A/N: Hey guys, because I felt like this chapter was too short, I'm posting two today. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, Disney, ABC or the Avengers. Just Sera.
Meanwhile… A week ago…
"Sera?" Steve's voice asked as he and Bucky came rushing in to try and calm Bruce down. But instead of a mid-Hulk Bruce, he was frozen, staring into space as my hand went up to cover my mouth. I too was in shock, at how she disappeared, with Callie held protectively to her chest. I saw the flickering of my powers, suspended in mid air, before they sparked out.
"Where'd Sera go?" Bucky asked, looking for his wife and daughter.
"She… she went through."
"Went through what?" Steve asked, readjusting Elijah on his hip.
"Something…" I said, looking down at my hands, "Something I did…"
"Well, can you undo it?"
"I don't even know what I did!" I said, starting to get hysterical.
"What if I killed them?" I whispered, starting to back away from the spot Sera and Callie disappeared though. Bucky's eyes watched me as I shook with fear.
"ARSENAL? What happened? And call Brock down here." Steve said, as I panicked.
"What if… what if…" I repeated as ARSENAL explained to Steve the science behind what I did.
"-ripped a hole in our dimension. According to my calculations and the signature that it left."
"What signature?"
"An echo of a vibration was clocked at 530 Hz," ARSENAL said.
"What does that mean?" Steve asked Bruce, who was still staring in awe at his hands.
"Bruce!" Bucky said, spooking him out of his reverie.
"Our earth resonates at 528 Hz. So, that reading must be wrong." He said, slowly.
"I disagree. Ma'am programmed me to be accurate. More than Jarvis was. If you disagree, perhaps the Vision will be sound council in this instance." ARSENAL said, and I saw Bucky's slight smile at her smug tone.
"I was called," Vision said as he phased through the ceiling.
"Oh dear," He said before anyone could start telling him what was going on.
"It seems as though I cannot read Sera or Callie's presence in this building. And ARSENAL was right about the signature. The echo does resonate at 530 Hz."
"What does that mean?" Bucky asked.
"Another world. With similar conditions and geography to our own." He said, as if using the Mind Stone to read the fracture I felt.
"I can't feel them either." I said, taking a calming breath as I focused my energy. Winding my way around the spot they were taken through, the red energy left my fingers and barely touched the faded fracture point.
What I saw was too much.
Sera was scared, huddled on the floor, and protecting Callie as she cried, whispering over and over that it wasn't true. That this was a prank. A nightmare.
"They are alive." I breathed.
"How do you know?" Steve asked, as Elijah started looking around the lab.
"Cawie!" He called.
"I saw them. But Sera is scared." I said, trying to calm myself down enough to figure out how I caused this. All I wanted to do was apologize to Bruce, like I had with everyone else I gave false visions. But he was never alone, and neither was I. I wished I had gotten to it earlier.
"What was happening?" Bucky asked, as Brock came in and gently put his arm around me.
"She was holding Callie and kept repeating that it had to be a joke. That it wasn't true."
"ARSENAL, call Tony and tell him to hurry the fuck up!" Bucky yelled to which Steve gave him a sideways glance and then looked down at a scared Elijah.
"I'm sorry buddy. Daddy was a little too loud." Bucky said softly as ARSENAL got Tony on the line.
"I'm almost there. I get it, it's important that I be there for my daughter Barnes."
"Tony, something happened. Sera's gone."
"WHAT? She was fine a few hours ago…. FRIDAY, put everything we have into the thrusters," he told his AI and we all heard the sound of intense wind rush through the speaker.
"She's not dead Tony. But she's not here."
"What, did she run off again? Tighter leash gentlemen," he joked, obviously hiding the emotion we all heard in his voice.
"No. She went through a wormhole, created by Wanda." Vision said succinctly, and everyone turned to look at him in annoyance.
"A wormhole? She just healed! And why?"
"Just get here and we can fill you in." Steve said, pinching the bridge of his nose.
Present Day…
We got little messages from Sera, almost everyday since we learned how to make contact with her. Pepper was sitting with Tony as he slowly drove himself nuts trying to establish a bridge. Jane was enroute from visiting her mother in London and Thor was consulting his father. All we could do was sit back and wait.
Hope.
Elijah stayed with me when Bucky or Steve were trying to work, and for the most part he was okay. But when he realized he was alone, and that he hadn't seen Callie or his mother in a while, he would start to whimper, and it would break my heart. Brock was helpful in lifting my own spirits. We decided to wait until Sera was back to have our wedding, as she was his only family left.
But while I was alone, in the cell we had built to protect the compound from our powers overloading, I would try to recreate the fracture. Brock would recommend that I not attempt it, as Tony had said it could rip a hole in the fabric of time, or something to that effect, but I needed to do this.
"Miss Maximoff, there is an incoming message for you from Ma'am. Shall I play it for you?"
"Sera?" I said, hopeful, and yet, ashamed of what I had done to put her in this position. I hadn't excepted her calls since we made official contact, and I think she knew it.
"Yes."
"…Okay."
"Wanda, don't you dare have another pity party. This is not your fault. I got in the way, so really, it's my fault. But I wanted to ask you how you did what you did, so that I can recreate it."
"Is she crazy? She'd have to have my powers." I said, as I played with the red energy.
"I will explain how I do so, but I need your help. You are the only one who knows how your powers work, so please?"
"And when I get back I'll bake you a huge batch of Vanilice."
"She knows how to make those?" I asked myself.
"And Paprikash." Sighing dramatically, I got up and marched to the lab.
"ARSENAL, open recording to Sera's current dimension."
"Of course. Recording."
"It's hard to explain. This energy I emit, it's dangerous when my emotions get the best of me. I let them, and it cause the fracture I felt. It emanated from my soul, a memory of how I felt when my greatest fear came true. When Pietro died, and just before you brought him back, I felt the connection I had to him snap. And Dr. Banner reminded me that I showed him his greatest fear, and mine came true. It kind of overtook my brain, and I couldn't control my anger, and the heartbreak."
"The energy seemed to jump out from me, without me telling it to, and it was the worst sound. Like nails on a chalkboard, carving out jagged lines, but Dr. Banner didn't hear it like I did. When the pain became too much, I remembered how I lost control when Pietro died, and channeled that at the point of energy. And that's when Dr. Banner started turning green. And you came in to calm us down, but he pushed you out of the way. And straight into the energy field."
"Jane wants to set up her dimensional sticks that she used during Convergence to see if they can help. But she's still a few hours away."
"Fitz and Simmons are trying to see if they can rig up their own with Dr. Selvig over video chat, but he's acting paranoid with tech these days. He still doesn't like that Loki is here."
"Sera, I'm sorry. If I had better control over myself… You'd be here, and not in some foreign dimension, with strangers." I said, before asking ARSENAL to send it.
"You don't have to be sorry Wanda. You're my sister, and I love you. No dimensional trip is going to change that. So quit your sulking, and go let Brock hug you. He's complaining to me that you are avoiding his touch. Actually, that you are avoiding everyone but my son. Elijah will be okay. Nat has promised to watch him if you aren't able to. You are getting married! You are allowed to focus on other things. Like how many little cousins I get." She joked.
"ARSENAL, start another." I said.
"Recording."
"I hope you are okay over there. They aren't treating you badly? I want to try and lift your spirits, so I'll let you know that I've been practicing trying to reopen the fracture, to see if I can pull you back through safely."
"Are you sure that you know you can trust these people?" I said, ending the recording.
