Wonderland: fell down a rabbit hole, you held on tight to me ('cause...

Chapter 9: I fight with you in my sleep, the wound won't close

It was during the time that the twins were in their third Movie Night---they skipped a lot for various reasons, one of them being that they were too sleepy to come out of their rooms, like the true room hermits that they had become--when a beach scene came up in the movies. Pietro spoke then, or well, whispered to her.

"Beaches look so fun, sestra, do you think we can convince Steve to let us travel somewhere tropical like Hawaii where the beaches are, even just for a mission? I want to go to a place like that."

Wanda winced, she remembered all her geography lessons, and knew that tropical place with beaches, but back then, in this time, she and Pietro had only learned the necessities, and all else they had learned from books she had nicked, and open libraries--that often didn't stay open for long--but since their schooling had stopped when they were 10 years old, and books weren't a necessity, they didn't really know much aside from the basics. Definitely not proper geography.

However, behind closed doors, since there were days neither wanted to practice, but both wanted to do something--and they were banned from playing the catch-the-magic-sphere in their room--Wanda had begun to tutor Pietro and teach him all she knew, and all she had learned and been taught in the past life. She had started with math, science, history, and english though, so geography hadn't yet been covered.

In her past life, because of her grief about Pietro, she needed a distraction. She found her distraction in studying, because if she was making her brain hurt with mathematical formulas, instructions on how to write essays, world history, art and music theories, and geography, then she couldn't focus on the hurt in her heart.

She had used the internet, looked up all the subjects students learned, and found various study lessons, for all grades, and she worked her way up from the grade she and Pietro had stopped at. Physical education, she didn't need to do, since she was training with Steve and Natasha as an Avenger, and science, Vision was all too happy to teach her, he would talk on and on about it, and he was delighted anytime she asked a question, or even asked him to explain the basics. The fact that she had a crush on her science 'teacher', had helped her push through the confusion about chemistry, biology, physics, and overall science.

As soon as Pietro made his comment, she regretted putting off geography for last, but to be fair, she thought he would learn geography pretty easily, because of his powers. To catch up with his speed, his brain had the ability to work faster, (and that's how he read half of her restarting book collection, and judged her for how it was all sapphic), and with his faster brain speed, so came a faster thought process, and able to break down certain hard complex ideas and lessons faster, because of how much he could think it over and consider in a second. And with that faster brain speed also came a better memory, one that rivalled Wanda's vivid memory, often helped by magic too probably.

Also she sort of hated geography.

She wondered if she could get away with turning back time, but then remembered it was far past minutes, far past hours, or even days. And she hadn't yet mastered time travel, because she didn't even know her powers could go that far back. Also, she'd watched enough time travel movies to know abusing time travel would just end in chaos for her.

However, that was all she winced about, she did like Pietro's plan. Even in her old life, she had never gone to the beach. It was hard to find time to, between grieving over Pietro, living on the run (which was easy, because it was just like living on the streets, but there was more money, and more mandatory staying inside, which pleased her introverted self), and then being trapped in the Raft, healing in Wakanda, and then fighting Thanos, WestView, Isolation in her cabin while she read the Darkhold, and then hunting America.

She had, however, seen more scenes and opinions about the Beach than Pietro did. And despite the fact that she had heard and seen many scenes/conversations in movies or shows where they complained about sand getting everywhere, and gross feelings of moss under the water.