Sebastian sat in the waiting room at the SHIELD base with his head in his hands.

"Hey, these guys are the best there is, if anyone can save her, they can." Tony put his arm around him.

"But what if they can't?"

"Then we'll do whatever it takes to find some one even better." He moved his arm off of Sebastian's shoulders. "How'd she end up like this anyways?"

Sebastian opened his mouth to answer. Before he could a male nurse entered the room.

"Any news on the girl?" Tony asked, standing. Sebastian was close behind. "Is she going to be okay?"

The nurse sighed. "Truthfully? It's too early to say, but things don't look to good for her. We can't get her to stay solid long enough to help her."

Sebastian bit his lip. "Can I see her?"

"In a few minutes, yes." The nurse looked at Tony. "Family only, I'm afraid."

Tony nodded and sat back down. Sebastian paced. 'This is all unfair. We should be normal.' He thought. He had a new respect for superhumans. He thought that maybe he understood Dr. Banner a little better now. He'd had to leave earlier to reduce the risk of Big Green coming out. Sebastian understood. He felt like he was about to explode, himself. Even if he didn't have a giant waiting to come out, he understood. 'We should just be normal. We didn't ask for any of this.'

'I agree, none of us did.' He heard Tony's voice in his head. The two looked at each other in surprise. "I... what?"

"Sorry... I didn't realize I was doing that."

"How did you...?"

"I... that's my power. It's hard to explain. From what little I've seen of Scarlet Witch on the news it seems our powers are very similar. But I don't know exactly what she does, so I can't really explain."

"Show me."

Sebastian looked at a chair and flicked his wrist. The chair scooted a couple of feet back. He shrugged. "There's other stuff, like what I was doing earlier. I was looking at you and fiddling. Guess I made the right gesture and thought at the right time. I don't really understand all of it yet. I'm still experimenting."

"Uh huh..." He nodded slowly, deep in thought.

"Sebastian Lieker?" The woman at the front desk asked him. He nodded. "You can see your sister now. Room number 115." He stood up and went through the door seperating the actual hospital rooms from the waiting one. He counted off doors as he went, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114. He finally stopped at 115, trying to prepare himself. He knew she was in bad shape, he didn't know how bad of shape though. It hadn't been blindly obvious how bad before. He was worried it would be as soon as he saw her actually in a hospital bed. He took a deep breath and made a small movement to make the door open.

The lights inside were dimmed, but he could see Sennett just fine. It was as bad as he had imagined. He could see that they had tried to help her, but there isn't much doctors can do when their patient can go straight through whatever you try to use to help her.

"Senn..." He sat down in a chair next to her bed. He winced at her half dressed wounds. It was a wonder she still on the bed and not in it. He muttered a prayer of thanks for that at least under his breath. She was so pale... "Senn..." He voice cracked. "You can't leave me, you have to get better, hear? You have to get better for me. You're practically my other half. So you're just going to have to stick this through."

She let out an old familiar sigh. He smiled a bit, that was what she did when he was being particularly annoying or insisting. She was still with him. She was still her old self. He didn't know how. He had certainly changed, the experiences they had been through... that was certainly enough to be scarred forever. He would have given up a long time ago if it was him. She always was more stubborn than he was.

He realized there were tears on his face. He was glad that her eyes were closed, the last thing she needed was to see him breaking. "I love you."

She opened one of her eyes and gave him a weak smile. He smiled back as she lost consciousness. 'I love you.'

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Two months prior.

March 18th, 5:02 P.M.

"Welcome to Roseden Science Labs! We're so glad you could join us!" The tour guide said with a smile. The name tag on her shirt read Maxine Reader.

Sebastian was giddy. Sennett smiled at his excitement. She had to admit that she was going to enjoy herself. Chad Roseden, the founder of R.S.L., had made some of the biggest jumps in science since Howard Stark.

Maxine led them past displays showing various experiments, explaining each one in detail. Most of it was Greek to her, but her brother and parents seemed happy.

She saw Roseden's son, Charles, trying to slip past the small group without being noticed. She gave a tiny wave in his direction. He waved back. Sebastian noticed and gave her a little shove towards him. She blushed. Nobody was looking.

She slipped away as quietly as she could and walked up to him. "Hi."

"Hey." An awkward silence followed. The tour moved on, not realizing she was gone. "You wanna see something they won't show you on the tour?"

"Sure!" She smiled. He took her hand and led down a hallway marked 'staff only'. "Will I get in trouble for being here?"

"Nah, you're my special guest, no one will question if you're with me." He pulled her into a room that had posters of various cars lining the wall. "You know how back in the 40's Howard Stark was working on flying cars?"

"No way."

He nodded. "I got a hold of the blueprints for it. I've only gotten model cars to work so far' but I'm working on getting it to a larger scale though." He pulled out a small blue model from a cabinet and flicked a switch. The car started to levitate.

"Wow..." Sennett breathed. They smiled at each other. "So why're you showing me this?"

"Because..." He shrugged. "I like you. You don't hang around just because I have lots of money."

Sennett felt her cheeks warm. "I like you too." Charles took her hand again, this time gently. His other hand he placed on her cheek.

"I was wondering if you wanted t-" A loud BANG! interrupted him and shook the building.

"What was that?!"

"I.. I don't know!" Another BANG! and shake. "Something's wrong!"

Smoke started to fill the room and a gooey liquid oozed under the door.

BANG!