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Now that Wanda knows my concerns she's not only been keeping an eye on me but she's been keeping an eye on a lot of things. Her eyes and ears are practically peeled to make sure that if things are connected to my dreams and to Strucker that she's there to help me if needed. Help may be an understatement, because it feels more like her protecting me at all cost and she refuses to get the boys involved. All I know is that in the last couple weeks that have passed and as impossible as it seemed this has managed to get us closer in not only to investigate what's going on but in the aspect of our relationship.

Almost every night she has stayed with me, whether it's in her room or she's in mine. She's mostly afraid to leave me by myself, afraid that Strucker has something in mind to hurt me. Not once has she thought maybe his plans involve hurting her or her brother, or even Archie. She just continues to keep her protection on me. Little does she know though that this helps me keep an eye on her as well, so I don't complain when she's around me. Not only because I can watch her, but because I love spending time with her.

When we aren't with the guys or the rest of the military we are attached to the hip trying to pinpoint anything necessary from my dreams. Unfortunately this hasn't gone far considering I've had 2 of those dream leaps and there isn't much evidence to go by other than he knows there were more powerful things in that science lab once we took it over and he's working with people to expand on whatever the plans are with that man I've heard in my dreams.

As I lay in my bed, trying to sleep one night I feel Wanda running her fingers up and down my back with one hand, her other arm wrapped around me while I'm laying on top of her body and resting my head on her chest. I can hear and feel the soft thud of her heart, the gentle way her breath flows and the vibrating of her hums. Our connection has gotten so much deeper since we started dating, even when we started investing our time into Strucker's plan that the enjoyment of her being around more makes me feel safe. So I give a soft breath and grip onto her a bit, almost fully asleep as I feel her lips press down onto the top of my head and whisper that she has me.

"Mm." I groan gently from her words and kiss to the head, nuzzling into her a bit more. "I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Probably realize that life without me is boring."

I laugh gently, my body slacking more and my eyes getting heavier as I say groggily. "Sounds accurate to me."

As more time passes into another week later I'm adapting back into my life from before breaking my leg. I'm finally out of the brace I had to wear after the cast came off, but I'm still a bit limpy and wobbly on my feet with some flashes of pain here and there being noticeable since I have to gain my strength back in my leg. Luckily I have my friends to help me with the task to help motivate my efforts through my pain with the extra push to walk around more, even getting back into training again.

One day I wake up from a soft kiss to my head, my eyes opening in both a state of fear but comfort when I realize who it is. Wanda has a soft look on her face that has me know she's concerned from the way I was startled awake.

"You okay, baby?" she asks softly as she rubs my head.

Still trying to process things my eyes are zooming around a bit, then I blink at her gently before nodding and sitting up, "Fine. I'm..fine."

She watches me for a few long seconds, "You had another dream didn't you?"

I take a deep breath and nod, wiping the sweat from my face while I set the book I had fallen asleep with onto the nightstand and my eyes land on the window in my room to see that it's still daylight. I had been relaxing here with a book in my hands, needing to focus on something else other than the possibility that Strucker could actually be our enemy. The result of reading landed me into a sleep instead and it seems that Wanda came to check up on me.

"Tell me." She sits on the bed beside me, setting her leg under the other and grabs my hand lightly.

I shake my head a bit and sit back against the headboard, closing my eyes. "I'm so tired, Wanda."

She takes a deep breath and I feel the bed move, sensing that she's leaning forward before her lips land on my cheek while she places her free hand to the side of my head and holds my face close to her. Then she kisses my cheek gently and I lean into her affection when I see she doesn't move. "I know, Maddie. I'm sorry you're going through this."

I smile softly while I still have her hand in mine, rubbing my thumb onto the back of hers with my eyes staying closed. I love when she shows me how much she cares, how she'd be there for me despite the fact I basically shattered her dreams of one of the people she trusts. "It was that woman again." I whisper gently.

As soon as I say this Wanda pulls away slowly, her hand rubbing my cheek and I open my eyes to see her head tilted a bit with curiosity. "The one who tried to contact you that night." She says matter of factly.

I bite my lip and nod, my eyes on her hand still holding onto mine. "I was looking through her eyes, surrounded by trees as if in the woods." I lick my lips as I think. I've never been able to see this person or the man that Strucker talks to, wishing I could know what they look like. "Her hands were glowing in magic."

She squeezes my hand lightly to keep my attention and I look up at her when she does, "What kind of magic?"

I shake my head, rubbing one of my eyes with my free hand. "Orb like." I say gently, "Could be telekinesis, could be something else. I'm not sure."

For a few seconds she's quiet, watching me with more concern. "The woods…" She stares at me carefully, "Do you think she's here?"

I blink slowly and then gulp as I had come to that same thought moments before, considering we are on a mountain surrounded by trees below in the depths of a forest. "M-Maybe."

"Oh God." Wanda says with a shake of her head.

My breath gets caught a bit from her tone, "If I'm who she wants…"

"Then she found you."

...

ZAP. This is the sound that courses through me as I'm strapped to a chair and getting a dose of electricity from a taser being pressed to my upper body. I can't move my arms because my wrists are tied to the arms of a metal chair while my long sleeved hoodie is thankfully keeping my restraints from digging into them, the same can be said with my jeans doing the same for my ankles. I also have a cleave gag with a knot in the middle stuffed in my mouth so I don't bite my own tongue. This is the punishment I'm getting for trying to escape a week later and it brings back all the memories from when we first arrived months ago. How could we let them off so easily and trust them?

This afternoon while snooping around to figure out not only what Strucker was up to but to find answers about this woman I overheard a few men talking about taking over the world from the inside out and ended their conversation with, "Hail Hydra" to each other. That phrase alarmed me in an instant as I remembered the stories from my dad about how an organization called HYDRA had been in links with Hitler and his Nazi's when he was after all the Jewish people in the 1940s. A man who went by the name of Red Skull had an army and planned to use a weapon they found to kill millions of people. But those plans fell through and were supposed to have been destroyed when the war vet Steve Rodgers, also known as Captain America, sacrificed his life during World War II against HYDRA to save our world. But now it seems that his sacrifice back then was in vain, because here they are in Eastern Europe trying all over again while Steve Rodgers lost 70 years of his life frozen in an iced ocean for all that time thinking they were gone.

...

"We gotta go. NOW." I tell Archie when I storm into his room right after I overheard the soldiers. He now knows about the situation that had been happening with me, and the fact that me and Wanda were trying to figure it all out. We realized that we had our hands completely full and had no choice but to ask the boys for their help.

He stares up from the magazine he's reading, raising an eyebrow in confusion from my out of breath and alarmed state. "What?"

I set my hands to my knees, taking another breath. "They aren't who we think they are. They aren't random Sokovian soldiers, they're HYDRA. They're trying to take over the government from the inside. The same way they did during World War II."

His mouth slowly drops, staring at me as if I have two heads. Then he half laughs, more in disbelief rather than laughing at me. "That's a dangerous accusation, Maddie."

I shake my head and grab his hand, trying to get him to his feet. "Arch, I'm serious. I was walking around and I heard Mischa, Jorge and Oscar all talking about it."

He gets to his feet from my pleading pulls, "Madison…"

"Hail Hydra."

His face drops, "What did you say?"

"THAT'S what they said after they talked about the government plan. That was their slogan, Arch. Dad told the story of Captain America all the time. I'd know by now."

He gulps, gripping his hand in mine now. "Let's go."

"The twins."

"What if they knew all this time?" He asks in concern.

I shake my head rapidly, "There's no way they'd put us through this." I press my lips together, "Wanda wouldn't do this to me."

"Okay, relax."

"There's no TIME, Archie. They saw me eavesdropping. Strucker probably knows by now."

His face goes pale, "That's not good."

...

Unfortunately Strucker did find out, because before we could even get to the twins the guards were told to find us. Once we realized what was going on we didn't have time to look for the Maximoffs, instead we snuck our way into the main hallway that led to the front door to get outside and we were so close, but the next thing we knew the twins were there. We tried to explain things to them about this being the great plan we were looking for, but something seemed off about the twins. They looked far away, as if barely noticing what we were saying at all.

I mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to Wanda just before I used my fire to put a wall between us so we could keep going while Archie used his power to move a metal shield lying around. Pietro dodged the shield with ease and managed to get through the fire with Wanda's help as she practically parted it and in that miracle of a panic Archie used his freeze, making Pietro actually stop in time. Despite the shock and a split second of emotions from excitement we both laughed and then bolted to the door as fast as we could. Feet away, inches now and I felt a pull from behind, a magical one and I was being slammed to the ground in my back with a loud groan of pain. I saw Archie's scared face when he turned around to get me but I screamed at him to leave, to close the door and run. The moment of hesitation in his steps would have cost him if I hadn't thrown a fire line to block him from the twins, because Pietro had unfrozen.

The next thing I knew Wanda was standing over me as I gasped for air from her power slamming me hard into the cemented floor and now it felt like she was seeing me, her face upset and scared. I saw the tears spilling down her face as she apologized back to me and bent down in front of my limp body still trying to recover before forcing me into a magical nightmare. I'm sure I had blacked out from it because then I woke up in this chair. I have no idea if the twins knew about Hydra, because I know how nice they are and that they are just kids too. If we hadn't realized we were in the hands of an evil corporation then they couldn't have either. We thought we were expanding our magic while they thought they were helping change their country.

Now it's too late to figure anything out, because I lost the little trust I gained from these soldiers by not only trying to leave, but because Archie managed to get out.

As I feel the taser go through my body I hear a loud, "What are you doing?!" Pietro yells towards Strucker while a few of the soldiers block him and Wanda.

"If you try to save her you'll be next." he tells them, a mean look on his face.

I take painful breaths, my brain scattered. "W-Wanda." I think weakly in my head.

"Madison..." Her voice seeps into my mind, a frantic tone. "I'm so sorry. We couldn't control ourselves. I don't know what happened."

I groan from the pain of the taser as one of the soldiers continues to press it on and off every few seconds and I can feel her panicking from my weakening state. "Y-You guys need to get out of here."

"Not without you."

"So this is how you repay me after I brought you into our home?" Strucker's voice says beside me, the pain stopping when he tells his soldier to back away. "I gave you the trust and resources needed to broaden your magic and you betray me?"

I lift my head off of my chest, the loose hair from my ponytail's side bang is sticking to my skin from all the sweat dripping down my face. I breathe heavily through my nose, tears slightly streaming down my cheeks from the pain and my shirt is soaked in sweat. I look at him, panting as I stare with noticeable anger. I may be in pain, but I'm not scared.

He laughs at my expression before pulling out my gag, "Who are you loyal to?"

I don't answer, just staring at him in a defiant way to push his buttons. He needs me, otherwise he would have killed me already. This isn't what he wants obviously so he winds his arm back and I watch as his fist comes towards my face and punches me right in the mouth. I grunt from the hit as I feel my lip break open and blood builds up in my mouth. The impact makes my head spin for a minute, having to shake it off before I spit up blood onto my shirt. Wanda's voice is practically echoing in my head now, all her emotions seeping into me.

"I said, who are you loyal to?"

I ball my fists up as I try to pull my wrists out of the bindings, wanting to hurt him as badly as he hurt me. "My family." I say through gritted teeth.

"We are your family now. You best remember it." He smirks, knowing that I didn't mean him or his lunatic followers.

I snarl softly, my vision turning blue from my anger, "I know who you are."

"And who would that be other than your friend?"

My eyes flame more, sparks seeping out of my fingers. But I'm so weak that I can't do much else except to slightly smirk back at him. "Hydra."

He slowly narrows his eyes at me, "You've seem to be confused and very misinformed."

I shake my head and laugh, "I know what I heard, and I will kill you."

He gives a low scoff, leaning down closer to my face and places his hands onto my bound wrists. "You'll kill who I say you can." he whispers this to me now, "Because if you think I am who you say I am, then you are going to be who I make you out to be."

I shake my head, and spit blood onto his shoes. "I'll never do what you say."

I see the anger in his eyes just as his hand shoots out and he grabs my chin, forcing my head to him and roughly puts the gag back into my mouth. "I have a solution to that, sweetheart." He stares to the side and nods his head to one of his people who nods back and walks off to a table before looking back at me, "The hole."

"No!" Wanda yells our way, having me turn my head to her and see how scared she is. I see her eyes glow red and her hands start to fill up with her red magic.

My face drops now as I see her panic and the power coursing through me dies out. The twins have told me about this before, the aftermath of it all. The hole is where people go as a last result to break someone. Isolation from hell. I've never seen this happening, but according to the twins whoever goes down there they rarely come out of there as the same person. I always thought that was a harsh punishment for the military, but now it makes more sense.

"Wanda, no." I muffle through my gag and shake my head frantically at her when she looks at me because I would rather her be safe.

Her face slacks when she sees that I'm begging her not to do anything, tears streaming down her face before the orbs of her magic go away and her eyes turn back to her normal color.

Then Strucker laughs and I look at him. He has a smirk on his face and lets go of my bound wrists in the chair, "Awe, lovebirds."

I stare at him with a mean look and grip my hands into fists, which makes him smile more just as the man he ushered to before stands beside Strucker with a box.

"Did you really think I didn't know you two were involved?" He shakes his head lightly, watching us both in turn. "I have cameras everywhere, as you well know. And you didn't make much of an effort to hide your romance." He smiles now, shaking his head again, "I humored it of course. My girls wanted to be together. What kind of person would break that up?"

I take deep breaths through my nose, looking at Wanda for a second before I notice that he goes to the box and opens it up. There seems to be supplies inside that I can't see until he pulls out a thread of rope and I squirm around with muffled pleads, pulling on my bindings and stare with scared eyes at him and the twins. They both have their mouths slightly open in fear. Wanda is tearful as she watches me helplessly and Pietro seems to not even know how to react, looking as if he had gotten frozen in time again.

Strucker smirks more evilly, seeming satisfied with the outcome. "Let's get started."