Wanda closed her eyes as she slid down the slide. She expected to feel her feet hit the gravel that carpeted the playground, but instead she felt a pair of hands catch her around her waist. Opening her deep blue eyes she saw her date for the day. St. John Allerdyce, the man, well he wasn't really a man yet, that she was slowly starting to fall in love with.
"See, Sheila, I caught you." Wanda tried to giggle.
"Did I ever say you wouldn't?" Wanda asked flashing St. John a smile.
"No, of course not," St. John stuttered blinking a little and trying to remember why he had originally agreed to a date with his boss's daughter, not that he was complaining now. Wanda looked up at him, her smile fading a little as she tried not to let the strange nightmarish flashbacks destroy her current happiness. She couldn't figure out why she kept dreaming of that place, that horrible place, and why was she always tied up in the dreams.
"You okay? You're frowning." Wanda shook her head, trying to shake the images out of her mind. St. John watched her, her blue eyes squeezed shut with tears running down her cheeks smearing her red and black make up. Wanda nodded as St. John wrapped his arms around her, even when she was crying she was beautiful, and right now he hated what Magneto had done to this innocent girl. Todd had told him the whole story, and given him several threats that if he hurt his babycakes he'd kill Pyro. St. John took those threats seriously as he wiped the tears from Wanda's eyes. "Hey, Sheila, how about you tell me about what's troubling you?" he asked deciding to do the one thing he'd been told not to do, fix Wanda's life. Eric had told him to take Wanda out, have some fun, find out if the brainwashing was still in place, and under no circumstances was he to tell Wanda the truth about anything, and also, this was just a mission, nothing more. St. John had decided a long time ago, pretending to date Wanda wasn't a mission, he wasn't pretending anymore. He loved Wanda and was about to take her back and show her the asylum, remind her of who her father really was and what he was like and hope that after he was done, his Wanda would still love him.