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

Book 2: Chapter #19

The Soul stone retrieval team arrived at their destination, with Y/N looking for anything.

"We have to climb the cliff." Cirilla said as she took point, Y/N went to follow when Natasha stopped him.

"Y/N, be careful, trusting her is not a good idea." Natasha said as Y/N looked at her before glancing to Cirilla.

"Mom, I know you don't trust her, but I do, so trust me, please." Y/N said as Natasha paused for a moment before nodding. "Come on."

They began to climb to the top to the cliff as they looked around at the purple sky of Vormir. Y/N felt it, it was like a heavy weight of death was weighing on his shoulders.

"I bet the raccoon never had to climb a mountain." Natasha stated.

"You know technically he's not a raccoon-" Y/N went to point out.

"Whatever her eats garbage." Natasha argued as Y/N shook his head.

"Welcome." A German voice said, they all turned with their weapons drawn to see a hooded figure.

"Natasha, daughter of Ivan. Y/N, son of Natasha. Cirilla, Daughter of Bolovinia. Clint, son of Edith." The voice said as they pulled down their hood to reveal the red skull.

"Red Skull? Steve would flip his shit." Y/N remarked before Natasha glared at him.

"Language." Natasha said as Y/N turned to look at her.

"Really? Now?" Y/N said as Natasha shook her head.

"No, but you put that dollar in the jar later." Nat said as Y/N sighed in defeat.

"What are you doing here?" Y/N asked the Red Skull.

"I am a guide to what you desire, and what you fear the most." He said as Y/N turned to see Natasha begin to sit on a rock. He looked over to Cirilla, the two women had figured it out. "In order to retrieve the stone, you must lose that which you love."

"One of us has to die to get the stone." Y/N surmised as the Red Skull nodded.

"Shit." Clint said through gritted teeth as he, Y/N and Natasha all began to share looks all saying that they would do it, well, Y/N's head moved like he was suggesting that, his face was obscured by his armour helmet. "Well I guess we all know who has to do this huh."

"Yeah." Y/N said soullessly as both Clint and Natasha looked to him.

"I'm starting to think we all mean different people." Clint and Natasha said as Y/N ejected the FRIDAY chip from his helmet and handed it to them.

"Give it to Wanda, it'll keep her safe, tell her I love her. Thank you...for everything." Y/N said as he began running towards the cliff edge when he was tackled by Cirilla who stood up and discarded her helmet to the ground.

"Forgive me." Cirilla said as she went to jump but Y/N caught her and pulled her up back over the edge while Natasha and Clint fought. Y/N tried to stop Cirilla but she fought back. He threw her over next to Clint and Natasha before going to jump, but Natasha stunned Clint and tackled Y/N in the air, connecting her grapple to his back, they found themselves dangling off the edge of the cliff.

"Mom. No, no, no." Y/N said to Natasha as she held onto Y/N's hand, the only thing stopping her plummeting to her death.

"Hey, listen to me. It's okay. It's okay."

"No it's not! It is not okay!" Y/N snapped as Natasha smiled.

"Y/N, promise me one thing, if you have a kid with Wanda, if it's a girl, don't name it Yelena, she'd be at my grave every day bragging." Natasha said as Y/N looked at her confused, Natasha went to kick off the cliff but before she could Cirilla plummeted past them, she passed Y/N her dog tags as she passed him, she fell and hit the ground, she was dead instantly. Y/N looked shocked, as did Natasha and presumably Clint.

The remaining trio climbed down to the pool where Cirilla was lying dead, Y/N rushed over to her and held her, feeling tears on his cheek.

"Y/N?"

"She was one of the few people who knew exactly what happened to me, she went through the same, she understood." Y/N sobbed as Natasha looked to him, she realised that Y/N saw Cirilla as a tortured soul, not a bastion of evil. Y/N looked down at his hands and saw the soul stone, he passed it to Natasha who caught it, she passed him the FRIDAY chip, he caught it and inserted the chip into his helmet before picking up Cirilla's dead body and carrying her back to the Milano to take back to the present day Earth for a proper burial.

The Flight was long and silent, Y/N was sat in the back of the ship looking at the dead body.

"Hey." Natasha said as Y/N looked up to her.

"When everyone's back, I'm going to find and I'm going to kill Thanos. I hope he's alive out there, I hope he has a target on my back, I hope he comes, because I'll be ready for him, when he comes, I'm going to kill him in the most inhumane ways possible." Y/N said as Natasha looked at him. "She went through the orphanage and survived, she was beginning to show remorse, reform, she was going to join the team to help make up for her past, she was a fellow orphanage survivor, now I'm all that's left. So I'll make Thanos' species extinct by killing him."

Natasha could hear it, all the rage and pain that had been building up inside of Y/N over the past year and a half was coming to the surface and he had someone to aim that anger at.

They arrived back at the compound in the present day with the stone and the dead body of Cirilla, Y/N carried her out bridal style as the team looked at him solemnly, he walked out into the nearby graveyard for fallen Avengers and began to dig the grave with his bare hands, when the grave was dug, Y/N went to put her in until Tony arrived with an empty floating coffin.

"If we do this, we do it properly." Tony said as Y/N nodded, he loaded Cirilla into the coffin and it floated to the grave, lowering itself into the grave. Y/N stood there for an hour as the team began to wait for the gauntlet to finish, they all waited by a pond. Y/N walked over to the edge of the pond and looked out over the water, holding the dog tags in his hand.