AN: Enjoy!
"Are you alright?" Vision asked softly, his hand still cupping her cheek. "You seem.. Quiet, all of a sudden."
"I.. I'm fine.." Wanda pulled away from him, turning to look out the Ferris Wheel window. Crowds of people, including many families with tired, cranky small children, were beginning to move back towards the exit. "It looks like things are starting to wind up.. should we head off after this?"
"Oh.. yes, if you like." Even though everything seemed okay, Vision couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
Of course, he could not read Wanda's mind, so he had no way of knowing the only thing wrong was that he was doing everything right..
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Wanda and Vision, Mysterio's cronies had been tailing Peter and MJ around the Carnival all day, only to have lost them in a crowd sometime before they had joined the line for the Ferris Wheel, at which point they had given up, frustrated.
"This is ridiculous" Rumlow complained when the demons regrouped. "We've been here all day and found out nothin'."
"Waste of time" Killmonger agreed. "If there is an angel on the Parker kid's shoulder, it's not around today. Let's gather up the others, head home, enjoy our sweet new pad, and start fresh tomorrow."
"Best idea I've heard all day.."
Wanda and Vision walked back to his apartment building in relative silence. It wasn't an uncomfortable silence, not exactly, and Wanda was still leaning into his side to compensate for the remaining stiffness in her leg, and yet Vision couldn't help feeling something slightly amiss.
Once they entered the apartment and locked the door behind them, Vision was startled when Wanda suddenly kissed him, pushing him up against the nearest wall. It was hard and deep, her tongue plunging into his mouth, not at all similar to their kiss on the Ferris Wheel.
If Vision would just give in to lust and take what he wanted from her, as any other man would, then Wanda could stop looking at him through stupid rose-coloured glasses. Her hands roamed, and she pressed herself against him, felt his cock twitch through his trousers, his body reacting just as any other man's would. Of course it did, because that was all he was really. A man. An angel, but a man all the same, a stupid man who kept his brain in his cock, and he was probably about to turn around and press her against the wall and..
Vision, gently, pushed her away.
"Wanda, I.. We did have, um, some sort of agreement we are keeping here.." He blushed furiously, "And I.. I do not think I have wooed you sufficiently after a single date, as nice as it was.."
"Yeah.. right.." Wanda swallowed a lump in her throat, guilty for having tried to tempt and manipulate him, only to have him continue being so sweet, and proving, yet again, that he was not like the others. Still, she pushed the guilt aside and pasted on a cheeky smile. "You just keep passing tests, Inger.."
"Tests?" Vision was confused.
"Mhmm. I was testing you, and you passed. You were Un domn perfect. A perfect gentleman."
"Oh, well, that's nice to know."
"Yup. Most guys I know would have been nailing me against the wall by now if I threw myself at them like that.."
"I uh.. I definitely wouldn't do that" Vision's blush grew even darker. "Especially not after a first date."
Vision also kindly did not mention the fact that most of the guys Wanda knew were demons. His clear discomfort with the current conversation hadn't done anything to dampen his fond feelings about Wanda's gift, and he moved to very gently place the Baby Devil Plush on the bedside table.
"I know.." Wanda's expression softened as she watched him. She just couldn't help it. "Sorry about the teasing.. just a habit, I guess."
"Oh.." Vision blinked, surprised. She had never apologised for teasing him before. "Um.. that's alright."
"But you know what is okay after a first date? Particularly if you already know your date beforehand.."
"Uh.. what?"
"We could watch a movie.. Or pick a new show to binge watch.." She took a few steps closer to him. "Cuddle on the couch.."
"Well" Vision relaxed then. "That sounds nice."
"Maybe make out a bit.."
"Oh.." Vision blushed brightly. "Um.. Well, you know more about dating than I do, so if you think that is okay, I suppose it is.."
Wanda chuckled, but a somewhat softer one than he was used to hearing from her, and his heart fluttered at the sound.
"Come on, come sit with me" She reached for his hand. "Then you can try and pick the right movie to keep wooing me with."
"Yes, of course" Vision took Wanda's hand, smiling.
This was definitely not her plan. Not at all. But in that moment, when Vision smiled and her own heart fluttered in response, she had almost entirely forgotten what her plan even was.
So, they sat together, and Vision selected a movie, some gooey romantic drama Wanda hadn't bothered to remember the title of.. But, she had to admit, she was enjoying the film more than she might have before she'd moved in with Vision. At some point, Vision had shyly draped his arm around Wanda's shoulders, and she accepted the gesture without teasing.
Towards the end of the film, as the central couple were getting their shit together and headed for happily ever after, Wanda looked up at Vision. He was looking right back at her, with such tenderness in his blue eyes. Looking at her like she wasn't a monster. It was enough, again, to reach her well-hidden heart.
She kissed him.. But it wasn't the way she usually kissed him, and definitely not the way she had kissed him when they first arrived home. It was soft, and sweet, and gentle. Wanda kissed Vision the way Vision kissed her. A kiss that could just be a kiss, without needing to lead to anything else.
Vision kissed her back, just as gentle, and a soft sound escaped Wanda's throat, somewhere between a whimper and a sigh, content, but strangely sad all at once. When Wanda broke the kiss, Vision pulled away to look at her, her wide green eyes and a soft pink flush across her cheeks, and his breath caught in his throat. He wanted, so badly, to tell her that she was beautiful, but to do so would be breaking one of the biggest rules she had given him.
"Y-You are.." He swallowed a lump in his throat, and reached to tenderly brush a stray hair out of her face. "Are you okay?"
"Uh.. yes" Wanda managed to nod. "M-Maybe a little cold."
"Oh.." Vision let his hidden wings emerge, draping one of them over her. "Is this better?"
"Yeah.." Wanda replied. "That's better.."
She let herself curl into his side, safe in his embrace. Maybe, for a little while, she could be the version of herself that she saw in his eyes.
Wanda was going to break Vision's heart, there was no escaping that. But she did not have to do it Today.
