You fell to your knees in pain the second you came out of that portal – maybe universe jumping wasn't so good on the organs – and it felt like your veins were pumping lava through your system. You squeezed your eyes shut and your arms were vibrating – something you might've found fun if you didn't feel like you were dying right now, so you figured you had cried out in pain because you felt someone's hands on you a moment later, but you couldn't hear anything. You then felt a pulse of energy coming from every nerve in your body before it shot out and suddenly, you were completely fine.
You didn't know if you trusted the pain to just disappear like it never existed, so you slowly opened your eyes and took careful movements to get up.
"Are you okay?" Wanda asked, her eyes glowing red and then they were normal again with a blink as she held your arm, keeping your balance like she was afraid you'd fall if she let go, both of you ignoring Strange and his better half for the moment, "What happened?"
"I don't know," You shrugged honestly, holding your arms out as you clenched and unclenched your hands, "But it feels...good?"
"Good?" She repeated the word with furrowed her eyebrows, watching the movement, "You're sure...?"
"Nope." You huffed a laugh and then met her eyes, smiling with your still wet ones, so without warning, she grabbed you into a tight hug.
The portal had closed, the spell was gone to everyone besides you, and the two of you were left in a world you knew nothing about with only each other.
You started this year hoping for better grades and to finally talk to the cute science girl, but it was ending with a new universe that held some kind of sorcery powers pumping through both your veins, and all your friends and family as you knew them, gone.
It's been a rough few days.
And you were utterly exhausted, standing there in a room that sent a dull throb to your skull with how bright and way too white it was. You just wanted to lay down and maybe sleep for a week or seven, trying to forget about everything.
She seemed to be able to read your mind – whether that was literal or not – so she took your hand, ignoring the two's protests to lead you back to her room without another word.
"This place is massive." You whispered when the two of you were sitting criss cross facing each other on the queen-sized bed.
"Yeah," She didn't seem so impressed, glancing around a little before landing back on you again, "Not very homey."
"You didn't get to bring anything from...did you?" You couldn't finish because you couldn't even talk about the other place right now, it was still all too fresh.
"Just what I have on me," She peered down, tugging at her jacket and shirt a bit before two of her fingers found the pendant of her necklace, "And the matching...our parents gave me and Pietro these necklaces when we turned eighteen – something about always being connected."
She pulled it out from under her shirt and you smiled at the gold stenciled map of the world.
"They put my suitcase in my room – I'll go get you a change of clothes, I mean, you packed more than half my wardrobe in that thing, so I-"
"Hey, wait," She gently grabbed your hand to stop you when you went to get up and you hesitated, searching her eyes for a moment when you thought something was wrong, but then she added, "Not to be...but do you think you could sleep in here with me tonight? I don't want to be alone and you're...you're all I have left of home."
Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.
"Of course," Your smile was shaky, as was your voice, "I'll bring my stuff in here and see if I can find a player for the music – I always play some before I go to sleep, is that alright?"
