✨ Young love ✨

Wanda Maximoff

Wanda was a very patient person.

She didn't like to push when things weren't panning out the way she hoped. She didn't force you into doing things you didn't want to do. She kept her distance when she deemed it necessary.

The two of you had been together a long time, so she usually had a very good idea of how you would react to certain situations. She knew that you would come around eventually. You would warm to the idea of the twins all in due course.

But she didn't realise that you might have been coming around to the idea of them earlier than you had been letting on.

It was very late one night, or early one morning depending on how you looked at it, when she woke up to the sound of light whispering.

At first she thought she was imagining it. Voices of the people that were occupying her dreams. But when she peeled her sleepy eyes open just a fraction, what she found was the least of her expectations.

You were on your stomach, arms tucked under your chest with your face as close to her stomach as humanly possible without actually touching it. Now she had come too slightly, she could just about feel the tickle of your breath against her exposed skin as you spoke in hushed tones.

"When you get here we can do so much fun stuff together" you whispered, none the wiser that your wife had stirred above you. "Well maybe not straight away because you won't be able to walk for a while. But it gives me time to plan activities"

Wanda's heart was pounding in her chest. Both from the happiness she was experiencing and from the feeling of being caught intruding on your private moment with the babies housed in her belly.

"Your mama and I are so excited to meet you, you know. Still a few more months but then you'll be here with us. How does that sound?" A small kick was felt at your answer. Wanda closed her eyes and covered her smile quickly so as to not give away that she was listening in on your conversation.

I take it you're ready to come out then?" You chuckled slowly. "Not yet, the pair of you have got some more growing to do. Got to come to meet us when you're both all big and healthy"

As you trailed your fingers lightly over your wife's bare belly, Wanda couldn't help but think how many times you had done this. There was the one time you came home late, drunk and completely vulnerable.

Ghosting your touch just mere inches from where your children were pressed together under her skin, Wanda decided it was best not to ask you at all. She would let you have this. You obviously did it when she was asleep for a reason, and she didn't want to make you uncomfortable by prying.

So when your lips softly touched her skin, she decided to close her eyes once more and slowly drift off back to sleep.

She'd keep your secret safe in her dreams.