Summary: Pietro's thoughts a while after Wanda's memories get messed with. T for one F-bomb- I'm warning you now.
Pietro knows very well the reason that Professor X's gaze turns sad when he sees Wanda. The X-Morons are curious- often looking askance at Wanda or, in Lance's girlfriend's case (he never can remember her name) talking to her. But they never figure it out, because they only know the new Wanda.
Wanda is different now. She's…not really Wanda. She doesn't remember that she hated both him and her father for abandoning her in that asylum (well-deserved hate, he's willing to admit); she's forgotten finding all those letters he wrote and hid in his room, or that he found her with reading them with tears in her eyes; she doesn't remember Lance closing her door whenever she broke down bawling in the night; she doesn't remember the mysterious chocolates- always her favorite- that mysteriously appeared on her windowsill, nor does she remember Toad quickly hopping away the one time she caught him; she doesn't remember the day that she refused to get out of bed due to a crying-headache, and Blob serenely taking her everywhere she needed to go, including school…complete with bed.
Magneto erased all of that- erased the pain-filled, fiercely independent, broken-but-mending girl that she was, erased the toughness that she'd built up and the value of all of the memories that the others knew but could never tell. He turned her into a girl so attached to Magneto that she could never, never be independent again- and nearly killed her (if he hadn't been there he would have crushed her alive).
Damn that fucking rat bastard.
OK, I admit, that last line was my exact thought when I watched Mastermind approach Wanda in "The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" while her father says that hopefully her mind wouldn't be too damaged from the process. I started hating him then.
