12th of April, 2023, later during the day
When Sam woke up, she first felt that she was on a bed, and the light upon her was brightening her. Second, she could hear voices, somewhere in one of the rooms next to hers. People were arguing apparently. A man seemed upset and angry, and the woman who was answering to him seemed more than him again. The women, in fact, Sam could hear two women, not one, against this man. And one of them both seemed to get closer. She came into Sam's room, hands to the sky, rolling her greens eyes, furious. She looked at Sam, and instantly smiled when she saw her awake.
Wanda: Hey Sam, how do you feel?
Sam: Hey... Why is everyone fighting?
Wanda, smiling: Because I almost killed you maybe.
Sam: Oh that's all?
Wanda raised an eyebrows
Wanda: All? Yeah that's the whole point of why Tony is mad at me.
Sam: Tony? Mad at you??? You've always been so nice and lovely to me, I don't get it, you just thought I could be an enemy.
Wanda: Yeah, I mean, he told me to watch the compound and to shout at everyone else who came, I could not know it would be you in this goddamn car!
Sam: He told you to be the bodyguard of the compound and to shout at everyone else?? well, he is the only one to blame, not you Wand'.
Wanda blushed and smiled. Tony explicitly told her to stay at the compound and not to let anyone come in, he didn't want her to get the situation worse again.
Sam: Why weren't you on the mission with the others by the way? You're so powerful, how couldn't they not need you??
Wanda: You didn't see the information? Where were you all this time? Grounded on a submarine? Or a basement?
Sam stopped smiling. Her eyes got blurred.
Sam, whispering: Yeah, kinda
She looked at her hand and started fidgeting with it.
Wanda's head tilts on the right. Her face goes from happy to see her to worried about her.
Wanda: Hey, sweetie?
Sam stilled playing with her hands, biting her lips.
Wanda came closer and sat on her bed, and lifted Sam's chin to make her look at her. Sam went back in a second, and Wanda saw the fear in her eyes.
Wanda: What happened, honey? You know you can tell me everything, I'm here for you.
Sam: Anyway, tell me what happened to you to get grounded here.
Wanda: Sam.
Sam continued to bite her lips, and started looking somewhere else, avoiding Wanda's eyes.
Wanda: Sweetie talk to me, I'm here now, what happened?
Sam: I- I don't wanna talk about it now.
Her voice broke saying this, and a tear fell from her right eye.
Wanda, whispering: shhh, it's okay, we don't have to talk about it now if you don't want to, but know that I'm here, and I'll protect you whatever it costs now.
Sam started to cry loudly, her breath getting uncontrollable.
Wanda, still whispering: oh sweetie, I'm so sorry
Sam grabbed Wanda's shoulders, and Wanda hugged her tight for a while.
Once Sam's breath came back to normal, she asked Wanda again why she wasn't on the mission with the others, and what happened.
Sam: What would I know if I'd watch the information?
Wanda: Oh, uh, I... fucked up on the last mission. A man exploded 3 floors of a building because of me, a lot of people got injured or worse.
Sam: What happened?
Wanda: Well, he was talking to Steve, who was supposed to beat him or inactivate the bomb before it exploded, but Rumlow said Bucky, and Steve was like this 16 yo in Brooklyn again. So Rumlow clicked on the button and I- I kept the explosion on him, but I felt I couldn't do it enough time, so I decided to get him and his explosion far away on the sky, but he exploded before I pushed him high enough, and it destroyed the floors. After that, Tony decided that I should stay here at the compound to avoid another public incident.
Her voice broke saying that. Wanda shut up. Her tongue licked her teeth one by one, and it was her turn to bite her lips.
Sam looked at her, and took Wanda's hand in hers.
Sam: Hey, it wasn't your fault
Steve: That's what I told her, I should have neutralized Rumlow before she had to deal with this.
Sam and Wanda look at him, surprised, none of them had seen him coming.
Wanda: We already talked about that, it's on both of us.
Steve: Yeah, BOTH of us, not just you, and what the TV and the reporter says doesn't matter.
Wanda: Well, actually I'm still the only one grounded, so it might still be my fault, or I wouldn't be grounded.
Steve rolled his eyes and sighed.
Steve: Anyway, I came to tell you that the meeting is going to start, if it's not already started, you both know Stark.
Steve left.
Sam grunted.
Sam, whispering: Yeah he's the reason why I left
Wanda looked at her, surprised and perplexed
Wanda: Wait what?
Sam: Nothing, I'll tell you later, we're already late to the meeting.
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FanfictionSam, she/her, 22 yo, lives in Nantes (France), study psychology, doesn't have family, have friends though. She discovers she has ice power like Elsa in Frozen during a terrorist attack on her uni, then the Avengers wants her in their team. (I try to...
