seeingscarlet | ✦ thisavrou IC inbox ✦

[Crap, now he's worried. Wanda scrubs a hand across her face and gets to her feet. Keep moving. Focus on something else.]

moro ?

i don't know

[Because for all that Wanda does want to avoid worrying him...she's not going to lie to Billy, either.]

Yeah. Were you not expecting it?

no. i don't know why it's here

Sorry. I'll keep it with me until you get here.

thank you.

[She hates that he's been dragged into this - if it's so obviously Pietro's, why didn't it go directly to her? Though considering she's been sent a man's combat suit before, it doesn't seem like anyone's actually checking to make sure the items go somewhere that makes sense.

Eventually there will be a light tapping at the door. This feels like the right room.]

[When the knock comes, he opens the door and steps back to let her in.]

It's on my bed... and the I.D. is in the pocket, if you want to make sure. I mean- I'm pretty sure it's nothing like what my uncle wears back home.

I...I know it. I remember where it came from.

[Her voice is definitely not as steady as she'd like.

It's such a simple jacket, but there's no mistake. Wanda crosses the room to pick it up, hesitating just a second before hugging it close. It's all she can do not to start tearing up - her throat is uncomfortably tight and she's not sure she even can say anything without making it worse.]

Wanda?

[He shifts a bit, awkwardly, before he reaches out to put an arm around her shoulders.

She looks- upset. Troubled. And he's not entirely sure what else to offer.]

[She lets him, glad for the contact. It's grounding, and even if Wanda does squeeze her eyes shut for another moment, her death grip on the jacket loosens.]

I'm sorry. [Still not quite steady, but the tightness in her throat is passing.] It has been easier, being here, but I didn't think this could happen.

There's nothing to apologize for, really.

[His arm tightens around her reassuringly.]

It can't be easy...

No, but it's easier to have hope. The Ingress could bring him. At home there is nothing anyone can do.

[And maybe it's selfish or naive, but if there's a way to see him again, Wanda wants it.]

It still might, you know. Don't give up hope.

[As far as that went-- well, people came back from the dead an awful lot where he was from. He wasn't so sure he'd rule it out back home, but-

if Wanda has the same potential for magic as she does back home? He's not sure he'd like to plant the idea in her head that she could wish him back either.]

We've got a long journey ahead of us, it looks like, so... there's a lot of time to find him again. And when you do? If he's anything like the uncle I know, you'll probably never be rid of him again.

[Probably a good call, although after their excursion in the park Wanda feels a little like a baby deer compared to Billy. If one can even call what she does actual magic.]

I haven't. I can't, even if it's silly. [Fondly:] Even if I don't know what I would do with you both.

[He gives a mock offended look at that, but it's quick to give way to a grin.]

Are you implying I'm trouble? I'm the good twin. Wait and see if my brother ever shows up...

[He makes a face as he thinks about that.] Actually, I take that back. If Pietro and Tommy were both here, neither of us would get a break.

You are not trouble. But trouble happens around us and... [She shrugs, her smile somewhere between sad and fond.] It sounds like Pietro is always Pietro.

[In other words: a handful, no matter which universe he's from.

She's still on the melancholy side, but overall this is working to calm Wanda down. She'll take the out.]

And Tommy is just as bad?

✦ thisavrou IC inbox ✦

text;

text;

text;

text;

text -> action

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject