Unsteady - Carol Danvers x Natasha Romanoff

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Wanda unsuspectingly entered the room where the quantum tunnel - the fifth tunnel, used by Steve to travel back to Peggy - had been stored. She was startled to see Carol hovering in front of it, something clutched tightly in her hands.

"I didn't know you were back." She kept her voice low and her tone gentle, unsure of whether company was something Carol desired.

The tall blonde spun around, her hollow eyes red and puffy. That wasn't the only thing that Wanda noticed about her. The thing she noticed next, was what was being held in her hands. The remaining Pym Particles.

"And I didn't know we still had these lying around." Carol snapped, the feeling of betrayal laced in her voice.

Wanda rushed over to her, panicked and paranoid. She covered Carol's hands with her own. "What are you doing?! Somebody could see."

Carol almost mustered a smirk. "So it was you." She stared at Wanda intently and watched as her face reddened, embarrassed. She nodded. "Why?"

"I don't know... I saw that Steve had them that day - the day of Tony's funeral. I thought maybe somehow it could help but... there was only one, it was stupid of me. Please Danvers nobody can know. " She attempted to cover the vial, her hand on top of Carol's, pleading to keep this a secret.

Carol's face was still screwed up in thought, despite Wanda's distressed rambling.

"It might not be enough to bring her back... But it's enough to get me to her."

"What are you talking about? You can't-" Wanda was fearful that somebody would walk in on them or worse still, that word was going to get around about what she had done.

"Can't what? I'm going back to October. Before she went to Vormir."

"Are you crazy?" For once this was all that she had to say, speechless for a few moments. "Danvers I know things are bad but-"

"Bad?" The resentment in Carol's voice made it clear that she was offended. "Things aren't just fucking 'bad'. She's gone, Wanda. Nat's Gone. I'm not just going to stand by and let the world carry on without her." She was barely strong enough to keep the tears from returning.

Wanda was sympathetic as she spoke, but determined to keep it matter-of-fact. "You won't be able to come home. Either of you."

"She devoted and rendered her life for the fallen. I'll be damned if I don't do the same for her. If that means being stuck in October 2023 forever or fighting Thanos again and again, or even the end of the fucking world, then so be it. Anything's better than this."

There wasn't much else Wanda could say. She was one of those people. One of the reasons Nat had fought so hard. It was hard to dispute the fact that Nat deserved more than this.

She sighed, heart racing as she watched Carol prepare the particles and the tunnel.