Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 2

Opening the heart

Opening the heart.

Pairing: Wanda Maximoff X Victor von Doom (Love).
Word count: 736 words.
Rating: Teen.
Square: B3 "Zombie Apocalypse AU".
Summary: Wanda and Victor talk about some stuff that happened at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Warnings/Tags: Mention of characters' death, zombie apocalypse.
A/N: This is my entry to the Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 2 2023. Annie MRP-066.

It had been a long time since Wanda had seen a calendar; now she was in front of the wall looking at it. They had passed. She wasn't sure; she didn't even know what day it was. To be able to measure the time was very difficult in the conditions in which the world was

"Eight hundred days," Doom said as if he had read her mind.

"It's been a long time," Wanda commented. "Have you been able to communicate with anyone?"

"No, not for a couple of weeks now; no sign of anyone; the radio's been silent.

"Do you think...?"

Wanda didn't feel able to complete the sentence; fate had been so cruel that she was in charge of ending her twin's suffering when a zombified Johnny Storm had bitten and infected him.

"Either they were infected, or they are on the run, or they have no way to communicate."

"Victor, maybe we should try again?"

"Go to another universe?"

"We could do what Reed did; we could take the virus to another universe and infect ourselves there. You know Reed brought the virus to our universe; he was the one who caused all this chaos. Then he infected Johnny, and when Sue didn't believe him, that's when he infected her.

"I didn't know that, then... they spread the virus..."

"You never said what happened to Pietro," Doom said suddenly; even though he knew he probably wouldn't get an answer, whenever he was asked, Wanda always evaded the answer and changed the subject.

"I think it's time for you to know," she answered, looking towards the door, never telling anyone what happened before.

"He..." Wanda swallowed and continued, "he was also infected. It was during a mission; we were trying to look for more survivors, and we found a group of zombies. We did what we could to deal with them, but there were too many of them. Pietro sacrificed himself so that I could escape. "

An extremely uncomfortable silence filled the room as Doom took in what he had just heard. Wanda looked down at the floor, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to spill out and run down her cheeks. It was always, at all times, painful to remember what had happened.

Doom didn't know what to say; he didn't even have words, so he chose to approach her and put a hand on her shoulder to try to comfort her.

She flinched at the contact but appreciated the gesture. Since the catastrophe that had ravaged the world, Doom had been her companion, the only one left beside her in that devastated universe, or at least they thought so; they hadn't seen any other people. About the communicators, Wanda wasn't entirely sure; maybe Victor had made it up to reassure her.

"You have been here to support and protect me all this time. You have been more than I deserve," Wanda answered, feeling vulnerable and grateful at the same time, although at the same time, it was a strange feeling for her. The only person she had felt this way with was her twin, but now nothing filled the emptiness he had left her.

Doom tried to comfort her amid the desolation that surrounded them, although he also felt it was difficult through that armour.

"Perhaps we are the last known survivors in this universe. If we are to survive, we must stick together and find a solution.

"Yes, I know. Maybe we should try to find a lab or scientist who has managed to resist the infection. Maybe they can help us find a cure or some way to reverse this, or you could fix it," Wanda commented.

They both looked at each other, knowing that hope was a fragile flame in that bleak world. But still, it was all they had left; even if they couldn't fix it, at least they would try.

"So, let's look for an answer to all this together," Doom said, determined.

"Yes, together," Wanda affirmed, feeling that, despite all that was lost, there was still something to fight for. She still had hope that they could fix it and regain what they had lost.

So, in the darkness and the desolate landscape, Wanda Maximoff and Victor von Doom prepared to face the unknown. United by adversity, they entered an infected world in search of hope and a chance to restore what once was.