The Soulguard, A Dragon Who Can See Spirits

Chapter 20

Wanda and Natasha both freeze, staring at Noku with a growing worry. "What do you mean? Something or someone?" Natasha asks, taking the questioning to her own hands after glancing at Wanda. 'I don't know. My head feels funny, like some of the thoughts are not mine.' Noku explains, pushing her head to cuddle with the Sokovian. 'I don't like it, the thoughts. They are not right, too violent.' Wanda glances at Natasha, mouthing to the Russian to get Tony to contact Helen. Natasha nods and leaves Wanda with Noku and Haduwig, who had nestled himself close to Noku's side. "I will help you, Little One. We all are going to help you." She says, trying to keep her tone optimistic. "Helen is going to come by and help us, okay? So we just need to wait for a while." Noku lets out a quiet sound of agreement before she settles on the ground, allowing Wanda to head back to Tony. Reaching Natasha and Tony, she sits down on a vacant seat and glances at Noku briefly. The dragoness had laid down more, now laying on her side with Haduwig nestled against her neck. "Helen is coming by tomorrow as she has a lot to do today. Said that she would be here around noon." Natasha starts, having had a conversation with the woman in question. "So go relax with Squish, maybe try to find out more about those strange thoughts of hers?" Wanda nods, already thinking about asking a couple of more questions from Noku. "Well, while you go do whatever, I am going to gather the notes I have of Hydrodoflium and prepare the lab for Helen. Undoubtedly she wants to do some tests while here." Tony says, waving his hand to the two women. "Okay, I see that you want to get rid of us. Are we that bad company?" Wanda asks jokingly, making Natasha and Tony laugh. "If you two were bad company, I would have kicked you out of the room ages ago. Steve, Steve is not nearly as good company as you two, the man has no sense of humor." Tony says and Natasha smirks. "I don't understand what you mean, Steve is the most humorous person I have ever met." The sarcasm in her voice is hard to not notice. The three laugh again and Wanda wipes away a tear from laughing. "What do you two want for dinner? I think it is Steve's turn to cook and I will tell him your wishes for dinner." The two answer Wanda and Natasha stops the Sokovian before she can leave the lab with Noku and Haduwig. "Wouldn't you need to look for Steve to tell him what we want for dinner?" She asks and Wanda shrugs. "He is around the kitchen around this time of the day and Noku, Haduwig and I are going to go in that direction, so we might as well look for him."

By the time Wanda reaches the kitchen with Noku, having lost Haduwig somewhere along the way as the bird decided to not want cuddles anymore, the dragoness was already much more steady on her feet. Wanda strokes Noku's flank and heads to the freezer, glancing around for the man she is looking for. She takes an assortment of fruit and places it in a bowl to take with them for a small snack for Noku, when she hears footsteps nearing the room. Turning her head, she sees the blond supersoldier strolling into the room, clearly just having finished his run. "Hey Steve, how was your run?" Wanda greets him. "Good morning, Wanda, Noku. The run was okay, I noticed some deers along the forest path today. Anything happen here?" Steve greets back. "Noku is having some muscle pain, but otherwise nothing else has happened today. It seems to be quite a relaxed day ahead." Wanda shrugs, making herself a small snack. "Oh right, it is your turn to make dinner tonight, right?" Steve answers her with a nod and a 'it is' while starting to make coffee for himself. "I was at the labs a second ago and I have dinner wishes from Nat and Tony if you haven't decided on anything yet?" "I have a couple of choices but haven't decided on anything, what would the two want?" Wanda is about to answer the man, when Noku pushes her hand impatiently, wanting to get back to her room and sleep. "You can go ahead, Little One, I'll bring your snack." Noku huffs but starts to make her way to her room, letting Wanda turn her attention back to Steve. "Nat wanted that stew you know how to make and Tony wanted to have anything that goes well with red wine sauce." Wanda says and shrugs when the supersoldier looks at her confused. "Don't ask me, I know you can figure out what to cook. Now, if you would excuse me, I have some relaxing to do." Wanda doesn't let Steve have time to say anything, already having disappeared out of the room and into a hallway.