𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄. ¹ | wanda maximoff

05 | 𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘

ONCE CARSON AND WANDA GOT BACK TO THE COMPOUND, the pair both snuck straight back to their rooms to get as much sleep as possible seen as they stayed out so long. Even though they were safe at the compound, Carson made sure to walk Wanda back to her room before going to his. The encounter at the park really had him on edge.

It had been years since he'd had to encounter Hydra and the thought of them snooping around and messing with his life again was already worrying enough, but the fact they had seen him out with Wanda and could potentially use her against him was even worse. There was no way he'd let people get hurt because of him.

Not again.

"You know, you didn't need to walk me back to my room." Wanda giggled as she opened her bedroom door.

"Yeah well.." Carson looked over Wanda's shoulder and quickly scanned over her room, using his hearing to make sure there was no one else there. "You could've... fallen or something, I don't know. And besides my room is next to yours so really if you think about it, I'm just going back to mine and yours just happens to be a stop on the way." He shrugged.

"You're still thinking about what happened at the park, aren't you?" Wanda asked, leaning on the door frame.

"What did I tell you about-"

"I didn't look inside your mind Carson." Wanda interrupted. She frowned slightly at his reaction, a little hurt as she began to think he didn't fully trust her. "You're just really tense, even now that we're back here. And I literally just saw you check over my room, so."

"I wasn't checking over your room." He raised his arm up to the frame of the door, leaning on it as he looked down at Wanda.

"Sure, sure. See.." Wanda walked into the middle of her room and opened her arms to make her presence known in the room, even if she knew that no one was in there she still wanted to reassure him.

She turned back around to face Carson and sent him a warm smile. "Look, no one is here. I'm okay. We're okay."

Wanda sighed as she looked at him, his eyes were still bouncing around the room, brows furrowed, jaw and fist clenched. As much as she appreciated how protective he was being, she knew that she had to calm him down. She cautiously took a few steps forward, placing a hand on his cheek bringing his face towards her, their eyes locking.

"I'm okay, Carson." She whispered, rubbing her thumb back and forth on his cheek. Carson let out a breath and relaxed slightly at what she was saying. He raised his hand and placed it on top of hers that was resting on his cheek, slightly interlocking their fingers. Wanda sucked in a breath as she noticed his eyes flicker down to her lips then back up to her eyes again once he caught himself.

He cleared his throat and moved back slightly, pushing his thoughts and feelings down. "I'll leave you to get some sleep." He said before turning to make his way back to his room.

"Wait." Wanda reached out and held onto his arm to stop him.

He turned back to look at her. "Yeah?"

Without saying anything Wanda moved forward and wrapped her hands around his stomach and pulled him into a hug, nuzzling her face into his chest.

"Thank you." She mumbled into his chest.

He was taken back at first at how sudden it was, his arms still down at his sides. But after a few seconds he gave in, sliding both of his arms around her lower back.

"For what?" He looked down at her, a confused smile on his face.

"For today." Wanda smiled and closed her eyes, letting out a relaxed breath. "Even if it was cut short, I still had a nice time, it really helped with.. everything. So thank you."

Carson let out a chuckle and rested his chin on top of her head. "You're welcome, Maximoff."

The sound of someone shuffling around caused the pair to slowly pull away from each other's embrace, their eyes staying locked through the process.

Carson glanced down the hall for a few seconds.
His hearing focused in the direction of Steve's room, he figured that Steve was probably getting ready for one of his early morning runs.

He looked back at Wanda and gestured towards Steve's room. "I should head back to my room, don't want to stress the old man out with the knowledge of our... late night trip?"

Wanda nodded, letting out a soft chuckle at his comment while she played with the sleeve of her hoodie, well actually Carson's hoodie.

"Night Maximoff." Carson began making his way to his room, looking over his shoulder at Wanda as he spoke up again, "Actually it's 5am so... Morning Maximoff."

Wanda giggled and peeked round her doorway at Carson going into his room. "Morning, Swan."

The pair both glanced at each other one more time before going back into their rooms. Carson smirked and gave her a salute before stepping into his room to which Wanda chuckled and playfully rolled her eyes at before she stepped into her room and closed the door.

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A/N: Hey besties ;) alright so I know this is pretty short and my original plan was for this to be an intro but it ended up turning into this instead so I decided to make it a small filler chapter instead and then in the next one it's back to the usual longer length

Also I've now got more free time so hopefully I'll be able to get out chapters quicker :)))

Until next time....

Adios amigos <3

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