Hoax // Benjen Stark

14. Protect Her

'Where are you going?'' Billy asked wanda, she had dream walked and she was with her boys, in her body, in her home, the place she had created in westview. She didn't understand why she got to be happy in every other universe.

''Just... to take out the trash.'' she couldn't breathe she had done it. She was here. She was seeing them again.

''Can we show you something? Mom, hurry. Come on! Come on, it's important.'' Billy begged

''Mom! You'll like it. Come on. Hurry up. It's important.'' Tommy agreed Wanda walked towards them leaning over the cough big smiles on their faces

''Okay, so... Listen to this.'' Billy encouraged

''I'm gonna start it.'' Tommy told his brother

'' No, I wanna start it. Billy countered

'I wanna start it!''

''No, I wanna start!''

''Why don't you both..." Wanda said softly still in a daze of her children right here. ''-start it... whatever... it is, together?'

''Okay.'' Tommy agreed with a shrug.

''Okay. You ready?''

''Yeah.'' Tommy agreed and they shared a look before opening their mouths.

''Three, two, one, go. We like ice cream like every child should... And if we get some ice cream, we promise to be good!'' they sung out and wanda smiled down at them.

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''You're alive....' Wong remarked as he had been taken hostage at the sanctum after wanda's attack.

''Yes. But so many others were lost.'' sara one of the sorcerers informed him softly her eyes darting around for Wanda.

''Set me free. I need to destroy the book.' Wong instructed

''No. It cannot be you.'' Sara corrected, knowing the book would kill whoever destroyed it. She stabbed the book using powerful magic and she turned to stone. The book destroyed but another sorcerer gone.

''No!'' Wong screamed out

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''Mom! What happened? Are you okay?" Billy shouted as Wanda was losing her hold on the dream walk as the book was destroyed, she awoke her face pinched her boys fading before her.

''Billy. Tommy. No. No." Wanda sobbed out as she looked to the broken book and dead sorcerer her eyes turned with fury to Wong.  " I need the Darkhold spells. You are the Sorcerer Supreme. Tell me what you know.' wanda demanded moving with effiancy to wong.

'You'll have to kill me, witch.' Wong spat.

''Not you. Them." She moved him with her magic outside and lifted the bodies of the surviving sorcerers. She didn't care who she had to kill to get her boys back.

''Wanda, stop. Wanda, please. The Darkhold was a copy!'' Wong begged and Wanda softened her grip.

'' A copy?''

''Legend speaks of a mountain with the wretched spells you seek carved into its walls. It's there the Darkhold was transcribed. Mount Wundagore.' Wong informed her sadly. He knew this is what Stephen felt like when he relinquished the time stone to thanos. Trying to save those by giving the monster what she wanted.

''Wundagore?''

''No one has survived the journey.''

''Perhaps we will be the exception.'' Wanda seethed.

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'Christine?' Stephen questioned. 'what are you doing here?'

'I am the lead scientist in charge of the study of the multiverse.' She told them.