I spellt "autumn" like "author" in this chapter. I might have a somewhat one-track mind...
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Usually, Wong getting involved in anything didn't cause much mayhem. Usually, it was Stephen getting his hands on a project which caused chaos, not to mention the unparalleled pandemonium which was likely to result from the cloak getting involved.
Besides that, Elice - rather harmless on her own, in most cases - teaming up with the cloak could lead pretty much anywhere, and that was still short of the places of pure, simple uproar which Stephen and his cloak could reach. And actually did on an almost dayly basis, at that. Then consider what havoc all three could cause.
This time, as it was, wasn't actually any different. It was entirely their fault, and no one elses. Maybe. Like Stephen stubbornly (but struggling in vain against laughter) defended them later for Christine, however, "But Wong started it!"
Wong had, in fact, only wanted to help. There was nothing wrong with his idea, either, except perhaps how he had failed to recognise just who he had suggested it to. He really should have known better.
It started so innocently, too, like utter disaster often does, on a fine autumn day when Stephen was not causing any panic whatsoever but reading quitely, accompanied by his equally well-behaved cloak.
Wong had been mad to interrupt them, really.
As it was, he had apparently decided to defy the laws of reason and common sense, and had introduced a perfectly sound and helpful idea. Like Stephen, Wong had taken an interest in Elice - she was both bright, kind and full of talent after all - and he had come up with an small plan. Same as the new Sorcerer Supreme, the master librarian was concerned about the young Icelandic leaving Med-School behind, thinking it a waste. They were both right, of course.
So on that fine fall day, Wong had come to the Sanctum to suggest something. He had - wisely enough - not involved Stephen at first, but had gone to find Elice herself, and had come across her in the kitchen, where she was cooking home-made pizzas with surgical precision.
Watching the young woman's determination and steady hands for a moment, Wong thought about different roads and paths; he had not been brought up to be a sorcerer, himself, like so many thought he had. He had indeed been raised in a magical family, but his parents had always encouraged him to find other paths for himself, and other goals. Maybe that was in fact why he had thrown himself headfirst into the family occupation of choice like he had. They had never forbidden or even discouraged him to do so, and they had been very proud. But it had been his choice, and his only.
He didn't know - for natural reasons, the most prominent of which being time - how the Ancient One had started out, but he did know why their current Sorcerer Supreme had ended up taking their trail, as it were. They all knew that.
Stephen's talents may be numerous and impressive, but he had been led where he'd ended up for a reason. Wong did not doubt for a moment that he was just where he needed to be. It was different with the younger doctor amongst them; Wong saw waste, when he looked upon her. She was not meant to be here; at least, not only here. Most things are scales of grey, not black and white, after all.
With this in mind, Wong stepped over the doorstep and made himself known, recieving a pleasant smile in greeting as he in his no-nonsence way introduced his idea. There was a medical potion, quite potent, which one brewed with sorcery. Might it not be a way to combine both her talents; a starting point, if you would, to see if that wasn't maybe something she could do in the future? Combine both her talents, that was.
As it was a sound idea and the apprentice was a rather soundly minded person, she agreed, and that's about when Stephen and his cloak got involved.
And that, was how it all began. As one might well expect, it all then went downhill from there.