#I think about her being found and being closest to home since Sokovia was destroyed

[cissa-calls]

At the end of Wandavision:

Agatha: “You have no idea what you’ve unleashed, you’re gonna need me”

Wanda: “If I do, I know where to find you”

-

Wanda: “I’ll be seeing you Agnes”

Agnes: “Not if I see you first hon”

-

At the beginning of Agatha All Along, Wanda finds Agatha when she needs her. She knows to return to Westview. And indeed, it is Agnes who sees her first, but now, Wanda does have the knowledge of what she unleashed.

[irondadbigbang]

IronDad Big Bang 2019 Masterlist

Masterlist below the cut! Or read on AO3.

Baby Bird by WhimsicalEthnographies @whimsicalethnographies

Peter stares at the envelope, sitting in the middle of his work table, in his little corner, in Mr. Stark’s lab. He’d been checking the mail as soon as he gets home from school and pulled it out before May got home, which won’t be until after nine o’clock. And there it was, finally, the envelope adorned with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gray and maroon across the white paper.

art by ulzyuu

Castle on a Cloud by CaptainStarSong @captainstarsong

“How the Hell am I supposed to help some kid when half the time my own life is crashing and burning,” Tony asked, incredulous that Fury was thinking that he could possibly take care of some little boy that he didn’t even know. There was a reason why Tony’s life was practically always falling a part, why the closest people around him either died or left him. It wouldn’t be fair to bring some kid into the mix of his crazy life, especially after Afghanistan. 

Fury took a deep breath as looked at Tony with a hint of pity. “Because, Tony, his name is Peter and he’s your son.” 

Or in which SHIELD finds a young and hurt Peter after raiding a HYDRA base, and Tony must learn how to become the father Peter needs.

art by eve-valution

Casualty of the Darkness by kianisabitch @kianisabitch

Peter remembers when they used to cuddle or simply curl up together and listen to each other’s heartbeats. They used to be the perfect couple. Alex would bring him milkshakes when he had a bad day, he always came to Peter’s science fairs and he even let the boy sleep over at his house whenever May had a night shift at the hospital (which was more often than not at this point due to a single paycheck never being enough to support their small family). But slowly, Alex stopped doing those thing. It started with him forgetting to bring Peter milkshakes when his eyes were red rimmed or anxiety attacks shook through his bed like a hurricane, but quickly morphed into daily insults and verbal abuse and then backhands to the face when he was angry or hands grabbing him too hard and finally the violent sex he was now so used to. Sometimes he missed how their relationship used to be. But the good times were a thing of the past and there was no use mourning what he no longer had. 

OR 

Peter is stuck in a highly abusive situation and Tony starts uncovering the truth in order to save the spiraling teenager.

Damaged At Best (Like You’re Already Figured Out) by JolinarJackson @jolinarjackson

”Don’t come any closer,” Spider-Man said, his hand raised threateningly, his fingers resting against a trigger mechanism nestled into his palm. 

”Alright,” Tony answered. For a moment, they looked at each other – Tony stuck to the wall on one side of the alley and Spider-Man stuck to the other – then Tony opened his helmet to show his face. 

”Hey, there”, he said. ”Nice to finally meet you.” 

— 

The Avengers are left shaken in the aftermath of the Sokovia Accords. With half the team under house arrest at the Compound, Tony finds himself seeking refuge in Avengers Tower and starts forming a tentative friendship with the neighborhood vigilante Spider-Man. A friendship which is quickly threatened by Secretary Ross doubting Spider-Man’s intentions and integrity. 

Tony is left wondering who to trust, especially when Spider-Man manages to uncover the one secret Tony never wanted anyone to know about: the child Tony had with a woman named Mary Fitzpatrick sixteen years ago.

art by @shoyzz-art

Dreams Like Ashes by Captainkirkmccoy @captainkirkmccoy

Tony Stark may not know the danger he’s unleashing on himself, his team and his kid by reworking the old plans for the PASIV/Dream sharing project his father sold to the military, but he does have the best intentions. Irondad Big Bang.

How The Mighty Fall by Meep_Morp @gayspiderboy

Since his duel against Toomes on Coney Island, Peter’s life has settled down considerably. May knows about his double life and accepts it (mostly). Tony has welcomed him back, and given him more independence as New York’s Spider-Man. 

One night during patrol he crosses paths with Connor, a teenager who has Extremis in his blood and answers to the wrong kind of people. Though Tony is quick to distrust him, Peter finds himself reluctant to follow his mentor’s lead, and a bond develops between the two boys. Their relationship is further complicated when Connor’s former master, Negative, makes it a personal mission to destroy them both in his quest for power. 

Taking down a superpowered psychopath? Tough, but Peter isn’t going to back down. 

Stopping Tony from blasting his first potential boyfriend into space? He might need a miracle for that.

If You Could See Me Now by geekymoviemom @geekymoviemom

New York City is bracing itself for the worst hurricane to hit in over thirty years, and the kid isn’t back yet. 

Light by funnygirlthatbelle13 @funnygirlthatbelle

Tony Stark has given up. While the other heroes are in Wakanda trying to figure out a plan, he drinks to forget in New York. But when he discovers tickets to Next to Normal; a rock musical about mental illness, grief, the misuse and abuse of drugs, and parents recovering after the death of their child; that he and Peter had bought, he is forced to face his worst fears all over, and learn that, despite everything he’s been through, there may still be light.

Look Over Your Shoulder, I’ll Be There by Colourcodedbinders @colourcodedbinders

It starts as a simple enough gag: see how long he can manage to keep sneaking into Avengers Tower with his friends before Tony Stark notices. But when an unexpected gaggle of men wearing identical ugly navy blue suits and driving around in equally hideous blue cars join the mix, controlled by a guy with horrific fashion sense and the strength of twenty pumas, Peter has to suit up and do what he does best: superhero the hell out of it. 

And if it ends up being the hardest, scariest, most unplanned thing he’s ever had to do? Well then that’s no one’s business but his. (And Tony’s. Definitely also Tony’s.)

Radioactive by Emily_F6 @justme--emily

Things haven’t always been great between Tony Stark and his son. He wasn’t ready to become a father…didn’t even know he had a son until the boy’s mother died. Over time, though, he thought he got the hang of it. But that was before his son went on a field trip to Oscorp and was seemingly left fighting for his life.

Sea Spider by Bean_reads_fanfic @the-reverse-mermaid

“Tell me I’m not the only one seeing this,” Tony prompts, gesturing to their catch. 

It’s a kid. A teenager, by the looks of him, no more than 15 or 16, with curling brown hair plastered over his forehead and eyes. He lays there prone on his side, covered in cuts- some shallow, some deep, all of them most likely caused by the barbs on the fishnet. Tony can just make out blood matted on the back of his head- he probably hit it on the side of the boat and got himself knocked out. Clinging to his torso is a soaked, faded t-shirt and below that… 

…below that, his lower body is a tail. A full-on fish tail. 

(Mer!Peter AU)

Sometimes, a Family Is by CrystalRoza19 & NeonCrayons

Sometimes a family is comprised of you, your recently divorced dad, an unruly group of teenagers and a semi-unemployed former world-class neurosurgeon… 

Peter Stark hoped that moving back to the city would help his father get passed all the struggles and animosity that plagued him after his divorce. What he hadn’t thought to hope for was a way for his father to move on; he’d always had a hard time letting people go, after all. 

Stephen Strange was everything Steve Rogers was not. Maybe he could be everything Tony Stark needed to heal his broken heart. Throw in an unruly group of teenagers and you have yourself a family.

turn back the clock (and I’ll try again in the morning) by madasthesea @madasthesea

Peter gets stuck in a time loop. In it, he lives through some of his worst nightmares, only to wake up that morning and have no one remember. He needs Tony to help him get through. 

And if that isn’t bad enough, his identity is revealed over and over, every day.

art by @the-reverse-mermaid & starlight-sparks

VERENDUS by Lorein_nur 

New York 1935, Trish Parker was on her way to deliver a letter when all hell broke loose on the busy streets. Due to fates twisted sense of humor she found herself caught in the middle of a mafia disspute, if a stray bullet doesn’t kill her May sure as hell would.

art by @hereandnowwearealive

We’ve Made It This Far, Kid by EmAndFandems @jlmarch

Tony’s just trying to protect the kid from SHIELD. Why does everything have to be so hard? 

Meanwhile, Peter’s biggest problem is buying movie tickets, until he gets a harsh awakening.

[dukereviewsmovies]

Duke Reviews: Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Hello, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews Where We Are Continuing Our Look At The Marvel Cinematic Universe...

By Talking About The First Sequel To The Massive Blockbuster Known As The Avengers, Avengers: Age Of Ultron...

This Film Sees Earth's Mightiest Heroes Reuniting To Battle A Threat Created By Tony Stark And Bruce Banner Called Ultron, Who Is Out To Create What He Believes To Be The Peace Of Our Time When Really He's Causing Massive Human Extinction....

Will The Avengers Be Able To Prevent The Age Of Ultron With The Help Of Enemies Quicksilver And Scarlet Witch And A New Ally Who Calls Himself The Vision?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Avengers: Age Of Ultron...

The Film Starts In Sokovia With The Avengers Launching An Attack On Baron Von Strucker's Fortress And Forces...

(End At 4:30)

(End At 4:25)

Searching Strucker's Secret Room, Tony Finds One Of The Chitauri's Leviathans Before He Finds Loki's Scepter But Before He Can Grab It He's Blasted By The Other Olsen Twin Who Gives Him A Vision Of The Avengers Failing To Save Earth Because He Failed...

And It's This Vision That Changes Tony Completely And Makes Tony Believe Every Decision He Makes From Here On Out Is The Right One Even Though To Others It May Seem Like The Wrong Choice...

As Kick Ass Zooms In We Get A Title Card As Tony Grabs The Scepter...

Returning To The Newly Dubbed Avengers Tower, Hill (Who Now Works For Tony After The Downfall Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Tells Cap About Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver While Hawkeye Gets Healed And Tony's Iron Legion Returns From Sokovia...

But As All That Goes On Tony (With Help From J.A.R.V.I.S.) Analyze Loki's Staff And Discover That While The Scepter Is Alien, The Jewel Is Housing Something Inside That's Like A Computer As J.A.R.V.I.S. Discovers Code...

Telling Banner This By Showing Him The Data Of The Jewel, Tony Thinks That It Is Perfect For His Ultron Program That Tony Is Making For His Iron Legion And Asks For Bruce's Help With It.

Despite Being Against It At First And Wanting To Tell The Rest Of The Team, Bruce Eventually Caves And Decides To Help Tony While They Have The Staff For The Alotted 3 Days That Thor Is Allowing Them To Have...

As Tony And Banner Get Ready For A Party Tony Is Throwing In Honor Of The Avengers Defeat Of Strucker, The Ultron Integration To The Iron Legion Is Complete. But As Ultron Awakens, He Questions His Programming Which Leads To Ultron Malfunctioning And Using Advanced A.I. Abilities To Kill J.A.R.V.I.S. As He Creates A Body Out Of One Of The Iron Legion Armors

Meanwhile, At Tony's Party Everyone Seems To Be Having A Good Time Even The Avengers Themselves, Rhodey (Who's Back As War Machine From Now On)

Guess Iron Patriot Didn't Well With Focus Groups After All...

Sam (Who's Been Helping Cap Track Down Bucky Since The End Of Winter Solider) And Stan Lee Who's Cameo Is Here...

Stan Lee Cameo!

Anyway After Everyone Is Gone The Avengers Along With Rhodey And Maria Hill They Hold A Contest Of Who Could Lift Thor's Hammer With Cap Being The Closest Only To Be Interrupted By Ultron, Who Reveals He Is On A Mission To Destroy The Avengers With The Help Of Stark's Iron Legion...

Escaping Through The Internet, Ultron Goes To Strucker's Castle Where He Can Build Himself A New Body...

With Everything Gone From Their Computers And Loki's Staff Gone As Well, They Discover The Computerized Remains Of J.A.R.V.I.S. As The Team Worries About Ultron Hacking Into Nuke Codes....

Knowing That They Have To Not Only Get The Scepter Back But Stop Ultron, They Ask Tony Why Ultron Is Trying To Kill Them And Of Course It All Goes Back To The Battle With The Chitauri And Tony's Vision That Scarlet Witch Gave Him...

Speaking Of Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver, In Sokovia, Ultron In A New Body Recruits Them To Help With His Plans To Save The World By Getting Rid Of The Avengers As We Discover Why Scarlet Witch Let Tony Have The Scepter Which Is Because She Saw Tony's Fear And That It Would Control Him And Make Him Self Destruct...

Uh, Self Destruct On Him? How About Self Destruct On You Or Do The Words Civil War Not Mean Anything To You, Wanda?

And Why They Are Who They Are And That's Because They Believe Tony Stark Killed Their Parents As One Of His Companies Missiles Killed Their Folks And Nearly Killed Them As They Were Buried Under Rubble...

Discovering Reports Of A Metal Man Or Men, Someone Making People See Old Fears And Memories And Someone Too Fast To See Breaking Into Robotics Labs, Weapons Facilities And Jet Propulsion Labs All Over The Globe, The Avengers Continue Their Search For Ultron...

But When Strucker Is Found Dead In His Cell With The Word Peace Written In Blood, They Start Going Through Hard Copy Files When Everything They Had On Strucker Is Gone From Their Computers...

Eventually Tony Discovers That Someone He Once Knew Named Ulysses Klaw With Connections To The Home Of A Certain Black Panther And The Vibranium That Not Only Powers His Suit But Captain America's Shield...

Traveling To Africa, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch And Ultron Do Buisness With Ulysses Klaw (Played By Supreme Leader Snoke) To Get Vibranium Only For Ultron To Cut Of Klaw's Hand When Ultron Says Something That Tony Stark Once Said To Him...

Ooh, Foreshadowing....

(Start At 1:10)

Blasted By Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Cap And Thor Have Visions We Start Black Widow Who Sees Visions Of Her Time In The Red Room (Which Is The Black Widow Training Ground) Then Move On To Cap Who Is At A 1930s Dance Hall Where He Dances With Peggy Only To Have A Symbolic Moment, I Guess Which Has Him Realizing That Everyone He Cared For Back Then Is Gone...

And Finally Thor Who Sees That Asgard Has Turned Into Christian Grey's Playground Only To Be Confronted By Heimdall Who Sees That Thor Will Lead Them Into Hell And He Will Destroy Them (Which Obviously Isn't True)...

Anyway Aside From Those Moments Of Either Foreshadowing Or Just Scenes That Have No Reason To Be In This Movie, Tony Eventually Destroys The Version Of Ultron That's There Only To Now Deal With A Rampaging Hulk That Scarlet Witch Has Turned Loose On The City Which Forces Tony To Activate The Hulkbuster Suit To Take Him Down...

(Start At 0:30, End At 4:50)

With Banner Calmed Down, The Avengers Decide To Lay Low As Hill Deals With The Press And The Police On The Attack In Africa But The Question Now Is Where Do They Go?, Luckily, Hawkeye May Have The Answer They're Looking For...

Taking Them To A Rustic Farm (That Looks Like It May Already Be Occupied By The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil And Casey Jones) Hawkeye Introduces The Team To His Family...

Wow, I Didn't Know Velma Dinkley Was Married To A Superhero....

While Ultron, Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Visit The Team Doctor, Helen Cho In Seoul So She Can Create A Living Body Into A Reanimation Cradle That Her And Tony Have Been Developing For Ultron To Download His Consciousness Into, Refusing, Ultron Decides To Convince Helen To Help Him Using Loki's Scepter...

Back On The Farm, The Team Has Some Moments On The Farm Which Eventually Lead To Tony Talking With Nick Fury In The Barn, Who Aside From Telling Tony To Cut It Out With The Maximoff Vision Crap, Is There To Help The Team...

Telling The Team That Ultron Isn't Having Any Luck Getting Nuke Launch Codes As They're Changed Frequently By Unknown Sources And That His Contacts Believe That Ultron Is Actually Building Something Which Leads Banner To Realize That Ultron Is Trying To Evolve Above Humans As He Believes Humans Are Significantly Insufficient Hence Helen Cho...

And Speaking Of Dr. Cho, She Is Just About Done With Ultron's New Body Only Thing That Needs To Be Added Is The Stone From Loki's Scepter Which Is Revealed To Be The Mind Stone...

With Steve Taking Natasha And Clint With Him, Tony Heads To Oslo To Do Reconnaissance From There While Fury Takes Banner Back To Avengers Tower So He Can Pick Up Hill Who Will Help Him With Something Dramatic...

But You're Probably Wondering Where Thor Is...

Well, Unable To Get Scarlet Witch's Vision From His Mind Thor Decides To Take Off To Get Erik Selvig To Take Him To The Spa Of Sight That Will Allow Him To Re-Enter His Dream To Find Out What He Missed...

Uh, Unless You're Into Weird Fetishes, Thor I Highly Doubt You Missed Anything...

But Miss Something He Did, As It Shows All The Infinity Stones Except For The Time Stone And I Guess Ultron's Plan...

And Speaking Of Ultron's Plan, Wanda Looks Into The Mind Of The Body That Is Inside Of The Reanimation Cradle And Sees Ultron's Ultimate Plan To Destroy The World...

Believing That Ultron Lied To Them, Wanda Snaps Dr. Cho Out Of Her Mind Stone Hypnosis And She Stops The Download Which Forces Ultron To Kill Her And Her Team As The Maximoffs Escape...

As Cap, Hawkeye And Widow Arrive With Enough Time To Save Dr. Cho, Ultron And His Metal Minions Take The Reanimation Cradle Onto A Truck Only For Hawkeye To Spot It From Above So Cap Can Jump On It And Fight Ultron...

With The Help Of The Maximoff Twins, Cap Was Able To Stop Ultron And Save A Runaway Train While Widow Gets The Reanimation Cradle On The Quinjet With Hawkeye Only For Widow To Get Captured By Ultron's Minions

Talking With The Maximoffs Afterward, They Ask Where The Reanimation Cradle Is Only For Cap To Tell Them That It's On It's Way To Tony, Which Leads Wanda To Believe That He Will Only Make Matters Worse By Using It To Fix Things

And Right She Is, As Tony To Convince Banner To Help Him Place The Person Who Has Been Beating Ultron All Along Into The Reanimation Cradle, J.A.R.V.I.S

Turns Ultron Didn't Attack J.A.R.V.I.S. Because He Was Scared But Attacked Him Because He Was Afraid Of What He Could Do, So He Went Underground And Scattered His Memory Throughout The Net To Try To Stop Ultron...

Believing That After All That's Happened It's A Bad Idea, Banner Decides To Do It Anyway. Luckily, Cap And The Maximoff Twins Arrive To Stop Them Which Leads To A Heated Argument Of Right And Wrong Between The Team Until Thor Arrives To Get Everyone To Shut Up And Bring The Body In The Reanimation Cradle To Life...

Forming Clothes And A Cape Out Of It's Skin, Thor Tells The Others About His Vision And That Tony Is Right The Avengers Cannot Beat Ultron Not Alone...

Telling Cap And The Others That Unlike Ultron He Is On The Side Of Life Where Ultron Isn't And That He Doesn't Want To Kill Him But The Pain He Is Creating Will Roll Over The Earth If He Isn't Destroyed Which Kind Of Gets Them To Trust Them...

But None Of That Matters Now As Barton Has Located Ultron With Nat In Sokovia And Need To Go Now...

With Tony Downloading A New A.I. Named F.R.I.D.A.Y. To His Suit And Ultron Knowing That They're Coming The Odds Are Stacked Against Them So, The Priority Will Be The Evacuation Of The City While Discovering What Ultron Has Been Building At Strucker's Fortress And Saving Black Widow At The Same Time Which Banner Does Only So They Could Run Afterward...

But Knowing That She'll Be Unable To Live With Herself If That Happens, Widow Pushes Banner Down A Hole So He Can Become The Hulk...

(Imitating Baby Plucky) Hulk Go Down The Hole!

On Board The Quinjet, The Hulk Gets A Call From Black Widow Asking Him To Turn Back But Instead He Decides To Go Off On His Own To Take A Nice Vacation In Sakkar As Vision Destroys The Last Ultron Minion, Destroying Ultron Once And For All...

And With Everything Done, Hawkeye Decides To Retire From The Avengers To Spend Time With His Family While Tony Builds A New Training Facility/Alternate HQ For The Avengers Where They Can Train...

But Unfortunately It's Going To Have To Be Without Thor (Who Is Going Off To Solve The Mystery Of Who Is Making The Infinity Stones Appear Out Of Nowhere) And Tony (Who Is Going Spend More Time With Pepper And Build Her A Log Cabin) But Just Because The Team Is Down A Few Members It Doesn't Mean That They'll Be Short On Team Members....

Nope, Not On Your Life As Scarlet Witch, The Vision, Falcon And War Machine Join The Team As New Avengers...

Sadly, There's No End Credit Scene But There Is A Mid Credits Scene Which Sees Thanos Grabbing The Infinity Gauntlet And Deciding To Take Matters Into His Own Hands...

And That's Avengers: Age Of Ultron And...It's Okay...

While The Action Scenes Are Great, The Villain Is Good And There Is Loads Of Character Development Throughout The Movie, The Color In Some Of Those Fight Scenes Are Not Good Especially The Ones In Africa, Having Both Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver As Bad Guys Was Completely Pointless (Yes, I Know In Their Comic Book History They Were Bad Guys Before They Became Good Guys But Without Magneto And The Brotherhood That Part In Their History Is Pointless)...

There Are More Reasons Why I Don't Like This Movie But I Feel Like I've Been Writing This Review Forever And I Just Want To End It Also I Can't Think Of Any Other Reasons Right Now So, For This One I Would Say Skip It But I Honestly Don't Know If It's That Bad To Skip So I'll Leave This One Up To You Guys....

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...

[adoringsteverogers]

Dad’s Wingman

For anonymous

Pairing: steve rogers x son!reader; steve rogers x sam wilson (fluff)

Word Count: 1.7k

Warning: mentions of death; descriptions of destroyed Sokovia; my terrible writing lmao

Request: Would you being willing to do a x son reader where Steve’s son low key ships him with Sam (and/)or bucky and tries to set them up on a date?? (((welcome to the community, you’re gonna do great, looveyouuuuubye)

A/N: yes, i was listening to Marvin Gaye while writing this

If you have an opinion to share, please stop by my inbox on your way out and leave there some feedback! Thank you!

You had been the adopted son of Steve since the attack of Sokovia where both your parents were killed and basically all your relatives got lost. You were only a terrified child among the ruins of your beloved city, your home which meant both safety and happiness to you. It was all crushed and destroyed, most of the buildings had collapsed, there were dead bodies everywhere and you only survived because you found a very good place to hide. When the chaos was over and you couldn’t hear the noises of the attack anymore, you came out to look around but a well-built body blocked your view. Captain America himself was standing in front of you and he enveloped you into a huge hug when you started crying desperately. At that moment, Steve knew he couldn’t leave you there but he also knew that you probably had nowhere safe to go. After long minutes of contemplating and thinking about all the possible scenarios, he decided to take you with them to somewhere safe and quiet: The Avengers compound. Some of them weren’t the happiest about his decision at first: after all, you were a foreigner’s child who could barely speak and understand English and they were afraid someone might be looking for you. But Steve made sure he could become your legal guardian and taught you everything you needed to know, starting with his mother tongue. He became your father and even though you could never forget about your biological parents, you loved Steve with all your heart. He had always made sure you had everything you needed and felt safe and happy because you soon had become his priority.

Ages had passed by since Steve found you among the ruins of your home town and you two had grown very close to each other. You never felt uncomfortable telling anything to your father and Steve shared most of his secrets with you as well, except the ones regarding work - which you, of course, never felt mad about. Your relationship was one of the best and closest in the compound and all the other Avengers loved listening to your father-son banter which would always end in uncontrollable laughter. Steve never failed to put a smile on your face, even on your worst days. He took great care of you, often paying so much attention to you that he forgot about himself. Your dad had always put everyone before himself, especially you, and you felt like you had to return the favour and make him care about himself for once. 

You’d been suspicious for quite a while, but you only became sure about what exactly was going on when you saw your dad’s facial expression after a long training session with Sam. The two parted ways after stepping out the door, Sam saying bye with a cheeky line, leaving Steve looking at his back with absolute heart-eyes. He kept it from everyone, including you but as always, you could see through him this time as well. You just simply smiled to yourself and acted casually when your dad walked up to you, asking if the book you were reading was interesting, so you started a conversation which lasted until Steve told you he would take a cold shower and return within minutes. You continued reading the chapter but you couldn’t concentrate on it properly. You’d been thinking about setting your dad up on a date with Sam for ages and you knew this was the time. You were almost sure about Sam’s feelings and now your dad couldn’t keep them a secret any longer, either. It was way too obvious.

So, when he returned with his slightly wet blonde hair, you just smirked at him and shut your book closed. Steve looked at you with raised eyebrows, getting concerned about what was going on with you when you continued grinning at him. You finally broke the silence with one simple question which had Steve become a blushing and stuttering mess.

“You have a crush on him, don’t you?”, you whispered, grin getting even wider with each passing second while you were waiting for your dad’s answer.

He just lowered his head before looking up at you shyly. You had to admit; it was quite fun seeing your dad like this. 

“Is it that obvious?”, Steve asked, his cheeks turning into an even deeper shade of red and at that moment, you knew the real Steve Rogers was standing in front of you in his absolute humanity and vulnerability, You have always felt lucky to have Captain America as your father, but having Steve Rogers as your dad made you the luckiest person alive.

You simply chuckled and looked your dad in the eyes. It was your time to give him a pep talk.

“Yeah, it is quite obvious. And it’s also obvious that he likes you back. I know you love bottling your feelings up, because you think that’s some kind of protection but you really gotta act on them this time”, so stated, getting serious all of a sudden and it made Steve realise you were right as well. After all, he had been getting some signals from Sam, but he thought it just Sam being Sam. He’d always been flirty and cheeky with everyone and Steve didn’t realise it was a bit more than that when it came to him. 

“Sooo… You think I should ask him out? On a date?”, he asked with raised eyebrows, clearly already overthinking this whole stuff. You just playfully rolled your eyes at your dad; even though he’d been alive for a hundred years, he was quite unexperienced at love and dating.

“Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say. Dad, just get your freaking shit together and ask him out! Sam’s not a beast, he’s not gonna bite you and I’m pretty sure he’s waiting for you to make a move finally.”

“Okay, first of all, language. Secondly, I might need some help with that”, Steve mumbled, lowering his eyes again, looking at his own son sheepishly. You simply smiled at how adorable he was: You did quite enjoy that you were helping your dad out this time and not the other way around. You were thinking for a few moments before coming up with an idea that you very proudly presented to your dad.

“So, both you and Sam like retro, especially when it comes to music, right? Well, there’s an awesome vinyl shop not too far from here. Maybe you could take him there, talk about music and preferences, stuff like that. Then maybe you could take him to a restaurant. Not too fancy though, Sam’s a simple guy. After that, you could walk around in a park or just the streets, talking a bit more or whatever you’d like.”

You saw Steve listening to all your words carefully and you couldn’t help but laugh at how much he was concentrating.

“Oh my God, dad. It’s just a date, you don’t have to get so nervous about it”, you tried to calm him while he was trying his absolute best not to stress too much about it. After all, Steve trusted you more than anyone, and if you said that Sam wouldn’t resist him, then probably you were right; you were a teenager with an exceptionally great sense for stuff like this.

Eventually, your dad nodded and you basically squealed when you hugged him tightly, already getting excited about the fact that your father was going to have a date. You helped him decide on what kind of clothes to wear and how to ask Sam out in the most natural way possible. When an hour later Steve knocked on your door and came in, actually glowing you knew it was a success. Steve even gave you a high-five, making your arm hurt all afternoon but there was no way you would ruin his happiness. He sat down on the floor with his back against your bed and you bombarded him with several questions, but all he did was blush and mumble. Eventually, you just let him be and started talking about something else, until you both decided it was time for dinner and a shower before going to sleep.

Next day, when the others asked you if you had seen Sam or Steve in the compound, you grinned at them and told them you had a secret to share but they couldn’t tell anyone. Natasha looked at you with raised eyebrows and demanded you to blurt it out, when you finally stood up and announced the breaking news.

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s happening. These two are finally dating!”, you said, earning surprised and shocked ‘what’s and glares. You just smiled happily, not even hiding how proud of yourself you were. When the shock disappeared and everyone realised what was happening, they started cheering and clapping. Bucky even whistled before shaking his head, laughing.

“They truly needed your help, Y/N. Haven’t met anyone so oblivious as those two in my life.”

Natasha just smiled to herself, then turned to Wanda who looked at her with a wide smile. The whole compound was talking about your dad and his new Romeo and everyone seemed pretty happy that Steve had finally made a move. It was not a big secret that all the Avengers had shipped them since day one and you couldn’t blame them; they were basically meant for each other. They even started planning the wedding and you future siblings, so you just let them be and returned to your room, waiting for your dad to arrive home and tell you everything about his date. You made everyone promise to act like they know nothing when Steve and Sam would return, but you already knew there were no chance they would actually keep the secret.

They had been away for hours when you heard voices from under your window, so you quickly jumped there and looked down just in time to see Sam lean in and kiss your dad. Steve looked red and shy as he kissed back and you silently celebrated in your room, but you basically jumped in your father’s arms when he knocked on your door.

“Does this mean I have to dads now?”, you asked, smirking at Steve who simply laughed.

“I think so.”

[awkward-fairy-889]

Chaos & Order

Title: Chaos & Order

Gift for: @orderchaoslove

Rating: G

Word Count: 7711

Summary: And so at last she understood something that had always been true but that she had managed to ignore until then: She was chaos, she had always been that and it would always be that way.

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15950972

Message for recipent: Hi there! I really loved your three prompts, but I chose this one because I thought that with my experience, this was the only one I could really do justice to. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Chaos & Order

The first time she saw inside the head of the android who would become known as The Vision, everything she saw was destruction.

Chaos.

She remembers the crude horror she felt at the moment, how the desperation and panic were crawling deeply into her body as her brother carried her in his arms to safety. She clearly remembers how it felt to know that everything that had ever been was about to end because of her mistakes, and she knows she would never forget that feeling as long as she lives. So it just makes sense how confused and surprised she felt when she looked a second time only to find the most pacific mind she ever explored.

Some time after, once she had replayed that moment in her mind at least a docen times, she would conclude that she also felt something else: wonder.

For Wanda Maximoff, in all of her life, had not once had the level of order and ease she felt that night when looking into the android’s mind.

She and Pietro had been children of the war, kids that could only imagine what their home once was and hope that, some day, they could live for themselves those peaceful days that their parents used to talk about when they were believed to be asleep. Since ever, the twins were exposed to death and hunger, and not all the love in the world could have protected them completly from that. But their parents, oh, their parents did a marvelous work and no one could ever say that they didn’t tried. They fought with all they had so that their children were able to grow up in a peaceful environment, even if it was all a lie.

She was always smart, so a lot of times she was able to catch the facade that their parents tried to show when they were with them and the disaster lying behind. Even so, those days living under the warm protection offered by her parents had been the closest she ever had been to such a thing as a peaceful life and most probably the closest she would ever get. For her peaceful days and the chance to get them back had been long gone, burned alongside her parents when that bomb destroyed their home. That night, the order she had managed to achieve by reducing her world to her family had been almost completly destroyed, and what was left became toxic, poisoned by the hate and impotence that consumed her life ever since that fatidic night when she came face to face with death. That night in which Tony Stark took everything she and Pietro had.

And Wanda knew that poisoned order was no more than chaos disguised as calm, waiting for a perfect moment to unleash a storm.

So when she felt the peace within that being’s mind, the tranquility that something borned from the most intense chaos had managed to achieve, she could only stare in awe at what had just been created. Vision they called him, and while the others didn't seemed to really think about the reason behind that name, she did, and she quickly came to an answer: He was, indeed, a vision, one of hope, one of what humanity could be.

When she felt Pietro being torned apart from her, she finally hit rock bottom.

For her, he was always more than just a brother: he had been her anchor, the one thing keeping her from loosing her mind when their parents died and most probably what had kept her alive during the experiments that gave them their powers. They were two halfs of one same soul, together since birth and never meant to live without the other. If her scarlet was fury and destruction, his silverly blue was laughter and light.

With his jokes and his carefree nature, Pietro always kept her away from the bottomless void that constantly haunted her just as she kept him from doing something excessively stupid.

Anyone who watched them interact for at least five minutes could easily conclude that, between the two, she was the one with a more orderly life. Sometimes she felt that even Pietro himself believed that. But she knew the truth, and the truth was that the one who had managed to have at least some control over his life was him, for his world was Wanda and only Wanda, and if he was able to follow her wherever she might go and protect her, his world was in order and nothing could be too bad. It was a simple and egoistic way of living, but Pietro was never one to care about such things.

He would have followed her everywhere, thus she always had the chance to say “stop”. Instead, she decided to stept on the gas. Wanda was the one who kept their rage alive when they survived while their parents didn’t, she was the one who said yes when HYDRA reached for them and she was the one who accepted Ultron when he apparead full of promises of vengance. She was the one who lead him to his death. That knowledge, along with the agonizing feeling of loosing her other half, was what ended up destroying her completly.

That fake order that she had managed to keep inside her mind finally gave way to the storm that had been sleeping inside of her.

She was falling into the void and had no wish of being saved. Without her brother, her only family, she took that fall with joy and while she walked trough the debris of what once was her home, leaving a trace destroyed robots and scarlet behind her, Wanda Maximoff let herself being consumed by the hate that for so long had being poisoning her heart. And it felt good.

For once, she was feeling relief, as if she was always meant to cause that kind of destruction. And so at last she understood something that had always been true but that she had managed to ignore until then: She was chaos, she had always been that and it would always be that way.

With Ultron’s blood still running warm between her fingers and everything she had ever known falling around her because of her fault and with nothing left to do to save something from her world, she accepted death with open arms. What was the point of living, if that world had nothing left for her except, maybe, more destruction?

So she closed her eyes and started to fall down with her world.

Until she wasn’t.

That, he had safed her life.

When she noticed that her fall had stopped and that instead of going down she was actually rising, she looked above her to meet the eyes of the Vision who, even without being a human himself, appeared to have the most human looked she had ever encounter. Wanda was confused, not understanding what could have motived him to save a practical extranger, and it would remain that way for a long time.

“I just wanted to help you,” he would respond years later, when she finally brought herself to ask him. “I saw you there and you seemed so lost and... alone, and I just wasn’t able to leave you.”

For a couple of seconds, she considered to fight so that he would let her go and she could find some peace at last, but staring at him, she soon understood that she wasn’t going to do it. And so she stood still and clunged tightly to his body while she watched her world being destroyed once again, sealing their fate without knowing it.

The days after Sokovia's destruction passed in front of her like if they were some sort of dream. They were blurry, as if they were happening to someone else or as if they were distant memories, permanently covered by a thick fog, a mechanism her own body seemed to have activated to function as a pain killer so she could survive after so much loss in such an small amount of time.

Pietro's funeral went on without anyone paying much of attention to it, since only she had the right to mourn him and she was too disturbed to do it.

She found out that the archer, Clint, had named his newborn son after Pietro, and even if she was genuinely thankful for that small but significant detail, she also felt bad for the man. It was him for whom his brother gave his life and since he was a good person, Wanda knew that he was probably feeling guilty for that. She wasn’t mad at him, not really. Clint had been good with her, patient and almost fatherly, and Pietro had been a grown up capable of taking his own decisions. He went in a noble way and at least that gave her some comfort, but she knew thay nothing she said would serve of much. Only time could heal some wounds, she knew this better than most.

After the funeral, her stay in Europe was short and she soon found herself traveling to America.

Wanda had oficially became an Avenger, and with the title came some responsabilities. The training sessions with Steve were hard but those with Natasha were almost unbearable. She was a merciless teacher in and out of the training field, but the more tired she was the less she could think so she was ok with it. Between murmurs and anecdotes, she became aware of the stories behind every member of her new team, and so it became easier to understand why they were the way they were. Their personalities, their moral codes and even the little customs they had like how Nat always seemed on high alert or how Stark kept trying to make amends with everyone, everything began to make sense. It was difficult for her to open herself to them, but she soon understood that they were good people. Ever since the moment she arrived, everyone kept trying to make her feel at home and for this she was thankful. For them, she was just a kid who had lost way too much for her age.

And they understood her, in some way, for everyone in there had lost something.

It was because of this that night terrors weren't an uncommon thing among them. She soon understood that, even if during the day she was able to sweat away her pain, nothing could protect her from her dreams. Being an orphan during a war, nightmares haven't been that uncommon while growing up, but then Pietro had been there for her. Now he was just another part of her nightmares, and she would wake up to her own screams instead of to a hug or some reassuring words. At first they tried to help her, knocking on her door at night or trying to talk to her the next morning, but soon their efforts stoped, for everyone there knew that sometimes, the best thing to do was to stay out. And no one would come to her the next morning asking why it sounded like everything in her room was being thrown towards the walls or what was the scarlet light shining under her door. And, for that, she was thankful.

Vision was… different.

He didn’t pitied her -or anybody else-, he was just really curious about everything. He, just like her, was new in the team and in that culture. Then again, he was new in pretty much everything. He was clean, without any demons to hunt him. If she ever held any doubts about his humanity, the time spent with him was more than enough to eliminate them. He was, in fact, more human than most of the humans Wanda had knew during her lifetime. Everything was new to him, and so he saw wonder everywhere, as if existence itself had a magic that everyone except for him had forgotten. Yet she never found any feeling of malice inside of him, not even when the jokes the others made went to far. He became confused, of course, and Wanda even catched a glimpse of sadness a few times, but never anger, never hate, and she could only admire him for that.

For her, it was pretty easy to notice this things since, for whatever reason, the android was constantly at her side. It was almost as if he was eager to help her, as if when he saved his life he had inmediately gotten a need for keeping her in the best possible state. In the beggining she had been suspicious of him, she was still hurting and she sure as hell wasn’t ready to befriend of the last remaining of Ultron's existence, but it ended up being inevitable for her to fall for him

Vision was, after all, quite charming.

Each day that they passed together, she allowed himself to get closer and closer to her and, with enough time, it became her the one searching for more time with him. At first it was mostly because of concern. She didn’t really knew what to expect from him and she constantly found herself searching inside of the other's head for some trace of Ultron, but each time she only found Vision in there; His innocence and curiosity and light.

A friendship with him offered peace, a safe space, and she was not in a position were she could deny something like that. She had problems, she knew it, and if the chaos in her head hadn’t claimed the life of someone it was just because she did not allow it. For Wanda Maximoff was many things, but she refused to be a monster. She knew that her powers weren’t meant to be in the hands of someone that unstable, she had seen what they were capable of whenever she lost control and therefore she knew she couldn’t afford to loose it. In one way or another, she would have to learn to deal with it, and it was obvious that Vision wanted to help her in any way she could, so she accepted her company.

Over time, apprehension gave way to curiosity, and curiosity to a peculiar friendship. Together they shared their doubts, they learned more about that world and their new lives. She offered him a natural and human treatment; He, a friendship without prejudices. When he had any doubt about human behavior, or when he broke some social rule without knowing it, it was she who explained it to him; When she isolated herself and began to sink into her memories, he was the one who approached her with a new movie to see or a book to talk about. She taught him the magic of music through her own guitar; He taught her to fly. She defended him when some joke reached far; He made sure that he ate and slept properly, because only he, with his constant observation, had noticed the dark circles under her eyes and her abnormal thinness. It was the both of them against a new world, and that was all they needed.

It was him who finally entered the lion's den one night when Wanda's cries were particularly horrible, and it was she who, in tears, explained to him that it was not particularly well-liked to enter someone else’s room by phasing through a wall.

"Oh," he said, genuinely confused by the curious rules of human privacy. "Why?"

It was raining that night, so the only thing that could be heard while watching him from his bed were the drops crashing against her window. There was no moonlight, but the scarlet glittering in her hands illuminated the room just enough for the disaster around her to be visible. Without being asked, Vision went deeper into the bedroom and started to put everything in its place.

"Because..." Wanda weighed her options. She was about to ask him to leave, to leave her alone to deal with her demons. She knew that if she did, he would not refuse, she knew this just as well as she knew how little he would like that. "Because a closed door means that someone needs privacy, and people don’t like it when you don’t respect that, so when a door is closed, it's better to knock to make sure you're welcome"

"Am I welcome?" He asked. At that moment, he stopped his actions and turned around to see her. He would respect whatever her response might be. They both remained silent for a few seconds, just looking at each other, lit by the light coming from Wanda's hands.

"Yes, Vis," she ended up answering, her mouth curving slightly upwards while she cleaned her tears away. "You're welcome."

The days she spent with the Avengers were a breath of fresh air, a point in her life where she once again dared to believe that maybe, just maybe, she could be happy. Maybe, after all, it wasn’t all lost for her.

When Sokovia became a scar and she was again able to think of Pietro without feeling the deepest of sorrows, she believed that at last she could see the light at the end of the road. Although she soon understood that no one was the same person after going trhrough hell and back, she told herself that this only meant that she now had the opportunity to be more than she was before. Better.

Sometimes, the memories of that life seemed so far away that it was almost as if they had happened to someone else... But the pain that squeezed her young heart when she gave it more thought than the necesary reminded her that it had been very much a real thing. And it was hard to live with it. But Wanda wasn’t by far the only one who had suffered in that place and to see how all those people had turn their pain into a hope for humanity inspired her to do the same. Pietro would have done it.

So she was strong and she held on. She clung to the hope of being someone better, of being able to use the experiences gained in her painful past to finally be able to make the change for which she had fought so much alongside her brother when they were still only two young orphans in a war-desolated country. The missions were difficult, and dealing with her powers when no one really knew how to train her in their use was constant torture for her and pretty much everyone else, but most of the time the satisfaction that life gave her was enough to make her reach the conclusion that it was worth it. Over time, she came to think that maybe she had been born for that. All the hate and helplessness that had overwhelmed her over the last few years seemed to be finally fading now that she could make a difference, now that her powers were finally doing something for the greater good. The weight of her past became easier to cope at having such an amazing present and such an apparently bright future.

Also, she had Vision.

After that first night in which he was allowed to stay to watch over her, it became a custom of him to go to her room every time he heard something abnormal coming from inside. He learned to knock on the door (and he remembered to do it most of the time) and to keep his distance, and she learned to lower her guard when being with him. She learned to trust him.

If previously it had been usual to see them together, now it was almost a law that where one was, the other would be close. Even when things improved and Wanda's health stopped being cause for concern, Vision never stopped frequenting her. This because, quite similar to what happened to her the first time she met the android, for him, that woman was a source of wonder. He knew that he was not human, and although he was honored to live among them, he had never intended to be one. He was a machine, a highly advanced one, yes, but a machine after all, and this he knew. Even though he could understand feelings and why they were such an important part of the human experience, he never thought he could be capable of experiencing them. So when he realized that this assumption was not entirely true, he could not help but feel a little moved.

He knew the stories behind each of his fellow Avengers, so he knew perfectly well that everyone was, in their own way, good people, and not once he thought it was anyone's intention to make him feel bad, but it took a while for all of them to found an adequate way to treat him and while this was happening, Vision could not help but notice the doubts they had regarding him. And this made him feel... strange, something he would later identify as pain thanks to Wanda. Despite having a superior intelligence, he was quite young, so over the following months he had many "first times", all of them accompanied by new feelings. The first time he saw a sunrise in all its splendor, he was amazed; passing time with the rest of the team would usually make him experience joy; The first time he witnessed a failed mission, he knew what frustration was. Each and every time, it was Wanda who took some of her own time to explain him what he was feeling.

And it was Wanda who, as time went on, presented him the most overwhelming of emotions: Love.

Wanda always treated him... Normal, as if ignoring the fact that the one she called friend was far from human. She was reserved by nature, of course, but he knew that it was that way with everyone, not specifically with him. She allowed him to help her when many in her place would have feared or distrusted him, and although for a time she did entered his head to be sure that everything was in order, in the end even that stopped at some point. When Vision noticed this, he had to fight with himself to ignore the twist his stomach gave.

He also had to ignore other things, like the mess he felt inside him everytime he saw her enter the room or the way his whole interior seemed to contort whenever she fell asleep on him shoulder watching a movie or reading a book. When he heard her laugh and he could not contain a smile or when he observed the way his eyes shone in the sunlight and he couldn’t find another word to describe her besides beautiful, all this he tried to ignore as long as it was possible for him, because for once he didn't needed her to identify what feeling caused those symptoms. He knew the answer, and it terrified him.

For someone who supposedly shouldn’t have feelings, he was feeling quite a lot and it was weird and scary because he didn’t knew how to deal with that or even if it was a real experiencel. Were they genuine? Or was he just a machine pretending to be something it could never be? More importantly, if his feelings were reciprocated, what kind of relationship could he offer to Wanda? Seeing her well, seeing her happy had become kind of a personal mission, and he could not stand the idea of becoming a factor to destabilize her again. So he decided to stay silence, stick with his usual actitude, at least until his fears were totally ruled out.

So, although his inner self hurted because of the unfair situation in which they had put Wanda after the Lagos incident, he still made the most logical decision and obeyed Tony Stark’s orders, even if this meant betraying the precious confidence of the sokovian girl. 

For him, what they were doing was wrong. He knew it was wrong and he strongly disagree with the decisions Mr. Stark was making because, while it was true that Wanda had made a costly mistake (one that justified the fear civilians had to the fact that beings with such power as the Avengers could do whatever they wanted without being under any kind of jurisdiction), it was also true that to consider her a danger to the point of enclosing her was not only exaggerated, but cruel. She already felt bad enough with herself for what happened, the last thing she needed was a reinforcement of the idea that she was somehow dangerous.

Wanda was not dangerous, strong, yes, maybe even terrifying to those who didn’t knew her personally, but Vision knew she was not dangerous. Wanda Maximoff was someone wonderful and incapable of hurting an innocent person in purpose, and to think that those who had lived with her as long as he could even consider the idea of seeing her as a potential danger, filled him with an unpleasant feeling. But he said nothing, because even though he wanted to help her, he knew that for the moment it was safer for her to stay inside the Avengers facility.

In silent submission, he did the only thing that came to his mind to make her feel a little better: cooking. Although he had never tasted it, he knew that food could have excellent benefits in a human’s emotional state, either because of the taste of the dishes or the memories they brought, and since at that time he was willing to try anything that had the slightest chance of making the situation more bearable for his dear friend, he got down to work.

It wasn’t much of a surprise when, judging by Wanda's reaction, he realized that his little experiment did not quite taste as she had hoped. The smile that the hilarious situation caused her, however, made the time wasted totally worthwhile. At the end, he had managed to raise her spirit, and with that he was more than satisfied. But it was that same happiness that had given him so much joy what made more painful the gesture that occupied her face when, by being intercepted by him when she tried to get out, she understood what was happening.

It broke his heart having to be him the one that needed to explain her that for the time being she was being confined to that place not for her safety, but for the safety of others, because even though he knew very well that the beautiful woman in front of him would never hurt a person without a good reason , she wasn’t all sure about that. Vision knew that she considered herself a danger, and he hated himself for reinforcing that idea. But it was for her sake, and that made everything easier.

"And what do you want?" she asked after he told her that it was what Tony Stark wanted. And Vision, even with all of his knowledge, had to take a few seconds before being able to answer.

"To people to see you as I do.”

Vision was suffering with the current situation, Wanda knew it probably better than he did.

She could see it in his face and in the way he avoided harming any of those present, even though half of them were against him and his team. She had also seen his pain during their brief confrontation when she escaped, and maybe that was the reason why she couldn’t bring herself to be angry at him despite his betrayal.

She wasn’t surprised at all about how things had turned out, but she was still dissapointed.

The fateful moment in which her mistake took the lives of more than a dozen innocent people passed in slow motion to her, and it was then when she knew that with that slip she had spoiled her happiness once more. After a life full of loss and pain, she was surprised about how genuinely she had believed that this time things could be different. What she didn’t expect was that, alongside with her happiness, she would take away the Avengers’ stability.

"You will tear them apart from the inside." Ultron had said to her, and she could only laugh at how right he had been.

She knew that Lagos and the consequent Accords had only been the beginning of their rupture, and that the straw that broke the camel's back were the problems with the Winter Soldier, but she could not help but wonder how things could have been without her mistake.

She was young and Sokovia hadn’t been exactly a symbol of peace, but she remembered an easier, more secure world, where the gods were still something that existed only in legends and there was no lethal danger threatening humanity every two weeks. That world no longer existed, it had been replaced by an Earth in constant danger ... And now she had tied the hands of their only protectors.

But they say that every mistake has it’s lesson, and she had learned that fearing her own power would bring nothing but suffering to her and those she holds dear. She was a walking storm, she was chaos, and it had come the time for her to accept that irrefutable fact. People were going to fear her no matter what she did, and although that filled her with sadness, she knew that the best she could do was to keep her own insecurities at bay in order to avoid more deadly mistakes.

But what was done was done, and now it was too late for anyone to back off. She, at least, was not going to be the one to step forward and apologize. A part of her had hoped that Vision understood her motives, she even came to believe, for a few seconds, that she could convince him to leave with her and Clint... Instead, the android had told her what she already knew.

"If you do this, they will never stop fearing you" and she saw so much concern and pain in him when saying this, that she only felt worse when she had to overpowered him in order to escape. She expected the anger and resentment to appeared at some point, as they always did, but they never came. Even when they came face to face in the airport and they were about to fight, she couldn’t found the familiar burn of those feelings inside her.

If anything, she was sad.

For the truth was that her friendship with the android had gone much further than she would have thought possible at first and, at some point that was still unclear in her head, her feelings towards him grew to become something more than the love he felt for his other colleagues.

The Avengers had become a new family for her, and although each of them was important for her in a unique way, what she felt for Vision was different.

At the beginning it was easy to ignore it; still too busy dealing with everything that had been going on in her life, she didn’t spend that much time thinking about it and instead she simply reduced it as a special affection produced by everything he had done for her. Later things got more complicated when she got better and noticed that those feelings continued to grow, along with other details that had previously seemed insignificant but that now alarmed her, like how he was always the first one she looked for when a fight got ugly or the way her body seemed to involuntarily search for his when they sat down to watch a movie. The situation became totally untenable when she noticed that she wasn’t the only one feeling this way.

Thanks to her own feelings, she started to pay more attention to Vision and it didn’t took much for her to wonder how it had taken her so long to notice how he acted when he was with her, the adoration in his gaze when their eyes met for accident. She knew that he would never say anything about it if he could avoid it, but she sure as hell wouldn’t stay quiet for much longer because, unlike him, Wanda didn’t had that much conflict with the situation.

But then Lagos passed and everything fell apart.

When Clint arrived for her and, as he well knew how to do, gave her the courage to do what needed to be done, she kept holding on to the hope that Vision would reconsider things, she kept it until the very end. She really wanted him to understand, she wanted him to trust her just as she had trusted him, to be loyal to his feelings and to her ... Instead, he attacked Clint and tried to stop her. He made his decision, she had to take hers. When she was forced to use her powers to defeat him so she could flee, she thought she had lost him forever. A civil war had begun between the most powerful heroes on the planet and they were on opposite sides.

So it was a surprise to see him descending from the sky in the middle of the battle to help her, a very pleasant one, if she was being honest. When he knelt by her side and took her into his arms, her soul was filled with a deep tranquility to see that he wasn’t angry with her either, despite what had happened before. On the contrary, he held her as carefully as ever, and when he spoke, the only thing she could identify in his voice was a deep sorrow.

"I'm sorry." he said, and Wanda didn’t doubt for a second that he meant it.

"Me too." She was so focused was on him, that she barely noticed when he turned his head to shoot Sam.

She supposed that everyone paying attention to them felt as confused as she when his blast hit Rhodey, who was in fact supposed to be supported by that same attack. For a couple of seconds she thought he had done it on purpose, that he had switched sides at the last moment and that was why his attack had been directed at War Machine, since how it was possible that he, always so perfect and in order, had comitted such a mistake otherwise? But something felt wrong about that theory, and she soon understood what was it: Had that been the case, he would have simply avoided firing. He would have never sent a companion to a possibly deadly fall. Seeing Vision's horror face, she realized tht the attack was, in fact, an accident.

And for the first time, Wanda Maximoff saw a bit of her own chaos in the perfect android.

"I got distracted," he would answer later when questioned by Tony Stark, both in front of Rhodey's damaged body. He felt horrible for what he had done, and he wished with all of his heart that his friend would get well. The man laughed, unable to believe what he was hearing, as if he thought his own creation was cruely mocking him.

"I didn’t think that was possible." And Vision felt fear at hearing those words, because only he knew that this distraction was a confirmation of his most bizarre fears. That accident was the perfect example of why he was so afraid of confronting his feelings.

"Me neither."

Nights on Edinburgh at that time of the year were cold, but the woman accepted the weather with pleasure. It brought back kind memories of her younger years, when Father sat her and Pietro in front of the heater to tell them stories of ancient times while her home was flooded with the smell of the hot chocolate Mother would be cooking in the kitchen. If she closed her eyes and tried hard enough, she could relive those memories and see them in her mind as if they were a movie.

"Are you okay?" Asked a voice at her side, and Wanda opened her eyes to see the second reason why she would accept that and any other weather without complaint, as long as it allowed them to be together.

"Yes," she replied, her voice totally at peace as she seeked for her usual place in his arms. Knowing what she was looking for, the android raised an arm to allow her to clung to his body and then he laid it down behind her back, so that he could wrapped it around her tiny frame. He knew that the cold was not exactly annoying to her, and that the blankets covering them kept her at a comfortable temperature anyway, but he still began to radiate an artificial heat quite similar to that a normal human would emit. "I was just remembering."

"Pleasant memories, I hope?" The nightmares had become quite rare, but it was never enough caution for him when it came to Wanda. After all, he was always trying to keep her as happy as possible.

"From my family" she answered, and although sometimes that subject could be painful for her, the peaceful smile with which she said it was enough to know that this was not one of those occasions, which calmed him down. A soft sigh came out of the mouth of the woman, who hugged the other with infinite tenderness as he rested his cheek on the top of her head, both in an comfortable silence that was interrupted only by the distant sound of the drizzle occurring outside their home.

Home.

What a strange word was that for those two who, separately, had once assumed that they would never be able to make it theirs.

For Wanda, who had already been robbed of her home several times, her breaking point had been in solitary, locked in a cell with a straitjacket and an electric collar that restricted her movement to the point where the only thing she could do was think. During the time she spent in there, that's what she did. She thought about her family and Sokovia, how it used to looked so beautiful and calm at night when the snow covered it’s streets and you could almost ignore the tragedies happening daily in there. In Pietro, and how ironic that it was that the last time she had been locked in a room like that, he had been by her side. In Clint, Steve, Nat and the rest of the Avengers, even in Stark, with whom she had always had a complicated relationship, and in the days she spent with them. In Vision, and what could have been had things happened differently. She thought about all that and how, in the end, everything she loved was taken away from her sooner or later, and she concluded that maybe the best thing to do was simply surrendering. Fate didn’t seemed to have planned to give her any lasting happiness, so she might as well stop trying.

Vision, on the other hand, felt the same stifling sense of loneliness far away from her, safe where it was supposed to be his home. And for a while, it really had been. But war, however small, always changes things, it breaks them and by the time it’s over it’s almost impossible to leave them as they were before the disaster. The Sokovia Accords had taken the irreplaceable hope given by Captain Rogers, the sharp tongue of Natasha, the quarrels of jokes between Sam and Rhodey and the smile of Mr. Stark. But above all, the Agreements Wanda.

And only overwhelmed by the absence of her laughter, Vision realized that Wanda was his home.

It was this terrible certainty that led him to look for her when he learned of her escape, even if a part of him knew of the huge possibility of him having done irreversable damage by letting them take her to that horrible place. But the fear of rejection was a small price to pay if he had the chance to see her again.

It took time, but when he finally found her, he knew it had been worth it. He looked like a human and she looked slightly malnourished and her once dark hair had now a coppery hue, but as they exchanged glances, they both recognized each other immediately. Wanda could have recognize that stare under in any disguise. Since her escape, she had decided that this time she would so be getting mad at Vision, even if he probably wouldn’t care that much anyway (because after he allowed them to treat her like some kind of animal, she wasn’t very sure of that), and even if her courage at him didn’t dissapeared when she saw him smiling at her with so much joy, she knew from that moment that one day she would be able to forgive him.

"And you?" She asked, pulling him out of his thoughts. "Are you okay?" Gently, she reached out and stroked the cheek of the blonde who was returning her gaze. Almost two years after seeing him in that disguise for the first time, his human form was almost as familiar as his original magenta.

"Yes." and although the memories of the days that he passed away from her were still disturbing somehow, it was not a lie. After all, how could he feel anything but hapiness, being there with her? When he accepted his feelings while being appart from Wanda, he had thought that if they could manage to get together again, everything would be fine.

They made it, and so far, that logic hadn’t failed.

Then Vision let out a noise of mortified complain when, out of nowhere, he was whipped by a sharp pain coming from the center of his forehead. Confusion invaded him and for a moment he was overwhelmed by a slight panic because he had not once felt anything like that and he feared what it might mean.

"Vis?" Wanda inquired with concern when the man rose from the bed with a hand on his forehead and his face contracted with pain. Without any delay, she got out of bed and went to the help of her partner, whom she reached up with her arm so at least he would know she was there. "What is it?"

"The gem," he answered, apparently a little more calm but still notoriously disturbed. The pain had ended as suddenly as it had arrived, but the restlessness was still there. The android allowed the small yellow rock to appear on his forehead, and while there seemed to be nothing abnormal about it, Wanda didn't dared to think the other was just over reacting.

"May I?" She asked, raising his hands a little and tentatively directing them to the forehead of the other. He nodded silently and without another word, the powerful woman proceeded to use her powers to enter the gem. Her relief was notorious when she confirmed on her own account that nothing unusual seemed to be happening to her loved one, but with this relief her confusion increased. "I... I just feel you."

Remembering the horrible sensation that had attacked him only a few seconds ago, Vision could not help but feel slightly worried, knowing that it was not normal, and the fact that none of them seemed to be able to find a reasonable explanation just made things worse. But looking at Wanda and seeing the beautiful face of his beloved being overwhelmed by the fear of losing someone else was enough for him to bury that concern.

"It was surely just a headache" he said, trying to play down the issue. Wanda smiled at this. For although they both knew that it was impossible for Vision to feel any kind of migraine, they were willing to believe anything that would allow them to continue enjoying the night. Their time was stolen after all, and it would not be long before Vision had to return to the Avengers, that if they wanted to keep suspicions low.

So, the redhead placed a kiss on the android's lips and soon found herself wrapped in his arms.

With a smile on their faces, they both settled back into the warmth of the blankets, huddled against each other, and allowed themselves to be happy. In the hearts of both of them there is the sad certainty that their future is uncertain, and that the hidden paradise they had formed based on lies and stolen moments will one day have to end in one way or another. They know this, but neither of them suspects that only a couple months from that moment, Vision will say "I love you" for the first and last time nor that Wanda will have to make one last sacrifice, killing him in order to save everyone else. They don't know this will fail and that their fight will have been for nothing.

But nothing of that matters because at this precise moment, the present, they are together and safe under the warmth of a small room in Edinburgh. Vision lays a gentle kiss in Wanda's lips and, in return, she looks at him with infinite tenderness, and everything’s okay because they have each other and nothing could ever change that. Neither of them speaks, but they're both thinking about the other and how lucky they are for having such an amazing partner and how much they love each other and how imperfect they are and how that is what makes them so perfect.

Vision remembers what he said to Ultron so long ago, about how odd it was that humans to believe that somehow, chaos and order were opposites, and he can't help but to laugh a little because even with all of his knowledge, even him once believed that he could have one without facing the other. Staring at Wanda, he now understands how that's impossible, and he knows she had come to understand this, too. They both have order and chaos within themselves, and acepting this takes a huge burden off their shoulders.

And they both smile, because they love each other and they still believe that that love will be enough to get them through whatever fate has in store for them.

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My Everything [part 2]

Summary: Your Bucky’s everything but what happens when your taken away from him

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It’s been three weeks since you’ve been kidnapped by HYDRA and almost every plan had failed.

The first attempt happened the same day you were taken. Sam, Steve and Nat went back to the HYDRA base to gather any clues or information. Normally when a base is discovered HYRDA abandons it but not this time.

A few agents were still at the base, cleaning up the mess that was made from your mission. Those agents knew about your kidnapping and where you were but they killed themselves before revealing anything.

While that was happening Bruce and Tony were in their lab searching for any heat signatures in old bases. They came up empty handed. There was at least ten leads after that and every single one of them were dead ends.

Bucky was going crazy and everyone could tell. For the first day he stayed in his room all day. Ignoring every knock on the door. For the next two days he either spent his time in the gym, lifting weights or hitting a punching bag or in the conference room with piles and piles of evidence and clues, trying to remember all the places HYDRA took him, in hopes that you might be there.

As Bucky tiredly read through some articles and looked through some pictures Steve knocked at the door. Bucky too caught up in what he was doing, didn’t hear it.

“You still working?” Steve asked, sitting across from Bucky. Bucky just nodded his head, still reading the article. “When’s the last time you ate?”

“I’ll eat when she comes home.”

“Come on Buck, you can’t keep doing this to yourself. You haven’t slept in days, you aren’t eating. Your wearing yourself into the ground.”

“I promise I will rest when she comes back. I just need to find her, okay?” He said reaching for another article, but Steve snatched it away.

“If Y/N was here right now what would she say?”

“She’d tell me to get my ass in bed but what does-“ Bucky’s voice started to trail off as he stared at the article in Steve’s hand. “Steve hand me that article.”

“Not until you take a break.”

“Steve I promise I will eat, shower and take a nap after you give me the article, just hand it to me.” Steve stared at Bucky through squinted eyes has he hesitantly handed the paper back to Bucky.

Bucky snatched the article out of Steve’s hand and started to frantically line it up with other pictures and articles.

“What are you doing?”

“Follow me.” Bucky started to run out the room. Steve followed Bucky, confused as they ran to the halls. They stopped in the kitchen, finding all of the avengers there, eating dinner together. “I found her! I think I found her.”

Everyone’s head snapped up from their plate with wide eyes.

“How?” Asked Wanda, praying that he did. Wanda has become one of your closest friends. You were there for her when Peitro died and there for her when she accidentally blew up that building.

“Um… it’s hard to explain, just come to the conference room with me.” Bucky lead them upstairs. He ignored every question that was asked along the way.

“Dude, just tell us how you found her.” Said Sam, annoyed that no ones questions have been answered.

“Okay um… don’t touch anything on the table but um-“

“Are these pictures of you?” Asked Tony.

“Well pictures of the winter soldier. They were hard to find but that’s not the point. The point is that I think I found Y/N. I think she’s in Sokovia.”

“Sokovia was destroyed. There’s nothing there anymore.” Wanda says, leaving a bitter taste in her mouth.

“I know, but based off of what I can remember there was a base not that far from there. Now when I would go there, it definitely wasn’t a pleasant place. It was kind of a storage unit of different torture devices.” As Bucky started to explain more and tell them how he roped his ideas together, the team started to understand.

“Sokovia would be a smart place to keep her.” Said Bruce.

“Indeed. Why would the avengers search through a town that’s just rubble and has no population.” Said Vision.

“Alright then. Everyone suit up. Time to get Y/N back.” Said Steve before the team all exited the room, determined to get you home.

Hope you guys liked this chapter. I know I kind of jumped ahead a bit with the being close to finding the reader and that this chapter wasn’t as torturous as the last, but the next chapter might be...

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