All It Takes (Wanda Maximoff Fan Fiction)

Chapter Eight

Willow's POV

"So have you decided yet?" Crossbones announced as he strolled back into the room. One minute I was talking to Wanda and now I was back here, in my own hell. It's funny how you can go from heaven to hell in the split of a second.

"No" I said bluntly. My mind was in a whirl, everyone was in my head and everyone seemed to have a different opinion about what I should and shouldn't do with my powers.

He stood next to me as he bent down to look at the left side of my face, I could feel my breath hitch as his face got closer to that side of my face. He whispered, "Don't you want to save the world?" He stood up again as I looked to him, confused.

"I'm with the Avengers, they put more an effort into saving the world than a person like you would" I said in an attempt to belittle him, but he just chuckled as if what I said was a...lie?

"The Avengers only care for their own, thousands of cities destroyed and lives lost...Do you think they actually care about saving civilians? Because from my perspective they have more fun watching cities burn and letting civilians perish in their rubble" He explained as he walked around the room, as he came back to me as he whispered right into my ear, "Captain America would rather watch cities burn than let his friends die" I shook my head.

"He cares about people, but he doesn't take pleasure in destroying cities...He's a good person"

"He's a good soldier" He said. "A soldier fights for their own, trust me he doesn't care about us"

"Us?" I questioned. Why is he bringing me into the equation?

"He left me to die, that's the truth" He said as he revealed the side of his face, it was scarred and burnt, most likely from an explosion of some sort. "He left me to die to protect his friend, he's no hero...just a solider, he will always fight for his own"

"He would've done the same to you if you weren't the way you were" He explained.

"What?" I questioned, what was he talking about?

"I know about what happened to you" He said, as if he was about to unlock a memory which I had no recollection of. What was he talking about?

"What happened to me?" I was confused, I searched my brain for any part that felt odd or that didn't fit but nothing, I had no idea what he was talking about.

"The accident" He said. "The day your parents died"

"I-.." It all came flooding back to me, as I remembered being trapped under rubble. My parents were lifeless beside me. The tears stung the blood on my cheeks as I tried to search for a way out. The purple energy began to manifest all around me as the rocks began to float above us. I crawled out of the rubble and let out a cry of anger as purple energy burst out from under me and sent everything in a reverse motion. I screamed out as time rewound, my house building itself up and then my parents rising from the ground and came back to life. As they rose up, I felt myself drained from the energy burst and fell to my side, wanting to fall asleep. My parents rushed to my side and helped me back up. But as they did time seemed to not be on my side as everything went back to how it started, my parents and I being sucked into the rubble once more. I could feel myself slipping away, giving up but then I saw a hand. "Take my hand" I grabbed the hand as it pulled me from the rubble, I wrapped my arms around the body that had saved me as they comforted, "It's going to be okay" As I pulled away from the hug, I looked up to see who it was. I didn't recognise who it was but I could see clearly the Stars and Stripes were imprinted on the front of his suit. "Captain America, but you can call me Steve...Let's get you to an ambulance"

"But he saved me?" I questioned.

"Who do you think put you under the rocks in the first place?" He said. "Just another day of trying to save the day but not thinking of the destruction they were going to cause in order to get that win"

"Steve...killed my parents" I said, a lump in my throat beginning to form.

"He would've let you die too, given that he saw your power use...he decided to save you" He said.

"But...he...he's a liar" I said, as I could feel all the emotions begin to swell within me as the purple energy began to manifest in the pupil of my eye.

"Willow" I heard as I saw Wanda in the doorway. Then looked to see Steve, Natasha and Sam with her.

"There all liars Willow! Kill them all!" Crossbones shouted as if he were some sort of devil on my shoulder. I didn't want to kill any of them. I just wanted Steve to know how much he hurt me. I stood up as I looked him dead in the eyes. 

"Kill them!" he shouted, I held up my hand in his direction as the restraints began to disintegrate to reveal my hands which had purple energy bursts coming from my fingertips. 

"No, I won't" I told him as my powers pushed him back and through the wall where he fell into the next room over unconscious. Wanda attempted to get the others out of the room as my purple bursts of energy slowly spread to each corner of the room, Wanda used her powers to make a path in order to make her way over to me. "Willow, it's us...What's happening to you?" Wanda questioned as she ran up to me in an attempt to brush my cheek, but I grabbed her hand and pushed it away. As I looked her dead in the eyes and whispered, "Liar" A singular tear made its way down my cheek as the power moved through my body and into my hands where a burst of purple energy filled the room and time seemed to slow down. The people around me moved slower, as I walked towards Steve in normal time. "You killed my parents" I looked him dead in the eye, as I conjured a knife consisting of purple energy, and plunged it into his ribs.

"I was just...trying to protect you" He let out as the realisation hit him.

"No you weren't, you stole me...you stole my entire life" I yelled. 

"Your parents..." He groaned in pain as the knife slowly retracted from his ribs. I didn't let him finish as I pushed past him as I made my way out of the building. Wanda following me as time started to speed up, "Wait!" She yelled out.

I turned back around as I saw her pain, the pain that was apparent in her eyes she called out, "Where are you going?"

I didn't answer as I raised my hand in an attempt to push her away, my purple in my pupils drained as I realised that I couldn't hurt Wanda, I didn't want to hurt her in fact. "Home" I said as I made my way to the exit. She didn't follow, she knew it was best. She knew it would only cause us both pain.

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What's next? You'll have to wait and see. Did y'all like that little plot twist? I've always envisioned Willow as a villain, but I'm excited to actually write it now.