She's Got a Temper || Wanda Maximoff || Natasha Romanoff ||

Chapter 8

2016- The border of Manitoba and Ontario

"I will answer all questions in the car but for right now we need to go, that won't stall Jean for long!" I exclaimed pushing the two girls in front of me as we ran back to the car as fast as possible.

I tried staying behind them because I knew I could outrun them but I didn't want to, keeping them safe was my priority. The car was in sight and we sprinted for it. We frantically opened the doors and got in, I started the car and hit the gas hard. The car jolted and sped off down the freeway, I breathed in a sigh of relief but I knew this wasn't the end.

"What the hell does your brother's ex want with you?!" Natasha asked while looking behind us to see if we were being followed.

"I didn't say ex, I said the woman he loved."

"Okay why the specific difference?" Wanda asked while I stared out at the road in concentration.

"Cause I slept with her."

"WHAT" Wanda and Natasha said at the same time.

"Would you both relax! It was before either of you were even born!" not like it should matter.

"You need to explain more thoroughly." Wanda said in a tone I didn't really recognize from her.

"Back in 1980 I had just escaped Stryker's hell and I basically traded my brother's life for mine. Well not really, I impaled him and left him in the lab Stryker had us in."

"I was really resentful of him and it was the biggest regret of my life, Jean found me in Brooklyn, she was looking for James but she found me instead." I continued.

"Long story short, James was helping her with something called the Phoenix force, he disappeared before he could help, she found me, I helped her out of guilt, she found out what I did to James and she tried to kill me." I finished; I didn't need to look at their faces to know they were probably shocked.

"Did she love James?" Wanda asked and I shook my head.

"No, she ended up falling in love with me, I didn't know James loved her, she told me after we had slept together for the seventh time?" I said questioning because I wasn't sure, it was kind of a blur.

"Julia!" Natasha and Wanda both slapped my arm.

"Driving! Hello!"

"That doesn't explain why she's after you right now." Natasha said now facing towards the front.

"And what the hell is a Phoenix force?!" Wanda asked clearly, still rattled by the unexpected interaction.

"The Phoenix force is one of the oldest known cosmic entities, it represents life that hasn't been born yet as well as other forces of creation and destruction."

"Basically it's an indestructible, immortal, and mudable manifestation of the prime universal form of life. It's the nexus of all psionic energy which means she's this all powerful being with psychic abilities that surpass even Wanda's. Jean is all powerful, the Phoenix force chose her because her powers were already strong, it can't live outside of its host, that's the one downfall it has but we don't know how to expel it out of her without putting it into someone else and killing Jean in the process."

"Sounds like a parasite." Natasha commented.

"If a parasite could bend your mind at its will."

"How do you know all this?" Wanda asked; I could hear the fear in her voice, not a lot of things were stronger than her but this certainly was.

"I've spoken to it through Jean, it's been bonded to her for over 30 years and they seem to be getting along just fine now." I grunted out as I maneuvered through oncoming traffic.