White Knight

Sleepless

Your Pov

After that light kiss from Nat, I felt it ignite my lip the day way it did the first time. I was led in bed watching the stars out the window I couldn't sleep my head was a mess. I know I needed rest and sleep but it was impossible. I slowly rolled out of bed and stumbled into the kitchen, I was so tired and numb from the day's hard work I didn't even see Wanda sat in the corner of the room reading. I walked to the cupboard and grab a glass and filled it with water. "y/n?" the small voice from the corner shocked me and my head spun up to meet the cute little witch in the corner. I headed over to her and sat next to her on the couch. "Hey darling, I'm pretty sure I carried you up to bed earlier?" I smiled lightly as she put her book on the table next to her. "You did, thank you for that by the way. Our training today used a lot of my energy. Shouldn't you be sleeping?" her Sokovian accent was soothing and calming just made me relax on the couch.

"Shouldn't you?" I quipped back shutting my eyes.

"I should but I couldn't relax what about you?" She said walking over to get her drink and a blanket.

"I'm so restless, I was counting on the training to knock me out. I haven't been able to sleep."

"What is it that you call it? Mind voodoo? I can try and relax your mind so that you fall asleep if you like?" she came over and stood behind me playing with my hair to keep me calm.

"Would that work because of you know..." I flashed my eyes blue.

"I think we could try, but if you don't want to we could always put on a film for a while" she threw a blanket over me and continued to play with my hair her rings were rough against my head it was relaxing me.

"what about you, could we do it together so that you sleep?" I slowly sat up to look at her

"I don't know I mean we could link I guess but I don't know how that could work, I would just pull out some good memories for you to get some sleep."

"I could do the same if we are linked. Does that mean you can see my past tho..."

"It does it means we would be opening up everything to one another if that is what you want."

"My past might unsettle you, Wanda, maybe we should just watch a movie?"

"Your past couldn't unsettle me y/n. If you aren't ready to share then that's okay we can watch a film"

"My past haunts me, why don't you get comfortable and I'll make you some tea?" I stood up and grabbed two mugs from the cupboard and put the kettle on. I flashed my eyes blue and read her mind to see what her favourite tea was. Putting a camomile in hers and a regular for me, I poured the hot water in and carried them over to her.

"You read my mind?" I smiled hoping she wouldn't be mad. She smiled softly back at me patted me on her lap for me to rest my head.

"You can't get comfortable if I lay with my head in your lap," I said lifting her to lay down. While lifting her she let out a small little giggle.

"Now I'm led down and comfortable, get your head here and I'll put on a sitcom. No arguments." I held my hands up in defeat I quickly grabbed a second blanket which was soft and fluffy wrapping it around her and laying my head down on top of it, pulling the other blanket over the top of my body. She started to run her left hand through my hair as she put on the sitcom Dick van Dike that I think she must have seen 2000 times by now but every time her face lit up just like it was the first.

"Wanda?" I said getting more and more sleepy.

"Mhm" was the small response I got from her

"Why do you love this show so much? it's okay if you don't want to tell me."

"Every day when my Father would come home from work. He came home with a new video for us to watch. I chose this every time, it makes me feel safe and close to them whenever a watch it." She said so softly while looking down at me slowly tracing circles on my forehead making sure to miss the cut on my eyebrow.

"Thank you for sharing it with me," I said as I looked up at her, the light from the tv making her eyes sparkle that little more. "I want to share something with you if that's okay?" She smiled and nodded at me to continue. "After I became a part of the Knighthood, to finish my training they wanted me to kill one of the boys I had trained with. I didn't know it was one of them at the time, but they handed me a loaded weapon and locked me in a room with someone with a bag over my head. I refused and managed to free him and the other boys trapped in the knighthood. That was the day they branded me the White Knight. I was meant to take over the mantel of the Black Knight as I failed to complete my training and had set the others free. They called me weak and 'Killed me' the Black Knight sliced open my chest and blew up the Knighthood caving the building in on me. T'challa found me, and Shuri saved me. As I recovered T'challa told me to use my past as a strength and told me to use the title of the White Knight as a badge of honour. He said the title meant that I was 'honourable, brave and the protector of people the innocent' i have tried to make those words true ever since. I just don't think I have it in me" I let out a sigh as I relaxed into her.

"Can I show you something?" she said so softly, any normal person wouldn't have heard it.

"Does it mean I have to move? You are extremely comfortable" All I heard was a light giggle come from her.

"No, just close your eyes" So I did as I was told, and a flash of images came into my mind. The images were a mix of mine and her memories, and videos of me she had watched, the first was off when I jumped in fount of a gun for tony when I 'saved' Natasha when I shot those hydra agents when I went against the Black Knight on the rooftop. There was an article that was the last image she kept that one there for a while so I could read it, from 7 years ago.

Lieutenant L/N Missing in Action.
after a successful mission in Nigeria, a group of men returned from the jungle without their officer in command. The Sgt who was leading the return commented "Our Lieutenant, is our hero. Without him we would not have survived, he went hungry for us, clothed us with his own when we were cold. Then walked into enemy lines so we could return home." Branded as a hero by his fellow soldiers, the British army has placed a memorial for his sacrifice in the centre of Sandhurst Military academy where he joined at the age of 16, with the words on the place. We look to you for Courage to continue, We look to you with honour, We look to you for our strength.

Wanda pulled me out of my thoughts. "You are all of the things we see you be, you always have. T'challa saw it before you did, and all you have done all your life is proof that." She placed a light kiss on my forehead and wiped the tears from my cheeks. "You are the strongest and most honourable man I have ever met, now get some sleep. You have demons of your past to face soon along with beat Tony's bet, Peter wants to learn to sword fight." She went back to playing with my hair and closed her eyes.

"Thank you, Wanda. Thank you for showing me" I closed my eyes and fell asleep in her lap.