What Heroes Do -- [Male Reader x Wanda Maximoff]

Book 1: Chapter #6

Y/N was in his room going through what homework he had left from the shortened day. He was enjoying the silence as he went through the History, Physics, English, Chemistry and Biology homework assignments.

The silence was broken by the sound of Wanda and Pietro arriving downstairs.

"Y/N! Get down here!" Nat said over the speakers.

"Well, it was a good run." Y/N muttered to himself as he headed downstairs to see Natasha sat down with Wanda and Pietro, he walked in and looked at Natasha who silently told him to sit down. Y/N sat on the couch and Natasha looked at all three.

"Right, I'm going to ask this once, and only once...What happened?"

"Flash started to hit on me, I told him to leave so he called me a bitch, Y/N pinned flash to the table and warned him to never call me that again." Wanda said as Natasha looked to Y/N who was slightly blushing.

"So, it was the green eyed monster of jealousy huh?" Nat asked as Y/N looked to her with shock.

"What? No, he called my friend a bitch, it was just the last straw, I didn't mind the daily beatings and all that, just as long as he wasn't hurting or bullying anyone else." Y/N said as Natasha shook her head.

"You've never mentioned daily beatings-"

"Because he didn't want to cause more trouble." Wanda said as Y/N shook his head and walked out, leaving the compound and going for a walk. "I can show you what he was talking about, his memories, I've seen them."

"By all means." Natasha said expecting Wanda to crumble under the challenge. Wanda touched the side of her head and the images of the bullying flashed in Natasha's mind as she watched a highlight reel of everything Flash had done to him, when it was finished.

"Flash gets away with it all Natasha." Wanda said as Nat felt her chest tighten.

"How didn't I notice-"

"He learned to hide his injuries from you Natasha, he didn't want you to have that on your plate, he wanted to deal with it himself."

"No, no I-I should have noticed, it was my job to stop this kind of thing happening to him, this is why I refused to train him, so that he didn't end up suffering the life I did." Natasha said as she felt a tear fall down her cheek. "I should have told him that he could tell me, I should have known if he was lying, it's my job to know when people lie to me and I couldn't know when my son was being bullied."

"Natasha, this wasn't your fault-"

"I let him down." Natasha said as Steve walked in to see Natasha, he put his hand on her shoulder.

"No you didn't Nat." Steve said as Wanda looked at them both, they all began to notice Y/N had been gone for some time, longer than his usual venting walk.

"JARVIS, anything on where Y/N is right now?" Wanda asked as there was a ling pause.

"It appears I cannot get a trace on Mr Romanoff. He was last seen walking around the edge of the compound, CCTV indicates that he was involved in an altercation with someone before they took him, I'm trying to track the signal on his jacket but its faint ma'am, I'm notifying the rest of the team and SHIELD." JARVIS said as Natasha immediately went from crying to a tunnel vision style focus, she stood up and stormed to the armoury where she grabbed as many of her guns as she could.

"I'm going outside to check the scene, either help me or get the fuck out of my way." Natasha said as she walked to the scene with directions from JARVIS. She found his phone on the floor, it had a cracked screen but she could see it still had a message on it.

'Orphanage is he--'

"No, no they have him. The Orphanage has him, my baby." Natasha growled as she looked out at the city skyline in the distance.

"Nat, we'll get him back." Steve said as Natasha walked past him and to the briefing room, she called a team meeting as they all arrived they saw Natasha was stood at the front of the room with her arms crossed.

Orphanage:

Y/N woke up strapped to a bed looking at all of his surroundings, he looked up and saw a woman stood there wearing a lab coat, she had red hair flowing down to her shoulders and she was smirking.

(Anya Taylor-Joy as Cirilla...)

"Mr Romanoff, nice to finally put a face to the legend. My mother, rest her soul, she told me all about you. You probably don't remember me, we were both so young back then, my mother used to make me watch you hoping that I would pick up a skill from the legendary Romanoff boy, she used to parade me about hoping I'd catch your eye, hoping you'd fall in love with me to give her a tool against you. Because of her, I became like this." The Woman said as Y/N looked up at her warm eyes. "My mother turned me into not just an assassin, but the assassin. She wanted me to be like you. Tortured me, if I broke she would beat me, or punish me. I was six when that started. I didn't want us to meet like this but you put up a fight, and my men aren't exactly too bright, I engineer them to be that way, soldiers, born and bred for one thing...war. I wanted to talk to you normally. I want to let you out of the restraints but I need to be certain you won't try anything. Well...are you going to try anything?"

Y/N shook his head calmly and the restraints opened by themselves.

"See, I knew you were smarter than most."

"Why am I here? Are you trying to finish your mothers work?"

"What, you think I have some evil plan? No, no, no...see this is what my mother conditioned us into, not children, but soldiers with some idealistic sense of duty to stop plans, leading to us seeing anything as a threat until we know otherwise. No, I just want someone intelligent, someone who understands what I went through. Walk with me."

"You know a lot about me, can I at least get the name of the girl walking around barefoot, I mean that cannot be doing your feet any good." Y/N said calmly as he took in his surroundings, hoping to find an exit.

"Cirilla, Cirilla Bolinia." The woman said as she led him through the large hidden facility.