to a major calamity? Is that hard for you to realize where this is going? Please Wanda, you can stop this before it even happens, we don't need to go through another civil war, we don't need to turn against each other, we don't..."

Wanda was done with trying to be patient with Pietro. The jackass wasn't getting through his thick-headed brain that she didn't fucking need his pity or "protection"! When was he going to get through his head that she was an independent woman now, that she could easily fend for herself and deal with the consequences of her own decisions?! HER decisions. HER actions. She was done listening to whatever Pietro always told her and she knew because of her own past experiences that Pietro's ideas were as good as drinking a bottle full of acid. This was going to be over one way or another.

"SHUT THE HELL UP! I FUCKING TOLD YOU THAT I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY, I DON'T NEED YOU OR ANYONE ELSE TO LOOK AFTER ME AND I DEFINITELY DON'T FUCKING NEED YOU TO TELL ME IN MY OWN DAMN HOUSE HOW SHOULD I DEAL WITH MY PROBLEMS, WHO DESERVES TO HAVE MY SUPPORT AND WHO DOESN'T, I'M DONE WITH LISTENING TO YOU AND I DON'T FUCKING CARE HOW SORRY YOU MAY BE NOW, IN A COUPLE OF DAYS, YOU WILL BE BACK TO BEING THE SAME ARROGANT ASSHOLE WHO THINKS HE'S THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ANYONE! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE HOW MUCH YOU HAVE WRONGED ME THROUGHOUT THESE YEARS?! ARE YOU THAT MUCH OF A SELFISH JERK NOT TO SEE IT?! DO YOU WANT ME TO GET YOUR ASS OUT OF MY HOUSE WITH VIOLENCE OR DO YOU WANT TO LEAVE ON YOUR OWN FREE WILL?! YOU CAN CHOOSE AND I SUGGEST THAT YOU DO IT NOW BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO THROW YOU OUT THE FUCKING WINDOW TO WHO KNOWS WHERE!"

And at this point, almost every single object Wanda had in her house was flying everywhere and threatening to hit whoever got in the way, causing the victim some serious injury and if it wasn't because Pietro's gift was thinking and moving to supersonic speeds, he would have gotten himself a concussion by just trying to avoid the flying table that headed in his direction. Whether Wanda was doing all of this on purpose or unintentionally, it didn't change the fact that she definitely meant to hurt him this time. That fact alone hurt him way more than any flying object that flew toward him could ever succeed in hurting him. Wanda was seeing him as though he were her enemy rather than her twin brother. A brother that failed a lot of times and a brother that made her do things he should have never asked her to do and he learnt his lesson but still... it hurts him to see how shredded and destroyed was their bond.

He would have never imagined that someday, he would have a fight of this level with his sister of all people. If it wasn't because he didn't have enough time to lock himself alone in a room to cry to death, he would have drowned himself in a pool made of his own tears. He would never admit it but Wanda and Luna were possibly the only people in this world whose hate and rejection toward him could hurt him more than any of the enemies he's faced before. What hurt him even more was the fact that Wanda was right about most of the things she said about him, of course that his pride would always stop him from openly showing regret but it didn't mean that he wasn't dying on the inside. Even though, he would not give up easily, he was as determined as her to stand for what he believed in, if she was going to put up a fight, he was going too. She wasn't going to be the only one who dared to hurt the only family she had left to defend her point.

He started to run in circles around her using his supersonic speed, he knew that what he was doing to his own sister was wrong on so many levels but truth be told, she didn't hesitate in using her mystical powers to make every single object inside her house go crazy and start flying toward him, she knew how much she could have hurt him physically and emotionally and yet, she used her powers against him and he didn't need to be a fucking genius to know that Wanda was being dead serious, she wanted him to feel hurt, she resented him and as hard and painful as it was for him, Wanda was acting like she hated him. She didn't leave him with any other option, he needed to survive and protect her at any cost, even if she didn't want to be protected by him anymore. She was his twin sister and she would always be, no matter how much she hates him now due to all the shit they both have been through and how much she blames him for literally everything without acknowledging some degree of responsibility too.

Sometimes you need to be a little harsh to make the ones you love the most see what's wrong and he was convinced that this Captain Marvel was definitely wrong and she was dragging Wanda to a path that was dangerous for her and a path he wasn't sure Wanda could come back from. "You've always needed someone to look after you, dear sister. Allow me to be that person, I promised it to our parents and it doesn't matter to me how much you hate my overprotective nature when it comes to you, I'll always be there for you even if you hate me with every fiber of your being. I won't allow any asshole to drag you down a path you shouldn't follow and I won't rest until I make you see the error of Danvers' ways! I love you, Wanda and nothing you do will ever change that!" Wanda was finding it difficult to keep her breathing at a normal pace due to how much she was stressing her lungs to stop the oxygen from leaving her body, Pietro may not be a powerful mutant when compared to her but he definitely knew how to use his seemingly "simple" power as a weapon when he needed or wanted it.

To say that Wanda felt outraged, hurt and insulted was not necessary, the whole scene going on spoke volumes about how bad she felt. One part of her wanted to kill her brother for daring to hurt her in such a violent way when he always swore to protect her at any cost but another part of her could understand partially that Pietro was hurting physically and emotionally and that what he was doing to her was the equivalent of a little kid throwing a temper tantrum because his or her parents didn't give the kid a candy that he or she wanted to eat before dinner. However, it didn't cause Wanda's hardened heart to soften, on the contrary, it only hardened even more than ever before. This was war and it was only starting, she needed to be prepared to fight her fellow heroes when the time came and there was not a better physical and emotional training than battling her own brother to death, even if the fight started off as a verbal argument with some disagreements. It was obvious that they were too different now, they've changed and their bond wasn't the same.

"Don't bother in trying to protect me, dear brother! I don't need it! The only person who can protect me right now is myself and I'm my own best friend, my own family and I DON'T WANT YOU ANYMORE!" And with that said, she fired a bright scarlet ray from her hand that sent Pietro flying out her window and she fired it without the slightest hesitation. She was done with everything related to Pietro, she wasn't going to fool herself and say that she didn't feel a damn thing but she couldn't pretend that she didn't see an outcome like that coming. It has been years since Wanda and Pietro stopped having the same strong bond they used to have back when they were running from one place to another every time Wanda's powers got out of control and joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants under Magneto's leadership. After she stole those pieces of Mephisto's soul to magically sire her own children and Pietro refused to attend to hers and Vision's wedding, things have started to change between them and they worsened even more after Pietro convinced her to warp reality to create a new world where everyone got what they wanted, regardless of what SHE wanted really, the whole "no more mutants" shit was the worst of all the things she's ever done and there wasn't a fucking day when she didn't regret having done such an atrocious thing. It was true that she loathed Magneto for caring more about his terrorist cause than for his children but now, she also hated Pietro for making her do things she never intended to do and causing her all those regrets that haunted and plagued her entire life.


Even so, there was still a small part of her that refused to let go of the past. A tiny part of her that still clung to Pietro and would always see him as her hero, her supporter, her protector, her brother... her other half and she wanted so bad to hate herself for it, she wanted so bad to kill that small and childish part of her soul that ached for Pietro's physical and emotional presence in her life. She would never admit it to anyone, not even to herself but... she missed him a lot, even when she didn't want to miss him, she missed him terribly. She knew that Pietro really loved her with all of his whole being and she would always know that, he meant every word of it all and as hard as she might try, she knew that deep down in her heart, she could never hate Pietro really or forget about him, it was impossible for her to forget everything about the one person who knew her better than everyone else could ever hope to, someone who's seen her best and worst sides and knew what she was truly capable of when angered. The person who was born with her and shared her whole shitty life with her, it was true that a lot of the crap they both have gone through was because of Pietro's bad decisions but even if she didn't admit it to him, she knew that at some extent, she was partially responsible for those things too because after all she was the one with warping-reality powers and the changes she made to the original reality wouldn't have been possible had it not been due to her mystical powers.

She knew that she should be held responsible but Pietro also needed to be reminded of how much it hurt her the fact that he knew she would always listen to anything that came from his mouth and yet, he took advantage of it and it was what hurt her the most, so much that part of the nightmares she had involved the hurt and heartbreak she suffered because of Pietro taking advantage of her. She felt betrayed by him, even if he never meant to backstab her and whether she tried her best to control her emotions or not, it still hurt and it hurt even more when Pietro said the words I love you, Wanda and nothing you do will ever change that! Why the hell did he have to say such strong words?! And why did he choose a fight like this to say those words?! Why did he have to remind her how much she still loved him and would always love him regardless of all the shit they've done to each other?! Why did she still have to love him and crave for him so badly?! A tear fell down her cheek without Wanda noticing or even feeling it, she was drained of all her energy and it was a miracle that she hadn't fainted yet. Without Wanda being aware of this, her seemingly self-conscious mouth said

I love you too... Pietro.