Entwined Together

Changing Tactics

Quicksilver speeds to a halt, looking at the house his sister owns before rushing inside seeing the living room and kitchen trashed up everywhere and seeing his sister shaken up at the kitchen table clenching her mug with tears falling into the cold coffee.

"Wanda! Wanda what is it what's wrong?" He asks her, Wanda turning to her with bloodshot eyes from crying and embraces her brother tightly.

"I losing control of her Pietro, she's begining to emerge physically now and I'm scared of what to do. I can't lose my boys to her."

"Wanda it's alright I'm here now, just let me take you to-"

"No!" She snaps at him, fear in her eyes as she moves away from him. "You can't take me to them."

"Wanda please be reasonable with me, you need help."

"No no that's what they want, I can't prove them right and I can't trust them with the boys!"

"Wanda look at yourself you're a mess! Xavier and the others can help you if you let them."

She shakes her head biting on her nails and Pietro grips her arms firmly.

"I won't lose my own sister to this demon, not after everything we've been through!"

"I'll do anything else just please don't take me to them." She breaks down in his arms, desperate for anything to give her control once more of her life.

Pietro sighs, holding his sister close before shaking his head and releasing her. He speeds off and comes back seconds later with a bottle container of unmarked red pills.

"W-What are they?" She quietly asks cautiously, Pietro placing it in her hand.

"Psychotherapy pills, experimental black market ones. Take three a day and call me if you need more okay?"

"Is it even enough?" She worryingly asks.

"It's either this or I drag you to Xavier, your choice Wanda."

She looks down at the bottle she holds, swallowing before opening it up and popping the pills into her gullet.

She feels her vision begin to blur, Pietro voices turns inaudible as he asks if she's okay and everything flickers black before she wakes up in her bed to the sound of a 60s song playing from her alarm clock.

She looks around seeing everything felt...normal. She gets up from the bed and steps in front of her full body mirror, her face cleared of scarring and her thick head of brown hair clear of even a single grey hair.

She could hear her boys playing outside in the yard enjoying themselves, walking downstairs to see her home cleaned and tidy of any disturbance.

She forces her hands to produce anything from her powers but not even a flicker is made outta them. She lets out a laugh of disbelief, feeling amazed nothing was even happening.

She runs her hands through her thick hair and smiles to herself, pulling out her phone and dialing the number Spider-Man gave her without hesitation.

"Hello?" She asks, biting her lip with anticipation for a response.

"Spidey speaking, hi Wanda." He responds to her relief.

"I'd like to see you today if that's possible?"

"Uh sure I can make time tonight if that's alright with you?"

"Of course." She twirls a strand of hair feeling excited. "We could just grab a slice and hang out on a rooftop."

"Sounds great, let's meet up around 7 by the bridge."

"Wonderful, hopefully I'll see you then." She hangs up and holds her phone close to her chest smiling gleefully.

She goes outside to see her boys throwing around a football before turning to her and waving at her..

"Hi mom!" They both greet.

"Boys I'm gonna head out to the city later, can I trust you two to watch over the household while I'm gone?"

"No babysitter?" Tommy asks.

"No babysitter." She shakes her head, the boys smiling at each other with plans up their sleeves. "I better see the house intact when I get back however." She points at them.

"We promise mom." They nod their heads and Wanda hugs them both.

Illuminati Headquarters

"Everything seems to be in order, no visible activity going on within the household or the neighborhood." Carol tells Reed as she watches drone footage of the Maximoff family out in the yard.

"Peculiar, we just had a energy spike yesterday through the roof but now it's just dead flat." Reed strokes his beard skeptically at this information.

"Something's up, I'm beginning to not buy the facade of the perfect household anymore Reed." Carol says biting into a jelly donut.

"Just got audio feed from her cell, she contacted Peter Parker." Dr.Christine Palmer tells the two heroes as she enters the surveillance room with a audio file on her tablet.

"Parker? What does he have to do with this?" Reed asks befuddled.

"In my professional opinion I believe the two might be dating."

"How does he even do it?" Carol wonders aloud on how a masked man attracts so many women.

"This changes everything?" Reed states quietly, wondering what their next step should be now.