A/N: Started on a new fanfiction. Not the one I've been planning, but I think that new one, plus the one I really want to write, will be in the same series, so that's exciting. Please check it out either now or when you finish this chapter. It's called Never far from home. I like the concept a lot, but I do find it easier to write on this one though. Probably because I've almost written 50k words. I do feel it is right of me to wrap this one of soon.

As always love all the support. Thank you. Again, please check out the Never far from home.

S-B

"NATASHA!" Wanda's heart was racing as she felt her body crumble under Natasha's painfilled screams. The spy's voice was twisted in agony as she screamed a second time.

"NATASHA!" Wanda tried again, desperate to shake her mentor out of whatever was flowing through her head. Wanda shrieked as she felt a powerful panic flush over her. "Come on, Natasha listen to me" Wanda heard her voice die when she felt something that reminded her of a knife through her heart cut into her. Far, far away she felt her body struggle to keep herself straight.

"Pretending to fail. Sloppy" Wanda had no idea where it came from who the voice belonged to. She blinked and a gun flashed in front of her eyes before it was replaced with a long empty hallway.

She was sure her head was going to explode. Different voices were flushed through her head. Voices she could not place.

"Natalia"

"You are made of marble."

"Wish you were a bit more cooperative."

"You will never fail"

"You behave, and nothing worse is going to happen to your friend"

"We don't tolerate failure"

"Natalia. You are my precious killer princess. Nobody can ever compare to you"

Wanda's body twisted as a vision of Natasha with a gun to her head flashed over her. Natasha's young green eyes shined in fear.

"Natasha. Please come back to me." Wanda whispered as she felt the dark energy fall over her.

"I have no place in the world" Natasha's first and last words echoed in her head before Wanda felt her powers expand and panic drowned her, and it all fell black.

Wanda shot up from the bed with her eyes wide open. The room was dark with no lights on. Her eyes drifted around in the room and it was not before her eyes fell on Pepper and Laura who were lying on the couch in the corner of the room that she realized she was in Natasha's bedroom.

She turned her head and her eyes fell on Natasha. She was lying next to her on the bed. She a calm steady breath and seemed to be in a deep sleep.

Pepper had lifted her head from the sofa and looked at Wanda with a watchful eye. Wanda had no idea what had happened, but Pepper seemed both wide awake and very present.

Wanda slipped out of bed and stood up nodding at the door. Pepper nodded slightly and wiggled herself out of the couch, careful not to disturb Laura who was still sleeping.

Wanda tried the handle on the door, but it didn't budge. She looked at Pepper with a worried look, but the CEO only shook her head and whispered. "You locked it when Clint tried to get in." Wanda tried to think back to earlier that day. Did she really? It doesn't matter.

She focused on the door and the door clicked open the second her head had told her so. Both Pepper and Wanda slipped out of the room. Pepper turned around and closed the door behind them before they both stopped their movements. They were both listening for any sounds or movements around in the house. Pepper fished up her phone from her jean pocket and looked at it. It was only 10 pm, meaning that Clint was probably still awake.

Wanda turned around and walked to her room. It was only a few doors down the hall. Pepper followed close after, and Wanda closed the door behind her.

She let out a sight before she sat down on the bed.

"Are you okay, Wanda?" Pepper's voice was soft as she spoke to Wanda. Her eyes locked with Pepper's and she nodded slowly.

"I think so. I… just don't know what happened." Wanda's voice drifted. Pepper only nodded before she sat down beside her without interrupting the younger girl.

"I don't really remember what happened. When Laura asked me to try to get through to Natasha, I tried to talk to her in her head. Like we did… like we did when we were captured. But I didn't get through. I think it was because of all the panic and stress in her body. But as it went on, it was like I absorbed everything Natasha felt. I could hear her thoughts, and I saw a vision. Her vision I think." Wanda mumbled. Pepper still looked at her. Her blue eyes looked tired and Wanda could see her reflection in her eyes.

"I don't think I ever got thought to her. But it felt like I at least lifted away whatever that was making her…hurt… transferring it over to me… before I passed out." Wanda could hear how dub it all sounded. Even she doubted herself. To her surprise, Pepper nodded.

"It makes sense. Natasha was completely relaxed when you did whatever you did. She didn't seem to be in any pain then at least. But I saw you struggle. I don't think you can make something disappear, even feeling. So, you transfer the pain and stress from her to yourself makes sense." Pepper's voice was thoughtful as she spoke. Wanda was happy Pepper was there to at least agree with her theory, because she had seriously no idea what had happened.

"WANDA OPEN UP" Clint's voice broke the silence in the room. Pepper was the first one to stand up and let the angry man into the room.

"What the fuck is going on!" Clint's voice was angry, but Wanda could also tell he was worried.

"You guys have told me nothing! I know something happened back at HQ. This morning. And today. And you have told me nothing. This is my best friend and partner and you just decide to say nothing". This morning, what had this morning, Wanda thought. She knew Natasha hadn't been feeling too well, but Laura had just brushed it off like it was nothing.

Clint was looking directly at Pepper, and Wanda could see how uncomeatable Pepper was.

"I didn't want to do anything she wasn't comfortable with," Pepper mumbled.

"Well Steve is not happy, and neither am I," Clint said turning around towards Wanda.

"You told Steve!" Wanda slipped out. She didn't mean to, but she did. Fuck.

"Yes of course I did. He let you guys go because he trusted me to take care of you." Clint was still mad, but he sounded a bit calmer.

"I'm going out to shoot… or something. I'm sure you guys can take care of it if something happens." Clint mumbled before he turned around. Wanda saw Pepper mouth I'm sorry at him, but he only nodded back.

Wanda listened to him walk down the stairs and closing the front door after him when he walked out. She and Pepper just sat in silence for a moment. Wanda was still trying to prosses what just happened. Clint just lashing out at them before he just turned around. Wanda had never argued with Clint before, but Natasha had previously said she hated to discuss anything with him because while it never got very serious, she never felt they really got to talk about it either, even when they technically "fixed it".

"She is wake" Wanda turned around towards Pepper. She looked at her with a worried look, and Wanda felt her heart skip a beat.

"Whatever you didn't work. She is having a panic attack."

Wanda and Pepper ran into a room finding Laura lying beside Natasha talking to her with a low voice. It was a lot less dramatic than what Wanda had mentally prepared herself for. Thankfully. Natasha was shaking with her head in Laura's arms leaning into her chest. Laura was stroking her hair making sure it didn't fall on her face.

The woman looked at Wanda and Pepper with a small smile but keep talking to Natasha with a low voice. It was only now Wanda realized; Natasha was crying. Natasha was gasping for air, hyperventilating. And in-between the desperate gasp Wanda could hear a low sob.

Wanda's heart twisted when Natasha chocked gasping after oxygen making her whole body shake. Laura held around her with a protective arm as Natasha cried out loud.

Pepper had left the room not being able to watch yet another episode. But Wanda stayed. Of course, she stayed, Natasha would have done the exact same thing. In fact, she had done the same thing. Wanda owed her.

Wanda had slipped into bed on the other side of Natasha. She hadn't dared to touch her. She only watched her and Laura. It lasted longer than Wanda thought it would close to two hours. By the time Natasha finally calmed down she was exhausted. Eyes red from crying and body tired from constantly tensing, shaking and twisting in pain.

Laura looked at her with sad eyes as she played with the sleeping girl's hair. Occasionally Natasha would tense up or let you a small cry, but Laura would just hold around her calming her down. Wanda could tell she wanted to talk to her, but she also didn't want to leave Natasha, and neither did Wanda.

Wanda focused on Laura for a second and felt a power rush. She had never tried this with anyone but Natasha. She hadn't dared. But this was for Natasha. She needed to do it for her. The locked her eyes with Laura and she could see her reflection in Laura's brown eyes. Her own eyes were shining in red. She could tell.

"Laura?"

Wanda could see Laura slightly jump by the sensation of hearing Wanda in her head. But she kept calm and continued to brush Natasha's hair with her fingers.

"Laura talk to me?"

Wanda tried again. She saw Laura move her eyebrows to a frown before Wanda heard a voice filling her head.

"Yeah?"

Wanda smiled to herself. At least it worked right.

"Are you okay."

Wanda felt silly even asking that. Of course, Laura wasn't okay. What a dumb question to even ask.

"Okay is not exactly the word I would use."

Laura's voice, or thought, had a worried tone to it. She was also tired. Wanda could tell. She could feel Laura's heavy head, and how the mom was fighting the exhaustion.

"I knew something would happen. I could tell. She has been giving all these signals already the first day you guys came home. I just… I just didn't think it would turn out like this."

"What signals?"

Wanda didn't know any signals. She didn't know this even was a thing since, well since she Natasha had locked herself into the room with Pepper. But back then she just thought it was like a one-time thing. But Laura talked about it as something that had happened more than once. Something happens frequently.

"When I met Natalia, she often had panic attacks. Smaller than what happened earlier, of course. More like this. She was always related to her past. To KGB or the red room. They were frequent and took most of her energy. That combined with her work was a deadly mixture. Making her stressed and overworked. She would throw me these small desperate looks from times to times. When she got really overwhelmed, she would get a migraine. A migraine knocking her out for 24 hours. Forcing her down on bed rest. That's what happened this morning. I thought she would be fine. She is really affected what happened to you guys. But I don't know what happened that might have triggered this behavior. It only happened back when we first met and a few minor episodes after your first meeting."

Wanda looked at Laura. Her eyes were filled with worry and Wanda felt bad for Laura, having to watch Natasha suffer so much over the years. She had no idea.

"When I tried to move her pain and panic away, I heard voices. Voices I couldn't place. They said things like "You're made of marble." I also heard a woman say, Natalia. But it wasn't you"

Wanda could see Laura look at her with something that resembled horror.

"Marble was something she was called back in the Red Room. And Natalia was the name Madame B used. The woman that trained her. The woman that brainwashed her."

Wanda felt her body got heavy as she got what Laura was putting down. Laura said episodes like this had happened in the period between escaping KGB and going over to SHIELD and when Wanda had messed with her mind showing her, her awful past.

Whatever had happened to Natasha was a direct link to her past. Something that hurt her in the past was going for her again, making sure she would never recover.

A/N: Even like writing swearwords is weird for me. Oh well.

I like this chapter, I think. I do have an idea of the next chapters, but I am also really excited to write on the other fanfic. (Not far from home. Check it out!). Anyways. Hope it didn't disappoint. I saw I've gotten a few new readers the past days which is cool.

S-B again