Can we trust her?

Chapter 20

The expression I'm drained is an exaggeration in most of cases but not for Wanda, she literally spent all the energy she had in the fight. She would usually get headaches for being tired after a battle or maybe for spending too much time on someone else's mind, but now she was drained, her mind disconnected for a moment and she was on the verge of a heart attack.

Fortunately Vision had memorized all the hospitals in the city and took her rapidly. When he entered the building with Wanda in his arms everyone stared at him, he wasn't so popular in the Avengers team but people still recognized him (I mean, you don't get to see a lot of red people in your life, right?).

Once the doctors saw them, they took her to the ER. Vision took a glimpse of her, she was pale and the nosebleed hadn't stopped. He didn't know what to do and as the doctors kept shouting at each other in medical terms he promised to himself that once they would go back to the facility he would learn about medicine.

The surgeons pulled out a defibrillator and shocked her, he remembered how weak was her pulse and realized it had probably stopped by now. This whole situation felt odd to him, he wasn't used to death and he didn't want to see Wanda in this frail condition.

A male doctor shook his head to the nurses and took a step back from the body. Vision wasn't going to accept that she was forever gone, it may sound idiotic but he could sense that she was still out there; she only needed something stronger, so he went to the doctor.

"Try again, please" he told him

The man sighed and opened his mouth to explain the procedure but the humanoid raised his hand to stop him "Try again" he ordered

The man hesitated but nodded, he shouted "Clear!" Before he shocked her Vision recharged the artifact with his mind stone, hoping Wanda would react to it.

Maybe the fact that he didn't pay too much of his attention on how the whole procedure of life worked, made him take the simple action of breathing as ordinary and dull but once he heard her breath again he smiled and decided that it was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. The rest of the medical staff stared in surprise, and then they took her away to run some scans to be completely sure she was alright. A nurse told the humanoid that he couldn't follow them and to wait but he didn't pay mind to it, just to know that she was safe was more than enough for him.

Wanda opened her eyes and looked around the room; she had lost conscious and remembering what had happened she realized she was in a hospital. A man in a wheelchair smiled kindly to her and she sat up, they stared at each other for a couple of seconds until she dared to ask:

"Who are you?"

The man blinked a couple of times to find the correct words "I am an old friend of your father; he called me so I could take a look at you, and he mentioned you had spent a lot of your energy"

Wanda nodded, she remembered the pain she had felt but now it was completely gone, well she had a headache but it wasn't much compared to earlier. "I'm fine" she told him

He nodded "I can see that but how is your mind?"

The scarlet witch frowned at him, was this man also a mutant or just crazy?

He chuckled "I am a mutant; I met your father before you were even born... I think"

She opened her mouth in surprise, he also had the ability to read minds and by instinct she moved a bit further away.

The stranger looked directly into her eyes and sent her a telepathic message I'm not going to hurt you, I only want to make sure your mind is alright, you used a lot of your power back there without the proper training.