I See You
***1 YEAR AFTER SOKOVIA***
“Veronika what do you see?” Steve said in her comms.
She was hidden in her will of shadows and watching people her, and Natasha have been hunting for the past two months. They found the hideout. But the way into said hideout took them a whole month, but now they have all the cards set in place, Steve with them and they could take down this place from the inside.
“Three are here but the boss has not shown yet.” She whispered back.
“Stay low until he gets there and send the signal we talked about when he walks in.” Natasha said.
“Mhm” She hummed and kept her eyes on the people. Watching from her spot she stayed quiet and hidden. When the door in the room in front of her opened and suddenly all the light in the room had a big shadow in it. A man bigger than any she’d ever seen walked through the room. Five more men followed close behind him.
“Boss, welcome back.”
Veronika’s eyes widened. “Show time,” using her powers she expanded her shadows. The black engulfing the room and the people.
“Yo what gives!”
“Who turned out the lights!”
She ran at them and punched out as many of the people as she could. Making them fall where she knew they stood. They tried fighting back but she moved quickly, and she heard more people coming in. They grabbed the boss.
“Ver, let's go.” She heard Natasha say and the girl moved to the door collecting her shadows and seeing her work in full smirked following Steve and Natasha out.
She walked out with them as they brought the man they were after onto the jet to bring him in.
“Your little witch seemed to have fun-” The man they caught started but Veronika covered his mouth in stars.
“I’m not witch moron. I’m assassin.” she glared.
Natasha laughed at her daughter and sat at the head of the plane. “Sassy teens gotta love them.” She said to Steve who chuckled and shook his head.
“It’s funny. I’ll admit it.” He smiled at their daughter who sat on the seats in the back with a small smirk on her face. Not Nat’s biological daughter yet they act almost the exact same. He thought it was nice.
“Thank you, Dad.” She smiled and folding her hands on her lap sat against the wall waiting till they got home. She was excited for no particular reason…
They rode the jet home in silence, her and their captured friend always exchanging ‘if looks could kill’ looks. Never being a dull moment. And once the jet landed Nat grabbed the guy.
“I’ll bring him to the interrogation room; I’ll meet you there Steve. You too Veronika.”
“Yes ma’am.” Steve and Ver said in unison. Veronika laughed at the coincidence a little bit as they all walked off to the building they go to. But something from the side caught her eye and she looked seeing a certain silver wonder.
“I’ll be right there, don't wait up.” She said Steve waved her off and she smiled running towards the boy. He had a smile on his face and arms wide open when she jumped into them. Her wrapping her arms around his shoulders and legs around his waist he chuckled holding her around her waist.
“I missed you dragă .” He whispered to her. She smiled a small blush running across her face.
“I missed you too Silver.” She looked at him as he put her down slowly. “Bored while I was away?”
“Immensely, I only had Wanda to bother.” He smirked, holding her cheek in one of his hands.
“How’s Artemis?”
“Asleep on my bed as we speak. Unless Wanda woke her up then…playing with Wanda.”
Veronika laughed, shaking her head. “Wouldn’t put it past Wanda, she loves Artemis.”
“Yeah, we all had fun. What about you, you caught the guy, yes?”
“Mama’s bringing him in for interrogations now. Mission was successful. Just can’t wait to get the interrogation over with so I can sleep.” She chuckled and looked right at him again, his eyes looked tired again. She was about to ask but as if he read her mind he started talking.
“Maybe you can come to my room, and we can watch those movies you’ve been obsessed with lately?” he smirked, rubbing her cheek gently with his thumb.
“Really?” She was a little excited.
“Really, I want to see them too.”
“Then you bet you will be watching them! You’ll love them.”
He laughed, “I bet I will. Now go to your interrogation, so we can watch them.”
She laughed, leaned up and pecked his lips. “I’ll see you after I’m done.” she tried to pull away. He pulled her back kissing her again.
“I’ll see you.” He smiled and ran away from the spot. His blur being left behind him. She was blushing and biting her lip. Once calming herself she ran to where her parents went with their prisoner.
After a long time of interrogating and pushing answers out of their prisoner. It was night, around 11p.m. Nat and Steve got the answers they wanted and sent her to go back to her room, which she did, to change into some shorts and sweater, (probably Pietro’s but no one has been able to tell the difference). She rushed to Pietro’s door and knocked.
She waited for a few minutes, when she realized the time. Thinking he probably fell asleep. She sighed and put her head against the door. “I’m sorry-” She whispered but stopped when she heard whimpering? Well, it seemed like whimpering. She thought maybe Artemis was still in there, not wanting her to wake him she slowly opened his door seeing him asleep, as she assumed but Artemis wasn’t anywhere in sight. “Artemis?” She whisper-yelled.
“No! Wanda…Don’t!”
That made her stop her search.
The mumbling continued and she turned, seeing Pietro squirm and shake in his sleep. Mumbling, some words incoherent and some she could understand. She walked to his bed slowly and looked at him, the longer she looked the more pain she felt coming off him. Bad memories were the cause she knew all too well.
“Pietro.” She whispered, running her fingers through the top of his hair. “Pietro wake up.” She said a little louder and scratched his head a little bit.
He shook his head. Obviously, none of what she was doing was working. “Wanda no!”
“Pietro, come on, wake up!” She said louder and started shaking his arm.
His body shivered and with none of her efforts working she tried to relax him by stoking his hair. The dream seems only to worsen. She held his hand, waiting for him to wake up. She tried her powers but suddenly he shot up and she felt his grip tighten on her hand. His breathing was heavy, and he was covered in a cold sweat. Her eyes stayed trained on him, his pain still radiating off him. She went up behind him and put her hand on his shoulder.
He jumped at her touch but when he saw it was her, he stopped moving away. “W-when did you…” He took a breath swallowing hard “When did you get here?” He asked quietly.
“Ten minutes…do you want to talk about it?” she asked quietly holding his hand and shoulder still he kept his eyes on his bed sheets tears streaming down his cheeks.
“I still see it…” he said. Again, quiet but she heard it. “I’ve never stopped seeing it for almost 8 years. And HYDRA…I never can leave it.” He said finally. She kept her eyes on his, his body still shaking as she rubbed his back with the hand that was on his shoulder.
“If you want to, of course, explain it to me, what happened exactly?” She moved to rest her chin on his shoulder to whisper to him. He shook his head at her words.
“I don’t, talking about it brings more of it back and it’s bad enough I dream it…non-stop.”
“Is this why you have these dark circles under your eyes?”
He nodded.
She watched him still and slowly moved and sat in front of him pulling his hand in hers with her. Veronika put a hand on his chin and lifted his head.
“You know…dreams are a temporary state. They won’t last forever, especially if they’re mended and changed.” She looked at his eyes and he shook his head in confusion.
“What do you mean?”
“I showed you once I can make people have nightmares…” She said putting her hands on each side of his head. “I'm still sorry for that. But I can also alter nightmares to dreams. Peaceful sleep giving dreams.” she said quietly. “If you ask, I can fix them…let me help. It pains me to see you all tired out like this.”
He looked at her and moved into her touch. His eyes pleading.
She let her hands hover over his temples, blue and purple leaving the tips of her fingers. He watched her and saw her eyes starting to glow. She focused on him and gave him a dream of calm, something she found in the depths of his mind. It’s sad that the good he had was drowned by the dark memories. She becomes more and more aware of how alike they are. She settled on his memory, strengthening it.
He felt the pain starting to dissipate from his thoughts, not entirely of course. But the weight that was there was lifting, and it was with this wonderful girl’s help. He looked at her as she continued. His eyes felt droopy and started closing. She helped him lay back softly and kissed his head starting to move away but he held her arm. “Stay.” he mumbled.
“A-are you sure?” They have never slept in the same bed. She always left to her room, or he left to his. So, they wouldn’t get caught…
“Stay,” he said again, nodding.
She smiled and laid on the spot next to him. Not too close. As well she’d never slept in someone else’s bed, so this was different especially when he pulled her in closer holding around her.
“Thank…you.” He mumbled again and she felt him nuzzle into her hair, it felt nice. To be held like this. Different but she relished the feeling.
“I see you…” She whispered finally but feeling his soft snores on her neck. Hearing them. She knew he fell asleep. Peacefully. But even if he can’t hear it right now, he should know she sees him. Not as how he feels he should be. But how he IS, scars, both the physical and mental ones, and all.
Little did she know he saw her the same, even if he can’t read minds. He read her, her scars, and her eyes. He KNEW her.
As she fell asleep, she felt truly safe, as did he. Her dream gave him calm, and peace just as promised. This was new and nice. They never wanted to leave this spot.