AN: Enjoy!

Vision phased through the door of the cell, and the young woman instinctively shrank away from him, while also attempting to shield the children.

"I'm not going to hurt you" Vision promised. "Or the little ones. I was only told I was fetching an experiment, I was expecting an object, not.. This wasn't what I signed up for. Whatever is happening to the three of you here, It's wrong, and I promise I want to help you.."

The young woman hesitated, then looked up at him.

"Could you.. come closer, for a moment?"

Vision was a little confused, but did as she asked, moving closer and crouching to her eye level. The young woman reached out with a slightly shaking hand, pressing her fingers to the side of his head.

Vision gasped, the mechanical irises of his blue eyes whirring, because suddenly, it was like she was everywhere, both inside his head and all around him, scoping him out, everything he was, and just as suddenly he knew her name, whispering it as she pulled her hand away.

"Wanda.."

"Yes" A smile slowly spread over Wanda's face, a new sparkle in her eyes. "Hello, Vision.."

"Hello.." Vision gulped, because that smile was just about the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

"Boys.." Wanda turned to the children and gently ruffled their dark hair, her smile widening. "This nice man is going to help us."

With her words, Vision's resolve to help her strengthened even more. She'd called him a man. Not a robot or a monster or a thing.. A man. She saw him as he was, when no-one else had ever been able to. And the children, those poor sweet little boys.. one still seemed unsure, but the other smiled shyly at him, and his synthetic heart ached.

"I am, but we don't have a lot of time. More hunters are coming." Vision stood and pulled Wanda to her feet. She teetered dangerously for a moment, dizzy, but caught herself. Vision frowned, instinctively removing his cloak and draping it around her. "Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine in a moment.. They've taken a lot of blood the last few days.." She forced a smile through her clear discomfort, and Vision felt rather sick at the thought of what had been going on. "We'll need to carry the boys, they're a little shaky on their feet.."

"Of course.." Not wanting to frighten the one who seemed unsure of him, he left him to Wanda, and scooped up the little fellow who was smiling. He was so light, lighter than he should have been, and despite that sweet little smile, there was suffering in his eyes, a similar vibrant blue to Vision's own, more suffering than anyone should know, let alone someone of his tender years. The little boy grasped the front of Vision's teal battle suit, curling into him, and Vision's heart melted. He was about to ask Wanda for the children's names, but was distracted by a growing commotion from outside the room.

"We have to go.." Wanda said nervously.

"We do.." Vision shifted his new charge to one arm so he could take hold of Wanda's wrist with his free hand, phasing her and the children so they could exit the locked cell.

"Whoa.."

"Sorry, I know that can be a little unnerving if you're not used to it. Stay close to me, alright? I don't know what we'll face out there, but I promise I will do my best to protect you all. Okay?"

Wanda nodded. Despite all she had been through, there was a deep inner strength bubbling beneath the surface.

"Okay. Let's go."

They made their way through the first couple of corridors with very little incident, aside from Vision needing to re-stun a few soldiers with his blaster. However, they eventually turned a corner and crashed straight into Kraglin, a bounty hunter familiar to Vision.

"Oh, it's just you, Vision" Kraglin lowered his own weapon. "You found this experiment yet?" He paused. "Uh.. What's with the kids?.. And the girl?"

Vision sighed, re-adjusting the child in his arms as he set his blaster to the lowest stun-setting. Kraglin was one of the few Ravagers who's company Vision found tolerable, even sometimes pleasant.

"I really am sorry about this.." He raised his blaster and fired, and the startled Kraglin fell. "Maybe one day I'll get the chance to explain.."

"Friend of yours?" Wanda questioned.

"Maybe.. my social life is.. complicated."

The further they moved through the building, the more intense things became, as more soldiers woke from their original stunning, and more Ravagers stormed the lab to take their own shot at the bounty on Wanda and the boys.. Ravagers whom were much less friendly with Vision, and with much fewer scruples regarding the fact that the 'experiment' they were to retrieve was an innocent woman and children.

Vision, as he'd promised, was trying his best, between his abilities and his blaster, but with the need to also protect Wanda and the boys, he was becoming exhausted, and it seemed their enemies were beginning to close in from all directions. They were as good as surrounded, and Wanda was clearly beginning to panic. However, Vision had one last trick up his sleeve. He holstered his blaster, and turned to Wanda.

"Give me the boy, quickly" He told her, "And hang on to me, nice and tight."

"Alright.." Wanda was a little confused, but she seemed to trust him, so she did as he asked, handing him the other child and winding her arms around his neck.

"Up we go.."

Much to the surprise of Wanda, and the soldiers and Ravagers in pursuit, Vision flew, and while a few recovered from the shock in time to fire at them, Vision phased, and remained phased until he, Wanda, and the children passed through the roof of the building. Flight was an ability Vision rarely used, just so he could hold onto it for a scenario such as this one.

He flew them all back to The Side Of Life and quickly boarded, then Vision handed the boys back to Wanda, running to the cockpit so they could take off.

Once they were safely away from the Planet Hydra, Vision set the ship to autopilot, though had no real destination in mind as yet, and headed back into the ship's sleeping quarters, where Wanda was settling the boys, who had quickly fallen asleep, exhausted after all the excitement.

She was gazing at them with such tenderness, and he felt like he was intruding on a private moment, until she looked up at him, smiling softly.

"Hey."

"Hello.. um.. There's some spare clothes in the closet just there" He told her, pointing. "I'm not sure if there's anything that will fit properly, but you're welcome to borrow anything you like."

"Thank you.." She blushed a little, and Vision felt himself doing the same before he asked his next question.

"The children.. They're yours?"

"Well.. no" Wanda replied, "And yes.. it's complicated."

"I have time to listen."

"We all have.. abilities. I can't show you right now because they drug us, and that suppresses most of it." Wanda explained. "My brother, Pietro, did too. He and I were taken when we were children.. studied, experimented on. Every so often, we would be taken, bounced around between different laboratories in some big tug of war. I don't know why. A couple of years back, one of the experiments went wrong, and Pietro.. Pietro died."

"I'm so sorry.." Vision frowned, a lump in his throat.

"And for a while, I was lost. I felt like I was just waiting to die too.. until one day, they put the twins in my cell. Tiny, helpless, screaming little things, and they needed me, because sure as hell no-one else really cared.. Nobody ever gave them names in the lab, but I call them Tommy and Billy.." She turned back to the boys, tucking the blankets more securely around them.

"Tommy and Billy.." Vision looked at them, peacefully sleeping, and couldn't help a smile tugging at his lips. "Those names suit them."

"I thought so.." Wanda smiled softly. "They became my purpose.. keeping them safe, as much as I could.. I didn't always succeed, but maybe now I can.." She looked at him hopefully. "If you will help me."

Vision, since his creation, had struggled to find his true purpose, a way to do good in the world the way he wished.. but maybe that struggle was over. Protecting these children, and Wanda too, from those who would do them more harm, seemed like a very good place to start.

"Yes, of course I will help you."

And when Wanda smiled, he was more certain than ever that he had made the right choice.