Memories

20. Preparation

Y/n POV:

Everyone fans out, all on edge. The Morales' are in one corner Jeff wrapping his arms around a shaking Rio while Strange examines her neck. Wanda and my parents are in another and me and Peter sit together in silence on the cushioned couch.

I stare at a blank wall thinking about everything and nothing all at once. Suddenly a thought interrupts my mind. Why am I sat here waiting for my inevitable death? I get up, I stumble to my knees but when Peter tries to help i stop him. I pull myself up, energy coursing through me but this time it's my doing. I feel everything that's damaged stitch itself together. My voice also comes back. I still stutter words but manage a normal sounding sentence. "Why am I... sat here waiting? Shouldn't you be...teaching me to...fight and protect...myself against him?" I question pointedly at doctor strange.

I wait for someone to answer but everyone is just staring at me. "How...how did you do that?" My dad asks. I shrug.

"She's more powerful than me and Wanda combined. She simply stitched herself back together using the unlimited energy coursing through her." He explains. I can tell he's impressed.

To my shock Jeff is the next to speak. "Well, if all three of you are so powerful her most of all don't you think you should listen and train in the agonising wait for this demon to show up?"

"Yes. Maybe!" I exclaim but sputter into a cough after causing Peter to rub my back.

"Fine. Wanda you're coming too." Strange commanded. As we followed Strange through a portal, I could see peter running after me then it closed. when we step through its just my dad's training centre in the compound but he obviously didn't want to ask dad.

"So..what do we do now?" Wanda asks.

"We get you two under control."

he activates the training sequence and just stands there. "let's see how you defend yourselves first."

I watch as red whips out of Wanda's hands landing in the middle of the dummy's chest. she picks some up with her powers and stretches them and pops off their limbs. I stand stunned as, how am I supposed to top that?

"Very good. now you Y/n."

this time instead of the dummies moving on the spot they start to come at me with real arms and legs. I panic at first just staring but then I remember Wanda and her graceful finger movements to manipulate the energy inside her. I scrunch up my fists into balls until I feel the yellow energy at my fingertips. I lift my hands up, flicking my wrists and finger in smooth movements. yellow shoots from my fingers and hitting the legs first to stop movement of the dummy. then scrunch my fists again which lets off a controlled blast to its head. Strange lets more dummies loose and one by one I let my fingers dance along the air sending shock wave after shock wave at the dummies. to their chests, legs, arms, heads and at one point I lift one in the air and fling it across the room. when all is left is ashes of old dummies, I step back panting thanking myself I didn't lose control or mephisto decided to control my powers.

strange teaches us more about how to not let emotion cloud our fighting with such unpredictable power in our hands. he eventually leaves us to practice while Hes gone to tend to Mrs Morales.

Me and Wanda practice balling up energy and dispersing it. we're in silence until I speak up. "Hey Wanda?"

"mh?" she mumbles looking up at me.

"As much as I love hanging out with you, and we have become quite close, but I have to ask...is there any reason you've been around so much since I got back? I don't mind I was just curious..." I question, looking in her eyes for a reaction.

"There is actually...not soon after your disappearance I decided to look more into my family as I only has vague memories... and that's when I find out another child was born after me and Pietro to my parents... an Adela Maximoff. I traced links to find out if she was still alive, she is. turns out when she went missing hydra took you...experimented on you from such a young age nobody should've survived some of things done to her NO person should've have survived but she did. she lived up until about 5 when the avengers found her and took her in." she trails off unable to meet my gaze.

"what's this...do with me?" I asked

"She swallows hard. "I'm not sure if it's my place..."

I stare blankly until I finally begin to understand. but I need to hear it. "say what...Wanda?

"Um..." she hesitates.

"TELL ME!!" I scream, the ball of energy I was putting all of concentration on explodes into a massive blast bouncing on all walls. I cough but it's nothing compared to the emotions erupting inside me.

"It was you. you were taken from us, to hydra, to tony and pepper adopting you." she states bluntly.

my eyes fill with tears, not because Wandas my family, or that hydra kidnapped me, but that my dad lied. or should I even call him that.

Wanda envelops me in a hug, a new warmth spreads around me causing my breathing to hitch. Shes my real family. and I missed a lifetime of her as my sister. all anger turns to happiness and gratefulness. but they still lied.

soon my 'dad' comes up. "Is everything okay?"

at first, I want to yell, but remember the bigger issues. so, I simply say. "I know."

"Know what?" he says confused.

"I know Wandas my sister. that you saved me from hydra. but I can't believe you lied. what did you think would happen if you told me?" I ask, hurt by their choice to keep it from me.

"I didn't want you to look at me different. someone who just took you as some hero act. it wasn't, you mean the world to me Y/n and didn't want anything to cause you to drift from me..."

"Nothing could you say would ever make me love you any less or mom. you're my parents." I walk up to him and hug him.

"I hear my real name is Adela, huh? maybe I should go back to that..." I hear him laugh as well as Wanda who comes up and hugs me and dad.

then strange rounds the corner. "Hes coming. I sensed it. Hes rounding his minions to pull a full-on charge on the compound to get Y/n."