The Uncanny R-Man: Look for a little more Simon references later. Compared to Wanda most people's lives are well adjusted lol.
Jenscott: Thanks I'm glad you liked the background I gave them. And yeah if they did Scott would be related to Wanda and Pietro lol. It's also a wonder he doesn't have more kids with all the women he sleeps with. All telepaths too I might add.
Sean Malloy-1: Wanda will fill in a little about what her life is like.
Ruby631: Well you got to remember Wanda was normal before she was put away, a LOT less angry and all. The bus thing I made up for the AGU.
Slickboy444: Actually Wanda's just not sure how to 'be' a sister, she does want to have some family in her life she's just not sure how to go about it. Yep you know me, I like to give background to help make characters more 'real' with people like Denise. Yep you know when Magneto learns of this things will get hairy.
Silver Warrior: Yeah I know but when you're magnetic I figured something like that had to happen at one time or another.
Multifan: Yep they got that stubborn thing from their father, well I don't have any sister so writing them is a bit hard. Magneto will learn about them later on in the AGU. She got the SHEILD file by permission don't worry about that.
Kaliann: Thanks I really wanted to put a nice amount of background to help establish the characters more. Yeah I think it would take a long time for Wanda to get over what happened to her. As for what's next I think you'll like it.
Episodic: I'm glad to hear you writing again and also yeah way more bonding to come with the sisters. I hope you really enjoy it.
Thanks to: Quillian, X00001, Doza, Aaron, DemonRogue, GothikStrawberry, Red Witch
Wanda and Lorna
CHAPTER 3: DINNER AND MORE
Wanda followed her sister through a living room into a dinning room. By the looks of it they were having baked chicken, mash potatoes and a few side dishes. The food smelled pretty good actually and Wanda hadn't noticed just how hungry she was until then. "This looks nice," Wanda said as she sat down, she figured she might as well try and make a good impression on Denise. Xavier had been telling her she needed to open up more and try to make a compliment now and then.
"Why thank you dear," Denise smiled as she sat down. They started to pass around the food and Wanda had to admit the chicken wasn't bad. "So Wanda, tell us about yourself."
She honestly didn't know where to begin, "Well…How much do you know about me?" She figured this way she would know where to start.
Denise looked a bit sad at that point, "Well…Lorna has filled me in on a few of the…Darker details so let's just skip that if it makes you uncomfortable."
Wanda nodded grateful for that, her time at the asylum was a time she really didn't want to think about. "Well…I used to be with the Brotherhood after Mystique busted me out. But then I decided to try and track down Magneto and make him pay for…Well you know," Wanda looked down at her meal.
Denise was surprised by the anger she saw in the young woman's eyes. She couldn't believe a parent could do that to their own child and she had obviously suffered greatly from it. But to actually try to hunt down your parent and try to act out your revenge on them was also unthinkable to her. She truly felt sorry for Wanda, to make a child turn on their parent like that she must have been through a great ordeal.
"But you're not now am I correct?"
Wanda nodded, she told them about Magneto using a mutant named Mastermind on her to alter her memories. For months she hadn't known what had happened to her, in fact the others in the Brotherhood knew all alone and never told her. Then when her memories started to surface she had thought she was slowly losing her mind and couldn't tell anyone about it, when her memories did come back she betrayed them from within. She had told Colossus that Magneto had been keeping his sister from him all along and with Gambit they had gone to the X-Men and rescued his sister and other mutants Magneto had been capturing.
Denise listened in on the story, she had no idea the kind of lives that Wanda lived and only a little of her daughter's. Once again she had to wonder what had changed the broken hearted man she had once known. "So how do you like living at Xavier's?"
Wanda shrugged, "It's a lot better then the brotherhood."
"You've made any friends?"
"Well…I guess so. I mean Tabitha is pretty good and she was in the Brotherhood once herself. Amara is nice too, the others are okay too. I'm still just trying to get used to things." Wanda said playing with her food a little.
"Well I'm sure that hunky boyfriend of yours helps," Lorna snickered. Wanda blushed a bit and quickly gave her little sister a glare. Lorna just smiled and stuck her tongue out at her a little. Most people usually would at least flinched when Wanda glared at them, this was new to her with Lorna unaffected by it. But it did make her smiled a tiny bit that her little sister wasn't a pushover.
Denise smiled seeing the small interaction, it was good to see that they were starting to get a relationship, "So a boyfriend huh?"
Wanda tried not to groan at this. Lorna however smiled brightly, if Wanda wasn't going to say anything then she would, "Yep she's dating a member of my team."
"Lorna." Wanda warned her but she just kept on going.
"You know Simon Williams?"
Denise thought about it, "That young man that used to be an actor?"
"Yeah that's him, apparently they're dating. In fact some days she's all he talks about it and we're still working on a way to make him shut up about it." Denise looked over at Wanda who was red in the face. It was kind of cute seeing her like that, normally she seemed to have this 'tough girl' persona but looking at her now Denise saw that was just on the outside.
"Dear there's nothing to be embarrassed about."
"I'm not," Wanda said crossing her arms still not looking at either one of them, "It's just that…This is my first relationship and I'm not comfortable talking about it."
Denise smiled at Wanda. She hadn't thought this might be her first relationship but it made sense now that she thought about it, "It's alright dear, you don't have to talk about anything you don't want to. I know how hard it is when you first find that special someone that makes you happy," Wanda looked up at Lorna's mother and saw in her eyes she did.
"So then, what can you tell me about this Alex boy my daughter keeps going on and on about?" Denise asked Wanda and Lorna chocked on her food a little at this. Giving Wanda a pleading look but Wanda just gave a nasty grin to her.
"He's okay I guess, grew up in Hawaii. So he's a bit laid back and loves surfing. From what I heard he's also kind of impulsive and well…The exact opposite of his big brother now that I think about it." Wanda thought about it and wondered just how Alex and Scott were related they were so different. But then again so were she and Pietro and they were twins.
Lorna just muttered 'traitor' under her breath as Wanda filled Mrs. Dane in on a few other things as well. Denise looked at her daughter for a moment, "Well I hope to meet this boy one day Lorna."
The green haired teen sighed, "I'll see what I can do but with school starting up and all…It might take some time."
Denise nodded, "Oh I can wait trust me on this."
The rest of the dinner went on pretty well and even Wanda had to admit Lorna and her mother weren't bad company. At the end of it Denise offered to do all the dished while the girls did something else, she wanted them to have some more time to themselves.
"So…What's next?" Wanda asked as they were in the living room.
"Well how about a movie? I got one you should be very interesting in," Lorna grinned.
Wanda narrowed her eyes, "Why?"
"Cause it was Simon's last film," She said as she walked up to the other side of the room. There was a TV in a large modified stand with a DVD and VCR player as well as books and a movie collection. She reached up to a certain DVD case. Lorna had gotten this just for this occasion
"Oh…" Wanda tried not to sound too interested although she had been trying to find the time to see some of his old acting jobs.
Lorna put in the DVD, "Oh and guess what? He takes his shirt off a few times in this." Wanda just blushed a bit at that but quickly hide it. The movie was one of those action flicks with a romance put into it. Something about modern gang live in New York. It wasn't bad and when it got to the parts with what Lorna said about Simon she tried not too look too hard.
Although it was hard to do, she knew that Simon had a very good physique but this was her first good look at it and she guessed he worked out a lot. It suddenly hit her that she was looking at her boyfriend with no shirt on and boy was it nice. "Wanda…You're starting to drool," Lorna snickered.
"I am not!" Wanda snapped at her although her cheeks were blushing from it all. The movie was pretty good besides that, well except for the tramp throwing herself at Simon through it all. She really didn't like seeing that. Lorna noticed this with the angry expression on her face whenever they were together on the screen.
"You know she's gay right?"
"What?" Wanda asked a bit surprised by that.
"Yeah Simon told me once while the team watched. We like to watch his films and make commentary about them, usually at his expense. Well he told us about that."
Wanda blinked a few times and looked back to the screen where Simon and the girl were kissing, "You're kidding right?"
"Nope, they are actors after all. Besides he told us that they have to do these scenes so many times and in awkward poses that only look good on camera so they can't really take any enjoyment out of it. It gets old fast and at times just down right annoying." Loran explained.
They continued to watch the film after that, which Wanda made a mental note to get herself. She might as well have a few of her own movies to watch now and then nothing wrong with that and why not get the first movie she had seen of her boyfriend? At least that's what she told herself and anyone else that would ask. Denise had to work out a few things in her office so the two sisters decided to pass the time themselves by trying to see if they had anything interesting in common. It turns out they didn't have much but then again Wanda was still trying to find herself in a way.
They spent the time talking up in Lorna's room as she showed Wanda old photos of her life and a few amusing stories. Wanda had to admit she was torn between being a big envious that she had a normal life, but she was also thankful for it. That their father hadn't known about her at all, she was sure that if he had then Lorna wouldn't have had all these good memories. Wanda wondered what her life could have been if she had been given the chance at a more stable childhood?
She put those thoughts aside, there was no use in digging up the past and using would have, could have and should have to it all. The past was the past for her and nothing could change it. "Wanda I got to ask…Was it really bad in there? I mean when I found out about your past I tried thinking what it had to be like for you but…I couldn't."
Wanda sighed, she normally didn't like to talk about this but she was family after all. At least she tried to ask her, Pietro acted like it never happened, "Hard. I was alone the entire time and I was scared for so long. No one talked to me and I had no friends or anything. I cried myself to sleep so many times that first year I lost count. Then I just had this anger in me from Magneto throwing him away and over the years they just built up in me."
"You don't seem so angry, well kind of angry but you seem better then I would have thought."
Wanda nodded, "That's because I am better…When I first got out I was a lot more angry and isolated. But at the mansion Xavier and I have these 'talks' to help me."
"You mean like therapy?"
Wanda sighed she hated that word, it made her sound nuts. Then again after years of being locked up there were times she had thought she had gone nuts, "I don't like to use that term…But basically yeah. He tried to help me for months before I got out, but I was just too angry to let him. But now…Now he helps me out. I can just talk to him and he won't judge me or anything. I just feel like I can go to him whenever I need it."
"Wow…Sounds cool all we got is the base shrink that we have to talk to after certain missions and every month. God I hate those, sometimes I just want to go in there and just mess with him, he's such a pompous ass."
Wanda smirked with wondering just what her sister would do, "Mess with him how?"
Lorna grinned and for a moment Wanda thought she saw a bit of herself in it, "Oh you know…Go up to him and try to 'seduce' him. See if he goes for the whole 'jailbait' thing. Or dress up like Alice from Wonderland and act all British, or move all the metal in his desk around and pretend that I don't see it happening."
Wanda gave a snort of laughter, "You're a little twisted aren't you?"
"Why thank you, I try." Then said laid back on her bed with her arms behind her head, "But back to Xavier, he sounds really nice. Almost like a dad or something I guess."
Wanda nodded again, "Yeah…He's kind of like that at times, I mean he's the closest thing some of us have to one and in a way I think he thinks of us all as his 'children'. He even holds these talks with some of the others at times. Just to make sure that some of us are okay."
"Really? Like who?"
"Well…There's Rogue and Vince. I mean those two got about as many issues as myself, no wonder they work well together. Then there's Scott and Jean."
"Wait those two?" Loran sat up at that, "I figured that those two were perfect or something?"
Wanda just shrugged, "I guess not, maybe they suffer from stress being the oldest and stuff I don't know what they talk about. Then there's Blink of course given what she's been through, Ray, Tabitha, Sarah. Well he tries with Sarah she's a lot like Logan so it's hard to get her to open up at times. I think there are a few others too."
"Jeez…I didn't know I mean everyone looked so happy and stuff when my team was over there." Polaris said to her sister thinking about all of that.
"Well we're teenagers so of course we all got 'issues' but given our lives sometimes I have to wonder how some of us deal." Wanda sighed to herself remembering when on a few nights Rogue woke up from a nightmare that wasn't hers. Those times when one of them woke up in the middle of the night they were there for each other. Sure they weren't the best of friends and they butted heads but in times like those you put aside any differences when you see someone in pain like that. Of course they told no one about those times, they both had a reputation to keep.
"So what do you want to do tomorrow?" Lorna asked trying to change the subject, she saw how it was effecting Wanda and she wanted to change to a better topic.
Wanda just shrugged, "I don't know, it's your city."
"Well how about I call up my friends and we can hang out? I mean like I said I haven't seen them since I joined X-Force and I really want them to meet you too."
Wanda thought about it, she guessed there was no harm in it. Her friends sounded like they weren't mutant haters so that would be nice. Plus she didn't want to spend the whole visit in the house alone, and she had to wonder what it would be like to walk in a place where no one knew you were a mutant. It would be nice to have people look at her like she was a normal person.
"Alright fine with me I guess," Wanda said trying to sound like she didn't care one way or the other.
Lorna smiled as she sat up, "Cool! Thanks Wanda I mean it and you won't regret this." Wanda silently hoped not, so far this visit was uneventful and she really wanted to keep it like that. But then she got a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach that maybe her luck was about to run out, it always seemed to, especially when things were going fine. Wanda just hoped she was being paranoid, what could possible go wrong?
NEXT UP CHAPTER 4: OUT ON THE TOWN