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

Book 1: Chapter #20

Y/N woke up still handcuffed to the bed. Sleep must have caught up with him trying to stay awake. He looked around to see Wanda in the corner of the room eating a bowl of grapes.

"I would offer you one but I know you hate them." Wanda said as she looked to Y/N who already had a joke in his head but he was too flustered a the thought of Wanda meaning what his joke was about, he couldn't speak.

"W-w-what?" Y/N stuttered as he looked her in the eyes. "I don't hate grapes-"

Wanda looked at him with her head tilted.

"You will if you keep pissing me off like you did before." Wanda said as Y/N gulped slightly.

"Wanda, please just take these off, we have to stop Cirilla." Y/N pleaded as Wanda slammed the bowl down on a table.

"Do you have a death wish? Do you want to die? I mean, do you get off on cheating death or something-!"

"No!" Y/N snapped as Wanda pinched the bridge of her nose. "I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing it so that others don't suffer like I did. I'm doing this because she nearly killed you and my my Mom, nearly made me do it, and she wants to kill you both, you especially."

"Don't lie-"

"I'm not." Y/N said as Wanda looked at him.

"Why does she want me dead so much then?" Wanda asked crossing her arms.

"Because I..." Y/N stopped wishing he didn't have to tell Wanda like this. He found a way to chicken out of it. "Because I count you as one of my closest friends."

Wanda just nodded.

"You're off the mission roster until we say so, you try and go after her or her people and you're back on this bed handcuffed until you're back to health." Wanda said as Y/N nodded. 

As they stepped out into the corridor Y/N saw Natasha sat with Steve, they were both asleep with Natasha unknowingly resting her head on Steves shoulder.

Y/N took a photo and sent it to Clint who responded by saving it to his camera roll and sending a laughing emoji which made Y/N and Wanda cringe.

They both shot awake, while Y/N and Wanda began to pretend they were in the middle of an argument.

"No, you were an idiot so I locked you in there." Wanda said as Y/N looked at her hoping it was all fake but he could see that she slightly meant it.

'ouch.' Y/N thought to himself as Wanda looked into his mind and saw it, she instantly looked like she wanted to apologized but was keeping up the act, she just stormed off showing Y/N the middle finger over her shoulder as she walked away.

"Crap." Y/N muttered to himself as he walked away while Natasha and Steve looked at each other confused as to what happened, wondering how they got to sleep, Natasha was wondering why she woke up with her head on Steves shoulder, and Steve was too busy blushing to really form a coherent thought.

Y/N was in his room trying to distract himself when he thought back to Cirilla, more importantly, where the base was, it was still fuzzy but he focused on it. Wanda could hear his thoughts through the wall and rushed in to stop him, he was focusing on it, when Wanda came into the room she saw Y/N straining himself trying to think on the memory, he was chasing it trying to find his enemy, a crimson crack had emerged from Y/N's nose down to his lip from a small drop of blood coming from Y/N's nose, Wanda used her powers to put Y/N unconscious and stop him from looking at the thought, Natasha rushed in to see Wanda breathing heavily.

"Natasha, he's going to kill himself if he keeps going like this." Wanda said as Natasha nodded. "What do we do?"

"I'm going to train him, make sure that when he does fight Cirilla again, he'll at least be able to match her on swordsmanship skills. You need to keep him from going into this state again, use your powers, hit him, do whatever you have to to make sure he doesn't go looking into those memories before he's ready, keep him focused on anything other than the memories until I'm finished with training him, I hate doing this, but I'd hate to lose my son even more." Natasha said as Wanda nodded. "I'm placing him on a lenient house arrest, unless he's with one of us, he's not allowed to leave the perimeter of the compound, if he does, we'll know about it first, we have to keep an eye on him."

"Understood." Wanda said as they both received a message in the group chat from Clint.

Birds-eye:

[Picture of Nat and Steve]

#Romanogers!

"Who took the photo?!" Natasha called out as she ran into the common room. Wanda let out a small chuckle.

Y/N woke up a few hours later with his hands tied to the bed using Wanda's magic.

"You know, I'm starting to think you like me handcuffing you to a bed." Wanda said as Y/N hid his face from her. 

"Wanda, please, let me go after her, I need to, I can't let her win!" Y/N said, shouting the last part as he struggled against the restraints, Wanda jumped at him raising his voice, she looked at him with fear in her eyes, something that managed to finally get through to Y/N, he felt his heart break, the girl he loved was scared of him. Natasha was watching over the cameras and decided Y/N needed another nap to cool down. She messaged Wanda telling her to put Y/N to sleep again. Wanda followed them but this time she used her fist to knock Y/N out cold.

"For that...I'm not sorry." Wanda said as she stepped out of the room and locked the door.

When Wanda was freshening herself up and recovering from the fright Y/N gave her she looked in a mirror and saw Clint stood behind her.

"You okay? Nat told me."

"There's something he's not telling anyone, and I can't see it, that terrifies me because if I don't know what it is, I can't help him." Wanda said avoiding talking about it.

"There's something you're not telling him either, isn't there?" Clint said as Wanda huffed at herself and nodded.

"I...I care about Y/N Romanoff, but the boy in there isn't the same one I fell for." Wanda said as Clint nodded.