what we become | wanda maximoff

nikolai volkov has spent his entire life beside wanda and pietro maximoff. three children from sokovia. three best friends. three people who grew up believing they would always have each other.

until a missile took everything from them.

years later, nikolai finds himself working alongside the very people he once swore to hate, trying to protect what little family he has left. but when pietro dies in the battle of sokovia, something inside nikolai breaks. he makes himself a promise.

he will never be powerless again.

but grief has a way of turning promises into obsessions. as nikolai pushes the limits of science and himself, wanda is forced to watch the person she has known her entire life slowly become someone neither of them recognizes.

through wars, loss, betrayal, five years of silence, and a world that keeps asking them to choose between love and survival, wanda and nikolai will have to face the question neither of them wants to answer,

when everything you've survived changes you, who do you become?

wanda maximoff x oc | slow burn | angst | childhood friends to enemies to lovers | mcu au