Pain Is Power

9: Double Agent

"You're being a creep," I say as I stand beside Wanda. "I am not." She defended still watching Amelia fight Bucky in the boxing ring. "You've been standing watching her for an hour now." "I'm just really into this fight." She shrugs. "Nothing to do with the fact Amelia's stood there in her sports bra and shorts looking hot?" I teased. Wanda blushed. It was clear Wanda had a crush on Amelia, she was always with her, she blushed whenever Amelia would compliment her, she would giggle and play with her hair. Amelia of course was none of the wiser to this little crush Wanda had. She had no time to be, her dad had her in the lab whenever she wasn't training. 

"You think she's hot?" She asked looking at me quickly. I chuckled. "You do." "Do not. She's my friend." I raised a brow at her. "Oh please, it's okay if you like her." "She doesn't see me that way." "How do you know?" "I mean look at her. She's amazing." She got lost in a trance as she watched her learn a move as Bucky taught her, going through the motions slowly. Her muscles were tense and prominent as she did this. "And she's strong and smart and I'm me." "Who is strong and smart and kind," I tell her. "But she's A Stark." "And?" "They're like untouchable." 

"She's just like the rest of us." "She's a household name. She has been since she was 2 years old. The Stark twins." I rolled my eyes. "She's way out of my league." "You're out of her league," I tell her. Wanda was my friend and I didn't like her self-deprecating because she was amazing, and she had good qualities too. "She doesn't like me." She says firmly really believing her words. "How do you know? Have you asked her?" "She would have made some sort of pass at me by now." "What makes you think that?" "She's so confident." "It's a facade. She isn't confident. She's actually shy." Wanda scans my face. I could tell she was trying to see if I was lying or not but I wasn't. "Piper was confident. She was the one who would talk for them both and often she was the reason they got in trouble so often at the red room. Amelia is the quiet one who watches the world, observing taking in everything. She's so shy and timid." "She doesn't seem it." "Everyone has to change to survive. If she didn't toughen up she wouldn't have gotten through that. And in a way, I think this sassy confident thing is her way of keeping her sisters spirit with her." "You think?" I nodded. "Do you think she likes me but is too shy to say anything?" "I don't know her well enough to know her type. But you're a great women Wanda. Anybody would be lucky to have you." I tell her with a soft smile. 

"Hey Nat, how about you get in here and see if you can keep up with this one?" Bucky called. I looked at Amelia she was re-wrapping her knuckles. She didn't seem to be in a bad mood today. "I'm actually going to call it a day," Amelia says looking over at me. "I have some things to do in the lab. I'm already late." 

"Hey, Wands." She smiled at her before heading out. Bucky looked at me with a sorry look. Everyone in the compound is trying to make me and Amelia the best of friends. They think because we have been through the same thing, well similar things that we should just get along. But half the people here don't know the full story. Everyone is trying to force us to come together but it just creates awkward tension like now. She would have continued training but she slipped away and now she's not doing what she wanted to do. So later tonight it will be my fault that she wasn't able to do that causing another argument between the two of us. We didn't need help in creating argument topics we did pretty fucking good all by ourselves. 

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"Can we talk?" Amelia asked closing the door behind her. I frowned, she's never asked me to talk before it's normally me wanting to talk and her telling me in so many words to leave her alone. She's never asked before. "Yeah, what's up? Are you okay?" "I'm fine." She said sitting on my bed opposite me, she sat in Crisscross at the foot of the bed and I leant against the headboard. 

"You can't react to this. Because if dad finds out I'm dead." I nodded hearing her. "Promise." I nodded. "Friday shut of camera's and audio for the room." "Shutting down camera's and audio for your room Miss Stark." She waited a second. "They know where Yelena is." She fiddled with her phone. "I've tried to warn her but her phone keeps going to voicemail." She says. "What are they going to do?" "Retrieval mission. Clint and Maria are on intel at the moment. And then when enough information is collected they're going to get her."