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

Book 1: Chapter #9

"Mom...help." 

Natasha turned around to see her son was broken, his body had been ripped apart and put back together again, as had his mind..

"I...I can't get her out of my head." Y/N sobbed as Natasha walked to the cell door and opened it, she walked in and closed the door behind her. As she approached Y/N she saw him look at her with glossy eyes.

"Who? Y/N, who did this to you kiddo?" Nat said as she brought him into a hug.

"I can't remember her name, I can only remember what happened and her face." Y/N panicked as Natasha looked at him.

"Shut up!" Cirilla's voice said as an image of her attacking him flashed in his mind, Y/N backed away in fear as Natasha saw the pure terror in her sons eyes.

"Please don't hit me." Y/N called out as Natasha looked at him. 

"My baby, what did they do to you?" Natasha said as Y/N looked at her with pure unbridled dread in his eyes. "I'm not going to hurt you, I will never hurt you."

"She...she, they...I can't remember anything, why can't I remember?"

"It's okay, Y/N, you were brainwashed for around ten weeks, they erased some of your memories, you might be a bit patchy on some things." Natasha said as Y/N looked at her.

"Ten weeks?" Y/N asked as Natasha nodded to him. "...ten weeks. Why did-- why did it feel like I loved her? I felt like I was in love with her, like she was everything to me?"

"We checked your system, you had a high amount of residual chemicals in you from constant dosing, from what we can tell, it acted like a pheromone that attracted you. You had no control over it, especially after the first TAHITI session." Natasha said as a memory of the procedure flashed into Y/N's mind.

"I remember something...They sent me into a room with a bunch of futuristic tech, machines with needles and stuff, they performed procedures on me and then the...the woman would begin to talk about the procedures into a tape recorder. They gave me augmentations alongside the drugs, I was awake throughout the procedures." Y/N said as Natasha clenched her fist at hearing what someone had done to her child.

Y/N looked down at his arms covered in surgical scars, he put his hand on his heart remembering how it felt like it had been ripped out by Cirilla once she told him the truth, knowing the brainwashing would erase it. As Y/N stood up Natasha looked at him.

"I tried to kill you --"

"Don't you dare do that to yourself Y/N. You were brainwashed, mind controlled into this." Natasha said as Y/N looked at her, staring into her emerald eyes.

"That's no excuse, I should have been stronger, smarter. I'm a bad person." Y/N said as Natasha put her hands on Y/N's shoulders, she looked him in his eyes.

"No Y/N, you're not, the fact that you feel bad about it, means you cannot be bad. Goodness...goodness is like sanity, the very fact that you question it means you still have it to question. You're not a bad person Y/N." Natasha said as she smiled at him and pilled him into a hug.

Natasha could feel the boys tears fall onto her shoulder.

"Hey. C'mon, I don't want snot and tears all over my suit." Natasha said as Y/N laughed before she began to tickle him trying to make him cheer up, she stopped a few seconds later as alarms went off. Steve ran in suited up for a fight.

"Nat, we're under attack." Steve said as Nat stood up and went to follow him. "Bring as much ammo, it looks like there's an army."

Y/N looked on as Natasha left to go fight the army.