AN: This was a special requested prompt who wanted me to pair Valerie with anyone from the Marvel Universe I wanted (Wanda Maximoff) so here's this
Prompt: "You're just gonna leave me alone here like this? No return date? Nothing?"/ "Trust me when I say this: you'll never be alone. I'll be back, someday."

Drabble 45-Don't Leave Me

"What do you mean you have to go?" Wanda asked, gripping Valerie's hands fearfully. Her Valerie. Her own superhero. She was strong, independent, and man, Wanda could get lost in her eyes forever. She would gladly spend an eternity just starring at them.

"I'm sorry, babe, but I have to," Valerie said. Wanda wouldn't understand the importance of her mission. And she didn't want her girlfriend getting hurt in the Ghost Zone because of Valerie. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if anything happened to her.

"You're just gonna leave me alone like this? No return date? Nothing?" Wanda was crying now, not wanting to let go of Valerie's hands, and it broke her heart. She was trying to hold back her own tears as she pulled Wanda into a tight hug.

"Trust me when I say this," she said, "You will never be alone. I'll be back someday. Time in the Zone is really weird."

She let go and moved the hair from Wanda's face before kissing her goodbye, possibly for the last time, and pulled her mask over her head. She hopped on her board and pressed a button on her wrist, opening a portal to the Ghost Zone. She couldn't stop herself from looking back at Wanda as she floated through.

They were still looking at one another when it closed.

Valerie dove headfirst into battle, unable to stop thinking about the fact that she might never see Wanda again.

—–

Wanda stared at the space where Valerie, her sweet, sweet Valerie, had disappeared. She could help. She could have stopped Valerie easily, but something in the back of her head had forced her not to. She couldn't figure out why. Maybe it was just because Valerie had asked her not to? Or because she knew this was important to Valerie? She had felt her girlfriend's emotions before she went into the Ghost Zone, alone and heartbroken.

What if they never saw each other again?

Wanda dropped to her knees, hugging herself as tears streamed down her face. She didn't know how long she had stayed like that. She had only ever felt pain like this three times. The first, when her parents were killed, and er and Pietro were stuck under the bed for days, waiting for a bomb to kill them. The second was when her beloved brother had died at the hands of the robot they had helped. And now this. The feeling was so overwhelming. The tightness in her chest was suffocating, and she couldn't see through he blurriness of her tears.

She let that feeling fuel her as she stood up again, wiping away her tears. She felt determined. Whatever Valerie wanted to keep her safe from, Wanda knew she could not do it alone. She knew that they worked best when they were together, they always have. It was one of the things that had made them so attracted to each other.

Wanda stormed her way down to Stark's lab where she knew a portal to the Ghost Zone was. And it wasn't long before she was inside, following the sound of fighting, ignoring the fact that several ghosts were running away from that direction.

They were cowards for not helping her Valerie.

—-

Valerie ducked and dodged Nocturne, glaring at him as he grew larger. He was holding a sleeping Dani by the throat, and Danny had been blasted by the evil ghost and was now being beat up on by the minions, who were merciless. The only one who could really fight the monster and probably do some damage was Valerie. She charged her largest gun and fired, but he merely blocked it with a ghost shield.

She flew straight towards him, pressing her board's self destruct button. She back-flipped off of it as soon as she was close enough, letting her board blow up right in Nocturne's face. He let go of Dani, waving away the debris from his face. Valerie flew over, sending a silent thank you to Stark for giving her a jetpack, and caught Dani. But as soon as she did, she was hit to the side.

She hit the ground-hard-and wondered just for a moment if she actually would make it back to Wanda. No! She had to stop thinking about that, because of course she would make it back. She had promised. Valerie never broke those.

But her visor was cracked and she was pretty sure some of her ribs were broken from the fall. Her vision was staring to get blurry, but Danny was still getting beaten to a pulp, and Valerie was the only one that could still throw a punch. Barely, but if it was enough to slow Nocturne down she would take it.

She stood up, leaving Dani on the ground and praying to god she'd be safe from any hits Nocturne threw.

Her jetpack was busted, meaning she had to do this on foot. She looked around wildly, trying to find something that would work against the ghost. She started running, her chest burning with pain, away from Dani and to a purple tree. If she could get on Nocturne then she's sure she could think of a better plan once she was there.

Then, out of nowhere, more minions showed up. Valerie skidded to a stop before bringing out two ghost pistols. However, before she could fire them, some sort of red energy gripped them and threw them towards the minions that were on Danny, knocking enough of them away for him to get some leverage back.

Valerie took another step forward, but fell to her knee, clutching her torso. She must be more injured than she originally thought.

"Valerie!"

Her head snapped up as her girlfriend ran towards her.

"Are you okay?" She asked. Worry was in her accent, and Valerie, despite not being happy that Wanda was here, was glad Wanda was here.

"I'm fine. What are you doing here?" She grit out, wincing at the pain. Wanda looked at her closely, then at Nocturne. Her hands lit up with red energy as she watched Danny try to drag Dani away to some place safer, deflecting any blast that came his way.

"I am helping."

Wanda felt her anger wash over her, using it to fuel her powers. She was always told not to mess with people's minds, but for this creature she would make an exception.

Nocturne laughed at her as she walked towards him. Mocked her for thinking she could take him down all by herself when he had bested her other friends. But Wanda didn't think she could do that.

She knew she could.

Her red energy wrapped itself around his mind, peeling back the layers of walls he had put up. She could feel his fear, his arrogance, and his pain. She squeezed her hand and felt a sudden surge of misery from Nocturne. He clutched his head, throwing a couple of ectoblasts at her, but none of them even came close to hitting her.

The more she used her powers to torment his mind the more he shrunk, until he was about as tall as Clint. She walked up to him and released her powers. He dropped to what she assumed was his knees, feeling no mercy for the creature. She wasn't going to kill him, but if he went crazy after this she wasn't going to feel sorry for him.

She gripped his horns and slammed his head into her knee, knocking him out cold.

"Leave him there."

She turned to see Danny, his face swollen and almost unrecognizable. His whole body was beaten and bruised, and there was an ugly gash on his thigh, but he still stood strong as he helped Dani get to her feet.

"The Observants will get him. Right now we should just get home." Wanda nodded and moved to Valerie. She helped her stand and walk as Danny held out his hand and made a portal to the Tower.

—

When Valerie woke up, she wasn't surprised to see that she was in the med bay hooked up to several machines. To her left was Danny, sleeping blissfully as his heart monitor beeped much slower than hers.

At the side of her bed was Wanda, who had fallen asleep while touching Valerie's hand. She smiled to herself and combed through some of Wanda's hair.

Wanda at up, bleary eyed, and yawned before smiling at Valerie.

"I told you I would make it back," Valerie said. "I just didn't say how."

Wanda huffed and rolled her eyes before climbing onto the bed and wrapping her arms around Valerie, laying her head on her shoulder.

"You are an idiot," she said. Valerie smiled and placed a kiss on Wanda's head.

"Yeah. But I'm your idiot."