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

Book 1: Chapter #18

Y/N, Natasha and Steve arrived at the Helicarrier, as they walked through the corridors.

"Why does Cirilla want Wanda and Pietro out of the equation but not me, if she ordered me to be arrested then I'd be isolated and alone enough for her to come after- That bitch!" Y/N yelled in realization.

"Langua-" Steve was in the middle of scolding Y/N but was soon cut off.

"Zip it boy scout. FRIDAY, get Fury down here now." Y/N said as he opened the door to Wanda and Pietro's "quarters".

"Wanda, Pietro, you both okay?" Y/N said as he walked into the quarters and checked them for any signs of being experimented on or injury. Once he was certain they had been treated well Y/N began to check the place for anything that would be used to spy on them he found hidden cameras all over the place as well as hidden microphones. Fury arrived and Y/N was looking through all of the footage from the camera's using FRIDAY, it was mostly just Wanda and Pietro's daily routine, they were on the whole time they slept as well.

"There's eight hours of us sleeping on there?" Wanda said as Y/N looked at here.

"Well, it's not just sleeping...there some farting and snoring to keep up the interest." Y/N quipped as Wanda looked embarrassed.

"Oh god. Pietro."

"Don't worry. You didn't wake him up." Y/N joked causing Wanda to start hitting him with the pillow. "Alright, it was a joke."

"Are you sorry?" Wanda asked threatening with the pillow again.

"Yeah, it was a mistake, you did wake him." Y/N joked as Pietro and the group began laughing while Wanda hit Y/N with her pillow. When they were finished Wanda just looked at Y/N playfully.

"I hate you." She muttered.

"You love me really." Y/N said as Wanda looked at him and blushed before looking away.

Y/N was thinking outside of the conversation with the group, he was thinking like he was going through a database, looking for something.

'Think, think Y/N, you idiot, there are lives on the line and you can't think. THINK!'  Y/N thought as he paced about, talking on auto pilot to the rest of the group, while working out the equation Cirilla had set for him.

"We need evidence or they can't go. Either persuade Ross or find evidence for us to go against the orders, otherwise we have nothing." Fury said as Y/N went silent. He was thinking for the whole time, even on the trip home, he spent the whole weekend thinking as he puzzled over everything, the bus trip was nothing but a blank blur as Y/N was in his own head, thinking and trying to figure out what Cirilla was up to. He was sorting through the books he needed for the day and then heading to class when Peter joined him. They walked into class and began to go through the work. 

Halfway through the class the alarm bells went off and Y/N looked around, his senses picked up the sound of soldiers moving through the building. A soldier burst into the room and pointed their weapon at the teacher. As all of the students knelt before the soldiers Y/N looked around. This was it, this was Cirilla's plan, to attack Y/N where he couldn't fight back,  she was going straight for his jugular.

The students looked up as Cirilla walked in.

"Where is Y/N Rushman?" She asked rhetorically, pointing a gun at Flash's head, she was wondering if Y/N would let others die for him, even those he hated.

Y/N stood up and looked her in the eye, he had no armour, no weapons, no backup, and no plan.

"Wait, let these people live. Please, Cirilla." Y/N said as she looked at him practically begging for her to spare the people in the class. "Whatever I have done to wrong you, your fight is with me, not these people. Kill me, not them."

Peter heard his friends words and looked up, he stood up and tried to stop Y/N who approached Cirilla.

"Y/N, No-" Cirilla shot Peter in the stomach, Y/N turned and held Peter, applying pressure to the wound, MJ tried to help.

"Peter, stay with me." Y/N said as he looked at Peter, MJ took over and nodded to Y/N. The boy stood up and looked at the soldiers and Cirilla with rage in his eyes. "You've just hurt the boy who is like a brother to me, you're way to close to call yourselves safe."

Cirilla saw what she wanted, he was emotionally compromised, now he was reckless.

"Come with us or we'll finish him off and then go through student by student until we find someone you care about." Cirilla said as she pulled out a two swords. "Time to face your fate Y/N. You were meant to have died years ago, I'll finish my mothers work."

Y/N followed them as the class watched, they looked on as Y/N followed Cirilla out of the room and into the hallways, Y/N looked up and saw it, his trigger, Natasha, Wanda, and the rest of the team, all being restrained by special bindings. Y/N looked at them all, his family all suffering because of him, his best friend...practically brother, was lying in another room bleeding from a gunshot wound sustained by trying to protect Y/N.

"Let them live, just...kill me, you're right, I should have died years ago, finish it. Kill me." Y/N said as Cirilla smiled, Natasha sobbed as she saw accepting his fate, Wanda looked at the boy, feeling tears pulling at her eyes.

Cirilla drew two swords and prepared to kill Y/N, after years of planning and learning to adapt to him, adapt to his life, she now had it within her grasp.

She was brought the swords down, but stopped halfway down, she looked down at Y/N stopping her arms, in an instant Y/N had kneed her in the ribs and stole Cirillas pistol, using it to kill the soldier threatening the innocents, as the ammo ran out Y/N headbutted Cirilla and took one of her swords, he stood there, looking down to see a soldier had managed to shoot him in the thigh before they died.

Cirilla laughed as the shock collars activated on the Avengers, the electricity surged through them all as Y/N looked at his enemy, then their sword.

"You had to be the hero, you couldn't just die for me!" Cirilla yelled in anger as Y/N looked at her.

"You hurt my family, shot my friend--my brother. I'll die before letting you win that easily." Y/N said as he looked at her with the sword in his hands.

"I know, but it will be so, so, easy." Cirilla said as Y/N looked at her sword. They stood at a standoff, waiting for the other to make their move...