Scarlet Witch

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This is really long so brace yourself.
AND SORRY FOR THE GRAMMAR MISTAKES.
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Wanda was really bored out of her mind. Vision had gone somewhere with Rhodes and the others were in the training room.
She hadn't really used her power since the Civil War which was 6 months ago. She limited her power only to lift small stuffs like books.
It wasn't that she hated her power but it made her feel like she was dangerous, like a monster.
She still trained how to combat with Natasha though but she didn't feel like being tackled and thrown to the floor today.
She played with her power around her fingers when she remembered that Vision once told her that the top of the tower had a really nice view and that was exactly where she was planning to go.
She told Friday to bring her to the roof.
And she was surprised when she arrived there because there were many flowers from many kinds and there was a huge tree in the center of the garden-like floor, the view of the sky and other buildings were really breathtaking.
The next thing she noticed was a boy sitting under the tree reading a book on the ground.
She walked slowly to the boy and stopped abruptly. She didn't know exactly how to greet the boy, so she just stood there awkwardly.
Thankfully the boy looked up and saw her, brown eyes wide open.
"Miss Maximoff, I'm sorry do you need anything?".
Wanda just shook her head and walked towards the boy.
"What's your name, boy?".
"I'm Peter! Come on Miss Maximoff, you don't have to stand, the ground is clean I promise!", the boy, Peter just grinned and she couldn't help but smile back.
Nobody, like literally nobody on the earth had ever addressed her that polite before, and somehow that made her laugh internally.
She sat down beside him, took shelter under the tree while he pushed his book aside.
"Please, Peter. Call me Wanda."
"Nice to meet you, Wanda. Err not to be rude but what are you doing here, I mean Friday told me the others were training?", confused as he tilted his head like a puppy making Wanda smile even wider.
"Just wanted to check out the view. It's really nice here", she said while looking around.
"Err...Mr. Stark told me you can do magic. Can you show me, please? I mean if you're okay with it", Peter asked her.
She looked at his puppy eyes and decided a small trick won't hurt.
So she showed him what she was doing earlier in her room.
Peter's eyes grown bigger as he giggled that melted her heart on the spot and she was glad that she had made him laugh.
" This is so cool Wanda!", a little too enthusiastic and she was taken back because people usually scared of her. So she began to do other small tricks that she knew and for a moment she thought everything could excite the boy. She swore she could sing an English song with the most horrible accent ever and Peter would still clap his hands and say it was cool. The thought made her laughed out loud.

"Can you teach me?", he asked her with bright eyes.
Wanda could only laugh.
"That's not how this works, Peter. You know this isn't really magic, right? If you want to learn real magic, you should ask Dr.Strange.", she replied back in between her laughter.

"But aren't you a witch?", Wanda felt like hugging the confused cute little boy and never let go.
"Scarlet Witch is just a name, Peter, just like how Black Widow isn't really a spider.", she couldn't help but explained it slowly as if she was talking to a 5-year-old boy.

Throughout the whole conversation, she tried to figure out his age. At first, she thought Peter was twelve because of the babyface but he was quite tall to be twelve and she glanced at his book that looked like a college book earlier.
She knew that she wasn't the brightest in the team as she had dropped out of school but last time she checked, twelve-year-old children weren't supposed to be in college.
"How old are you, Peter?", she asked finally as she glanced again at the book which didn't go unnoticed by Peter.
"Oh, I'm sixteen. I just read this book for fun.", he smiled sheepishly.
"You look young", she grinned.
"Yeah, I got that a lot, but Dad - I mean Mr.Stark said it's a good thing because when people my age are 50, I'm going to look like 30. But he was exaggerating", he replied back but his face clearly showed that he just said something he shouldn't.

Ok. She wasn't the brightest, but she wasn't THAT dumb.
"Dad? Wait you're a Stark? That's why you get access to this place."

Peter hesitated for too long before he sighed. "Well, sort of?".
Well, not really but she didn't need to know that.

Wanda didn't catch it because the only thing she was thinking was, this precious boy was Tony Stark's son, and Steve told them how they left him in Siberia. She felt guilty because this boy could've lost his father.
"Wanda? Are you okay?", she snapped out of her thought at looked back at Peter who was really concerned.
"Well, I'm sorry. About fighting your dad.", she apologized weighed with guilt.
"Hey, it's okay. If anything, I'm mad at Rogers, not you".
Wanda couldn't help but asked what happened after they left Tony in Siberia.
Peter hesitated but told her because he had been bottled his feelings about the incident for half a year now. He didn't tell Ned about what happened because God knew he didn't keep secrets well. And Wanda was already in the mess anyway.

So he told her how he and Pepper waited for Tony for 2 nights but he didn't come home. Not until Vision brought him back, broken and immediately went into surgery. He told her how he was scared because Tony was in a coma for 2 weeks. How Peter always got nightmares about losing Tony. He told her about Spiderman too.
Wanda found out that holding back her tears was harder than holding herself back every time her power went berserk.
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It was 2 am and Tony couldn't sleep so he decided hot chocolate would help.
He was sipping his drink when Wanda walked into the kitchen. For a moment, he thought about leaving the room but decided against it. Things weren't getting any better if he kept avoiding them.
He didn't spend much time with Wanda but he knew something was wrong with her as her movements were slow and unsure.
She grabbed a mug and made herself some tea. She wasn't facing him.

"I met your son, Peter. Such an adorable mess, he was.", she started without turning around.

Tony immediately tensed. He was about to snap something to her when suddenly Wanda turned, eyes wet. She wasn't crying because she was holding back her tears but Tony was still taken back. When she spoke next, her voice broke slightly.

"H-he told me about.... what happened after Siberia a-and I-I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I didn't know about Barnes until Steve told me and I just wanted to tell you that I didn't fight for Barnes, I just fought for my freedom a-and , a-and -",

If Tony hadn't met Peter, then maybe he couldn't care less about her crying. But he did meet Peter and curse his parental instinct as he watched a nineteen-year-old girl having a mental meltdown in-front of him.

His face softened.
"Its okay Wanda. You don't have to explain. At least you had the gut to say it to my face. It's okay.".
And she just smiled and drank her tea.
"I won't tell the others about Peter".
"Well thank you, I appreciate that."

Maybe things would get better after this.

And if Wanda hung out with Peter every day at the top of the tower, Tony didn't say anything.

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