𝚃𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚍

3*

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It wasn't fair!

Stark ruined everything! Like he always did!

Wanda curled up in the corner of her cell, sobbing.

He took her home, her family and now her powers and freedom too.

She hated him.

She'd kill him.

Footsteps suddenly echoed in the hall outside her cell.

Maybe it was Steve or Clint coming to save her? She looked up hopefully but her expression dropped again when an unfamiliar woman came into view.

She was tense and glaring at Wanda. Great, another person who hated her for no reason.

Wanda sniffled as she stared up at the woman.

"Do you know who I am?" The stranger finally broke the silence.

Wanda grit her teeth. Normally she'd just pluck the information out of the person's head. Her magic had kept her safe.

And now she was helpless and no one was saving her. Stark was keeping Steve and Nat away. He was filling Clint's head with lies. He turned Vision against her.

Her eyes filled with tears again at the thought.

The woman was still staring at her with hard, expectant eyes.

"Why should I know you?" She muttered petulantly.

The woman huffed out a soft, disbelieving laugh. "Maybe because you've made my life hell for the last year or so?" She bit out.

"I didn't do anything to you," Wanda whined. Why did everyone always blame her?

"You took my husband from me!" She shouted suddenly. "You got into Clint's head and took him from his family. From his children!"

Oh, this was Laura. Clint had talked about her sometimes. It had been boring to hear about though so Wanda tweaked her spell to discourage it.

"I was protecting him," she argued heatedly. Stark had been lying to her for a year so this behaviour wasn't surprising.

She didn't listen to Wanda's reasons though, eyes flashing with rage.

"My son barely knows who his father is!" Laura's voice cracked. "Nate was so young when he left... left to be your little mind fucked puppet, that Nate doesn't recognise him anymore." She swallowed hard. "And you don't care. As long as you get what you want you don't care you selfish bitch."

"I didn't keep him from you-"

"You did!" She yelled. "If you weren't in his head he wouldn't have left. Fuck if I'd managed to get a gun in here I would kill you without hesitation. You constantly complain about the trauma of losing your family, but how about you think of those kids that had to deal with the fact that their father left them, apparently of his own free will. Imagine how you would have felt bitch. Because that's what you did to my family."

She glared hatefully at Wanda for another long moment before spinning around to leave.

She stormed off before Wanda could say anything to defend herself.

She wasn't sure if she would have been able to find the words though as an unpleasant pit formed in her stomach.

Had she kept Clint from his family? She... she just wanted the comfort he provided. He'd acted like a father to her.

Why couldn't they have shared him with her?

It wasn't fair... They were selfish.