Wanda sits, cross-legged, on her cot. The fugitive group of former Avengers is currently hiding out in some sort of underground bunker. She isn't sure where they are this time, which is frustrating. Steve won't tell her of their location ever since he found out about her secret meetings with Vision. Wouldn't he lose it if he found out about her communications with Vision….
She wasn't sure how Vision managed it, but, the last time they met he was able to modify one of her rings so that he could use the mind stone to connect with her from any distance. She was so thankful for this, especially since she didn't know if or when she would be seeing him again after Steve's discovery. She was effectively "grounded". So much for getting away from Stark's orders.
But, all of that didn't matter at the moment. Vision had been silent in her head for hours. She was worried. What if she'd fried it somehow with her powers? What if he'd been found out and Tony had taken action to disable it? What if they'd disabled him?
Wanda's mind raced out of control. She'd pulled her blanket over her head just as the tears spilled over from her eyes. Terrified and utterly alone in the universe, she hid herself there. Her breathing was heavy, her chest ached, and she just couldn't stop crying. At the very least, she managed to keep quiet, but the sobs shook her entire body, and it took all she had to keep the others from noticing her.
She felt Vision's presence before she got an actual message of any kind, but it made no difference in this moment. As soon as she knew he was there, she sobbed even harder, overwhelmed with all of the emotions she was feeling.
She could tell that Vision was concerned, but, at that moment, Sam appeared looking incredibly worried. Vision could see as much through Wanda's eyes, feeling helpless as he was flooded with the heaviest, most painful emotional response he'd ever experienced. Horrified, he was glad that he had walked into his room before attempting to contact Wanda again. Strong as he was, her pain dropped him to his knees. He couldn't cry, but he felt as if his synthetic body was trying as hard as it could to force him to somehow.
"Woah, woah, woah, kid. What's going on? Are you ok?" It was kind of a stupid question, but Sam couldn't think of anything else to say. He moved to pull Wanda up against his shoulder, and she jumped away, startling him enough to cause him to jump up. "Ok, I get it. Backing off. Is there anything I can do?"
Wanda shook her head, rolled over, and pulled the blanket violently back over her.
Back at the compound, Tony had walked into Vision's room without knocking. Vision supposed it was fair, since he'd done the same thing many times.
Tony panicked, "Vision! Are you ok?!" He thought someone had infiltrated the compound. He immediately summoned his suit, on guard against the supposed invader that had been able to injure a supposedly impenetrable android.
Vision looked at him helplessly, and opened his mouth as if to speak, but nothing came out. The look of pain on his face worried Tony even more.
"Can't you speak?"
Vision shook his head no.
"Did someone hurt you?"
Vision shook his head no again.
"Is someone in here other than us?"
No again.
"Ok, we've got to get you looked over. Something's not right. I'm calling Dr. Cho."