A/N: Thank you to everyone who follows, favorites and reviews. TimeBlaze, I would totally have DM-ed you with a real thank you message, but that's turned off so instead, I'll say it here. Thank you so, so much.
This is a bit shorter than usual but considering the last one was a bit longer I think that's fine. This is really just a filter chapter. Some more exciting stuff will happen soon, I promise.
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Wanda gulped as the woman placed a hand under her head lifting it up. The two blue eyes looked at her and she smiled at the girl. Wanda tried to wiggle out of her strong grip but got stopped by the two leather straps teeing her down to the chair.
"Wanda, can you hear me?"
Wanda shot up her head. It sounded like Natasha. But how? "NATASHA!" Wanda felt a sharp pain across her face the other woman slapped her across her face.
"Your friend can't help you anymore Wanda." Wanda looked at her as she felt tears streaming down her face. Partly because she had nowhere to go, but also because that bitch of a woman just had slapped her.
"Now dear, don't worry. This will only hurt for a second"
Wanda felt a sharp pain rip through her body mixed with an extreme amount of power build up and blasting out of her.
Wanda shot up from the bed in a gasp. Her body was trembling, and she felt a strong pain in her chest. Her vision was blurry and out of focus. Where was she? She shook her head carefully and blinked a couple of times before her eyes fell on something or someone in the corner of the room. Clint was standing bent over with this back towards her. His body glued up to the wall like he was shielding off something. His back had cuts in a couple of different places, and it wasn't before she saw his cuts that she realized it was glass shattered everywhere in the room and hallway. He turned his head and he looked at her with two stormy white-blue eyes. Carefully he moved away and revealed Laura who had been pinned up against the wall. Wanda looked at the other woman, but Laura didn't look at her back. She had her eyes glued at something else. A soft groan broke the silence. Wanda followed the sound and her eye fell on another person lying on the floor close to where it formally was a glass wall but was now only a pile of glass.
"Hi" Natasha's voice was so soft and calm. She looked at Wanda with a smile, never letting her out of her gaze as she slowly tried to get up from the floor. Wanda looked at her paralyzed in shook. What just happened?
Before she got the opportunity to ask Steve came running down the hallway. He was forced to slow down as he got closer to the destroyed glass window. Wanda watched as he carefully stepped into the room slowly kicking away the biggest glass shards. "What happened?" He asked as she helped Natasha up from the floor.
"Believe me, I would love to know that too" Natasha answered still staring at Wanda. Wanda watched as Natasha brushed off her clothes and Steve moving over to Clint and Laura to check up on them. Laura brushed Steve away when he tried to talk to her, instead of walking over to Natasha. She watched as Laura talked to Natasha with a low voice. She could tell they were talking about her by the way Natasha moved her eyebrows as Laura spoke, still not letting the younger woman out of her sight.
Steve broke the silence harking loudly before he said, "Maybe we should move to the living room considering that this room, well isn't much of a room anymore."
Wanda watched as the other four walked around in the room. Laura sat on one of the barstools in the kitchen whispering to Clint who standing by the stove making some food. Steve was walking around in circles writing intensely on his phone throwing a few glances at Wanda.
"What happened exactly?" Wanda asked Natasha carefully when the redhead walked up to her. She sat down beside her on the couch and let out a sigh. She handed Wanda one of the two glasses of water before she put down her own glass on the coffee table.
"I have a headache. Does anyone have anything to make my head not explode please?" Natasha announced ignoring Wanda's question.
"Next time, try to not throw me into a wall yeah?" Wanda knew Natasha only tried to lighten the mood, but she couldn't help but feel guilty as the woman beside her let out a small groan in pain. A box came flying towards the two in the crouch and even with her eyes closed, Natasha caught it with ease. She let out another loud sigh when she opened the box of Advil and fished two out of the box.
"Captain," She said nodding thankfully at Steve as she swallowed the two pills.
"Romanoff," He said back. Wanda watched as he moved towards them. He looked at her with a small nod before he sat down on a chair on the opposing side of the table. He put down his phone on the table and said. "Friday, could you show us what exactly happened in the infirmary?"
"Of course, Steve"
A hologram emerged from the phone. Through the blue lights, she watched as Clint and Laura moved from the kitchen and over to the rest of the group. A picture started to show up and Wanda watched the footage of the room. Her body was lying in the bed. She was obviously sleeping. Wanda's eyes fell on Natasha who was to the right of her bed. She was squatting down on the floor holding around herself while Steve had a hand on the spy's shoulder. Natasha looked like she sick or something. Almost like she was going to throw up. Wanda watched as the room started to glow in a red color.
"What is that?" Laura in the footage asked.
"It's her power. She doesn't have control over them in her sleep I think." Steve answered.
Wanda watched as the room got filled with red mist. It clearly came from her unconscious body. "Yeah, okay, Friday fast forward a bit please," Natasha said out loud. The video started to play fast forward and Wanda watched as Steve walked out of the room while Clint said something to Natasha. Natasha moved back and forth between her and Clint. The speed of the video made it hard for Wanda to process what exactly was happening.
"Okay that's good Friday" Natasha stopped the fast forward mode and the video went back to a normal speed.
"Would you look at that" Clint mumbled low. Wanda looked at Natasha confused but the older woman pointed at the screen. A red glow had started to form in Wanda's hand, and she watched as Natasha slowly moved towards the girl in the bed. She watched carefully as Natasha touched her arm and closed her eyes.
The red glow around her was definitely increasing and before she knew what was happening a loud scream filled the room and a red power force flew out of her throwing Natasha into the wall and shattering the glass. Wanda watched her own body flying up from her lying position shooting her eyes up.
Wanda looked down at the floor in discomfort. She felt Natasha shift in her seat beside her reached out to the hologram. She tapped on the video and a timeline showed up. Wanda watched as Natasha carefully backtracked the video. She clicked on a few more things before she pressed play again. The video started to play in slow motion. Again, Wanda watched Natasha reach out after her again. This time noticed how Natasha's hand was holding around hers.
She hadn't noticed it the first time, but Clint who originally stood beside Natasha had now leaped towards Laura who was standing a few feet away. As the blast shot out of the sleeping girl Clint flew into Laura shieling her completely from the powerful blast.
"Wow. Nice jump there Clint" Steve said, breaking the silence when Natasha stopped the video again. Clint responded with a burst of small laughter holding around his wife.
"So exactly what did we get from this video? That a power blast shattered the window? Like I don't get it?" Steve said asking the four others in the room.
"Like were you dreaming or something?" Steve kept going looking at her.
"Steve stop it," Natasha said angrily, glaring at him.
Wanda closed her eyes and leaned back into the couch. She felt tears stream down her face. Her body was shivering, and she let out a small hulk. "Wanda" Wanda felt Natasha's hand on her shoulder. Her voice had shifted from annoyed and angry too soft in seconds. It was nothing like her normal voice. The three others in the room exchanged a few looks. Steve especially looked rather uncomfortable grabbing a notebook from the coffee table before turning around scribbling something down.
Clint and Laura watched as the older woman gave Wanda a small hug before she whispered in her ear. Most of it was just nonsense. She told Wanda how much she cared about her and how strong she was, but she also talked about the weather and how nice it was outside. No clouds, just the moons, and the stars lighting up the sky. Natasha felt as the younger girls body started to settle down and they both drifted to sleep.
Natasha woke up by Laura and Clint walked into the room whisper yelling at each other. Laura had a concerned look in her face while Clint was more on the angry specter. A low sigh made her turn her head. Wanda was lying with her head in her lap. She looked so peaceful and calm. Natasha wiggled herself carefully out of couch careful not to wake up the girl. Laura looked at her before she nodded at the door signalizing to follow them.
"Okay, what is going on" Natasha hissed as she closed the door behind them. She looked between her friends throwing a glance at the watch at the wall. 7:54 am. So, she had slept through the night. That was something at least.
"We just got a phone call from our neighbor. Yesterday he asked if he could borrow a chainsaw. So, he went over to our house and apparently it's termites in our house." Clint looked at her rolling his eyes.
"We need to rent someone to clean it out. Apparently, some of the walls are really damaged and need to be rebuilt. It might take a couple of days or close to a week." Clint took a deep breath and looked at his best friend. Natasha smiled at him with a smirk and lifted an eyebrow.
"Wow, Barton. I didn't know your house was that old and tired. Almost like you." Natasha said playful pushing him out of her way.
"Natalia!" Laura snapped earning a sharp look from Natasha and a confused look from Clint.
"Hey, technically it's not my problem that you have a bedbug invasion in your home. But considering literally our entire staff is gone on vacation…. You can always just stay here for a couple of days. Including the kids" Natasha looked at the two and shook her head. To be honest, the last thing she wanted was three kids running around in the house, but she owed it to them.
Natasha was just about to leave the two and go to her room when Steve came out of his own room.
"Oh, good, you're awake Nat," Steve said with a smile.
"Not really sure if that's a good thing but okay..."
"Tony just called. This little prodigy, eh... Peter? Is coming over this summer for his semester break. Apparently, he is this new superhero. Spider-man or something. I don't really know. But the point is he is coming soon, and Stark wants us to train him with the rest of the team." Steve looked at her with a grin before hitting her twice in the back before he started jogging down the hall ready for his morning workout.
Jezz this was going to be a long couple of weeks.
