Vision's POV
I haven't had time with Wanda in 3 months, with us being at jobs at two separate times, it can be hard, but I know she's worth it. I have been planning this day for a month or so, but not this specific day, just this specific question, I want today to be the day I ask Wanda Maximoff to marry me.
One Month Ago
I went on a job trip for a week, it was the longest week ever, but on the final day, I managed to get some time to myself and I explored the shops of Bulgaria, when I realised only a few hours from here was where most of Sokovia was destroyed. I went to the ruins, saw the massive crater of where the capital of Sokovia once was, where 177 lives were lost, including Wanda's brother, Pietro. I explored around the crater and saw that there were little villages that were growing, then a jewelers caught my eye. I walked inside and looked at all the little jewels that were everywhere, then one certain ring caught my eye, I had sworn I had seen it before. That's when I realised, it was Wanda's mothers ring, or at least a copy. I picked up the ring and took it to the jeweler.
"De unde vine acest inel?" I ask him, this translated into 'Where is this ring from?', the man took the ring off of me and examined it closely. The man looked rough, he was a little overweight and had a bit of a beard and was quite sweaty.
"Am găsit-o, găsită în moloz în care o cochilie a lovit aproximativ 12 ani în urmă." He said back to me, his voice was deep and rusky. I picked up Sokovia just after Wanda has joined, I thought it would make her feel better if I spoke the language so she could speak her native tongue. What the man said translated to 'This one we found, it was found in rubble where a shell hit about 12 years ago'. That's when I realised, it probably was Wanda's mother's. The man carried on speaking. "Acesta este cel mai scump, de aceea nu l-am vândut încă." This translated to 'This is out most expensive, it's why we haven't sold it'.
As soon as he said this, I took out my wallet and began to get money out for the ring. "Cât de mult pentru inel?" I ask, which translated translated to 'how much for the ring?'.
"Sase sute euro." He says, this was six thousand euros, which is equivalent to about $6,975. Wanda was worth it, I paid the money and got her mother's ring back, I was excited yet nervous for this day, it's only been 5 months, should I have waited longer? All I need is her, I hope she says yes.
Present Day
I gently got out of bed and went to the kitchen to make some food, pancakes for a sleeping Wanda, I tried to make sure that I didn't wake her, I succeeded. I got a cooking book for dummies and looked at the pancake section, I followed every instruction and for once, I managed to make something and not screw it up. I got out a tray and made some tea as well, I put everything she would need on that tray and opened the bedroom door to find Wanda just beginning to stir in bed.
"Knock knock, I made you some breakfast in bed." I say as come over to her side of the bed, I see her smile brightly and it made my day seeing her smile. She sits up and I place the tray over her legs and watch her tuck in as I sit on my side of the bed and smile.
"My god, Vis. You made food that taste amazing, I'm proud of you, you've come a long way." She says as he looks up at me with her mouth full of food and smiles brightly once again.
"I have an idea for us today, I have everything set up." I say and she nods as she keeps eating and I just watch intently. "I bought two bikes, so we can bike ride on the hills, I also made us a picnic yesterday that we're going to eat on the hills, I've planned what I hope is a perfect date." I look at her face to see her response, she finishes chewing and swallowing her food before she replies to me.
"I think that's amazing, Vis." She says as she kisses my cheek and finishes up her breakfast, once she finishes, I take the tray off of her. "I can do my own dishes you know, Vis." She says raising both of her eyebrows up at me, I chuckle at how cute she looks.
"I know." I say before continuing to take the tray out and do the dishes. As I was doing the dishes, I felt two arms snake around my waist and I felt Wanda's head on my back, holding me close. No matter how long we've been together, I'll never tire of her touch. "After I've done these dishes, how about we take a shower and get ready for our day." I say as I then feel her begin to go on her tip toes and place her chin on my shoulder, so she could whisper in my ear.
"Okay." She says as she then begins to kiss my neck and I then realised what she was doing, I acted like it wasn't bothering me, up until she nipped my ear. I dropped all the dishes in the sink and grabbed her wrist and headed towards the bedroom.
A few hours later...
"Wanda, are you nearly finished in the bathroom, love?" I shout from the bathroom as I hold the box that contained the ring in pocket, flipping it and messing with it, nerves beginning to take control of me, one emotion I am still very new with.
"Yeah, just give me a min, I can't seem to get the zip on my dress." She says before she emerges from the bathroom and into the bedroom and turns around instantly. "Can you button me up?" She asks, I gulped at how perfect one person looked. She wore a white dress that was flowy and came just above the knee, there was a brown leather belt that came across her waist and circle sunglasses, she was perfect, it made me seem under dressed. I wore a white t-shirt that was a slim fit and black skinny jeans. I came to her aid and buttoned up the remaining three buttons on the back of her dress. Once I did this, I let my hands trail down her bare arms, feeling the newly formed goosebumps on her arms. I then began to kiss her neck.
"I love you, Wanda. So much." I say as I wrap my arms around her waist and she turns around in my grasp and faces me, looking deeply into my eyes.
"I love you too, Vision." Wanda then proceeds to kiss me on the lips and it was delicate, I will never get used to how her lips feel against mine. "But, I think we better get on this date." She giggles as she pulls away from me, I just chuckle and kiss her forehead.
"Let's go." I tell her, she's about to grab her purse but I put my hand over hers. "You won't need that." I say with a smile, I kiss her cheek as I go into the kitchen and I grab the picnic basket that I had made. I walk out of the apartment hand-in-hand with Wanda and we walked to where I stores the bikes. They were the type of bikes that were casual, with a basket on the front, I gave Wanda hers and she got on it nervously. "Is there anything wrong?" I ask as I walk over to her and place a hand on the bike and one on her shoulder to steady her.
"Believe this or not, but I've never actually ridden a bike." Wanda says and I begin to chuckle, and she glares at me. "What's so funny, Vis?" She asks crossing her arms and raising her eyebrows at me, giving me a stare down.
"I've never actually ridden a bike either." I laugh and she then begins to chuckle herself. "People make it sound so easy, 'it's just like riding a bike'." I say as I carry on chuckling. "We can attempt to and then just see where it goes from here."
"Yeah that sounds okay." She says as she scrunches her mouth up in a smile and nodded as she spoke.
An hour later...
After a lot of figuring out, Wanda and I began to ride our bikes, it became easy to us, her especially. We were biking down a road and she spread both her arms wide and was 'whooping', seeing her like this made me so happy. I am well and truly in love with this woman. After seeing Wanda do this, I then attempted it myself, and I understood why she did it, it felt like flying, but staying on the ground. I felt amazing, the breeze through my artificial hair and through my clothes, I loved it.
"Where are those hills you were on about, Vis?" She asks as she biked closer to me and smiled brightly at her, she was happy as well, and that filled my body with excitement about the question later.
"Follow me." I say as I forgot that I hadn't answered her yet. I bike to where the destination was and when we began to go up the hill, Wanda had to stop, it was too much for her, but because of durability, it didn't bother me. I stopped with her whilst she was panting a little bit because she was out of breath.
"How do you do this?" She asks with a shaky laugh. I look around me and Wanda to make sure nobody was watching, I fly to the top of the hill and took the bikes there and then made my way back to Wanda, my super speed helped with that too. When I got back to her, I looked around again to make sure there was nobody else there, I then picked her up bridal style and flew to the top of the hill, making sure I wasn't going to fast.
"My brother was a speedster and carried me everywhere, Vis. You can go faster." She laughs in my chest as she clutches my chest tightly, knowing that she upset mentioning her brother. It had been a while since she had mentioned him to me.
"He'd be proud of you, Wanda." I say and kiss the top of her head, I hear her laugh and she looks up at me.
"I know he would be." I finally reach the top of the hill and at the top there is nothing but green and one big oak tree that was full. I placed her under that tree and placed the food out on a red and white picnic blanket. "Now, Vis, are you going to tell me what you made?" She asked as she was eager to know what was in the basket.
"Something easier than Paprika." I joked and she laughed along with me as well, I got the two plates out and the cutlery. I then got out pizza, pepperoni. Her face lit up because it was from her favourite restaurant and her favourite type, I then pulled out lettuce and chopped vegetables in a bowl. I then pulled out the desert, strawberries and melted chocolate.
After the main meal, Wanda ate most of it and saved room for the desert.
"Wanda, before we have desert, I need to ask you something." She looks at me licking her fingers from the grease of the pizza and nods, she put her sunglasses up on her forehead and I could see that the green of the grass made her eyes look even more beautiful.
"You can ask me anything, Vis, you know this." She smiles and holds my hands, I slightly let out a laugh of nerves, I have never felt anymore nervous. I keep one hand in Wanda's and move her so she's on both of her knees and I'm on one. Once I move into this position, one of her hands flies up to her mouth in surprise. I put my hand in my pocket and feel the box in there, I pull it out and not open it, I then place it in the palm of her right hand.
"Wanda, I know we've only been together 5 months, but we've known each other much longer than that. I know that I'm a synthezoid, but I don't care, you've taught this android to love and I love you, and I will love you for the rest of my life, if you give me that chance." By now Wanda was overcome with so many emotions and she was crying. I finally open the box and when her eyes dropped down to the ring, the tears were flowing even more. "Will you marry me?" I ask and she smiles brightly, looking at me and then back at the ring, constantly.
"Yes, of course I will." As soon as she said those words I hugged her in a tight embrace. She returned the tight embrace, I then felt tears fall down on my face, a new feeling I have not yet felt. Once I pulled I away from Wanda and she saw that I was crying she wiped my tears away and I did the same to her.
"I didn't think that could cry, Vis?" She says and then I smile brightly at her as I subconsciously slipped the ring in the box onto her finger and looked deeply into her eyes.
"Even an android can cry." I say and I chuckle, she laughs back and kisses me lightly, I kiss her back. "I love you so much, fiancé." I whisper against her lips and she smiles the widest smile I have seen on her face.
"I'm never going to get used to that, fiancé." She whispers back, we pull away from the embrace and she looks back at the ring. "Vis, why does this look like my mothers ring?" She asks with her brow furrowed.
"Because it is." I reply simply, her face becomes even more confused. "When I went to Bulgaria for my work trip, I knew that Sokovia was near, I visited and saw that there was a jewelers, I was planning to propose even then. I wanted a ring from your home, but when I got in there, I saw one that was your mothers and because they had priced it so high, no one in Sokovia could buy it, so I did. You deserve to keep your mother's ring." I say and she becomes choked up again, I then hugged her from the side and kissed the top of her head.
"I love you so much, Vision. I can't... I can't express how I feel right now." She whispers as she put her head on my chest as we lean against the old oak tree.
"Then don't say anything." I say and we just sit in comfortable silence, it was the most perfect day. We sit like this for about ten minutes, until I ask her another question, that I only just thought of. "Wanda, would you ever want kids?" I ask in concern, as I don't know what to think and she pulls away from me and looks at me with a look that's making her think.
"I don't know, I've never thought about it before. I guess maybe one day, once I trust myself more." She says looking at me with a sad look upon her face.
"Why can't you trust yourself?" I ask as I place a hand upon the side of her face and stroke her cheek, her so soft cheek.
"It's not me I don't trust, it's my powers." She says in concern. This then concerns me, I don't know what to think, I understand where she's coming from, her powers are the source of her only fears now, there are other fears, like if someone would find her and capture her and take her back to that hell hole they call the raft. I hold her hands in mine and look deeply in her eyes.
"If or when the time comes, Wanda, your powers would not be your fear. You could never hurt anyone on purpose." I see her tear up, I can't change her mind on this.
"What if it was an accident? What if I go to pick up the baby and my powers spurt out and hurt them, I could never live with myself. I can barely live with myself now, not after everything I've done." With that I kiss her passionately and place her hands on my forehead where the stone is located.
"What do you feel?" I ask her and she looks at me quizzed and I look at her with a loving look, "what do you feel?" I ask once again in a soft voice that was almost a whisper. I made my stone in my forehead visible to her. She uses her magic to look inside of the stone, inside of me. You once again looks at me quizzed, like I asked her a maths question.
"I only feel you." She says as her hands fall down to my face and stares up at me, I smile back down at her. Her hands feeling silky soft against my skin and I'm just in love with her, with all of her.
"See, you used your powers and nothing bad happened. I would trust you with anything, Wanda. I love you and whether you like it or not, we are having a future together." I laugh at the last part and she giggles along too, wrapping her arms around my neck.
"I wouldn't want anything different. I love you too, my Vision, my fiancé." She says and bite back a laugh that was at the back of my throat. I never want to be stopped calling that, until we're married and I'm her husband.
"I don't think I ever want to be called anything else." I say as she straddles me, my back against the tree and my legs out straight. Everything about this moment, feels so right.
"Well, I don't think I want to be called anything else either." She says before she kisses me heavily, this was the perfect day, with the perfect person, with the perfect engagement. Today is the best day, nothing can go wrong now.
The End of the Tenth Chapter
I loved writing the romance scenes in this and sorry it takes so long to upload, I just have stuff I need to be doing, but you guys are worth that wait :)