𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬

10) Leaving

"She's not ready yet."

"Are you even sure if she's one I asked for?"

"Confident. But she's young. She doesn't even want to hurt the people who hurt her. She won't go along with your plan."

"Then get her on your side. You claimed you could do this mission, don't fail me."

"Of course."

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Days passed and Wanda grew more comfortable with her cell. Her least favorite part was not using magic. In HYDRA, they would always give her blocks of sorts and allow her to practice her magic whenever she spent long times in her "room".

Pietro visited, but he never spoke. He just stared at her with the same disappointed look in his eyes every time.

Natasha brought her food the other day and tried talking with her, but when she did, Wanda never replied. She didn't know how.

Guards would switch out during the night. Wanda grew to learn the pattern of what they did. There were five guards set in a diagonal shape, only two were at the double doors instead of one.

They were usually the same guards, but occasionally she would see a different face and stare them down. One thing she noticed was that the cell only reacted to physical magic. If she read someone's mind, the cell wouldn't do anything.

She attempted at telepathically talking to someone, but they didn't like it and threatened to turn on the shockers. She wasn't really intimidated by these guards, but she left him alone after that.

Today seemed to be another morning where Pietro visited. A guard brought her food, which thankfully was better than other prison food she'd had before. Then when he left, Pietro came in and for the first time, he actually started talking to her.

"May I ask you something?"

Wanda already had a feeling she knew where this question would lead to.

"Why did you join him?"

Yep. She was so smart.

"I wasn't trying to hurt.." She stopped herself.

Yes she was. She did try to hurt people. She wanted to hurt people now. She wanted to go out and destroy HYDRA bases around the country. She wanted to free other unsuspecting teenagers from the idea that they could find comfort in HYDRA. She told herself that they were bad people and deserved it, but they were the people that made her. She was a bad person to.

"I don't know. I'm not happy about what I've done."

"So if he shows up again, what are you going to do? Are you going to take his side again?" He asked.

Wanda gave a scoff.

"I doubt he'll show up again."

"What makes you say that? Doesn't he want destruction on the Avengers?" Pietro moved closer to the glass.

"I don't know what that man wants. He seeks chaos."

Pietro chuckled and he began walking slowly around the glass. Wanda's eyes followed him, and watched as he approached one of the guards.

What she didn't expect, though probably should have, was when Pietro pulled out a knife from his suit and stabbed the guard in the throat.

The other four guards in the room were immediately alarmed and they pulled out their weapons. One guard went towards an alarm button on the side of the room, and Wanda went by instinct and summoned magic to throw him off.